Amazing Date comparisons in History that make you look at Time from a Different Perspective

6 Prisoners began to arrive in Auschwitz in the inaugural Year of McDonald’s

That’s right! Just when Americans had reason to be happy with the start of McDonald's, in another part of the world a tragedy of mammoth proportions was unfolding. McDonald's was started as a barbecue restaurant by Richard and Maurice McDonald at 1398 North E Street San Bernardino, California in 1940. In the same year in April, the first prisoners began arriving at Auschwitz which started functioning as one of the most notorious concentration camps of World War II.

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7 John F. Kennedy, C.S. Lewis, and Aldous Huxley all died on the same day on 2 November 1963

A big coincidence, where all of these three personalities died on 22nd November 1963. Kennedy needs no introduction as the 325th President of the United States. Clive Lewis Staples was a British Novelist poet and academic and the author of “The chronicles of Narnia, Aldous Leonard Huxley was also an English writer and novelist known for works such as Brave New World and Doors of Perception. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature seven times.

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8 The Qing Dynasty in China and Harvard University were founded in the same year

Harvard was established in the United States in 1636 the same year the Quing Dynasty was established in China by the Manchus in Manchuria in the northeast of China.

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9 The moon landing was only sixty-six years after the first manned aircraft flight

This goes to show the speed of progress. Orville and Wilbur Wright experimented with their first manned flight on December 17th, 1903. Their aircraft flew for 12 seconds covering 120 feet. 66 years later on July 20, 1969, a mankind went from no flight technology to sending a manned spacecraft to the moon. Neil Armstrong became the first man to step on the moon.

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10 The equals sign was first invented in 1557 by Robert Recorde. Seven years before Galileo was born

We use it so often yet we never ever wonder on its inception. The equal = sign was used first by a Welshman Robert Recorde who also introduced algebra to England. While writing his book, The Whetstone of Witte, He became so fed up of having to write “equals to” that he invented a sign and the equal symbol was born. 7 years later the most famous personality in the history of science Galileo Galilei was born on 15th February 1564.

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