1897 Edison patents the Kinetograph
Source: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/edison-patents-the-kinetograph
Month: August 2021
August 30
1967 Thurgood Marshall confirmed as first African American Supreme Court justice
Source: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/thurgood-marshall-confirmed-as-supreme-court-justice
August 29
2015 NASA begins Mars simulation in Hawaii
August 28
1963 Martin Luther King, Jr delivers I have a dream speech
Source: https://www.naacp.org/i-have-a-dream-speech-full-march-on-washington/
August 27
2012 First voice broadcast from Mars
Source: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/news/bolden20120827.html
August 26
1984 Miss Manners deems computers inappropriate for personal correspondence
Source: https://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/august/26/#miss-manners-addresses-computer-correspondence
August 25
1916 National Park Service created
August 24
2006 Pluto loses planetary status
Source: https://www.space.com/why-pluto-is-not-a-planet.html
August 23
1966 First view of Earth from the Moon
Source: https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_623.html
