The start of the wet season in the Australian tropics is typically marked by the southward movement of the ‘monsoon trough’, which usually makes its presence felt early January. This time however, … (more...)
On 27 January 1945 Soviet troops marching towards Germany through occupied Europe liberated the prison camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, revealing to a horrified world the dreadful machinery of a Nazi … (more...)
John Logie Baird, a Scottish inventor, gives the first public demonstration of a pictorial-transmission machine he calls a "televisor." Baird's invention used mechanical rotating disks to scan moving … (more...)
