First up, we have some fun 4th of July comics from The Gazette, published in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in 2003. These comics have humorous takes on the holiday from the series featured in each paper. In Denis the Menace, the kids are filling up a pool while saying that they celebrated Independence Day on the […]

  Currently, fathers day is celebrated in the United States every year on the third Sunday of June. But this wasn’t always the case. In fact, the first fathers day wasn’t celebrated until 1910. In 1988, the Record Courier published an interview with the cousin of Sonora Dodd, the woman credited with the creation of […]

American Idol has brought to light dozens of famous musicians in the decades since it first aired on June 11, 2002. The show, created by Simon Fuller, was based on a British show titled Pop Idol, which featured the same concept of searching for the best musicians around. The show took the same format for […]

On June 5, 2004, President Ronald Reagan died from Alzheimer’s disease. Reagan began his career as an actor before transitioning into politics in 1966, when he became the governor of California. He first ran for president in 1976 but lost the major party ticket bid. Reagan ran again in 1980 and was elected as the […]