White Biocentrism

TODAY IN HISTORY 1852: The first engine-powered airship, a dirigible fitted with a three-horsepower steam engine, created by French inventor Henri Giffard, travels 17 miles from Paris to Trappes, France.

TODAY IN HISTORY 2002: The first public version of the open source Web browser Mozilla Firefox, Phoenix 0.1, is released.

TODAY IN HISTORY 1791: Michael Faraday, self-educated British physicist and chemist, and one of the greatest scientists of all time, is born in Newington Butts, England.

TODAY IN HISTORY 1874: The British composer Gustav Holst is born in Cheltenham, England.

TODAY IN HISTORY 1893: Charles Duryea and his brother road-test the first American-made gasoline-powered automobile in Chicopee, Massachusetts.

TODAY IN HISTORY 1867: Arthur Rackham, the great English illustrator, is born in London into a family of 12 children.

TODAY IN HISTORY radio-towers.jpg 1939: With the initiation of the program Germany Calling and the soon to become familiar announcement “”Germany calling! Here are the Reichssender Hamburg, station Bremen,” National Socialist Germany begins transmitting on shortwave radio to the United States and G...

TODAY IN HISTORY 1683: Dutch pioneer of microscopy and microbiology Antonie van Leeuwenhoek writes a letter to the Royal Society describing “animalcules,” an early name for single-celled and other microscopic creatures.

TODAY IN HISTORY 1908: The General Motors Corporation is founded by William C. Durant.

TODAY IN HISTORY 1935: National Socialist Germany officially adopts the swastika banner as its national flag.