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Oct. 13, 1884: Greenwich Resolves Subprime Meridian Crisis

1884: Geographers and astronomers adopt Greenwich as the Prime Meridian, the international standard for zero degrees longitude. The late 19th century was an era of standardization. With the Second...

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Dec. 1, 1952: Ex-GI Becomes Blonde Beauty

1952: It’s front-page news when George Jorgensen Jr. is reborn as Christine Jorgensen, gaining international celebrity and notoriety as the first widely known person to undergo a successful sex-change...

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Dec. 5, 1901: Disney, Heisenberg — Separated at Birth?

Animation pioneer Walt Disney and nuclear physicist Werner Heisenberg share a birthday. So, if you've ever thought the Uncertainty Principle was a bit goofy, you may be onto something. The post Dec. 5,...

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