INVENTORY

Jan. 1: Ellis Island Begins Operations
Jan. 2: First Human-Made Satellite Nears Moon
Jan. 3: Alaska Admitted Into Union
Jan. 4: NY Stock Exchange Opens Permanent Headquarters
Jan. 5: Work Begins on Golden Gate Bridge
Jan. 6: Morse Demonstrates Electromagnetic Telegraph
Jan. 7: First Hot Air Balloon Crossing Of English Channel
Jan. 8: Battle of New Orleans
Jan. 9: Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition Turns Back
Jan. 10: Polio Virus Isolated
Jan. 11: Earhart Flies From Hawaii to California
Jan. 12: British-Zulu War Begins
Jan. 13: National Geographic Society Founded
Jan. 14: Treaty of Paris Ratified
Jan. 15: Elizabeth Crowned Queen of England
Jan. 16: Shah of Iran Goes into Exile
Jan. 17: US Overthrows Hawaiian Monarchy
Jan. 18: Captain Cook Visits Hawaiian Islands
Jan. 19: Part of Antarctica Claimed for US
Jan. 20: Roller Coaster Patented
Jan. 21: Concorde Takes Off
Jan. 22: First Russian Revolution Begins
Jan. 23: Insulin Injection Aids Diabetic Patient
Jan. 24: Gold Discovered at Sutter's Creek
Jan. 25: First Olympic Winter Games
Jan. 26: Pinzón Discovers Brazil
Jan. 27: Baird Demonstrates TV
Jan. 28: Challenger Explodes
Jan. 29: Poe Publishes "The Raven"
Jan. 30: Gandhi Assassinated
Jan. 31: Germans Unleash U-Boats

Feb. 1: Four Teens Launch Civil Rights Movement
Feb. 2: Cardiff Giant Revealed to be Hoax
Feb. 3: Cousteau Publishes "The Silent World
Feb. 4: Start of the Apache Wars
Feb. 5: Rhode Island Founder Arrives
Feb. 6: Arrival of a Russian Princess
Feb. 7: First Human Footprint on Antarctica
Feb. 8: Peter the Great Dies
Feb. 9: Jefferson Davis Elected President of Confederacy
Feb. 10: US and USSR Swap Spies
Feb. 11: Yalta Conference Ends
Feb. 12: Last Emperor of China Abdicates
Feb. 13: Fire-Bombing of Dresden
Feb. 14: Brady Takes First Presidential Photo
Feb. 15: Spanish-American War Begins
Feb. 16: Castro Sworn In
Feb. 17: First Successful Submarine Attack
Feb. 18: Ninth Planet Discovered
Feb. 19: Relief Party Finds Donner Party
Feb. 20: John Glenn Orbits Earth
Feb. 21: Malcolm X Assassinated
Feb. 22: 1917 Russian Revolution Begins
Feb. 23: US Raises Flag on Iwo Jima
Feb. 24: President Andrew Johnson Impeached
Feb. 25: Clay Knocks Out Liston
Feb. 26: World Trade Center Bombed
Feb. 27: Siege at Wounded Knee Begins
Feb. 28: First Gold Rush Steamboat in San Francisco

March 1: Salem Witch Hunt Begins
March 2: Mt Ranier Becomes a National Park
March 3: "Star-Spangled Banner" New National Anthem
March 4: FDR Inaugurated
March 5: First Exodusters Arrive in St Louis
March 6: Michelangelo Born
March 7: Blanchard Dies in Ballooning Accident
March 8: Susan B Anthony Addresses House
March 9: Survivors of Amistad Mutiny Freed
March 10: The First Telephone Call
March 11: Worst Epidemic in US History
March 12: Gandhi's March to the Sea
March 13: Uranus Discovered
March 14: First National Wildlife Refuge
March 15: Russians Arrive in California
March 16: 1st African-American Newspaper Published
March 17: Mount Agung Blows
March 18: Worst US Tornado Hits Three States
March 19: Congress Introduces Daylight Saving Time
March 20: Dutch East India Company Sets Sail
March 21: Alcatraz Shuts Down
March 22: Jamestown Massacre
March 23: Patrick Henry Speaks toVirginia Convention
March 24: Rhode Island Colony Established
March 25: First Modern Olympic Games
March 26: Salk Announces Polio Vaccine
March 27: Florida Spotted by Ponce de Leon
March 28: First Seaplane Flies
March 29: US Withdraws From Vietnam
March 30: US Purchases Alaska
March 31: Eiffel Tower Opens

