1962
A hundred points in one game. Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points for the Philadelphia Warriors in a single NBA game. No player has matched it since.
Wikipedia: Wilt ChamberlainPhoto: Bill Allen / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
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2 March in history.
5 moments from 1962 to 1998: discovery, creativity and courage, each with a source to read more.
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1965
The Sound of Music opens
The film about the von Trapp family and their songs reached American cinemas and became the highest-earning film of its time.
Wikipedia: The Sound of Music (film)
Photo: 20th Century Fox, the publisher of the film or the graphic artist / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
1969
Concorde takes off
The Anglo-French supersonic airliner made its first flight from Toulouse, France. Later it flew passengers across the Atlantic in about three and a half hours.
Photo: Eduard Marmet / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)
1978
Space opens up to more countries
Czechoslovak pilot Vladimír Remek flew on Soyuz 28, the first person in space who was neither Soviet nor American.
Wikipedia: Vladimír RemekWikipedia: Soyuz 28
Photo: Frank Leuband / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0 de)
1998
An ocean under the ice
Data from NASA's Galileo spacecraft suggested that Europa, a moon of Jupiter, hides a liquid ocean beneath its thick icy shell.
Wikipedia: Europa (moon)Wikipedia: Galileo (spacecraft)
Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0)
Moments chosen for discovery, creativity and courage. Each one links to a source where you can read more; photos are credited to their owners.