MessageToEagle.com – On February 17, 1781, Charles Messier included the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy also known as M83 in his catalogue. The Southern Pinwheel Galaxy is a barred spiral galaxy
MessageToEagle.com – Earth’s geomagnetic field has been fluctuating for thousands of years but not disappearing, according to a new study conducted by researchers from Tel Aviv University, Hebrew University
MessageToEagle.com – The Kármán Line is used to define outer space. It is the internationally designated boundary between the Earth’s atmosphere and outer space. The Kármán Line is
MessageToEagle.com – On February 16, 1923, Howard Carter (1873 – 1939), an English archaeologist and Egyptologist unsealed and opened the burial chamber of the 14th century pharaoh King Tutankhamun in the
MessageToEagle.com – On February 15, 1898, at 9:40 p.m., the USS Maine exploded, killing 260 men aboard. Public opinion in the United States, urged on by the yellow press,
MessageToEagle.com – On Feb. 14, 1779, James Cook was killed by a mob on the Sandwich Islands (now called Hawaii). At the time, he was trying to take the
MessageToEagle.com- On February 13, 1578, Tycho Brahe first sketches of “Tychonic system”, a modified geocentric model in order to explain the motions of bodies in the Solar System. Tycho Brahe
MessageToEagle.com – On February 12, 712, Du Fu, titled “The Sage of Poetry” was born in today’s Gong County in Henan Province, China. Fu was a great personality and
MessageToEagle.com – On 11th February, 660 AD a very special holiday is celebrated in Japan. It is the so-called National Foundation Day that commemorates the creation of the nation and is
MessageToEagle.com – The ancient city of Pi-Ramesses (“the House of Ramses”) was once the capital of Egypt during the reign of Ramesses II, the third pharaoh of the 19th dynasty.
MessageToEagle.com – On Tuesday February 10, 1355, the so-called St Scholastica Day Riot took place in Oxford, England. There are conflicting reports on what exactly happened in what is
MessageToEagle.com – On February 9, 1555, Master John Hooper, bishop of Worcester and Gloucester is burnt at the stake for the defence of the gospel at Gloucester. At 8 a.m.,
MessageToEagle.com – On the night of 8/9 February 1855, a strange phenomenon – the so-called ‘Devil’s Footprints’- occurred around the Exe Estuary in East Devon and South Devon, England. The trails of hoof-like marks appeared
MessageToEagle.com – In the early morning of 7 February 1920, in Irkutsk, Siberia, the Bolsheviks executed Aleksandr Kolchak, one of the leaders of the White Movement and the so-called
MessageToEagle.com – After the defeat of the French fleet at Trafalgar on October 20, 1805, the British Admiralty pulled back its close blockade of the primary French naval base
MessagetoEagle.com – On February 5, 62 AD Pompeii, an ancient Roman town-city near modern Naples, was at the epicenter of an earthquake. The earthquake was approximately 7.5 in magnitude and may
MessageToEagle.com – On Feb 4, 960, an important political and historical event took place in China. The coronation of Zhao Kuangyin as Emperor Taizu of Song, initiated the Song
MessageToEagle.com – Nearly 40 graves of men, women and children buried at the ancient graveyard, at the Norre Sandegard Vest site, Danish island of Bornholm. The discovery was made
MessageToEagle.com – A private tomb in the Theban necropolis in Luxor, has been unearthed by Japanese researchers from Waseda University. Based on its style, the beautifully decorated tomb
MessageToEagle.com – On February 3, 1706, the Battle of Fraustadt was fought on February 3, 1706 (Swedish calendar) between Sweden and Saxony-Poland and their Russian allies near Fraustadt (present-day
MessageToEagle.com – On the 2nd February 1461, the battle was fought somewhere in the vicinity of Mortimer’s Cross in Herefordshire, at a site not far from the border with Wales.
MessageToEagle.com – The Ausevik rock art site at Høydalsfjorden, in Sunnfjord, in Western Norway, contains more than 300 rock carvings of different shapes, of which many are dated to
MessageToEagle.com – Reginald Walter Bonham was born on January 31, 1906 in St. Neots, Huntingtonshire, England. Bonham was the most famous British blind player ever. He was known for
MessageToEagle.com – A 38,000-year-old engraved, complex image of an aurochs (or extinct wild cow), was found in a cave located Vezere Valley, in southwestern France. This finding is one
MessageToEagle.com – On 30 January 1972, in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, British Army paratroopers shot 26 unarmed civilians, all Northern Catholics, during a protest march against internment. This tragical event
