Antanicus
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Today in 1994, 31 years ago: in Rwanda the civil war ends.
Alex, the Hearth Fire
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Today in 1975, 50 years ago: Space Race: Apollo–Soyuz Test Project features the dual launch of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft on the first Soviet-United States human-crewed flight. It was the last launch of both an Apollo spacecraft, and the Saturn family of rockets.
Alex, the Hearth Fire
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Today in 1910, 115 years ago: In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.
Alex, the Hearth Fire
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Today in 2021, 4 years ago: In Spain, a tribute is paid to the victims of the COVID-19 pandemic and the work of health personnel is recognized in a State Tribute focused on hope.
Biason::Julio::new();
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Today in 2003, 22 years ago: AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day.
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
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#OnThisDay, 15 July 2018, Saga Vanecek discovers a 1,500 year old sword in lake Vidöstern, Sweden. The sword predates the Vikings.
Image credit Hilda Grahnat for the Guardian.
Antanicus
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Today in 1898, 127 years ago: The chemical element polonium was discovered by Pierre Curie and Marie Curie.
Bjørnar (he/him)
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#OnThisDay, 13 Jul 1793, Charlotte Corday assassinates Jean-Paul Marat. She hopes to change the course of the French Revolutionary Republic for the better.
She doesn't.
The painting was done in the hours before her execution by guillotine on 17 July.
#FrenchHistory#WomenInHistory #History#WomensHistory#Histodons
Painting of Charlotte Corday in prison hours before her death. She is a white woman with fair hair beneath a very big lace bonnet.
lithograph of the assassination scene as Charlotte Corday is arrested by soldiers and women weep over Marat in his bath
Today in 1971, 54 years ago: The Australian Aboriginal flag is flown for the first time.
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Circular snapshots from the very first @kodak camera (the first truly portable camera) — invented by George Eastman who was born #onthisday in New York in 1854. more examples here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kodak-no-1-circular-snapshots#OTD
