On this day in 1946, the famous American multimillionaire and aviation enthusiast Howard Hughes nearly died while flying the experimental XF-11 plane on a test flight. Th...
On this day a nuclear explosion was conducted in Nevada that made the biggest artificial crater in the history of mankind. The crater can be seen there today. It is alm...
Marie Skłodowska-Curie, according to many the greatest scientist in history, died on this day. She is significant for developing a theory of radioactivity (she also coine...
On this day in 1938 the speed record for a steam locomotive was achieved. The British locomotive Mallard reached the speed of 202.58 km/h while driving on a railway line...
On this day in 1770, a comet passed closer to Earth than any other comet in recorded history. Namely, the comet popularly known as Lexell’s Comet (official designation D/...
On this day in 1971, William Lawrence Bragg, the youngest Nobel Prize winner in the field of science, died. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics when he was only 25...
On this day back in 1006, therefore in the early Middle Ages, the brightest supernova in recorded human history exploded in the sky. It was an explosion of a star about 7...