Posted in White History on Oct 31st, 2011
1999 Yachtsman Jesse Martin returned to Melbourne after 11 months of circumnavigating the world, solo, non-stop and unassisted, the youngest person at the time to do so. 1956 Admiral George J. Dufek of the US Navy landed the first aircraft on the South Pole, a C-47 Skytrain. This led to the establishment of the Amundsen-Scott [...]
Posted in White History on Oct 30th, 2011
1960 British surgeon Michael Woodruff performed the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. 1895 German pathologist and bacteriologist Gerhard Domagk was born in Lagow, Brandenburg. He is credited with the discovery of Sulfonamidochrysoidine (KI-730) – the first commercially available antibacterial antibiotic. 1864 Helena, Montana was founded by four [...]
Posted in White History on Oct 29th, 2011
1991 The American Galileo spacecraft made its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid. 1969 Engineers 400 miles apart at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) and Stanford Research Institute (SRI) sent the first data between the first nodes of what was then known as Arpanet, and [...]
Posted in White History on Oct 28th, 2011
1942 Construction of the Alaska Highway was completed at Mile 1202 in Beaver Creek. 1893 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathétique, received its premiere performance in St. Petersburg, only nine days before the composer’s death. 1886 The Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor was officially unveiled by President Grover Cleveland [...]
Posted in White History on Oct 27th, 2011
2000 English professional cyclist Chris Boardman broke the UCI hour record, riding 49.441 kilometers in one hour. 1961 NASA’s Saturn I rocket made its maiden flight while launching the Saturn-Apollo 1 mission. 1904 The first underground New York City Subway line opened at the now closed City Hall Station, under City Hall Park. 1761 Scottish [...]