The first Earth Day was 55 years ago today! I was in seventh grade and drew a poster about air pollution as part of the school-wide projects. About 20 million Americans participated in gatherings that year, to promote environmental issues. Wikipedia has a lot of background on the origins of Earth Day, which I'm too lazy to summarize, LOL. This photo from the Apollo 17 mission was a prominent source of inspiration.
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"New Coke" was introduced on April 23, 1985, resulting in a popular uproar. Test audiences had preferred the taste to Pepsi--but that didn't mean they wanted to give up traditional Coke! I tried New Coke at the time. It didn't have that little sharpness characteristic of Coke's secret recipe. Traditional Coke returned in July as "Coke Classic," and New Coke eventually disappeared.
https://www.coca-colacompany.com/about-us/history/new-coke-the-most-memorable-marketing-blunder-ever
250 years ago! "In 1774 and 1775, the Boston Committee of Correspondence and the Massachusetts Committee of Safety employed Paul Revere as an express rider to carry news, messages, and copies of important documents as far away as New York and Philadelphia. On the evening of April 18, 1775, Dr. Joseph Warren summoned Paul Revere and gave him the task of riding to Lexington, Massachusetts, with the news that British soldiers stationed in Boston were about to march into the countryside northwest of the town...."
https://www.paulreverehouse.org/the-real-story/
