Commemorating A Conflagration Fire Prevention Week was established to commemorate the Great Chicago Fire, the tragic 1871 conflagration that killed more than 250 people, left 100,000 homeless, destroyed more than 17,400 structures, and burned more than 2,000 acres. The fire began on October 8...
Otto Robert Frisch (1 October 1904, Vienna - 22 September 1979), Austrian-British physicist. With his collaborator Rudolf Peierls he designed the first theoretical mechanism for the detonation of an atomic bomb in 1940. Read more
Arrest in 1108BC of Amenpnufer, the son of Anhernajt, a stonecutter of the temple of Amón-Ra who fell in the habit to rob the tombs of kings and noble in western Tebas in company of Hapiuer stonecutter Read more
The Battle of Gaugamela took place in 331 BC between Alexander the Great and Darius III of Persia. The battle, which is also called the Battle of Arbela, resulted in a massive victory for the ancient Macedonians and led to the fall of the Achaemenid Empire. Read more
An aerial dogfight between a pilot of the North Dakota Air National Guard and a UFO took place in the skies over Fargo on Oct. 1, 1948. The Air Guard pilot, George Gorman, was a seasoned flier. Not knowing the intention of the pilot of the object, Gorman, in his P-51 Mustang, decided to engage the object....
The Bell P-59 Airacomet (P=Pursuit) was the first American jet fighter aircraft, designed and built during World War II. The United States Army Air Forces was not impressed by its performance and cancelled the contract when fewer than half of the aircraft ordered had been produced. The first flig...
World Vegetarian Day is observed annually on October 1. It is a day of celebration established by the North American Vegetarian Society in 1977 and endorsed by the International Vegetarian Union in 1978 Read more
The South African College was an educational institution in Cape Town, South Africa, which developed into the University of Cape Town (UCT) and the South African College Schools (SACS). On 1 October 1829, the inauguration of the South African College was held and the classes began. Read more[sp...
A major magnitude 7.1 earthquake occurred at 16:31:34 (UTC) on Sunday, September 30, 2012, in the Colombia region, 9 km WNW of Isnos, Colombia, at a depth of 150.4 km. Location 1.969°N, 76.315°W
Eocrinoids from the Cambrian Mantou Formation of Dalian, Liaoning Cambrian echinoderms, especially eocrinoids, have been reported recently from Guizhou and Yunnan provinces of China, such as the Kaili, Balang, and Guanshan faunas. The present paper reports abundant well-preserved eocrino...
Sunspots 11577 (top), 11579, and 11582 (bottom), captured with a 100mm refractor + Vesta pro webcam + Green, Solar and IR-cut filters. Music via an Amiga 1200
The Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) comprised a set of scientific instruments placed by the astronauts at the landing site of each of the five Apollo missions to land on the Moon following Apollo 11 (Apollos 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17). The ALSEP system and instruments were controlled b...
Title: A search for co-evolving ion and neutral gas species in prestellar molecular cloud cores Authors: Konstantinos Tassis (MPIfR), Talayeh Hezareh (MPIfR), Karen Willacy (JPL) Comparison of linewidths of spectral line profiles of ions and neutral molecules have been recently used to estim...
