On this date (Jan 5) in 1972, President Nixon gave the official go-ahead for the development of NASA’s space shuttle program. Nixon and the Rocket Scientists (I mean the actual president and NASA, not the early 60s girl group) had
On this date – SPECIAL EDITION – Year in Review…
Just when we thought it would never end, 2010 is finally wrapping up. I took a short break from my On This Date segments to take a look back over 2010. It was a year of superlatives – dramatic, tragic,
On this date (Dec 24)…
On this date (Dec 24) in 1955, a Colorado Springs newspaper ran an ad for Sears, telling kids that they could call Santa… the ad included a phone number. Nature may abhor a vacuum, but it clearly has the hots
On this date (Dec 14)…
On this date (Dec 14) in the year 1503, Michel de Nostredame was born in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, in the southern part of France. Their family name had originally been Gassonet, but his grandfather converted from Judaism to Catholicism and changed his
On this date (Dec 10)…
On this date (Dec 10) in 1520, Martin Luther burned his copy of the Exsurge Domine outside the Elster Gate in Wittenberg – a monumental moment in the Protestant Reformation. Before you say “Huh?”, the Exsurge Domine was a papal