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#OnThisDay, 2002, #British PM Blair said "#Iraq has a growing arsenal of chemical and biological weapons and plans to use them." He also unveiled an intelligence dossier to a special session of Parliament. Later, it was revealed he was lying and only wanted to start a war. #OTD
#OnThisDay (17 July), 1936, The Spanish Civil War started when right-wing generals staged a military coup in Morocco and declared war on the newly elected Republican government. The working class put an end to the coup, but a full-scale revolution soon took place.
Ethics in Bricks auf Twitter: „"No citizen should ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau (born #onthisday) https://t.co/VwqGya2a4Q“ / Twitter
https://twitter.com/EthicsInBricks/status/1541900364756258819
#History | Sheila Scott, The World's Forgotten Record-Breaking Female Pilot
Image: World-class Flyer Sheila Scott in the cockpit of her Piper PA-24-260B Comanche G-ATOY in 1966
"April 27, 1922 — In the high-flying world of female aviators, names such as Amelia Earhart and Amy Johnson immediately spring to mind. But almost forgotten English flyer Sheila Scott, who was born on this day, deserves praise and wider recognition too.
"Between 1965 and 1972 she staked her place in aviation history with more than 100 flying records, trophies, and awards. She made three solo flights around the world and became the first pilot, male or female, to fly directly over true North Pole in a light aircraft."
https://www.onthisday.com/articles/record-breaking-sheila-the-high-flying-aviator
#1922 #amelia #amy #april #april27 #aviation #britain #christine #circumnavigation #earhart #female #flight #flyer #flying #hopkins #johnson #northpole #onthisday #pilot #scott #sheila #uk #women #worcester
On This Day - What Happened on April 17 | Britannica
https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-17
1961
Cuban leader Fidel Castro's forces repelled the Bay of Pigs invasion, which was led by recent Cuban exiles and financed by the U.S. government during the Cold War.
#OnThisDay 20 years ago, Israeli occupation forces besieged the Jenin refugee camp and launched a brutal invasion killing 60 Palestinians, including women & children, and demolished over 500 homes & structures. #NeverForget #IsraeliCrimes
via @DrHananAshrawi@twitter.com
#OnThisDay 1943: Der 1. Transport nach #Auschwitz verlässt #Thessaloniki mit 2.800 Jüd*innen. Die meisten wurden sofort in die Gaskammern geschickt. Es war der Anfang der Ermordung von 95% der jüdischen Gemeinde in Thessaloniki.
Jewish Community of Athens
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https://twitter.com/VassilisTsarnas/status/1503847512075087876
On This Day - What Happened Today In History | Britannica
https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day
1936
After five years of construction, the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River at the Arizona–Nevada border was completed; it is the highest concrete arch dam in the United States.
On This Day - What Happened Today In History | Britannica
https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day
Cloning of Dolly
On this day in 1997, a team of British scientists working under the direction of Ian Wilmut at the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh announced the birth of Dolly the sheep, the first clone of an adult mammal.
On This Day - What Happened Today In History | Britannica
https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day
1945
The Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz, Poland, was liberated by Soviet troops.
S.P. Korolev
January 12 1907 birthday Sergei Pavlovich Korolev is one of the main creators of Soviet rocket and space technology, which ensured strategic parity and made the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics an advanced space-rocket power, and a key figure in human exploration of space, the founder of practical cosmonautics. Under his leadership the launch of the first artificial satellite and the first cosmonaut of the planet, Yuri Gagarin, was organized and carried out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Korolev
#OnThisDay #space #russian #history #история #космонавтика
17 Years Ago Today: The 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake & Tsunami
The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami (also known as the Boxing Day Tsunami and, by the scientific community, the Sumatra–Andaman earthquake) occurred at 07:58:53 local time (UTC+7) on 26 December, with an epicentre off the west coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia. It was an undersea megathrust earthquake that registered a magnitude of 9.1–9.3 Mw, reaching a Mercalli intensity up to IX in certain areas. The earthquake was caused by a rupture along the fault between the Burma Plate and the Indian Plate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake_and_tsunami
This is the first major news event I followed largely through Wikipedia, which demonstrated itself to be phenomenally well-adapted to following a large (multi-continent, multi-ocean), long-term, and complex story. See the first version of the event's entry here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake_and_tsunami&oldid=8828080
#BoxinDayTsunami #2004 #OnThisDay #Earthquake #Tsunami #Indonesia #Thailand #SriLanka #IndianOcean #Wikipedia
On this day in motoring - Tuesday 14th December 2004
http://www.365daysofmotoring.com/showonthisday/article/1868
On This Day
Tuesday 14th December 2004
17 years agoThe Millau Viaduct (French: le Viaduc de Millau), a large cable-stayed road-bridge that spans the valley of the River Tarn near Millau in southern France, was formally dedicated by President Jacques Chirac and opened to traffic 2 days later. It is the tallest vehicular bridge in the world, with one mast’s summit at 343 metres (1,125 ft), which is slightly taller than the Eiffel Tower and only 38 metres (125 ft) shorter than the Empire State Building. The viaduct is part of the A75-A71 autoroute axis from Paris to Béziers.
