What happens when going around the world is no longer enough? On 28 September 1924, two Douglas World Cruisers returned to Seattle and completed the first aerial circumnavigation of the globe. The US Army Air Service expedition had begun on 6 April and lasted 175 days, covering roughly 27,550 miles. Four aircraft had set out; […]
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Some dates seem to acquire a literary life of their own, and 21 September has an unusually impressive collection of connections. We begin in 1866, with the birth of H. G. Wells. Wells became one of the defining figures of early science fiction, imagining time travel, invisible men and, most famously, an invasion from Mars […]
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What happens when two birthdays collide in Paris? You get Pink the Panther. On 8 September 1925, Peter Sellers was born in Portsmouth. Forty-four years later, on 8 September 1979, Alecia Beth Moore — better known as Pink — was born in Pennsylvania. That gives us a wonderfully simple Link Salad: Pink + Peter Sellers […]
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Some dates seem to have a theme running through them. 3 September is a day for turning. On 3 September 1967, Sweden carried out one of the most extraordinary changes in its motoring history. On Dagen H — Högertrafikomläggningen, the right-hand traffic reorganisation — the country switched from driving on the left-hand side of the […]
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