Charlie Chaplin | BBC | Bakelite | Gold Nugget | Hermitage | Cristiano Ronaldo | (English #09)
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Date: 05/02/2021

*1924 The Greenwich Time Signal is broadcast for the first time
The “BBC pips” are 5 short and 1 long tones that are broadcast by many BBC radio stations to mark the precise start of the hour.

*1919 United Artists is founded
Charlie Chaplin was one of the film studio's founders.

*1909 The world's first synthetic plastic is developed
Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announced his invention of Bakelite at a meeting of the American Chemical Society that day.

*1869 The biggest gold nugget in history is found
The “Welcome Stranger” was found at Moliagul in Australia and had a calculated refined weight of 71.081 kg.

*1852 The Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg opens to the public
It is one of the world's largest and oldest museums and was originally founded in 1764.



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