Did a Nikola Tesla experiment cause the Tunguska Blast?
On June 30th, 1908, a giant explosion flattened over 800sq miles of forest near the Tunguska river in Siberian Russia. The area of the blast was …
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Indiana Becomes the World’s First Legislature to Pass Law Permitting Compulsory Sterilization for Eugenics
On April 9, 1907 the Governor of Indiana signed into law a bill passed by the state legislature that provided for the involuntary sterilization of …
1906 NY Gubernatorial Race:
The 1906 New York gubernatorial race was one for the ages: The current president stepping in for a future presidential candidate, a propaganda war, and …
The Persian Constitutional Revolution Results in the Establishment of the Constitutional Monarchy
August 5 is the anniversary of Iran’s 1905 Constitutional Revolution, although 1905 was the beginning of a process that led to the revolution’s victory in …
A Trip Down San Francisco’s Market Street 4 Days Before the Earthquake and Fire that Destroyed 80% of It
“Produced as part of the popular Hale’s Tours of the World film series, the film begins at the location of the Miles Brothers film studio, …
Moro Crater Massacre: 800 to 1,000 killed including women and children
The First Battle of Bud Dajo, also known as the Moro Crater Massacre, was a counterinsurgency action fought by the United States Army against the Moro people in March 1906, during the Moro Rebellion in …
Einstein Publishes his Paper on Special Relativity titled, On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies
This is perhaps the most famous idea falsely attributed to Einstein. Specifically, this 1905 paper dealt with what Einstein called the Special Theory of Relativity …
Einstein’s ‘Brownian Motion’ Paper is Published
Brownian motion describes the irregular motion of a body arising from the thermal energy of the molecules of the material in which the body is …
Theodore Roosevelt’s First Inaugural Address
My fellow-citizens, no people on earth have more cause to be thankful than ours, and this is said reverently, in no spirit of boastfulness in …
Jacobson v. Massachusetts, SCOTUS Upheld the Authority of States to Enforce Compulsory Vaccination Laws (Individual Liberty < Police Power of the State)
Massachusetts was one of only 11 states that had compulsory vaccination laws. Massachusetts law empowered the board of health of individual cities and towns to …