Tag: Big Ben

London’s Big Ben stopped ticking at 12:11 PM for 54 minutes on this day in 1997. Did you know that: • Italian inventor Pellegrino Turri created the first practical typewriter on this day in 1808• English physicist J. J. Thomson announced his discovery of the electron on this day in 1897• Mr. Potato Head became […]

Born on this day in 1928, Andy Warhol was an American artist, film director, and producer who played a leading role in the visual art movement known as pop art. Did you know that: • HMS Roebuck, captained by William Dampier, landed at Shark Bay, Western Australia on the first British scientific expedition to Australia […]