Historical Dates and Firsts

The Tonkin Free School was started in 1907 to provide a Western style education in Vietnam. This education included classes in science, hygiene, and French.

The year $2005$ was declared as International year of Physics.

The history of statistics can be said to start around in the year $1749$.

The word statistik used by German Gottfried Achenwall in the years $1749$.

The history of rail transport in Great Britain to 1830 covers the period up to the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the world's first intercity passenger railway operated solely by steam locomotives. The earliest form of railways, horse-drawn wagonways, originated in Germany in the 16th century.

The first completely indigenously built satellite by ISRO in India, APPLE was launched on 19th June 1981 from the French Guiana. 'APPLE' was beneficial in the field of education.

The Department of telecommunications under the ministry of Communications started the telex service in 1963 to transmit typed message from one part of the country to another rapidly.

The RMS Titanic sank in the early morning of 15 April 1912 in the North Atlantic Ocean, four days into the ship's maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City.

Henry Ford is one of those rare entrepreneurs who revolutionized the way people live. Many historians of the American industry rank him as the most important inventor of the 20th century. His automobile not only altered transportation but changed the American factory system. I908, the Model T, or 'Tin Lizzie', became an instant hit. He needed to shift away from producing race cars and luxury cars in favor of building for the general public. The Model T remained in continual production - with over 15 million made - until 1927. The design worked because it was simple, increasingly affordable, and famously came in one color - black.

Clarence Birdseye is credited with inventing in 1924 the quick freezing method, which produces the type of frozen foods that we know today.

The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It was designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon and completed in 1931. The building has a roof height of 1,250 feet and stands a total of 1,454 feet tall, including its antenna.

Penicillin was discovered in 1928 by Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming. There are several enhanced penicillin families which are effective against additional bacteria; these include the antistaphylococcal penicillins, aminopenicillins, and the antipseudomonal penicillins. They are derived from Penicillium fungi.

On 18 March 1967, the Torrey Canyon, one of the world's biggest tankers, ran aground between Land's End and the Isles of Scilly, leaking more than 100,000 tonnes of crude oil into the sea. It was the UK's worst oil spill to date, causing major environmental damage with more than 20,000 sea birds contaminated.

 

On July 1, 1979, Sony Corp. introduced the Sony Walkman TPS-L2, a 14 ounce, blue-and-silver, portable cassette player with chunky buttons, headphones and a leather case. It even had a second earphone jack so that two people could listen in at once.