The first Pony Express service left the American city of St Joseph in Missouri destined for Sacramento in California.
21st November 1974: The Birmingham pub bombings kill 21 people and injure 182
21st November 2020
The first Pony Express service left the American city of St Joseph in Missouri destined for Sacramento in California.
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 2nd March 1965 the United States military, alongside the Republic of Vietnam Air Force, began Operation Rolling Thunder as part of the Vietnam War.
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.
Nuclear propulsion enabled Nautilus to smash numerous records including those for both submerged speed and distance, and became the first submarine to transit the North Pole in August 1958.
The broadcast included performances of Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci featuring acclaimed Italian tenor Enrico Caruso.
Dr James Hiram Bedford became the first human to be cryonically preserved.