October 18, 1963: Early in the morning over Algeria, a French domestic cat named C-341 became the first feline to reach sub-orbital space. A lesser known achievement when compared to the American chimpanzee

October 10, 1967: As the American-Soviet space race continued accelerate through the 1960’s, world powers took a step back to establish the concept international space law. Originally open for signatures

October 9, 1888: Forty years after construction initially began, a monument to the United States’ first President, George Washington, officially opened to the public. The Washington Monument was not only

On October 9, 2006, the Korean Peninsula was shook by a small nuclear explosion which represented the culmination of decades’ worth of nuclear research. North Korea had successfully ignited a nuclear device