Encyclopedia of Trivia

In 1948 a young American just out of the army, Walter Frederick Morrison, applied for a patent for a plastic flying disc. It is said the ide...

At Toronto's General Hospital, 14-year-old diabetic Leonard Thompson became on January 11, 1922 the first person to be treated with the ...

The Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky married his student Antonina Ivanovna Milivkova at the Church of Saint George in Moscow on Ju...

On May 21, 1809 the French made their first major effort to cross the Danube during the Napoleonic Wars, precipitating the Battle of Aspern-...

The first, and to date only, British Prime Ministe r to be assassinated was Spencer Perceval. On the evening of May 11, 1812, Perceval ente...

The first American transcontinental railway was completed west of the Rockies at Promontory, Utah, on May 10, 1869 when the Union Pacific a...

The phrase 'The New Look' was coined by Harper's Bazaar , the fashion monthly, for Christian Dior 's first fashion collectio...