July 16, 1927 — Henry Ford publicly apologises for his anti-Semitism
Henry Ford, famously the founder of the Ford Motor Company, was also something of an anti-Semite. The kind of something...
July 9, 2019
The Past
May 21, 1927 — Charles Lindbergh completes the first solo non-stop trans-Atlantic flight
In the 1920’s, aviators were heroes. They were bold explorers and experimenters, pushing back the boundaries of the known. And...
July 14, 2019
July 2, 1925 — Patrice Lumumba born
A Congolese freedom fighter, Patrice Lumumba was one of the leaders of the independence movement that overthrew Belgian colonial rule...
July 29, 2019
January 26, 1925 — Paul Newman born
One of the greatest actors of the Twentieth Century, Paul Newman starred in – among others – “The Hustler”. “The...
August 4, 2019
November 20, 1923 — Garrett Morgan patents a traffic signal
Garrett Morgan was not the first to invent or patent a traffic signal, but he was the first to invent...
August 9, 2019
February 16, 1923 — The inner chamber of King Tut’s tomb is unsealed
Tutankhamen, or King Tut, was one of the most mysterious of the Egyptian pharaohs, largely because his successors had tried...
August 11, 2019
December 28, 1922 — Stan Lee born
Born Stanley Lieber in Manhattan to Romanian parents, it was under a pen name that he would become known as...
August 12, 2019
November 26, 1922 — Carter and Carnavon find King Tut’s tomb
If not the greatest archaeological find of the Twentieth Century, certainly the best known. King Tut – well, Tutankhamen really...
August 14, 2019
August 2, 1922 — Alexander Graham Bell dies
Alexander Graham Bell, best known as the inventor of the telephone, was 75 when he died, and still refused to...
August 19, 2019
August 23, 1921 — Sacco and Vanzetti are executed
Ferdinando Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were two Italian-born labourers and anarchists resident on Massachusetts. On May 5, 1920, they...
August 24, 2019
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