On this day, in the late afternoon hours, German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen experimented with a variety of electronic devices, including some of Tesla’s, by putting them...
On this day the People’s Republic of China succeeded in placing its first satellite into orbit around the Moon. It was named Chang’e 1, after the Chinese Moon godde...
One of the greatest moments in aviation history took place on this day. The eccentric multimillionaire Howard Hughes tried to take off in the largest airplane in history....
The oldest astronaut in history was sent into space on this day in 1998. It was 77-year-old John Glenn, who had previously already become a famous American astronaut. Nam...
The oldest university in the USA was founded on this day in 1636. It was originally called the New Collage, and was renamed in 1639, in honor of John Harvard, who had lef...
One of the most famous nuclear physicists in history – Lise Meitner – died on this day in 1968. She was a member of the team whose research led to the discovery of nuclea...
Eduard Einstein was the son of the scientific genius Albert Einstein and Mileva Marić, a Serbian mathematician and physicist. Mileva was born in the town of Titel in mode...
Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger, a well-known Croatian paleontologist, was born in Zagreb in 1856. His birth name was Karl, but he Croatized it to Gorjanović at the age of...