Sputnik Launched: The Space Race Begins
The Soviet Union hurled a polished metal sphere into orbit, and its steady radio beep shocked the world into the Space Age. Sputnik 1's 96-minute orbit triggered the American Sputnik crisis, redirected billions toward science education, and launched the superpower space race that would put humans on the Moon within twelve years.
October 4, 1957
69 years ago
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What Else Happened on October 4
ماركوس أنطونيوس وأوكتافيوس ينتصران في «معركة فيليبيا»، ويسودان الإمبراطورية الرومانية.
Wang Mang's head ended up in the imperial treasury. Rebels stormed Chang'an during a peasant uprising, captured the emperor, killed him, and cut off his head. T…
Rebels breached the walls of Chang'an, ending the short-lived Xin dynasty and the reign of Emperor Wang Mang. This violent collapse plunged China into years of …
Heraclius sailed from Carthage to Constantinople with a fleet and an army. Emperor Phocas had murdered his way to power eight years earlier and driven the empir…
Herakleios nimmt Konstantinopel ein und lässt den seit 602 regierenden byzantinischen Kaiser Phokas töten.
Viktor IV., Gegenpapst zu Alexander III., erhält unter dem Schutz von Kaiser Friedrich Barbarossa die päpstlichen Weihen.
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