september 25 in history: what happened
Spanish conquistador Vasco de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama in 1513 and became the first European to reach the Pacific Ocean
Spanish conquistador Vasco de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama in 1513 and became the first European to reach the Pacific Ocean.
In 1818, English physician James Blandell performed the world’s first human-to-human blood transfusion.
On this day, but in 1906, Spanish mathematician and engineer Leonardo Torres y Quevedo demonstrated one of the world’s first radio-controlled devices, the Telekino.
And in 1924, Yakov Protazanov’s film “Aelita” was released, based on the fantastic novel by Alexei Tolstoy.
On September 25, Danish astronomer, professor of the University of Copenhagen Ole Roemer (1644); writer, one of the initiators of the Russian historical novel Ivan Lazhechnikov (1792); American artist, representative of abstract expressionism Mark Rothko (1903); British theorist and practitioner of cybernetics Anthony Stafford Beer (1926).
