Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist and neuropathologist, died on this day. He was the first physician who published a description of a patient suffering from the seriou...
Famous German scientist Konrad Zuse – one of the most deserving people for the development of computers – died on this day. His most famous work was the development of th...
This day marked the birth of the first astronaut of Jewish descent who was launched into space. His name was Boris Volynov and was a Soviet astronaut – more precisely cos...
Scientist Richard Owen, who invented the term “dinosaurs” for describing the large creatures that once lived on our planet, died on this day. Owen was a trained doctor, b...
Brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright from the city of Dayton, Ohio (where the Dayton Peace Agreement was signed) performed the first successful airplane flight on this day,...
On this day in the year 1707 began the last thus far recorded eruption of the famous volcano Fuji in Japan. This eruption released about 800 million of cubic meters of vo...
On this day in 1972, American astronaut Eugene Cernan made the last human step on the lunar surface. He was part of the Apollo 17 mission, the final mission of the Apol...
The famous Robert Koch, one of the most deserving people for saving mankind from contagious diseases, was born on this day. In fact, Koch developed and confirmed the theo...