On October 4, 2004, the experimental passenger spaceplane SpaceShipOne made the first private suborbital spaceflight, reaching an altitude of over 110 km. The vehicle was developed and operated by Mojave Aerospace Ventures, owned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, and Scaled Composites, a company owned by legendary aerospace engineer Burt Rutan. The project is worth 25 …

The brothers Evlogi and Hristo Georgievi were born in Karlovo at the beginning of the 19th century. The older brother Evlogi was born on today's date, October 3, in 1819, and the younger brother Hristo in 1824. Settled in Romania, they participated in the trading company of their relatives (their uncles) Nikola and …