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• The War That Started on the Holiest Day October 6, 1973 On October 6, 1973, Egypt and Syria attacked Israel on Yom Kippur, starting a war that redrew the Middle East.
• The Flop Premiere That Changed Comedy Forever October 5, 1969 On October 5, 1969, Monty Python's Flying Circus premiered on the BBC to tiny audiences and hostile executives — then rewrote the rules of comedy.
• The Beep Heard Around the World October 4, 1957 On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, a 184-pound metal sphere whose simple radio beep stunned America and ignited the Space Race.
• The Pale Blue Dot: Earth's Portrait From 6 Billion Kilometers February 14, 1990 On Valentine's Day 1990, Voyager 1 turned its camera home one last time and photographed Earth as a single pale-blue pixel -- the most distant portrait of our planet ever taken.
• The Morning a Meteor Exploded Over Chelyabinsk February 15, 2013 On February 15, 2013, a house-sized asteroid exploded over a Russian city with 30 times the force of Hiroshima -- and nobody saw it coming.
• The Explosion That Sank the Maine -- and Started a War February 15, 1898 When the battleship USS Maine blew up in Havana Harbor on February 15, 1898, killing 266 crewmen, the tragedy became the spark that drew America into war with Spain.
• ENIAC: The 30-Ton Brain That Launched the Computer Age February 14, 1946 On February 14, 1946, the Army and the University of Pennsylvania unveiled ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic computer -- and it could out-calculate an artillery shell in flight.
• The Last Peanuts Strip: Saying Goodbye to Charlie Brown February 13, 2000 The day after Charles Schulz died, newspapers printed the final Peanuts strip -- a farewell letter from Snoopy that closed a nearly fifty-year run.
• France's First Atomic Bomb Lit Up the Sahara February 13, 1960 On February 13, 1960, France detonated its first atomic bomb over the Algerian Sahara, becoming the world's fourth nuclear power and leaving a radioactive legacy still being reckoned with.
• Falcon Heavy: The Rocket That Launched a Car Into Space February 6, 2018 On February 6, 2018, SpaceX's Falcon Heavy lifted off from Kennedy Space Center on its maiden flight, sending Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster toward an orbit around the sun.