Apr 30, 2016
(Originally published in 2015)
Today marks the 115th anniversary of the death of legendary train engineer Casey Jones.
Here are some things you may not know about Casey Jones:
One: On board engine number 382, Jones and fireman Sim Webb departed Memphis, Tennessee for Canton, Mississippi. By the time they took over, the...
Apr 29, 2016
- Audience wearing special glasses watch a 3D "stereoscopic film" at the Telekinema on the South Bank in London during the Festival of Britain 1951. (Photo from UK National Archives via Wikimedia Commons)
On this date in 1953, the first experimental 3D television program in the U.S. was broadcast.
Here are some...
Apr 28, 2016
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- Gaetano Faillace's photo of Douglas MacArthur and Emperor Hirohito. (Image via Wikimedia Commons)
On this date in 1952, the Allied occupation of Japan following World War II ended.
Here are some things you may not have known about it.
Japan surrendered to end the Second Wold War on August 14, 1945. Emperor...
Apr 27, 2016
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- The Palace of Westminster in London as seen from the London Eye. (Photo by Marcus Michelson)
On this date in 1840, the foundation stone of the new Palace of Westminster was laid in London.
Here are some things you may not have known about the building that houses Parliament.
The oldest part of the building that is...
Apr 26, 2016
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- Chernobyl reactor 4 with containment sarcophagus. (Photo by Carl Montgomery via Wikimedia Commons)
Thirty years ago today, a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union exploded, causing the worst nuclear accident in history.
Here are some things you may not have known about it.
The disaster...