Feb 20--Today is the birthday of Kurt Cobain, 1967.
The Soviets launched the Mir spacecraft in 1986.
John Glenn, who lived a few miles from where I sit and who my wife, from the same town, knew and spoke to several times, orbited the earth in 1962.
New York City, 1872, the Metropolitan Museum of...
Feb 14 is the anniversary of the launch of YouTube (2005), where we learn how to replace the taillight bulb in the car, watch last night's Stephen Colbert, and find 1920s jazz recordings we would likely never hear otherwise.
Of course, there was a famous massacre on this day in 1929, as...
Feb. 12, 1809 - also the birth date of Charles Darwin, later author of On The Origin of Species and The Descent of Man.
He is buried in Westminster Abbey.
The Tube opens for business in London in 1863.
In 1920 (I'm surprised so late), the treaty of Versailles "officially" ends WWI. Though it wasn't fully resolved until the reunified Germany made its last reparation payment in Oct 3, 2010.
Seven years later, Jan. 10, 1927, Metropolis was released...
J. R. R. Tolkien, professor, inventor of languages and universes, was born in 1892.
In 1521, the priest Martin Luther is excommunicated from the Catholic church by Pope Leo X.
The Brooklyn Bridge construction project got underway in 1870.
And Apple Computer turns 41.
Dec. 11, 1941, Germany and Italy declare war on the United States. And in 1972, Apollo 17 landed on the moon--the last such mission.
Today, we have a surrogate human on Mars, and there's a Tesla roadster sailing by overhead while it digs for goodies.
Edit to add: And the Voyager probe has...
George Herbert Walker Bush, 41st President of the United States, has died at age 94. He had a remarkable record of heroism in WWII, and is one of only two presidential fathers who also saw his son rise to the presidency.
On this day in 1898, C. S. Lewis, author, professor and lecturer, was born.
In 1929, Admiral Bird Leads the first expedition to fly over the South Pole.
And in 1963, LBJ formed the Warren Commission to investigate the death of JFK.
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