🎂 Agatha Christie, queen of mysteries (1890)
Where: Torquay, Devon
Nearby on the globe: Roman Baths, Bath → 🌍 Open the 3D globe
📅 On This Day: September 15
September 15, 1890: Agatha Christie, queen of mysteries. On 15 September 1890, Agatha Christie was born in Torquay, a seaside town in Devon, England. She wrote a great many mystery novels starring the moustached detective Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Torquay Museum has a Christie gallery with her handwritten notes and personal belongings.
✨ More events on this day
- 1835 🌿 HMS Beagle, with young Charles Darwin aboard, reached the Galápagos Islands in 1835, where giant tortoises and finches later helped shape his ideas about evolution. Galápagos Islands →
- 1852 💡 Inventor Jan Ernst Matzeliger was born in Suriname in 1852; his shoe-lasting machine made shoes much faster and cheaper for everyone.
- 1968 🚀 The Soviet spacecraft Zond 5 launched in 1968 carrying two tortoises, which became the first living things to fly around the Moon and return to Earth.
🧠 Question of the day
What is the name of Christie's moustached detective?
- Detective Conan
- Hercule Poirot
- Sherlock Holmes
Show the answer
Answer: Hercule Poirot
🎂 Landmarks that opened on September 15
Questions
What happened on September 15?
September 15, 1890: Agatha Christie, queen of mysteries. It happened in Torquay, Devon.
Which landmarks opened on September 15?
Merlion (unveiled 1972).
In the game, the "Today on Earth" panel shows this story on its day, with a question to answer and a place to fly to.
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