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#OTD in 1798 – United Irishman, Bartholomew Teeling, is hanged in Dublin | Stairnaheireann #IrishHistory #Ireland https://stairnaheireann.net/2023/09/24/otd-in-1798-united-irishman-bartholomew-teeling-is-hanged-in-dublin-7/
#OTD in #IrishHistory | 24 September via Stairnaheireann #Ireland https://stairnaheireann.net/2023/09/24/otd-in-irish-history-24-september-7/
Astrophysicist Charlotte Moore Sitterly was born #OTD in 1898.
She compiled extensive data on optical and later UV spectra, and her spectroscopic tables are still in use today.
Image: AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives / Michael A. Duncan
#OnThisDay in #history - in 1825, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was born in Baltimore. She was born to a free Black family but orphaned at age 3, when she was adopted by her abolitionist minister uncle. As a young woman, she published anti-slavery poetry and was the first Black woman to publish a short story in the USA.
She was a civil rights activist, gave lectures on abolition, & after the Civil War moved to the South to provide education to the newly freed people.
#OTD #histodons @histodons
AC/DC - "Thunderstruck"
Issu de "The razors edge", sorti ce jour en 1990.
🔉 YouTube via Invidious
https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=v2AC41dglnM
Nirvana - "Come as you are"
Issu de l'album "Nevermind", sorti ce jour aux USA en 1991.
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https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=vabnZ9-ex7o
#OTD in Yankees History with @ChrisShearnYES@twitter.com
Bobby McFerrin - "Don't worry be happy"
Le 24 septembre 1988, Bobby McFerrin place ce titre N°1 des singles aux USA pour deux semaines, le premier disque a-cappella à être N°1. BO du film "Cocktail" (Roger Donaldson, 1988), la chanson remportera deux Grammy Awards (disque de l'année et chanson de l'année).
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22 years ago #OTD Silent Hill 2 was released. Still one of the most complex, dark, and gripping titles of the survival horror genre. Touching upon themes of trauma, grief, guilt and punishment, and blending them with metaphor and the horror element in a way not many games had done before. Quite possibly the highlight of the entire Silent Hill franchise.
#SilentHill #gaming #VideoGames #games #Konami #horror #SurvivalHorror #RetroGaming
#OTD Sept 24, 1991
Red Hot Chilli Peppers released their fifth LP, “Blood Sugar Sex Magik”
This is their peak, imho. Which frankly isn’t saying much. It’s more funk and rock, less metal. I really enjoy a few tracks from each RHCP album, but an album’s worth has just never materialized for me.
However one feels about this album, my god does it represent 90’s alt rock perfectly. That’s both a compliment and a criticism. They got super popular which in part led to the departure of their guitarist (good for him, he was clearly stressed and self-medicating in the worst possible way).
#AlternativeRock #FunkRock #FunkMetal #RapRock #music
#OTD in 768, death of Pépin le Bref (the Short), king of the Franks. He left to his sons a kingdom greatly reinforced and united, with an incredible momentum. As was the Frankish tradition, he divided his kingdom amongst his two sons. It wouldn't stay divided for long. #medieval #medievalart #histodons
September 24th, 245 BCE—Hierokles writes to Zenon #OTD #OnThisDay, asking him to send four jars of wine to his brother Antipatros, and if there's already some aged, one jar of sour wine, but one jar of new wine if not
Arkansas Gov Orval Faucus used state Nat'l Guard to prevent 9 Black students from attending Central High School, the soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division came to the rescue
S. R. Crockett (1859–1914)
Samuel Rutherford Crockett was born #OTD, 24 Sep. A prolific & – in his lifetime – very successful author of more than 60 novels, he fell from fashion after WW1 & his books were dismissed as sentimental nostalgia. But there is much more to him: #Tolkien credits Crockett as an inspiration; & he quite possibly wrote the first car chase in fiction…
Hans Geiger died #OTD in 1945.
He is best known as the co-inventor of the detector component of the Geiger counter and for the Geiger–Marsden experiment which discovered the atomic nucleus. He was the brother of meteorologist and climatologist Rudolf Geiger. via @wikipedia
"The world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel– a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept."
