Happy birthday Scottish Knight Sean Connery (1930)

360.org - Sunday, 25 August 2019 - Today we wish James Bond a happy birthday, or at least one of the Jameses. Scottish Sean Connery to be exact. Connery was the first actor to portray James Bond on the big screen, but he was so much more than that. For instance, he stared in the �The Hunt for Red October�, but he was also the �Sexiest Man Alive� in 1999 and �Scotland's Greatest Living National Treasure� in 1989. Read More >>

The end of his presidency was the end of his life (1954)

360.org - Saturday, 24 August 2019 - There aren�t always logical reasons or explanations for why people do the things they do; sometimes there are plenty of reasons; sometimes there are none. Get�lio Dornelles Vargas, found himself in a difficult situation when he made his final decision, but what happened beforehand? On the 24th of August in 1954, the President of Brazil, Get�lio Dornelles Vargas, committed suicide. Read More >>

World�s most famous rabbit (1927)

360.org - Friday, 23 August 2019 - As the son of a publisher, Dick Bruna was expected to succeed his father and take over his company, but instead, he found happiness by working for the publishing house. On the 23rd of August in 1927, the famous children�s book author Dick Bruna, who created the world-famous stories about the little rabbit Miffy, was born in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Read More >>

The burning spear of Kenya

Fighting your entire life for something you believe in might be a difficult course to maintain, but if your intentions are true and will help others, you might just succeed. This goes for Jomo Kenyatta, who wanted nothing more than to free his country from the British rule and make Kenya an independent republic. On the 22nd of August in 1978, the first Kenyan President Jomo Kenyatta passed away. Read More >>

Great timing

The infamous Big Ben, located in the heart of London, has served queen and country for a long time now. The clock was part of a project after a fire burned down the old Palace of Westminster. The tower and its clock were finished in 1859. But even the well-known clock is in need of some repairs over time. Read More >>

The great firestorm of Yellowstone

Old Faithful, Fountain Paint Pot and Hayden Valley; only a view of the places of interest of Yellowstone Park in America. The first National Park in the world, visited by more than 3 million people every year. But today in 1988 one-third of the park got destroyed by fire. This day became known as �Black Saturday�. Read More >>

Most influential woman; Coco Chanel

There are only a few people who really changed the way the world looks. One of those people is the infamous Coco Chanel, by her fashion, jewelry and fragrances. Because of her innovative work, she became the only fashion designer on Time Magazine�s list of the 100 most influential 20th century people. Read More >>

Walter Chrysler the car doctor

When you think of Chrysler, you probably think of cars or maybe of a building in New York. Just like most great brands Chrysler is named after its founder; Walter Percy Chrysler. Today we remember the day he died, August 18, 1940. Read More >>

1786: Davy Crockett, the true pioneer

1977: Elvis has left the building

1057: Was Macbeth really such a bad guy?

1951: Hearst Castle, a grown up�s Disney land

1926: Fidel Castro, liberator of Cuba

-30: Cleopatra, was she really who we think she was?

1858: Without this man we might all be dead

1787: Mozart�s obsession with poop

1963: Happy birthday Whitney Houston!

1974: The White House Watergate Scandal

1876: Mata Hari, the exotic woman spy

1890: The first man killed by an electric chair