Happy Birthday Garry Kasparov (1963)
Garry Kasparov (born on 13 April 1963) is a Russian chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion (1985–2000), political activist and writer. His peak FIDE chess rating of 2851, achieved in…
Happy Birthday Carlos Sainz Sr. – El Matador (1962)
Carlos Sainz Sr. (born 12 April 1962) is a Spanish rally driver. He won the World Rally Championship drivers’ title with Toyota in 1990 and 1992 and finished runner-up four…
Happy Birthday Steven Seagal (1952)
Steven Seagal (born April 10, 1952) is an US actor, producer, screenwriter, martial artist, and musician. A 7th-dan black belt in aikido, he began his adult life as a martial…
Happy Birthday Mark Blundell (1966)
Mark Blundell (born 8 April 1966) is a British racing driver who competed in Formula One for four seasons, sports cars, and CART. He won the 1992 24 Hours of…
First African American Depicted on a US Postage Stamp (1940)
In 1896 when Washington reviewed the study conducted by George Washington Carver about the infection plaguing the soybean crop, he invited Carver to head the Agriculture Department at Tuskegee, where…
First Modern Olympics held in Athens (1896)
The 1896 Summer Olympics officially known as the Games of the I Olympiad and commonly known as Athens 1896, were the first international Olympic Games held in modern history. Organised…
Happy Birthday Larry Bell (1894)
Lawrence Dale “Larry” Bell (April 5, 1894 – October 20, 1956) was an American industrialist and founder of Bell Aircraft Corporation. Bell was born in Mentone, Indiana. Bell moved in…
Microsoft is Founded (1975)
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology conglomerate headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Founded in 1975 the company became highly influential in the rise of personal computers through software like Windows,…
Daimler and Maybach Design First Motorcycle (1885)
Daimler and his lifelong business partner Wilhelm Maybach were two inventors whose goal was to create small, high-speed engines to be mounted in any kind of locomotion device. In 1883…
Happy Birthday Ludwig van Beethoven (1770)
Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He is one of the most revered figures in the history of Western music; his works rank among the most performed…
The City of Hamburg’s Area is Finalized (1937)
Hamburg, officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, is the second-largest city in Germany after Berlin and 6th-largest in the European Union with a population of over 1.9 million.…
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 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 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 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 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…