Posted in White History on May 31st, 2011
1859 The clock in the clock tower at London’s Houses of Parliament, also known as Big Ben, first began ticking. Big Ben is the largest four-faced chiming clock and the third-tallest free-standing clock tower in the world. 1852 German bacteriologist Julius Petri was born in Barmen, Germany. He is remembered for his name given to [...]
Posted in White History on May 30th, 2011
1971 NASA launched Mariner 9 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The spacecraft reached Mars on November 13 of the same year, becoming the first spacecraft to orbit another planet. After months of dust-storms it managed to send back clear pictures of the planet’s surface. 1966 NASA launched Surveyor 1 from Cape Canaveral Air Force [...]
Posted in White History on May 29th, 2011
1950 The Royal Canadian Mounted Police schooner St Roch became the first ship to circumnavigate North America, going from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Vancouver via the Panama Canal. 1940 The Chance Vought F4U Corsair had its first flight. It was a carrier-capable fighter aircraft that saw service primarily in World War II and the Korean [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 28th, 2011
1971 Russia launched the Mars 3 unmanned lander and orbiter. The primary scientific objectives of the orbiter were to image the Martian surface and clouds, determine the temperature on Mars, study the topography, composition and physical properties of the surface, measure properties of the atmosphere, monitor the solar wind and the interplanetary and Martian magnetic [...]
Posted in White History on May 27th, 2011
1958 The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II made its first flight. It was a tandem two-seat, twin-engined, all-weather, long-range supersonic jet interceptor fighter/fighter-bomber originally developed for the U.S. Navy by McDonnell Aircraft. 1937 The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco first opened to traffic. It was the longest suspension bridge span in the world when [...]