The Eiffel Tower is Opened to the Public
The Eiffel Tower is a wrought-iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. It is named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the…
Happy Name Day Alma (30/03)
Every person’s name has a corresponding name day. As a car and movie fan, I have taken the 2000 movie Gone in 60 seconds, starring Nicolas Cage an inspiration. In…
Happy Birthday Vincent van Gogh (1853)
Vincent van Gogh (30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art.…
Discovery of Qin Shi Huang’s Terracotta Army (1974)
The Terracotta Army is a collection of terracotta sculptures depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China. It is a form of funerary art buried with…
First flight of a Seaplane Henri Fabre (1910)
Henri Fabre (29 November 1882 – 30 June 1984) was a French aviator and the inventor of the first successful seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion. He intensively studied aeroplane and propeller…
Happy Birthday Henry Royce (1863)
Sir Frederick Henry Royce, 1st Baronet, OBE (27 March 1863 – 22 April 1933) was an English engineer famous for his designs of car and aeroplane engines with a reputation…
Swissair is founded (1931)
Swissair was the national airline of Switzerland between its founding in on the 26th of March 1931 and bankruptcy in 2002. On 5 October 2001, commercial flights on most routes…
Photo Digitally Displayed at the Valid World Hall, Barcelona, Spain
25th – 27th of March, 2022 This photo was digitally displayed to hundreds of visitors at the Valid World Hall, a huge gallery space in central Barcelona, Spain. It was…
Photo Received ViewBug Framing Award (25/03/2025)
Today this photo received the ViewBug Framing Award. ViewBug wrote: “Congratulations! This photo has unlocked the Framing Award which celebrates your view on composition—the way you arrange elements within the…
First Passenger Railway is Established (1807)
The Swansea and Mumbles Railway was the venue for the world’s first passenger horsecar railway service, located in Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom. Originally built under an act of Parliament of…
Happy Birthday Steve McQueen (1930)
Steve McQueen was born as Terrence Stephen McQueen in Beech Grove, Indiana on March 24, 1930. He was an American actor and racing driver. His antihero persona, emphasised during the…
Happy Birthday Kim Stanley Robinson (1952)
Kim Stanley Robinson (born March 23, 1952, in Waukegan, Illinois) is an American science fiction writer best known for his Mars trilogy. Many of his novels and stories have ecological,…
Happy Name Day Shannon (22/03)
Every person’s name has a corresponding name day. As a car and movie fan, I have taken the 2000 movie Gone in 60 seconds, starring Nicolas Cage an inspiration. In…
Happy Birthday Andrew Lloyd Webber (1948)
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber, KG (born 22 March 1948) is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade…
The Breitling Orbiter 3 Flies Around the World Non Stop (1999)
On the 21st of March the Breitling Orbiter 3 was the first balloon to fly around the world non-stop, piloted by Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones. Designed and built by…
Happy Birthday Geoffrey Brabham (1952)
Geoffrey John Brabham (born 20 March 1952) is an Australian racing driver. Brabham spent much of his racing career in the United States. His greatest source of success was in…
Happy Birthday Connor Trinneer (1969)
Connor Trinneer (born March 19, 1969) is an American film, stage, and television actor. He is best known for his roles as Charles „Trip“ Tucker III on Star Trek: Enterprise,…
Alexei Leonov Conducts First EVA (1965)
Extravehicular activity (EVA) is any activity done by an astronaut in outer space outside a spacecraft. In the absence of a breathable Earthlike atmosphere, the astronaut is completely reliant on…
Happy Name Day Patricia (17/03)
Every person’s name has a corresponding name day. As a car and movie fan, I have taken the 2000 movie Gone in 60 Seconds, starring Nicolas Cage an inspiration. In…
Happy Birthday Gottlieb Daimler (1834)
Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler born on 17th of March 1834, in Schorndorf, Germany, was a German engineer, industrial designer and industrialist. He was a pioneer of internal-combustion engines and automobile development.…
Happy Birthday Franck Fréon (1962)
Franck Fréon (born 16 March 1962, in Paris) is a French race car driver. He’s best known for endurance car racing, driving marginally competitive LMP vehicles in the 24 Hours…
Mikhail Gorbachev is elected to the President of the Soviet Union (1931)
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet and Russian politician and statesman who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985…
Photo Digitally Displayed at the Space Art Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
14th – 16th of March, 2025 This photo is currently being digitally displayed at „The SPACE Art Gallery in Philadelphia, USA. It is part of the „Art of Photography„-Exhibition. It…
Photo Digitally Displayed at the Space Art Gallery, Philiadelphia, USA
14th – 16th March 2025: This photo was selected to be digitally displayed at the “Creative Composition Exhibition” at the Space Art Gallery, Philiadelphia, USA. It was part of the…
Happy Birthday Albert Einstein (1879)
Albert Einstein was born 14 March 1879 in Ulm Germany. He was a German-born theoretical physicist who is widely held as one of the most influential scientists. Best known for…
Happy Birthday Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781)
Karl Friedrich Schinkel (13 March 1781 – 9 October 1841) was a Prussian architect, city planner and painter who also designed furniture and stage sets. Schinkel was one of the…
Mahatma Gandhi leads the Salt March (1930)
The Salt March, also known as the Salt Satyagraha, Dandi March, and the Dandi Satyagraha, was an act of nonviolent civil disobedience in colonial India, led by Mahatma Gandhi. The…
Happy Name Day Angelina (11/03)
Every person’s name has a corresponding name day. As a car and movie fan, I have taken the 2000 movie Gone in 60 seconds, starring Nicolas Cage an inspiration. In…
Happy Birthday Douglas Adams (1952)
Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952) was an English author, humourist, and screenwriter, best known as the creator of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Originally a 1978 BBC radio…