Aristotle, one of the greatest scholars of all time and one of the key shapers of Western thought, died on this day in 322 BC on the island of Euboea. He was a student of...
On this day the USA conducted the most powerful nuclear test in its history. It was conducted on the famous Bikini Atoll in Micronesia (the bikini swimwear was named afte...
The first module of the space station Mir was launched on this day in 1986. When it was fully assembled, the space station reached a mass unsurpassed by any previous spac...
The rocket stalled during launch, and then crashed into an inhabited area, killing some of the inhabitants. The explosion was so powerful that it left the local village i...
The famous early computer, ENIAC, was officially declared operational on this day in 1946. It was the first programmable general-purpose electronic computer in the world....
The BPM 37093 star is around 53 light years distant from Earth. It is estimated that its “diamond” core has a diameter of around 4,000 kilometers. The media compared this...
The USS Macon was especially interesting for being a kind of “flying aircraft carrier”. Namely, it could carry five Curtiss F9C fighter aircraft. These were one-man bipla...
This day in 2009 marked the first time in history that two artificial satellites collided at high velocity in the Earth’s orbit. The satellites in question were the...