‘The eventual development of this new force by other nations was to be expected. This probability has always been taken into account by us’.
26th March 1830: The Book of Mormon first went on sale at E. B. Grandin’s book store
26th March 2020
The first edition of the National Geographic Magazine was published by the National Geographic Society.
Shortly after midnight in Moscow, the Soviets became the first to successfully send a human-made object to the Moon.
American electrical engineer Jack Kilby demonstrated the world’s first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments.
On the 11th September 1978, Janet Parker became the last recorded person in the world to die from smallpox.
Thomas Edison began operating the first permanent commercial electrical power plant in New York.
The wreck of the Titanic was discovered by a joint American-French expedition led by oceanographer Robert Ballard.
The world’s first large-scale, alternating current power plant began producing electricity at Niagara Falls.
The world’s first commercially successful steamship was launched on the Hudson River between New York and Albany.
It had taken Congress eight years to agree on how to fulfil James Smithson’s desire to establish and institution ‘for the increase and diffusion of knowledge’.
27th September 1908: First Model T Ford produced in Detroit
27th September 2020
26th September 1960: Kennedy and Nixon take part in their first televised debate
26th September 2020
25th September 1513: European ‘discovery’ of the Pacific Ocean
25th September 2020
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2019
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018