Aug 19, 2015 · Ray Tomlinson sends the first ever email in 1971, bringing electronic messaging to the masses and revolutionising the way we communicate.

In 1971, Ray Tomlinson, an engineer at the computer company Bolt, Beranek and Newman in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, sent the first ever email. It was initally an experiment to see if he could get two computers to exchange a message.

The first email message to be beamed back to Earth by astronauts on the high frontier was sent on 28 August 1991 by Shannon Lucid and James C. Adamson aboard the NASA space shuttle Atlantis. The message was composed on an Apple Macintosh Portable, and sent over the AppleLink network to Marcia Ivans at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, USA.

However the title for the first US President to use email in office goes to President Bill Clinton (USA), who sent one e-mail as a test and another, with the help of his staff, to astronaut John Glenn while the astronaut was in orbit on the Space Shuttle.

This record is for the greatest number of text messages (sms) received in one hour. This record is to be attempted by an individual, group or organisation. This record is measured by the total number of messages received within the time limit. For the purposes of this record, a text message is sent between phones without the use of any internet.

The South Pole was first reached at 11 a.m. on 14 December 1911 by a Norwegian party of five men led by Captain Roald Amundsen (Norway, 1872-1928), after a 53-day march with dog sledges from the Bay of Whales.

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That is how, in 1955, the first edition of the Guinness Book of Records came about. A book on facts that would be reprinted four times, with 187,000 copies sold. Discover more about the history of the iconic non-fiction bestseller.

The first Hollywood studio was the Nestor Film Company, established in 1910. In 1919, Nestor became part of a merger that produced Universal. The iconic Hollywood sign went up in 1923 as a real-estate advertisement and originally read 'HOLLYWOODLAND'.

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