On this day in 1848, the 25-year-old Phineas Gage was working as a blasting foreman on railway construction projects in the U.S. state of Vermont. The workers were settin...
On this day, the first couple was launched into space – Jan Davis and Mark C. Lee. They were NASA astronauts. It is interesting to note that they had married in secret du...
Russia tested the biggest non-nuclear bomb in world history on this day. Its nickname was “Father of all bombs”, an allusion to the famous U.S. bomb which had...
On this day in 1977, Voyager 1 was launched by NASA. It is interesting to note that Voyager 1 still works, more than three and a half decades after its launch into space....
This event insinuated that cities would use electric street lights. The central power plant was located at Pearl Street, Manhattan (intersection of Pearl Street and Wall...
On this day in 1949, the Soviet Union tested its first nuclear bomb. It represented the end of the American nuclear monopoly. Namely, from 1945 to 1949, the USA had been...
On this day in 2003, the planet Mars came closest to the Earth during the last 60.000 years. The distance between the planet Mars and the Earth was only 55,758,006 kilome...
The Ostankino Tower near Moscow caught fire on this day in 2000. It is one of the world’s tallest towers (540.1 meters tall). The tower is located in the northern part of...