Happy Name Day Bernadine (20th May)
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…
Maiden Flight of the Eurofighter Typhoon (1994)
The Eurofighter Typhoon is a European multinational twin-engine, supersonic, canard delta wing, multirole fighter. The Typhoon was designed originally as an air-superiority fighter and is manufactured by a consortium of Airbus, BAE Systems and Leonardo that conducts the majority of the project through a joint holding company, Eurofighter…
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…
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…
The Channel Tunnel is Opened (1994)
The history of the Eurostar brand can be traced to the choice in 1986 of a rail tunnel to provide a cross-channel link between Britain and France. A previous attempt…