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Good News in History, January 10
25 years ago today, The Sopranos debuted on HBO. Running for 6 seasons totaling 86 episodes, it is widely regarded as one of the greatest and...
Good News in History, January 7
127 years ago today, the Teatro Amazonas in Manaus, Brazil, held its first performance during the heyday of the city's rubber boom. It was...
Good News in History, December 25
This daily column at GNN.org features all the good news, anniversaries and notable birthdays from this day in history—December 25.
Good News in History, December 23
102 years ago today, Visva-Bharati University was founded in West Bengal by the Indian poet and polymath Rabindranath Tagore. The brilliant Nobel Prize-winning humanist...
Good News in History, December 12
121 years ago today, Theodor Mommsen received the Nobel Prize for Literature, with a special mention for A History of Rome, a history so well-researched, so...
Good News in History, November 21
This daily column features all the good news, anniversaries and birthdays from this day in history—November 21.
Good News in History, November 13
96 years ago today, the Holland Tunnel opened connecting New York and New Jersey under the Hudson River. Consisting of two tubes and made...
Good News in History, November 12
Happy 70th birthday to Baaba Maal, the Senegalese singer and guitarist, who is one of the most important musical exports from the country. Pop...
Good News in History, November 5
67 years ago today, The Nat King Cole Show debuted on NBC. It was the first variety program ever hosted by an African American....
Good News in History, November 3
118 years ago today, the prolific African-American painter Lois Mailou Jones was born. With her best works exhibited in a half-dozen fine arts museums...
Good News in History, November 2
This daily column features all the good news, anniversaries and birthdays from this day in history—November 2.
Good News in History, October 21
40 years ago today, the meter was standardized to its current form, providing grounds for all the subsequent increments such as millimeters, centimeters, and...
Good News in History, October 5
Happy 65th Birthday to popular science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson. Born in the Big Apple without a star in the sky to look up...
After Job Lay Off, Jersey Man Said ‘I Want to Mow Your Lawn’ and His Free Services Spread Across Nation
There's a man in New Jersey who wants to mow your lawn. Don't believe him? Ask the patent office—he trademarked the phrase.
Brian Schwartz from...
Good News in History September 23
134 years ago today, the Nintendo company was founded in Kyoto. For lovers of Super Mario Bros., Pokémon, Zelda, and all other contributions from...
Good News in History September 16
36 years ago today, the first international climate agreement was signed in the form of the Montreal Protocol to repair the hole in the...
Researchers Discover a New Type of Fast and Furious Cosmic Explosion–Name it After Liverpool Soccer Team
A dazzling and rare cosmic explosion, which outshines most supernovae in the universe, has been spotted by researchers at Queen’s University Belfast.
The unusual new...
Good News in History, September 11
On this day across history, imperial aggression was resisted or rolled back by indigenous peoples in both the Battle of the Teutoberg Forest (9)...
Good News in History, August 24
Happy 50th birthday to the simply hilarious Dave Chappelle. One of the greatest millennial comics, Chappelle was called a genius during his early explosion...
Good News in History, August 14
86 years ago today, the National Scenic Trail known as the Appalachian Trail was completed by the Appalachian Trail Conservancy. Claimed to be the...