Albert Einstein arrived in America in 1933 after he and thousands of other Jews fled persecution in Nazi Germany. He took up a position at the Institute for Advanced Study

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The final flight of the Apollo program was the first spaceflight in which spacecraft from different nations docked in space.

USSR Soyuz crew pictured with the US Apollo crew, July 1975 @facethenation

🚀 Soyuz, carrying cosmonauts Aleksey Leonov and Valery Kubasov, was launched into sunny skies from Baykonur Cosmodrome at 8:20 am EDT July 15, 1975

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🚀 Apollo was launched seven and a half hours later from NASA's Kennedy Space Center. On board were astronauts Thomas Stafford, Vance Brand and Donald Slayton

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Both the Soyuz and Apollo vehicles made orbital adjustments during the following two days. Hard-dock was achieved July 17 at 12:12 pm as the two craft soared above the Atlantic Ocean

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"Glad to see you," Stafford told Leonov in Russian 🤝 "Glad to see you. Very, very happy to see you," Leonov responded in English

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The February 1945 Yalta Conference was the second wartime meeting of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt @facethenation

During the conference, the three leaders agreed to demand Germany’s unconditional surrender and began plans for a post-war world

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Robert Oppenheimer inspect the melted remnants of the 100-foot steel tower that held the Trinity bomb, July 1945. Within a month, two Japanese cities were targeted by atomic bombs @facethenation

Robert Oppenheimer, often called the "father of the atomic bomb", meet with Japanese citizens during a visit to Japan in 1960 @facethenation

The first nuclear explosion in history took place on July 16, 1945 😱 Robert Oppenheimer: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds"

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Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin deploy the American flag outside near the lunar module at Tranquility Base in the Sea of Tranquility on July 20, 1969 @facethenation

Apollo 11 🌖 astronauts deploy the 🇺🇸 flag

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Albert Einstein & Marie Curie in Geneva, 1925. Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only person to win the award in two different fields @facethenation

Marie Curie received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903, for her work on radioactivity. In 1911, she won her 2nd Nobel Prize, this time in chemistry for her work on polonium and radium

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Apollo 16 🚀🌖 astronaut Charles Duke collecting a lunar sample on April 21, 1972 @facethenation

Charles Duke hammers a core tube into the ground until it meets a rock and won't go any further. Then the hammer flies 😰 🤦‍♂️ from his hand

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Charles makes four attempts to pick it up by bending down and leaning to reach for it. He gives up and returns to the rover to get the tongs to pick up the hammer successfully 🙌🙌🙌

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Construction of the skeleton of the left hand of the Statue of Liberty in 1875, Paris.

Designed by Frederic Bartholdi (2nd left), 🗽 was a gift to the U.S. from the people of France @facethenation

This Thomas Edison video of the Statue of Liberty was filmed on September 3, 1898 (12 years after the statue was built)

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