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Tony Long

Sept. 30, 1861: A Novelist With a Nose for Disaster

Sept. 29, 1898: Stalin's Scientist Sees First Light

Sept. 23, 1869: Here Comes Typhoid Mary

Sept. 18, 1895: Is There a Chiropractor in the House?

Sept. 3, 1925: Shenandoah Crash a Harbinger of Grim Future

Sept. 2, 1993: U.S., Russia Ink Space Pact

Aug. 26, 1346: First Cannon Fired in Battle, Maybe

Aug. 21, 1989: Voyager 2 Reaches Triton

Aug. 19, 1887: What Goes Up Must Come Down

Aug. 12, 1883: Quagga's Extinction a Nasty Surprise

Aug. 5, 1963: Finally, a Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

Aug. 4, 1693: Dom Pérignon 'Drinks the Stars'

July 24, 1950: America Gets a Spaceport

July 22, 1962: Mariner 1 Done In by a Typo

July 21, 1904: All Aboard for Siberia, Tovarich

July 20, 1969: One Small Step ... One Giant Leap ...

July 17, 1902: An Invention to Beat the Heat, Humidity

July 9, 1958: Surf's Up, as 1,700-Foot Wave Scours Alaskan Bay

July 6, 1947: The AK-47, an All-Purpose Killer

AK-47: An Assault Rifle for Everyman