🎒🐰💭’On 14 August 1888, an audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan’s “The Lost Chord”, one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison’s phonograph in London, England.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 13 August 2004, Games of the XXVIII Olympiad was held in Athens, Greece.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 12 August 1981, the IBM Personal Computer is released.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 11 August 1962, Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 10 August 1990, The Magellan space probe reaches Venus.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 9 August 1930, Betty Boop makes her cartoon debut in Dizzy Dishes.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 8 August 1969, at a zebra crossing in London, photographer Iain Macmillan takes the iconic photo that becomes the cover image of the Beatles’ album Abbey Road.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 7 August 1944, IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator.’

🎒🐰💭’On 6 August 2012, NASA’s Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 5 August 1620, The Mayflower: famously transported the first English Puritans, departs from Southampton, England on its first attempt to reach North America.‘