In a groundbreaking revelation in 1998, NASA scientists announced that the moon's surface holds a significant amount of frozen water within its loose soil, also known as regolith.

In July 1979, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft achieved a significant milestone in space exploration as it flew past Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system.

On March 5, 1970, a significant milestone in global security and diplomacy was reached when the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) officially came into effect.

The Dade County Sheriff’s Office issues an arrest warrant for Doors’ lead singer Jim Morrison.

Thanks to Hollywood, America’s collective memory of the Vietnam War is now inextricably linked with the popular music of that era.

On March 5, 1966, Marvin Miller, the 48-year-old assistant to the president of the United Steelworkers of America, is elected the first full-time executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association.

In a tragic moment that forever altered the landscape of country music, three legendary performers—Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas, and Hawkshaw Hawkins—lost their lives in a plane crash near Camden, Tennessee, on March 5, 1963.

March 5, 1963: the Hula Hoop, a hip-swiveling toy that became a huge fad across America when it was first marketed by Wham-O in 1958, is patented by the company’s co-founder, Arthur “Spud” Melin.

Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union since 1924, dies in Moscow.

In one of the most famous orations of the Cold War period, former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill condemns the Soviet Union’s policies in Europe and declares, “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent.