📅 The first zeppelin takes off (1900)
Even so, it began the age of zeppelins, the great ships of the sky.
Where: Lake Constance, Friedrichshafen
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📅 On This Day: July 2
July 2, 1900: The first zeppelin takes off. On 2 July 1900, the giant airship LZ 1 rose into the sky for the first time from a floating hangar on Lake Constance in Germany. It flew about 6 km in 17 minutes before a breakdown forced it to come down on the lake.
✨ More events on this day
- 1862 🔬 Physicist William Henry Bragg was born in 1862; he and his son used X-rays to see how atoms line up inside crystals and shared a Nobel Prize.
- 1876 🔬 Harriet Brooks was born in 1876 and became Canada's first woman nuclear physicist, known for her pioneering research on radon and radioactivity.
- 1919 🎨 Author Jean Craighead George was born in 1919; she wrote 'My Side of the Mountain' and 'Julie of the Wolves', stories about kids surviving in the wild.
🧠 Question of the day
Where did LZ 1 take off from?
- A hangar floating on a lake
- A mountain top
- The middle of a desert
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Answer: A hangar floating on a lake
Questions
What happened on July 2?
July 2, 1900: The first zeppelin takes off. It happened in Lake Constance, Friedrichshafen.
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