In 1932 – English physicist James Chadwick published a letter on the existence of the neutron, some say giving birth to modern nuclear physics.

In 1891 David Sarnoff was born near Minsk.. He would go on to befriend Marconi and rise to the Presidency of RCA and be integral in founding NBC.

In 1986 – The United States Senate voted to allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis. The trial was successful.

In 1896 – Hoping to test the suns ability to create X-rays. Henri Becquerel placed a wrapped photographic plate in a closed desk drawer, with a phosphorescent uranium rocks laid on top. He left it in the drawer for several days until the sun came out. To his surprise images of the rocks appeared without the sun.

In 1909 – The first successful color motion picture process, Kinemacolor, was shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.

In 1935 – Scottish physicist Robert Watson-Watt demonstrated Radio Detection And Ranging to Air Ministry officials at Daventry, England. This RADAR proved quite helpful a few years later when war broke out.

In 1046: English monks recorded “no man then alive could remember so severe a winter as this was.” They’re analog weather blog entry recorded the beginning of the Little Ice Age.

In 1931, Friedrich Schmiedl launched the first rocket mail (V-7, Experimental Rocket 7) with 102 pieces of mail between Schöckl and St. Radegund, Austria.

In 1935: Detective Leonarde Keeler, co-inventor of the Keeler polygraph, tried out the lie detector on two suspected criminals in Portage, Wisconsin. Both suspects were convicted of assault.

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In 1951: TV viewers witnessed the live detonation of an atomic bomb blast, as KTLA in Los Angeles broadcast the explosion of a nuclear device dropped on Frenchman Flats, Nevada.

In 1972, the first scientific hand-held calculator the famous HP-35 was introduced for $395 by Hewlett-Packard. It was the first handheld caluclator to perform logarithmic and trigonometric functions with one keystroke.

In 1985 Shortly after it’s founding the November before, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence kicked off. SETI Institute began operations.