Soviet geologists in eastern Siberia discover a massive deposit of diamond in what will become the Mir mine, the second largest excavated pit in the world.
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1931: More than 41 hours after departing Japan, Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon Jr. perform a controlled crash landing near Wenatchee, Washington. After the dust settles, they emerge from the airplane to complete the first-ever nonstop flight across the Pacific Ocean. Pangborn had served as a flight instructor during World War I, and then followed […]
1908: A fireball streaks across the sky, and a massive explosion in the Siberian hinterlands marks the largest recorded collision ever between Earth and an object from space. The Tunguska event flattened 80 million trees covering 830 square miles of sparsely populated (but not unpopulated) Russian outback in the region of the Tunguska River northwest […]
2002: A large fireball flashes across the night skies of the Irkutsk region of Siberia. What may have been a comet causes electrical circuits to come alive and leaves residents worrying about radioactivity. Eyewitnesses saw the sky light up. More than a hundred people in the sparsely settled area reported seeing it. At least one […]