April 1: Internal Combustion Engine Invented
April 2: Continental Congress Approves Coinage Act
April 3: Alaska's Mt McKinley Climbed for First Time
April 4: Martin Luther King Jr Assassinated
April 5: Pocahontas Marries Colonist John Rolfe
April 6: Peary & Henson Reach North Pole
April 7: Billy Holiday is Born
April 8: Birth of Buddha
April 9: Robert E Lee Surrenders at Appomattox
April 10: First US Trip Around the Globe
April 11: Apollo 13 Departs for the Moon
April 12: Civil War Begins
April 13: SCRABBLE Inventor Born
April 14: Titanic Hits Iceberg
April 15: President Lincoln Dies
April 16: Harriet Quimby Pilots Plane Across Channel
April 17: Verrazzano Navigates New York Waters
April 18: San Francisco Earthquake Strikes
April 19: American Revolutionary War Begins
April 20: Chief Pontiac Murdered
April 21: Rome Founded
April 22: The First Earth Day
April 23: First Transatlantic Steamship's Maiden Voyage
April 24: Library of Congress Established
April 25: Hubble Space Telescope Placed in Orbit
April 26: Germany Tests Luftwaffe on Guernica
April 27: First Electrical Hearing Aid Patented
April 28: Mutiny on the Bounty
April 29: Dachau Liberated
April 30: Louisiana Purchase Approved

May 1: Empire State Building Opens
May 2: Loch Ness Monster Sighted
May 3: Fletcher Lands on the North Pole
May 4: Haymarket Square Riot
May 5: Cinco de Mayo
May 6: The Hindenburg Disaster
May 7: Lusitania Sinks
May 8: Coca Cola Recipe Sold
May 9: Colonel Blood Steal Crown Jewels
May 10: Transcontinental Railroad Completed
May 11: First Dated Printed Book Produced in China
May 12: Florence Nightingale Born
May 13: Congress Dec.lares War Against Mexico
May 14: Jenner Gives First Smallpox Inoculation
May 15: First Regularly Scheduled Airmail
May 16: Nickel Added to US Currency
May 17: Court Ends Segregation in Public Schools
May 18: Mt St Helens Erupts
May 19: Electric Fire Alarm Patented
May 20: Doomed Spanish Armada Leaves Portugal
May 21: American Red Cross Created
May 22: Lewis & Clark Expedition Sets Out
May 23: Captain Kidd Walks the Plank
May 24: First Successful Helicopter Flight
May 25: Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia 1787
May 26: Model T Discontinued
May 27: Queen Mary's Maiden Voyage
May 28: Constantinople Falls to Ottoman Turks
May 29: Mt Everest Scaled
May 30: Ice Cream Freezer Patented
May 31: Worst Flood in US History

June 1: Helen Keller Dies
June 2: First US Space Probe Lands on Moon
June 3: Poem "Casey At The Bat" Is Published
June 4: Ship of Refugees Turned Away June 5
June 5: First Hot-Air Balloon Flight
June 6: D-Day Invasion of Europe
June 7: Daniel Boone Sees Kentucky
June 8: Birthday of Frank Lloyd Wright
June 9: Jacques Cartier Sails Upriver
June 10: First Tornado On Record Hits US
June 11: University Of Alabama Desegregated
June 12: Birthday of Anne Frank
June 13: Lindbergh's Ticker Tape Parade
June 14: UNIVAC Computer Demonstrated
June 15: Benjamin Franklin Flies a Kite
June 16: First Woman in Space
June 17: Drake Claims California for England
June 18: First US Woman in Space
June 19: Statue of Liberty Arrives
June 20: US Chooses Eagle as Symbol
June 21: Galileo Galilei Found Guilty of Heresy
June 22: Joe Louis/Max Schmeling Fight
June 23: First Typewriter Patented
June 24: Berlin Airlift Begins
June 25: Battle of the Little Bighorn
June 26: Birthday of "Babe" Didrikson
June 27: Smithson Donates Museum Funds
June 28: Archduke Ferdinand Assassinated
June 29: Mesa Verde National Park Established
June 30: Yosemite Lands Protected

