September

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons One of the most prolific experimenters in history, a man who had little in the way of formal education, was born on September 22, 1791 in…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Late in the evening of September 1, 1983, a Korean Airlines 747 speed across the night sky bound for Seoul from New York City after a…

*Image Credit: Wikipedia As Olympic victories go, few can match the significance of Abebe Bikila’s triumph in the marathon at the Summer Games of 1960 in Rome. Bikila, having only…

*Image Credit: Wikipedia For well over a decade, the Ottoman kingdom and Habsburg dynasty had sent armies into the fields of central Europe. Having barely survived the Battle of Vienna,…

*Image Credit: Wikipedia Three weeks after being arrested for acts of terrorism against the apartheid government of South Africa, activist Steve Biko lay dead in a Pretoria prison, the victim…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons The early computer industry, built around room-sized machines filled with vacuum tubes, made a giant leap forward when IBM announced it would soon be manufacturing the…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons During the mid-1840s, the Nepalese government had become a drama filled with twists and turns. In order to create a steadier operation from day to day…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Early in the 19th century, only one writer could be said to accurately describe the issues on the frontier of the young and growing United States…

*Image Credit: Wikipedia In the tiny town of Dolores, deep in the heart of Mexico, a Catholic priest triggered the fight for independence from Spain on September 16, 1810. Father…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons World War I represented a monumental shift in the way opposing forces entered combat. Among the innovations in destruction employed in the conflict, tanks and poisonous…