History Honors 250

Yellowstone National Park became the world's first national park on March 1, 1872, when President Ulysses S. Grant signed the Yellowstone National Park Protection Act into law.

Daredevil Kitty O'Neil was a professional racecar driver and stuntwoman, who also happened to be deaf; on December 6, 1976, O'Neil became the fastest woman in the world.

Dr. Farouk el-Baz is an Egyptian American scientist and geologist who helped NASA plan the Apollo program and was the lead geologist studying the moon; he also came up with the idea of having touchable moon rocks at the National Air and Space Museum.

The Easter Egg Roll is an annual White House tradition dating back over a century, but how did presidents start hosting this egg racing ritual?

A graduate of Yale University, Clifford Beers founded the Clifford Beers Clinic in 1913, America's first outpatient mental health clinic. His work would establish a foundation for caring for people suffering with mental illness in America.

The first USB flash drives hit the request in the late 1990s, and they were a game- changer; Indian-American inventor Ajay Bhatt is widely recognized as the key inventor of this revolutionary technology.