Posted in White History on Aug 31st, 2011
1921 The first crop dusting from an airplane was demonstrated by American pilot Lt. John A. Macready. He spread lead arsenate insecticide dust over a six acre catalpa grove on the farm of Harry A. Carver near Troy, Ohio to kill a serious infestation of Sphinx moth caterpillars. 1910 American aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss made [...]
Posted in White History on Aug 30th, 2011
1987 Bulgarian track athlete Stefka Kostadinova broke the world record in the women’s high jump (2.09 m) at the IAAF World Championships. Her record still stands today. 1873 Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht, of the private Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition, discovered the archipelago of Franz Joseph Land in the Arctic Sea, far [...]
Posted in White History on Aug 29th, 2011
1982 Meitnerium, a synthetic element with atomic number 109, was first synthesized by German researchers Peter Armbruster and Gottfried Münzenberg at the Institute for Heavy Ion Research (Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung) in Darmstadt, Germany. 1904 German physician Werner Forssmann was born in Berlin, Germany. In 1929, he performed the first human cardiac catheterization, and in 1956 [...]
Posted in White History on Aug 28th, 2011
1963 The Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, the longest floating pontoon bridge in the world, officially opened. It connects Seattle and Bellevue in Washington State. 1913 Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands officially opened the Peace Palace in The Hague. The Peace Palace is considered the seat of international law, housing the International Court of Justice (the [...]
Posted in White History on Aug 27th, 2011
1962 NASA’s unmanned space probe Mariner 2 was launched on a mission to explore Venus. 1939 The world’s first jet aircraft, the Heinkel He 178, was flown for the first time, piloted by Erich Warsitz. The plane was a private venture by the German Heinkel company. 1874 German chemist and engineer Carl Bosch was born [...]