Biography

The Stade Roland Garros tennis complex in Paris is named after Roland Garros.

Jane Austen's life was brought to the screen in films such as "Jane in Love" and" Miss Austen Regrets."

In 1911, he set an altitude record of 3950 meters.

From an early age, he was a music enthusiast, with a particular fondness for the Beatles and jazz musicians, Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane.

In Europe he wrote 16 papers on quantum mechanics, and together with Born published a paper on the Born-Oppenheimer approximation. He then decided to return to the United States.

Monroe died on 5th August 1962.

Oppenheimer was suspected of treason. When the Soviet Union successfully tested an atomic bomb in 1949, it came as a surprise to the United States. Since it came so soon after the Manhattan Project, it was suspected that someone had betrayed the project.

Her photo graced the first-ever front cover of Playboy magazine.

Garros was the first to shoot down an aircraft with a machine gun mounted on the fuselage.

Also of great distinction was Kosciuszko's admission (as one of three foreigners) by fellow combatants to the Society of the Cincinnati, founded by the most distinguished officers.