The Tay Bridge disaster occurred during a violent storm on Sunday 28 December 1879, when the first Tay Rail Bridge collapsed as a North British Railway (NBR) passenger train on the Edinburgh to Aberdeen Line from Burntisland bound for its final destination of Dundee passed over it, killing all aboard. The bridge—designed by Sir Thomas Bouch—used lattice girders …

By January 1879, at his laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey, Edison had built his first high resistance, incandescent electric light. It worked by passing electricity through a thin platinum filament in the glass vacuum bulb, which delayed the filament from melting. Still, the lamp only burned for a few short hours.

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Events Pre-1600. 393 – Roman emperor Theodosius I proclaims his eight-year-old son Honorius co-emperor.; 971 – Using crossbows, Song dynasty troops soundly defeat a war elephant corps of the Southern Han at Shao.; 1264 – In the conflict between King Henry III of England and his rebellious barons led by Simon de Montfort, King Louis IX of France issues the Mise of …

Events Pre-1600. 503 BC – Roman consul Agrippa Menenius Lanatus celebrates a triumph for a military victory over the Sabines.; 190 – Dong Zhuo has his troops evacuate the capital Luoyang and burn it to the ground.; 611 – Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul sacks rival city-state Palenque in southern Mexico.; 801 – King Louis the Pious captures Barcelona from the Moors …

Events Pre-1600. 371 BC – The Battle of Leuctra shatters Sparta's reputation of military invincibility.; 640 – Battle of Heliopolis: The Muslim Arab army under 'Amr ibn al-'As defeat the Byzantine forces near Heliopolis ().; 1253 – Mindaugas is crowned King of Lithuania.; 1348 – Pope Clement VI issues a papal bull protecting the Jews accused of having caused the Black Death.

Nov 5, 2021 · What was the Holocaust? The Holocaust (1933–1945) was the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million European Jews by the Nazi German regime and its allies and collaborators. 1 The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum defines the years of the Holocaust as 1933–1945. The Holocaust era began in January 1933 when Adolf Hitler …

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Events. 07 Dec 2022 Pool Tester Class Schedule. December 07, 2022. Pool Tester Clinic / classes held at LLCHD. 08 Dec 2022 Parks and Recreation Advisory Board Meeting. December 08, 2022. Monthly meeting for the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board. 08 Dec 2022 Telecommunications / Cable Television Advisory Board.

Oct 29, 2009 · 8 Events that Led to World War I. World War I, which lasted from 1914 until 1918, introduced the world to the horrors of trench warfare and lethal new technologies such as poison gas and tanks.