* SPEAK TO PEOPLE : There is nothing as nice, as cheerful greeting * SMILE : It takes 72 muscles to frown but only 14 to smile. * THINK HAPPY : You are what your thoughts make you: Think Happy. * STOP WORRYING : Stop worrying and start living. * […]
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Last Episode Of The Sopranos Airs
Almost 12 million people tune in for the series finale of HBO’s critically acclaimed, multi-award-winning Mob-family drama The Sopranos on this day in 2007. The mastermind behind The Sopranos was David Chase, a longtime writer, producer and director for TV series such as The Rockford Files, I’ll Fly Away and […]
Continue ReadingThe Simpsons Airs 400th Episode
On this day in 2007, Fox’s long-running animated series The Simpsons airs its 400th episode. The Simpsons was created by Matt Groenig, whose comic strip Life Is Hell caught the attention of the Hollywood producer James L. Brooks. Brooks enlisted Groenig to create a cartoon short that would run during […]
Continue ReadingSmart Launches U.S. Road Show To Introduce Its Microcar
Los Angeles, California, is the first stop on a cross-country road show launched on this day in 2007 by Smart USA to promote the attractions of its “ForTwo” microcar, which it had scheduled for release in the United States in 2008. In the early 1990s, Nicholas Hayek of Swatch, the […]
Continue ReadingDaimlerChrysler Sells Most Of Chrysler For $7.4 Billion
On this day in 2007, the European-American carmaker DaimlerChrysler, created in 1998 in a $36 billion merger, announces that it is selling 80.1 percent of the Chrysler group to the U.S. private-equity firm Cerberus Capital Management. Cerberus paid $7.4 billion in the deal, mostly in the form of investments in […]
Continue ReadingBritish Girl Goes Missing In Portugal
On this day in 2007, less than two weeks before her fourth birthday, Madeleine McCann of Rothley, England, vanishes during a family vacation at a resort in southern Portugal. McCann’s disappearance prompted an international search; however, she has never been found. In May 2007, the McCann family—parents Gerry and Kate […]
Continue ReadingMassacre At Virginia Tech Leaves 32 Dead
On this day in 2007, in one of the deadliest shootings in U.S. history, 32 students and teachers die after being gunned down on the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University by Seung Hui Cho, a student at the school who later dies from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. […]
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