📖 Yearbook

🗓️ On This Day

Most Out-of-This-World Collision: Jupiter got bombarded by fragments of a comet for six days straight, giving astronomers the best celestial fireworks show they'd ever witnessed through their telescopes.

🗺️ World Leader

End of an Era in Pyongyang: The death of North Korea's founding "Great Leader" after 46 years in power passed the hermit kingdom's reins to his son, cementing the world's first communist dynasty.

📚 Art & Literature

Most Likely to Make You Ugly Cry: Life was like a box of chocolates in this Tom Hanks tearjerker that jogged through decades of American history and somehow made ping-pong diplomacy and shrimp boats feel profoundly moving.

👑 Power & Headlines

Most Dramatic Midterm Makeover: A Georgia congressman's "Contract with America" helped Republicans capture both chambers of Congress for the first time in four decades, flipping the House in a landslide that redrew the political map.