MessageToEagle.com – On April 19, 1770, Captain James Cook spotted and claimed the East Coast of Australia Cook was born in north-east England in 1728, and in his late
MessageToEagle.com – On the evening of April 18, 1775, Dr. Joseph Warren instructed Paul Revere, a Boston silversmith, to ride to Lexington, Massachusetts to warn Sam Adams and John
MessageToEagle.com – A new image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope presents the Spider Nebula, officially named IC 417, that lies near a much smaller object called NGC 1931 not
MessageToEagle.com – On April 17, 1397, Geoffrey Chaucer (1343 – 1400) was recorded to have given the first presentation of his Canterbury Tales at the royal English court of Richard II.
MessageToEagle.com – On April 16, 1457 BC (other source propose May 9), the Battle of Megiddo took place during a rebellion against Pharaoh Thutmose III. On one side, there
MessageToEagle.com – The Ring of Fire refers to a very geologically active section of the world, the Pacific Rim. In fact, it’s not really a full circle, but rather
MessageToEagle.com – The Battle of Rain (also called the Battle of the River Lech or Battle of Lech) was fought on April 15, 1632, during Thirty Years’ War. The forces involved in this encounter
MessageToEagle.com – It turns out that a 1917 image on an astronomical glass plate from our Carnegie Observatories’ collection shows the first-ever evidence of a planetary system beyond our
MessageToEagle.com – Christiaan Huygens was born in Hague on April 14, 1629. He was a Dutch mathematician, astronomer and physicist, best known for his contributions to mathematics and physics.
MessageToEagle.com – On April 13, 1598, Henry IV of France signed the Edict of Nantes. It confirmed Roman Catholicism as the state religion and at the same time, it
MessageToEagle.com – Mission operations engineers have successfully recovered the Kepler spacecraft from Emergency Mode (EM). On Sunday morning, the spacecraft reached a stable state with the communication antenna pointed
MessageToEagle.com – While studying biodiversity at the Hannibal Bank Seamount off the coast of Panama, a research team has captured unique video of thousands of red crabs swarming in
MessageToEagle.com – On April 12, 238 AD, Gordian II loses the Battle of Carthage against the forces of Numidia, an Ancient Berber kingdom in what is now Algeria and a
MessageToEagle.com – Astrophysicists at the University of Birmingham have used data from the NASA Kepler space telescope to discover a class of extrasolar planets whose atmospheres have been stripped
MessageToEagle.com – On April 11, 1814, Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of France and one of the greatest military leaders in history, abdicates the throne, and is banished to the Mediterranean
MessageToEagle.com – During a scheduled contact on Thursday, April 7, mission operations engineers discovered that the Kepler spacecraft was in Emergency Mode (EM). EM is the lowest operational mode
MessageToEagle.com – NASA has released a video captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory showing an elongated coronal hole on the surface of the sun. A long coronal hole can be
MessageToEagle.com – On April 10-11, 1815, more than 13,000 feet high, Tambora Mount in Indonesia exploded killing about 92000 people and changed the global climate. Tambora’s powerful eruption made
MessageToEagle.com – On April 9, 1747, the Scottish Jacobite Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, becomes the last man in Britain to be publicly beheaded at Tower Hill, London. The
MessageToEagle.com – On April 8, 1820, the Greek farmer Yorgos Kentrotas stumbled across a damaged statue inside a buried niche within the ancient city ruins of Milos, the current village
MessageToEagle.com – A near-record supermassive black hole discovered in a sparse area of the local universe indicate that these monster objects may be more common than once thought, according
MessageToEagle.com – On April 7, 451, Attila the Hun, who reigned 434-453 CE, captured and plundered the city of Metz – the Roman’s stronghold. Without any opposition, he massacred the
MessageToEagle.com – The bombardment of Mars some 4 billion years ago by comets and asteroids likely enhanced climate conditions enough to make the planet more conducive to life, at
MessageToEagle.com – On April 6, 1320, the Declaration of Arbroath was drafted and sent, in the form of a letter to Pope John XXII. The document written in Latin,
MessageToEagle.com – New research by Harvard astronomers Peter Williams and Edo Berger shows that the radio emission believed to be an afterglow actually originated from a distant galaxy’s core
