On the day Al Pacino turns 74 we take a look back at some of the movies that made him one of the most popular actors of his generation. Debut and Early Years Pacino's debut to the big screen came in 1969 with a minor part in Me, Natalie. His first major role and critical acclaim would come 3 years later when he played Michael Corleone in The Godfather. He appeared in a total of 9 movies during the 70's including The Godfather, Serpico, The Godfather Part II, and Dog Day Afternoon.

Great News! We've added embedding timelines to the next release, and it’s going to be FREE! Our goal with this feature is to provide a resource that will allow you to easily add an extra level of engagement to your content. Embedded timelines will display in a read-only mode and the layout has been altered so the timelines will display better in a smaller window. What timelines can I embed?

On this day (April 17th) in 1694 the first generation Ford Mustang was released. The Ford Mustang created a new class of American auto-mobile called The Pony Car. A sports car-like coupe with short rear decks and a long hood, a class to be adopted by competitors such as the Chevrolet Camaro, Pontiac Firebird, AMC Javelin and Dodge Challenger. The Ford Mustang in one of the most iconic cars in history.

50 years ago today (April 16, 1964) The Rolling Stones released their first studio album, "The Rolling Stones". To celebrate this landmark in music history we have a brief history of the band and a timeline of every studio album ever released. How The Rolling Stones began. In 1960, Keith Richards (a childhood friend and classmate of Mick Jagger) joined the garage band Jagger had formed with Dick Taylor. The three would meet regularly at Jagger’s house until 1961 when the meetings switched to Taylor’s house and 2 new members joined the band (Alan Etherington and Bob Beckwith).

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was Born in Vinci, Republic of Florence (present-day Italy) on the 15th of April 1452. To celebrate his life and works we have an interactive timeline of his major works. Works By Leonardo da Vinci - interactive timeline Paintings by Leonardo da Vinci During his lifetime and for several centuries afterwards Leonardo’s fame came from his paintings. He is considered one the best artists in to have ever lived and his painting “The Mona Lisa” is probably the most famous painting in the world.

The next major feature for Histropedia is on its way, Priority Display will make a huge difference to the site and bring us a step closer to the timeline of everything. What does Priority Display do? Priority Display will limit the number of events you see on the screen at one time by only showing the most important events for the current time range. The idea is to offer a broad overview of history when a large period of time is displayed, allowing you to focus on the most important events.

Marking the 43rd anniversary of the Apollo 13 mission we have a timeline of the History of the Apollo Program. The Apollo program was the third human space flight program carried out by NASA, running from 1961 to 1975. After a series of unmanned mission from 1961 to 1967, Apollo 1 was set to be the first manned mission of the Apollo program. Tragically, the mission never reached its launched date, as the Apollo Command/Service Module caught fire during a launch rehearsal, killing all three astronauts on board.

On the 10th of April 1912 The Titanic set out on her maiden voyage from Portsmouth to New York. On April the 14th, just 4 days into the voyage she struck an iceberg south of Newfoundland, sinking the ship and causing the death of more than 1,500 passengers. At the time of its maiden voyage the Titanic was the world's largest passenger ship, carrying 2,224 passengers and crew. Our timeline for today looks back at the World's passenger ships of the 19th Century, from the RMS Celtic (701 ft / 214 m) in 1901 to the MS Explorer of the Seas (1,020 ft / 311 m) in 2000.

Here at Histropedia the whole team is really excited about the upcoming Wikimedia event this August. In an extreme stoke of good luck Wikimania is being held in London this year, and as a London based start-up that wouldn't exist if it wasn't for Wikipedia the timing for us could not be better. We are looking forward to meeting as many Wikipedians as we can over the course of the event, including the fringe events and hackathons scheduled for June and July.

Today marks the end of support for Microsoft's operating system Windows XP. First released in 2001 Windows XP was one of Microsoft's most popular operating systems. Reaching an estimated market share of over 80% in 2007 (source: netmarketshare.com) As we say goodbye to Windows XP, it seems like an appropriate time to take a look back at the history of MS Windows for the home user market. We have a timeline showing the release dates of every major Windows release from Windows 1.

Tomorrow Mars will be the closest to earth that it’s been since 2007, so not only will it be visible to the naked eye, but through the use of even a small telescope a number of topical Martian features will be visible. Also on this day (April 7th) in 2001 the “2001 Mars Odyssey” was launched. In honour of these two events we have created an amazing timeline of Mars exploration.

We have recently switched Histropedia’s primary source for event dates from Wikipedia to Wikidata. We are still using Wikipedia as a date source and all the events remain linked to a Wikipedia article, but now whenever possible we are trying to use dates from Wikidata. This is a major improvement for us because Wikidata stores dates in a very different way to Wikipedia, where there is no set format for date entry.

We are continuing our recent literary theme today, this time looking at historical fiction. One of our major goals here at Histropedia is to make history more accessible, we are attempting to do this through creating a new and engaging way to visualise history through interactive timelines. Another great way to get people more interested in history is through historical fiction. Good historical fiction transports the reader back in time, allowing them to get a real sense of what life was like during the period the work was set in.

We are excited to announce some major changes to the event editing system and an increase in the available zoom levels. The new editing options allow events to be pinned to the exact dates they occurred and the extra zoom levels let you view days and months on the timeline. These changes drastically increase the number of timelines we can display. Until this point events were only displayed accurate to the nearest year, meaning a great number of timelines were not displaying the level of detail required for them to be very useful.

Books are a wonderful thing. They transport us to new worlds, let us explore new ideas and teach us something new about ourselves. Throughout history there have been many amazing authors who have produced works that have had a profound effect on humanity and without doubt represent a very important and insightful area of human history. To help you explore this area of history, or simply to browse some amazing books, we've been updating the literature category of our timeline directory with bibliography timelines for some of history’s most famous authors.

Facebook has been in the news again with another high profile acquisition. Just over a month after acquiring WhatsApp the social media giant has now purchased the leaders in virtual reality Oculus Rift. The list of companies and services Facebook has acquired is staggering, at least 45 in total. Zuckerburg's first acquisition came in 2007 when he purchased Parakey. The details around the deal are unclear but it seems pretty obvious from reading the Mashable article this was a pure acquihire, "

Hello Everyone, We’re still waiting for the latest deployment to go live and expect to have the ‘Zooming in Further’ feature ready for testing sometime during the week. With not much else to talk about this week I felt it was a good time to share with you our current roadmap of feature development. The features listed here will most likely be deployed in the order shown spread out over the coming 6-8 months.

Hello Everyone, Last week I promised some details on a new major feature that will be deployed soon, the feature is ‘Zooming in Further’ and should be live before the end of the month. Finally we will be able to assign dates more accurate than a single year to each event. This will allow the exact month and day of the event to be displayed on the timeline, and obviously this will include the ability to zoom in further to show the new accuracy.

Getting Started with Histropedia Here's a quick video giving a brief overview of how to use the latest beta version of Histropedia. It will be up on the How it Works page very soon. We will be making more videos going into detail about some of the features of Histropedia and introducing new features as they are deployed. Make a Timeline Take a look at some example Timelines

A few examples from Histropedia for the month of October The beta version released during October is working well, so well in fact that we felt it was time to start sharing some examples of what the site can do. Mobile version coming soon: The beta version isn't optimized for mobile yet, so you'll have to wait till you can get to a desktop to enjoy these timelines. 37 Years of Apple Computers!