Rolls-Royce Limited was established by Charles Rolls and Henry Royce.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
21st June 2019
It was while in Boston that Bell’s experiments with sound waves and electricity led to his development of a telegraph-like system to transmit the vibrations associated with speech.
The German ocean liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse became the first vessel to transmit a ship-to-shore wireless message.
Pokémon, the world’s highest-grossing media franchise, was launched in Japan with Pocket Monsters: Red and Green.
The plane, named the City of Everett, left the Paine Field runway near Everett in Washington State – about 30 miles north of Seattle – and successfully performed a number of tests before landing at 12.50pm.
Desert Island Discs is Britain’s longest-running radio programme.
The DeLorean DMC-12 sports car was later used as the time machine in Back to the Future.
Röntgen was experimenting with vacuum tubes at the University of Würzburg when he discovered the new ‘invisible light’ on 8 November 1895.
Thomas Midgeley Jr. discovered that adding tetraethyl lead to gasoline reduced knocking in automobile engines.
The crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft took the iconic Blue Marble photograph of the earth.
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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
11th November 2022
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
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