On this day in 1994, the first fragments of the Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collided with Jupiter. It was a spectacular astronomical event because scientists on Earth had the...
On this day in 1965, the tunnel under the Mont Blanc, the highest peak in the Alps, was officially opened. The ceremony was attended by the French president Charles de Ga...
The famous Rosetta Stone, which enabled the deciphering of Egyptian hieroglyphic script, was found on this day in 1799 and certainly belongs among the most important arch...
On this day in 1970, U.S. General Leslie Groves died. He had a major role during World War II as a project manager in constructing the first US nuclear bomb (the Manhatta...
The first article in which Albert Einstein described his special theory of relativity, “On the Electrodynamics of bodies in motion” (German: Zur Elektrodynami...
On this day in 1943 Karl Landsteiner, the famous scientist responsible for the classification of blood groups, died. In 1930 Landsteiner was awarded the Nobel Prize in Ph...
On this day in 1678, a woman received a university degree for the first time in history. Her name was Elena Cornaro Piscopia and she was originally from Venice. Elena was...
On this day in 1922, Aage Bohr, Nobel Prize winner and son of another famous Nobel laureate Niels Bohr, was born. They both received the Nobel Prize in the same scientifi...