Today in History |
||
This Day in History | ||
1888 | Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances. | |
1919 | A naval Curtiss aircraft NC-4 commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the firsttransatlantic flight. | |
1929 | In Hollywood, the first Academy Awards are awarded. | |
1960 | Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser (a ruby laser), at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California. | |
1975 | Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest. | |
2011 | STS-134 (ISS assembly flight ULF6), launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the 25th and final flight for Space Shuttle Endeavour. |