Today in History – 23 July

Posted on July 23, 2009

1972 1st Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS) is launched

1947 1st (U.S. Navy) air squadron of jets, Quonset Point, Rhode Island

1937 Isolation of pituitary hormone announced (Yale University)

1904 Ice cream cone created by Charles E Menches during La Purchase Expo

1880 1st commercial hydroelectric power planet begins, Grand Rapids, Michigan

1877 1st U.S. municipal railroad, Cincinnati Southern, begins operations

1877 1st telephone and telegraph line in Hawaii completed

1852 1st interment in U.S. National Cemetery at Presidio

1827 1st U.S. swim school opens (Boston Mass)

Today in History – 22 July

Posted on July 22, 2009

1962 1st U.S. Venus probe, Mariner 1, fails at lift-off

Today in History – 21 July

Posted on July 21, 2009

1984 1st documented case of a robot killing a human in U.S.

1969 Neil Armstrong steps on Moon at 2:56:15 AM, GMT

1960 In Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) Sirima Bandaranaike is world’s 1st woman PM

1959 1st nuclear powered merchant ship, NS Savannah, christened, Camden, New Jersey

1957 1st black to win a major U.S. tennis tournament, Althea Gibson

1955 1st sub powered by liquid metal cooled reactor launched-Seawolf

1928 1st woman to win an olympic gold medal – Halina Knonpacka of Poland

1884 1st Test Cricket match played at Lord’s

Today in History – 20 July

Posted on July 20, 2009

2005 Canada becomes the 4th country to permit same-sex marriage

1969 1st men on Moon, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, Apollo 11

1960 1st submerged submarine to fire Polaris missile (George Washington)

1960 Sirima Bandaranaike becomes 1st female premier of Ceylon

1960 U.S.S.R. recovered 2 dogs; 1st living organisms to return from space

1878 1st telephone introduced in Hawaii

1868 1st use of tax stamps on cigarettes

Today in History – 19 July

Posted on July 19, 2009

1984 1st female to captain a 747 across Atlantic (Lynn Rippelmeyer)

1967 1st air conditioned New York City subway car (R-38 on the F line)

1961 1st in-flight movie shown, TWA

1957 1st rocket with nuclear warhead fired, Yucca Flat, Nevada

1941 1st U.S. Army flying school for black cadets dedicated

1939 1st use of fiberglass sutures, R P Scholz, St. Louis, Missouri

1939 Dr. Roy P Scholz is 1st surgeon to use fiberglass sutures

1877 1st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Spencer W Gore beats Marshall (61 62 64)

1860 1st railroad reaches Kansas

1848 1st U.S. women’s rights convention (Seneca Falls New York)

Today in History – 18 July

Posted on July 18, 2009

1980 Rohini 1, 1st Indian satellite, launches into orbit

1974 World’s tallest structure, 646-m Polish radio mast, completed

1968 Intel incorporates

1955 1st electric power generated from atomic energy sold commercially

1940 1st successful helicopter flight, Stratford, Connecticut

1931 1st air-conditioned ship (Mariposa) launched

1914 U.S. Army air service 1st comes into being, in Signal Corps

1766 Society of the Dutch Literary forms

1743 1st half-page newspaper ad is published (New York Weekly Journal)

Today in History – 17 July

Posted on July 18, 2009

1989 1st Test flight of U.S. stealth-bomber

1974 1st quadrophonic studio in U.K. is open by Moody Blues

1879 1st railroad opens in Hawaii

1867 1st U.S. dental school, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, established

1775 1st military hospital approved

Today in History – 16 July

Posted on July 16, 2009

2007 Earthquake in Japan damages nuclear power plan releasing 300 gallons of radioactive water

1990 Ukraine declares independence

1945 1st atomic bomb detonated, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico

1936 1st x-ray photo of arterial circulation, Rochester, New York

1935 1st automatic parking meter in U.S. installed, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

1926 National Geographic takes 1st natural-color undersea photos

1661 1st banknotes in Europe were issued by Bank of Stockholm

1439 Kissing is banned in England (to stop germs from spreading)

Today in History – 15 July

Posted on July 15, 2009

1968 Commercial air travel begins between U.S. and U.S.S.R.

1954 1st coml jet transport plane built in U.S. tested (Boeing 707)

1952 1st transatlantic helicopter flight begins

1948 Alcoholic Anonymous founded in Britain

1929 1st airport hotel opens – Oakland, California

1783 1st steamboat, Pyroscaphe, 1st run in France

Today in History – 14 July

Posted on July 14, 2009

1993 Aeroflot starts non-stop flights between Moscow and NY

1959 1st atomic powered cruiser, Long Beach, Quincy Massachusetts

1951 1st color telecast of a sporting event (CBS-horse race)

1949 U.S.S.R. explodes their 1st atom bomb

1927 1st commercial airplane flight in Hawaii

1914 1st patent for liquid-fueled rocket design granted, Dr. Robert Goddard

1853 1st U.S. World’s fair opens, Crystal Palace New York

1850 1st public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration

1845 1st postmasters’ provisional stamps issued, New York City