Add Your Piece of History… 17th May

On this day in 1630. Niccolo Zucchi was the first to see the 2 belts on Jupiter’s surface. Nicolo Zucchi was an Italian Jesuit, astronomer and physicist.

On this day in 2007. Trains crossed the border dividing North and South Korea for the first time since 1953.

On this day in 1770. Lieutenant James Cook discovers and names Queensland’s Glass House Mountains. They are in Queensland’s Sunshine Coast hinterland. He named the series of volcanic plugs Glass House because they reminded him of Yorkshire’s glass furnace chimneys.

Please feel free to add your piece of history (something personal or just general history).

Niccolò Zucchi (December 6, 1586 – May 21, 1670) an Italian Jesuit, astronomer, and physicist. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Add Your Piece of History… 25th May

On this day in 1967. John Lennon’s psychedelic Rolls Royce was delivered. The Rolls Royce caused an uproar, including the Rolls Royce company raising a formal complaint. John Lennon had bought the car new from Rolls Royce in 1965 and become bored with the colour so had a psychedelic paint job. The car was sold […]