Biography

The car manufacturer Peugeot calls the feature lines of some of its car models "Roland Garros".

In 1987, he and his future wife, Trudie Styler, founded the Rainforest Foundation, a charitable foundation dedicated to bringing attention to the rainforests and defending the rights of the indigenous people.

Aristotle is considered the father of zoology.

After less than a year on Elba, Napoleon escaped from the island in February 1815 and appeared in Paris on the first of March, embracing power in France for 100 days.

For several years, it was believed his death was an accident.

He made his public debut in Vienna in 1795.

She never tied herself to a man and remained a virgin for the rest of her life.

Garros ended up in German captivity in 1915. During a raid on the Courtrai railway station in German-controlled territory, a fuel line in his plane became clogged, forcing him to land. Garros was captured by the Germans and sent to a POW camp at the fortress of Magdeburg, where he spent three years.

After her first meeting with Charles Babbage, Lovelace visited him whenever she could.

At the age of six he began taking piano lessons from Wojciech Żywny, a Polish pianist of Czech origin.