https://youtube.com/shorts/7avgzvfDaSU?feature=share Today in 1989, the deadliest rail disaster during peacetime in Soviet/Russian history occurred. The Ufa train disaster, named after Ufa, the largest city closest to the accident, involved an explosion of two passenger trains carrying 1,300 vacationers to and from a resort on the Black Sea. Natural gas liquids (mainly propane and…

https://youtube.com/shorts/S2rFr7_zV4c?feature=share Today in 1965, NASA launched Gemini 4, the 10th crewed spaceflight, that accomplished many first milestones for the United States. First, The four-day, 66-orbit flight was the first multi-day mission by the US to show possibility for extended space humans to remain in space for extended lengths of time. Second, the first American…

https://youtube.com/shorts/BbhlTk4iSVY?feature=share The European Space Agency (ESA) launched the Mars Express, Europe’s first mission to another planet today in 2003. Established in 1975 and headquartered in Paris, the ESA is an intergovernmental organisation of 22 member states including France, Germany, United Kingdom, Italy, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Greece, Belgium, Austria, Czech Republic, Finland, Estonia, Hungary, Ireland…

https://youtube.com/shorts/xWb8JH-x8tE?feature=share Electric tabulating system was deployed for the first time for the US census today in 1890. It was invented by a former Census Office employee Herman Hollerith, the founder of International Business Machines (IBM). Due to hand counting and use of rudimentary machines, 1880 census took almost a decade to complete. A census…

https://youtube.com/shorts/3hIkBlAifAg?feature=share The Elizabeth Tower or the Clock Tower that houses the Big Ben started keeping time today in 1859. The tower is at the North End of the Palace of Westminster which is the meeting place for the two houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. All four nations of the UK…

https://youtube.com/shorts/IdqhOqn09jY?feature=share Today in 1911, the first Indy 500 ended with Ray Harroun as the first winner of the iconic annual motorsport event. It is a 500-mile auto race that takes place on the Sunday of the Memorial day weekend at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway that covers over 250 acres and can hold up…

https://youtube.com/shorts/oS8eK7mRtto?feature=share Today in 1953, Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Hillary was an explorer, who served in the Royal New Zealand Air Force during World War II. He was the first person to reach both the North and the south poles and…

https://youtube.com/shorts/uDToKH38mQU?feature=share Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece, The Last Supper, a mural painting, depicting a Biblical scene of Jesus with the Twelve Apostles, was put back on display after 21 years of restoration. Leonardo worked on this 15 x 29 feet artwork from 1495 to 1498. Contrary to fresco painting technique of mixing pigment into…

https://youtube.com/shorts/KeluZ4K71ik?feature=share The Securities Act was enacted today in 1933 by the United States Congress. Initially enforced by the FTC (the Federal Trade Commission) until the SEC (the Securities and Exchange Commission) was created a year later, it was the first major federal legislation to regulate the offer and sale of securities. It requires…