February 11. BBC Television produces The world’s first ever science fiction program in 1938.

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Feb. 11, 1938 – The world’s first ever science fiction TV program is produced by BBC Television, which was an adaptation of the Karel Capek play “R.U.R.,” where the term “ROBOT” was invented.

• Cover art for the sci-fi magazine Amazing Stories, published by the Experimenter Publishing Company in New York, the October, 1928 issue, where the creature is called a metal monster.