Samuel Morse’s Telegraph Patent Granted (1847)
Samuel Morse (April 27, 1791 – April 2, 1872) was an American inventor and painter. After establishing his reputation as a portrait painter, Morse, in his middle age, contributed to the…
Gunpowder Plot Foiled (1605)
The plan was to blow up the House of Lords during the State Opening of Parliament on Tuesday 5 November 1605, as the prelude to a popular revolt in the Midlands during which King James’s nine-year-old…
Patent for First Mechancal Cash Register (1879)
James and John Ritty patented the design on November 4, 1879, as “Cash Register and Indicator.” This was not the first cash register on the market, as indicated by the…
Launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-66 (1994)
STS-66 was a Space Shuttle program mission that was flown by the Space Shuttle Atlantis. STS-66 launched on November 3, 1994, at 11:59:43.060 am EDT from Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Atlantis landed at Edwards Air Force Base on…
Maiden Flight of the Airbus A330 (1992)
The Airbus A330 is a wide-body airliner developed and produced by Airbus. Airbus began developing larger A300 derivatives in the mid–1970s, giving rise to the A330 twinjet as well as the Airbus A340 quadjet, and launched both designs along…
Happy Name Day Denise (1/11)
Every person’s name has a corresponding name day. As a car and movie fan, I have taken the 2000 movie Gone in 60 seconds, starring Nicolas Cage an inspiration. In…
Ken Miles and Carroll Shelby Share the Same Birthday on Two Different days of the Year (1/11)
Ken Miles and Carroll Shelby are best known for their development of the Ford GT40 that won the 24h of Le Mans consecutively from 1966 to 1969. But they not…
Happy Birthday Ken Miles (1918)
Ken Miles (1 November 1918 – 17 August 1966) was an English sports car racing engineer and driver best known for his motorsport career in the U.S. and with American…