Pensacola was the first European-inhabited settlement in what would later become the United States of America. The first European settlement in the continental United States was Pensacola, which was established on Santa Rosa Island by conquistador Don Tristan tristÃ¡n De luna Y arellano in. 1559
Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin from mold that contaminated a petri dish of Staphylococcus bacteria. Researchers at Oxford University experimented with the new mold that Alexander Fleming had discovered. Penicillin was actually discovered by mistake.
From the chance discovery of quinine as a malaria treatment in the 17th century to Alexander Fleming's accidental encounter with penicillium mold in 1928, some of medicine's most important advances have occurred through serendipity.