French cyclist, Paul Cornu, flew the first helicopter on this day in 1907. Did you know that: • The first shipment of canned pineapple from Hawaii came in on this day in 1895• “Fantasia” animated film by Walt Disney, starring Leopold Stokowski and Deems Taylor, was released on this day in 1940• Robert Jarvik was […]
Jules Leotard performed the first Flying Trapeze circus act in Paris on this day in 1859. Did you know that: • Ambrose Godfrey patented gunpowder fueled fire extinguisher system in England on this day in 1723• Ryan Gosling is a Canadian actor born on this day in 1980• Anne Hathaway is an American actress born […]
Alvan Clark patented the telescope on this day in 1851. Did you know that: • German mathematician, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, demonstrated integral calculus for the first time, to find the area under the graph of y = f(x) function, on this day in 1675• Washington Irving’s Salmagundi periodical was published on this day in 1807 […]
German engineer, Gottlieb Daimler, unveiled the world’s first motorcycle on this day in 1885. Did you know that: • Granville T Woods patented the electric railway on this day in 1891• Jack Northrop, an aircraft designer who founded Northrop Air, was born on this day in 1895• Zoey Deutch is an American actress and producer […]
George Bruce received the first design patent for printing typefaces on this day in 1842. Did you know that: • Arthur Rudolph, a German rocket engineer who helped develop the American space program, was born on this day in 1906• The Cullinan Diamond, the largest ever discovered, was presented to King Edward VII on his […]
Gordon Ramsay is a British chef, restaurateur, television personality and writer born on this day in 1966. Did you know that: • German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range, today known as X-rays or Röntgen rays, on this day in 1895• Inventor and manufacturer Harvey Hubbell received the first […]
Robert Goddard demonstrated tube-launched solid propellant rockets on this day in 1918. Did you know that: • Pierre Gassendi observed the first ever transit of Mercury predicted by Kepler on this day in 1631• Marie Curie was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist born on this day in 1867• Ella Yelich-O’Connor, known professionally as […]
Adolphe Sax, a Belgian inventor, and musician who created the saxophone, was born on this day in 1814. Did you know that: • Alois Senefelder, a German actor and playwright who invented the printing technique of lithography, was born on this day in 1771• Colonel Jacob Schick patented the first electric razor on this day […]
Virat Kohli is an Indian cricketer and the current captain of India’s national men’s cricket team born on this day in 1988. Did you know that: • George B Selden was granted the first US patent for a gasoline driven car on this day in 1895• Henry Ford received a patent for a motor carriage […]
Richard Gatling received a patent for the Gatling gun on this day in 1862. Did you know that: • Benjamin Palmer patented the artificial leg on this day in 1846• Dentist John Beers of San Francisco patented the gold crown on this day in 1873• Howard Carter discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt on […]
Chevrolet officially entered the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T on this day in 1911. Did you know that: • Christopher Columbus ‘discovered’ the island of Dominica, originally inhabited by the Kalinago, on this day in 1493• The Times of India, the world’s largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper, was founded […]
