by qdmhistory | Nov 29, 2021 | Popular
Today in history, the Austrian-Irish physicist Erwin Rudolf Schrödinger published his famous thought experiment “Schrödinger’s Cat.” This paradox illustrated the problem of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. Schrödinger’s Cat...
by qdmhistory | Nov 28, 2021 | Popular
On this day in history, the pirate Blackbeard attacked a French merchant slaving ship La Concorde and renamed it the Queen Anne’s Revenge. Blackbeard is the most notorious pirate in history. Throughout the early eighteenth century, he terrorized North American...
by qdmhistory | Nov 27, 2021 | Popular
Alfred Nobel was a Swedish chemist, inventor, philanthropist, and businessman. He was extremely successful as an inventor, holding 355 patents throughout his lifetime. One of his most famous inventions was dynamite, which was used worldwide for mining and...
by qdmhistory | Nov 26, 2021 | Popular
Labeled the crime of the century, the Brink’s-Mat robbery occurred on November 26, 1983. On that fateful day, six robbers broke into the Brinks-Mat warehouse at the Heathrow International Trading Estate in West London. The six are said to have gained entry to...
by qdmhistory | Nov 25, 2021 | Popular
On this day, November 25, 1867, the House Committee of the Judiciary considered articles of impeachment against President Andrew Johnson. This event was part of a power struggle in the 40th Congress (1867 to 1869) between radical Republicans in the House and President...
by qdmhistory | Nov 24, 2021 | Popular
On November 24, 1974, paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson and his team found the most complete early human skeleton (Lucy, Australopithecus afarensis) ever discovered in history in the Middles Awash of the Afar Depression near Hadar, Ethiopia. This extraordinary...
