American electrical engineer Jack Kilby demonstrated the world’s first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments.
17th December 497 BCE: The first Saturnalia festival celebrated in ancient Rome
17th December 2020
Pale Blue Dot, the most distant photograph ever taken of Earth, was created by the Voyager 1 space probe.
Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr was the director of research at DuMont Laboratories in New Jersey where he was exploring the use of cathode ray tubes in television sets.
On the 3rd December 1910, the first neon light went on show at the Paris Motor Show.
The 29th June 2008 shaped the technological landscape we live in today, when Apple released the very first iPhone.
On the 17th August 1982, the very first commercial compact disc was produced in the German town of Langenhagen.
18th January 1919: The Paris Peace Conference begins
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17th January 1991: Gulf War combat begins with Operation Desert Storm
17th January 2021
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
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9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2019