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Intro: In 1582 The Gregorian Calendar was introduced by Pope Gregory XIII. The Julian calendar, that was used before the Gregorian one, miscalculated the length of the solar year by...
Intro: In 2000, The Rijndael algorithm is chosen as the Advanced Encryption Standard. This cipher algorithm was developed by two Belgian cryptographers, Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen. At its most...
On This Day – 30th September . First hydroelectric power plant. Berlin Blockade. Premiere of The Flintstones. Botswana & diamonds. Nuclear War. California. First Apache attack helicopter In 1882, the...
Intro: The Higgs boson results in the collision of two high-energy protons and has a very short life, after which it disintegrates into smaller particles. This is why it was...
Intro: In 1825 George Stephenson operated the first locomotive that hauled a passenger train. George also built the first public inter-city railway line in the world to use locomotives. The...
Intro: In 2006 Facebook was opened to everyone. When Zuckerberg was in Harvard, he had the idea of creating a site that allowed users to compare people’s faces. Do you...
Intro: In 1513 The Pacific Ocean was discovered by Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa. The discovery took place when he crossed the Isthmus of Panama. He first named the...
Intro: In 1948 Honda Motor Company is founded by Soichiro Honda, in Japan. He first started out as a piston ring manufacturer for Toyota, but his manufacturing plant was destroyed...
Intro: In 1846 Astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle discovered the planet Neptune. This the most distant planet in the Solar System when it was discovered. In 1930, Pluto was discovered, and...
Intro:In 1692 The last hanging of those convicted of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials took place. The episode is one of Colonial America’s most notorious cases of mass hysteria....
Intro: In 1904 Wilbur Wright Makes the First Circular Flight in 1 minute and 16 seconds on the Wright Flyer II. Wright and his brother, Orville, are credited for inventing...
Intro: In 1931 Britain went off the gold standard. The gold standard was a monetary system where a country’s currency or paper money had a value directly linked to gold....
Intro: In 1870 the Siege of Paris by Prussian Forces begins. As the city could not communicate outside its walls, people inside had to use balloon mail. About 66 unguided...
Intro: In 1810 Chile declared its independence from Spain. In Chile, You Can Find the Driest Place on Earth, The Atacama Desert. Some parts of the region have never received...
Intro: In 1930, Construction of Hoover Dam began in Black Canyon, near Las Vegas. Hoover Dam has a height of 221 meters and impounds Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in...
Intro: In 1620 The Mayflower departed from Plymouth, England. The ship carried the first English Puritans, known today as the Pilgrims and they were Calvinist Protestants seeking religious freedom from...
Intro: In 2008 Lehman Brothers file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. This was the largest bankruptcy in US history with Lehman holding over US$600 billion in assets. The bankruptcy triggered...
