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INACTIVE@feddit.nlMEnglish · 1 month ago30 years ago today, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the 11th Panchen Lama, was kidnapped and forcibly disappeared by the Chinese government at age six.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square16linkfedilinkarrow-up167arrow-down10
arrow-up167arrow-down1external-link30 years ago today, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the 11th Panchen Lama, was kidnapped and forcibly disappeared by the Chinese government at age six.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgINACTIVE@feddit.nlMEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square16linkfedilink
INACTIVE@feddit.nlMEnglish · 1 month ago35 years ago today, Jim Henson, an American puppeteer, animator, actor, and filmmaker, died. He achieved worldwide notability as the creator of the Muppets.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up118arrow-down10
arrow-up118arrow-down1external-link35 years ago today, Jim Henson, an American puppeteer, animator, actor, and filmmaker, died. He achieved worldwide notability as the creator of the Muppets.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgINACTIVE@feddit.nlMEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square0linkfedilink
INACTIVE@feddit.nlMEnglish · 1 month ago85 years ago today, the McDonald's brothers opened their first McDonald's restaurant in San Bernardino, California. Originally, a carhop drive-in system was used to serve customers.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down10
arrow-up16arrow-down1external-link85 years ago today, the McDonald's brothers opened their first McDonald's restaurant in San Bernardino, California. Originally, a carhop drive-in system was used to serve customers.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgINACTIVE@feddit.nlMEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square0linkfedilink
INACTIVE@feddit.nlMEnglish · 1 month ago85 years ago today, nylon stockings were first shipped to selected stores in the national market after a limited number of 4,000 pairs of stockings were released for sale in Delaware.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down10
arrow-up16arrow-down1external-link85 years ago today, nylon stockings were first shipped to selected stores in the national market after a limited number of 4,000 pairs of stockings were released for sale in Delaware.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgINACTIVE@feddit.nlMEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square0linkfedilink
INACTIVE@feddit.nlMEnglish · 1 month ago125 years ago today, the 1900 Summer Olympics opened. Women took part in the games for the first time, with sailor Hélène de Pourtalès becoming the first female Olympic champion.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down11
arrow-up13arrow-down1external-link125 years ago today, the 1900 Summer Olympics opened. Women took part in the games for the first time, with sailor Hélène de Pourtalès becoming the first female Olympic champion.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgINACTIVE@feddit.nlMEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square0linkfedilink
INACTIVE@feddit.nlMEnglish · 1 month ago70 years ago today, the Warsaw Pact, a collective defense treaty, was signed in Warsaw, Poland, between the Soviet Union and seven other Eastern Bloc socialist republics in Central and Eastern Europe.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down10
arrow-up16arrow-down1external-link70 years ago today, the Warsaw Pact, a collective defense treaty, was signed in Warsaw, Poland, between the Soviet Union and seven other Eastern Bloc socialist republics in Central and Eastern Europe.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgINACTIVE@feddit.nlMEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square0linkfedilink
INACTIVE@feddit.nlMEnglish · 1 month ago75 years ago today, Stevie Wonder, an American-Ghanaian singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer, was born. He is regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up137arrow-down11
arrow-up136arrow-down1external-link75 years ago today, Stevie Wonder, an American-Ghanaian singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer, was born. He is regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgINACTIVE@feddit.nlMEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square0linkfedilink
INACTIVE@feddit.nlMEnglish · 1 month ago80 years ago today, Julius Fromm, a Polish-German entrepreneur, chemist, and one of the inventors of the rubber condom, died. He also made several other elastomeric products such as rubber gloves.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down10
arrow-up14arrow-down1external-link80 years ago today, Julius Fromm, a Polish-German entrepreneur, chemist, and one of the inventors of the rubber condom, died. He also made several other elastomeric products such as rubber gloves.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgINACTIVE@feddit.nlMEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square0linkfedilink
INACTIVE@feddit.nlMEnglish · 1 month ago65 years ago today, an eight-man team captured Adolf Eichmann, one of the major organisers of the Holocaust, near his home on Garibaldi Street in San Fernando, Buenos Aires.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square2linkfedilinkarrow-up145arrow-down11
arrow-up144arrow-down1external-link65 years ago today, an eight-man team captured Adolf Eichmann, one of the major organisers of the Holocaust, near his home on Garibaldi Street in San Fernando, Buenos Aires.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgINACTIVE@feddit.nlMEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square2linkfedilink
INACTIVE@feddit.nlMEnglish · 1 month ago150 years ago today was Isaac C. Parker's first session sitting as the district judge in the Western District of Arkansas. He was also known as "Hanging Judge" Parker, sentencing 160 people to death.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down10
