by qdmhistory | Sep 6, 2021 | History
On September 6th, 1916, the first true American supermarket opened. Its name was Piggly Wiggly. The store opened in Memphis, Tennessee, and since its opening in 1916, it has amassed 530 stores across seventeen states in the United States. The reason why it’s the first...
by qdmhistory | Sep 5, 2021 | Popular
Jesse James was a bank and train robber in the American Old West, best remembered as the gang of outlaws known as the James-Younger. Before embarking on criminal careers in the Old West, Jesse James and his brother Frank served in the Confederate Army. As leaders of...
by qdmhistory | Sep 4, 2021 | Suggested
In 1888, George Eastman (born in 1854) patented the first roll-film camera, which could take pictures and make them available to be used by photographers worldwide. He filed it with the U.S. Patent Office on September 4, 1888. This invention is now known as cameras...
by qdmhistory | Sep 3, 2021 | Suggested
Louis Sullivan, the full name Louis Henry Sullivan, was an American architect regarded as the spiritual father of modern American architecture and associated with the aesthetics of early skyscraper design. He was born September 3, 1856, in Boston, Massachusetts, and...
by qdmhistory | Sep 2, 2021 | Popular
In 1666, an overwhelming fire swept through the streets of London. The great fire of London destroyed 13,200 houses and 87 parish churches. It is also reported that the St. Paul’s Cathedral, Royal Exchange and Guildhall were lost in the fire. Not to mention are...
