Carolann's Newsletters

Dear Friends, Tangents: March 30, 1858 – pencil patented. In 1988, explorer and educator Helen Thayer, 51, becomes the first woman to

Dear Friends, Tangents: March 29, 1999: Dow Jones tops 10,000 for the first time. On March 29, 1973, the last United States troops

Dear Friends, Tangents: Happy Monday. On March 28, 1979, America’s worst commercial nuclear accident occurred inside the Unit Two reactor at the

Dear Friends, Tangents: Happy Friday. Old New Year’s Day was on this date until 1751. 1957: The Treaty of Rome established the European

Dear Friends, Tangents: Happy Friday Eve. On March 24, 1989, one of the nation’s worst oil spills occurred as the supertanker Exxon

Dear Friends, Tangents: Liberty Day 1775. 1994:  Wayne Gretzky of the Los Angeles Kings broke Gordie Howe’s National Hockey League career record