Encyclopedia of Trivia

Jane Austen 's first successful novel Sense and Sensibility was published anonymously (it was attributed to " Lady") on Octob...

American entrepreneur Milton Reynolds first came across the Bíró ballpoint pen during a business trip to Argentina where they were first ma...

The Statue of Liberty was dedicated on October 28, 1886. President Grover Cleveland, the former New York governor, presided over the event,...

The city of Amsterdam was first settled as a small fishing village in the late 12th century. The name means 'dam on the Amstel.' Th...

The first edition of Jonathan Swift 's Gulliver's Travels was published in two volumes on October 26, 1726, priced at 8s. 6d. The b...

On October 25, 1764 the daughter of a Congregational minister, Abigail, married John, who was the son of a farmer. The minister was so enrag...

Nuremberg watchmaker Stephan Farffler died on October 24, 1689. Farffler, who was either a paraplegic or an amputee, built in 1655 the world...