Posted in White History on Oct 31st, 2010
1999 Yachtsman Jesse Martin returned to Melbourne after 11 months of circumnavigating the world, solo, non-stop and unassisted, the youngest person at the time to do so. 1956 Admiral George J. Dufek of the US Navy landed the first aircraft on the South Pole, a C-47 Skytrain. This led to the establishment of the Amundsen-Scott [...]
Posted in White History on Oct 30th, 2010
1960 British surgeon Michael Woodruff performed the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. 1895 German pathologist and bacteriologist Gerhard Domagk was born in Lagow, Brandenburg. He is credited with the discovery of Sulfonamidochrysoidine (KI-730) – the first commercially available antibacterial antibiotic. 1864 Helena, Montana was founded by four [...]
Posted in White History on Oct 27th, 2010
1961 NASA’s Saturn I rocket made its maiden flight while launching the Saturn-Apollo 1 mission. 1904 The first underground New York City Subway line opened at the now closed City Hall Station, under City Hall Park. 1761 Scottish physician and pathologist Matthew Baillie was born in Shots Manse, Lanarkshire. His book Morbid Anatomy of Some [...]
Posted in White History on Oct 26th, 2010
1984 American surgeon Leonard L. Bailey performed the first xenotransplant procedure on an infant, placing the heart of a baboon into 12-day old Stephanie Fae Beauclair. The baby was known as “Baby Fae” at the time to maintain her anonymity. 1958 The Boeing 707 made its first commercial flight, a Pan American Airways flight from [...]
Posted in White History on Oct 25th, 2010
1825 Austrian composer Johann Strauss II was born in Vienna. He composed over 500 waltzes, polkas, quadrilles, and other types of dance music, as well as several operettas and a ballet. In his lifetime, he was known as “The Waltz King”, and was largely responsible for the popularity of the waltz in Vienna during the [...]