Posts Tagged ‘France’
Nov. 7, 1905: Remote Control Wows Public
1905: Spanish engineer Leonardo Torres-Quevedo uses a radio remote controller to operate a boat more than a mile away in the Bilbao estuary. The crowd is amazed.
Sept. 22, 1792: Day One of Revolutionary Calendar
1792: It’s 1 Vendémiaire of An I in the French Revolutionary Calendar, the first day of fall and the first day of the first month of the first year of the First Republic of France. It’s the day the National Convention proclaimed France a republic, but no one would know about the new system of marking time for another year, when the [...]
Sept. 1, 1939: Wehrmacht Puts the Blitz in Krieg
1939: Germany invades Poland, starting the second European war in a generation and introducing the world to a new kind of warfare: blitzkrieg.
Aug. 29, 1965: Long-Distance Calling … Very Long Distance
1965: An astronaut in space holds a conversation with an aquanaut underwater, marking another milestone in human communication.
RIP – MATHILDE AUSSANT
EXPIRED: 07/23/11 – Mathilde Aussant, 113, was a twice widowed, former nanny, French supercentenarian who was at the time of her death the oldest verified person in France and the 10th oldest person ever in recorded history. Her only daughter died in 2007, and a year later she was awarded the Medal of the city
