On the 4th August 1693, legend says that French Benedictine monk Dom Pérignon invented champagne.
10th November 1871: Henry Morton Stanley locates Dr David Livingstone in Africa
10th November 2017
Napoleon granted a patent for the Pyréolophore to Nicéphore Niépce and his brother Claude.
The Islamic calendar was dated to start with the first new moon after the Prophet Muhammad and his followers migrated to Medina.ituals.
Walter Haut, the public information officer of the Roswell Army Air Field, issued a press release saying that the military had recovered the remains of a ‘flying disc.’
The world speed record for locomotives – steam trains – was set on the 3rd July 1938 by Number 4468 Mallard.
The 29th June 2008 shaped the technological landscape we live in today, when Apple released the very first iPhone.
Sharon Buchanan, a cashier at the Marsh supermarket in Troy, Ohio, scanned the world’s first Universal Product Code (better known as a barcode) on a 10-pack of Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit gum.
Alexis St. Martin, who had been shot in the stomach, was first treated by US Army surgeon William Beaumont who became known as the ‘Father of Gastric Physiology’.
On the 14th May 1796, English physician and scientist Edward Jenner purposefully infected 8-year James Phipps with cowpox.
On the morning of 14th April 1561, the people of Nuremberg in Germany witnessed a “dreadful apparition” in the sky.
16th September 1978: Filming begins on Monty Python’s Life of Brian
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13th September 1501: Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David
13th September 2019
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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