by qdmhistory | May 17, 2022 | History
Today, the Kentucky Derby is one of the biggest events in the horse racing world, one of the three Triple Crown races. It regularly sees crowds in excess of 50,000 people. It didn’t start off that way, of course. When the first Derby was held on May 17, 1875, it...
by qdmhistory | May 16, 2022 | History
On May 16, 2013, human embryonic stem cells were successfully cloned for the first time. The success came nearly seventeen years after the birth of Dolly the sheep, the first successfully cloned mammal. While Dolly was created from an adult somatic cell, specifically...
by qdmhistory | May 15, 2022 | History
On May 15, 1940, the future of fast food was born in San Bernardino, California, when the McDonald brothers opened their first restaurant. But the original McDonald’s bore very little resemblance to McDonald’s as it exists today. The original...
by qdmhistory | May 14, 2022 | History
On May 14, 1939, a 5-year-old Peruvian girl named Lina Medina gave birth in one of the biggest medical mysteries of its time, becoming the youngest mother in history in the process. Although some people have claimed it was a hoax, many doctors over the years have...
by qdmhistory | May 13, 2022 | History
On May 13, 1787, Arthur Phillip and the First Fleet set forth to colonize Australia with 11 ships full of criminals. With such a large contingent of people who didn’t want to be shipped off to a dangerous and unexplored land to work for the benefit of the people...
