1908: Jack Johnson — who lived in Chicago and owned a short-lived cafe in the Bronzeville neighborhood — became the first ...

On 1935, Shenandoah National Park was established in northern Virginia after years of raising funds to purchase the land ...

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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was conceived for a purely Scrooge-like reason — to make money. Thankfully, its creator saw the Montgomery Ward marketing campaign as an opportunity to be as bold in his ...

The two singers from entirely different worlds sang a mash-up of “Little Drummer Boy”, sung by Crosby, and “Peace on Earth”, sung by Bowie. The latter counterpart was added after Bowie said he ...

Notable people born on this day include “Twilight” author Stephenie Meyer and “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” host Ryan Seacrest.

In 2012, Ray Collins, who invited guitarist Frank Zappa to join the band that eventually became the "Mothers of Invention," died five days after a heart attack. He was 75. Collins sang on three albums ...

We hear them from one Yuletide after another, the sounds of the season we’ve known and loved for decades. Just how much do ...

But the story doesn't end there. "Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy" arrived as a single five years later, in November 1982, and became a massive U.K. chart hit, landing at No. 3 in early 1983. It was ...

A dismissed feature request sat ignored for six months. One engineer's quick test revealed it was worth $100M. Here's why ...

With over 50,000 Christmas songs out there, Bing Crosby's 'White Christmas' stands tall as the best-selling single ever, a ...

The tune crooned by Bing Crosby is still one of the most popular Christmas songs of all time. It's endured as a favorite — ...