May 8, 1951 — Du Pont Chemical publicly releases Dacron
One of the wonder-fabrics of the Fifties, Dacron was the trade name of a particular polyester sold by Du Pont...
June 19, 2018
Science & Technology
November 1, 1952 — Einsteinium is first created
Einsteinium is a completely artifical element (atomic number 99) with a very short half-life (a about 1 and a third...
May 4, 2018
November 1, 1952 — The first full test of a Hydrogen bomb is made
The bomb was code-named “Ivy Mike”. It was the first test of the Teller-Ulam bomb design, which produced yield estimated...
May 4, 2018
March 15, 1953 — The first World Contact Day is held
World Contact Day was first declared in March 1953 by an organization called the International Flying Saucer Bureau (IFSB), as...
April 30, 2018
April 13, 1953 — The CIA launches the MK-ULTRA project
CIA director Allen Dulles ordered the creation of the MKUltra project intending it to create techniques to fight what was...
April 28, 2018
September 1, 1953 — The Doomsday Clock is set at two minutes to midnight
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is one of the world’s most prestigious scientific publications in the world. Its first...
April 4, 2018
May 5, 1958 — The discovery of Nobelium is announced
Nobelium is a trans-uranic element whose atomic number is 102. A radioactive metal, it was first created in April 1958...
January 29, 2018
August 12, 1958 — “White Wilderness” premieres
The legendary documentary that began the whole “lemmings commit suicide” myth, ‘White Wilderness’ was 72 minutes of the Disney Corporation...
January 24, 2018
May 28, 1959 – Space Monkeys Able and Miss Baker become the first living beings to safely return to Earth
In the early days of space exploration, no government seemed ready to send humans into space. After all, no one...
December 24, 2017
May 25, 1961 — Kennedy pledges to put a man on the Moon by the decade’s end
It was a bold announcement at the time – at any time, really. When JFK addressed a joint session of...
October 29, 2017
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