On this day in history - Today, August, 10

Today in History

• 2003 The First Person to Get Married While in Space

  Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko was on the International Space Station when he married Ekaterina

• 2001 An attack on a train during the Angolan Civil War kills about 250 people

  Rebels from the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) in Angola derailed a tra

• 1990 Magellan Space Probe is Inserted in Orbit Around Venus

  The first spacecraft to be launched by a space shuttle, Magellan was a robotic space probe that spe

• 1944 Battle of Narva ends

  The 8-day long battle was fought between the German Army and the Soviet Leningrad Front for the cont

• 1675 The foundation stone for the Royal Observatory, Greenwich is laid

  Commissioned by King Charles II of England, the Royal Observatory started operating in 1676 under th