Posted in White History on Jul 31st, 2011
1964 The US space probe Ranger 7 sent back the first close-up photographs of the moon, revealing details never before available from Earth-bound telescopes. 1954 Italian explorer, mountain climber, geologist, and cartographer Ardito Desio led the first ascent of K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth. 1800 German chemist Friedrich Wöhler was born in Eschersheim. He [...]
Posted in White History on Jul 30th, 2011
1971 During the Apollo 15 space mission, American astronauts David Scott and James Irwin landed on the moon with the first Lunar Rover. 1938 Carme, a retrograde irregular satellite of Jupiter, was discovered by American astronomer Seth Barnes Nicholson at Mount Wilson Observatory, near Los Angeles, California. 1863 American industrialist Henry Ford was born in [...]
Posted in White History on Jul 29th, 2011
2005 Astronomers at the Palomar Observatory near San Diego, led by CalTech professor Michael E. Brown, announced the discovery of the dwarf planet Eris. Eris is the largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System and the ninth-largest body known to orbit the Sun directly. It is approximately 2,500 kilometres in diameter and 27% more [...]
Posted in White History on Jul 28th, 2011
2001 Australian Ian Thorpe became the first swimmer to win six gold medals at a single World Championships. 1935 The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress was flown for the first time. It was a four-engine heavy bomber aircraft developed in the 1930s for the then-United States Army Air Corps (USAAC). 1867 American-Argentine astronomer Charles Dillon Perrine [...]
Posted in White History on Jul 27th, 2011
1949 The world’s first jet-propelled airliner, the British De Havilland Comet, made its maiden flight in England. 1921 Canadian doctors Sir Frederick Grant Banting and Charles Herbert Best first isolated insulin at Toronto University. 1866 American businessman and financier Cyrus Field finally succeeded, after two failures, in laying the first underwater telegraph cable across the [...]