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Good News in History, February 22
195 years ago today, Spain sold Florida to the United States as part of the Adams-Onis Treaty. It settled a standing border dispute between...
Good News in History, February 21
196 years ago today, the first issue of the Cherokee Phoenix was published using the Cherokee syllabary invented by Sequoyah. Sequoyah, also known as...
When a Preschool Was Opened Inside a Dementia Care Home, All Heaven Broke Loose
They say it takes a village to raise a child. Centered on that concept of communal flourishing, a dementia care village in England has...
Good News in History, February 20
208 years ago today, The Barber of Seville, one of Italian opera's greatest classics, debuted at the Teatro Argento in Rome. It tells the story of...
Good News in History, February 18
Happy 70th Birthday to John Travolta, star of such films as Saturday Night Fever, Grease, Pulp Fiction, Get Shorty, Hairspray, and Swordfish. His accolades...
Good News in History, February 15
33 years ago today, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Hungary created the Visegrád Group, a cooperation agreement to reorient their nations away from communism and toward...
Good News in History, February 13
This daily column at GNN.org features all the good news, anniversaries and notable birthdays from this day in history—February 13.
Recycling Crew Didn’t Stop Searching for Woman’s Lost Wedding Ring Until They Found a ‘Needle in a Haystack’
Finding a needle in a haystack is always easier when the needle isn't worth thousands of dollars, but the stress of it all was...
Good News in History, February 12
100 years ago today, George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, a mix of classical music with modern effects written for piano and jazz band, premiered...
Good News in History, February 11
2,684 years ago today is the traditional date for the foundation of the earliest centralized state on the islands of Japan. Descendant of the...
Good News in History, February 10
84 years ago today, In the Mood, by Glen Miller reached #1 on the charts in the US. It's one of those jazz tunes that...
Whimsical Street Art Catches Everyone Off Guard and Delights Downtown Boston at 16 Locations–LOOK
In celebration of winter, a group of Canadian artists have come to Boston and put together all kinds of art installations as part of...
Good News in History, February 5
On this day 39 years ago, and in a charming little stint of political theater, the mayor of Rome, Ugo Vettere, and his counterpart...
Good News in History, February 4
24 years ago today, World Cancer Day was initiated on February 4th after The World Summit Against Cancer for the New Millennium, Charter of...
The World’s Highest Spokeless Ferris Wheel Set for Construction
A new enormous Ferris wheel to go up in South Korea is set to break not only the record for the world's largest, but...
Good News in History, January 31
53 years ago today, My Sweet Lord by George Harrison reached number 1 on the UK pop charts. It would hold the same position in the...
IRS Collected Half a Billion Dollars in Back Taxes From Delinquent Millionaires in 2023, Sentencing Some to Prison
The Internal Revenue Service says it collected $482 million from wealthy tax cheats last year, in a continuing effort to step up their enforcement.
The...
Good News in History, January 20
2 years ago today, Zara Rutherford became the youngest woman to fly around the world alone. Landing at Kortrijk-Wevelgem Airport in western Belgium, she...
Good News in History, January 15
50 years ago today, the TV sitcom Happy Days premiered on ABC, starring Ron Howard—as a clean-cut teenager in the late 50s who frequents...
Good News in History, January 13
239 years ago today, The Times of London published its first ever broadsheet. Originally founded as The Daily Universal Register, The Times used contributions from...