Letter to Lady Anne (1776)
Horace Walpole was born #OTD in 1717. English writer, connoisseur, and collector known for his novel The Castle of Otranto (1764), the first Gothic novel in the English language and one of the earliest literary horror stories. via @Britannica
Books by Horace Walpole at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/358
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
The Great Gatsby
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born #OTD in 1896. American short-story writer and novelist famous for his depictions of the Jazz Age (the 1920s), his most brilliant novel being The Great Gatsby. His private life, with his wife, Zelda, in both America and France, became almost as celebrated as his novels. via @Britannica
F. Scott Fitzgerald at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/420
Everything Sucks is the fifth studio album by American punk rock band the Descendents, released on this day in 1996, featuring the singles I'm the One" and "When I Get Old"
#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #descendents #history #punkrockhistory #otd
#OTD Sept 23, 1981
Suburban Lawns release their one and only full length, self-titled album.
They’d gained popularity in LA thanks to their previous singles, “Gidget Goes To Hell” (featured on SNL) and “Janitor” (released in 1980 and played often on local radio stations). So this LP was eagerly anticipated.
I first heard “Janitor” on KROQ sometime around ‘83. I loved the surf guitar sound and silly lyrics sung in a deadpan fashion by Su Tissue. So I got this album and was happy to find that Janitor wasn’t a fluke.
Other favorites include the opener “Flying Saucer Safari”, the groovy, funky track “Gossip”, and the truly ridiculous “Unable”.
I eventually got the “Gidget Goes To Hell” 7”, which has the wonderfully demented b-side track “My Boyfriend”, and then the VHS of The Best of New Wave Theater, the first time I actually saw the band playing live.
"Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service."
The Woman in White
William Wilkie Collins died #OTD in 1889. He is known especially for The Woman in White, a mystery novel and early "sensation novel", & for The Moonstone, which established many of the ground rules of the modern detective novel and is also perhaps the earliest clear example of the police procedural genre. via @wikipedia
Wilkie Collins at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/98
We seek him here, we seek him there,
Those Frenchies seek him everywhere.
Is he in heaven?—Is he in hell?
That demmed, elusive Pimpernel?
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Baroness Emma Orczy was born #OTD in 1865. She became famous in 1905 with the publication of The Scarlet Pimpernel, set in the times of the French Revolution, and relating the swashbuckling adventures of the elusive Sir Percy Blakeney, whose mission was to smuggle French aristocrats out of the country to safety.
September 23rd, 183 CE—#OTD #OnThisDay Ischyrion apprentices a boy named Thonis to the weaver Heraclas for 5 years. Thonis will be furnished with a tunic per year, gradually increasing pay starting about halfway through, and 20 vacation days per year.
#otd (or tomorrow) 867 Michael III, Byzantine emperor, was murdered. His bones were transferred to the Church of the Apostles. #medievaldeath #medievaltwitter
Pic: Madrid, BNE, Codex Vitr. 26-2, f. 106v. Wikipedia Commons
46 years ago today
'No More Heroes', the second studio album by English band the Stranglers, released on this day in 1977, five months after their debut album, Rattus Norvegicus
#punk #punks #punkrock #nomoreheroes #TheStranglers #history #punkrockhistory #otd
45 years ago today
Parallel Lines is the third studio album by the pop punk / newwave band Blondie, released on this day in 1978, featuring the singles "Hanging on the Telephone", "Heart of Glass", "Sunday Girl" and "One Way or Another"
In memory of Hilly Kristal, who owned the legendary New York club CBGB, born on this day in 1931, New York City
Photo by J. R. Rost
#punk #punkrock #HillyKristal #cbgb #omfug #bowery #newyorkcity #history #punkrockhistory #otd
40 years ago today
Minor Threat played its final show on September 23, 1983 at the Lansburgh Cultural Center in Washington.
3 years after the formation the band broke up after Brian Baker left and switched to Dag Nasty
#TodayinHistory #datavis #Onthisday #OTD
💀Sep 23, 1938 Maurice d'Ocagne died in Havre, France 🇫🇷
1884: The first alignment diagrams, using sets of parallel axes, rather than axes at right angles;
the essential ideas used in parallel coordinates plots
#OTD Sept 22, 1982
S.I.N. Records released the compilation “The Big Apple Rotten To The Core”
This is another NYC comp documenting mostly underground hardcore bands from the very early 80’s. Released the same year, and similar to the compilation “New York Thrash”
Six NYC hardcore bands, none of which really went anywhere. But this was influential in and around NYC, as it got played by the local “new music” station WLIR.
In fact, the popularity of the album prompted WLIR to start a weekly broadcast called Midnight Riot, which featured the other bands on the album as well as many other local hardcore bands, all part of their attempt to showcase more punk, hardcore, and otherwise “underground music”.
