The flight lasted for 15 minutes and 22 seconds and reached a maximum altitude of 116 miles before returning to earth for splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean.
On the morning of 14th April 1561, the people of Nuremberg in Germany witnessed a “dreadful apparition” in the sky.
The incident at Three Mile Island heralded a dramatic shift in public attitudes towards nuclear power and the second reactor never returned to service.
On the 10th March 1876, Scottish-born inventor Alexander Graham Bell made the first successful telephone call when he contacted his assistant, Thomas Watson.
The German ocean liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse became the first vessel to transmit a ship-to-shore wireless message.
On the 6th March 1869, Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev presented his periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
On the 18th February 1930, Nellie Jay – better known as Elm Farm Ollie – became the first cow to fly in an aeroplane.
ENIAC was soon put to use running calculations to help build a hydrogen bomb, and continued to operate until 1955.
On the 2nd February 1852, the world’s first modern public toilets opened in London.
Blackwell graduated first in her class and became the first woman to achieve a medical degree in the United States.
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