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June 29 is the 180th day of the year (181st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 185 days remain until the end of the year. Events [ edit ] Pre-1600 [ edit ]
The history of standard time in the United States began November 18, 1883, when United States and Canadian railroads instituted standard time in time zones. Before then, time of day was a local matter, and most cities and towns used some form of local solar time, maintained by some well-known clock (for example, on a church steeple or in a ...
National History Day is a nonprofit organization in College Park, Maryland that operates an annual project-based contest for students in grades 6-12. It has affiliates in all fifty states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, South Korea, China, South Asia, and Central America. [1] It started as a local program in Cleveland ...
The origins of the Challenge era come from the method of play of the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada prior to 1893. From 1887 to 1893, the league did not play a round-robin format, but rather challenges between teams of the association that year, with the winner of the series being the 'interim' champion, with the final challenge winner becoming the league champion for the year.
The 1976 Los Angeles Times 500 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series race that took place on November 21, 1976, at Ontario Motor Speedway in Ontario, California. [2] [3] Each copy of the souvenir program was $2 ($10.71 when adjusted for inflation). The five drivers that dominated the 1976 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season were David Pearson (average ...
Millia Davenport Publication Award. Costume Society of America. recognizes and promotes excellence in the publication of costume, dress, appearance, and fashion related scholarship. Dexter Award. American Chemical Society. History of chemistry (now the HIST award) 1956–2001. Frederick Douglass Book Prize.
Daylight saving time ( DST ), also referred to as daylight saving (s), daylight savings time, daylight time (United States and Canada), or summer time ( United Kingdom, European Union, and others), is the practice of advancing clocks to make better use of the longer daylight available during summer so that darkness falls at a later clock time.
The history of Ontario covers the period from the arrival of Paleo-Indians thousands of years ago to the present day. The lands that make up present-day Ontario, the most populous province of Canada as of the early 21st century have been inhabited for millennia by groups of Aboriginal people, with French and British exploration and colonization commencing in the 17th century.