February 12, 2002 — Yucca Mountain is approved as a nuclear waste depository
The Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Depository is exactly what it sounds like: a facility located inside Yucca Mountain, Nevada. It...
August 24, 2013
Science & Technology
August 29, 2005 — Hurricane Katrina destroys much of New Orleans
At 6:10AM on the morning of August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made a landfall on the Louisiana coast near Buras-Triumph....
May 29, 2013
September 13, 2006 — Pluto is demoted from planetary status
Originally discovered in 1930, Pluto was at that time classed as a planet, and named for the Roman god of...
May 14, 2013
September 10, 2008 — The Large Hadron Collider begins operations
The Large Hadron Collider or LHC is the world’s largest and highest-energy particle accelerator. Built by the European Organization for...
May 19, 2012
October 6, 2010 — Instagram is launched
Instagram almost wasn’t Instagram. When development started, it was originally going to be a location check-in app named burbn. Realising...
April 2, 2012
August 4, 2018 — A National Disaster is declared in California as wildfires rage
The 2018 wildfire season was one of the worst in California history. The Mendocino Complex Fire, which started in July...
March 1, 2012
December 1, 2019 — The first known case of COVID-19 is detected
The first official case of what would be designated as Covid 19 (Coronavirus disease 2019) was detected in the city...
February 17, 2012
October 2, 2020 — Trump gets Covid
As President, Donald Trump can reasonably be said not to have handled to covid epidemic well. He failed to take...
January 26, 2012
August 13, 2025 — An outbreak in Shope papilloma virus occurs near Fort Collins, Colorado
Colorado Parks and Wildlife made a statement on this date confirming the outbreak, which had been reported to them by...
April 24, 2010
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