Posted in White History on Jan 31st, 2011
1971 NASA launched Apollo 14, the third of the Apollo missions to land on the moon. The mission lasted nine days, with Commander Alan Shepard, Command Module Pilot Stuart Roosa, and Lunar Module Pilot Edgar Mitchell onboard. 1966 Russia launched Luna 9, an unmanned space mission, as part of its Luna space program. The Luna [...]
Posted in White History on Jan 30th, 2011
1925 American inventor Douglas Engelbart was born in Portland, Oregon. He is of German, Norwegian, and Swedish descent. He is best known for inventing the computer mouse, and was part of a team that developed hypertext, networked computers, and early graphical user interfaces. 1868 Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, a book by Charles [...]
Posted in White History on Jan 28th, 2011
1938 German race car driver Rudolf Caracciola set a land speed record, for a public road, in a Mercedes-Benz W125 Rekordwagen. He achieved a speed of 432.7 kilometres per hour (268.9 mph) for the flying kilometre and 432.4 kilometres per hour (268.7 mph) for the flying mile. 1813 Pride and Prejudice, a novel by Jane [...]
Posted in White History on Jan 27th, 2011
1948 The IBM Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator (SSEC), an electromechanical computer built by IBM, was first demonstrated to the public. It was the first operating computer to combine electronic computation with stored instructions and was the first computer to run a stored program.
Posted in White History on Jan 26th, 2011
1962 NASA launched the Ranger 3 space probe to study the moon. It was designed to transmit pictures of the lunar surface to Earth, to rough-land a seismometer capsule on the Moon, to collect gamma-ray data in flight, to study radar reflectivity of the lunar surface, and to continue testing of the Ranger program for [...]