April

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Throughout the history of British literature, there are a litany of world-renowned authors of poetry and prose. On April 19, 1824, George Gordon Byron – famously…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Fairy tales have captivated the imagination of children for generations, leaving them spellbound with tales of heroes and villains in fanciful lands. Danish writer Hans Christian…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Medical science has experienced countless breakthroughs over the centuries, yet the work of Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard may have some of the widest effects beyond…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Hours after the death of his father, Henry VII, one of the most famous monarchs in history, King Henry VIII of England took the throne on…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Thirty-five years after the Treaty of Tordesillas created a boundary in the New World for Spanish and Portuguese explorers, the Treaty of Zaragoza completed the worldwide…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Throughout human history, a small number of creative individuals have left a mark on the world that will last forever — arguably none more than William…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Some 44 years after the idea was first proposed by Princeton University astronomer and theoretical physicist Lyman Spitzer, the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) was lifted into…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Almost seven years after the Nazis rolled into Poland, combat in the European theater of World War II came to a halt at the River Elbe…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons In the western Soviet Union, 60 miles north of the Ukrainian capital Kiev, darkness exploded at 1:23am on April 26, 1986. During a routine test, an…

Even though computing machines had existed since World War II, major breakthroughs had been comparatively few and far between until the mid-1970s. On April 27, 1981, the Xerox Palo Alto…