Traditionalists can gripe about wedding guests relentlessly taking smartphone pictures during weddings, or the obsessive documentation of ceremonies on social media, but there's at least one huge defense of this behavior: If your official photographer monumentally screws up, at least you'll have a handful of amateur…

Please take a moment to celebrate this very important anniversary: It was 15 years ago today that "Heartbreaker" by Mariah Carey (featuring Jay Z) hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. And nothing — including the raw-edge waists of our jeans — would ever be the same.

Happy 2014! As Sociological Images reminds us, this year marks the 40th anniversary of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, which enabled women to have credit cards in their own name. Not only was the act a step towards financial independence — it spawned the exciting stock photo genre "Delighted Lady Holding Credit…

Ever since the beginning of the Great Struggle Against the Carbohydrate Empire, people have tended to deride bread when talking about health. “Oh, bread is so bad for you. The cavepeople never ate bread, and just look how wonderfully sinewy they were!” It wasn’t all that long ago (85 years ago today), however, that…

Tonight, the Mitt hits the fan when President Obama and Governor Romney face each other in a talking points slapfest we call a Presidential Debate for the first time this election season. But today's also another important date in the Obama family calendar: Barack and Michelle's 20th anniversary. To celebrate, the…

On March 12, 1912, eighteen girls from Savannah, Georgia gathered for what would be the first meeting of Girl Scouts. One hundred years later, the small organization founded by Juliette Low has included more than 50 million girls and women, sold hundreds of millions of boxes of cookies, and given us some incredibly…

Isidore and Joan Schwartz spent their first night as husband and wife at New York's Waldorf Astoria Hotel. And now, decades later the hotel has welcomed them to spend the night of their 60th wedding anniversary in the same lodging for the same price they paid on their wedding night. In 1952. So how much did their…

This week MTV celebrates its 30th anniversary, and over the course of three decades the network has done nothing short of redefining pop culture. And lucky for us, quite a few ladies helped push the network ahead along the way. Herewith, a celebration of the ladies of MTV.

That's right: on August 18th, 1920, women won the right to vote. (It became law on 8/26.) Celebrate by preparing for the upcoming midterm elections and, in honor of our suffragette sisters, do a little light hell-raising.

Three years ago, on May 21, 2007, Jezebel.com was born.

Today is the 99th anniversary of the horrific Triangle Shirtwaist fire, which resulted in the deaths of 150 garment workers, but also had the effect of arousing public outrage and helping to galvanize the nascent labor and women's movements. [NewYorker]

Eight Missouri sisters want to have the same wedding anniversary. So far two of 'em have achieved it. And we don't see why anything should stand in the way of the other six. Besides not getting married. [UPI]

"You want thingamabobs? She's got 20." And by "thingamabob," we mean years. And by "she" we obviously mean Ariel of Disney'sThe Little Mermaid. Mazel tov! [LAT]