(WHTM) — It sounds like the title of a Jules Verne novel from the 19th century, but it’s been described as the last great adventure of the 20th century-and it used a balloon design from the 18th ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On March 21, 1999, Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones landed near Cairo after becoming the first people to circle the globe by ...

Bertrand Piccard is no stranger to achieving the improbable. In 1999, the Swiss aviator and his copilot Brian Jones were the first to circumnavigate the globe in a hot-air balloon. In 2016, he did it ...

March 21 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1413, Henry V was crowned king of England. In 1617, Pocahontas died in England at about age 22. Three years earlier, she converted to Christianity, took ...