On the 27th September 1908, the first Model T Ford automobile rolled out of the Piquette Avenue factory in Detroit.
14th December 1287: St Lucia’s Flood kills over 50,000 people around the North Sea
14th December 2017
On the 23rd September 1974, the world’s first teletext service went live when the BBC began transmitting its Ceefax service.
Shortly after midnight in Moscow, the Soviets became the first to successfully send a human-made object to the Moon.
On the 13th September 1985, the Super Mario Bros. video game was released in Japan.
On the 9th September 1947, the first computer ‘bug’ was found in the Harvard Mark II electromechanical computer.
Thomas Edison began operating the first permanent commercial electrical power plant in New York.
On the 17th August 1982, the very first commercial compact disc was produced in the German town of Langenhagen.
French aviator Louis Charles Joseph Blériot made the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air aircraft.
On the 25th May 1961, American President John F. Kennedy made the announcement to a joint session of Congress that he had set his sights on a manned moon landing before the end of the decade.
On the 21st May 1927, Charles Lindbergh became the first person to make a solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic when he flew 3,600 miles from New York to Paris.
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22nd September 1888: First edition of National Geographic Magazine published
22nd September 2018
16th October 1846: First public demonstration of ether anaesthesia
16th October 2018
15th October 1923: Rentenmark introduced in Weimar Germany
15th October 2018
14th October 1962: U-2 spy plane captures images of Cuban missile sites
14th October 2018
13th October 54: Emperor Claudius dies in mysterious circumstances
13th October 2018
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2017
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2017