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Check out this space oddity: 1,000 Italian musicians grabbed their drum sticks and guitar picks to perform this Ziggy-worthy rock and roll homage.

It's been three months since David Bowie the British rock visionary left this world of mortals to venture on among the stars – but...

David Bowie, always reinventing and changing the face of modern music with showmanship and innovation, would be proud of the innovative ways his fans are remembering him,...

When rock idol David Bowie passed away Sunday, after an 18-month battle with liver cancer, fans were already flocking to record stores and online retailers to buy...

The Canadian commander of the International Space Station used his down-time in orbit to create a music video that has attracted 10 million views...

Today is the 54th edition of Earth Day. A coalition of major music streamers and the UN have had a stroke of inspiration that...

41 years ago today, EMI released David Bowie's 15th studio album Let's Dance. The album became Bowie's greatest commercial success, with 11 million albums sold and...

15 years ago, Parks and Recreation, a television mockumentary debuted on NBC, and leaped right into the hearts of millions of Americans. Without being...

40 years ago today, astronaut Bruce McCandless II drifted away from the space shuttle Challenger’s payload bay as part of the first untethered space...

49 years ago today, Ella Grasso became the first woman to be elected to serve as a state governor in the US. A member...

On this day 375 years ago, perhaps the greatest physicist the world has known, Isaac Newton, was born. Widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time, he invented his own calculus when he was 26 years old. An English mathematician, astronomer, and theologian, his book Principia, “Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy”, formulated our understanding of the mechanics of motion and gravity, which dominated scientists’ view of the physical universe for the next three centuries. This farmer’s son also built the first practical reflecting telescope, and made pathbreaking observations in optics, figuring out that white light is really made of multiple colors. WATCH a cool video... (1543)

204 years ago today Clara Schumann was born. Regarded as one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era, Schumann, according to Wikipedia,...

26 years ago today, Netflix was incorporated as a DVD mail delivery service. Founders Marc Randolph and Reed Hastings came up with the idea...

Happy 72nd birthday to Ole' D.C.'s own Lisa Halaby, famously known to the world as Queen Noor of Jordan. The second-generation Washingtonian married King...

Happy 80th Birthday to Sir Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones. Born in Kent, England to a teacher and hairdresser, he’s spent more than...

130 years ago today, a Japanese entrepreneur named Mikimoto Kōkichi created the first cultured pearl and subsequently started the cultured pearl industry with the...

83 years ago, Kazimierz Piechowski and three others, dressed as members of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, steal an SS staff car and escape from the Auschwitz...

31 years ago, the landmark Australian legal case Mabo v Queensland was resolved in the High Court against the principle of terra nullius, i.e...

110 years ago, Peter Cushing was born. The British actor became best known as the go-to man to portray lead human roles in more...

63 years ago today, the first Eurovision Song Contest was held in Lugano, Switzerland. The ESC is the longest-running annual international televised music competition,...