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Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon album entered the charts in March 1973, and wouldn’t leave the charts for a staggering 724 weeks (15 years!).
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Weapons & Warfare
On 22nd April, 1915, The first successful large scale attack using a poison gas was made... Read more »
On 19th April, 1919, The first free-fall parachute jump using a backpack was made... Read more »
On 8th February, 1924, The United States first used lethal gas as a method of execution... Read more »
On 5th March, 1936, The Spitfire aircraft had it’s first test flight... Read more »
On 23rd February, 1941, The radioactive element, Plutonium, was identified by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg... Read more »
On 11th August, 1942, Hedy Kiesler Markey received a patent for a Secret Communications System... Read more »
On 1st October, 1942, The Bell P-59 Airacomet aircraft first takes to the sky... Read more »
On 16th July, 1945, The first atomic bomb was secretly tested in New Mexico... Read more »
On 6th August, 1945, The United States bombed Hiroshima with a nuclear weapon during WW2... Read more »
On 13th May, 1949, The jet bomber, Canberra, was flown for the first time.... Read more »
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