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 [...]
June 6, 2002 – On this day, a big space rock tumbled into the Earth’s atmosphere and exploded over the eastern Mediterranean (between Libya and Greece). The asteroid was about 30 feet in diameter and was almost completely disintegrated by the time it hit the water. No traces were ever found.
The explosion was detected on [...]
May 25, 1961 – On this day during a joint session of Congress, President John F. Kennedy announced his goal of putting a man on the moon before the end of the decade.
At the time many of his critics mocked the speech as a pipedream, and a desperate attempt to change the subject following the [...]
