Daily Nonsense

Today in 1914, the Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day’s labor.

Today in 1940, FM radio is demonstrated to the FCC for the first time.

Today in 1948, Warner Bros. shows the first color newsreel (Tournament of Roses Parade and the Rose Bowl).

Today in 1976, Cambodia is renamed Democratic Kampuchea by the Khmer Rouge.

Celebrating Birthdays today Zebulon Pike, King Camp Gillette, Paramahansa Yogananda, Jeane Dixon, George Reeves, Jane Wyman, William De Witt Snodgrass, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Umberto Eco, Diane Keaton, and Phil Thornalley.

Celebrating Death-iversaries today are Jean Chardin, Ernest Shackleton, John Calvin Coolidge, Jr., George Washington Carver, Max Born, Charles Mingus, and Momofuku Ando.