KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - December 22, 1882. The first electric Christmas lights are hung. A friend and partner of Thomas Edison, Edward H. Johnson, hand-wired 80 red, white, and blue bulbs around his ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For some faiths Dec. 24 marks the religious Feast Day of Adam and Eve. This being a gardening piece, rather than a religious one, ...
WASHINGTON (WCSC) — President Calvin Coolidge lit the first national Christmas tree on White House grounds back on Christmas Eve of 1923, establishing a tradition that continues to this day. In the ...
MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - On this day, Dec. 22, 1882, electric Christmas lights were turned on for the first time. Until then, people had been lighting their trees with real candles. Safety was a major ...
Over time, Christmas trees evolved from simple evergreen boughs and wooden pyramids decorated with pine branches to live evergreen trees and, by the 19th century, artificial trees. Long before ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Once upon a time, there was a sick boy with a window. So sick was little David Sturgeon that he couldn’t leave his second-floor bedroom, even to celebrate ...
On December 22, 1882, a new kind of holiday magic flickered to life, forever changing how we celebrate Christmas. That day, Edward H. Johnson, an inventor and vice president of Thomas Edison’s ...