July 6, 1885 - Until this day, all human cases of rabies were fatal. The terrible viral disease is usually transmitted through a bite from an infected animal. Headache, fever and violent mania will then set in before the victim slips into a coma from which he or she will never emerge.
Frenchmen Louis Pasteur and Émile Roux were experimenting with a vaccine they harvested from infected [...]
May 31, 1993 – Spuds Mackenzie died of kidney failure on this day. Spuds was ten years old in human years (53 in dog years).
A beautiful bull terrier, Spuds rose to fame as the star of a Bud Light campaign that kicked off with a commercial during the 1987 Super Bowl. The dog’s name and [...]
May 26, 2010 – On this day, a massive migration of frogs closed off a major Greek highway.
The odd “hoppenings” occurred near the town of Langadas where Police Chief Giorgos Thanoglou confirmed that “millions” of the amphibians were massing on the roadway.
Three cars skidded off the road while attempting to avoid the frogs, but no [...]
