| It
was on this day... | 1783
First Untethered Hot Air Balloon Flight, Over Paris | In
the balloon were French physician Jean-François Pilatre de Rozier and François
Laurent, the marquis d' Arlandes. It
took them 25 minutes to fly 5.5 miles. The balloon was made out of cloth by Jacques-Étienne
and Joseph-Michel Montgolfier. It
is not clear whether this was the first time humans had ever flown. That honor
may have been won by a German architect Karl Friedrich Meerwein in 1781, who,
it is said, flew his "ornithopter", a glider with flapping wings. |
| It
was on this day... | 1877
Phonograph Invented | The
first words ever recorded were: "MARY
HAD A LITTLE LAMB" Thomas
Edison's company stumbled across the invention when trying to discover a method
to record telephone conversations. |
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News | 1990
Junk bond king sentenced. Michael Milken is given a ten year sentence by US District
Judge Kimba Wood. 1995
Toy Story, the first 100% computer animated feature length cartoon, is released.
It was made by Pixar, and starred the voice talents of Tom Hanks and Tim Allen.
It made $300mn gross in the first year. |
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