July 1: Turning Point of the Civil War
July 2: Amelia Earhart Disappears
July 3: First Narrow-Gauge Locomotive
July 4: "Alice in Wonderland" Read Aloud
July 5: Salvation Army Founded
July 6: Pasteur Applies Anti-Rabies Vaccine
July 7: Jesse James Holds Up Train
July 8: Vasco Da Gama Sets Sail
July 9: Wimbledon Tournament Began
July 10: Wyoming Enters Union
July 11: Burr Kills Hamilton in Duel
July 12: Bicycle Ancestor Demonstrated
July 13: Marconi Receives Radio Patent
July 14: People of Paris Seize Bastille
July 15: Duck-Billed platypus Exhibited in US
July 16: First Atomic Bomb Tested
July 17: World Superpowers Meet in Space
July 18: Rome Burns
July 19: Rosetta Stone Discovered
July 20: Astronauts Land on Moon
July 21: Aswan High Dam Completed
July 22: Rats Flee Hamelin
July 23: Ice Cream Cone Invented
July 24: "Kitchen Debate" Occurs
July 25: Andrea Doria Sinks
July 26: FBI Formed
July 27: 1st Trans-Atlantic Telegraph Cable
July 28: First Picture of Total Solar Eclipse
July 29: 1st Transcontinental Telephone Service
July 30: Henry Moore Born
July 31: First US Patent Issued

August 1: Cable Car Successfully Tested
August 2: City of Los Angeles named
August 3: Viking 1 beams Mars pix to Earth
August 4: Convention of Colored Newsmen
August 5: Jesse Owens Breaks Speed Records
August 6: Atom Bomb Dropped on Hiroshima
August 7: Kon Tiki Crashes
August 8: Hot Air Balloon Demonstrated
August 9: Escalator Patented
August 10: Beginning of End for Studebakers
August 11: First Civilian Prisoners on Alcatraz
August 12: First Flight of the Space Shuttle
August 13: Fall of Tenochtitlán
August 14: First Russian Settlement In Alaska
August 15: Berlin Wall Goes Up
August 16: Trans-Atlantic Conversation
August 17: Mystery of the Roanoke Colony
August 18: Death of Genghis Khan
August 19: Ship Nicknamed "Old Ironsides"
August 20: Bering Reaches Alaska
August 21: Mona Lisa Stolen
August 22: Nat Turner Leads Revolt
August 23: Mexico Declares Independence
August 24: Waffle Iron Patented
August 25: Locomotive Loses Race To Horse
August 26: Slave Ship Amistad Captured
August 27: Krakatau Explodes
August 28: "I Have a Dream" Speech
August 29: Last Inca Emperor Dies
August 30: Creator of "Frankenstein" Born
August 31: Kinetoscope Invented

Sept. 1: Germany Invades Poland
Sept. 2: Beginning of Modern Marathons
Sept. 3: Frederick Douglass Escapes Slavery
Sept. 4: Surrender of Geronimo
Sept. 5: Crazy Horse Dies
Sept. 6: Magellan Circumnavigates Globe
Sept. 7: World's First Submarine Attack
Sept. 8: Oldest City in the US Founded
Sept. 9: Golden State Joins the Union
Sept. 10: Sewing Machine Patented
Sept. 11: First Remote Computer Demo
Sept. 12: Lascaux Cave Paintings Discovered
Sept. 13: Plans for First US Election
Sept. 14: Napoleon Enters Moscow
Sept. 15: Fleming Discovers Penicillin
Sept. 16: Mayflower Leave England
Sept. 17: US Constitution Signed
Sept. 18: Atlanta Compromise Speech
Sept. 19: Mexico City Earthquake
Sept. 20: Slave Trade Abolished in DC
Sept. 21: Stonehenge Sold at Auction
Sept. 22: Peace Corps Established
Sept. 23: Neptune Observed
Sept. 24: First National Monument
Sept. 25: Little Rock 9 Integrate Central High
Sept. 26: Drake Circumnavigates Globe
Sept. 27: Locomotive Replaces Horse
Sept. 28: Cabrillo Arrives in California
Sept. 29: American Woman Climbs Everest
Sept. 30: Boulder Dam Dedicated

