📅 The world's first underground railway opens (1863)
Where: London, UK
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📅 On This Day: January 10
January 10, 1863: The world's first underground railway opens. On 10 January 1863, the Metropolitan Railway, the world's first underground railway, opened in London. At first, steam locomotives pulled wooden carriages through tunnels under the streets. Today Londoners call their underground "the Tube".
✨ More events on this day
- 1898 🔬 Katharine Burr Blodgett was born; she became a physicist and invented non-reflective glass, now used in camera lenses and eyeglasses.
- 1927 🎨 Fritz Lang's film Metropolis premiered in Berlin; its giant city of the future and its shining robot inspired science fiction movies for a century.
- 1946 🚀 In Project Diana, American scientists bounced radar signals off the Moon and heard the echo come back, the first human contact with the Moon.
🧠 Question of the day
What pulled the first underground trains?
- Electric buses
- Horses
- Steam locomotives
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Answer: Steam locomotives
Questions
What happened on January 10?
January 10, 1863: The world's first underground railway opens. It happened in London, UK.
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