Browsing: July

A Brief History On July 31, 2012, Ukrainian gymnast, Larisa Latynina, was passed as the most prolific Olympic Medal winner, when American swimmer Michael Phelps won his 19th Olympic medal. Digging Deeper Larisa dominated Olympic gymnastics from 1956 to 1964, winning 9 Olympic Gold medals and a total of 18 Olympic medals.  No gymnast, male or female, has surpassed her total of Gold medals, and her total medal record lasted for nearly 5 decades before broken by Phelps. A remarkable athlete, Phelps won a total of 28 Olympic medals from the 2000 Summer Olympics, in which the 15 year old…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on July 30th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On July 30, 1419, The First Defenestration of Prague took place, which of course, means there was a second Defenestration! On July 30, 1864, Union forces exploded 8,000 pounds of black powder in a tunnel underneath Confederate trenches at Petersburg, Virginia, creating a crater 170 feet long and 120 feet wide, and 30 feet deep. On July 30, 1965, President Lyndon B.…

A Brief History On July 30 and 31, 2012, Northern and Eastern India suffered massive electrical blackouts leaving 400 million people without electricity on July 30th and an even more incredible 620 million people without juice, but luckily only for about a day. Digging Deeper The previous blackout record, as measured by number of people denied use of electricity, had been 230 million people, again in India, in 2001. While the scope of the outage in these cases is immense, the length of time people are denied electric power most affects them.  In the summer of 2022, part of Ohio…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on July 29th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On July 29, 1565, Mary, Queen of Scots, married her first cousin Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley. On July 29, 1973, British race car driver Roger Williamson met his death when his Formula 1race car crashed at the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort Circuit in the Netherlands. On July 29, 1973, British race car driver Roger Williamson met his death when his Formula…

A Brief History On July 29, 2021, the International Space Station suffered an engine malfunction in its Russian Nauka module, inadvertently firing its thrusters, causing the giant man-made satellite to spin out of control! Digging Deeper Luckily the problem was fixed, and operations continued normally after about an hour of extreme tension on board the craft as well as in the ground control center.  Launched in 1998, the temporary loss of control has so far been the most serious problem threatening the Space Station. Created with the international cooperation of five countries plus the European Space Agency, bringing the total…