The air traffic controllers strike of 1981, when President Ronald Reagan fired 11,345 striking controllers citing the “perils to national safety.”

For a brief 18-month period the Pony Express made it possible for mail to cross the country in 10 days instead of 8 weeks, the prior standard by ship.

On May 20th, 1932 a 34-year-old Amelia Earhart landed in a pasture at Culmore, Northern Ireland becoming the first woman to achieve a solo transatlantic flight.

U.S. health officials were forced to shame and threaten slackers to wear a mask due to a second spike in Spanish Flu cases during the 1918 pandemic.

The construction of the Lincoln Tunnel, the first mechanically-ventilated underwater tunnel in the world was first opened on December 22nd, 1937.

Albert Schatz, the scientist who discovered streptomycin, only to have all discovery credit go to Selman Waksman, who would win the Nobel Prize for the discovery — never once giving proper credit to Schatz.

On November 10th, 1951 the first direct dial long-distance telephone call took place between the Mayors of Englewood, New Jersey and Alameda, California.