Bihar will celebrate Oct 5 as Dolphin Day to create awareness to save the endangered species that has been declared India's national aquatic animal. Source
The Orient Express is the name of a long-distance passenger train service originally operated by the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits. Georges Nagelmackers invited guests to a railway trip of 2,000 kilometres on his 'Train Eclair de luxe' (lightning luxury train). The train left Paris...
Investigating the Home Front 1914-1918 The material remains of the First World War on the British Home Front will be investigated by researchers at the University of Bristol and the University of York, thanks to £39,500 funding from English Heritage. The Home Front 1914-1918 and its Legacies will...
Monty Python's Flying Circus (known during the final series as just Monty Python) is a BBC TV sketch comedy series. The first episode was recorded on 7 September and broadcast on 5 October 1969 on BBC One, with 45 episodes airing over four series from 1969 to 1974, plus two episodes for German TV. Read m...
Robert Hutchings Goddard (October 5, 1882 - August 10, 1945) was an American professor, physicist and inventor who is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fuelled (petrol and liquid oxygen) rocket, which he successfully launched on March 16, 1926, in Auburn, Massachuse...
Cosmonaut Pavel Popovich who piloted the Vostok-4 spacecraft on 12-15th August, 1962, and commanded the Soyuz-14 mission on 3-19th July, 1974, has died in hospital in the Crimean city of Hurzuf, where he had been taken following a stroke. A Mars-crossing asteroid (8444 Popovich) and an Antarctic...
STS 41-G was the 13th flight of NASA's Space Shuttle program and the sixth flight of Space Shuttle Challenger. Challenger launched on 5 October 1984, and conducted the second shuttle landing at Kennedy Space Centre on 13 October. Read more ...
Researchers discover serendipity is more than a 'happy accident' Serendipity - a mysterious phenomenon often thought of as a 'happy accident' - is being investigated by a team of UCL researchers in order to design interactive systems that harness its power. By collecting and analysing people's '...
Ice-coated beauty in Mars' Silver IslandCredits: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum) High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) nadir and colour channel data taken during revolution 10743 on 8 June 2012 by ESA's Mars Express have been combined to form a natural-colour view of Hooke Crater region in Argyre...
2013 AAAS Annual Meeting deadline for submission 2013 AAAS Annual Meeting Call for Symposium Proposals The Beauty and Benefits of Science Date and Location: 14-18 February, Boston MA The online submission site for symposium proposals is now open. You will receive updates only about the 2013 meet...
Elena Sergeevna Katina (Yelena Sergeyevna Katina), born October 4, 1984, better known as Lena Katina, is a Russian singer and songwriter who is best known for her work with Russian duo t.A.T.u. Read more
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a non-profit organisation founded by Richard Stallman on 4 October 1985 to support the free software movement, a movement which aims to promote the universal freedom to create, distribute and modify computer software, with the organization's preference fo...