Oct. 1: Yosemite Becomes National Park
Oct. 2: Darwin Returns to England
Oct. 3: Iraq Gains Independence
Oct. 4: Soviets Launch Sputnik
Oct. 5: Chief Joseph Surrenders
Oct. 6: "Yom Kippur War" Begins
Oct. 7: First Moving Assembly Line
Oct. 8: Great Chicago Fire
Oct. 9: Ingalls Flies Solo Across America
Oct. 10: Panama Canal Completed
Oct. 11: Giant Radio Telescope First Used
Oct. 12: Columbus Arrives in New World
Oct. 13: Dolphins Used in Military Operation
Oct. 14: Yeager Breaks Sound Barrier
Oct. 15: Crow Land Opened to White Settlers
Oct. 16: Vote to Ban International Ivory Trade
Oct. 17: Battle of Saratoga
Oct. 18: First American Labor Organization
Oct. 19: Green Revolution Hero's Nobel Price
Oct. 20: End of Mao's Long March
Oct. 21: Edison Makes Electric Lamp
Oct. 22: Cuban Missile Crisis Begins
Oct. 23: Rivals Clash in Bleeding Kansas
Oct. 24: UN Founded
Oct. 25: Charge of the Light Brigade
Oct. 26: Erie Canal Opened
Oct. 27: First Subway Opens
Oct. 28: Gateway Arch Completed
Oct. 29: Stock Market Crashes
Oct. 30: "October Manifesto" Issued
Oct. 31: Mt. Rushmore Completed

Nov. 1: Sistine Chapel Paintings Revealed
Nov. 2: Spruce Goose Takes Off
Nov. 3: First Animal Launched in Space
Nov. 4: First Wagons Reach California
Nov. 5: Inuits Gain Control Over Nunavut
Nov. 6: Lincoln Elected President
Nov. 7: Tacoma Bridge Collapses
Nov. 8: Louvre Museum Opens
Nov. 9: Krystallnacht
Nov. 10: Stanley Finds Dr. Livingstone
Nov. 11: Washington Becomes 42nd State
Nov. 12: Voyager Flies Near Saturn
Nov. 13: Holland Tunnel Opens
Nov. 14: First Blood Transfusion
Nov. 15: Pike's Peak Sighted
Nov. 16: Oklahoma Enters the Union
Nov. 17: Suez Canal Opens
Nov. 18: American Sights Antarctica
Nov. 19: Lincoln Delivers Gettysburg Address
Nov. 20: First English Child Born in N England
Nov. 21: First Manned Hot Air Balloon Flight
Nov. 22: First Trans-Pacific Airmail Flight
Nov. 23: First Jukebox Placed in Service
Nov. 24: Tasman Sights Tasmania
Nov. 25: Alfred Nobel Invents Dynamite
Nov. 26: King Tut's Tomb Entered
Nov. 27: First Photo of Meteor Shower
Nov. 28: First Pulsar Detected
Nov. 29: Byrd Flies Over South Pole
Nov. 30: Meteorite Strikes Alabama Woman

Dec. 1: Birth of the US Civil Rights Movement
Dec. 2: An End to McCarthyism
Dec. 3: Potato Arrives in England
Dec. 4: US Joins UN
Dec. 5: Mozart Dies
Dec. 6: Washington Monument Completed
Dec. 7: Pilot Reaches New Heights
Dec. 8: US Enters World War II
Dec. 9: First Computer Mouse Demonstrated
Dec. 10: First Nobel Prizes Awarded
Dec. 11: First Recorded Sighting of Aurora Borealis
Dec. 12: First Black Congressman Sworn In
Dec. 13: First Europeans in New Zealand
Dec. 14: First Humans Reach South Pole
Dec. 15: Basketball Invented
Dec. 16: Boston Tea Party
Dec. 17: First Airplane Flies
Dec. 18: Slavery Abolished
Dec. 19: Poor Richard's Almanack Published
Dec. 20: Louisiana Territory Ceded to US
Dec. 21: First Manned Mission Orbits Moon
Dec. 22: Roentgen Takes First X-Ray
Dec. 23: Saturn's Moon Discovered
Dec. 24: First Radio Program Broadcast
Dec. 25: The Christmas Truce
Dec. 26: Discovery of Radium
Dec. 27: Soviets Seize Control of Afghanistan
Dec. 28: Congress Recognizes "Pledge of Allegiance"
Dec. 29: Wounded Knee Massacre
Dec. 30: Gadsden Purchase
Dec. 31: Big Ben Rings for First Time

