Tagged: day in history

Watson-Watt and his assistant Arnold Wilkins demonstrated a basic radar system to an observer from the Air Ministry Committee the Detection of Aircraft. His report entitled “The Detection of Aircraft by Radio Methods” was a success and Watson-Watt took part in a successful trial in...

On January 29-30, 1943, the naval Battle of Rennell Island was fought off Guadalcanal. It was the last major naval clash between U.S. and Japanese forces during the Guadalcanal campaign of World War II. At the beginning of 1943, the Japanese were gathering shipping at...

On January 26, 1500, Brazil was discovered by Vicente Yañez Pinzóñ, a Spanish explorer who had once sailed with Columbus.Interestingly, by that date, Brazil was already considered a Portuguese possession. According to the ruling of a previous pope, all lands in the Atlantic west of...

On December 3, 1872, a translation from Babylonian cuneiform tablets of the Chaldean account of the deluge was read by George Smith (1840 – 1876), English archaeologist and Assyriologist, before the Society of Biblical Archaeology in London. This translation was bery similar to the biblical...