February

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons A pair of men working at the University of California at Berkeley made a startling discovery on February 27, 1940 — one with implications for the…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Thirty miles east of the bustling city of Bordeaux, a man who would go on to shape philosophy for generations to come was born on February…

Nylon is the generic name given to a family of synthetic polymers called the aliphatic polyamides. Nylon is among the most commonly used polymers. Nylon was first discovered on February…

It was on this day that the first Playboy Club was opened in Chicago by Hugh Hefner. Born in 1926, Hefner was an American publisher and businessman who was raised…

Eight years after first becoming leader of the Ottomans at the tender age of twelve, Mehmed II became Sultan for good on February 3, 1451 after the death of his…

On February 3, 1995, the space shuttle Discovery took off on STS – 63, the first space mission to be piloted by a woman Lt Col Eileen Collins. This was…

On February 4, 1789, George Washington was elected to be the first President of the United States of America – the only president to have won unanimously at the presidential…

With the German Army on the run after the Battle of the Bulge, leaders of the Allied Powers met at Yalta on the coast of the Black Sea to lay…

In 1764, on the banks of the Neva River, Catherine the Great tucked her new art collection into the Winter Palace after purchasing the first handful of paintings. Some 88…

The Mexican Revolution and civil uprising raged for almost seven years with demands for social reforms and equality, culminating in the proclamation of the current constitution, referred to as the…