Some, however, manage to survive either by going into hibernation or by boarding a space ark that would return after the effects of the upcoming disaster had dissipated. 50,000,000 BC - The Flying Polyps escape and take revenge on the Great Race, which sends its minds into the deep ...
ForGen Xers, two unique events made their list: the Challenger disaster (1986) and the Gulf War (1991). Interestingly, neither of of these events stood out for other generations. The Challenger disaster impact was widely felt because it involved civilians alongside astronauts, making the space sh...
After receiving an anonymous tip, CBS News investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson begins researching the Department of Justice “gunwalking” operation nicknamed “Fast and Furious” that secretly let thousands of weapons be trafficked to Mexican drug cartels. One of the “walked” guns had been ...
February– Cleve Jones creates the first panel of theAIDS Memorial Quiltin honor of his friend Marvin Feldman, who died of an AIDS-related illness the previous October. Jones makes the panel three feet by six feet, the standard size of a grave plot, intending it and subsequent panels to se...
The charge was detonated at 4:44 am, creating an explosion of astonishing magnitude and utterly destroying the fort; but the follow-through was a disaster. Unwilling to lead the attack and having failed to adequately brief his men, Ledlie drank rum in a distant bunker while his panicked ...
I was thinking about what happens to Jack Marston after 1914 with the events leading up to the start of the GTA timeline 3D and HD universes, 1984. I was thinking of the idea of a trilogy of games, the first game where you play as Jack Marston in interwa
1986.01.28The 25thspace shuttle mission, STS-51LChallenger, explodes 73 seconds after liftoff, at an altitude of 14 km (8.7 mi.) and a speed of 2,291 kph (1,424 mph) [Mach 1.92]. 1986.04.26The Chernobyl reactor melts down, the worst nuclear accident to date. ...
While the cause of the implosion remains under investigation, many have focused on the unique design of theTitan. Prior to the disaster, numerousmaritimeexperts worried that the submersible was unsafe. Rush disputed those claims, and in 2021 he said,“I’ve broken some rules to make this. I...
local governments. In 1931 he supports the formation of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) to help banks and industries. The economy doesn’t improve, and people begin to blame Hoover for the disaster. Homeless families live in poorly constructed shelters in towns they call “Hooverville...
Still, the president instructed his National Security Advisor, Robert McFarlane, to find a way to assist the drug-dealing Contras, regardless of the cost—political or otherwise. Iran Hostage Crisis Meanwhile, in the Middle East, where U.S. relations with many nations were strained to the break...