facts verse presents historical events
you will believe happened at the same
time number 1 1943 the first wagon
crossed the Oregon Trail the same year
the fax machine was invented you might
think you're hearing that wrong but
you're not the great migration at 1843
occurred this was when 1,000 emigrants
went to Oregon on the wagon train on the
Oregon Trail the same year on May 27th
1843 a Scottish inventor named Alexander
Bain received the patent for his
invention the electric printing
Telegraph this is the grandfather of the
modern fax machine that we know today so
while people were traveling to Oregon to
begin a new life somewhere else in the
world a man was taking a huge step
towards new technology number 220 660 BC
the Egyptians were building pyramids
while the woolly mammoth was still
living the great pyramids located in
Egypt were being built from 2667 226 48
BC at the same time there was still a
small population of woolly mammoths
still alive they were living on Wrangel
Island which is an island about the size
of Delaware the island is located about
ninety miles off the coast of Siberia
it's a good thing that the last of the
woolly mammoths weren't living in Egypt
at the time if they were the pyramids
may never have been built due to the
danger that these huge creatures
possibly could have brought number 3
1868 you could take the London
Underground to watch the last public
hanging in the UK
today if you want to watch an execution
you have to be invited under very
special circumstances this was not
always the case in the UK up until May
twenty six to eighteen sixty eight you
could watch executions the last one was
the public hanging of michael barratt he
was hung outside of Newgate Prison in
London in front of about 2,000 people in
1865 the Barbican London Underground
station was built near Aldersgate Street
it's actually only a 10-minute walk from
the Newgate Prison chances are that one
of the 2,000 people in attendance
actually took the underground train to
watch the execution number four 1940
many prisoners arrived at Auschwitz
a few days after McDonald's was founded
many people believe that McDonald's
first opened its doors after World War
two this is because the chain didn't
really take off until the war was over
the founders of the fast food chain
Richard and Maurice McDonald opened
their first restaurant on May 15 1948
ydynt an Bernardino California it was
just five days after the opening of the
restaurant that the very first group of
concentration camp prisoners arrived at
Auschwitz this was a wonderful time in
history for those who loved a McDonald's
cheeseburger and a terrible time for the
prisoners number five 1908 the Ottoman
Empire existed the same year the Chicago
Cubs won the World Series in 2016 the
Chicago Cubs shocked the world when they
finally won the World Series for the
first time since 1908 when they won in
1908 it was just ten years before World
War one when the Ottomans were defeated
this would mean that the 1908 win from
the Cubs was older than turkey after
that win in 1908 the Cubs went to the
World Series seven times before 2016 the
last time they made it was in 1945
number 6 1889 Nintendo was
founded before Jack the Ripper was
caught many people believe that Nintendo
is a relatively new company when the
Nintendo gaming system was released
Nintendo's popularity exploded the
Japanese gaming company was actually
founded September 23rd 1889 their first
item was obviously not a video game it
was actually a deck of handmade playing
cards called Hana fauna at the time just
a few weeks after Nintendo was founded
people believed that Jack the Ripper was
still on the loose they thought this
because an unidentified woman was found
and she was called the Pyncheon Street
torso this is because she was found on
Pynchon Street and police only found her
torso the rest of her body never
surfaced number 7 1977 Star Wars came
out the same year France had its last
guillotine execution for years France
used the guillotine to execute the most
horrible criminals the last person to be
killed this way was Hamidah pimp killer
Jean Dubey he was beheaded on September
10 1977 for torturing and murdering a 21
year old girl nobody has been executed
again after that and Francois Mitterrand
abolished the guillotine in 1981 around
the same time as the last execution in
France children in the United States
were lining up to see the first
installment of Star Wars it debuted in
the United States May 25th 1977 and in
the UK on December 27th 1977 number 8
1971 women in Switzerland received the
right to vote the same year the United
States drove a buggy on the moon like
many countries in the world women in
Switzerland words always allowed to vote
it just took Switzerland much longer
than most countries to allow this they
started allowing women to vote 51 years
after the United States allowed it and
65 years after Finland it was the same