Jan. 1: Celebrating New Year's at Midnight Why?
Jan. 2: World's Longest River
Jan. 3: Cyclic Numbers
Jan. 4: Runic Writing
Jan. 5: Body's Largest Organ
Jan. 6: Sending Telegrams Before Telegraphs
Jan. 7: Stroke of Midnight AM or PM?
Jan. 8: First Calendar
Jan. 9: Planet's Strongest Animal
Jan. 10: Inventing a Child's First Game
Jan. 11: First Jigsaw Puzzles
Jan. 12: Whys of Walrus Teeth
Jan. 13: How Icy is Antarctica?
Jan. 14: Formerly Hidden Magma
Jan. 15: Why Cats Purr
Jan. 16: Coelacanth The Extinct Fish that Isn't
Jan. 17: The Case of the Cooling Lava
Jan. 18: Hawaiian Snow
Jan. 19: Case of the Open Sea in the Pack Ice
Jan. 20: First Roller Coasters
Jan. 21: Inspiration for First Roller Coaster
Jan. 22: Bears: Half Dog, Half Raccoon
Jan. 23: Bears: Hibernating or Playing Possum?
Jan. 24: World's Smallest Mammal
Jan. 25: Whys of the Olympic Torch Ceremony
Jan. 26: River with Most Water
Jan. 27: Reversing the River's Tide
Jan. 28: Dining in Orbit
Jan. 29: Raven Cooperation
Jan. 30: Olympic Skeletons
Jan. 31: Sleeping in Orbit

Feb. 1: Cocklebur Invention
Feb. 2: World's Smallest Reptile
Feb. 3: Giant Squid: How Giant?
Feb. 4: Where was Cochise buried?
Feb. 5: Wintering White Sharks
Feb. 6: Earth's Lumpy Gravity
Feb. 7: Toppling Penguins: Fact or Myth?
Feb. 8: Emperor Penguin: Mr Mom?
Feb. 9: Oldest Seed Ever Sprouted
Feb. 10: Can Nature Predict Earthquakes?
Feb. 11: Flower That Looks Like a Bee
Feb. 12: World's Southernmost Active Volcano
Feb. 13: Why Lakes Freeze from the Top Down
Feb. 14: Kodak Brownie: Changing Communication
Feb. 15: When Asteroids Collide
Feb. 16: World's Largest Diamond
Feb. 17: Colossus of Rhodes: Real or Myth?
Feb. 18: Sifting Sand for a Lost Civilization
Feb. 19: Carnivorous Plants: Picky Eaters?
Feb. 20: How Weddell Seals Hunt Their Prey
Feb. 21: First E-Mail
Feb. 22: World's Highest Waterfall
Feb. 23: Ring of Fire
Feb. 24: Mystery of the Dinosaur Vomit
Feb. 25: First to Document Sunspots
Feb. 26: What's Solar Max?
Feb. 27: World's Oldest Lake
Feb. 28: Taiga: World's Largest Biome

March 1: Agave ~ Tall Plant, Low Leaves
March 2: Hoover Dam
March 3: Soda Dam Built by Thermal Springs
March 4: Only Muscle Attached on One End
March 5: Kite Fishing
March 6: Your Sense of Smell
March 7: How Big is a Boeing 747?
March 8: Iced Tea
March 9: How Bees Choose a Hive Location
March 10: First Canned Food & Can Openers
March 11: Salt Facts
March 12: History of Salt
March 13: Biggest Planet ~ Uranus or Neptune?
March 14: Brown Pelicans ~ Big Billed Birds
March 15: Curse of the Sea Otter
March 16: World's First Newspapers
March 17: Tallest Mountain ~ Everest or Mauna Kea?
March 18: Tornado Facts
March 19: Daylights Saving Time
March 20: Cyclones, Hurricanes, & Tornadoes
March 21: Sound of the Ocean
March 22: Lightning
March 23: Thumbs Down ~ the Meaning
March 24: Brazil's Agave Plant
March 25: Egyptian Glass Coins
March 26: "CandyLand" Invented
March 27: Honking Crocodile Eggs
March 28: Exploding World Population
March 29: Chess in Ancient Egypt
March 30: Fugio Copper Penny ~ First US Coin
March 31: Bats who catch fish

