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1898: Radium discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie.On this day in 1898, having recently discovered polonium, future Nobel Prize winners Marie and Pierre Curie discovered the radioactive chemical element radium, a silvery white metal that would be used to treat cancer.More events on this day1988:Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, apparently because of a terrorist bombing; in 2003 the government of Libya accepted responsibility for the explosion and in 2004 agreed to compensate the families of the victims. |
1968:Apollo 8 was launched from Cape Kennedy (Cape Canaveral) and eventually completed 10 lunar orbits. |
1958:Charles de Gaulle was elected president of the French Fifth Republic. |
1913:The New York World published the first modern crossword puzzle. |
1864:General William Tecumseh Sherman captured Savannah, Georgia, during his “March to the Sea” in the American Civil War. |
1845:The Battle of F¨©roz Sh¨¡h began between British and Sikh forces during the First Sikh War. |
1804:Benjamin Disraeli, British statesman and novelist who was twice prime minister (1868, 1874–80), was born. |
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