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Back to SearchBreaking the sound barrier
On 14 October 1947, American Chuck Yeager became the first pilot to fly faster than the speed of sound.
Despite having two broken ribs, Chuck reached…
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Discovering the largest dinosaur ever
In 2012, a shepherd uncovered a bone belonging to a new species of dinosaur on a ranch in Patagonia, in Argentina.
A team from the Museum of Paleontol…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
The ‘father of e-books’
In 1971, an American historical document typed out on a university computer played a vital role in the digital revolution of electronic books. It bec…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
The creation of Miffy
It's 70 years since Miffy was created.
The little rabbit with two dots for eyes and an X for a mouth went on to feature in 32 books translated into mo…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
President Clinton is impeached
In 1999, the US Senate chamber in Washington DC was turned into a court to put President Bill Clinton on trial, after he admitted lying about an affa…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
The brains behind Thunderbirds
In 1965, a groundbreaking children's show using cutting-edge puppets first blast onto television screens.
Thunderbirds was set in 2065 and followed t…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Emerante de Pradines: Haiti’s musical trailblazer
Emerante de Pradines was a Haitian singer, dancer and folklorist who became the first person from her country to sign a record deal. She was dedicate…
7 months, 4 weeks ago
Orson Welles broadcasts The War of the Worlds
The night before Halloween in 1938, 23-year-old Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre on the Air performed a radio adaptation of HG Wells’s The War of…
8 months ago
Srebrenica massacre
It's 30 years since a massacre of Bosnian Muslims during the war in the former Yugoslavia.
The Srebrenica massacre, recognised by the United Nations …
8 months ago
The invention of the balloon-expandable stent
An estimated 2 million stents are implanted into people’s hearts around the world each year – making it one of the key treatments for heart disease. …
8 months ago