American electrical engineer Jack Kilby demonstrated the world’s first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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The wreck of the Titanic was discovered by a joint American-French expedition led by oceanographer Robert Ballard.
The world’s first radio news program was broadcast on the station 8MK in Detroit, Michigan.
The explosion had the power of 22 kilotons of TNT, and was 50% more destructive than its designers had expected.
Chilean pianist Claudio Arrau’s recording of Chopin waltzes was pressed at Philips’ Polydor Pressing Operations plant, with the pianist himself starting the machine.
Queen Victoria sent the first telegram using the newly-installed transatlantic telegraph cable to US President James Buchanan.
The Panama Canal was officially opened to traffic with the transit of SS Ancon.
William Kemmler became the first person to be executed using an electric chair.
RAF Flight Officer T. D. Dean became the first Allied jet pilot to achieve a combat victory when he ‘tipped’ a Nazi German V-1 ‘doodlebug’ flying bomb with his Gloster Meteor jet fighter.
The world’s first transcontinental telephone line was successfully voice tested between New York and San Francisco.
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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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1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
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