July 25, 1976: NASA Sees A ‘Face’ On Mars

On July 25, 1976, during its thirty-sixth orbit around the red planet, NASA’s Viking 1 spacecraft snapped a black-and-white photograph that would ignite decades of speculation, myth-making, and scientific debate. The image—catalogued as frame 035A72—showed a portion of the Martian surface in the region…

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July 23, 1967: The Detroit Burns

On July 23, 1967, in the heart of Detroit’s predominantly African American inner city, a police raid on an unlicensed after-hours bar ignited one of the most violent and destructive civil disturbances in American history. Known as the Detroit Riots or the 12th Street…

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July 22, 1833: Slavery Is Abolished

On July 22, 1833, the British House of Commons passed the Slavery Abolition Act, marking a historic turning point in the British Empire’s long entanglement with slavery. Though imperfect and cautious in scope, the Act initiated the gradual dismantling of an institution that had…

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