The United Nations General Assembly is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN), serving as the main deliberative, policymaking, and representative organ of the UN and the international community.
The first session of the UN General Assembly convenes Read more
Baldwin went on to pursue her career in academia and science by teaching at the California School of Mechanical Arts, a vocational school in San Francisco where she founded the Physics Department.
Caroline Willard Baldwin becomes the first American woman to receive a PhD in science Read more
He traveled to Hong Kong in 1894 at the request of the Japanese government during an outbreak of the bubonic plague, and identified a bacterium that he concluded was causing the disease.
The Oxford English Dictionary is now the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press.
Oxford English Dictionary debuts Read more
Impressionism is an art movement that took the French art world—and later the artistic spheres of other countries —by storm in the 19th century.
Although individual countries designate their own national parks differently, there is a common idea: the conservation of ‘wild nature’ for posterity and as a symbol of national pride. As of 2023, there are over 6500 national parks worldwide.
The U.S. formally establishes Yellowstone National Park, the world’s first national park Read more
The 1864 Geneva Convention was the world’s first codified international treaty that covered the sick and wounded soldiers on the battlefield.
The First Geneva Convention is signed by 12 nations Read more
The Act led to the eventual formation of the modern nations of Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua.
The U.S. Congress passed an act to “prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States…from any foreign kingdom, place, or country.”
U.S. Congress abolishes the African slave trade Read more
In the West, Jenner is often called “the father of immunology”, and his work is said to have “saved more lives than the work of any other human”.
British physician Edward Jenner develops first-ever successful vaccine Read more
