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...
On this day in 1983, the first American woman was launched into space. Her name was Sally Ride and she was than 32 years old. It is interesting that she remained the youn...
On this day the first woman in history, Valentina Tereshkova of Russian nationality, was launched into space. The Soviets selected her among more than 400 candidates, for...
This day IBM celebrates as the day of its inception. Back in 1911, the famous American entrepreneur Charles Ranlett Flint created a new company by successfully merging se...
On this day in 1667, the first thoroughly documented blood transfusion was performed. It was administered by the French physician Jean-Baptiste Denys, the famed physicia...
On this day in 1983, the first man-made object left the Solar System. It was the Pioneer 10 space probe, launched back in 1972 (11 years earlier). It left the Solar Syste...
On this day in 1955, the first diamond-bearing deposits were discovered in Russia. This discovery was made by geologists Yuri Khabardin, Ekaterina Elagina, and Viktor Avd...
On this day in 1984, the legendary computer game Tetris was conceived. It was programmed in the USSR by Alexey Pajitnov, a Russian engineer who worked for the Computer Ce...
