This day in history

1707: The Bourbon Army defeats the Habsburg Army in the War of the Spanish Succession. And no, the Bourbon Army had nothing to do with Bourbon the whiskey. That’s American. And quite tasty with Coca-Cola and ice...

1990: The Space Shuttle Discovery deploys the Hubble telescope into space. Then it broke. Oops. Five times. Oops. It’s a good thing NASA doesn’t do things that are far away, expensive, and hard to repair. They’d have problems.