by Matilda Cruz | Apr 29, 2023 | History
The gates of Dachau opened wide on April 29, 1945, not to welcome, but to reveal freedom. On that day, soldiers from the U.S. Army’s 45th Infantry Division arrived at the Nazi concentration camp located just northwest of Munich. What they discovered was unimaginable....
by Matilda Cruz | Apr 28, 2023 | History
Some heroes wear capes. Shrek the Sheep wore 60 pounds of wool. On April 28, 2004, New Zealanders tuned in to watch a national spectacle: the shearing of a runaway Merino sheep who had dodged the clippers for six long years. His name was Shrek—a nod to the famous...
by Matilda Cruz | Apr 27, 2023 | History
Just days after the Civil War ended, tragedy struck on the Mississippi River. On April 27, 1865, the SS Sultana, an overcrowded steamboat carrying recently released Union prisoners of war, exploded near Memphis, Tennessee. The result was the deadliest maritime...
by Matilda Cruz | Apr 26, 2023 | History
In the early morning hours of April 26, 1986, the quiet town of Pripyat in Soviet Ukraine was shaken by a disaster that would reverberate across the globe. During a late-night safety test at Reactor No. 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, a sudden power surge...
by Matilda Cruz | Apr 25, 2023 | History
Claustrophobic chaps had a reason to be in awe on this day in 1960, the USS Triton made history beneath the ocean’s surface. In a groundbreaking mission called Operation Sandblast, the nuclear-powered submarine completed the first fully submerged...
