Timelines
Timelines make it easier to understand what happened, when it happened, and why it matters.
Victor Glover: From Navy test pilot to Artemis II lunar flyby
April 30, 1976
Victor Jerome Glover Jr. is born in Pomona, California, to a Caribbean American mother and a Black American father.
1994
He graduates from Ontario High School (California) and is named the school’s Athlete of the Year after playing quarterback and running back for the Jaguars football team.
Jeremy Hansen’s Road from RCAF Pilot to Artemis II
1976-01-27
Jeremy Roger Hansen is born in London, Ontario, Canada.
c. 1988
At age 12, he joins 614 Royal Canadian Air Cadets Squadron in London, an early step toward aviation and military service.
Reid Wiseman’s path from Navy test pilot to Artemis II
November 11, 1975
Gregory Reid Wiseman is born in Baltimore, Maryland.
1997
After graduating from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Wiseman is commissioned through the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps and reports to Naval Air Station Pensacola for flight training.
Joey Tempest: From Stockholm teen bands to global rock hits
19 Aug 1963
Rolf Magnus Joakim Larsson (later known professionally as Joey Tempest) is born in Stockholm, Sweden.
c. 1971 (age 8)
As a child, he records songs from UK and US radio/TV onto tape and repeatedly listens—an early sign of the musical focus that later shaped his songwriting.
Pam Bondi’s rise from Florida AG to Trump’s fired attorney general
November 17, 1965
Pamela Jo Bondi is born.
1987
Bondi earns a BA in criminal justice from the University of Florida, beginning her path toward a legal career.
Francis Bacon: From Dublin youth to postwar art icon
28 Oct 1909
Francis Bacon is born at 63 Lower Baggot Street in Dublin, then part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
1911
Bacon’s family lives at Cannycourt House in County Kildare, beginning a pattern of moves between Ireland and England that later fed his sense of displacement.
From Newton experiments to the iPad’s 2010 breakout
1983
In a speech, Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs described a vision of putting “a great computer in a book” with a radio link—an early articulation of the concept that would later align with a tablet device like the iPad.
1993
Apple introduced its first tablet computer effort, the Newton MessagePad 100, which helped drive development of the ARM architecture processor core (ARM6) in collaboration with Acorn Computers.
Deep Learning’s Road: From Early RNNs to Modern AI Boom
1920s
Wilhelm Lenz and Ernst Ising developed the Ising model, an early neuron-like threshold-element system that is described as essentially a non-learning recurrent-neural-network (RNN) architecture.
1948
Alan Turing wrote work on “Intelligent Machinery” (published posthumously) containing ideas related to artificial evolution and learning RNNs, anticipating later learning concepts in neural networks.
From Turing’s test to the 2020s AI boom
Antiquity
Philosophers and mathematicians begin studying mechanical or “formal” reasoning, laying early conceptual groundwork for later attempts to model intelligence computationally.
1863
Samuel Butler publishes “Darwin among the Machines,” an early articulation of the idea that machine intelligence could represent a new step in evolution—often cited in later discussions of AI and transhumanism.
Caroline Kennedy: From White House child to U.S. diplomat
November 27, 1957
Caroline Bouvier Kennedy is born at New York Hospital (now Weill Cornell Medical Center) to future President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
1957–1960
She lives with her parents in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., during the first years of her life, before her father's presidency moves the family into the national spotlight.
Israel Adesanya’s rise to UFC champion—and his setbacks
22 Jul 1989
Israel Mobolaji Temitayo Odunayo Oluwafemi Owolabi Adesanya is born in Lagos, Nigeria, the eldest of five children, and is of Yoruba people ethnicity.
1999
He relocates with his family to Ghana for 10 months, an early part of his childhood spent outside Nigeria.
Nikola Tesla’s Journey: From AC Revolution to Wardenclyffe
10 July 1856
Nikola Tesla is born in Smiljan, Croatia, then part of the Austrian Empire, into an ethnic Serb family; his early environment and his mother’s inventiveness later shaped his confidence in mechanical problem-solving.
1861
Tesla attends primary school in Smiljan, studying German, arithmetic, and religion, beginning a formal education that would soon accelerate due to family moves and his academic aptitude.
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