Posted in White History on Apr 30th, 2011
1834 English banker, politician, naturalist and archaeologist John Lubbock was born. He coined the terms Neolithic and Paleolithic, and was a personal friend of Charles Darwin. He discovered the first fossil remains of musk-ox in England, and undertook archaeological work identifying prehistoric cultures. As a naturalist, he studied insect vision and colour sense and published [...]
Posted in White History on Apr 29th, 2011
1986 Boston Red Sox pitcher Roger Clemens became the first pitcher in history to strike out 20 batters in a nine-inning major league game, against the Seattle Mariners at Fenway Park. 1854 French mathematician, theoretical physicist, and philosopher of science Henri Poincaré was born in Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, in the Lorraine region of France. As a [...]
Posted in White History on Apr 28th, 2011
1916 Italian industrialist Ferruccio Lamborghini was born in Renazzo di Cento, Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. He served as an aircraft mechanic in World War 2, and after the war he founded Lamborghini Trattori, a manufacturer of tractors and agricultural equipment. In 1959, he started Lamborghini Bruciatori to manufacture oil heaters and air conditioning equipment. Most famously, [...]
Posted in White History on Apr 27th, 2011
1810 German composer and pianist Ludwig van Beethoven composed “Für Elise”, one of his most popular compositions. 1805 United States Marine Corps Lieutenant Presley O’Bannon led a successful attack in the Battle of Derna, over pirate forces along the Barbary coast nation of Tripoli during the First Barbary War. It was the first recorded land [...]
Posted in White History on Apr 26th, 2011
1962 NASA’s Ranger 4 spacecraft crashed into the Moon. The spacecraft was designed to transmit pictures of the lunar surface to Earth stations during a period of 10 minutes of flight prior to crashing upon the Moon, to rough-land a seismometer capsule on the Moon, to collect gamma-ray data in flight, to study radar reflectivity [...]