Interesting Historic Facts
On This Day!!
9th November
1913 - Born on this day: Hedy Lamarr - movie star who helped invent radio-controlled torpedo's
http://www.hedylamarr.com/about/about.php
1934 - Born on this day: Carl Sagan - American astronomer who popularised science and tried to make it more accessible to the public.
1967 - A Saturn V rocket carrying an unmanned Appollo spacecraft blasted off from Cape Kennedy on a successful test flight.
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/history/apollo/apollo-4/apollo-4.htm
1994 - The chemical element Darmstadtium is discovered.
http://education.jlab.org/itselemental/ele110.html
10th November
1885 - Gottlieb Daimler's motorcycle, the world's first, is unveiled.
1933 - Born on this day: Ronald Evans, American Astronaut.
2084 - Transit of Earth as seen from Mars.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_of_Earth_from_Mars
11th November
1851 - The Telescope was patented by Alvan Clark.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescope
1966 - NASA launches spaceship Gemini 12.
http://lis.arc.nasa.gov/lis/Programs/Gemini/Gemini_12/Gemini_12.html
12th November
1847 - Sir James Young Simpson - a British physician - is the first to use chloroform as an anaesthetic.
1981 - Fisrt Balloon crossing of the Pacific ocean is completed.
13th November
1907 - French cyclist, Paul Cornu, flies first twin-rotor helicopter.
http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Dictionary/Cornu/DI18.htm
1946 - First artificial snow produced from a natural cloud.
http://www.massmoments.org/moment.cfm?mid=327
1994 - Motoo Kinura Japanest geneticist died.
14th November
1765 - Born on this day: Robert Fulton - inventor of the first commercially successful steamboat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steamboat
1896 - Power plant at Niagara Falls begins operation
1908 - Albert Einstein presents quantumtheory of light, which helped him win a Nobel Prise in 1921.
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1921/einstein-bio.html
1922 - The BBC begins domestic redio service from 2LO at Marconi House.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1204729.stm
1968 - First European lung transplant
1994 - First trains for public run in Channel Tunnel under the English Channel.
15th November
1901 - Miller Reese patented an electrical hearing aid.
1954 - First of regularly scheduled commercial flights over North Pole begins.
1961 - UN bnas nuclear arms.
Other websites consulted in relation to the above:
http://www.historyorb.com/day/november
http://www.on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/alldays/nov09.htm
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/onthisday.aspx
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/13/default.stm
