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  • 1970: Soviet Nuclear Torpedoes Still Lie at the Bottom of the Sea

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    1970: Soviet Nuclear Torpedoes Still Lie at the Bottom of the Sea

    1970: Soviet Nuclear Torpedoes Still Lie at the Bottom of the Sea

    On this day the Soviet nuclear submarine K-8 sank along with four torpedoes armed with nuclear warheads. ...

    On this day the Soviet nuclear submarine K-8 sank along with four torpedoes armed with nuclear warheads. These atomic weapons still lie on the sea bed even now. The location where the submarine sank i ...

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  • 1981: General Prince Asaka Yasuhiko – The First Member of the Japanese Imperial Dynasty who Became a Roman Catholic

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    1981: General Prince Asaka Yasuhiko – The First Member of the Japanese Imperial Dynasty who Became a Roman Catholic

    1981: General Prince Asaka Yasuhiko – The First Member of the Japanese Imperial Dynasty who Became a Roman Catholic

    Prince Yasuhiko Asaka was a cousin of Japanese Emperor Hirohito who ruled during the World War II. He was ...

    Prince Yasuhiko Asaka was a cousin of Japanese Emperor Hirohito who ruled during the World War II. He was also a half-uncle of Empress Nagako (Hirohito`s wife). The General Prince Yasuhiko Asaka, the ...

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  • 1981: First Launch of a Space Shuttle

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    1981: First Launch of a Space Shuttle

    1981: First Launch of a Space Shuttle

    Columbia was launched on the same day when the 20th anniversary of Gagarin's first flight into space was ...

    Columbia was launched on the same day when the 20th anniversary of Gagarin's first flight into space was celebrated. It is interesting that a space shuttle had never been previously launched into spac ...

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  • 1864: Massacre of Black People in the American Civil War

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    1864: Massacre of Black People in the American Civil War

    1864: Massacre of Black People in the American Civil War

    On this day the Confederate Army committed terrible massacre against a defeated northern unit composed la ...

    On this day the Confederate Army committed terrible massacre against a defeated northern unit composed largely of black soldiers.  In fact, despite the fact that the Union troops surrendered by throwi ...

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  • 1980: Terry Fox Runs 8,000 Kilometers after Cancer and Amputation

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    1980: Terry Fox Runs 8,000 Kilometers after Cancer and Amputation

    1980: Terry Fox Runs 8,000 Kilometers after Cancer and Amputation

    Terry Fox was a Canadian who played basketball and was a long-distance runner in high school and in colle ...

    Terry Fox was a Canadian who played basketball and was a long-distance runner in high school and in college. When he was 18 he was diagnosed with bone cancer (osteosarcoma). Doctors had to amputate hi ...

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  • 1937: First Jet Engine Tested – The Fruit of Persistent Hard Work of a Young Genius

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    1937: First Jet Engine Tested – The Fruit of Persistent Hard Work of a Young Genius

    1937: First Jet Engine Tested – The Fruit of Persistent Hard Work of a Young Genius

    The company Power Jets Ltd. successfully tested the engine called W.U. (Whittle Unit). Frank Whittle, the ...

    The company Power Jets Ltd. successfully tested the engine called W.U. (Whittle Unit). Frank Whittle, the inventor of the engine, was 29 years old at the time and studied at Cambridge. This day in 193 ...

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  • 1961: Yuri Gagarin’s First Space Flight

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    1961: Yuri Gagarin’s First Space Flight

    1961: Yuri Gagarin’s First Space Flight

    This day is inscribed in the history of human space exploration with capital letters. On this day Yuri Ga ...

    This day is inscribed in the history of human space exploration with capital letters. On this day Yuri Gagarin became the first man to get into orbit around the Earth. The spacecraft was called Vostok ...

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  • 1831: Marching Soldiers Collapse a Bridge

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    1831: Marching Soldiers Collapse a Bridge

    1831: Marching Soldiers Collapse a Bridge

    On this day a strange accident occurred, which can be used as an example of the effect of the laws of phy ...

    On this day a strange accident occurred, which can be used as an example of the effect of the laws of physics in real life. Namely, when a troop of soldiers was marching over a suspension bridge, it c ...

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