On this day in 1997, a Protocol was agreed upon in the Japanese city of Kyoto, concerning the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. It was done in the organization of th...
The famous Alfred Nobel died of a stroke on this day in San Remo. In his last will and testament, he left most of his property, which would today be worth around 150 mill...
The famous Soviet (later Russian) MiG aircraft are named after the designers Mikoyan and Gurevich, who led a design bureau producing fighter aircraft. The bureau was init...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...