I was six years old, but still remember it. Growing up in the 60s and 70s was different. Walter Cronkite giving body counts on the national news every night leaves an impression. Watergate. Moon landings. Civil unrest. Drugs. Streaking. Hippies. Polyester.
2016 My business died. After 44 years we are closing our doors (in about another 14 minutes). I waited and waited for the recovery, but whatever the economists and politicians are saying, it has not come to my neck of the woods. And when my partner needed to sell his 60%, I just did not have enough predicted income to buy him out. Now I get to go back to being a wage slave. And if I haven't mentioned it before, the recovery hasn't made it here yet. It's going to be an ugly couple of years.
July 20, 1969: Three brave humans went to the damn moon and landed on it… https://t.co/588d4uJooj pic.twitter.com/pAeA5AIdJl— SarcasticRover (@SarcasticRover) July 20, 2016 July 20, 1976: One super brave robot went to flipping Mars and landed on it… https://t.co/4kbpa7opzp pic.twitter.com/lDLZ0SsnfD— SarcasticRover (@SarcasticRover) July 20, 2016 (that was Viking 1)
1934 Public Enemy #1, John Dillinger, was shot outside the Biograph in Chicago. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/dillinger-gunned-down The pictures are pretty garish, but I saw this one in an elementary level FBI text book from school. Funny to be able to find it so easily now:
Not an important day for us on this site at all On August 23, 1991 The World Wide Web was open to everyone after this day #InternautDay 📷https://t.co/UwcFQ2JU1f pic.twitter.com/gxZtqUAw6Q— Ticia Verveer (@ticiaverveer) August 23, 2016
I don't know what it was, it was just one of the best pics people were tweeting around with the anniversary story - I was especially tickled by the Dot Comme by-line
Yesterday in 1066 was the Battle of Stamford Bridge. The central point to some pretty big stuff in history- the end of the Vikings era and also the reason we got stuffed by the Normans 3 weeks later and ended up under French rule for so long and why I, and you, use loads of French words when we speak English.
Good one. Right wing Fudal Law vs a Democratic Moot hall majority. Shades of the Bush/Chaney Junta. The world went backwards until the Magna Carta.
On this day [today] the lights went out in a particular house in Ala-damn-bama. A resident is in mourning and a Steeler flag is at half mast. I am reluctant to reveal who this person but I'm sure that @Auriaprottu will need every ones support.
Today 121 years ago, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen makes the first real x-ray picture of the left hand of his wife Bertha. An achievement that earned him the first nobel prize in physics in 1901. In German electromagnetic radiation on a wavelength range is known today as Röntgen rays. The process used in radiology diagnostics is known as "röntgen".