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January 21, 1960
On January 21, 1960, the Little Joe 1B was launched from Wallops Island, Virginia. The Little Joe 1B was a launch escape system (LES) test of the Mercury spacecraft. The only passenger was a female rhesus monkey named Miss Sam. The capsule flew to a height of 9.3 miles and a range of 11.7 miles … Continue reading
Posted in 20th Century, Historical Facts
Tagged Little Joe 1B, Mercury spacecraft, Miss Sam, NASA, psychics, rhesus monkey, spacecraft, Virginia, Wallops Island
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January 19, 1810
On January 19, 1810, the city of Portsmouth, New Hampshire experienced its greatest drop in temperature ever recorded. On Thursday afternoon, January 18, it was a balmy 48 degrees Fahrenheit. By daybreak on Friday morning, January 19, 1810, the temperature had bottomed out to a negative 9 degrees Fahrenheit. People and livestock actually froze to … Continue reading
Posted in 19th Century, Historical Facts
Tagged Arkham, Atlantic Ocean, Cold Friday, Dunwich, HP Lovecraft, Innsmouth, Kingsport, New Hampshire, North Atlantic, Portsmouth, strange weather
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January 18, 1644
On January 18, 1644, the first documented case of a USO/UFO (Unidentified Submerged Object/Unindentified Flying Object) was made. John Winthrop’s, the Governor of Massachusetts, diary had an entry detailing the event. In it, he stated that three men in a boat in the Boston Harbor observed at midnight two lights rise up and out from … Continue reading
Posted in 17th Century, Historical Facts
Tagged alcohol, aliens, Boston, ghosts, ufo sightings, Unidentified Submerged Object, USO
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January 17, 1984
On January 17, 1984, the US Supreme Court ruled (5-4) that private use of home VCRs to tape TV programs for later viewing did not violate federal copyright laws, thereby preventing every current and future American from becoming a felon. Chief Justice Warren Burger said that turning an entire generation of Americans into pirates over … Continue reading
Posted in 20th Century, Historical Facts
Tagged felons, parrots, pirates, unintended consequences, US Supreme Court, VCRs
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January 16, 1945
On January 16, 1945, Adolf Hitler and his posse move into his underground bunker, called the Fuhrerbunker, over his protests. He wanted to move into his Fuhrerbaumhaus and institute a no girls policy. His wife, Eva Braun protested and put her foot down, saying she was not going to live in a tree and read … Continue reading
Posted in 20th Century, Historical Facts
Tagged bunker, Eva Braun, he-man woman haters, Hitler, Nazi's, tree houses
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January 15, 1899
On January 15, 1899, Edwin Markham’s seminal poem. “The Man With a Hoe” was published for the first time in the San Francisco Examiner. The poem was inspired by Jean-Francois Millet’s painting “L’homme a la houe”, which depicted a weary, French peasant leaning against his hoe in a field not his own. The poem was … Continue reading
January 14, 1911
On January 14, 1911, Roald Amundsen’s polar expedition landed upon the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica. Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions and was the leader of the first team to reach the South Pole in December 1911. It was rumored that Roald had uncovered an ancient mysterious fossilized bone from a tribe … Continue reading
January 13, 1404
On January 13, 1404, the English Parliament passed the Act of Multipliers, forbidding Multiplication. This wasn’t a bunch of rich nobs prejudiced against mathematics, but instead, at the time, multiplication also meant the production of precious metals through alchemy. The old, turning lead into gold passion, or using a catalyst to cause gold to alchemically … Continue reading
Posted in 15th Century, Historical Facts
Tagged alchemy, English Parliament, Philosopher's Stone, stoopid laws, the french, the spanish
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