In the 14th and 15th centuries upper-class dinner guests in Italy were expected to bring these items with them.

In 1950 a team of surgeons performed the first successful transplant of this organ.

This writer refused the 1964 Nobel Prize for Literature

Announced in 1949, the first Long Play (LP) record albums rotated at this speed.

In 1967 this country tested its first hydrogen bomb.

Microsoft released this operating system in 1991

In 1774 this future US state became the first British colony in North America to ban the importation of slaves.

This was the first soft drink to be bottled in America.