On this day: February 18
POSTED: 02:45 AM PST Feb 17, 2013
UPDATED: 11:00 PM PST Feb 17, 2013
Jefferson Davis becomes the president of the Confederacy, Pluto is discovered, a cow flies, the first Church of Scientology is formed, the Chicago Seven are found not guilty, and Dale Earnhardt dies at the Daytona 500, all on this day.
National Nuclear Security Administration/Nevada Site Office
1955: The Operation Teapot nuclear test shot "Wasp" is successfully detonated at the Nevada Test Site with a yield of 1.2 kilotons. Wasp is the first of 14 shots of the Teapot series, which was designed to establish military tactics for ground forces on a nuclear battlefield and to improve the weapons used to deliver a nuclear bomb core.
