Good News in History September 30
This daily column at GNN.org features all the good news, anniversaries and notable birthdays from this day in history—September 30.| Good News Network
114 years ago today, Beatrix de Rijk became the first female licensed Dutch aircraft pilot. This pioneering aviator was born in Surabaya, modern-day Indonesia in the Dutch East Indies, to a Javan mother and a Dutch father. In the Netherlands, she was the first Dutch woman to drive a German automobile, but she found the […] The post Good News in History, October 6 appeared first on Good News Network.| Good News Network
Happy 67th Birthday to popular science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson. Born in the Big Apple without a star in the sky to look up at, Tyson nevertheless became a face for astronomy and astrophysics as Director of the Hayden Planetarium and host of the television special Cosmos: a Spacetime Odyssey. From 1995 to 2005, Tyson […] The post Good News in History, October 5 appeared first on Good News Network.| Good News Network
21 years ago today, SpaceShipOne, funded by Microsoft’s Paul Allen, became the first private manned spacecraft to fly into sub-orbital space. That same year, its innovative design won the $10 million Ansari X Prize. Piloted and returned to Earth by Mike Melvill, he became the first-ever licensed US commercial astronaut. WATCH a Smithsonian video about […] The post Good News in History, October 4 appeared first on Good News Network.| Good News Network
4,482 years ago today, or so it’s said, the sky above the Korean Peninsula opened and Hwanung, the mythical progenitor of Korean People descended from heaven. Today, it’s marked as National Foundation Day in both the South and the North of the Peninsula and referred to as Gaecheonjeol. READ more about this important day in […] The post Good News in History, October 3 appeared first on Good News Network.| Good News Network
68 years ago today, a new island, or Ilha Novo, appeared on the edge of the westernmost island (Faial) in the Azores chain after the eruption of Capelinhos, or “little cape,” one of many submerged cone volcanoes in the area. The eruption caused no deaths, however it did wreck many houses and reduce the population […] The post Good News in History, October 2 appeared first on Good News Network.| Good News Network
101 years ago today, former President Jimmy Carter was born The 39th president of the United States from 1977–1981, is one of the few American presidents to receive the Nobel Peace Prize (for his Camp David Accords). He is also the first American centenarian president, perhaps a result of him only serving a single term, […] The post Good News in History, October 1 appeared first on Good News Network.| Good News Network
This daily column at GNN.org features all the good news, anniversaries and notable birthdays from this day in history—September 30.| Good News Network
29 years ago today, the Nintendo 64 video game console was released in North America. Critically acclaimed as “quite simply, the fastest, most graceful game machine on the market”, the N64 was one of the first gaming consoles to have four controller ports and could handle a 4-player split screen without significant slowdown. Named after […] The post Good News in History September 29 appeared first on Good News Network.| Good News Network
38 years ago today, Star Trek: The Next Generation debuted on syndicated TV. Spanning 178 episodes over seven seasons, it starred English actor Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the Starship Enterprise. It received many accolades, including 19 Emmy Awards, two Hugo Awards, five Saturn Awards, and a Peabody Award. READ more about how the show […] The post Good News in History September 28 appeared first on Good News Network.| Good News Network
Happy 49th Birthday to Il Capitano—Francesco Totti. The most iconic Italian football forward of the 21st century, Totti spent a 25-year professional career in the red and orange on the AS Roma team—and is remembered as one of the greatest players of his generation. In 619 appearances for Roma he scored 250 goals, the second […] The post Good News in History September 27 appeared first on Good News Network.| Good News Network
This daily column at GNN.org features all the good news, anniversaries and notable birthdays from this day in history—September 23.| Good News Network
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Today while reviewing posts I’d made “on this day” in previous years, I stumbled upon a post on reading my old livejournal entries and how it made me feel. In it I...| Winnie Lim
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