by qdmhistory | Dec 27, 2022 | History
In 1998, moviegoers bought tickets to see yet another disaster movie about the end of the world. The film was Armageddon, earning more than $500 billion worldwide. Comets and asteroids were already national topics of discussion because of a comet called Hale Bopp,...
by Matilda Cruz | Dec 26, 2022 | History
On December 26, 1982, TIME magazine awarded a computer its annual Man of the Year award, marking the first time it was given to an inanimate object in the 55-year history of the award. This issue symbolized the changing times and highlighted how technology began to...
by qdmhistory | Dec 25, 2022 | History
The Christmas Truce of December 25, 1914, refers to a series of unofficial ceasefires that occurred along the Western Front during WWI. On Christmas Eve and Christmas Day of 1914, German and British soldiers who were fighting in the trenches of Belgium and France...
by qdmhistory | Dec 24, 2022 | History
Dr. Anthony Fauci is an American physician and immunologist. He has served as the director of the NAID (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) since 1984 and has been a leading figure in the field of immunology for over five decades. In addition to his...
by qdmhistory | Dec 23, 2022 | History
Dr. Joseph E. Murray performed the first successful human kidney transplant on December 23, 1954. The operation was performed at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, and involved a transplant from one identical twin to another. The recipient, Richard...