April 1: Hawk Moths ~ the Fastest Flying Insects
April 2: Counterfeit Money
April 3: How Elephants Chew
April 4: Saffron ~ the World's Most Expensive Food
April 5: Pong ~ World's First Successful Video Game
April 6: Alpaca Wool ~ Treasure of the Incas?
April 7: Elephant Communication
April 8: First Use of the Word "Robot"
April 9: Arctic Tern ~ Longest Migration Path
April 10: Curse of the Sea Otters
April 11: Moon Temperatures
April 12: Where Are the "B" Batteries?
April 13: Go ~ World's oldest Board Game
April 14: Icebergs ~ Fresh or Salt Water?
April 15: Rubies, Sapphires, Emeralds, and Aquamarines
April 16: Boeing 747 ~ Queen of the Skies
April 17: The Age of Exploration
April 18: Rain-Predicting Loaches
April 19: The Old North Church
April 20: Cyclic Numbers
April 21: Romulus and Remus Memorialized on Coins
April 22: Making of a Tropical Rainforest
April 23: Ship With the Longest String of Bad Luck
April 24: Crater Lake ~ Deepest Lake in North America
April 25: Space Suits ~ Staying the Right Temperature
April 26: Origins of Hot Chocolate
April 27: Barn Owls ~ Best Hearing Land Animals
April 28: Captain Cook Ends Scurvy on the High Seas
April 29: Lion + Leopard = Leopon
April 30: Pogonip ~ the Icy Winter Fog

May 1: NYC ~ City of Skyscrapers
May 2: Cryptozoology
May 3: Most Snow
May 4: First Planetarium in the Western Hemisphere
May 5: Night-Migrating Birds
May 6: Empire State Building Roof
May 7: Millipede Insect Repellent
May 8: Camel Eyes
May 9: Inside the Tower of London
May 10: Chinese Build the Transcontinental Railroad
May 11: Prisse Papyrus ~ World's Oldest Book
May 12: Bread Crumb Erasers
May 13: Vellum
May 14: Longest River
May 15: First Airmail Letter
May 16: First Money
May 17: Perfect Igloo
May 18: Largest Landslide
May 19: First Firehouse Pole
May 20: Sir Francis Drake Factoids
May 21: Lidded Carnivorous Plant
May 22: Sacagawea
May 23: In Search of Captain Kidd's Ship
May 24: Hummingbirds and Helicopters
May 25: Snorkeling Turtles
May 26: First US Electric Car
May 27: Henry Ford's Quadricycle
May 28: Largest Fortress
May 29: World's Tallest Mountains
May 30: Eskimo Pie Invention
May 31: Twist-Neck Turtles

June 1: Polarizing Spider Eyes
June 2: What's a Blue Moon?
June 3: How Baseballs Travel
June 4: Glaciers ~ How Big?
June 5: Mail Delivery By Pigeon and Balloon
June 6: Homing Pigeons Finding Way Home
June 7: First Coffee Break
June 8: Designing Washington, DC
June 9: Why is Greenland Named Greenland?
June 10: World's Most Violent Weather
June 11: Guano ~ the World's Finest Fertilizer
June 12: Arizona's Largest Limestone Bridge
June 13: The First VCR
June 14: Costly Missing Hyphen
June 15: First Volunteer Fire Company
June 16: Samuel Langley's Flying Adventure
June 17: Why European Explorers Explored
June 18: Chinese Invention of Rocketry
June 19: Keeping the statue of Liberty Upright
June 20: The Great Seal of the US: Lucky 13
June 21: Arming the Statue of Liberty
June 22: How Porcupines Float
June 23: Typewriter Trivia
June 24: First Commercial Vacuum Cleaner
June 25: World's First Public Aquarium
June 26: Brazilian Kraho Indian Log Race
June 27: Bengal Tiger Protection?
June 28: Truffle Hunters
June 29: Emeralds
June 30: World's Fastest Reptile

