On October 6, 1957, The Jerusalem Post reported on the first man-made satellite being launched into space. The article states that Russia took the world by surprise and trumped the United States in particular when it launched the satellite "Sputnik" or "fellow traveler". The Russians' launch shocked the American public and began the Space Age. At the time, the U.S. had also been working on a scientific satellite program but it had not yet launched a satellite.
Since 1957, thousands of satellites and space stations have been launched into orbit around the Earth.
The Lebanese Civil War was a multifaceted civil war that lasted from 1975 to 1990. In the first year of the conflict, minor clashes in Lebanon escalated quickly between the leftist Muslin Lebanese National Movement pitted against the Christian-conservative Phalangists. On October 9, 1975, The Jerusalem Post reported on the fighting which raged all over the Lebanese capital city of Beirut. The front-page article notes that the Christian right-wing Phalangist militia men broke a cease-fire by firing at the Muslims and leftist strongholds. The story also reports that one of the worse incidents took place at a Beirut bakery where a rocket exploded while people were lined up to buy bread. It was estimated over the 15-year war, more than 120,000 people died.