Posted in White History on Mar 31st, 2012
1982 Wayne Gretzky became the 1st and only NHL player to score 200 points in a season, during a game in which the Oilers beat the Black Hawks at Chicago. 1966 Russia launched the Luna 10 unmanned spacecraft, mankind’s first artificial satellite of the Moon. 1951 UNIVAC 1, the first commercial computer produced in the [...]
Posted in White History on Mar 30th, 2012
1939 The Heinkel He 100, a German pre-World War II fighter aircraft, set a world speed record when test pilot Hans Dieterle flew a prototype of the airplane to 746.606 km/h (463.919 mph). 1909 The Queensboro Bridge, also known as the 59th Street Bridge, first opened. It connects the boroughs of Manhattan and Queens, in [...]
Posted in White History on Mar 29th, 2012
1974 NASA’s Mariner 10 spaceprobe made its first flyby of the planet Mercury at a range of 703 kilometres, the first spacecraft ever to do so. 1879 Eugene Onegin, an opera by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, had its premiere performance at the Maly Theatre in Moscow. It is is based on the novel in verse by [...]
Posted in White History on Mar 28th, 2012
1910 French aviator Henri Fabre first flew Le Canard, the first seaplane in history to take off from water under its own power. 1892 Flemish physiologist Corneille Heymans was born in Ghent, Flanders. He discovered how blood pressure and oxygen content of the blood are measured by the body and transmitted to the brain, an [...]
Posted in White History on Mar 27th, 2012
1994 The Eurofighter Typhoon, a twin-engine canard-delta wing multirole aircraft, was flown for the first time. 1969 NASA launched the Mariner 7 unmanned spacecraft. The mission’s goals were to study the surface and atmosphere of Mars during close flybys. 1863 English car manufacturer Sir Frederick Henry Royce was born in Alwalton, Peterborough, in the East [...]