CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, was founded on this day in 1954. Originally, the acronym CERN was a French term for “Conseil Européen pour la Recher...
On this day a manned aircraft exceeded Mach 3, i.e. the three times higher speed than the speed of sound, for the first time. Unfortunately, that flight ended tragically...
On this day in 1956, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, TAT-1, was inaugurated. About 100 years earlier, telegraph cables had been laid across the...
This day marked the maiden flight of the fastest bomber in history, the American XB-70 Valkyrie. It was truly a massive aircraft, with a maximum weight of 246 tons, compa...
Léon Foucault, the French scientist after whom the famous Foucault pendulum was named, was born on this day in 1819. The British Queen Victoria was also born in 1819. Fut...
On this day in 1930, Thomas P. Stafford was born. He became the first person who held the rank of general and was launched into space (the Apollo-Soyuz mission, 1975). At...
On this day in 1908, U.S. Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge, the first victim of a plane crash in history, died. The 26-year-old member of the U.S. Army died when the plane of ...
The measured temperature was 57.8 °C, which was 1.1 °C higher than the second highest temperature ever recorded (Death Valley – 56.7 °C). Many doubted that was the...