Historical Dates and Firsts

The Apollo 11 mission successfully landed the first humans on the moon on July 20, 1969.

Dolly the sheep was the first mammal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell, and the successful cloning was announced in 1997.

S.R. Ranganathan devised the chain procedure for subject indexing in 1934, first introducing it in his work 'Theory of Library Catalogue'.

The Human Genome Project was declared complete in April 2003.

Hans Lippershey is credited with applying for the first patent for a telescope in 1608 in the Netherlands.

The Indian National Congress adopted the goal of Purna Swaraj (complete independence) at the Lahore session, and the tricolor flag was hoisted on December 31, 1929.

Correct Answer: 1964

The first recorded Olympic Games are traditionally dated to 776 BC. They were held in Olympia, Greece, in honor of Zeus.

The first commercial transatlantic telephone service was established between London and New York on January 7, 1926.

The Epson HX-20, released in 1981, is generally recognized as the first handheld/laptop computer.

Yahoo! was founded in 1994, Amazon was incorporated in 1994, and Orange launched its mobile service in the UK in 1994. These major tech and telecommunications milestones all occurred in the same year.

The Ford Model T, which revolutionized the automotive industry through mass production, was introduced to the market on October 1, 1908.

The DVD format was developed and announced in 1995, with the first players and discs reaching the market in 1996.

While the concept was patented earlier, the Universal Product Code (UPC) barcode system was commercially introduced and adopted in the 1970s.

The Compact Disc (CD) was jointly developed by Philips and Sony and was commercially released in 1982.