German and Austrian rocket engineers who worked for Nazi Germany were brought to the United States after World War II under Operation Paperclip

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Prior to World War II, airports in Berlin and London used radio landing systems that emitted audible tones to guide aircraft in darkness and bad weather

During World War II, British forces broadcast deceptive electromagnetic radio signals to distort German radio navigation beams

On Labor Day in 1973, the United States established the GPS office under Colonel Bradford Parkinson to merge satellite navigation concepts from the Navy and Air Force

The German V-2 rocket developed during World War II was the first rocket to touch space

In 1983, Soviet interceptors shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007 after the aircraft strayed into Soviet airspace during a flight from Anchorage to Seoul

During World War II, the German military used intersecting radio beams broadcast from towers in occupied Western Europe for blind precision bombing over Britain

Following the downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 in 1983, President Ronald Reagan announced that the United States Global Positioning System would be opened to civilians

James Parkinson described gastrointestinal dysfunction in his 1817 work An Essay on the Shaking Palsy

In 2000, United States President Bill Clinton ordered the removal of Selective Availability to allow civilian receivers full GPS accuracy

Following World War II, various military branches developed separate, Earth-based radio navigation systems specialized for planes, boats, and submarines

The Soviet downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 in 1983 resulted in the deaths of more than 250 people

Charlie Mary Noble was a retired high school mathematics teacher from Texas

Adam Hamilton's November 2026 victory marked the first time a Democrat won a US Senate seat in Kansas since 1932

James Talarico became the first Democrat to win a US Senate seat in Texas since 1988

Midterm elections in 1998 under Bill Clinton and 2002 under George W. Bush were the only instances since 1946 where the president's party gained seats

Since 1946, the political party of the incumbent US president has lost an average of 26 seats in midterm elections

The Republican Party under President Dwight D. Eisenhower lost 50 seats in the 1958 midterm elections

The Democratic Party under President Harry Truman lost 56 seats in the 1946 midterm elections

In 2005 and 2006, an unknown red substance marketed as Red Dragon or Delta-9 was falsely distributed in Denver as opium

The Texas legislature removed Sam Houston from the governorship on the eve of the Civil War after Houston refused to swear allegiance to the Confederacy