Latest posts tagged with #otdh on Bluesky
A CD copy of Horses, by Patti Smith in a cracked case. The cover art is a black and white photo of Patti Smith by Robert Mapplethorpe. She is wearing a pair of jeans and a white shirt with a black ribbon round her neck like an untied tie and a jacket over her shoulder. She has dark, shaggy hair.
#OTDH 1975 one of my favourite albums was released. 50 years old and still sounds fresher than a lot of more recent releases.
#PattiSmith
#Horses
5 Years Ago Today, one of the greatest moments in television history occurred, when Joe Biden told Donald Trump to "shut up, man." It was glorious. #OTDH #ThanksJoe #PresidentJoeBiden
Newspaper front page of The Chicago Daily News from July 21, 1925 with headline "Scopes 'Guilty' in Ape Case'. Underneath, text in red reads 100 Years Ago Today... john t scopes found guilty of violating state law for teaching Darwin's Theory of Evolution. In blue His conviction was later overturned.
100 years since the Scopes Trial and here we are, still having to fight for #facts to be taught in schools. From evidence-based science to non-whitewashed history, comprehensive sex ed to accurate info about vaccines... Scopes was wrong; we're devolving.
secularaz.salsalabs.org/july_21_2025
#OTDH
It is some famous anniversary today, but I can't quite remember what it is.
The Battle Of Hattin?
Opening of the Grand Junction Railway?
Loss of the SS Bourgogne?
Discovery of the Higgs Boson?
#OTDH
Astronaut Sally Ride aboard Space Shuttle Challenger for the STS-7 mission in 1983, which made her the first American woman in space. (NASA)
42 years ago today (1983): Astronaut Sally Ride became the first American woman to travel in outer-space.
She served as a mission specialist & flight engineer aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger.
#OTDH #HappyPride
Next tours at HMS TERN will be Friday & Sunday 2pm… And doors open 11-4 Weds & Suns.
See hmstern.co.uk for details…
Also: On this day…
10 April 1940:
Skuas fly from Orkney’s RNAS Hatston to attack German ships in Norway…
Hectic week.
#ww2 #otdh
Image: IWM (A 8218)
10 Yarkio -iphone Cmorahmi and Okananami. YouusetSepy ANSH OTDH The string of scams of the soda p...
https://gadgetonus.com/hot-news/237138.html
#Hot #News #10 #Yarkio #-iphone #Cmorahmi #and #Okananami. #YouusetSepy #ANSH #OTDH
Event Attributes
#OTDH:
1763: the Seven Years’ War ended
1972: Ziggy Stardust made his earthly debut ✨
2014: iconic child star Shirley Temple died
#History file
#OTD in 1776, George Washington and the Continental Army crossed the Delaware River on their way to attack a Hessian outpost in Trenton, NJ. www.c-span.org/classroom/do...
#USHistory #AmRev #AmericanRevolution #OTDH #OnThisDay
#OTDH unpopular opinion:
The Battle of #Trafalgar was an important propaganda victory in Britain, but it did not affect Napoleon's invasion plans.
In wider terms, Austerlitz was more important.
Britain did need a dead hero at that point, and Nelson could be relied upon to deliver...
#OTDH the #LondonWreck1665 exploded and sank in the Thames Estuary. The explosion was recorded by Samuel Pepys in his diaries (a great link to #WorldBookDay !).
You can now explore the wreck for yourself at http://www.cloudtour.tv/london
RT @joannemajor3: #OTDH 10 June 1770: Cook's Endeavour runs aground, Gt Barrier Reef. See art of Cook's voyages: http://buff.ly/1cNwBmJ htt…
