Historical Dates and Firsts

Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced the first iPhone at the Macworld Convention on January 9, 2007, and it was released for sale in the United States later that year.

In 2017, Chicago experienced an unusually mild winter, and for the first time in recorded history, the city received zero measurable snowfall during the months of January and February.

Christmas began to gain significant popularity in Japan during the 1960s, driven by economic growth and the influence of Western commercial culture.

The first Cricket World Cup, known as the Prudential Cup, began on June 7, 1975, in England.

Virat Kohli was born on November 5, 1988, in Delhi, India.

The 'Scramble for Africa' and the intense race for colonies among European powers accelerated significantly in the mid-to-late 19th century, with 1850 being the standard historical marker for this period.

In 1858, French map-makers used a hot air balloon and primitive cameras to take oblique (inclined) aerial photographs of the landscape.

• SPOT was launched on February 22, 1986 and decommissioned on December 31, 1999. 
• The SPOT orbited 5 satellites from 1986 to 2015, revealing Earth’s surface in increasing detail and paving the way for a plethora of applications including mapping, vegetation monitoring, land use and land cover, and the impacts of natural disasters.

The first major cholera epidemic in London occurred in 1831, part of the second global cholera pandemic.

The Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the world's first inter-city railway to use steam locomotives, opened on September 15, 1830.

Richard Arkwright established his first water-powered cotton mill at Cromford in 1771.

The fact that lightning and spark are essentially the same phenomena, was discovered in 1752.

Sociology emerged as an independent discipline in the mid-1800s in Western Europe, during the early Industrial Revolution which affects almost all aspects of human existence which was described as social change. It became a specific science in later fifty years.

The printing press was invented around 1450. As a result, it became possible to take new ideas, new concepts and knowledge to one and all in the society.