Stamps

  • Sesame Street First Broadcast on German TV (1973)

    Sesame Street is one of the most successful television series for preschool children. The half-hour episodes consist of six to ten shorter, mostly thematically independent segments that interrupt a coherent overarching storyline. In addition to sketch-like or educational puppet dialogues (“A circle is round,” “Now I’m here, now I’m there”), cartoons, and children’s songs,…

  • First African American Depicted on a US Postage Stamp (1940)

    In 1896 when Washington reviewed the study conducted by George Washington Carver about the infection plaguing the soybean crop, he invited Carver to head the Agriculture Department at Tuskegee, where they became close friends. Carver later autographed commemorative stamps issued in 1940 in Washington’s honour. This was the first time an African American was…

  • Alexei Leonov Conducts First EVA (1965)

    Extravehicular activity (EVA) is any activity done by an astronaut in outer space outside a spacecraft. In the absence of a breathable Earthlike atmosphere, the astronaut is completely reliant on a space suit for environmental support. EVA includes spacewalks and lunar or planetary surface exploration (commonly known from 1969 to 1972 as moonwalks). In…