History Of Yesterday: July 10 INVENTOR NIKOLA TESLA WAS BORN `July 10, 1856` Today is the 165th birthday of one of history’s most famous inventors Nikola Tesla. In 1856, Nikola Tesla, a Serbian, was born in a small town of Smiljan, Croatia, a former territory of the Austrian Empire, and the fourth of five children of an Eastern Orthodox priest, Milutin Tesla and Đuka Mandić. After attending elementary and secondary school in the town where Nikola's father served as a priest,…
History Of Yesterday: July 11 ADMIRALZHENG HE'S FIRST PLACE OF THE MING DYNASTY AROUND THE WORLD `July 11, 1405` Even before the ships of Vasco da Gama, Bartholomew Diaz, Cristobal Colombo, and Fernando Magallanes sailed over the sea, there was a Chinese who first crossed the vast sea to new lands - Admiral Zheng He of the dynasty. Ming of China. On this day in 1405, from the port of Suzhou, China Admiral Zheng He led the voyage of 317 ships and 28,000 of its crew to new…
History Of Yesterday: July 18 ADOLF HITLER'S BOOK "MEIN KAMPF" PUBLISHED `July 18, 1925` Adolf Hitler’s book “Mein Kampf”, published on this day in 1925, is considered the “Bible” of Nazism ideology. The German word “Mein Kampf” meaning My Struggle, is a mixture of elements of Adolf Hitler’s autobiography and of Hitler’s collection of ideas and views. Hitler began writing the contents of the book, with the help of his fellow Nazi would-be Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess, while…
History Of Yesterday: July 19 Barking British S.S. Great Britain. `July 19, 1843` It is considered important in the history of shipbuilding the launch of the British S.S. Great Britain on this day in 1843 in the harbor of Bristol in the United Kingdom. The S.S. Great Britain is considered to be the first steel brace and operated by propeller blades instead of traditional water paddle. It belongs to the Great Western Steamship Company, designed by shipbuilder Isambard Kingdom…
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