The Raytheon Corporation produced the first commercial microwave oven in 1954; it was called the 1161 Radarange. It was large, expensive, and had a power of 1600 watts. The first domestic microwave oven was produced in – WHAT YEAR – by Amana (a division of Raytheon). 🙄
A top nuclear scientist has been jailed for fourteen years at the Old Bailey for spying for the Soviet Union.
Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs, 38, a civil servant from Harwell in Berkshire, pleaded guilty to four offences under the Official Secrets Act.
What year?
Pan Am flight 103 was just 38 minutes into its flight to New York when the bomb hidden in its luggage hold exploded.
The aircraft disintegrated and plunged several thousand feet onto the town of Lockerbie in south-west Scotland, killing all on board and 11 people on the ground.
Britons killed in Cairo riots
Reports from Egypt say at least 20 people have been killed and hundreds injured in anti-British riots in Cairo. The year?
Levi Strauss, the Bavarian-born American icon who clothed rugged cowboys in their signature work pants. The young immigrant made his way to San Francisco with his siblings in tow and dreams of success filling his head. In “WHAT YEAR” did he established a dry-goods store on Battery Street, where it remained for 40 years.
(Is it just me, but isn’t it kind of strange that someone with that last name invented that? 😆 )
that’s prob. how it got it’s nick name.. wonder if his middle name was john.