July 1: Fulgurite When lightning strikes sand
July 2: Who were the first divers?
July 3: Who invented the thermos?
July 4: Aloe Ancient medicine for X-ray burns
July 5: Fish that swims upside down?
July 6: Glaciers, cirques, and arites
July 7: Discovery of crazy glue
July 8: King Tut's boomerang
July 9: Tundra: the world's coldest biome
July 10: How old is the oldest viable seed?
July 11: Creosote bush: the oldest living thing
July 12: Bridges of Izmir County
July 13: Sub-arctic plants
July 14: Einstein's brain
July 15: Hazards of space junk
July 16: World's largest salt lake
July 17: World's smallest bird
July 18: Roman bath thefts
July 19: Insects who live in hot springs
July 20: Good forest fires
July 21: Uses for Scotch Tape
July 22: First adhesive postage stamps
July 23: How frogs drink
July 24: Life-saving maps
July 25: Fast baby vicunas
July 26: First commemorative stamps
July 27: Playing With Polygraphs
July 28: Real and fake pearls
July 29: Dec.iding area codes
July 30: Thomas Jefferson ~ Inventor
July 31: How chameleons change color

August 1: Why sloths need to bask in the sun
August 2: Why 3-toed sloths have green hair
August 3: First newspaper published
August 4: Cyclones, hurricanes, and tornadoes
August 5: How much electricity is in lightning?
August 6: What thumbs-down really meant
August 7: How fast is a heartbeat?
August 8: Lady Liberty's stats
August 9: Ridge in the middle of our upper lip
August 10: Do flying fish really fly?
August 11: Hearing the ocean in a seashell
August 12: How big is a baby whale?
August 13: Fish with a tongue like a grater?
August 14: Who built the first zoos?
August 15: Spider who steals from spiders?
August 16: Where is the driest desert on Earth?
August 17: What kind of owl lives in a cactus?
August 18: Determining CD size
August 19: Biggest volcanic explosion?
August 20: What's the fastest sea bird?
August 21: What's the biggest hunk of granite?
August 22: Planetary clock
August 23: Napoleon's valable metal?
August 24: Biggest armadillos?
August 25: John Henry: Man vs machine
August 26: World's biggest flowers?
August 27: How thick is the ice in Antarctica?
August 28: Who used the first trampoline?
August 29: The first known ocean voyages?
August 30: Do stars burp?
August 31: Why was the safety pin invented?

Sept. 1: First television introduced to the public
Sept. 2: First modern marathon
Sept. 3: Where's the world's biggest rock?
Sept. 4: Geronimo's war bonnet
Sept. 5: What's the world's largest sculpture?
Sept. 6: What's the oldest Filipino fighting style?
Sept. 7: What was the very first submarine?
Sept. 8: Anti-cannonball substance
Sept. 9: Weirdest way west in 1849
Sept. 10: Longest straight stretch of railroad
Sept. 11: Viking navigation
Sept. 12: Birthplace of the Silicon Valley
Sept. 13: How did early Romans vote?
Sept. 14: Who was Mother Goose?
Sept. 15: Smell of new rain on dry ground
Sept. 16: Who created huge heads in Mexico?
Sept. 17: Is Silly Putty putty?
Sept. 18: Waterfall was built for a meeting
Sept. 19: Biggest earthquakes of 20th century
Sept. 20: Mixing fire and ice
Sept. 21: World's oldest observatory
Sept. 22: Bird with biggest feet
Sept. 23: Coldest place in the solar system
Sept. 24: How fast is lava?
Sept. 25: Who was the first to take an aspirin?
Sept. 26: One giant continent?
Sept. 27: Biggest, heaviest steam locomotives
Sept. 28: First rubber balls
Sept. 29: Naming of Mt. Everest
Sept. 30: What is the tallest dam in the world?

