Notices tagged with history
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From JLab_News https://twitter.com/JLab_News on Twitter: Born #OTD 95 years ago in 1924, Cesar Lattes discovered the pion a particle made up of a quark and an antiquark along with Cecil Powell and Guiseppe Occhialini. #science #history #TBT https://twitter.com/JLab_News/status/1149301085183598593/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/59507
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#q "unless email is freed from dependence on the networks, I predict it will be supplanted by telefax for most uses in spite of its many advantages over telefax" http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/harmful.html #email #history
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!science #history #SpaceWeather
1967 solar storm nearly took US to brink of war
https://2mb.social/url/15348
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!science #history #biography #chemistry Badass Historical Chemists: The Woman Behind Antoine Lavoisier https://2mb.social/url/1278
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The #history of Valiant Technology's !education !robotics, in pictures: http://roamerrobot.tumblr.com/
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oh :-( "last episode of 'The Midnight Special' (late-night musical variety series) was in 1981" !listening !history
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also on this day: 73-year old general Memduh Tağmaç died 36 years ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memduh_Ta%C4%9Fma%C3%A7 !history cc @question
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on this day of the Turkish communal elections let's remind: 42 years ago 26-year old Mahir #Çayan (and 9 of his friends) died. They kidnapped 3 foreigners and a Turkish special unit found them http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahir_%C3%87ayan !history
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Do you get sad when you know that Nicolaus #Copernicus' uncle died 502 years ago? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Copernicus !history
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1650 years ago in !history: Do you think it was good that the 65th emperor of the Roman empire #Valentinian I. selected his #brother Valens as co-Augustus at Constantinople ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentinian_I
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1 year ago: a massive #DDoS attack was launched against #Spamhaus (which made cyber divisions of 5 national police org. from diff. countries investigate it). tomorrow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spamhaus#CyberBunker_dispute_and_DDoS_attack !history
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50 years ago: Malcolm X met Martin Luther King, Jr. for the first and only time. Malcolm X dies 11 months later and Martin Luther King, Jr. 4 years later. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_X https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr. !history
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76 years ago: art historian Cornelius Gustav Gurlitt died, "He is regarded as the founder of art historical research into the #Baroque" and "co-founder and president of the Bund Deutscher Architekten ('association of German architects')" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelius_Gurlitt_%28art_historian%29 !history
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6 years ago: chairman of the Colombian military #junta government, 98-year old Gabriel París #Gordillo, died https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Par%C3%ADs_Gordillo !history
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21 years ago: first commit to #NetBSD http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netbsd !history
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24 years ago: #US invasion of #Panama, "Safeguarding the lives of ... citizens in ... threatened the lives of the approximately 35,000 U.S. citizens living there", "Protesters echoed claims that #3,000 people were #killed as a result of U.S. military action." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_invasion_of_Panama#United_States.27_justification_for_the_invasion !history
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11 years ago in !history: invasion of #Iraq (by an invasion force led by the #US), "the Center for Public Integrity alleges that the #Bush administration made a total of #935 #false statements between 2001 and 2003 about Iraq's alleged threat to the US" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_war_2 #tomorrow
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153 years ago: the February Patent: the #constitution of the #Austrian Empire was promulgated in the form of letters patent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_Patent !history
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21 years ago: the WTC #bombing occurred: a truck bomb was detonated below the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_World_Trade_Center_bombing !history