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11th July 1962: The world’s first satellite television broadcast took place using the recently-launched Telstar satellite

11th July 2022
Tagged as: Cold War, Culture, France, Satellite, Science, Space, Space Race, Spacecraft, Technology, Television, USA

Telstar’s first broadcast involved relaying an image of a flag outside its base station at Andover Earth Station to the Pleumeur-Bodou earth station in France.

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13th April 1970: Apollo 13 spacecraft rocked by an explosion from one of its oxygen tanks

13th April 2022
Tagged as: Apollo, NASA, Science, Space, Space Race, Spacecraft, Technology

The resulting emergency led to the calm announcement by the crew of, ‘Houston we’ve had a problem’.

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11th July 1962: The world’s first satellite television broadcast took place using the recently-launched Telstar satellite

13th April 1970: Apollo 13 spacecraft rocked by an explosion from one of its oxygen tanks

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

29th September 1938: Adolf Hitler, Neville Chamberlain, Benito Mussolini and Édouard Daladier reach an agreement on the Nazi annexation of the Sudetenland

28th September 1928: Alexander Fleming accidentally discovers penicillin, laying the foundation for a revolution in modern medicine

27th September 1908: First Model T Ford automobile rolls out of the Piquette Avenue factory in Detroit

26th September 1960: Kennedy and Nixon take part in their first televised debate

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to lowest point in the Great Depression

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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