On the 6th March 1869, Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev presented his periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
4th September 1882: Thomas Edison opens the world’s first power plant on Pearl Street in New York
4th September 2018
Thomas Midgeley Jr. discovered that adding tetraethyl lead to gasoline reduced knocking in automobile engines.
Marie and Pierre Curie proved the existence of the new element radium when they chemically isolated one-tenth of a gram of pure radium chloride.
The DuPont company’s organic chemist Wallace Carothers received a patent for linear condensation polymers, the basis of the material better known as nylon.
7th December 1941: Attack on Pearl Harbor
7th December 2019
5th December 1934: Wal-Wal Incident between Italy and Abyssinia
5th December 2019
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018