Biography

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.

Oppenheimer was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. The work in the laboratory was enormously stressful.

Constantine died of natural causes on May 22, 337, in the imperial villa at Ancyron, near Nicomedia.

He was born in an apartment building at Getreidegasse 9, in the so-called "Hagenauer House."

Columbus was accused of extreme brutality againts indigenious people.

There is a debate about when Anna started using Pavlova as her last name.

Jane Austin's first literary attempts date from 1787 (she was 12 years old at the time).

While in the hospital, he shared his room with Henry Serrano Villard, a writer who later became an ambassador.

Garros began his aviation career in 1909.

Young William attended a grammar school in Stratford, a prestigious institution where pupils were taught by Oxford and Cambridge magisters. The young Shakespeare learned Latin, history, ancient literature, rhetoric, basic grammar, and modern languages.