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Good News in History, December 26
55 years ago today, the inaugural Dakar Rally Raid was staged, with the course stretching from Paris, France, to Dakar, Senegal. 182 vehicles took...
Good News in History, December 18
Happy 77th Birthday to Steven Spielberg, one of the most popular and successful movie producers in film history. Bullied as an Orthodox Jew growing...
Good News in History, December 17
Happy 79th Birthday to English actor Bernard Hill, most known for his portrayal of King Theoden in The Lord of the Rings. Hill has the...
Good News in History, December 12
121 years ago today, Theodor Mommsen received the Nobel Prize for Literature, with a special mention for A History of Rome, a history so well-researched, so...
Good News in History, December 11
4 years ago today, the residents of Bougainville, an autonomous region in Papua New Guinea, voted in a 98% majority for independence of their...
Good News in History, December 10
199 years ago today, the Reverend Minister George MacDonald was born in Aberdeenshire. A pious and valued member of his community, MacDonald achieved a...
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, December 4
128 years ago today, Feng Youlan was born. This Chinese academic and philosopher was instrumental in reintroducing the Chinese classics of philosophy to the...
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 7
On this day, 138 years ago, the Danish physicist Niels Bohr was born. In his long and distinguished career, he made foundational contributions to...
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 21
On this day in 1915, a Mr. Cecil Chubbs bought Stonehenge for £6,600. Born in Shrewton, four miles west of the iconic Neolithic monument,...
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 17
480 years ago today, the first book in the Finnish language was published. Called The Abckiria, or the "ABC Book" it taught Finnish peasants...