During World War II, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill met in 1941 aboard the battleship Prince of Wales to sign the Atlantic Charter that set out a vision for the postwar world @facethenation

Winston Churchill walking the deck of the battleship Prince of Wales during the Atlantic Charter Conference, August 11, 1941

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Russell Schweickart takes pics during an extravehicular activity spacewalk, March 1969 @facethenation

Russell Schweickart performs a spacewalk to test the new spacesuit and backpack designed for moonwalking astronauts

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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