time that women in Switzerland were
finally allowed to line up at the polls
that United States astronauts were
riding around on the moon in a moon
buggy it was men driving the buggy but
it was a huge step for women in
Switzerland it wasn't long after that
women started joining the space program
number 9 1975 Microsoft was founded and
Spain was under a fascist dictatorship
in April 1975 friends Bill Gates and
Paul Allen founded Microsoft which made
them more money than they had ever
imagined at the same time things in
Spain weren't going so well the fascist
dictator named Francisco Franco was
presiding over Spain using terror and
brainwashing by controlling the media
and the state education system other
countries such as Italy and Germany
ended their fascist politics after World
War Two but Spain didn't follow suit it
wasn't until people started having
Microsoft computers in their homes that
the fascist regime ended number 10 1876
the Brooklyn Bridge was being built at
the same time as the Battle of Little
Bighorn this is one of the craziest
historical events you won't believe
happened at the same time in one part of
America laborers were working hard to
build the Brooklyn Bridge which was the
first ever steel wire suspension bridge
at the same time in the eastern Montana
territory the Battle of Little Bighorn
was being fought the bridge was still
six years away from being finished when
General Custer and his men were defeated
by Crazy Horse and members of the
Arapaho the Lakota and the Northern
Cheyenne tribes two completely different
events were taking place at the same
time in different areas of the country
number 11 1945 when he were she MA and
Nagasaki were bombed warble Wright was
still alive Orville and Wilbur Wright
are considered to be the inventors of
the airplane
sadly in 1912 Wilbur passed away from
typhoid fever in 1945 airplanes were
used to
atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima
later or will buzz asked how he felt
about what had happened since he
invented the airplane and airplanes were
being used to drop the bomb he said he
didn't have any regrets about inventing
the plane because it would change the
world forever he did say however that he
found it deplorable that someone used
his invention to cause such great
destruction number 12 1912 ecstasy was
invented the same year the Titanic sank
on April 14 1912 the Titanic hit an
iceberg in cold waters and it began to
sink the ship was considered to be
unsinkable
therefore the designers didn't think to
put enough lifeboats on board for all of
the passengers because of this 1503
people who were on board died many
drowned or perished after exposure to
the freezing cold waters that same year
MDMA also known as ecstasy was first
synthesized by scientists in Germany it
was originally created to be an appetite
suppressant for people struggling with
their weight a year later while families
were dealing with the loss of their
loved ones on the Titanic Merck patented
the MDMA they decided against marketing
at however for undisclosed reasons
number 13
14:28 oxford university existed for
hundreds of years before the aztec
empire was founded according to
historians students were learning at
Oxford University
as early as 1096 by 1249 the university
grew into a fully operational university
complete with halls and student housing
the Aztec civilization located in
central Mexico is said to have come into
existence in 1325 most people considered
the Aztec empire to be ancient history
but oxford university is much older it
is not however the oldest university in
the world the oldest educational
institution is the University of Korean
which was founded in 815
ad and Fez Morocco number 14 1642
Galileo and Sir Isaac Newton were born
in the same year the first two
scientists of modern science to gain any
fame were Galileo and Sir Isaac Newton
and they were born in the same year both
men were born in 1642 they both made
leaps and bounds in science and they
were the same age number 15 2005 YouTube
was invented for days before Saudi
Arabia's first democratic elections most
people wonder what they did before
YouTube you can find a video on just
about any subject to make you laugh or
to learn how to do something many people
credit YouTube videos for helping them
to learn how to do household repairs how
to put products together and even put on
makeup it's also a famous platform for
challenges people challenge others to do
crazy and dangerous things and then they
post them on YouTube YouTube first went
live February 14th 2005 just four days
later something momentous occured in
Saudi Arabia it was the very first
democratic election in history for them
this was a huge step for the people of
Saudi Arabia since there are so many
people who are completely obsessed with
YouTube they might find its release much
more exciting than a democratic election
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