On this day, in 1961, humanity made it's first journey into space.

Yuri Gagarin

Gustave Doré, The Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, 1866

John Atkinson Grimshaw, The Broomielaw, Glasgow, 1889

Jean Louis Forain, Rimbaud, 1872

Giovanni Boldini, The Divine in Blue, ~1900

Peter Paul Ruben, The Massacre of the Innocents, 1612

Born This Day

Stephan C. Archetti

Died This Day

International Women's Day

Margaret Hamilton, who developed on-board flight software for the Apollo space program, along side the printed code.

Berthold Woltze, The Irritating Gentleman, 1874

William Holman Hunt, The Awakening Conscience, 1853

For those who see differently.

William Turner, The Slave Ship (aka Slavers Throwing overboard the Dead and Dying—Typhon coming on), 1840

Do you see the elephant?

William Turner, Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps, 1812

The Paintings of Ruben and his Legacy

Peter Paul Rubens, Tiger, Lion and Leopard Hunt, 1616

El Greco (completed by his son), The Baptism of Christ, early 1600's

Philip Glass, Einstein On The Beach

Astrid Kirchherr, The Beatles at Hamburg Funfair, 1960

Happy Darwin Day