On January 15, 1870, political illustrator Thomas Nast published a cartoon in Harper’s Weekly that would come to be known as the Democratic Party’s symbol. The cartoon was titled “A Live (Donkey) Kicking a Dead […]
On January 13th, 1942, Henry Ford received a patent for the construction of the first plastic car. Ford, a renowned American innovator, created the Soybean or Hemp Body car, as he aspired to build a […]
January 14, 1954, marks the anniversary of the merger of the Nash-Kelvinator Corporation and the Hudson Motor Car Company. The merger challenged the Big Three in the automotive industry: General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler to […]
On January 14, 2005, the Huygens probe landed on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. Huygens remains the first and only landing in any location in the outer solar system, the furthest distance from Earth a spacecraft […]