Random Fact of the Day 3rd July 1886: Karl Benz drove the first automobile in Germany. Karl Friedrich Benz was a German engine designer and automobile engineer. He attended the University of Karlsruhe and started to envision concepts for a vehicle that would eventually become the horseless carriage while riding his bicycle.
22nd June: On this Day in History: 1342: Bilbo Baggins (of “The Hobbit” by JRR Tolkien) in his fifty-second year, returned to his home at Bag End, the Shire with the One Ring. 1377: Richard II succeeded Edward III as King of England. Richard was Edward’s grandson and only 10 years old when he
1809: Dartmoor Prison opened in Princetown, Devon, high on the moors to house French prisoners of war captured during the Napoleonic Wars with France. 1844: Samuel Morse, and American painter & inventor tapped out “What hath God wrought” in the world’s first single-wire telegraph message from Washington, D.C. to Baltimore. He was also a
This Day in History Did you know today is the 75th Anniversary of the Dambusters Raid? Operation Chastise: RAF Unit 617 Squadron, led by Wing Commander Guy Gibson, bombed the Mohne, Eder and Sorpe dams in the Ruhr Valley with bouncing bombs! Two of the dams were breached and a third badly damaged.
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