🔬 CERN is founded (1954)
Where: CERN, near Geneva
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📅 On This Day: September 29
September 29, 1954: CERN is founded. On 29 September 1954, CERN, a laboratory built by 12 European countries together, officially began. On the border of Switzerland and France, it has the world's largest particle collider in a 27 km tunnel underground. In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web there, which we use every day.
✨ More events on this day
- 1899 💡 Inventor László Bíró was born in 1899; he created the modern ballpoint pen, and in many countries people still call a pen a 'biro'.
- 1955 🧭 Polar explorer Ann Bancroft was born in 1955; in 1986 she became the first woman known to reach the North Pole on foot and by dogsled.
- 2004 🚀 SpaceShipOne, a privately built rocket plane, flew to space in 2004, the first of two flights that won it the Ansari X Prize.
🧠 Question of the day
What was invented at CERN?
- The World Wide Web
- The aeroplane
- The telephone
Show the answer
Answer: The World Wide Web
🎂 Landmarks that opened on September 29
Questions
What happened on September 29?
September 29, 1954: CERN is founded. It happened in CERN, near Geneva.
Which landmarks opened on September 29?
Spring Temple Buddha (completed 2008).
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Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERN