The Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifle went into production in the Soviet Union.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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Mallard set the record of 125.88mph on a stretch of slightly downhill railway track at Stoke Band, south of the town of Grantham.
The 29th June 2008 shaped the technological landscape we live in today, when Apple released the very first iPhone.
It was while in Boston that Bell’s experiments with sound waves and electricity led to his development of a telegraph-like system to transmit the vibrations associated with speech.
International recognition came after the cube was exhibited at the 1979 Nuremberg Toy Fair where it attracted the attention of the Ideal Toy Company, and was later renamed Rubik’s Cube.
Thomas Midgeley Jr. discovered that adding tetraethyl lead to gasoline reduced knocking in automobile engines.
Frenchman Georges Claude’s neon lighting at the Paris Motor Show was used to light the front of the large exhibition space at the Grand Palais with red lighting.
Frenchman André-Jacques Garnerin performed the first high-altitude parachute descent.
Thomas Edison began operating the first permanent commercial electrical power plant in New York.
Faraday constructed an apparatus consisting of two coils of wire wound around opposite sides of an iron ring, and when he connected one coil to a battery a galvanometer detected a brief current induced in the second coil.
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1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
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9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
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