Date: 18 May 1974 (8:05 AM Indian Standard Time)
Code name: Smiling Buddha
Type: plutonium fission
Yield: 5 to 12 thousand tons of TNT
Location: Pokhran, India
Earthquake magnitude: 5.0
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Charles Lindbergh completes first solo, non-stop transatlantic plane flight (1927)
Posted on Monday, May 21st, 2012 at 12:00 am Eastern Time.
Smiling Buddha: First Indian nuclear weapon test (1974)
Posted on Thursday, May 17th, 2012 at 10:35 pm Eastern Time.
Sputnik 3 launched (1958), Sputnik 4 launched (1960)
Posted on Tuesday, May 15th, 2012 at 12:00 am Eastern Time.
Skylab Launched (1973)
Posted on Monday, May 14th, 2012 at 6:00 pm Eastern Time.
Skylab was the second manned space station to orbit the earth (the first for the US). It was launched from Kennedy Space Center atop a modified Saturn V rocket. It returned to earth over the Australia as a fiery swarm of debris during a controlled reentry on 11 July 1979.
STS-132 Atlantis penultimate flight (2010)
Posted on Monday, May 14th, 2012 at 2:20 pm Eastern Time.
STS-125 Atlantis/HST SM-4 final Hubble servicing mission begins (2009)
Posted on Friday, May 11th, 2012 at 2:01 pm Eastern Time.
Space Shuttle Atlantis flew seven astronauts into space for the fifth and final mission to the Hubble Space Telescope on this day in 2009. This should extend the observatory’s capabilities through 2013.
Shakti I: First Indian thermonuclear weapon test (1998)
Posted on Friday, May 11th, 2012 at 6:17 am Eastern Time.
Date: 11 May 1998 (15:47 Indian Standard Time)
Code name: Shakti I
Type: boosted fission
Yield: 43 thousand tons of TNT
Location: Pokhran, India
Earthquake magnitude: 5.2
In response to this test, the Pakistan government conducted its first official test of a nuclear weapon 17 days later.
Richard Feynman born (1918)
Posted on Friday, May 11th, 2012 at 12:00 am Eastern Time.
Transcontinental Railroad (1869)
Posted on Thursday, May 10th, 2012 at 12:00 am Eastern Time.
The tracks of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads were joined at Promontory, Utah on this day in 1869 creating the first transcontinental railroad in North America.
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