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On This Day In History: Roswell Dummies

By Kurt | Published: June 24, 2009
On This Day In History: June 24, 1997 on 12seconds.tv From The New York Times archives: For instance, one serviceman who crashed in a test balloon 10 miles northwest of Roswell suffered an injury that caused his head to swell and resemble the bulbous cranium of the classic science-fiction alien, the report says. This secretive 1959 mishap, [...]
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On This Day In History: American Woman (In Space)

By Kurt | Published: June 18, 2009
On This Day In History: June 18, 1983 on 12seconds.tv Dr. Ride was a mission specialist on STS-7, which launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on June 18, 1983. She was accompanied by Captain Robert L. Crippen (spacecraft commander), Captain Frederick H. Hauck (pilot), and fellow mission specialists Colonel John M. Fabian and Dr. Norman E. [...]
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On This Day In History: No Good Nero

By Kurt | Published: June 9, 2009
On this day in history: June 9, 53, 62 and 68 AD on 12seconds.tv Special thanks to my Daughter for this video’s dramatic sound effects. The benign laissez-faire image that Nero cultivated in public, however, did not extend to his private life. He murdered his mother (59 CE)—who herself had poisoned most of his potential rivals— [...]
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On This Day In History: POTUS Transport First

By Kurt | Published: June 6, 2009
On this day in history: June 6, 1833 on 12seconds.tv In Ellicott’s Mills, Maryland, President Andrew Jackson boards a Baltimore & Ohio Railroad train for a pleasure trip to Baltimore. Jackson, who had never been on a train before, was the first president to take a ride on the “Iron Horse,” as locomotives were known then. The [...]
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