Frenchman André-Jacques Garnerin performed the first high-altitude parachute descent.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
21st June 2019
Einstein, who was Jewish, was undertaking a visiting professorship at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena when Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor on 30 January 1933.
Known as the Orloj, the astronomical clock was designed and built by the Imperial clockmaker Mikuláš of Kadaň and Charles University professor Jan Šindel.
Queen Victoria sent the first telegram using the newly-installed transatlantic telegraph cable to US President James Buchanan.
On the 12th August 1865 Joseph Lister carried out the world’s first antiseptic surgery using the chemical phenol, otherwise known as carbolic acid.
William Kemmler became the first person to be executed using an electric chair.
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.
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 29th June 2008 shaped the technological landscape we live in today, when Apple released the very first iPhone.
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
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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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