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...
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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...
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 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...
Kenya Wants Real Offices for Social Media Businesses.
Kenya will now require social media companies to set up physical offices in the country, the Ministry of Interior and National Admin...
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...
What Fintech Apps Do Young Nigerians Use to Manage Money?
Savings are a big deal in Nigeria, with soaring inflation and a cost-of-living crisis. For young Nigerians, balancing tough macroeco...
January 20, 1893: Bessy Coleman, first African American Aviator.
Bessie Coleman was the first African-American woman, and also the first woman of Native-American descent, to hold a pilot’s license....
January 6, 1857: Patent for Zinc Ore Reduction by Samuel Wetherill
In 1857, a remarkable event unfolded that would significantly impact the mining and metallurgical industries: the patent for reducin...
January 7, 1985: Japan launches its first interplanetary spacecraft, Sakigake
Sakigake (さきがけ, lit. 'pioneer', 'pathfinder'), known before launch as MS-T5, was Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the fir...