It’s an important snapshot of the NYC scene at the time. It sounds good to my ears. The songs are aggressive, reasonably well produced, and just straight-ahead, angry guitar punk.
September 22nd, 257 BCE—#OTD #OnThisDay Zoilos, oikonomos of the Arsinoite nome, writes to Zenon to ask him whether Apollonios intends to celebrate the festival of Arsinoe at Krokodilopolis or at Arsinoe itself, so that he can prepare appropriately
#OTD in 1792, establishment of the French Republican calendar.
Therefore, today is the first day of the new year! Happy new year 231! We are the 1 Vendémiaire. 🇫🇷 (contrary to the metric system, this didn’t survive…) #history #Revolution
Frederick Soddy died #OTD in 1956.
He was an English radiochemist who explained, with Ernest Rutherford, that radioactivity is due to the transmutation of elements, now known to involve nuclear reactions. He also proved the existence of isotopes of certain radioactive elements.
He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his research in radioactive decay and particularly for his formulation of the theory of isotopes. via @wikipedia
Snorri Sturluson died #OTD in 1241. He is commonly thought to have authored or compiled portions of the Prose Edda, which is a major source for what is today known as Norse mythology, and Heimskringla, a history of the Norse kings that begins with legendary material in Ynglinga saga and moves through to early medieval Scandinavian history. For stylistic and methodological reasons, he is often taken to be the author of Egil's saga.
Books by Snorri Sturluson at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/312
Michael Faraday was born #OTD in 1791. English scientist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. His main discoveries include the principles underlying electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism and electrolysis. As a chemist, he discovered benzene, investigated the clathrate hydrate of chlorine, invented an early form of the Bunsen burner and the system of oxidation numbers. via @wikipedia
Michael Faraday at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5541
45 years ago today
Love Bites is the second studio album by English punk rock band Buzzcocks, released on this day in 1978 featuring the single 'Ever Fallen In Love'
#punk #punks #punkrock #buzzcocks #lovebites #everfalleninlove #history #punkrockhistory #otd
65 years 🖤
Happy Birthday to Joan Marie Larkin aka Joan Jett, punk rock inspired founding member of The Runaways and frontwoman of their band Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, born on this day in 1958 of Wynnewood, Pennsylvania
45 years ago today
Stiv Bators with The Dead Boys at The Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto, September 22, 1978
#punk #punks #punkrock #stivbators #DeadBoys #history #punkrockhistory #otd
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2023 September 21
#OTD 21 September 1969, the 1st photo of #Comet67P ☄️was taken by Klim Churyumov & Svetlana Gerasimenko
@esascience
@ESA_Rosetta
@ESA_Philae
https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2014/10/Vintage_comet
Happy 115th birthday, spacetime!
Hermann Minkowski addressed the 80th Assembly of German Natural Scientists and Physicians #OTD in 1908, offering a radical four-dimensional reformulation of Einstein's theory of special relativity.
His opening lines:
#OTD Sept 21, 1985
Fishbone released their self-titled EP
Got this the day it came out because I’d heard the ultra-festive track “Party At Ground Zero” and knew I had to hear more.
It combines some of my favorite musical styles (punk, funk, metal, rock, and ska) and features a large line up of musicians playing horns, keyboards, guitars, etc.
Huge energy, and wild, often silly lyrics. Perfect for 15 yo me. I’d play it for anyone who would listen. I like how the album flows through different styles.
Not sure I have a favorite track, but I often play "V.T.T.L.O.T.F.D.G.F." for it’s great guitar work and interesting lyrics 👇
September 21st, 176 CE—#OTD #OnThisDay Nilammon, Ponnis, and Orsenouphis lease 23 geese from Amatius for a period of one year, after which they will return 23 geese (paying a zero goose interest rate)
"For as positio refers to a line, quadratum to the surface, and cubum to a solid body, it would be very foolish for us to go beyond this point. Nature does no permit it."
Artis Magnae, sive de Regulis Algebraicis
Gerolamo Cardano died #OTD in 1576.
He became one of the most influential mathematicians of the Renaissance and one of the key figures in the foundation of probability; he introduced the binomial coefficients & the binomial theorem in the Western world. via @wikipedia
"It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none."
Rob Roy (1817)
Sir Walter Scott died #OTD in 1832. Scottish novelist, poet, historian, and biographer who is often considered both the inventor and the greatest practitioner of the historical novel. via @Britannica
Books by Walter Scott at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/59
"The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is or has been is but the twilight of the dawn."
