Uncle Tatty Remembers

Sixty years ago, on 17 February 1965, an Atlas LV-3 Agena B rocket sent Ranger 8 into space from Cape Kennedy Air Force Station's Launch...

Scottish veterinarian and inventor John Boyd Dunlop, who developed the first practical pneumatic tyre, was born 185 years ago today (1840–19...

Today would have been the 70th birthday of Eddie Van Halen, Dutch-born American rock guitarist and songwriter. Eddie Van Halen (January 26, ...

Today sees the 75th anniversary of the death of George Orwell George Orwell, the British author best known for his novels 1984 and Animal F...

Trotsky pictured in 1918 Leon  Trotsky wa s removed as leader of the Red Army on this date in January 1925, during an intense political stru...

Oslo, the capital of Norway, was previously known as Christiania (or Kristiania in Norwegian).  Following a devastating 1624 fire, King Chri...

Augusto Pinochet became President of Chile on this day (17th December) in 1974. However, he became the de facto leader of Chile on Septembe...