Those fears subsided before the release of the 1975 blockbusterThe British Army and its French counterparts made a bold and daring frontal assault on the Germany lines in the Somme, in France.Attribution:By the end of the first day of the Somme, the British army suffered 57,470 casualties for "meagre gains".Sony believed the player, later nicknamed the Walkman, would sell 5000 units a month. In the first two months, it sold 30,000 units in Japan.
A 12-megaton explosion flattened an estimated 80 million trees in the Siberian wilderness on June 30, 1908. The Tunguska event came after a bluish light as bright as the sun passed overhead Siberian locals, followed by a shock wave that knocked people off their feet hundreds of kilometres away.Attribution:It took 19 years before scientists were able to make an expedition to the extraordinarily remote part of Siberia.
Scientists concluded an asteroid or comet is responsible for the explosion, though it has not been proven.The Tunguska event's explosion was almost 1000 times more powerful than the Hiroshima atomic bomb blast.-- no more galleries --