A date in history of medicine, science, environmental study, space exploration of benefit to our knowledge of earth and life sciences of interest.
On This Day in 2012, Space Shuttle Discovery officially retired. It was transported to Dulles International Airport en route to the Smithsonian where it has become a permanent exhibit. Discovery is now amidst thousands of aviation and space artifacts in the James S McDonnell…
On This Day in 1891, Swedish meteorologist Tor Bergeron was born. Before daily weather balloons, before the phrase air mass, there was the Bergen (Norway) School of Meteorology – a radical place whose principal scientists concerned themselves with predicting, tracking, and mapping large bodies…
On This Day in 1902, Crater Lake National Park was established. As the deepest lake in the United States of America – 592 m (1943 ft) – it is actually the remaining cauldron or caldera of an ancient volcano called Mount Mazama that exploded…