On this Day: On June 5, 1927 Johnny Weissmuller set a 100-yard & 200-yard free-style swim record. Biography Johann Peter Weißmüller was born on June…
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On this Day: On June 4,1956, a '1956 'Secret speech' by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev criticizing Joseph Stalin was made public. Khrushchev’s secret speech, (February 25, 1956),…
One Million Species Facing Extinction vut-research.ac.za On this Day: On June, 2, 1992, the World's Largest Environmental Summit Opened in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.…
Photo of Harriet Tubman with Some She Helped to Escape A photograph from the 1880s of Harriet Tubman with some she helped to escape from…
On this Day: On June 1, 1974 the Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine. The Heimlich maneuver…
On this Day: On May 31, 1578 Martin Frobisher sailed from Harwich, England to Frobisher Bay, Canada. Eventually he mined…
On May 30, 1911 the 1st Indianapolis 500 was held. Ray Harroun driving a Marmon Wasp for Nordyke & Marmon Company comes out of retirement, and wins the inaugural event; his average speed: 74.602 mph (120.060 km/h). The Indianapolis 500, also formally known as the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race, or simply the Indy 500, is an annual automobile race held at Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS) in Speedway, Indiana, United States, an enclave suburb of Indianapolis. The event is traditionally held over Memorial Day weekend, usually the last weekend of May.
On May 29, 1919 Charles Strite filed a patent for the automatic pop-up toaster. In pop-up or automatic toasters, a single vertical piece of bread is dropped into a slot on the top of the toaster. A lever on the side of the toaster is pressed down, lowering the bread into the toaster and activating the heating elements. The length of the toasting cycle (and therefore the degree of toasting) is adjustable via a lever, knob, or series of pushbuttons, and when an internal device determines that the toasting cycle is complete, the toaster turns off and the toast pops up out of the slots.
On this Day: On May 28,1830 United States President, Andrew Jackson, signs the Indian Removal Act, a key law leading to the forced removal…
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On this Day: On May 27, 1997 the first all female (20 British women) team reach the North Pole. Answering an ad in a newspaper,…
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