Roald Amundsen was the first people to reach the South Pole on 1911 @facethenation

Amundsen started his journey on Oct 19, 1911, setting off with five men, four sledges and 52 dogs. They reached their final destination on Dec 14 - the first humans at the South Pole

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Gemini 8 was launched on March 16, 1966, and Neil Armstrong performed the first successful docking of two vehicles in space @facethenation

Neil Armstrong getting suited up for his Gemini 8 mission

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At the end of the last Apollo 15 moon walk, David Scott held out a geological hammer and a feather and dropped them at the same time @facethenation

Because of the negligible lunar atmosphere, there was no drag on the feather, which hit the ground at the same time as the hammer

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In 1945,18-year-old Princess Elizabeth joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service. She was the only female member of the royal family ever to serve in the armed forces @facethenation

Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) of Great Britain doing technical repair work during her World War II military service

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Alan Bean was the fourth man to walk on the Moon 👨‍🚀🌔

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American flag on the Moon surface with Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean's shadow in November 19, 1969 @facethenation

Thomas Edison exhibits a replica of his first successful incandescent lamp @facethenation

In 1878, Thomas Edison began serious research into developing a practical incandescent lamp

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By creating a vacuum inside the bulb, finding the right filament to use, and running lower voltage through the bulb, Edison was able to achieve 💡 that lasted for many hours in 1880

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Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first person to walk in space when he spent 12 minutes outside his Voskhod 2 spacecraft on March 18, 1965 @facethenation

Leonov's spacesuit had inflated in the vacuum of space to the point where he could not re-enter the ship. He took a huge risk by lowering the suit's pressure in order to get back

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The heavyweight champion of the world Muhammad Ali in action vs Zora Folley during fight at Madison Square Garden in New York City, 1967 @facethenation

Muhammad Ali stands over fallen challenger Zora Folley

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Pablo Picasso lived in the small town of Vallauris on the French Riviera from 1948 to 1955. He bought and transformed Le Fournas, a former perfumery in Vallauris, into his studio @facethenation

Pablo Picasso 👨‍🎨 making a charcoal drawing of the view from Le Fournas on June 26, 1953

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Project Excelsior was a series of parachute jumps made by Joseph Kittinger of the United States Air Force in 1959 and 1960 from helium balloons in the stratosphere.

The third and final test, Excelsior III, was made on August 16, 1960. Kittinger stood 19.5 miles (31.4 km) above the surface of the earth. Because the right hand glove of his pressurized suit had malfunctioned, his hand had swollen to twice its size. He decided not to inform the ground crew about this, in case they should decide to abort the test.

Kittinger stayed at peak altitude for 12 minutes, waiting for the balloon to drift over the landing target area. He then stepped out of the gondola to begin his descent. Within seconds his body accelerated to over 700 mph (1127 km/h) in the thin air.

An automatic camera captured Joseph Kittinger just as he stepped from the balloon-supported @facethenation