arrow-up16arrow-down1external-link150 years ago today was Isaac C. Parker's first session sitting as the district judge in the Western District of Arkansas. He was also known as "Hanging Judge" Parker, sentencing 160 people to death.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgINACTIVE@feddit.nlMEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square0linkfedilink
INACTIVE@feddit.nlMEnglish · 1 month ago70 years ago today, Kermit the Frog made his debut on puppeteer Jim Henson’s “Sam and Friends” show on WRC-TV in Washington, D.C.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square1linkfedilinkarrow-up124arrow-down10
arrow-up124arrow-down1external-link70 years ago today, Kermit the Frog made his debut on puppeteer Jim Henson’s “Sam and Friends” show on WRC-TV in Washington, D.C.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgINACTIVE@feddit.nlMEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square1linkfedilink
INACTIVE@feddit.nlMEnglish · 1 month ago75 years ago today, a proposal to place French and West German production of coal and steel under a single authority that later became the ECSC was made by the French foreign minister, Robert Schuman.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down10
arrow-up17arrow-down1external-link75 years ago today, a proposal to place French and West German production of coal and steel under a single authority that later became the ECSC was made by the French foreign minister, Robert Schuman.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgINACTIVE@feddit.nlMEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square0linkfedilink
INACTIVE@feddit.nlMEnglish · 1 month ago80 years ago today, Keith Jarrett, an American pianist and composer, was born.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down10
arrow-up17arrow-down1external-link80 years ago today, Keith Jarrett, an American pianist and composer, was born.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgINACTIVE@feddit.nlMEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square0linkfedilink
INACTIVE@feddit.nlMEnglish · 1 month ago325 years ago today, Gerard van Swieten, a Dutch physician, was born. He viewed the vampire myth as a "barbarism of ignorance" and his aim was to eradicate it.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square3linkfedilinkarrow-up119arrow-down10
arrow-up119arrow-down1external-link325 years ago today, Gerard van Swieten, a Dutch physician, was born. He viewed the vampire myth as a "barbarism of ignorance" and his aim was to eradicate it.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgINACTIVE@feddit.nlMEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square3linkfedilink
INACTIVE@feddit.nlMEnglish · 1 month ago80 years ago today, the first German Instrument of Surrender was signed in Reims at 02:41 Central European Time (CET). It was not recognized by the Soviet Union.plus-squarewww.archives.govexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10
arrow-up12arrow-down1external-link80 years ago today, the first German Instrument of Surrender was signed in Reims at 02:41 Central European Time (CET). It was not recognized by the Soviet Union.plus-squarewww.archives.govINACTIVE@feddit.nlMEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square0linkfedilink
INACTIVE@feddit.nlMEnglish · 1 month ago40 years ago today, Ronald Reagan made a ceremonial visit to a German military cemetery in West Germany. 49 of the 2,000 German soldiers buried at the site had been members of the Waffen-SS.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down10
arrow-up17arrow-down1external-link40 years ago today, Ronald Reagan made a ceremonial visit to a German military cemetery in West Germany. 49 of the 2,000 German soldiers buried at the site had been members of the Waffen-SS.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgINACTIVE@feddit.nlMEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square0linkfedilink
INACTIVE@feddit.nlMEnglish · 1 month ago25 years ago today, the computer worm ILOVEYOU originated in the Pandacan neighborhood of Manila in the Philippines, thereafter moving westward through corporate email systems.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up111arrow-down10
arrow-up111arrow-down1external-link25 years ago today, the computer worm ILOVEYOU originated in the Pandacan neighborhood of Manila in the Philippines, thereafter moving westward through corporate email systems.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgINACTIVE@feddit.nlMEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square0linkfedilink
INACTIVE@feddit.nlMEnglish · 1 month ago45 years ago today, Josip Broz Tito, President of Yugoslavia and leader of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, died following a prolonged illness.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down10
arrow-up15arrow-down1external-link45 years ago today, Josip Broz Tito, President of Yugoslavia and leader of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, died following a prolonged illness.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgINACTIVE@feddit.nlMEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square0linkfedilink
INACTIVE@feddit.nlMEnglish · 2 months ago25 years ago today, the first documented placement of a GPS-located cache took place by Dave Ulmer in Beavercreek, Oregon. The location was posted on the Usenet newsgroup sci.geo.satellite-nav.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up113arrow-down10
arrow-up113arrow-down1external-link25 years ago today, the first documented placement of a GPS-located cache took place by Dave Ulmer in Beavercreek, Oregon. The location was posted on the Usenet newsgroup sci.geo.satellite-nav.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgINACTIVE@feddit.nlMEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square0linkfedilink
