by Matilda Cruz | Aug 27, 2024 | History
The future of broadcasting changed forever on a summer night in 1950. On August 27, the BBC pulled off a feat that seemed almost science fiction at the time. For the first time, live television pictures traveled from continental Europe to British screens. The event...
by Matilda Cruz | Aug 26, 2024 | History
Today, we celebrate the birth of a man who played a crucial role in the rise of the Electronic Age. Lee de Forest, a prominent American inventor, was born on August 26, 1873, in a small town in Iowa. He is often referred to as the “Father of the Radio,”...
by Matilda Cruz | Aug 25, 2024 | History
Today marks the day a man in a red silk swimsuit made history. Captain Matthew Webb, a 27-year-old merchant navy officer from Shropshire, England, became the first person to swim across the English Channel on August 24, 1875. No wetsuit. No goggles. Just porpoise fat...
by Matilda Cruz | Aug 24, 2024 | History
On this day in history, South Florida experienced one of the most devastating wake-up calls in modern weather history. Hurricane Andrew, small in size but monstrous in strength, struck the coast with Category 5 intensity on August 24, 1992. The storm made landfall...
by Matilda Cruz | Aug 23, 2024 | History
On August 23, 1856, a groundbreaking scientific discovery was presented to the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Albany, New York—one that was decades ahead of its time. Eunice Newton Foote’s paper, titled “Circumstances Affecting the...
