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Good News in History, December 7
425 years ago today, Gian Lorenzo Bernini was born. This Italian master sculptor and architect created the Baroque style, one of the four great...
Good News in History, December 5
144 years ago today, Clyde Cessna was born. Founding the Cessna Aircraft Company in the 1920s, the company was one of the highest-volume and...
Good News in History, November 19
24 years ago today, China successfully launched its Shenzhou spacecraft into orbit. The first Chinese craft designed to eventually carry humans made an 89-minute...
Good News in History, November 16
66 years ago today, Hall of Famer Bill Russell registered the single-game record for most rebounds with 49 as the Boston Celtics beat the...
Good News in History, November 7
120 years ago today, Konrad Lorenz, the father of modern ethnology and Nobel laureate, was born in Vienna. In 2002, he was ranked as...
Good News in History, October 24
On this day last year, a five-month-old bar-tailed godwit became a world record holder by flying 8,425 miles non-stop from Alaska to Australia in...
‘Mating Glaciers’ High up in Pakistan’s Mountains Could Yield Climate Change Gamechanger
Recently, National Public Radio investigated a peculiar practice high in the Himalayas where locals are making "glacier babies" by introducing "male" glaciers to "female"...
Good News in History, October 11
48 years ago today, Saturday Night Live premiered on NBC with George Carlin as host. The seminal comedy television program in American history, SNL has...
Good News in History, October 4
108 years ago today, Dinosaur National Monument was established in Colorado and Utah. Dictated into existence by the executive power of the Antiquities Act,...
Good News in History, September 18
72 years ago today, A Streetcar Named Desire, the film based on the play by Tennessee Williams, premiered in New York City. Starring Vivien Leigh, Marlon...
Good News in History September 13
439 years ago today, the building of the royal palace at San Lorenzo de El Escorial was completed. The historic residence of the King...
Good News in History, September 5
34 years ago today, the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention (ILO) produced the first internationally binding treaty protecting the rights of such peoples to...
Good News in History September 2
35 years ago today, Sting, Bruce Springsteen, Peter Gabriel, Tracy Chapman, and Youssou N’Dour kicked off a 20-show tour at Wembley Stadium performing together...
Remarkable Man Averts Oil Tanker Disaster by Crowdfunding to Remove Crumbling Ship From Red Sea
A derelict oil tanker off the coast of Yemen had more than a million barrels of crude sitting around, on the verge of leaching...
Good News in History, August 14
86 years ago today, the National Scenic Trail known as the Appalachian Trail was completed by the Appalachian Trail Conservancy. Claimed to be the...
Good News in History, August 8
39 years ago today, Nawal El Moutawakel, the Amazigh-Moroccan athlete, became the first Moroccan, and the first woman from a Muslim nation to win...
Good News in History, June 26
247 years ago today, the national poet of Thailand, Sunthorn Phu was born in Bangkok. A composer of epic poetry, Phu's life was strange...
Good News in History, June 6
Happy 67th birthday to tennis star and heartthrob Björn Rune Borg, winner of 11 Grand Slam singles titles consisting of 6 French Opens and...
Good News in History, April 20
Happy 51st birthday to Stephen Marley, the second-oldest and Grammy Award-winniest son of reggae legend Bob Marley and his wife Rita. Marley is an...
New UN Treaty for the High Seas Finally Drafted After 17 Years of Debate on Language
To ensure the conservation of species and their environment, a new United Nations treaty on the sustainable use and protection of the High Seas...