Photo Digitally Displayed at the 6×6 Centre in Limassol, Cyprus
30th May – 1st June 2025 This photo is currently being digitally showcased at the 6×6 Centre for Photography in Limassol, Cyprus. It is being featured in the ‘Art of…
Photo Printed and On Display at the 6×6 Centre in Limassol, Cyprus (2025)
May 30th June 1st, 2025 This photo has been printed and is currently being displayed at the 6×6 Centre for Photography in Limassol, Cyprus. It is part of the ‘Creative…
Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay Reach the Summit of Mount Everest (1953)
Sir Edmund Hillary (20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist. On 29 May 1953, Hillary and Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the…
Happy Birthday Sally Ride (1951)
Sally Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012) was an American astronaut and physicist. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became the first…
Happy Birthday Sir Ian Mckellen (1939)
Sir Ian McKellen (born 25 May 1939) is an English actor. He has played roles on the screen and stage in genres ranging from Shakespearean dramas and modern theatre to…
Happy Birthday Otto Lilienthal (1848)
Otto Lilienthal (23 May 1848 – 10 August 1896) was a German pioneer of aviation who became known as the “flying man”. He was the first person to make well-documented,…
Winchester is Established (1866)
The Winchester Repeating Arms Company was a prominent American manufacturer of repeating firearms and ammunition. The firm was established in 1866 by Oliver Winchester and was in New Haven, Connecticut.…
ViewBug Echo Award (21/05/2025)
On the 21st of May 2025 this photo received the ViewBug Framing Award. ViewBug wrote: “Your photo just earned the Echo Award—Some photos don’t fade—they echo. This award celebrates a…
Manchester Ship Canal is Begun (1887)
The Manchester Ship Canal is a 36-mile-long (58 km) inland waterway in the Northwest of England linking Manchester to the Irish Sea. Starting at the Mersey Estuary at Eastham, near…
Happy Birthday John Billingsley (1960)
John Billingsley (born May 20, 1960) is an American actor best known for his role as Doctor Phlox on the television series Star Trek: Enterprise. He was cast as Professor…
Happy Birthday Tony Chapman (1928)
Anthony Chapman (19 May 1928 – 16 December 1982) was an English design engineer, inventor, and builder in the automotive industry, and founder of the sports car company Lotus Cars.…
Happy Birthday Wilhelm Hofmeister (1824)
Wilhelm Hofmeister (18 May 1824 – 12 January 1877) was a German biologist and botanist. He “stands as one of the true giants in the history of biology and belongs…
Happy Birthday Udo Lindenberg (1946)
Udo Lindenberg (born 17th May 1946) started his musical career as a drummer. In 1969, he founded his first band Free Orbit and appeared as a studio and guest musician…
Last Servicing Mission for the Hubble Space Telescope, HST (2009)
The Hubble Space Telescope’s (HST) Servicing Mission 4 (SM4), flown by the Shuttle Atlantis in May 2009, was the last scheduled shuttle mission for HST (launched 11th of May 2009,…
Happy Birthday Howard Carter (1874)
Howard Carter (9 May 1874 – 2 March 1939) was a British archaeologist and Egyptologist who discovered the intact tomb of the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh Tutankhamun in November 1922, the…
Happy Birthday Sir David Attenborough (1926)
Sir David Attenborough (born 8 May 1926) is a British broadcaster, biologist, natural historian, and writer. He is best known for writing and presenting, in conjunction with the BBC Studios…
Happy Birthday Edwin Herbert Land (1909)
Edwin Herbert Land, (May 7, 1909 – March 1, 1991) was an American scientist and inventor, best known as the co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation. He invented inexpensive filters for…
The Channel Tunnel is Opened (1994)
The history of the Eurostar brand can be traced to the choice in 1986 of a rail tunnel to provide a cross-channel link between Britain and France. A previous attempt…
Happy Birthday Audrey Hepburn (1929)
Audrey Hepburn (4th of May 1929 – 20th of January 1993) was a British actress. Recognised as a film and fashion icon, she was ranked by the American Film Institute…
Happy Birthday Ken Tyrell (1924)
Ken Tyrrell (3 May 1924 – 25 August 2001) was a British Formula Two racing driver and the founder of the Tyrrell Formula One constructor. Realising, however, that he was…
Happy Birthday Tony Blair (1953)
Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the…
Dodge is Sold to Investors (1925)
Dodge is an American brand of automobiles and a division of Stellantis North America, based in Auburn Hills, Michigan. Dodge vehicles have historically included performance cars, and for much of…
James Cook reaches Botany Bay (1770)
On 29 April 1770, Botany Bay was the site of James Cook’s first landing of HMS Endeavour on the land mass of Australia, after his extensive navigation of New Zealand.…
Happy Birthday Terry Pratchett (1948)
Sir Terence David John Pratchett OBE (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an English author, humourist, and satirist, best known for the Discworld series of 41 comic fantasy…
Launch of the USS Tullibee (1960)
USS Tullibee (SSN-597), a unique submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the tullibee, any of several whitefishes of central and northern North…
Photo Digitally Displayed at the Blank Wall Gallery, Athens (25th – 27th April 2025)
25th – 27th April 2025: This photo was selected to be digitally displayed at the ‘Powerful Lighting’-Exhibition at the Blank Wall Gallery in Athens, Greece. It was part of the…
Photo Digitally Displayed at the Blank Wall Gallery Athens (25-27th April 2025)
25th – 27th April 2025: This photo was selected to be digitally displayed at the ‘Our Amazing Planet’-Exhibition at the Blank Wall Gallery in Athens, Greece. It was part of…
The Blue Angels are formed (1946)
The Blue Angels, formally named the U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, are a flight demonstration squadron of the United States Navy. Formed in 1946, the unit is the second oldest…
New Coke is Launched (1985)
New Coke was the unofficial name of a reformulation of the soft drink Coca-Cola, introduced by the Coca-Cola Company in April 1985. It was renamed Coke II in 1990 and…