After 59 years, the iconic Route 66 enters the realm of history
on June 27, 1985, when the American Association of State
Highway and Transportation Officials decertified the road
and voted to remove all its highway signs.
Measuring some 2,200 miles in its heyday, Route 66 stretched
from Chicago, Illinois to Santa Monica, California, passing
through eight states.
(FOX NEWS) – Archaeology technician Mark Doucette
found a 1983 message in a bottle on Sable Island, a
remote island near Nova Scotia.
Park officials are searching for crew members of the
British supply ship that launched the decades-old time
capsule.
The letter from the supply ship still carried a strong gin
scent after being adrift for 42 years.
(FOX NEWS) – NASA’s Curiosity rover is getting a firsthand look
at a region on Mars previously only seen from orbit that features
a "boxwork" pattern, along with evidence of ancient waterways,
including rivers, lakes and maybe an ocean.
New images and data from the Mars rover have already raised
questions about how the red planet’s surface was changing
billions of years ago.
Scientists are still unable, though, to answer why the planet’s
water eventually dried up and converted the surface into a chilly
desert.
Curiosity rover is in an area called Gale Crater, and evidence has
shown that when it was formed, water was percolating under the
surface.
NASA said the rover had found evidence of groundwater in the
crater when it encountered crisscrossing low ridges, some of
which were only a few inches tall and were described by
geologists as being arranged in a boxwork pattern.
On June 26, 1948, U.S. and British pilots began delivering food
and supplies by airplane to Berlin after the city was isolated by
a Soviet Union blockade.
As a result, beginning on June 24 the western section of Berlin
and its 2 million people were deprived of food, heating fuel and
other crucial supplies.
Though some in U.S. President Harry S. Truman’s administration
called for a direct military response to this aggressive Soviet
move, Truman worried such a response would trigger another
world war. Instead, he authorized a massive airlift operation.
The first planes took off from England and western Germany on
June 26, loaded with food, clothing, water, medicine and fuel.
Harry S. Truman (1884 – 1972). The 33rd
president of the United States, serving
from 1945 to 1953.
