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In 1938 Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel sold all rights to the comic-strip character Superman to their publishers for $130.
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In 1939 the US political party 'The American Nazi Party' had 200,000 members.
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In 1945 a computer at Harvard malfunctioned and Grace Hopper, who was working on the computer, investigated, found a moth in one of the circuits and removed it. Ever since, when something goes wrong with a computer, it is said to have a bug in it.
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In 1957, the Shipping port Atomic Power Station in Pennsylvania, the first nuclear facility to generate electricity in the United States, went on line. (It was taken out of service in 1982.)
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In 1960, an estimated 4,000 people were over 100 years old in the U.S. By 1995 the number had jumped to 55,000. The United States currently has the greatest number of centenarians in the world, estimated at 70,490 on September 1, 2010.
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In 1960, the largest stained-glass window in the world was at Kennedy International Airport in New York City. It was on the American Airlines terminal building and measures 300 feet long by 23 feet high. The window was dismantled in early 2008.
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In 1962, the Mashed Potato, the Loco-Motion, the Frug, the Monkey, and the Funky Chicken were popular dances.
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In 1969 the shares of the Australian company 'Poseidon' were worth $1, one year later they were worth $280 each.
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In 1969, Midnight Cowboy became the first and only X-rated production to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. (Its rating has since been changed to R.)
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In 1976 Rodrigo's 'Guitar Concierto de Aranjuez' was No I in the UK for only three hours because of a computer error.
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