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Good News in History, May 5
121 years ago today, one of the most influential chefs in American history, James Beard, was born in Portland. His towering success led to...
Good News in History, May 4
198 years ago today, Frederic Edwin Church, one of the foremost painters in the American landscape movement known as the Hudson River School, was...
Good News in History, May 3
71 years ago today, two men were rescued from a semitrailer that crashed over the side of the Pit River Bridge before it fell...
Good News in History, May 2
60 years ago today, Shishapangma was summited for the first time as the last of Mother Earth's 14 peaks above 8,000 meters to be...
Mega Rare Blue Rock Thrush Spotted on Oregon Beach Is First Sighting in US History
Owing to personal interest, GNN is partial to stories of rare bird sightings, and news from Oregon recently broke the story of a 'mega-rare'...
Archaeologists May Have Found the Villa Where the Roman Emperor Augustus Died
Excavations of a Roman villa dating to the start of the Imperial era show it may belong to the greatest of all the Roman...
Dramatic Video Shows Strangers Desperately Fight to Remove Man from Car Engulfed in Flames–And Succeed
On I-94 in Minnesota, a team of good samaritans and highway rescue personnel bandied together to save a stranger trapped unconscious inside a burning...
Canada Agrees 200 Islands Belong to the Indigenous Haida Nation
In a historic "first-of-its-kind" agreement the government of British Colombia has acknowledged the aboriginal ownership of 200 islands off the west coast of Canada.
The owners...
Good News in History, April 16
106 years ago today, Xuan Hua, also known by the dharma name An Tzu, was born. Xuan Hua founded The Dharma Realm Buddhist Association,...
Good News in History, April 15
136 years ago today, Corrie ten Boom was born in Haarlem. A Dutch watchmaker and later a Christian writer and public speaker, ten Boom...
Teen with Incredibly Rare Genetic Condition is Cured in World First By British Doctors
A teen diagnosed with an incredibly rare genetic condition has become the first person in the world to be cured, thanks to a team...
Astronauts Watched the Eclipse From ISS Space Station And Grabbed Some Cool Pictures and Video
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station orbited right past the solar eclipse Monday and grabbed some intriguing photos.
The path of totality in the Moon's...
Good News in History, April 8
90 years ago today, the architect Kisho Kurokawa was born. This brilliant mind was the co-founder of the Metabolist architectural movement, which sought to...
Good News in History, April 5
On this day, 26 years ago, the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge opened to traffic linking the City of Kobe on the main island of Honshu, to...
Good News in History, April 1
51 years ago today, the federal government of India, under the administration of Indira Gandhi, implemented Project Tiger, a comprehensive strategy to try and...
Good News in History, March 29
50 years ago today in Lintong County, Shaanxi Province, a group of farmers—Yang Zhifa, his five brothers, and his neighbor Wang Puzhi—were digging in...
Get Ready for the Solar Eclipse Over North American Coming Soon
A solar eclipse is coming on April 8th, 2024, and unlike when it drifts across the Indian Ocean or somewhere equally remote, this year's...
Good News in History, March 26
49 years ago today, the Biological Weapons Convention, (BWC) entered into force. It's considered to have established a strong global norm against biological weapons...
Man Ignores Naysayers to Revive Tiny Sparrow with CPR – Watch the Moment his Patience is Rewarded
In a heartwarming video, a 67-year-old actor from Cyprus became determined to use his CPR expertise to save a tiny, helpless sparrow.
The avian creature...
Good News in History, March 16
184 years ago today, Shibusawa Eiichi was born in Japan. Known as "The Father of Japanese Capitalism" this economist and industrialist introduced Western free...