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On This Day, July 6: 'Forrest Gump' opens in U.S. theaters
United Press International via Yahoo Canada News· 5 days agoOn July 6, 1919, a British dirigible landed at New York's Roosevelt Field to complete the first...
How The Globe amplified, and then outgrew, early Canada’s feuds between Protestants and Catholics
The Globe and Mail· 3 days agoIn February, 1856, a group of about 100 Irishmen met at a hotel in downtown Buffalo to discuss the...
What You Could Buy With $100 the Year You Were Born
GOBankingRates via Yahoo Finance Canada· 6 days agoInflation, on the whole, is a good thing for the economy. When money is worth more today than it will be tomorrow or next year, people are incentivized...
Six other presidents didn’t run for another term. Here’s what happened then
The Independent via Yahoo Canada News· 7 days agoLyndon Johnson, Harry Truman, Calvin Coolidge, Rutherford B Hayes, James Buchanan, and James K Polk....
The West Coast Tracks Where Modern Racing Was Born
Road & Track via Yahoo Finance Canada· 7 days agoKid Auto Races at Venice started Chaplin’s rise as the world’s first film superstar. courtesy of the library of congress< ...
Meet the American who made us flip for hamburgers, Louis Lassen, Danish immigrant street-wagon cook
AOL· 6 days agoLouis Lunch is so old-school there is no history class. The New Haven, Connecticut eatery is considered the birthplace of a national culinary treasure. The hamburger — specifically ...
Is “Saving Private Ryan” a true story? All about the real-life brothers who inspired the film
Entertainment Weekly via Yahoo Canada News· 5 days agoThe Sole Survivor Policy, which prompts the mission to retrieve Damon’s Private Ryan in the movie,...
How Every State Got Its Nickname
AOL· 2 days agoFrom inspiring terrain to compelling folklore, there are tons of different stories behind the nickname of every state in the U.S.
How Presidents Past Deceived the American People About Their Health
Esquire· 3 days agoOn July 1, 1893, a certain Commodore Elias Benedict prepared his yacht, the Oneida, for an unusual...
Maxine Singer, Guiding Force at the Dawn of Biotechnology, Dies at 93
New York Times· 17 hours agoA leading biochemist, she helped shape guidelines in the 1970s on genetic-engineering while calming...