AD Archives - Page 21 of 25

1973 AD

The Vietnam War ends.

Civil rights leader Martin Luther King (MLK) assassinated.

Oklahoma City Bombing leaves 168 dead.

Enigma: Adolf Hitler uses the Enigma encryption machine.

Cape Town is founded by Dutch.

Christopher Sholes invents the Remington typewriter.

Henry V becomes the Holy Roman Emperor.

Electro Mechanical television system invented by John Logie Baird.

Camcorder invented by Sony.

Ironclad warship invented by Oda Nobunaga.

The Arithmometer was the first mass-produced calculator invented by Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar.

Iconoscope invented by Vladimir Zworykin.