The first-ever Mickey Mouse newspaper comic strip debuted on this day in 1930. Did you know that: • Galileo Galilei discovered Callisto, the fourth satellite of Jupiter, on this day in 1610• Henry Ford patented a method of constructing plastic auto bodies on this day in 1942• Orlando Bloom is an English actor born on […]
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 […]
Henry Ford received a patent for an automobile transmission mechanism on this day in 1911. Did you know that: • Neptune’s moon, Triton, was discovered by William Lassell on this day in 1846• John Wesley Hyatt patented the billiard ball made from cellulose nitrate (celluloid) on this day in 1865• Issac R. Johnson patented the […]
George Stephenson’s “Locomotion No. 1” became the first steam locomotive to carry passengers on a public rail line, the Stockton and Darlington Railway in England on this day in 1825. Did you know that: • The physics journal Annalen der Physik published Albert Einstein’s paper introducing the equation E=mc² on this day in 1905• Henry […]
Born on this day in 1863, Henry Ford was an American industrialist, business magnate, and founder of the Ford Motor Company, and chief developer of the assembly line technique of mass production. Did you know that: • The City of Baghdad founded by Abbasid caliph Al-Mansur, just north of ancient Baghdad, on this day in […]
Tupac Amaru Shakur, better known by his stage name 2Pac and by his alias Makaveli, was an American rapper and actor born on this day in 1971. Did you know that: • The first roller coaster was opened at Coney Island in New York on this day in 1884• Jean Peugeot, a French auto manufacturer […]