The Discovery of the Future (1901)
Herbert George Wells was born #OTD in 1866. English novelist, journalist, sociologist, and historian best known for such science fiction novels as The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds and such comic novels as Tono-Bungay and The History of Mr. Polly. via @Britannica
Books by H.G. Wells at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/30
The mathematician Paul Erdős had a fantasy that he'd die giving a lecture: he would prove a result, someone would ask about a generalization, he'd reply "I'll leave that to the next generation," and then he'd die.
He passed away at a conference in Warsaw #OTD in 1996, just after proving a new result.
44 years ago today
Pennie Smith photographed Paul Simonon of The Clash at the New York Palladium, September 20, 1979.
She made one of the most famous images in (punk) rock history.
#punk #punks #punkrock #theclash #PaulSimonon #penniesmith #history #punkrockhistory #otd
Arthur Rackham was born #OTD in 1867.
He is recognised as one of the leading figures during the Golden Age of British book illustration. His work is noted for its robust pen and ink drawings, which were combined with the use of watercolour, a technique he developed due to his background as a journalistic illustrator. via @wikipedia
Books illustrated by Arthur Rackham at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/6335
17 September 1904 | A Pole, Franciszek Idzik, was born in Oleśniki. A butcher.
In #Auschwitz from 24 May 1941.
No. 16300
He perished in the camp on 4 November 1941.
#Auschwitz #Birkenau #ww2 #Poland #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #education #history #histodons #Remember #otd #facts
#OTD on Sept. 17, 1976, NASA rolled out its first space shuttle, named the Enterprise, from its manufacturing plant in Palmdale, California.
The ceremony was attended by 600 invited guests and 185 media representatives.
As Enterprise emerged from the hangar, the Air Force Band of the Golden West from March Air Force Base in Riverside County, CA, played Alexander Courage’s Star Trek musical score.
https://youtu.be/83LU8vfKhsI
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/45-years-ago-space-shuttle-enterprise-makes-its-public-debut
#Enterprise #SpaceShuttle
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Mathematician Bernhard Riemann was born #OTD in 1826.
He made deep contributions to complex analysis and number theory, but physicists remember him for his work on the foundations of geometry. These insights provide the mathematical framework for general relativity.
“Les amis de la vérité sont ceux qui la cherchent et non ceux qui se vantent de l'avoir trouvée.”
Discours sur les conventions nationales
Nicolas de Condorcet was born #OTD in 1743.
His ideas, including support for a liberal economy, free and equal public instruction, constitutional government, and equal rights for women & people of all races, have been said to embody the ideals of the Age of Enlightenment. via @wikipedia
Marquis de Condorcet @ PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/34146
17 September 1928 | Polish Jewish boy, Chaim Grosbard, was born in Lublin. He emigrated to France.
He was deported to #Auschwitz from Beaune la Rolande on 5 August 1942. He did not survive.
#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #ww2 #Memorial #Remember #memory #otd #facts
47 years ago today
"Cherry Bomb" is a punk-influenced hard rock single by the all-female band the Runaways from their self-titled debut album, released on this day in 1976
#punk #punks #punkrock #womenofpunk #therunaways #cherrybomb #history #punkrockhistory #otd
Happy Birthday to Guy Picciotto, songwriter, producer, guitarist and vocalist for the punk rock bands Fugazi and Rites of Spring, born on this day in 1965, Washington DC
Photo by Ken Blaze
#punkrock #hardcorepunk #hardcore #guypicciotto #history #punkrockhistory #otd
peter falk - consummate thespian with extraordinary range. artist. john cassavetes' bestie. father of two adopted daughters & owner of an artificial eye that undoubtedly contributed to the complexity of his 'columbo' persona - was born #otd in 1927. his acting career (during which he worked with such luminaries as alfred hitchcock, john cassavetes (of course), johnny cash, stanley kramer & wim wenders) spanned a half a century.
#art #peterFalk #johnCassavetes #columbo #illustration
#OTD Sept 16, 1979
The Sugarhill Gang released the single "Rapper’s Delight"
To the hip hip hop-a you don't stop! 🕺
Sampling. One of my favorite forms of creative musical expression. And this one is foundational to the technique.
Noted as hip hop’s first mainstream success, the single reached the Top 40 in the U.S. Top 3 in the UK, and #1 in Canada.
A Spring returns, and they more youthful made;
But Man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.
Contemplations
Anne Bradstreet was born #OTD in 1672.
