Adora Lily Svitak (born October 15, 1997) is an American child prodigy and internationally published author, known for her essays, stories, poems, blogs, and full-length books. Adora first became known to the public when, at the age of 6, she was recognized on local news in Seattle for her writing a...
A section of a Chinese scientific satellite that was returning from orbit crashed into a four-story building in Penglai, southwest China's Sichuan Province, October 15, 2004. No one was injured in the accident. Read more
The Great Storm of 1987 occurred on the night of 15/16 October 1987, when an unusually strong weather system caused winds to hit much of southern England and northern France. It was the worst storm to hit England since the Great Storm of 1703 (284 years earlier) and was responsible for the deaths of at l...
Malcolm D. Ross (born October 15, 1919 in Momence, Illinois and died October 8, 1985 in Birmingham, Michigan) was a Captain in the United States Naval Reserve (USNR), an atmospheric scientist, and a balloonist who set several records for altitude and scientific inquiry, with more than 100 hours fl...
Publius Vergilius Maro (also known by the Anglicised forms of his name as Virgil or Vergil) (October 15, 70 BC - September 21, 19 BC) was a classical Roman poet, best known for three major works - the Eclogues (or Bucolics), the Georgics, and the Aeneid - although several minor poems are also attribute...
On 15 October 2002, a Soyuz-U carrying the ESA Foton-M1 project at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, failed to launch after one of the rocket's five engines did not start, resulting in an unstable flight plan. Approximately fifteen seconds after lift-off, the rocket fell back to the launch pad and exploded...
As the nation held its collective breath, China's first astronaut, Yang Liwei, floated back to the motherland, having orbited Earth 14 times in the Shenzhou 5, or Divine Capsule. It was October 2003, and the national broadcaster CCTV carried live coverage of the momentous event, from Mr. Yang's fa...
On 4 June 1783, the Montgolfier brothers flew their hot air balloon as their first public demonstration at Annonay in front of a group of dignitaries from the Etats particulars. Its flight covered 2 km, lasted 10 minutes, and had an estimated altitude of 1,600-2,000 m. Word of their success quickly r...
It's long been a mystery why the H.L. Hunley never returned after becoming the first submarine in history to sink an enemy warship in 1864, but new research announced Friday may lend credence to one of the theories. Scientists found the eight-man crew of the hand-cranked Confederate submarine had n...
ThrustSSC, (or Thrust SSC, Thrust supersonic car), is a British jet-propelled car developed by Richard Noble, Glynne Bowsher, Ron Ayers and Jeremy Bliss. ThrustSSC holds the World Land Speed Record, set on 15 October 1997, when it achieved a speed of 1,228 km/h and became the first car to officiall...
Equus October was a festival on 15 October (idus), in which the right hand horse of the winning pair of a race was sacrificed to Mars. The tail was rushed to the regia to have its blood drip on the hearth there. There was a traditional fight over its head between the inhabitants of the Subura who wanted it f...
Skydiver hopes to make supersonic jump over NM Extreme athlete and skydiver Felix Baumgartner hopes to end five years of preparation with a death-defying 23-mile free fall into the southeastern New Mexico desert Tuesday morning. Weather permitting, the 43-year-old Austrian will take off in a 55...
China launches Long March 2C carrier rocket in N China The Long March 2C carrier rocket carrying two satellites blasts off from the launch pad at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre in Taiyuan, capital of north China's Shanxi Province, Oct. 14, 2012. Satellite A and Satellite B, which form Shijian (...
New twist to two-decade-old Isro spy case The nearly two-decade-old Isro espionage case continues to haunt the Congress with a retired state police officer, who investigated the case, expressing suspicion that the late former Prime Minister PVNarasimha Rao had sabotaged the case. [url=http:/...
Sunspots 11591 (bottom) 11589, 11590 (right) and 11586 (top) captured with a 10mm refractor + Vesta pro webcam + Solar and IR-Cut filter Music composed on an Amiga 1200
