July 9th

On this day - July 9th 1981 - Donkey Kong is released 

The first Donkey Kong is an arcade game by Nintendo where you play as Mario. Mario Bros is actually a spin-off of this game. It also spawned a Donkey Kong series and both it and Mario is one of the most recognised characters from Nintendo. The arcade was a hit and after the initial 2000 units were sold in the US Nintendo started manufacturing in the US. In June 1982 Nintendo had sold 60,000 units and earned 180 million USD. It made Ron Judy and Al Stone millionaires as they worked on straight commission. The current world record is held by Wes Copland and was set on May 5th 2016 with the score 1,218,000. 

July 7th

On this day - July 7th 1928 - The first sliced bread is sold

The first bread to be sliced by a machine and sold that way was in 1928. It was advertised as the greatest forwards step in baking industry since bread was wrapped. The inventor of the bread slicing machine was the american Otto Rohwedder. He built a prototype in 1912, but this was destroyed by fire, but by 1928 had he managed to build a fully working machine. The first commercial use of this machine was on July 7th the same year when a bakery sold sliced bread and had a huge success with it.

June 30th

On this day - June 30th 1859 - Charles Blondin crossed Niagara Falls on a tight rope 

Charles Blondin was an French Acrobat. He moved to the US in 1855 to tour with the  Ravel troup in New York City. However, he became famous do to his success in crossing the Canada-America border on the Niagara falls on a tight rope. His tightrope was 340m long and 8,3cm wide. It was stretched 49 meters over the water. His first walk over Niagara falls was on this day in 1859, but he repeated the walk several times later, some times even blindfolded.

June 8th

On this day - June 8th 1949 - George Orwell's "1984" was published

1984 is a novel written by George Orwell. The novel is set in Airstrip One (former Great Britain) that is a province of Oceania. Oceania controls its citizens trough surveillance, public manipulations and an its all dictated by the political system English Socialism. The Inner Party that controls the political system persecutes individualism and independent thinking as thoughtcrime. The novel is categorised as political fiction and dystopian science fiction. Many of the concepts and terms used in the book has been adopted into the english language. The most known terms and concepts are "big brother", "double think", and "thought crime". The adjective Orwellian spawned from the book as a way to describe; official deception, secret surveillance and manipulation of recorded history by a totalitarian or authoritarian state. 

June 3

On this day - June 3 1965 - The first american to do a Space Walk 

The first spacewalk ever was done in march 1965 by Alexey Leonov. Americans was not far behind, and Edward Higgins White became the first american to do a space walk on June 3 (Also known as Extravehicular activity). He was the pilot on the Germini 4 launch, and it was during this trip he did his first space walk. The space walk lasted for 21 minutts on a 7.6m tether. Edward Higgins White died only two years after his space walk in a pre-launch testing who failed for Apollo 1.

"I'm coming back in... and it's the saddest moment of my life." - E. H. White

May 29th

On this day - May 29th 1988 - Ronald Reagan and Gorbachev meet at the Moscow summit

The Moscow summit was a meeting between the american president, Ronald Reagan and the Soviet Unions leader, Michael Gorbachev. The summit lasted from may 29th til June 3 and it was the first time an American president had traveled to the soviet union since the cold war began. The two leaders discussed several topics such as human rights and fishing rights, and agreements was signed on several areas. Reagan also gave Gorbachev a version of the movie "Friendly Persuasion" which had been blacklisted in the USA due to its allegedly communist sympathies.

May 21st

On this day - May 21st 1980 - The Empire Strikes back is released

The Empire Strikes back is the 2nd movie released in the series of Star Wars but its the fifth in chronological order. It was released three years after the success of the original Star Wars movie and is also set three years after the first movie. The initial reviews were mixed but as the series grew in popularity the critics agree that it is one of the greatest movies of all time. The initial filming began in Hardangerjøkulen in Norway and during the filming one of the worst winter storms in over fifty years hit. It was a good thing the opening was set in an artic environment. The Star Wars saga is one of the most recognized brands in the world and adaptations into books, comic books, novels, video games and even a radio play has followed. Disney acquired the rights to the Star Wars franchise when they bought Lucasfilm in 2012. It was then announced new Star Wars movies starting with the 2015 movie The Force Awakens.  The movie holds one of the most recognized quotes that is also often misquoted "No, I am your father".