What happened in 1953 Major News Stories include North Sea flood Netherlands, Queen Elizabeth II crowned Queen, Korean War Ends, FBI rounds up communist leaders, First Polio Vaccine Developed, First color television sets go on sale, First Corvette car goes on sale, First James Bond novel Publish...
What Happened in 1959 Important News and Events, Key Technology and Popular Culture Major Major News Stories include Fidel Castro comes to power in Cuba after Revolution, The Dalai Lama is forced to flee Tibet, Barbie Doll Launched, Alaska becomes the 49th State and Hawaii becomes the 50th sta...
“This happened right underneath our nose. We’ve seen this coming. This was not a surprise,” she said. “I know that this coalition, we knew we needed to do more and go deeper.” Hear Joanne Murray's WBSM interview beginning at the 21-minute mark below: LOOK: Milestones in women's...
The Halifax was a maritime disaster in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, which happened on the morning of 6 December 1917. The Norwegian vessel SS Imo collided with SS Mont-Blanc, a French cargo ship laden with high explosives, in the Narrows, a strait connecting the upper...
1949.September 23 - US President Truman announces that the Soviet Union had tested a nuclear device several weeks earlier. The White House did not explain how the United States had detected the test, which had occurred on 29 August 1949 at Semipalatinsk, in northeastern Kazakhstan.More ...
The Minnesota Twins, the reigning American League Central Division Champions, announced Monday that tickets for all the club’s 2024 home events, which include TwinsFest, spring training, and the regular season, will go on sale to the general public this week. ...
Roughly 1 in every 250 natural pregnancies results in twins. The odds of having twins go up for older mothers and those receiving fertility treatments. Though there is a gene that makes women more likely to have fraternal twins, men who inherit it are no more likely to have twins in ...
I suspect that much of this was down to the closure of so much industry during the 1970s an 1980s along with the transfer to foreign ownership of so many British industrial and engineering companies. For a fascinating, but depressing read about how this happened, “The Slow Death of Briti...