BOOK OF THE WEEK
- 13 Jan - 19 Jan, 2024
The musical opened at Her Majesty's Theatre in London’s West End. The plot of the musical was inspired by French author Gaston Leroux's novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra. The musical is the longest running show on Broadway.
93 countries participated in the first Olympics to be held in Asia. The Tokyo Olympics was also the first Olympic Games that used satellites to telecast the games. Some of the games were also broadcasted in colour for the first time.
Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan undertook a 3.5-hour long space walk with fellow astronaut David Leestma while on the Space Shuttle Challenger mission STS-41-G. The spacewalk was performed to demonstrate the possibility of refueling a satellite.
The African republic was part of the Spanish Empire since the late 1700s. The country became independent and changed its name to Equatorial Guinea under the leadership of President Francisco Macías Nguema.
French astronomer, Charles Messier, discovered the Whirlpool Galaxy. Also known as Messier 51a, the galaxy is about 30 million light-years from Earth.
Kittinger became the first person to traverse the Atlantic in a balloon called the Balloon of Peace. As a member of the US Armed Forces, Kittinger jumped from a height of 102,800 feet becoming the first person in ever to jump from that height.
The American sitcom aired on CBS and featured real-life couple Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. The popular show lasted for six years and it had several spin-offs after it went off air.
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