June 11, 1963, Thich Quang Duc, a Buddhist monk, burns himself to death on the streets of Saigon, South Vietnam. He was protesting the persecution of Buddhists by the government.
Tiramisù was invented in 1962 by Ada Campeol, the owner of a restaurant in Treviso called “Alle Beccherie”, who supposedly wanted to create a dessert that would give her an energy boost after the birth of her first child.
October 21, 2015: Marty McFly visited the future via the time-traveling DeLorean automobile in the 1989 film Back to the Future Part II
On July 1890, The Picture of Dorian Gray, a philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde, is first published complete in the monthly issue ofLippincott’s Monthly Magazine.
On November 18, 1307, Swiss archer William Tell split an apple into two pieces on his son’s head with a well-aimed arrow. For defying Austrian authority, both he and his son were to be executed, but their lives would be spared if Tell, an excellent marksman, could hit the apple.
On 1902 french director Georges Méliès starts shooting A Trip to the Moon, a silent film inspired by a Jules Verne’s novel about a group of astronomers who travel to the Moon in a cannon-propelled capsule.
On 14 november 1851, Moby Dick, a novel by Herman Melville about the voyage of the whaling ship Pequod, is published by Harper & Brothers in New York.
On october 1915, The Metamorphosis, a novel by Franz Kafka about a traveling salesman that wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant insect, is published by Kurt Wolff Verlag in Austria-Hungary.
May 17, 1900: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, an American children’s novel written by author L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, is published by the George M. Hill Company in Chicago
1280, Roger Bacon invents gunpowder
