ROALD AMUNDSEN’S TEAM BECOME FIRST PEOPLE TO REACH THE SOUTH POLE – DECEMBER 14, 1911 The first recorded humans to reach the Geographic South Pole were Norwegian Roald Amundsen and his party on December 14, 1911. Amundsen named his camp Polheim and the entire plateau surrounding the Pole King Haakon…
OUTLAW JESSE JAMES COMMITS HIS FIRST BANK ROBBERY DECEMBER 7, 1869 Jesse Woodson James (September 5, 1847 – April 3, 1882) was an American outlaw, gang leader, bank robber, train robber, and murderer from the state of Missouri and the most famous member of the James-Younger Gang. He also faked…
Before he was a Hollywood icon, Kubrick was a staff photographer (the youngest ever) for Look Magazine
FIRST EVER INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL MATCH – NOVEMBER 30, 1872 Scotland v England (1872) was the first ever official international football match to be played. It was contested by the national teams of Scotland and England. The match took place on 30 November 1872 at West of Scotland Cricket Club’s ground…
Sphinx & Pyramids of Chefren and Mankaura, Giza – Photograph via NYPL Digital Gallery The New York Public Library has shared an incredible gallery of over 9,000 photographs and illustrations of the Middle East from the 17th century to the beginning of the 20th century. These include, books, albums and archival compilations. Monuments…
LIFE REBORN AS WEEKLY PHOTOJOURNALISM MAGAZINE – NOV. 23, 1936 In 1936 publisher Henry Luce paid $92,000 to the owners of Life magazine because he sought the name for Time Inc. Wanting only the old Life’s name in the sale, Time Inc. sold Life’s subscription list, features, and goodwill to…
LSD (ACID) FIRST SYNTHESIZED BY ALBERT HOFMANN – NOV. 16, 1938 Skeletal formula and ball-and-stick and space-filling models of the lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) molecule, C20H25N3O by Ben Mills Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) was first synthesized on November 16, 1938 by Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz Laboratories in…
Photograph courtesy of The Library of Congress These vivid color photos from the Great Depression and World War II capture an era generally seen only in black-and-white. Photographers working for the United States Farm Security Administration (FSA) and later the Office of War Information (OWI) created the images between 1940 and 1944. The…
NEVER FORGOTTEN – THE LOCHNAGAR CRATER Photograph by MIKE ST MAUR SHEIL The detonation of buried mines that formed the Lochnagar crater July 1, 1916 The Lochnagar mine crater on the 1916 Somme battlefields in France is the largest man-made mine crater created in the First World War on the Western…
TYRANNOSAURUS SEX Photograph by MARIO MODESTO You thought that was a typo didn’t you? But oh no, the headline is correct and this exhibit is very real. You can see it for yourself at the Jurassic Museum of Asturias in Spain. And in case the skeletons cast in a mating position weren’t…
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