Today in History – March 9, 1964 – First Ford Mustang rolls off assembly line. Ford sold 22,000 of the sporty car on the first day of sales in April 1965. The Mustang was one of the most successful product launches in automotive history with over one million units sold in its first [...]

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Today in History – March 7, 1979 -  Voyager 1 transmits first images of a ring system around Jupiter. Voyager 1 was launched on September 5, 1977 and it passed Saturn in November 1980. A second spacecraft, the Voyager 2, was launched earlier on August 20, 1977. Later in 1979 improved images were provided by [...]

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March 8th is International Women’s Day – “a global day celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future”. On March 8th and the weekend before, thousands of events are held throughout the world to celebrate women’s achievements and highlight global issues concerning women and girls.
March is also [...]

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Today in History – March 5, 1991 – The 5 millionth patent is issued for a process turning garbage into fuel by Lonnie O. Ingram, a professor of microbiology at the University of Florida; Tyrell Conway, a former post-doctoral student at the university, and Flavio Alterthum, a visiting professor who is now [...]

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Today in History-March 3, 1831–Thomas Jennings became the first African-American to receive a patent for his invention of ‘dry-scouring’, a process better known today as dry-cleaning.
As a free man, he established a local business in New York in which he sold clothing. However, customers became disgruntled that there was no means to effectively clean the [...]

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