Abraham Lincoln was issued a patent for his invention to lift boats over shoals and other obstructions in a river.
3rd May 1915: John McCrae composes the war poem ‘In Flanders Fields’
3rd May 2017
The DuPont company’s organic chemist Wallace Carothers received a patent for linear condensation polymers, the basis of the material better known as nylon.
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 31st December 1935, the board game Monopoly was patented.
On the 20th May 1873, Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis secured the patent for riveted blue jeans.
15th October 1923: Rentenmark introduced in Weimar Germany
15th October 2018
14th October 1962: U-2 spy plane captures images of Cuban missile sites
14th October 2018
13th October 54: Emperor Claudius dies in mysterious circumstances
13th October 2018
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2017
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2017