Monday, January 31, 2011
On this Date in 314...
...Silvester I begins his reign as Pope of the Catholic Church, succeeding Pope Miltiades. Coincidentally, this also is the date he began his predilection for tweety birds.
Sunday, January 30, 2011
On this Date in 1913...
...the United Kingdom's House of Lords rejects the Irish Home Rule Bill. Presumably, because it had not come with a case of Jameson.
Saturday, January 29, 2011
On this Date in 1967...
...the "ultimate high" of the hippie era, the Mantra-Rock Dance, takes place in San Francisco and features Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead, and Allen Ginsberg. Though many of those who attended weren't really sure if they actually saw these artists perform, or if it was all a hallucination. Either way, everyone agreed that it was "Tooootally Awwwwwesome!"
Friday, January 28, 2011
On this Date in 1754...
...Horace Walpole coins the word serendipity in a letter to Horace Mann. Horace Mann's immediate response was, "LOL, huh?"
Thursday, January 27, 2011
On this Date in 1951...
...Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flat. France, upon hearing the news, immediately surrenders.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
On this Date in 1962...
...Ranger 3 is launched to study the moon. The space probe later misses the moon by 22,000 miles (35,400 km). It was reportedly unable to see through the mask.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
On this Date in 1955...
...the Soviet Union ends state of war with Germany when someone suddenly remembered that World War II had ended 10 years earlier.
Monday, January 24, 2011
On this Date in 1990...
...Japan launches Hiten, the country's first lunar probe, the first robotic lunar probe since the Soviet Union's Luna 24 in 1976, and the first lunar probe launched by a country other than Soviet Union or the United States.
Reportedly, the moon is still uncomfortable about this one since it went a bit deeper than its predecessors.
Reportedly, the moon is still uncomfortable about this one since it went a bit deeper than its predecessors.
Sunday, January 23, 2011
On this Date in 1968...
...the USS Pueblo was seized by North Korean forces, who claimed that it had violated their territorial waters while spying. Also, they were reportedly intrigued as to how the US was able get a ship to float that was made entirely of adobe.
"Let me tell ya, it wasn't easy." said head Engineer at the Kewaunee Shipbuilding and Engineering Company in Kewaunee, Wisconsin.
"Let me tell ya, it wasn't easy." said head Engineer at the Kewaunee Shipbuilding and Engineering Company in Kewaunee, Wisconsin.
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