🌟 Editor's Note
Good morning — it’s Tuesday, April 28. Today, we’re checking out the oldest university in Asia, Europe’s first car race, the one-billionth minute, the very first night flight, the first commercial flight across the Pacific, and much more—quick, to the point, and spot on with sources.
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🚀 Time Machine
-1611
The Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, the oldest university in Asia and the largest Catholic university in the world, was founded.
-1770
Captain James Cook, aboard HMS Endeavour, made the first landing in Australia at Botany Bay.
-1789
Fletcher Christian leads a mutiny on HMS Bounty against its captain, William Bligh, in the South Pacific.
-1887
"Europe's first motoring competition" was “won” by Jules-Albert de Dion on a steam quadricycle designed by Georges Bouton. The event was organized by the French newspaper Le Velocipede, and Bouton was the sole participant.
-1902
The one-billionth minute since January 1, Year Zero, in the Gregorian calendar occurs at 10:40 AM on this date.
-1910
Claude Grahame-White made the first night flight in England.
-1928
RCA and GE install three test television sets in Schenectady, New York, to trial E.F.W. Alexanderson's home television receiver, which produces a poor 1.5-square-inch picture from a radio transmitter.
-1937
Pan Am operated the first commercial flight across the Pacific.
-1967
Boxing champion Muhammad Ali refuses induction into the U.S. Army on religious grounds and is stripped of his heavyweight title.
-2004
The CBS program 60 Minutes II reported on the abuse of prisoners by American military forces at Abu Ghraib in Iraq.
📸 Snapshot
Wernher von Braun in his NASA office with models of the rockets he designed, 1965
🗨️ Last Words
“It's very beautiful over there.”