Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm pledged Friday to
continue issuing energy efficiency standards for
appliances in 2024.

On December 29, 1890, in one of the final chapters of America’s
long Indian wars, the U.S. Cavalry killed 146 Sioux at Wounded
Knee on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota.

A depiction of the Ghost Dance.

Civilian burial party, loading victims on a cart for burial.

Mass grave at the site of the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre.

Rod Stewart raised the asking price of his Beverly Hills
mansion to $80 million more than six months after listing
the three-acre Los Angeles estate with tennis courts.

On December 28, 1981, the first American "test-tube baby,"
a child born as a result of in-vitro fertilization,was born in
Norfolk, Virginia. Considered a miracle at the time, births
like that of Elizabeth Jordan Carr are now common.

Elizabeth Jordan Carr is 42 years young today.

On August 5, 2010, Carr gave birth to her first child, Trevor
James Comeau (below). He was conceived without the
assistance of Artificial Reproductive Technology.

Wrigley’s Spearmint brand chewing gum was launched in 1893 and  
was originally marketed by being given away free with the purchase
of baking soda. It became so popular that it was then eventually sold separately as a desired commodity.
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