The term “global warming” appeared for the first time in print
on August 8, 1975, with the publication of Wallace Smith
Broecker’s paper “Climatic Change: Are We on the Brink of
a Pronounced Global Warming?” in the journal Science.
Geochemist Wallace "Wally" Smith Broecker
(November 29, 1931 – February 18, 2019)
National Lampoon’s Vacation, sometimes referred to as
simply Vacation, is a 1983 road trip comedy film directed
by Harold Ramis starring Chevy Chase, Beverly D’Angelo,
Imogene Coca, Randy Quaid, John Candy, and Christie
Brinkley in her acting debut with special appearances by
Eddie Bracken, Brian Doyle-Murray, Miriam Flynn, James
Keach, Eugene Levy and Frank McRae.
Cornelius Crane "Chevy" Chase will be 80
on October 8th.
A follow-up release from their debut album, The Doors became
groups first bona fide smash. “Light My Fire,” which earned the
top spot in the Billboard Hot 100 on July 29, 1967, transformed
The Doors from cult favorites of the rock cognoscenti into
international pop stars and avatars of the ’60s counterculture.
On July 16, 1995, Amazon officially opened for business as
an online bookseller. Within a month, the fledgling retailer
had shipped books to all 50 U.S. states and to 45 countries.
Founder Jeff Bezos’s motto was “get big fast,” and Seattle-
based Amazon eventually morphed into an e-commerce
colossus, selling everything from groceries to furniture to
live ladybugs, and helping to revolutionize the way people
shop.
Jeffrey Preston Bezos, the founder, executive chairman,
and former president and CEO of Amazon.
In 1959, the mobile telephone was a revolutionary invention
that changed how people communicated.
The original model weighed over 30 pounds and featured a large
antenna on top, making it look like something out of a science
fiction movie.
