Happy Birthday Barack Obama (1961)
Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who was the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic…
Firestone Tyres are Founded (1868)
Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is an American tire company founded by Harvey S. Firestone (1868–1938) in 1900 initially to supply solid rubber side-wire tires for fire apparatus, and later,…
Clay Street Hill Railroad is First Operated (1873)
The Clay Street Hill Railroad was the first successful cable hauled street railway. It was located on Clay Street, a notably steep street in San Francisco in California, United States,…
Happy Birthday Joseph Priestley (1733)
Joseph Priestley FRS (24 March 1733 – 6 February 1804) was an English chemist, Unitarian, natural philosopher, separatist theologian, grammarian, multi-subject educator and classical liberal political theorist. He published over…
Happy Birthday Mikko Hirvonen (1980)
Mikko Hirvonen (born 31 July 1980) is a Finnish former rally driver, and a current Rally-Raid driver, who drove in the World Rally Championship. He placed third in the drivers’…
The Last Original VW Beetle is Produced (2003)
On 30 July 2003 at 9:05 a.m., at the Puebla plant in Mexico, Volkswagen produced the final Type 1, after 21,529,464 examples were produced globally during its tenure.[ Its production…
Happy Birthday Stig Blomquist (1946)
Stig Blomqvist (born 29 July 1946) is a retired Swedish rally driver. He made his international breakthrough in 1971. Driving an Audi Quattro for the Audi factory team, Blomqvist won…
Happy Name Day Kimberley (28/07)
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…
USS Constellation is Commissioned (1854)
USS Constellation is a sloop-of-war, the last sail-only warship designed and built by the United States Navy. She was built at the Gosport Shipyard between 1853 and 1855. She was…
Bugs Bunny Goes on the Air (1940)
Bugs Bunny is a cartoon character created in the late 1930s at Warner Bros. Cartoons (originally Leon Schlesinger Productions) and voiced originally by Mel Blanc. Bugs is best known for…
Ewald Rohlfs Reaches 2,339m with the Focke-Wulf FW61 Helicopter (1937)
The Focke-Wulf Fw 61 was the first successful, practical, and fully controllable helicopter, first flown in 1936. It was also known as the Fa 61, as Focke began a new…
Maccu Picchu is Rediscovered (1911)
Machu Picchu is a 15th-century Inca citadel located in the Eastern Cordillera of southern Peru on a mountain ridge at 2,430 meters (7,970 ft). Often referred to as the “Lost…
IWC Votes to Impose a Moratorium on Commercial Whaling (1982)
The 1970s saw the beginning of the global anti-whaling movement. In 1972 the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment at Stockholm adopted a proposal that recommended a ten-year moratorium…
First Motor Race in France (1894)
Motor racing was started in France, as a direct result of the enthusiasm with which the French public embraced the motor car. Manufacturers were enthusiastic due to the possibility of…
Happy Birthday Robin Williams (1951)
Robin Williams (July 21, 1951 – August 11, 2014) was an American actor and comedian known for his improvisational skills and the wide variety of characters he created spontaneously and…
Swiss TV Goes on the Air (1953)
Schweizer Fernsehen (SF; “Swiss Television”) was the German-language division of SRG SSR, in charge of production and distribution of television programmes in Switzerland for German-speaking Switzerland. It had its head…
The First Line of the Paris Metro Opens (1900)
The Paris Métro, short for Métropolitain, is a rapid transit system serving the Paris metropolitan area in France. A symbol of the city, it is known for its density within…
Happy Birthday Vin Diesel (1967)
Mark Sinclair (born July 18, 1967), known professionally as Vin Diesel, is an American actor and film producer. One of the world’s highest-grossing actors, he is best known for portraying…
NEC is founded (1899)
NEC Corporation is a Japanese multinational information technology and electronics corporation, headquartered at the NEC Supertower in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. It provides IT and network solutions, including cloud computing, artificial…
The First Parking Meter is Installed (1933)
An early patent for a parking meter, U.S. patent, was filed by Roger W. Babson, on August 30, 1928. The meter was intended to operate on power from the battery…
The Rosetta Stone is Found (1799)
The Rosetta Stone is a stele of granodiorite inscribed with three versions of a decree issued in 196 BC during the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt, on behalf of King Ptolemy…
Happy Birthday Harrison Ford (1942)
Harrison Ford (born July 13, 1942) is an American actor. Regarded as a cinematic cultural icon, he has starred in many notable films over seven decades, and is one of…
Happy Birthday Linda Park (1978)
Linda Park (born July 9, 1978) is a South Korean-born American actress. She is best known for playing communications officer Hoshi Sato in the science-fiction series Star Trek: Enterprise. Also…
Vasco da Gama Sets Sail For India (1497)
Vasco da Gama (1460s – 24 December 1524), was a Portuguese explorer and nobleman who was the first European to reach India by sea. Da Gama’s first voyage (1497–1499) was…
Happy Birthday Tom Kristensen (1967)
Tom Kristensen (born 7 July 1967) is a Danish former racing driver. He holds the record for the most wins at the 24 Hours of Le Mans with nine, six…
Happy Birthday Sylvester Stallone (1946)
Sylvester Stallone (born July 6, 1946) is an American actor and filmmaker. In a film career spanning more than fifty years, Stallone has received numerous accolades, including a Golden Globe…
Dolly the Sheep is Born (1996)
Dolly (5 July 1996 – 14 February 2003) was a female Finn-Dorset sheep and the first mammal that was cloned from an adult somatic cell. She was cloned by associates…
Happy Birthday Roland Ratzenberger (1960)
Roland Walter Ratzenberger (4 July 1960 – 30 April 1994) was an Austrian racing driver, who competed in Formula One at three Grands Prix in 1994. Born and raised in…
Happy Birthday Richard Lee Petty (1937)
Richard Lee Petty (born July 2, 1937), nicknamed “the King”, is an American former stock car racing driver who competed from 1958 to 1992 in the former NASCAR Grand National…