Note that Cat Crater is an acronym for sons "Charles And Tom". Dot Crater is named for his wife "Dotty" @facethenation

Charlie Duke 🎥 changing camera magazine

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Alexander Graham Bell is better known as the guy who invented and patented the first practical telephone. It is a less known fact that in 1899 he also started to experiment with kites @facethenation

Bell created many different complex structures which incorporated many simple kites. He hoped that this kind of arrangement of kites will enable him to lift a person in the air @facethenation

Alexander Graham Bell 🎩 sends his best wishes

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Julius Erving created one of the most memorable moments in basketball history during the 1976 ABA Slam Dunk Contest @facethenation

Julius Erving 🏀 free-throw line dunk

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Dangerous Years is the first known movie Marilyn Monroe was in. This was released Dec 7, 1947. Marilyn plays a waitress named Evie at a teenage restaurant hangout called the Gopher Hole @facethenation

Marilyn Monroe first film was in 1947 with a bit part in Dangerous Years

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Albert Einstein at his first lecture at the Institute for Advanced Study, 1933 @facethenation

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