July 10, 1913 - Hot as hell it was! On this day the mercury climbed to 134° Fahrenheit in Death Valley, California. It’s the highest temperature ever recorded in North America – and not far from the hottest reading ever taken on the planet. Libya hit 136° in 1922.
Besides the blistering heat, Death Valley is one [...]
May 27, 1790 – Today was the day the day Jeremiah Carlton died. He lived a long and incredibly uneventful life. At the age of 19 he inherited a large fortune. He hired an army of servants and crawled into bed – where he would stay for the next 70 years.
His slothfulness became legendary. Between [...]
May 16, 1958 – On this day, Captain Eli Beeding was riding a rocket sled as part of an Air Force test to determine the effects of g-forces on the human body. After reaching about 35 miles an hour the sled made an incredibly hard stop in less than a tenth of a second. [...]
