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first train

First train journey ever on 21st February 1804

Victoria Pressler - 21 February 2022

The first Reader’s Digest magazine is first published this day in 1922

First selfie in space

First selfie in space: Buzz Aldrin snaps himself in 1966

Illustrating first BBC Broadcast

BBC Television Service Launches on 2nd November 1936!

First ballpoint pen by Reynolds

First ballpoint pen goes on sale

Barack Obama

Barack Obama elected President of the United States

Abraham Fletcher - 4 November 2021 0

Madame Tussauds wax figure being creating

Madame Tussauds creator Marie Tussauds is born 1st December 1761!

Victoria Pressler - 1 December 2021 0

Gray ipod classic

Today marks the 20th Anniversary of the IPOD

Victoria Pressler - 23 October 2021 0

Archbishop Joseph Rummel ends segregation in the Catholic school system, Terracotta...

Victoria Pressler - 27 March 2023 0

The first first artificial heart recipient Barney Clark with doctor William DeVries

The First Artificial Heart

Abraham Fletcher - 2 December 2021 0

Metropolitan Museum of Art opens, First Black Senator, and More...

Chief Editor - 20 February 2023 0

City Hall Station NYC

New York City Subway opens today in 1904

Victoria Pressler - 27 October 2021 0

Annie Edson

First person successfully barrel rolls off Niagara Falls in 1901

Victoria Pressler - 24 October 2021 0

Bon Jovi

Bon Jovi waives fee for concert in Spain in 2013

Rose Peters - 30 May 2022 0

Early campaigner for women’s rights, Susan B Anthony was born 15...

Victoria Pressler - 16 February 2022 0

Nelson Mandela circa 1994

26th April 1994: First multiracial election in South Africa

Victoria Pressler - 26 April 2022 0

Tis the season to be Jolly! Christmas Day, Boxing Day, and...

Rose Peters - 25 December 2023 0

Close up of gate of buckingham palace

10 years of gender equality in the Royal line of succession

Victoria Pressler - 28 October 2021 0

Black and white photo of James Chadwick

Good News in History 27 February: James Chadwick discovers the neutron...

Victoria Pressler - 27 February 2023 0

Qantas registered as a business 101 years ago today

Abraham Fletcher - 16 November 2021 0

Jimi Hendrix born 27th November 1942

Victoria Pressler - 27 November 2021 0

Norway town of Rjukan

Sunless Norway town installed mirrors to direct sunlight in winter

Abraham Fletcher - 30 October 2021 0

People climb the Berlin Wall

Thirty two years since the fall of the Berlin Wall

Victoria Pressler - 9 November 2021 0

Doctor Who pilot

Doctor Who airs on TV on this day in 1963

Victoria Pressler - 23 November 2021 0

Oxygen Is Discovered,First Footage of White Giraffes & More Good News...

Victoria Pressler - 1 August 2022 0

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