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 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…
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 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…
Uranus Rings are Discovered (1977)
Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. It is a gaseous, cyan-coloured ice giant. Most of the planet is made of water, ammonia, and methane in a supercritical phase…
First Barbie Doll is Launched (1959)
Barbie is a fashion doll created by American businesswoman Ruth Handler, manufactured by American toy and entertainment company Mattel, and introduced at the American Toy Fair on March 9th, 1959.…
First Production of the Volkswagen Transporter (1950)
The Volkswagen Transporter, initially the Type 2, is a range of light commercial vehicles, built both as vans, pickups, and cab and chassis variants, introduced in 1950 by the German…
Patent Granted for the first Telephone (1876)
In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell was the first to be granted a United States patent for a device that produced clearly intelligible replication of the human voice at a second…
Happy Birthday Jolene Blalock (1975)
Jolene Blalock was born on March 5th, 1975, in San Diego, California, US. She is an American actress and model. She is best known for playing the Vulcan first officer…
First Images of Halley’s Comet Captured
The 1986 apparition of Halley’s Comet gave scientists the opportunity to study the comet closely, and several probes were launched to do so. The Soviet Vega 1 probe began returning…
Time Publishes First Issue (1923)
Time has been based in New York City since its first issue published on March 3, 1923, by Briton Hadden (1898–1929) and Henry Luce (1898–1967). It was the first weekly…
Happy Birthday Daniel Craig (1968)
Daniel Craig CMG (born 2 March 1968) is an English actor. He gained international fame by playing the fictional secret agent James Bond for five instalments in the film series:…
Formation of the Golden Hawks Aerobatic Team (1959)
The Golden Hawks aerobatic team was formed on March 1, 1959 to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of powered flight in Canada, when the primitive Silver Dart biplane flown by J.A.D.…
Happy Birthday Butch Leitzinger (1969)
Robert Franklin “Butch” Leitzinger (born February 28, 1969) is an American professional racing driver. He is best known as an ALMS driver with Dyson Racing, but he has also driven…
Stabilisation of the Leaning Tower of Pisa (1964)
The Leaning Tower of Pisa is the campanile, or freestanding bell tower, of Pisa Cathedral. It is known for its nearly four-degree lean, the result of an unstable foundation. The…
Happy Birthday Levi Strauss (1829)
Levi Strauss was born to a Jewish family in Buttenheim on February 26, 1829, in Germany. In 1847, aged 18, Strauss travelled with his mother and two sisters to the…
First Patent of the Colt Revolver (1835)
Samuel Colt received a British patent on his improved design for a revolver in 1835, and two U.S. patents in 1836, one on February 25 (later numbered U.S. Patent 9430X)…
First Galanthus in 2025
Galanthus, or snowdrop, is a small genus of approximately 20 species of bulbous perennial herbaceous plants in the family Amaryllidaceae. The plants have two linear leaves and a single small…
Happy Birthday Sir Joseph Banks (1743)
Happy Birthday to Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, GCB, FRS (24 February 1743 – 19 June 1820). He was an English naturalist, botanist, and patron of the natural sciences. Banks…
Happy Birthday Hans Hermann (1928)
Hans Herrmann (born 23 February 1928) is a retired Formula One and sports car racing driver from Stuttgart, Germany. In F1, he participated in 19 World Championship Grands Prix, debuting…
Twosday (Tuesday 22/02/2022)
Twosday is the name given to Tuesday (2nd day of the week), February 22, 2022, and an unofficial one-time secular observance held on that day, characterized as a fad. The…
NASCAR is incorporated (1948)
The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, LLC (NASCAR) is an American auto racing sanctioning and operating company that is best known for stock car racing. It is one…