Dr James Hiram Bedford became the first human to be cryonically preserved.
3rd September 1783: Treaty of Paris ends the American Revolutionary War
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Benjamin Franklin, the American polymath, accidentally electrocuted himself while attempting to kill a turkey.
On the 10th December 1901, the first Nobel Prizes were awarded in Chemistry, Literature, Peace, Physics, and Physiology or Medicine.
Thomas Midgeley Jr. discovered that adding tetraethyl lead to gasoline reduced knocking in automobile engines.
The crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft took the iconic Blue Marble photograph of the earth.
South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard performed the world’s first human-to-human heart transplant.
On the 26th November 1922, Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon entered the tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings.
On the 24th November 1859, English naturalist and geologist Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, the ground-breaking book that is considered by many to be the foundation of evolutionary biology.
On the 12th November 1990, British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee published the first formal proposal for the World Wide Web.
The Prospero satellite was launched, making it the first and only British satellite to be launched using a British rocket.
19th January 1915: Zeppelins bomb Great Yarmouth and Kings Lynn
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18th January 1919: The Paris Peace Conference begins
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17th January 1991: Gulf War combat begins with Operation Desert Storm
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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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