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ON THIS DAY: Alexei Leonov makes the first spacewalk (1965)

Alexei Leonov makes history with first spacewalk On 18 March 1965, Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov achieved a milestone that would change human space exploration forever....

ON THIS DAY: Jimmy Carter calls for a homeland for the Palestinians (1977)

On 16 March 1977, newly inaugurated United States President Jimmy Carter publicly stated that the Palestinian people should have a homeland, marking one of...

ON THIS DAY: International mathematics day

Every year on March 14, the world celebrates International Mathematics Day, widely known as Pi Day, honoring the mathematical constant π (pi), whose first...

ON THIS DAY: Astronomer William Herschel discovers Uranus (1781)

On this day in 1781, astronomer William Herschel made a groundbreaking discovery that expanded humanity’s understanding of the solar system. While conducting a routine...

ON THIS DAY: The death of Anne Frank (1945)

On 12 March 1945, in the final months of the Second World War, the young German-Jewish girl Anne Frank died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration...