Designed in 1914 by the founder of the modern Olympic Games, Pierre de Coubertin (France), the Olympic flag was raised for the first time at the 1920 Games, held in Antwerp, Belgium. The flag features five interlaced rings that represent the different continents from which the Olympic athletes come, and its colours – blue, yellow, black, green and red, combined with the white background – were selected because the national flag of every country in the world contains at least one of them. Unfortunately, the
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The earliest recorded rail fatality occurred on December 5, 1821, when a carpenter, David Brook, was walking home from Leeds, England, along the Middleton Railway in a blinding sleet storm. He failed to see or hear an approaching train of coal wagons drawn by one of the Blenkinsop/Murray engines and was fatally injured. The first passenger-train accident in the US occurred on November 9, 1833 on the Camden Amboy Railroad between Spotswood and Hightown, New Jersey. One carriage overturned and 12 of the 24 passengers
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The earliest reception of television at sea occurred in April 1928 on board the Cunarder Berengaria, when the chief wireless operator, S.W.Brown (UK) received low-definition pictures of his fiancée, Dora Slevey (UK) on a TV set that were transmitted from London, UK by the Baird Company.
Stonkers, the first real-time strategy (RTS) game, where you control both your world or troops and their actions in battle, was created by John Gibson in 1983. GWR Video Gamer’s Edition 2008.
On 1-2 December 1982 at the Utah Medical Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, Barney Clark (USA) a dentist from Des Moines, Washington, was the first recipient of an artificial heart at the age of 61. The surgeon was Dr William C. DeVries and the heart was a Jarvik 7 designed by Dr Robert K. Jarvik (b. 11 May 1946). The patient died on 23 March 1983, 112 days later.
This occurred in Lake Alexandrina, Australia, during the late 19th century. Following the development of a scum of Nodularia spumigene covering the lake surface, dogs, sheep, pigs, horses, and cattle all died after drinking water from this lake. This blue-green algal species produces nodularin, a hepatotoxin, which causes blood to collect in the liver, in turn inducing circulatory shock and sometimes bringing about death by internal haemorrhaging.
While early TV shows were broadcast live, the first sci-fi series to be pre-recorded was Rocky Jones, Space Ranger (syndicated, 1953). Recorded shows allowed for better planning and reuseable sets and more impressive effects – particularly important for the science-fiction genre.
Although experimental services had operated across the world from the 1920s, the television broadcasting age as we recognize it began at 3 p.m. on 2 November 1936 in London, UK, when the BBC launched the world’s first regular television broadcasts.
Symbolics.com was the first domain name ever registered, according to NetNames Ltd. It was registered on March 15 1985
In 1996, radio DJ Mac Davis (USA) of station Y-96 of East Dublin, Georgia, USA, conceived the Summer Redneck Games as an antidote to that year’s Olympic Games in nearby Atlanta. “The media kept saying that the Olympics were going to be run by a bunch of rednecks,” said Davis, “so we figured if that’s what the world expects, we’ll give it to them.” The Games feature events such as the cigarette flip, bobbing for pig’s trotters and mud pit belly flop. In it’s first
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