22-year old Cornelia Fort became the 1st American woman pilot in a combat zone while flying over Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked, December 7, 1941

Fire-fighting specialist Red Adair was one of the first called to extinguish the oil fires started in Kuwait by Saddam Hussein at the end of the Gulf conflict, 1991

Fidel Castro plays baseball, 1959

Albert Einstein pronounces a speech about the civilization and science at the Albert Hall on October 4, 1933

Janet Collins was the first and only African American to become Prima Ballerina at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, 1951

Polish flying ace Jan Zumbach of the 303 Kosciuszko Polish Fighter Squadron poses with his Supermarine Spitfire Mk VB, 1943. The plane bears his distinctive Donald Duck symbol

Anna Frank. Her famous diary chronicles the events of her life from June 1942 until 1944, during the World War II

Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to command a space shuttle mission on Columbia STS-93, July 23, 1999

African American inventor Charles Baker and an assistant standing behind the heating (radiator) whitch they invented, 1906

Agnes Chase went to Brazil and collected so many grass specimens, that she increased the world’s knowledge of Brazilian grasses by at least 10 percent

Wilbur Shanklin of the 101st airborne guards German Prisoner, Turqueville, France, 1944

Nancy Nesbit, pilot trainee in women's flying training detachment, 1943

Before getting started at writing in his twenties, the young Hunter Thompson had managed to drop out of high school, going to jail for robbery and entering the US Army

Czech gymnastics icon Vera Caslavska who will be winning four gold medals at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico city

Ian Fleming (author of the James Bond novels) and Sean Connery on the set of Dr. No, 1962

Annie Fox was the first woman to receive the Purple Heart for combat. She served as the chief nurse in the Army Nurse Corps at Hickam Field during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941

Tony Hawk is known for landing the first 900 at a competition at X-Games. His new skateboard tricks while floating in zero gravity in a vomit comet is another reason to be impressed. @scienceissexy

Virgil Grissom, the command pilot of the Gemini-Titan 3 (GT-3) space flight, is shown in the GT-3 spacecraft just before the hatches are secured prior to launch, March 23, 1965

Max Planck hands over the office of Interim President of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society to Otto Hahn, 1946

Army Air Force test pilot Chuck Yeager became the first person to exceed the speed of sound in an airplane (in level flight) on October 14, 1947