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Tony Long

July 25: 4 Women Who Made a Difference

July 21, 1925: Scopes 'Monkey Trial' Ends With Guilty Verdict

July 11, 1979: Look Out Below! Here Comes Skylab!

July 6, 1885: Rabies Vaccine Saves Boy -- and Pasteur

July 5, 1943: Defeat at Kursk Heralds Twilight of the Panzers

June 29, 1888: Handel Oratorio Becomes First Musical Recording

June 28, 2005: It's an Office Tower, Yet So Much More Than That

June 27, 1898: Down to the Sea in Ships, and Then Some

June 24, 1947: They Came From ... Outer Space?

June 22, 1969: Umm, the Cuyahoga River's on Fire ... Again

June 21, 2004: SpaceShipOne Reaches Space

June 20, 1840: A Simple Matter of Dots and Dashes

June 16, 1884: A Technology With Plenty of Ups and Downs

June 15, 1667: First Human Blood Transfusion Is Performed

June 14, 1962: Western Europe Officially Joins the Space Race

June 13, 1983: Pioneer 10 Reaches an End ... and a Beginning

June 8, 1959: They'll Never Complain About Slow Postal Service Again

June 7, 1975: Before Digital, Before VHS ... There Was Betamax

June 6, 1933: A Car, a Movie, Some Popcorn and Thou

June 1, 1890: Census Bureau Can Finally Keep Tabs on Growing Nation