Harish Aravind's Rare Photo Collections

The first transcontinental telegraph line went into operation 149 years ago on October 24, 1861, when the gap between the country's eastern and western networks was closed. The year before, Congress passed the Pacific Telegraph Act, subsidizing its construction and Hiram Sibley, president of the Western Union Telegraph Company, organized crews to build west from Omaha and East from Carson City to Salt Lake City.

First photograph in history. View from the Window at Le Gras 1826

Disneyland Park is a theme park located in Anaheim, California, owned and operated by the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts division of the Walt Disney Company. Known as Disneyland when it opened on July 18, 1955, and still almost universally referred to by that name, it is the only theme park to be designed and built under the direct supervision of Walt Disney.

Some more of it;

Happiest place on earth

Of course  it is .. Its a dream place for every one.. people visiting California never miss an opportunity to feel it ....

For the 15,000 spectators at Madison Square Garden on May 19, 1962 -- including LIFE photographer Bill Ray -- Marilyn's breathy, intimate rendition of "Happy Birthday" to President John F. Kennedy amplified the buzz about an affair between the two. But beyond the titillation, the moment Ray captured in this, his most iconic shot, went on to play a major role in both Marilyn's and JFK's biographies, coming as it did near the end of their short lives. You don't even need to see her face to know who she is: There she stands in the spotlight, unbelievably sexy, in a fleeting moment that would forever

At the end of his shoot with artist Salvador Dali -- a session that took six hours and 28 throws (of water, a chair, and three cats), "my assistants and I were wet, dirty and near complete exhaustion," photographer Philippe Halsman reported. The resulting image, with a leaping Dali in midair amid the madness, is a portrait as kinetic and surreal as artist's own work.

For this 1949 portrait of Pablo Picasso in his studio in the south of France, the artist was inspired by Gjon Mili's previous photos of ice skaters spinning through the air with small lights attached to their skates. Mili left the shutters of his cameras open as Picasso made ephemeral drawings in the air of a darkened room. This one was of one of a centaur. Mili caught the artist himself by using a 1/10,000th-second strobe light. This photo ranks among LIFE's best partly because it actually captures the moment of creation by a genius.

J.R. Eyerman's peek inside the opening-night screening of Bwana Devil, the first full-length color 3-D feature, certainly is peculiar: Men and women, young and old all angle in the same direction, formally dressed but for those silly specs over their eyes. Funny as it is, with the audience members coming off like clones of an alien species, there's also prescience in the photo -- not just about the emergence of special effects in cinema but also, on a deeper level, about the hypnotizing nature of our entertainment.

Every one knows what a R.M.S Titanic is and how it looks like.. Of course every know about it after the movie "Titanic" was released.
The above pic is the " Wreck of Titanic " found at the North Atlantic ocean, where it got sunk.

Education System in various countries should learn from this. Mainly in India, where a 3rd grade student is forced to learn more than what he can. And of course even that is surely not the age where he can choose the best one he likes, yet why to force them.

In 1939 Colonel Sanders perfected his secret blend of eleven herbs and spices for chicken in his Corbin, Kentucky truck stop. It wasn’t until 1952 when the world first saw “Kentucky Fried Chicken”. The world’s first restaurant featuring Kentucky Fried Chicken was also its first franchise in Utah, Harman Café. The new franchise owner, Pete Harman, decided that the chicken pieces would sell better in Salt Lake City with the more exotic sounding Kentucky Fried Chicken rather than Utah Fried Chicken. This is the story of KFC’s first franchise owner and how he impacted the identity and direction of the chain and the franchise movement.



In 1952
The Colonel begins actively franchising his chicken business by traveling from town to town and cooking batches of chicken for restaurant owners and employees. The Colonel awards Pete Harman of Salt Lake City with the first KFC franchise. A handshake agreement stipulates a payment of a nickel to Sanders for each chicken sold.

So technically SLC is the first place to have a KFC, but not the first place to have a restaurant run by Colonel Sanders.

See the source link for the complete history of KFC  
Sources: http://www.kfc.com/about/history.asp