ENGLISH LANGUAGE DAY
English Language Day is celebrated on 23 April.
DMITRY MENDELEEV PUBLISHED HIS PERIODIC TABLE 150 YEARS AGO
Russian chemistry professor Dmitri Mendeleev published his periodic table in 1869. Mendeleev’s table, dated March 1 1869, was his first published version. He constructed his tables by listing the elements in rows or columns in order of atomic weight and starting a new row or column when the characteristics of the elements began to repeat.
THE BITCOIN CRYPTOCURRENCY NETWORK CREATED 10 YEARS AGO
On 3 January 2009, the bitcoin network came into existence with Satoshi Nakamoto mining the genesis block of bitcoin (block number 0), which had a reward of 50 bitcoins. Embedded in the coinbase transaction of this block was the text: The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks.
A CHRITSTMAS CAROL FIRST PUBLISHED 175 YEARS AGO
A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. A Christmas Carol recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business […]
WORLD WAR I ENDED 100 YEARS AGO
The Armistice of 11 November 1918 was the armistice that ended fighting on land, sea and air in World War I between the Allies and their opponent, Germany.
SMILEY WAS CREATED 55 YEARS AGO
A smiley (sometimes called a happy face or smiley face) is a stylized representation of a smiling humanoid face that is a part of popular culture worldwide. The classic form designed by Harvey Ball in 1963 comprises a yellow circle with two black dots representing eyes and a black arc representing the mouth (😃)
PENICILLIN DISCOVERED 90 YEARS AGO
Sir Alexander Fleming, a Scottish researcher, is credited with the discovery of penicillin in 1928. At the time, Fleming was experimenting with the influenza virus in the Laboratory of the Inoculation Department at St. Mary’s Hospital in London.
BELARUS DECLARES 2018 AS YEAR OF NATIVE LAND
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko announced the decision to declare 2018 as the Year of Native Land in Belarus during a ceremony to honor the best agricultural workers on 9 February, BelTA has learned.
CHELYABINSK METEOR EXPLODED 5 YEARS AGO
The Chelyabinsk meteor was a superbolide caused by an approximately 20-metre near-Earth asteroid that entered Earth’s atmosphere over Russia on 15 February 2013 at about 09:20 YEKT, with a speed of 19.16 ± 0.15 kilometres per second (60,000–69,000 km/h).
LEGO BRICK DESIGN PATENTED 60 YEARS AGO
Children in lots of countries like playing Lego making wonderful toys and creating their own.
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