December 8, 1987: Worldpowers agree to reduce nuclear arsenals
At a summit meeting in Washington, D.C., President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev sign the first treaty between t...
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December 8, 2010: SpaceX Dragon 1 became the first commercial spacecraft to successfully orbit and successfully return it to Earth.
SpaceX became the first commercial company to release a spacecraft—the Dragon capsule—into orbit and successfully return it to Earth...
December 9, 1868: The world’s first traffic light was introduced
On 9 December 1868,[4] the first non-electric gas-lit traffic lights were installed outside the Houses of Parliament in London to co...
December 9, 1979: Smallpox is officially declared eradicated
On December 9, 1979, a commission of scientists declare smallpox has been eradicated. The disease, which carries around a 30 percent...
February 3, 1994: Tanzania’s first private radio station, Radio Tumani, goes on the air, broadcasting primarily in Kiswahili.
Radio Tumaini is a non-profit community radio station run by the Archdiocese of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Radio Tumaini was the first...
February 3, 1995: Eileen Collins, an American astronaut, became the first female pilot of the Discovery Space Shuttle.
Eileen Collins (born November 19, 1956, Elmira, New York, U.S.) is an American astronaut, the first woman to pilot and, later, to co...
February 4, 2004: The official launch of Facebook’s website occurred.
In 2004, as broadband was replacing dial-up internet and mobile phones with color screens were gaining popularity, on February 4, a...
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 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...