It was fifty years ago today- August 24, 1968- France becomes the 5th nation to successfully explode a hydrogen bomb. The other nations – United States, Soviet Union, United Kingdom […]
It was fifty years ago today- the movie “The Green Berets” was released in the movie theaters in the United States. This was a John “Duke” Wayne project- he starred […]
I can remember where I was at 48 years ago this evening like it was yesterday. I was eight years old and since following the Apollo 7 mission I was […]
45 years ago today in Reykjavik, Iceland the World Chess Championship between Bobby Fischer of the United States and Boris Spassky began. This was much much more than a chess […]
On this day in 1959 NASA announced the original group of seven astronauts who were instantly dubbed by the media as “The Mercury Seven.” In the above picture they are-in […]
In the summer of 1972 a strange thing happened in the United States. I was only eleven but I remember it well. Bobby Fischer was facing the World Chess Champion […]
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