311 – Emperor Galerius legally recognizes Christians in the Roman Empire 1492 – Columbus is given royal commission to equip his fleet 1789 – George Washington inaugurated as first president of US 1803 – US doubles in size through Louisiana Purchase ($15 million) 1808 – First practical typewriter finished by Italian Pellegrini Turri 1859 –...
Robo Man. Maybe this is where we all went wrong.
Watch this footage promoting artificial intelligence and smoking. "And he's only 2 years old"
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1449 – Anti-pope Felix V resigns 1507 – Geographer Martin Waldseemuller first used name America 1684 – Patent granted for thimble 1792 – Guillotine first used in France, executes highwayman Nicolas J Pelletier 1850 – Paul Julius Reuter, use 40 pigeons to carry stock market prices 1859 – Ground broken for Suez Canal 1861 –...
1184 BC – The Greeks enter Troy using the Trojan Horse 1066 – Halley’s Comet sparks English monk to predict country will be destroyed 1800 – Library of Congress established with $5,000 allocation In 1800, as part of an act of Congress providing for the removal of the new national government from Philadelphia to Washington,...
Designed in the neo-Gothic style by Cass Gilbert it was originally to be a 420 feet tall but eventually built to a height of 792 feet tall. Meant to serve as the headquarters of Woolworth's business empire, it cost 13.5 million to build and was completed in 1912. At the grand opening celebration, President Woodrow Wilson flipped a switch in Washington D.C. to turn on the lights to what was then the tallest building in the world, only to be surpassed in 1930 by the Chrysler Building and 40 Wall Street. There was once an observation deck on the 57th floor that closed in 1941.
1597 – William Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor is first performed, with Queen Elizabeth I of England in attendance. 1635 – Oldest US public institution, Boston Latin School founded 1838 – English steamship “Great Western” crossing Atlantic docks in NYC 1861 – Robert E. Lee named commander of Virginia Confederate forces 1900 – First...
William Shakespeare
"Away, you starvelling, you elf-skin, you dried neat's-tongue, bull's-pizzle, you stock-fish!"
(Henry IV Part I - Act II, Scene iv)
1453 – Three Genoese galleys and a Byzantine blockade runner fight their way through an Ottoman blockading fleet a few weeks before the fall of Constantinople. 1534 – Jacques Cartier begins his first voyage to what is today the east coast of Canada, Newfoundland and Labrador. 1657 – Freedom of religion is granted to the...
Marie Curie became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the first person, man or woman, to win the award twice.
Curie's efforts, with her husband Pierre Curie, led to the discovery of polonium and radium and, after Pierre's death, the further development of X-rays. The famed scientist died on July 4, 1934.
Curie's daughter Irene followed in her mother's footsteps, winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935.
1025 – Bolesław Chrobry is crowned in Gniezno, becoming the first King of Poland. 1506 – The cornerstone of the current St. Peter’s Basilica is laid. 1775 – Paul Revere and William Dawes ride from Charleston to Lexington warning the “regulars are coming!” 1783 – Fighting ceases in the American Revolution, eight years to the...
Carpathia arriving at Chelsea Piers with Titanic survivors
