December 16, 1994: Large Hadron Collider Approved

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Large Hadron Collider

1994 – Although its only been in mainstream news for a couple years, the Large Hadron Collider has actually been around for many years now. On this day, for example, <a class="zem_slink" title="CERN” href=”http://www.CERN.ch” rel=”homepage”>CERN receives not only approval, but also the funding to build this massive device. Because of this, CERN hands the WebCore project to the French organization INRIA (the Institut National pour la Recherche en Informatique et Automatique.)

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