‘The eventual development of this new force by other nations was to be expected. This probability has always been taken into account by us’.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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American electrical engineer Jack Kilby demonstrated the world’s first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments.
The wreck of the Titanic was discovered by a joint American-French expedition led by oceanographer Robert Ballard.
The explosion had the power of 22 kilotons of TNT, and was 50% more destructive than its designers had expected.
Chilean pianist Claudio Arrau’s recording of Chopin waltzes was pressed at Philips’ Polydor Pressing Operations plant, with the pianist himself starting the machine.
Queen Victoria sent the first telegram using the newly-installed transatlantic telegraph cable to US President James Buchanan.
On 12 August Lister used a piece of lint doused in carbolic acid to cover the compound fracture wound of a seven-year-old boy. Over a period of six weeks the wound healed without developing gangrene.
The Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar, most famously used by the Maya civilisation, began.
William Kemmler became the first person to be executed using an electric chair.
RAF Flight Officer T. D. Dean became the first Allied jet pilot to achieve a combat victory when he ‘tipped’ a Nazi German V-1 ‘doodlebug’ flying bomb with his Gloster Meteor jet fighter.
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9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
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