Van der Wal was the 1961 recipient of the Society of Women Engineers Achievement Award for her research in the effects of space flight on living organisms

Alain Robbe-Grillet, epresentative writer and leading theoretician of the Nouveau Roman, the French “anti-novel” that emerged in the 1950s

John Deere started his career as a blacksmith, inventor and then manufacturer. In 1837, Deere started an eponymous company that went on to become an international powerhouse

Georges Blind, a member of the French resistance, smiling at his German firing squad, 1944

Edwin Aldrin takes a selfie while spacewalking during NASA's Gemini 12 mission in November 1966

Stalin and Churchill in Livadia Palace during the Yalta Conference, February 1945

Senator Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated, this day in 1968

Eartha Mae Kitt was an American singer, actress, and cabaret star

Margaret Bourke-White on the edge of the Chrysler Building doing what she did best... creating art through documenting the world around her, New York, 1931

Mexican President Francisco Madero The first democratically elected leader in Mexico's history

Self-portrait of John Lennon and his Rolleiflex in the attic of his house Kenwood, June 29, 1967

Pope Paul VI looks through a telescope at the Apollo 11 Moon Landing Site, July 20, 1969

Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly, backstage at the 1956 academy awards

Alexander Graham Bell and his wife Mabel kissing within a tetrahedral kite, October 1903

Gemini 9 astronaut Gene Cernan suits up for a launch test, May 10, 1966

🚀These are the F-1 engines on the Saturn V (with Wernher von Braun for scale). @scienceissexy

On this day in 1957, Elvis Presley went to #1 on the UK charts with "All Shook Up"

Philippe Petit during his remarkable walk between the World Trade Center's Twin Towers in August 8, 1974 @facethenation

Elsa Andersson was Sweden's first female aviator and stunt parachutist @facethenation

Margaret Heafield was a NASA lead software engineer for Apollo Space Program with the source-code of Apollo Guidance Computer in 1969 @facethenation