Happy Birthday Ross Brawn (1954)
Ross Brawn (born 23 November 1954) is a British Formula One managing director, motor sports and technical director. He is a former motorsport engineer and Formula One team principal, and has worked for a number…
Concorde Lifts off for it’s First Supersonic Flight (1977)
Concorde is a retired Anglo-French supersonic airliner jointly developed and manufactured by Sud Aviation and the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC). Studies began in 1954 and a UK–France treaty followed in 1962, as the programme cost was estimated at…
Happy Birthday Harold Ramis (1944)
Harold Ramis (November 21, 1944 – February 24, 2014) was an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. His film acting roles include Egon Spengler in Ghostbusters (1984) and Ghostbusters II (1989), and as Russell Ziskey in Stripes (1981); he also…
Microsoft Windows 1.0 is Released (1985)
Windows 1.0 is the first major release of Microsoft Windows, a family of graphical user shells and operating systems for personal computers developed by Microsoft. It was first released to manufacturing in the United States on November 20, 1985, while the European…
Happy Nameday Lisa (19/11)
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 Hiram Bingham (1875)
Hiram Bingham III (November 19, 1875 – June 6, 1956) was an American academic, explorer and politician. In 1911, he publicised the existence of the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu which he rediscovered with the…
Happy Birthday Sir Alex Issigonis (1906)
Sir Alex Issigonis (18 November 1906 – 2 October 1988) was a British-Greek automotive designer. He designed the Mini, launched by the British Motor Corporation in 1959, and voted the second most influential car of the…
Happy Birthday Sōichirō Honda (1906)
Soichiro Honda (17 November 1906 – 5 August 1991) was a Japanese engineer and industrialist. In 1948, he established Honda Motor Co., Ltd. and oversaw its expansion from a wooden shack manufacturing bicycle motors to a multinational automobile…
Happy Name Day Grace (16/11)
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…
Patent is Granted for the Distinctive Coca-Cola Bottle (1915)
The Coca-Cola bottle, called the “contour bottle” within the company, was created by bottle designer Earl R. Dean and Coca-Cola’s general counsel, Harold Hirsch. In 1915, the Coca-Cola Company was represented by their general…
ViewBug “Top 10% 2025” Rank
They wrote: “Congratulations! Your 2025 Top Rank is in the top 10% .🎉 Wow, you’ve really made a mark! Your photos don’t just capture moments—they inspire millions. Based on your reach and…
Maiden Flight of the Space Shuttle Buran (1988)
Buran was the first spaceplane to be produced as part of the Soviet/Russian Buran program. The Buran orbiters were similar in design to the U.S. Space Shuttle.Buran completed one uncrewed spaceflight in 1988, and was…
First Eurostar Passenger Trains Use Channel Tunnel (1994)
Eurostar is an international high-speed rail service in Western Europe, connecting Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom through the Channel Tunnel. The service is operated by the Eurostar Group which was formed from the merger of Eurostar, which operated trains…
Michael Schumacher Wins His First Formula One Championship (1994)
Michael Schumacher (born 3 January 1969) is a German former racing driver who competed in Formula One from 1991 to 2006 and from 2010 to 2012. Schumacher won a record-setting seven Formula One World Drivers’ Championship titles, tied by Lewis Hamilton in 2020, and—at the…
Voyager 1 Passes Saturn (1980)
Voyager 1 is a space probe launched by NASA on September 5, 1977, as part of the Voyager program, to study the outer Solar System and the interstellar space beyond the Sun’s heliosphere. It was launched 16 days after its twin, Voyager…
Launch of Gemini 12 (1966)
Gemini 12 (officially Gemini XII) was a 1966 crewed spaceflight in NASA’s Project Gemini. It was the 10th and final crewed Gemini flight (Gemini 1 and Gemini 2 were uncrewed missions), the 18th crewed American spaceflight, and the 26th spaceflight…
Happy Birthday Carl F.W. Borgward (1890)
Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Borgward (10 November 1890 in Altona, Hamburg – 28 July 1963 in Bremen) was a German engineer and designer and the creator of the Borgward group, based in Bremen. In 1924 and 1925 the…
Maiden Flight of the Saturn V Rocket (1967)
The Saturn V is a retired American super heavy-lift launch vehicle developed by NASA under the Apollo program for human exploration of the Moon. The rocket was human-rated, had three stages, and was powered by liquid fuel. Flown from 1967 to 1973,…
Happy Birthday Alain Delon (1935)
Alain Delon (French: (8 November 1935 – 18 August 2024) was a French actor, film producer, screenwriter, singer, and businessman. Acknowledged as a cultural and cinematic leading man of the 20th century, Delon emerged…
Happy Birthday David De Gea (1990)
David de Gea (born 7 November 1990) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Serie A club Fiorentina. Considered one of the best keepers of his generation, he is known for his reflexes and…
Samuel Morse’s Telegraph Patent Granted (1847)
Samuel Morse (April 27, 1791 – April 2, 1872) was an American inventor and painter. After establishing his reputation as a portrait painter, Morse, in his middle age, contributed to the…
Gunpowder Plot Foiled (1605)
The plan was to blow up the House of Lords during the State Opening of Parliament on Tuesday 5 November 1605, as the prelude to a popular revolt in the Midlands during which King James’s nine-year-old…
Patent for First Mechancal Cash Register (1879)
James and John Ritty patented the design on November 4, 1879, as “Cash Register and Indicator.” This was not the first cash register on the market, as indicated by the…
Launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-66 (1994)
STS-66 was a Space Shuttle program mission that was flown by the Space Shuttle Atlantis. STS-66 launched on November 3, 1994, at 11:59:43.060 am EDT from Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Atlantis landed at Edwards Air Force Base on…
Maiden Flight of the Airbus A330 (1992)
The Airbus A330 is a wide-body airliner developed and produced by Airbus. Airbus began developing larger A300 derivatives in the mid–1970s, giving rise to the A330 twinjet as well as the Airbus A340 quadjet, and launched both designs along…
Happy Name Day Denise (1/11)
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…
Ken Miles and Carroll Shelby Share the Same Birthday on Two Different days of the Year (1/11)
Ken Miles and Carroll Shelby are best known for their development of the Ford GT40 that won the 24h of Le Mans consecutively from 1966 to 1969. But they not…
Happy Birthday Ken Miles (1918)
Ken Miles (1 November 1918 – 17 August 1966) was an English sports car racing engineer and driver best known for his motorsport career in the U.S. and with American…
Martin Luther Posts his 95 Theses (1517)
Martin Luther (10 November 1483 – 18 February 1546) was a German priest, theologian, author, hymn-writer, professor, and former Augustinian friar. Luther was the seminal figure of the Protestant Reformation, and his theological beliefs form the basis of Lutheranism.…
Happt Birthday Sir Christopher Wren (1632)
Sir Christopher Wren FRS (30 October 1632 – 8 March 1723) was an English architect, astronomer, mathematician and physicist who is one of the most highly acclaimed architects in the history of England.…