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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Thomas Edison (right) demonstrating his movie camera to Kodak Сo. founder George Eastman on July, 1928 @facethenation

Thomas Edison built his first version of a motion picture camera 🎥 in 1886

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When Alan Shepard was on the moon, he hit a golf ball and drove it 2 400 feet, becoming the first - and only - person to play golf anywhere other than Earth, February 6, 1971 @facethenation

Alan Shepard hit several golf shots 🏌️⛳️ on the moon

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Apollo 14 👨‍🚀 Alan Shepard climbing down from the lunar lander

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Ruby Bridges at age 6, was the first African American child to attend an all-white elementary school in New Orleans after Federal courts ordered the desegregation of public schools @facethenation

On the morning of November 14, 1960, federal marshals 👨‍✈️ drove Ruby five blocks to her new school

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In the days following the integration, riots led by staunch segregationists erupted throughout the city

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Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman in space. During her three-day mission, she performed various tests on herself to collect data on the female body's reaction to spaceflight @facethenation

Preparation of first female 👩‍🚀 astronaut to the space flight

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