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…
Guru’s Pick (27/02/2025)
This photo has just received a Guru’s Pick in the ‘Foggy Day’ GuruShots Challenge.
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…
Digitally Displayed at the Matca Gallery, Hanoi, Vietnam
20th – 25th of February, 2025 This photo is currently being digitally displayed at the Matca Gallery in Hanoi, Vietnam. It is part of the ‘Dramatic Lighting’-Exhibition. It took part…
Premier of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake (1877)
Almost 150 years ago, Swan Lake, a ballet was composed by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1875–76. Despite its initial failure, it is now one of the most popular…
Happy Birthday Seal (1963)
Happy Birthday Seal, British singer, songwriter, and record producer. Born as Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel on the 19th of February 1963 in Paddington, London, UK. Seal received three…
Happy Birthday Enzo Ferrari (1898)
Enzo Ferrari (18 February 1898 – 14 August 1988) was an Italian motor racing driver and entrepreneur, the founder of the Scuderia Ferrari Grand Prix motor racing team, and subsequently…
VW Beetle Breaks World Car Production Record (1972)
On 17 February 1972, the world car production record was broken by the Volkswagen Beetle, with a total of 15,007,034 units produced worldwide, thereby surpassing the production figure that had…
Canadian Pacific Railway is incorporated (1881)
The Canadian Pacific Railway is a Canadian Class I railway incorporated on the 16th of February 1881, 144 years ago. The railway is owned by Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited,…
First Publication of the Human Genome (2001)
Today we celebrate the publication of the human genome with an image of the super helix. On 15th February 2001 researchers published the first sequence-based map of large-scale structural variation…
Valentine’s Day
Today we celebrate Valentine’s Day, also called Saint Valentine’s Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is celebrated annually on February 14. It originated as a Christian feast day honouring…
First Launch of the ESA Vega Rocket (2022)
Vega was an expendable small lift launch vehicle operated by Arianespace, produced by Avio, and jointly developed by the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and the European Space Agency (ESA). Development…
Happy Birthday Louis Renault (1877)
Today we want to remember a great French pioneer of the automotive industry, Louis Renault. Renault was born on 12th of February 1877 in Fresnes Prison, Fresnes, France. He built…
Happy Birthday Burt Reynolds (1936)
Burt Reynolds was born as Burton Leon Reynolds Jr. on February 11, 1936, in Lansing, Michigan. As an American actor, most famous during the 1970s and 1980s. Reynolds played leading…
Deep Blue beats Garry Kasparov at Chess (1997)
Today 28 years ago an AI beat a world champion chess master for the first time. Deep Blue was a chess-playing expert system run on a unique purpose-built IBM supercomputer…
Budd unveils first self-propelled diesel multiple unit railcar (1978)
Budd unveiled the first SPV-2000, a self-propelled diesel multiple unit railcar, in Philadelphia on February 9th, 1978, and then sent it on a demonstration tour around the United States. The…