Today in History - October 31, 1941 - Mount Rushmore was completed. The Mount Rushmore project was an incredible feat of engineering and an integration of art and technology. It is the largest work of art on earth with a face that is 60 feet high. Although the workers regularly used dynamite and heavy equipment, [...]

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Today in History - October 11, 1984 - Astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk. Sullivan became an astronaut in 1979 and has been on three space flights: STS-41G (October 5-13, 1984), STS-31 (April 24-29, 1990) and STS-45 (March 24-April [...]

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Today in History- September 30, 1935 - Dedication of Hoover Dam, Boulder City, Nevada. The concrete-arch dam, originally called Boulder Dam, supplied the first U.S. hydroelectric plant to produce over a million kilowatts. Hoover Dam serves Nevada and the Los Angeles area.
Hoover Dam was built at the height of the Depression and provided thousands of [...]

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Today in history - February 16, 2005 - the Kyoto Protocol of the United Nations Framework on Climate Change goes into effect.
In 1992 the Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was adopted in order to meet the looming concerns of global warming. As greenhouse gas levels rose around the world it became clear that [...]

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Today in History – November 7, 1988 – 6.9 earthquake destroys Armenia, Spitak and kills over 60,000. It is reported that the entire population of Spitak died in this devastating earthquake, making it one of the most deadly earthquakes in human history. Partial blame was placed on the substandard infrastructure in Soviet-era [...]

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