The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the “Welcome Stranger”, is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia. The largest alluvial gold nugget ever discovered in…
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5 February 1971
Astronauts land on the Moon in the Apollo 14 mission. Apollo 14, the eighth crewed mission of NASA’s Apollo program, launched on January 31, 1971,…
5 February 1907
Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world’s first synthetic plastic. Bakelite is a type of thermosetting plastic that was developed by…
5 February 1924
The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Time_Signal’]
5 February 1931
The Hawke’s Bay earthquake, New Zealand’s worst natural disaster, kills 258. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1931_Hawke%27s_Bay_earthquake’]
5 February 1971
Astronauts land on the moon in the Apollo 14 mission. HOUSTON, Friday, Feb. 5 1971 —Two astronauts of Apollo 14—the fifth and sixth human beings…
5 February 1971
The Astronauts land on the moon in the Apollo 14 mission. HOUSTON, Saturday, Feb. 6 — Apollo 14 astronauts Alan Shepard Jr. and Ed Mitchell,…
5 February 1971
Apollo 14 astronauts land on the moon. Apollo 14 was the eighth manned mission in the United States Apollo program, and the third to land…