The Vanguard 1 satellite was launched by the Americans back in 1958, precisely on this day. It is interesting that NASA did not yet exist at the time. The oldest manmade...
The first liquid fuel modern rocket in history was launched on this day. The man who constructed it was Robert Goddard and he did not receive much fame during his life –...
On this day in 1985 began the so-called “Dot-com era” with the registration of the first commercial Internet domain name in the history of the Internet.
On this day an American NASA astronaut flew into space on a Russian ship for the first time in histroy. His name was Norman Thagard, and he was launched into space from t...
On this day in 1781 the planet Uranus was discovered. The importance of this discovery was in the fact that it was the planet discovered since ancient times (thousands of...
The University of Vienna (German: Universität Wien) was founded on this day 650 years ago by Duke Rudolf IV of Austria from the House of Habsburg and his brothers, Duke A...
Inventor Alexander Graham Bell said trough the phone to his assistant: “Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you.” On this day the first telephone conversatio...
One of the most famous nuclear physicists and chemists of all time – the Nobel Prize-winning Otto Hahn – was born on this day in Frankfurt am Main. He can be considered o...