August 25, 1835: The perplexing “Great Moon Hoax” appeared in the New York Sun
6 Fascinating facts about quirky American inventors
May 30, 1971: Mariner 9 heads for Mars
April 14, 2003: The Human Genome Project is completed
April 1, 1948: Alpher, Bethe, and Gamow propose the Big Bang theory
King James IV’s love of language led to a shocking experiment
November 24, 1859: Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species
