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Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) was founded on October 27, 1927 as America’s first international airline. The small company began flying air... read more

Wright Brothers Day is a United States national observation. It is codified in the US Code, and commemorates the first successful flights in a h... read more

The Mexico-to-U.S. link is the most popular bilateral migration path in the entire world. The poorest countries are the ones with the least emig... read more

Pariosse St. Benoit is located in the southern peninsula of rural Haiti. It is a short 59 miles from Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, but a long... read more

According to HUD’s 2014 Point-in-Time Report, 34% of the total homeless population is under 24. Some homeless children and youth are with their ... read more

Christmas Adam is the last chance to prepare for the Christmas Eve party. The day before Christmas Eve. Since Adam was created before Eve, and t... read more

An estimated 1 of 3 people worldwide celebrate Christmas, including 2.1 Billion Christians. Christmas Eve refers to the evening or entire day p... read more

George Washington was born on February 22, 1732, before the Virginia colonies switched from the "Old Style" Julian calendar to the &qu... read more

In Indiana, Washington’s Birthday is observed on Christmas Eve, or the day preceding the weekend if Christmas falls on Saturday or Sunday. Wash... read more

Christmas is the most important religious feast for Christians all over the world and in the United States too. The original meaning of Christma... read more

Day after Christmas or Boxing Day was started in the UK about 800 years ago, during the Middle Ages. It is a holiday celebrated on the day follo... read more

Kwanzaa is a week-long celebration held in the United States and in other nations of the Western African diaspora in the Americas. “Kwanzaa” is ... read more

Samoa and parts of Kiribati are the first places to welcome the New Year while Baker Island, in the United States, is among the last. The first ... read more

Fibromyalgia is estimated to affect 2–8% of the population. Females are affected about two times more often than males. A York University study ... read more

January 1 is the first day of a new year according to Gregorian calendar ( In the Gregorian calendar which the United States started observing i... read more

Louis Braille (1809 – 1852) was a French educator and inventor of a system of reading and writing for use by the blind or visually impaired. His... read more

This day is also known as the International Day of Pace or the International Day of Prayer for peace. On 8 December 1967, Pope Paul VI establis... read more

The first artificial drinking straw for cocktails has been invented by Marvin Chester Stone, paper cigarette mouthpieces factory owner. He was a... read more

World Braille Day is celebrated annually on January 4th in honor of Louis Braille, the inventor of braille who was born on this day in 1809. Fo... read more

National Bird Day is on January 5 each year, as it’s scheduled to coincide with the end of the annual Christmas Bird Count. The Christmas Bird C... read more

The wise men stepped from the shadows and were deemed to be three in number, each one a mighty king who knelt in turn to pay homage and present ... read more

And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. And this taxing was f... read more