Thomas Edison debuted one of the critical pieces of technology for today’s modern entertainment devices on this day in the 1870s. Edison invented the first practical light bulb, the motion picture camera and the phonograph. Edison was the first to actually reproduce audio. Recordings could only be played a few times due to the low […]
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A crowd of over 10,000 gathered in Owensboro, Kentucky on this day to watch the last ever public hanging in the United States. Reporters from around the country traveled to cover the event. 22-year-old Rainey Bethea, a young black man, had been found guilty of raping a wealthy white widow, 70-year-old Lischia Edwards. A neighbor […]
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On July 26th, 1908, the Federal Bureau of Investigation was created when US Attorney General Charles Bonaparte ordered a group of newly hired federal investigators to report to Chief Examiner Stanley W. Finch of the Department of Justice. One year later, the Office of the Chief Examiner was renamed the Bureau of Investigation, and in […]
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