20 May 1932, five years to the day after Charles Lindbergh took off on his historic first solo flight across the Atlantic, Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland. While her original destination was France, weather and mechanical problems force her to land...
59 years ago today, Yuri Gagarin, age 27, becomes the first man to orbit the Earth aboard the Soviet spacecraft, Vostok 1. He remains in space for an hour and forty-eight minutes before re-entering the atmosphere. This ultimately was Gagarin’s only...
It's not every day that a video game comes along and single-handedly changes the face of the industry, but on November 19, 1998, that's exactly what happened. That game was Half-Life, a staggeringly ambitious PC shooter from Valve Corporation that opened...
