1467 The miraculous image in Our Lady of Good Counsel appears in Genazzano, Italy.
1514 Copernicus makes his 1st observations of Saturn
1848 Alfred Russell Wallace departs the U.K. for South America, beginning four years of travel, collecting, and research in the region
1928 Madame Tussaud’s waxwork exhibition opens in London
1986 – The world’s worst nuclear disaster to date occurred at Chernobyl, in Kiev. Thirty-one people died in the incident and thousands more were exposed to radioactive material.
1994 Physicists announce first evidence of the top quark subatomic particle.
2010 “Iron Man 2”, directed by Jon Favreau, starring Robert Downey Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow, premieres in Los Angeles
By: Archa Dave
