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The Emmy Awards are given for outstanding achievement in US television. They are presented by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, which was founded in 1946 and which held the first award ceremony in 1949. Its members vote on outstanding programs, actors, directors, and writers in such categories as drama, comedy, and variety. The Emmy's name is taken from the nickname "immy" for the image orthicon, a television camera tube.
Who won the very first Emmy? More...
1977 - The world's first solar power plant is opened
The solar furnace in Odeillo, France was the first power plant providing alternative energy.
1971 - Idi Amin seizes power in Uganda
The dictator's rule (1971 - 1979) was characterized by human right abuse, political repression, and corruption.
1947 - The first arcade game is patented
Thomas Goldsmith's “Cathode ray tube amusement device” is considered the ancestor of video games.
1924 - The first Winter Olympics begin
The I Olympic Winter Games were held in Chamonix, France.
1919 - The League of Nations is founded
It is the predecessor of the United Nations and the first international organization devoted to maintaining world peace.
Historic Trivia pick
Potable alcohol was so hard to come by during Prohibition that people often resorted to drinking industrial alcohol, like the kinds used to disinfect wounds. The only way to get your hands on it, however, was to steal it. Eventually, the US government got so fed up with the level of alcohol theft that it began poisoning its own supply to render it fatal if consumed.
By mid-1927, the new de-naturing formulas included some notable poisons — kerosene and brucine (a plant alkaloid closely related to strychnine), gasoline, benzene, cadmium, iodine, zinc, mercury salts, nicotine, ether, formaldehyde, chloroform, camphor, carbolic acid, quinine, and acetone.
The result: By 1933, the poisoned alcohol had killed nearly 10,000 people in what came to be known as "chemist's war of Prohibition."
First Emmy Awards for Excellence in Television
The Emmy Awards are given for outstanding achievement in US television. They are presented by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, which was founded in 1946 and which held the first award ceremony in 1949. Its members vote on outstanding programs, actors, directors, and writers in such categories as drama, comedy, and variety. The Emmy's name is taken from the nickname "immy" for the image orthicon, a television camera tube.
Who won the very first Emmy? More...
1977 - The world's first solar power plant is opened
The solar furnace in Odeillo, France was the first power plant providing alternative energy.
1971 - Idi Amin seizes power in Uganda
The dictator's rule (1971 - 1979) was characterized by human right abuse, political repression, and corruption.
1947 - The first arcade game is patented
Thomas Goldsmith's “Cathode ray tube amusement device” is considered the ancestor of video games.
1924 - The first Winter Olympics begin
The I Olympic Winter Games were held in Chamonix, France.
1919 - The League of Nations is founded
It is the predecessor of the United Nations and the first international organization devoted to maintaining world peace.
Historic Trivia pickPotable alcohol was so hard to come by during Prohibition that people often resorted to drinking industrial alcohol, like the kinds used to disinfect wounds. The only way to get your hands on it, however, was to steal it. Eventually, the US government got so fed up with the level of alcohol theft that it began poisoning its own supply to render it fatal if consumed.
By mid-1927, the new de-naturing formulas included some notable poisons — kerosene and brucine (a plant alkaloid closely related to strychnine), gasoline, benzene, cadmium, iodine, zinc, mercury salts, nicotine, ether, formaldehyde, chloroform, camphor, carbolic acid, quinine, and acetone.
The result: By 1933, the poisoned alcohol had killed nearly 10,000 people in what came to be known as "chemist's war of Prohibition."
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