On This Day...

[xyloscissor]

Has this site ever had a thread as this? It's not about current events for the right reasons but it is intended to be all about opinions. I will start off with this, http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/pan-am-flight-103-explodes-over-lockerbie-scotland. Some topics worthy of discussion might follow, how long has the U.S. been messing with Libya for instance?

Pan Am Flight 103 from London to New York explodes in midair over Lockerbie, Scotland, an hour after departure. A bomb that had been hidden inside an audio cassette player detonated inside the cargo area when the plane was at an altitude of 31,000 feet. All 259 passengers, including 35 Syracuse University students returning home for the holidays, were killed in the explosion. In addition, 11 residents of Lockerbie were killed in the shower of airplane parts that unexpectedly fell from the sky.

 

[nk4e]

1968 - Apollo 8 launches with Capt. James A. Lovell, Jr. as the command module pilot. During the mission Lovell is one of the first two people to see the far side of the moon. The mission lasts six days and three hours and includes 10 moon orbits. Recovery is executed by HS-4 helicopters from USS Yorktown (CVS 10).

I havent seen a thread like this yet.

 

[xyloscissor]

I havent seen a thread like this yet.

Wow, the only feeling I could think of more scary than leaving the orbit would be trying to return. There is a controversy there somewhere in the desire of space travel I'm sure.(religion maybe).

 

[JKgo]

...Hmm. {Looks at the thread title}

Spoiler

On this day, I see clearly~ everything has come to life
A bitter place, and a broken dream~
And we'll leave it all, leave it all behind~

Couldn't help myself. Sorry.

 

[prousonhairy]

December 21st 1944:

German troops surround the 101st Airborne in Bastogne, Belgium. (The battle of the bulge)

December 21st 1945:

General George S Patton dies.

 

[ryzno]

1988 Pan Am Flight 103 explodes over Scotland

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history

 

[DLR_Mysterion]

On this day, at 21:12 in 2112, clocks will get really confused

 

[ryzno]

On this day, at 21:12 in 2112, clocks will get really confused

The next Y2K lol!

 

[Johnnypenso]

On this day, at 21:12 in 2112, clocks will get really confused

I hear that if you are also playing Rush album 2112 at the same time on that day, you will fall into a black hole.

 

[xyloscissor]

The thread was not meant as a joke but if that what it becomes so be it.

First “Mercedes” is delivered to its buyer

On this day in 1900, the first car to be produced under the “Mercedes” name is delivered to its buyer: Emil Jellinek, the Austrian car racer, auto dealer to the rich and famous, and bon vivant. Jellinek had commissioned the Mercedes car from the German company Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft. It was faster, lighter, and sleeker than any car the company had ever made before, and Jellinek was confident that it would win races so handily that besotted buyers would snap it up. (He was so confident that he bought 36 of them, paying D-M-G 550,000 marks in all.) In exchange for his extraordinary patronage, the company agreed to name its new machine after Jellinek’s 11-year-old daughter, Mercedes.

I for one am always glad we've had the rich around to bring us such greatness. If someone finds a picture that would be cool.



Also.

1808
Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony given world premiere in Vienna

If not considered by those 'in the know' of all about music, at the very least the layman can understand the importance of the work.

 

[GTPVenomZombie]

1135 - "Stephen of Blois is crowned the king of England."

http://www.historynet.com/today-in-history

 

[xyloscissor]

On this day in 1776...

From Philadelphia, Samuel Adams writes to his friend Colonel James Warren that the idea of a confederation, or loose political union, among the colonies “is not dead, but sleepeth. To those who believed they would see the confederation completed long ago Adams wrote, I do not despair of it — since our Enemies themselves are hastening it.

I find this bit compelling but it's worth while to read the article here. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-...at-the-confederation-is-not-dead-but-sleepeth

Adams remained concerned that, there is so much Rascallity, so much Venality and Corruption, so much Avarice and Ambition, such a Rage for Profit and Commerce among all Ranks and Degrees of Men even in America, that I sometimes doubt whether there is public Virtue enough to Support a Republic.

 

[nk4e]

1960 - The Navy conducts its first pad launch of an inertially-guided Polaris A1 missile at Cape Canaveral, Fla. The missile flies 900 miles.

 

[Casey]

I'm interested in history so I like this thread idea. 👍

1924 - Ford Motor Co. stock is valued at nearly $1 billion.

2007 - Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, unveils the first iPhone.

 

[Johnnypenso]

On this day in history...

1799 - British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduced income tax, at two shillings (10p) in the pound, to raise funds for the Napoleonic Wars.

Makes one wonder if this is the origin of the phrase, "this is the pits"

 

[JohnBM01]

Randomly on Twitter looking up Tweets about Roku, I learned Don McLean's "American Pie" was on top of the Billboard charts. So that's something that happened on this day (January 9) in 1972.

 

[axletramp]

It was on this day in 2016 that David Bowie died.

 

[ryzno]

On this day in 1949, the legendary boxer and creator of the fat cutting electric grill we all have on our kitchen counter, was born. Happy 68th birthday George Foreman!!

 

[DK]

On this day in 1863, the very first part of the London Underground was opened between Paddington and Farringdon.

 

[nk4e]

1917 - The first U.S. Navy production order for aerial photographic equipment is initiated when the Naval Observatory issued requisitions for 20 aero cameras and accessories to be manufactured by Eastman Kodak Company.

 

[polysmut]

On this day in history...



Makes one wonder if this is the origin of the phrase, "this is the pits"

Before income tax was a thing, the idea of the government knowing your income was seen as too intrusive so window tax was used instead. If your house had more windows than somebody else's you paid a higher rate. This led to some people bricking up their windows.

 

[Nismonath5]

1913 - The first sedan-type car was unveiled at the National Automobile Show in New York City. The car was manufactured by the Hudson Motor Company.

 

[Rallywagon]

Ok this day in 1995 Sublimes "Date Rape" was released on the radio.

 

[xyloscissor]

Well this is something some of us have made a deal of before.

1128
Pope recognizes Knights Templar

I'll just post the link. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/pope-recognizes-knights-templar

 

[Liquid]

Before income tax was a thing, the idea of the government knowing your income was seen as too intrusive so window tax was used instead. If your house had more windows than somebody else's you paid a higher rate. This led to some people bricking up their windows.

Supposedly the origin of the phrase "daylight robbery".

 

[polysmut]

Supposedly the origin of the phrase "daylight robbery".

I did not know that. I guessed it referred to being brazen enough to rob people without the cover of darkness.

 

[TheCracker]

1404 - The Act of Multipliers is passed by the English Parliament forbidding alchemists to use their knowledge to create precious metals.

 

[DK]

I wonder if they had to repeal it when the UK started experimenting with nuclear fission & fusion.

 

[Joey D]

On this day in 2001, Wikipedia went live:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia (yo dawg, I heard you like Wikipedia, so I put Wikipedia in your Wikipedia so you can learn about Wikipedia while browsing Wikipedia -Xzibit)

Hard to imagine where we'd be at today and how many useless arguments couldn't be as easily won without the accessibility of Wikipedia.

 

[JohnBM01]

While I am enjoying my birthday today (January 15), today is the golden (50th) anniversary of the Super Bowl (or what we now call the Super Bowl). Coincidentally, the two teams that played in the first Super Bowl are playing today, though not against each other: the Green Bay Packers and the Kansas City Chiefs. Super Bowl LI is here in Houston. We've come a long way now that the Super Bowl is not only one of America's biggest sporting events, but also one of the biggest cultural happenings.