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All about Today - Forward, Backward, and Sideways
- Added on: Feb 11th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Steve Terjeson
- Listed in: History Big History
- Tags: World War II news history today wwii today in history
Recent Posts
Apollo 13
Today - April 17 in 1970, Apollo 13 landed safely. Four days earlier, the spacecraft’s oxygen tank had exploded, forcing the crew to abort the mission to land on the Moon. James Lovell, Jr., John Swigert Jr., and Fred Haise Jr. were 55 hours i...
Today - April 15, 2008 - Titanic
Today - April 15, 2008 Today in History On April 14, 1912 the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg and ruptured its hull. Designed by Irish shipbuilder William Pirrie, the 883ft vessel was considered by many to be unsinkable. The Titanic was on its maiden v...
Todays Hero - Jackie Chan
Monday, April 7 Today’s Hero Action superstar Jackie Chan was born on this day in 1954. Chan studied martial arts at the Chinese Opera Research Institute in Hong Kong and appeared in his first film at the age of eight. The actor, who does his o...
Today - April 6, 2008
Today - April 6, 2008 Today in History 1930 - Hostess Twinkies Are Invented (1930) The Twinkie was invented by bakery manager James Dewar, who noticed that the shop’s shortcake pans were only used during the strawberry season and otherwise sat ...
Today - April 1, 2008
Today - April 1, 2008 April Fool’s Day Today in History 1700 - April Fools tradition popularized On this day in 1700, English pranksters begin popularizing the annual tradition of April Fools’ Day by playing practical jokes on each other....
Today - March 28, 2008
Today - March 28, 2008 Today in History 1979 - The worst nuclear power accident in US history began on this day in 1979. At 4am in the Unit 2 reactor of Three Mile Island’s nuclear plant, a pressure valve failed to close, causing the core to ov...
