Saturn was an American magazine published from 1957 to 1965. It was
launched as a science-fiction magazine, but sales were weak, and after
five issues the publisher, Robert C. Sproul, switched the magazine to
hardboiled detective fiction that emphasized sex and sadism. Sproul
renamed the magazine several times, settling on Web Terror Stories in
1962, and the contents became mostly weird-menace tales—a genre in
which apparently supernatural powers are revealed to have a logical
explanation at the end of the story. Donald A. Wollheim was the editor
for the first five issues; he published material by several well-known
authors, including Robert A. Heinlein, H. P. Lovecraft, and Harlan
Ellison, but was given a low budget and could not always find good-
quality stories. It is not known who edited the magazine after the
science fiction issues, but themes of violence, torture and sex
continued to the end of the magazine's run. Sproul finally cancelled the
title in 1965 after a total of 27 issues.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_%28magazine%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1692:
Members of Clan MacDonald of Glencoe in the Scottish Highlands
were massacred allegedly for failing to pledge allegiance to the new
monarchs, William III and Mary II.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_of_Glencoe>
1961:
Geode prospectors near Olancha, California, discovered what
they claimed to be a 500,000-year-old rock with a 1920s-era spark plug
encased within.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coso_artifact>
1981:
Sewer explosions caused by the ignition of hexane vapors
destroyed more than 13 miles (21 km) of streets in Louisville,
Kentucky.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisville_sewer_explosions>
2017:
Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-
un, was assassinated using VX nerve agent in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Kim_Jong-nam>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
shock stall:
(aviation) A stall (“sudden loss of efficiency”) caused when the airflow
over an aircraft's wings is disturbed by shock waves that occurs at a
specific Mach number when the aircraft is accelerating to transonic
speeds.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shock_stall>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so
calculated, so malignant, and so devastating, that civilization cannot
tolerate their being ignored, because it cannot survive their being
repeated.
--Robert H. Jackson
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_H._Jackson>