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  • ColdplayChris Martin and Jonny Buckland met during their first week at University College London in September 1996. They began to write their first songs together in…
  • Lady GagaStefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta was born on the 28th of March 1986, at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan. Her parents were Cynthia Louise and Joseph…
  • Taylor SwiftTaylor Alison Swift was born on the 13th of December 1989, in West Reading, Pennsylvania. Her parents chose a unisex name hoping it would help her succeed in…
  • Ian McKellenIan Murray McKellen was born on the 25th of May 1939 in Burnley, Lancashire. His family moved to Wigan when he was four months old, just before the Second…
  • True BloodAlan Ball signed a two-year agreement with HBO in October 2005 to develop original programming for the network. True Blood became the first project under…
  • Sesame StreetIn 1966, television producer Joan Ganz Cooney sat across from Carnegie Foundation vice president Lloyd Morrisett to discuss a radical idea.
  • AdeleAdele Laurie Blue Adkins was born on the 5th of May 1988 in Tottenham, London. Her mother Penny worked as a furniture maker while her father Marc Evans left…
  • Stephen CurryWardell Stephen Curry II arrived at Akron General Medical Center on the 14th of March 1988. His father Dell played professional basketball for the Charlotte…
  • Neil GaimanNeil Richard Gaiman was born on the 10th of November 1960 in Portchester, Hampshire. His family background traces to Polish-Jewish and other Ashkenazi…
  • Doctor WhoThe BBC Television Service broadcast the first episode of Doctor Who at 17:16:20 GMT on the 23rd of November 1963. This transmission occurred just eighty…
  • InstagramOn the 6th of October 2010, the Burbn Beta app appeared on the App Store as a prototype created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger.
  • Justin BieberOn the 1st of March 1994, Justin Drew Bieber entered the world at St. Joseph's Hospital in London, Ontario. He grew up in Stratford, a small city where his…
  • BTSIn 2010, Big Hit Entertainment CEO Bang Si-hyuk gathered seven young men to form a new hip hop group. The project began with RM, an underground rapper…
  • Rooster TeethIn April 2003, six University of Texas alumni launched a website called drunkgamers.com from their Austin office. Burnie Burns, Matt Hullum, Geoff Ramsey…
  • Conan O'BrienConan Christopher O'Brien was born on the 18th of April 1963, in Brookline, Massachusetts. His father Thomas Francis O'Brien worked as a physician and…
  • Rick and MortyRick Sanchez of Earth Dimension C-137 lives in a suburban house outside Seattle, Washington. He is an eccentric and alcoholic mad scientist who rejects…
  • The NationThe Nation magazine opened its doors on the 6th of July 1865, at 130 Nassau Street in Manhattan. This date marked the end of William Lloyd Garrison's The…
  • Chris PrattOn a beach in Maui, Hawaii, Chris Pratt lived inside a van and a tent during his early twenties. He worked minimal hours to cover gas, food, and fishing…
  • Greta ThunbergGreta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg was born on the 3rd of January 2003 in Stockholm, Sweden. Her father is actor Svante Thunberg and her mother is opera…
  • New Orleans SaintsOn the 1st of November 1966, NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle announced that the city of New Orleans had been awarded an expansion franchise.
  • Goddard Space Flight CenterOn the 1st of May 1959, the center was renamed the Goddard Space Flight Center. This renaming honored Robert H. Goddard, an American rocket propulsion…