With the world anxiously watching, Apollo 13, a U.S. lunar spacecraft that suffered a severe malfunction on its journey to the moon, safely returns to Earth.
On This Day: Apollo 13 Returns to Earth
On This Day in History
On This Day: Pluto is demoted – HISTORY
In Prague on August 24, 2006, the International Astronomical Union votes to demote Pluto from the ninth planet from the Sun to one of dozens of known dwarf planets. The vote followed a week of debate by […]
On This Day in History
On This Day: Maria Tallchief debuts in New York City Ballet’s “Firebird” as the first-ever American prima ballerina
In a star-making performance, ballerina Maria Tallchief debuts in the New York City Ballet’s production of Firebird on November 27, 1949. During her distinguished career, Tallchief collaborated with famed choreographer George Balanchine and became the […]
On This Day in History
On This Day: FDA approves “the pill” – HISTORY
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves the world’s first commercially produced birth-control bill–Enovid-10, made by the G.D. Searle Company of Chicago, Illinois. Development of “the pill,” as it became popularly known, was initially commissioned […]
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