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...
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 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...
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...
January 14, 2005: The Exterior of Titan
Little was known about Titan’s surface before the Cassini-Huygens mission. Because the moon’s haze is partially transparent to near-...
January 8, 1994: Valeri Polyakov, a Russian cosmonaut leaves earth, bound for the Mir space station
Valeri Vladimirovich Polyakov (Russian: Валерий Владимирович Поляков, born Valeri Ivanovich Korshunov, Russian: Валерий Иванович Кор...
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...
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...