🎂 Stephen Hawking is born (1942)
Where: Oxford, UK
📅 On This Day: January 8
January 8, 1942: Stephen Hawking is born. Stephen Hawking was born in 1942 in Oxford, England, and studied at the University of Oxford. Though he could hardly move his body, he spoke through a computer voice and studied the secrets of black holes. He showed that black holes slowly give off a faint glow of radiation.
✨ More events on this day
- 1823 🔬 Naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace was born; he explored the jungles of Southeast Asia and, like Darwin, figured out how living things evolve.
- 1889 💡 Herman Hollerith received a patent for his punched-card machine for counting information, an early step on the road to modern computers.
- 1994 🚀 Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov set off for the Mir space station, where he stayed 437 days, still the record for the longest single trip in space. Baikonur Cosmodrome →
🧠 Question of the day
How did Hawking speak?
- Only by letters
- With a computer voice
- With flag signals
Show the answer
Answer: With a computer voice
🎂 Landmarks that opened on January 8
Questions
What happened on January 8?
January 8, 1942: Stephen Hawking is born. It happened in Oxford, UK.
Which landmarks opened on January 8?
Salesforce Tower (opened 2018).
In the game, the "Today on Earth" panel shows this story on its day, with a question to answer and a place to fly to.