Taking a look at how our world was shaped, one day at a time.
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October 18, 1963: Early in the morning over Algeria, a French domestic cat named C-341 became the first feline to reach sub-orbital space. A lesser known achievement when compared to the American chimpanzee Ham or the Soviet canine Laika, C-341 would...
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October 10, 1967: As the American-Soviet space race continued accelerate through the 1960’s, world powers took a step back to establish the concept international space law. Originally open for signatures in Washington, Moscow, and London in January o...
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October 9, 1888: Forty years after construction initially began, a monument to the United States’ first President, George Washington, officially opened to the public. The Washington Monument was not only a testament to the character of the nation’s n...
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October 9, 2006: The Korean Peninsula was shook by a small nuclear explosion which represented the culmination of decades’ worth of nuclear research. North Korea had successfully ignited a nuclear device within the Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site. The f...
