Goddard Day: commemorates the first liquid-fuel-powered rocked flight launched by Robert Goddard in 1926. If you write, edit, and/or beta today, we want to hear about it.
95 years ago, in 1918, the first cases of Spanish influenza were reported in the US at Fort Riley, KS--the start of a pandemic that took the lives of 500,000 Americans. Worldwide, the pandemic killed 1 percent of the global population by 1920--22 million people. If you write, edit, and/or beta today, post a comment here letting us know.