Sewsunker papwa Sewgolum, an Indian golfer wins the Dutch open tournament, while Charles Swart is appointed the 11th governor general of the Union of South Africa. The pacemaker, Barbie doll and ...

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But really, the stuff can be traced as far back as the 1940s when rock music was simply being invented out of the blues. Born on March 20, 1915, Sister Rosetta Tharpe helped create rock music by ...

He invented a cut of dress known as the “princess” line, where the waist seam is removed to emphasise vertical lines, and which is still used by designers today. And, most significantly of all ...

Though it wasn’t approved by the FDA until 1960, the first contraceptive pill was invented in 1957. In only two years, more than a million women were using it. The integrated circuit, which you may ...

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If you ask Google who invented the toaster many results will still turn up MacMasters’ name. But, according to the BBC, MacMasters was actually a student in 2012, not an eccentric 19th-century ...

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