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National Play-Doh Day has been celebrated on September 16 since 2006. When this substance first hit the shops, it wasn't a toy at...

Today is Battle of Britain day. The Battle of Britain was fought between the United Kingdom and  Germany  during the Second World War. ...

50 years ago, in 1968, The Wacky Races first appeared on TV. It's an American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Prod...

On National Peanut Day, 10 things you might not know about peanuts. Peanuts go by a number of names, including groundnuts, earthnuts,...

It was on this date in 1940 that four teenagers followed their  Dog  down a hole near Lascaux  France  and discovered 17,000 year-old drawin...

Born this date in 1862 was Dr. Crippen, convicted of killing his wife in the early 20 th century. Some facts about him: His full na...

On this date in 2008 the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history was first powered up in  ...