Longest Reigning Monarchs 1 Sobhuza II, Swaziland 10 December 1899 to 21 August 1982 82 years, 254 days 2 Bernhard VII, Lippe (Holy Roman Empire – HRE) 12 August 1429 to 2 April 1511 81 years, 234 days 3 William IV, Henneberg-Schleusingen (HRE) 26 May 1480 to 24 January 1559 Continue Reading
Americans planned to nuke the Moon
On 4 October 1957 the Soviet Union took the lead in the Space Race by launching Sputnik I, the first successful artificial satellite. One of several plans by the the US government to reverse this embarrassment, given the failure of the their own Project Vanguard satellites, was to detonate an Continue Reading