On the 20th May 1873, Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis secured the patent for riveted blue jeans.
23rd October 1911: Italian Carlo Piazza pilots the first aircraft to be used in war
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Rolls-Royce Limited was established by Charles Rolls and Henry Royce.
On the 10th March 1876, Scottish-born inventor Alexander Graham Bell made the first successful telephone call when he contacted his assistant, Thomas Watson.
Mattel’s iconic Barbie doll made its debut at New York Toy Fair.
American inventor Samuel Colt received the first government order for his revolver firearms from Captain Samuel Walker of the Texas Rangers.
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.
On the 12th November 1990, British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee published the first formal proposal for the World Wide Web.
Frenchman André-Jacques Garnerin performed the first high-altitude parachute descent.
On the 9th September 1947, the first computer ‘bug’ was found in the Harvard Mark II electromechanical computer.
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
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9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
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