Erin Danielle Jones

Flag Day commemorates the adoption of the Stars and Stripes as the official flag of the United States on June 14, 1777.

George Washington Carver was a renowned agricultural scientist who developed over 300 different uses for peanuts, but he wasn’t the inventor of peanut butter.

July is Disability Pride Month. It celebrates the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, a law that protects people with disabilities from discrimination.

Records show there were at least two Arab Americans who fought for the Continental Army during the American Revolution — Nathan Badeen and Joseph Benenhaley.

Arab American Heritage Month is observed each April to recognize the achievements and contributions of Arab Americans in the United States.

Bobbi Gibb and Kathrine Switzer were the first two women to run the Boston Marathon in the 1960s. Women weren’t officially allowed to compete in the race until 1972.

One historical account of the speech falsely portrayed Truth’s speaking style as similar to a Southern slave dialect. Truth’s first language was actually Dutch.

In 1952, a nuclear reactor partially melted down in Canada. Then-U.S. Navy Lt. Jimmy Carter led a team of men to help with cleanup efforts.

In 1879, British explorer R.W. Felkin witnessed Ugandan healers and midwives performing a cesarean section. The mother and baby both survived the procedure.

The Freedom House Ambulance Service, staffed by Black paramedics in Pittsburgh, was the first ambulance service to offer emergency medical treatment in the U.S.

Lunsford Lane, the Black man pictured in the meme, didn’t invent Vicks, but he was a successful businessman, author and abolitionist who purchased his own freedom.

Blue, not green, was the first color associated with St. Patrick’s Day — and Saint Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, was not originally from the country.

Kwanzaa is a holiday that celebrates family, community and culture. It was created in 1966, a year after the Watts Riots in Los Angeles.

The National Retail Federation coined the term “Cyber Monday” in 2005 after noticing a spike in people shopping online at work on the Monday after Thanksgiving.

Congress passed the Uniform Monday Holiday Act in 1968, temporarily moving Veterans Day to the end of October. After pushback, the date was changed back to Nov. 11.

USDA introduced the “Basic Seven” in 1943 to promote public nutrition education and to help people cope with limited supplies of certain foods during World War II.

America celebrates Independence Day every year on July 4, but the Declaration of Independence wasn't signed on that day.

Nearly 100 Confederate monuments were removed nationwide in 2020 amid protests, but some still remain, including in the nation's Capitol.

Juneteenth is the first new federal holiday since 1983 when Martin Luther King Jr. Day was approved.