Vintage Memories That Make You Go AAH!
Ham also known as Ham the Chimp and Ham the Astrochimp, was the first hominid launched into outer space. Ham’s name is an acronym for the lab that prepared him for his historic mission–the Holloman Aerospace Medical Center, located at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico
On January 31, 1961, Ham was secured in a […]
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The “Winter Soldier Investigation” was a media event sponsored by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War intended to publicize war crimes and atrocities by the United States Armed Forces and their allies in the Vietnam War.
The VVAW challenged the morality and conduct of the war by showing the direct relationship between military policies and war […]
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Dr. Umar Alisha is the 9th head of Sri Viswa Viznana Vidya Adhyatmika Peetham. He took over the reign of this 535 years old institution from his father, Mohiddin Badusha II, on 1989-09-09.
Alisha is the chairman of the Umar Alisha Rural Development Trust and the Umar Alisha Sahithi Samithi. Alisha is also a poet, writing […]
David Milgaard is a Canadian who was wrongfully convicted for the murder and rape of nursing assistant Gail Miller. His case received international attention and today is a staple of high school and university legal studies.
Milgaard was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison, on January 31, 1970, exactly a year after Miller’s […]
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The Van Allen Radiation Belt is a torus of energetic charged particles (plasma) around Earth, held in place by Earth’s magnetic field. The Van Allen belts are closely related to the polar aurora where particles strike the upper atmosphere and fluoresce.
The presence of a radiation belt had been proposed by Nicholas Christofilos prior to […]
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The North Sea flood of 1953 and the associated storm combined to create a major natural disaster which affected the coastlines of the Netherlands and England on the night of 31 January – 1 February 1953. Belgium, Denmark and France were also affected by flooding and storm damage.
A combination of a high spring tide and […]
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Explorer-I was the first Earth satellite of the United States, having been launched at 10:48 pm EST on January 31, 1958, as part of the United States program for the International Geophysical Year.
The satellite was launched from LC-26 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida onboard a Juno I rocket.
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Edward Donald Slovik was a private in the United States Army during World War II and the only American soldier to be executed for desertion since the American Civil War.
Although over twenty-one thousand soldiers were given varying sentences for desertion during World War II—including forty-nine death sentences—only Slovik’s death sentence was carried out.
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Justin Randall Timberlake is an American pop singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, and actor. He came to fame as one of the lead singers of pop boy band ‘N Sync and has won four Grammy Awards as well as an Emmy Award.
In 2002, he released his debut solo album, Justified, which sold over 9 million […]
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The 1st Ranger Battalion was formed upon America’s entry into World War II. Major General Lucian Truscott, U.S. Army, in liaison with the British General Staff, submitted proposals to General George Marshall that “we undertake immediately an American unit along the lines of the British Commandos” in 1942. A subsequent cable from the U.S. Department […]
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