Seth Udinski, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] On February 4, 1789, George Washington, the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American War for Independence, was elected as the first President of the United States.  He would become perhaps the most influential man in American history.  The American dollar bill bears his image, and the nation’s […]

Seth Udinski, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] On Feb. 2, 1933, German Chancellor Adolf Hitler formally dissolved the German Parliament. Three days earlier on January 30, Hitler had been elected as Chancellor of the German nation. He was also the formal leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party, otherwise infamously known as the NAZI Party. […]

Seth Udinski, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] On January 28, 1986, the spacecraft Challenger lifted off the ground at approximately 11:38 am above the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Just over a minute into the flight, one of the spaceship’s external fuel tanks imploded, causing the entire spaceship to break apart in what appeared […]

Seth Udinski, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] On Sunday January 26, 2020, future Hall of Fame basketball star Kobe Bryant was killed in a helicopter crash in the mountains of Los Angeles.  All 9 passengers on board were killed in the accident, including Bryant’s 13 year-old daughter, Gianna.  The passengers were flying to a youth basketball […]

Seth Udinski, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] On January 21, 1824, a baby boy was born in Clarksburg Virginia. His name was Thomas Jackson, and during the American Civil War, he would become the second-most famous general of the Confederate Army, after General Robert E. Lee. Most people do not recognize him by his given name, […]