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July 22, 1933: Wiley Post Flies Around the World Alone
1933: Pilot Wiley Post returns to Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, New York, 7 days, 18 hours, 49 minutes after leaving. Aided by new technology, his flight is the first solo circumnavigation by air,...
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July 26, 1943: L.A. Gets First Big Smog
1943: In the middle of World War II, Los Angeles residents believe the Japanese are attacking them with chemical warfare. A thick fog that makes people’s eyes sting and their noses run has taken hold...
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Attack of the L.A. Smog Archives
<< previous image | next image >> Los Angeles suffered its first big smog attack 67 years ago Monday. This selection of photographs from the vast collection of the UCLA Library gives you a...
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Sept. 1, 1974: New York to London in Less Than 2 Hours
1974: On a flight to the Farnborough Air Show outside London, Maj. James Sullivan and Maj. Noel Widdifield fly the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird from New York to London in 1 hour, 54 minutes, 56.4 seconds....
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Oct. 18, 1985: Nintendo Entertainment System Launches
1985: Nintendo releases a limited batch of Nintendo Entertainment Systems in New York City, quietly launching the most influential videogame platform of all time. On this day in 1985, the American...
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Oct. 26, 1948: Death Cloud Envelops Pennsylvania Mill Town
An inversion layer settles over the rust belt town of Donora, Pennsylvania, trapping industrial pollution in the atmosphere. When it clears six days later, 20 people are dead, another 50 are dying and...
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Feb. 23, 1942: Invasion! They’re Coming!
1942: A Japanese long-range submarine surfaces off the California coast and uses its 5½-inch deck gun to shell an oil refinery near Santa Barbara. The attack, which lasted about 20 minutes, caused...
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April 18, 1906: Mother Nature 1, San Francisco 0
1906: San Francisco is destroyed by an earthquake so powerful that it is felt from Coos Bay, Oregon, to Los Angeles, and as far east as central Nevada. What became known as the San Francisco earthquake...
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July 19, 1961: Fasten Your Seatbelts, By Love Possessed Will Begin Shortly
July 19, 1961: Trans World Airlines becomes the first airline to offer regular in-flight movies, launching a form of entertainment that has become a mainstay of air travel.
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Oct. 3, 1947: Birth of Palomar’s ‘Giant Eye’
After 13 years of grinding and polishing, the Palomar Observatory mirror is completed at Caltech.
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