On this day in 1946, the first photos of Earth were taken from space. It is very interesting that this was done using V-2 rockets which were designed in the time of Nazi...
This day in 2007 marked the death of Ève Curie, the daughter of famous scientists Marie and Pierre Curie. Ève had a sister named Irène Joliot-Curie, who continued in her...
Thomas Alva Edison tested the first carbon-filament light bulb on this day. It is assumed that the test was successfully concluded because the light bulb managed to provi...
On this day it was announced that the first radio based on transistor circles has become available. Previous transistors were based on cathode ray tubes and were thus lar...
Hitler came to power in Germany in January 1933. At that time Einstein was working in the USA as a university professor. In April, the Nazi government forbade Jews to lec...
A celestial body which is believed to be the closest extrasolar planet to Earth was discovered on this day in 2012. It has the provisional name of Alpha Centauri Bb, and...
On this day in 2003, the People’s Republic of China became the third country in history to successfully send a man into space. Only two other countries (the USA and...
The world speed record for ground vehicles was set on this day in 1997. It was also the first time in history that a ground vehicle broke the sound barrier (Mach 1). The...