by qdmhistory | Apr 5, 2022 | History
On April 5, 1722, Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen was the first European to discover one of the strangest and most enigmatic places on Earth: Easter Island. The island, also known as Rapa Nui, was covered in giant stone heads carved by some ancient people for an...
by qdmhistory | Apr 4, 2022 | History
At 6:05 P.M. On Thursday, April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was fatally shot in Memphis, Tennessee while standing on a balcony at the Lorraine Motel. Martin Luther King Jr. was a scholar and Baptist minister who led the Southern Christian Leadership...
by qdmhistory | Apr 3, 2022 | History
On April 3, 1978, Motorola engineer Martin Cooper made the first mobile phone call. Cooper stood near a 900 MHz base station on Sixth Avenue in New York City and called the Bell Labs headquarters in New Jersey. This call was made on DynaTAC (dynamic adaptive total...
by qdmhistory | Apr 2, 2022 | History
On April 2, 1902, Hollywood began with the opening of the Electric Theater in California. Founded by a man named Thomas Lincoln Tally, the theater forever changed the way people watched movies. Prior to that time, movies were mostly only shown as a part of vaudeville...
by qdmhistory | Apr 1, 2022 | History
On April 1, 1952, the Big Bang Theory was proposed by Ralph Alpher, George Gamow, and Hans Bethe in a paper published in the scientific journal Physical Review. The paper’s formal title was “The Origin of Chemical Elements,” but has since come to be...