#Cars #Motoring #Automotive #OnThisDay #Construction #Viaduct
On this day in motoring - Sunday 14th December 1947
http://www.365daysofmotoring.com/showonthisday/article/4066
On This Day
Sunday 14th December 1947
74 years agoFrench pioneer automotive engineer and manufacturer, Louis Delage (73) died in poverty. Frenchman Louis Delage realized the enormous potential for the automobile and raised enough money to open his own assembly plant in a converted barn in Levallois at the outskirts of Paris in 1905. The stylish road cars sold well and two decades on the Company entered the motor racing scene. In 1927 Robert Benoist won all the major Grands Prix with the superb Delage 15-S-8. Louis Delage's dream evaporated with the Great Depression of the 1930s, the Company struggled and went into liquidation, the rights to the Delage name auctioned off to the Delahaye car company in 1935. Louis Delage was nearly 60 years old and he found himself too poor to afford a car.
On this day in motoring - Saturday 13th December 2003
http://www.365daysofmotoring.com/showonthisday/article/10500
On This Day
Saturday 13th December 2003
18 years agoSeattle preservationists loaded the city's iconic Hat 'n' Boots Tex Gas Station onto a tractor-trailer and drive it away from the spot where it had stood for almost 50 years. The hat, a 44-foot–wide Stetson, went first; the 22-foot–tall cowboy boots followed it one at a time. (The giant hat had always been mostly for show--it had perched atop the filling station's office, luring drivers off the highway. The boots, on the other had, were eminently functional: The left one housed the men's restroom and the right one housed the women's.) The buildings were famous examples of mid-century roadside Pop Art (eagle-eyed viewers can even see them in the opening credits of the film "National Lampoon's Vacation") and the move, to a nearby park, saved them from demolition. Developer Buford Seals intended the Hat 'n' Boots (built in 1955) to be the centrepiece of a gigantic shopping centre that he called the Frontier Village. It sat alongside Route 99, the Pacific Northwest's major north-south highway. He hired artist Lewis H. Nasmyth to design the enormous structure, and the two men built it themselves out of steel beams, plaster and chicken wire. It cost $150,000, almost all the money Seals had. After the filling station was finished, he managed to scrape together enough cash to build the (ordinary-looking) Frontier Village Supermarket, but the mall's remaining 184 stores never materialised. The supermarket, which quickly went out of business, but, for the first five years it was open, the Hat 'n' Boots sold more gasoline than any other station in Washington. Rumour has it that Elvis even pumped gas there! But the completion of the bigger, more modern Interstate 5 just a few miles away drained most of Route 99's traffic, and the Hat 'n' Boots became more of a tourist curiosity than anything else. It closed in 1988. When they reached their new home in Oxbow Park, the disintegrating boots were restored almost immediately. In 2007, Seattle city officials paid $150,000 to revitalise the hat as well.
Hat 'n' Boots Tex Gas Station, Seattle, USHat 'n' Boots Tex Gas Station, Seattle, US
On this day in motoring - Friday 13th December 1957
http://www.365daysofmotoring.com/showonthisday/article/13965
On This Day
Friday 13th December 1957
64 years agoFord built the last of its early two-seat Thunderbirds as public demand sparked a shift to four-seaters. Restyled a year earlier, the ’57 T-Bird featured tail fins, opera windows, and a clean back bumper for better handling, plus a choice of five V-8s including a supercharged 340 hp NASCAR option. For 1958, the first of the so-called “Square Birds” featured twin headlights, a functional hood vent, flat-folding front bucket seats and a choice of convertible or the new hardtop. That marked the end of the classic T-Bird’s carefree, wind-in-the-hair image. Less than six percent of those 1958 four-seaters were convertibles and Thunderbird dropped the ragtop option after 1966.
