On this day of the year 49, before the common era (BCE), the Roman Senate declares Julius Caesar to be an enemy of the Republic, stating that it is the duty of all Roman citizens “to do him harm.”
On this day in the years 1785 of the common era (CE) Jean Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries become the first humans since pre-historic times, to fly a hot air balloon across the English Channel.
On this day in 1927 CE the Harlem Globetrotters play their first game, losing to the Hinckley Merchants 43-34, in Hinckley, Illinois. It was an inauspicious start for the winningest sport franchise of all time. Seven years later the "Flash Gordon" comic strip debuts, created and drawn by Alex Raymond
On this day in 1953 CE, United States President, Harry Truman announces the development of the hydrogen bomb. Nineteen years later a team of astrophysicists discover Cygnus X-1 lurking in the Cygnus “The Swan” Constellation, also known as the Southern Cross. It is the first finding of a black hole, theretofore merely a theoretical structure, the possibility of which had been theorized by Einstein in his Special Theory of Relativity; the research of Louise Webster and Paul Murdin was published in the journal Nature.
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