She was the most prominent of early English poets of North America and 1sr writer in England's North American colonies to be published. She is the 1st Puritan figure in American Literature and notable for her large corpus of poetry, as well as personal writings published posthumously. via @wikipedia
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Anne+Bradstreet&submit_search=Go%21
#OTD in 2022, Mahsa Jina Amini was murdered in Iran, fighting for women, life, freedom.
Anne Frank had words for her courage:
“I know what I want,
I have a goal, an opinion,
I have a religion and love.
Let me be myself and then I am satisfied.
I know that I am a woman,
a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.”
https://avandeursen.com/2022/11/30/mahsa-jina-amini-and-anne-frank-woman-life-freedom/
#WomenLifeFreedom #MahsaJinaAmini #MahsaAmini #JinJiyanAzadi #AnneFrank
46 years ago today
Talking Heads: 77, is the debut album by the American rock band Talking Heads, released on this day in 1977, includes the singles "Uh-Oh, Love Comes to Town", "Psycho Killer" and "Pulled Up"
#punk #newwave #postpunk #TalkingHeads #history #otd #punkrockhistory
Joseph Plateau died #OTD in 1883.
He was one of the first people to demonstrate the illusion of a moving image. To do this, he used counterrotating disks with repeating drawn images in small increments of motion on one and regularly spaced slits in the other. He called this device of 1832 the phenakistiscope. via @wikipedia
Heute vor 150 Jahren wurde Otto #Wels geboren. Bekannt ist der SPD-Politiker für seine Rede vom 23. März 1933, in der er das "Nein" der SPD zum #Ermächtigungsgesetz begründete. Unter der Bedrohung von Leib und Leben hat Wels beispielgebend moralische Größe und demokratische Haltung gezeigt – das sagte Bundestagspräsident Norbert Lammert anlässlich der Benennung des Gebäudes Unter den Linden 50 nach dem früheren Reichstagsabgeordneten.
https://www.bundestag.de/besuche/architektur/gebaeude/udl50
#OTD #OnThisDay
"Understand this, I mean to arrive at the truth. The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it."
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie was born #OTD in 1890. English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. via @wikipedia
Books by Agatha Christie at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/451
Happy Birthday to Gary Miller aka Dr. Know, guitarist of hardcore punk band Bad Brains, born September 15, 1958, (in November 2015 for the second time 🙏) Washington DC,
#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #badbrains #drknow #history #punkrockhistory #otd
In memory of John William Cummings aka Johnny Ramone, guitarist, songwriter and founding member of the Ramones, died of prostate cancer in Los Angeles on this day in 2004.
#punk #punks #punkrock #johnnyramone #ramones #history #punkrockhistory #otd
Gravitational waves were first detected by LIGO #OTD in 2015, 100 years after they were predicted by Einstein.
This discovery, announced the following February, marked the beginning of gravitational wave astronomy.
The description of what was discovered and how it happened fits in a short post. It is simultaneously so amazing and so preposterous that some people who hear it will want to spend the rest of their lives understanding how it could be true and what we can learn from it:
"The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul."
Isadora Duncan died #OTD in 1927. Duncan is known as "The Mother of Dance".
American dancer whose teaching and performances helped to free ballet from its conservative restrictions and presaged the development of modern expressive dance. She was among the first to raise interpretive dance to the status of creative art. via @Britannica
#NowPlaying: #Yes - Close to the Edge
1998 European #CD reissue.
The fifth studio album by Yes was released #OnThisDay in 1972. Side one is their magnum opus: an 18 minute long gem of #symphonicprog, with many different segments and twists and turns but comes around in the end. Chris Squire's bass is brilliant and so is Bill Brugord's drumming. The latter half of And You And I is amazing and Siberian Khatru absolutely rocks. Great album!
The Santos-Dumont 14-bis makes a short hop, the first flight of a fixed-wing aircraft in Europe #OTD in 1906.
It was a pioneer era, canard-style biplane designed and built by Brazilian aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont. It was also the first powered flight made anywhere outside of the United States, as well as the first powered flight by a non-Wright airplane. Some contend that the 14-bis, rather than the 1903 Wright Flyer, was the first true airplane. via @wikipedia
"I don’t want to frighten you, but I would like to make you understand the import of what you think of attempting. You must not become a mere peddler of words. The thing to learn is to know what people are thinking about, not what they say."
Winesburg Ohio
Sherwood Anderson was born #OTD in 1876. He was an author who strongly influenced American writing between World Wars I & II, particularly the technique of the short story.
Sherwood Anderson at PG
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/231