Oct. 1: What's the fastest-moving glacier?
Oct. 2: Vampire Finches
Oct. 3: Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Oct. 4: World's heaviest bell?
Oct. 5: Prehistoric horses
Oct. 6: The Dead Sea
Oct. 7: First self-service gas station
Oct. 8: Largest living reptile
Oct. 9: US National Bird
Oct. 10: Polar Bear color
Oct. 11: White dwarf stars
Oct. 12: Pinzon: Columbus' Navigator
Oct. 13: What dolphins see in mirrors
Oct. 14: First to break sound barrier on land
Oct. 15: Chief Plenty Coups
Oct. 16: Elephant band
Oct. 17: Most covered bridges
Oct. 18: Ancient shoes
Oct. 19: Brazil: Big Animal Country
Oct. 20: Great Wall of China
Oct. 21: World from space at night
Oct. 22: Early eyeglasses
Oct. 23: What makes popcorn pop?
Oct. 24: Largest US cactus
Oct. 25: Biggest Buddhas
Oct. 26: Biggest tidal wave
Oct. 27: Rickshaws
Oct. 28: Quicksand
Oct. 29: Salt as currency
Oct. 30: Three wise monkeys
Oct. 31: Cloth of gold

Nov. 1: Michelangelo of Spain
Nov. 2: 3-letter airport codes
Nov. 3: First Domesticated Wild Animal
Nov. 4: "Seeing the Elephant"
Nov. 5: The Inuits: Who Are They?
Nov. 6: First Lincoln Penny
Nov. 7: Why London Bridge Fell
Nov. 8: King Louis XVI: Escape from Paris
Nov. 9: The Seven Seas
Nov. 10: Hippo: Africa's Most Dangerous Animal
Nov. 11: Second Largest Man-Made Structure
Nov. 12: Dendrochronology: Trees Reveal Mysteries
Nov. 13: First Paved Road
Nov. 14: Paddlefish: Toothless Shark?
Nov. 15: Inspiration for "America the Beautiful"
Nov. 16: Shopping Cart Changes Shopping
Nov. 17: How Much Sahara Sand?
Nov. 18: Antarctica: Driest Continent?
Nov. 19: Flying Mammals of the Civil War
Nov. 20: Plymouth Rock
Nov. 21: Soybeans: From Ballast to Auto Paint
Nov. 22: Only Official American Artwork in Space
Nov. 23: Smallest Musical Instrument
Nov. 24: World's Largest Carnivorous Marsupial
Nov. 25: Invention of Gunpowder
Nov. 26: Surviving Wonder of Ancient World
Nov. 27: Meteorite Evidence of Life on Mars
Nov. 28: Why Wolves Wolf their Food
Nov. 29: Adelie Penguins & Antarctic Regions
Nov. 30: Why the Leaning Tower of Pisa Leans

Dec. 1: Fish Who Walk
Dec. 2: World's Highest Tides
Dec. 3: Potatoes in History
Dec. 4: Simple Machines and What They Do
Dec. 5: What Keyboardists Played in the 1600s
Dec. 6: The Monument That Moved
Dec. 7: First Flying Machine
Dec. 8: Why an Atlas is an Atlas
Dec. 9: Real Inventor of the Computer Mouse
Dec. 10: Winning a Nobel Prize
Dec. 11: Aurora Borealises that Aren't
Dec. 12: Porcupines: Quill Shooters?
Dec. 13: Tallest Bird Ever
Dec. 14: South Pole Explorer Robert Scott: A Bad Rap?
Dec. 15: Antarctica: Meteorite Capital of the World?
Dec. 16: Color of Pure Water
Dec. 17: Animal Inspires Wright Brothers
Dec. 18: 13th Amendment: Two Versions
Dec. 19: Ben Franklin's Glass Armonica
Dec. 20: Louisiana Purchase: $18 a Square Mile
Dec. 21: Largest Moon in Solar System
Dec. 22: Explaining Sonic Booms
Dec. 23: Origin of Poinsettias
Dec. 24: Reindeer and their Antlers
Dec. 25: Deed to the North Pole
Dec. 26: Getting Around on the Moon
Dec. 27: World's Largest Buddha Sculptures
Dec. 28: Earmuff Capital of the World
Dec. 29: Ice that Burns
Dec. 30: First Known Use of the Wheel
Dec. 31: World's Largest Ocean