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By the end of World War II, more than 18,000 B-24s had been built, making it the most mass-produced aircraft in history.

RXT6F0 Mary Anning (1799 1847) English fossil collector and palaeontologist who became known around the world for important finds she made in Jurassic marine fossil beds in the cliffs along the English Channel at Lyme Regis in the county of Dorset in England. Posthumous painting of Anning by B. J. Donne from 1847. Image shot 1800. Exact date unknown.

Chuck Yeager, pictured next to the Bell X-1. Many believe the sound-barrier breaking X-1 design incorporated elements of the tail design of the Miles M.52. Yeager died in 2020, aged 97.

The young revolutionary soldier Aaron Burr married Theodosia Prevost even though she was a widow and 10 years his senior. In 2018, the Aaron Burr Association confirmed that Burr fathered a second family with Mary Emmons, his servant from Kolkata, India.

Cycling's first superstar, American Marshall Walter "Major" Taylor turned professional as a teenager in 1896 and set seven world records during the course of his cycling career. His record for the standing mile (1:41) would endure for 28 years.

Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis was an early pioneer of antiseptic procedures but was ridiculed for his work linking handwashing to better medical care.

Marie Carmichael Stopes (15 October 1880 – 2 October 1958) was a Scottish author, palaeobotanist, campaigner for women's rights and pioneer in the field of family planning.

Queen Elizabeth I of England reached out to Islamic leaders "for hard-nosed political and commercial reasons," says author Jerry Brotton.

The detonation of 19 mines at the start of the Battle of Messines in World War I was one of the largest human-made explosions of the pre-nuclear era. As many as 10,000 German soldiers were killed in the blasts.

Napoleon’s rival, the Duke of Wellington, was superb at defensive strategy on the battlefield. This portrait was painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence around 1817.