Tag: history

Walt Disney, King George V, Franz Kafka, Emperor Haile Selassie I and Edvard Munch, they all survived the Influenza Pandemic of 1918.

Antibiotics are medicines that treat bacterial infections. They do not cure infections caused by viruses, such as the common cold or flu. Taking antibiotics when you do NOT need them can prevent them working when you DO need them.

Nathuram Vinayak Godse assassinated Mahatma Gandhi in New Delhi on 30 January 1948. Godse was an advocate of Hindu nationalism, from Pune, Maharashtra. 

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted on 10 December 1948 at the Palais de Chaillot, in Paris, France.

There have been four Influenza Pandemics in the last 100 years: 1918, 1957, 1968, and 2009.

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.

The 1918 influenza pandemic is estimated to have infected approximately one-third of the world's population at the time.

Gregory Goodwin Pincus was an American biologist and researcher who co-invented the combined oral contraceptive pill in 1951.

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.