January 21, 2009: Toyota Officially Passes GM as Planet’s Biggest Carmaker.
After more than seven decades as the world’s largest automaker, General Motors (GM) officially loses the title on January 21, 2009,...
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January 21, 1976: First commercial Concorde Flight
From London’s Heathrow Airport and Orly Airport outside Paris, the first Concordes with commercial passengers simultaneously take fl...
December 10, 1901: First Nobel Prizes Awarded
The first Nobel Prizes are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace on Dece...
January 20, 1930: American astronaut Buzz Aldrin was born in Montclair, New Jersey.
Buzz Aldrin (born January 20, 1930, Montclair, New Jersey, U.S.) is an American astronaut who was the second person to set foot on t...
January 17, 1773: Captain James Cook becomes the first to cross Antarctic Circle
The history of Antarctica emerges from early Western theories of a vast continent, known as Terra Australis, believed to exist in th...
December 14, 1900: Max Planck presents the Quantum Theory at the Physics Society in Berlin.
On December 14, 1900, MAX PLANCK presented his derivation of the distribution law for black-body radiation to the German Physical So...
January 17, 1912: A month after Roald Amundsen’s mission, Captain Robert Scott’s expedition reaches the South Pole.
The Terra Nova Expedition, officially the British Antarctic Expedition, was an expedition to Antarctica that took place between 1910...
December 11, 1972: Apollo 17 Lands at Taurus-Littrow
Apollo 17 was the eleventh and final mission of NASA's Apollo program, the sixth and most recent time humans have set foot on the Mo...
December 17, 1903: The Wright Brothers Make The First Sustained Motorized Aircraft Flight
The Wright brothers, Orville Wright (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) and Wilbur Wright (April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912), were Ame...
December 16, 1897: 1st Submarine with an Internal Combustion Engine Demonstrated
Designed in 1896 by Irish-American inventor John Phillip Holland and his Holland Torpedo Boat Company, the Holland VI was built at t...