771Which country was the first to build and operate a high-speed “bullet train” rail service, beginning in 1964?
772Which aircraft is widely regarded as the world’s first commercial jet airliner, entering service in 1952?
773Which spacecraft became the first to fly by and photograph the dwarf planet Pluto, in 2015?
774Which country established the first permanent European colony in Australia, in 1788?
775Which railway, opened in England in 1825, is regarded as the world’s first public railway to use steam locomotives?
776Which team completed the first circumnavigation of the globe by aircraft, in 1924, with multiple stops and plane changes?
777Which scientists are credited with the first experimental splitting of the atomic nucleus (nuclear fission), in 1938?
778Which country was among the first to widely adopt the guillotine as a method of execution, notably during its 1789 revolution?
779Who led the first Portuguese expedition to round the Cape of Good Hope, opening a sea route toward Asia, in 1488?
780Which was the first satellite to successfully transmit live television pictures across the Atlantic Ocean, in 1962?
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