1972: Who Were the Last People on the Moon?
On this day Apollo 17 was launched, the last manned mission sent to the moon. It is almost unbelievable that since then, for more than 40 years, people have not set foot...
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1982: Would you Prefer Execution by Lethal Injection or the Electric Chair?
The first execution in the United States using the new method – lethal injection – was performed on this day. It happened in Texas when Charles Brooks, convicted of murde...
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1967: First Heart Transplant Performed in Africa
The first successful heart transplant was performed on this day in 1967 by the South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard. Before that, he spent a few years experimenting w...
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1701: Who was Celsius?
The man whose name we unconsciously mention almost every day when we talk about the temperature in degrees Celsius, was born on this day in 1701, in the Swedish city of U...
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1844: The Beginnings of Mercedes-Benz
The inventor of the automobile, Karl Benz, was born on this day. His dream was to create a “horseless carriage”, and bicycles were his hobby. In the year 1885 he made the...
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1921: The Father of Car Tires – John Dunlop – was a Vet by Profession
The famous John Boyd Dunlop, to whom we owe the popularization of the use of pneumatic tires on all road vehicles, was born on this day. The Dunlop tire brand is still re...
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1985: Microsoft Windows 1.0 – What did they look like?
On this day the first Microsoft Windows, version 1.0, were released for sale. They greatly resembled to the Macintosh graphical interface. Microsoft even had to remove so...
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1970: The Inventor of the Computer Mouse Never Made any Money from it
On this day in 1970 American inventor Douglas Engelbart obtained a patent (U.S. Patent 3,541,541) for a computer mouse. In the patent application the device was called “X...
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