🎂 Jules Verne is born (1828)
Where: Nantes, France
Nearby on the globe: Mont-Saint-Michel → 🌍 Open the 3D globe
📅 On This Day: February 8
February 8, 1828: Jules Verne is born. Jules Verne was born in 1828 in the port city of Nantes, France. He wrote adventures full of submarines and space travel, like Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas and Around the World in Eighty Days. Many of the things he imagined were later really built.
✨ More events on this day
- 1700 🔬 Daniel Bernoulli was born; his discovery about how fast-moving air and water push less on things helps explain how aeroplane wings lift.
- 1825 🌿 Henry Walter Bates was born; he spent 11 years exploring the Amazon rainforest and discovered how harmless butterflies copy poisonous ones to stay safe.
- 1906 💡 Chester Carlson was born; he invented xerography, the way photocopiers make copies of pages using light and static electricity.
🧠 Question of the day
Which book did Jules Verne write?
- Around the World in Eighty Days
- Cinderella
- Winnie-the-Pooh
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Answer: Around the World in Eighty Days
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What happened on February 8?
February 8, 1828: Jules Verne is born. It happened in Nantes, France.
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