The DeLorean DMC-12 sports car was later used as the time machine in Back to the Future.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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The DeLorean DMC-12 sports car was later used as the time machine in Back to the Future.
An urban legend states that an obituary printed erroneously left Nobel distressed at how he would be remembered, and resulted in him seeking a way to improve his legacy by funding the creation of Nobel Prizes.
Thomas Midgeley Jr. discovered that adding tetraethyl lead to gasoline reduced knocking in automobile engines.
The world’s first ‘Nickel-In-The-Slot Phonograph’ introduced the concept of the jukebox to the public.
Thomas Edison began operating the first permanent commercial electrical power plant in New York.
The Chillicothe Baking Company’s ‘Kleen Maid Sliced Bread’ proved incredibly popular and was advertised as ‘the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped.’
The Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifle went into production in the Soviet Union.
Mallard set the record of 125.88mph on a stretch of slightly downhill railway track at Stoke Band, south of the town of Grantham.
Abraham Lincoln was issued a patent for his invention to lift boats over shoals and other obstructions in a river.
Ranked as the 259th most powerful computer in the world, Deep Blue was able to evaluate 200 million separate chess positions per second.
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