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The hymn was written in the town by curate - and former slave ship captain - the Reverend John Newton, for his sermon at St Peter and St Paul Church on 1 January 1773.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bed ... s-64064720

After a life on the seas, he was ordained in 1764 and appointed a curate in Olney, where he collaborated with poet William Cowper to publish The Olney Hymns in 1779.

It was in this volume that his Amazing Grace sermon's words, originally titled Faith's Review and Expectation, was published.

The accession of the United Kingdom to the European Communities (EC) – the collective term for the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), the European Economic Community (EEC) and the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC) – took effect on 1 January 1973. This followed ratification of the Accession treaty which was signed in Brussels on 22 January 1972 by the Conservative prime minister Edward Heath, who had pursued the UK's application to the EEC since the late 1950s. The ECSC and EEC would later be integrated into the European Union under the Maastricht and Lisbon treaties in the early 1990s and mid-2000s.

The UK had been the first country to establish a Delegation to the ECSC in 1952, and the first country to sign an Association Agreement with the Community in 1954. The UK had first applied to join in 1961, but this was vetoed by French President Charles de Gaulle. A second application, in 1967, was again vetoed by France.[1] After de Gaulle had relinquished the French presidency in 1969, the UK made a third and successful application for membership. Denmark and Ireland also joined as part of the same expansion.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accession ... ommunities

Also in 1983, Lucasfilm (later Pixar) made the first high-resolution computer-generated image that was supposed to be near-photorealistic and "a single-frame movie".

"The Road to Point Reyes" took a month to render.

#retrocomputing

A not actually very photo-realistic scene of a road near ocean-side cliffs, with two rainbows visible.



https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/109615331651631926

Woody Guthrie Creates a Doodle-Filled List of 33 New Year’s Resolutions (1943)

Beat Fascism, Write a Song a Day, and Keep the Hoping Machine Running

https://www.openculture.com/2020/01/woo ... tions.html via @openculture



https://toot.community/@openculture/109615936637859445

How a Florida race massacre in 1923 was almost erased from history
A rural Black community was destroyed by a racist white mob a century ago. Now, historians and descendants are making sure the story of the Rosewood massacre is never forgotten.

Marquise Francis·National Reporter
Thu, January 12, 2023 at 5:33 PM GMT+1

For years, longtime Florida resident Arnett Doctor noticed that his mother routinely went into a deep depression around Christmastime. It wasn’t until weeks later that her yearly depression would subside, and he never understood why. Then one Christmas, when he was 19, Doctor’s mother finally told him about the week of racial violence that she and dozens of other Black people endured in January 1923, when a white mob terrorized and destroyed their rural community in Rosewood, Fla.

Now, 100 years later, historians and descendants of those families, who once buried the ordeal in their memory, are making sure the story of the Rosewood massacre is never forgotten.

“It’s really important that we remember these events because they’ve been hidden for too long,” Maxine Jones, a historian with a focus on African American history and a professor at Florida State University, told Yahoo News. “In order to understand the future and then move forward, we have to understand the past.”





https://www.yahoo.com/news/florida-race ... 23201.html

Suranis wrote: ↑Thu Jan 19, 2023 12:50 pm concrete.jpg

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the Paris Peace Accords — signed on January 27, 1973 — that ended the U.S. war against Vietnam. Many in the U.S., such as American war veterans and refugees from southeast Asia, still live with the war’s traumatic legacies. But for others, it is an increasingly distant thing — something known less through living memory and more through Hollywood mythology and somber monuments.

This is less so in Vietnam, where most of the war occurred, and where its legacy remains soaked in the nation’s very soil and is seen in the bodies of even the young. Bomb craters still litter the land. The remains of hundreds of thousands of soldiers are still missing. Nearly endless amounts of unexploded ordnance remain in the ground: More than 100,000 people have been injured or killed by them since 1975. These bombs still explode today, maiming and killing those born well after the war ended.

There is also the dioxin contamination caused by years of the U.S. spraying Vietnam’s fields with millions of gallons of toxic chemicals like Agent Orange, a highly toxic defoliant. The Red Cross estimates that 3 million Vietnamese people have been affected by Agent Orange. This includes at least 150,000 children born after the war with conditions such as severe spinal deformity. The toxic legacy of Agent Orange also stretches into neighboring Laos and Cambodia.

Google Translate wrote:On January 30, 1933, Reich President Paul von Hindenburg appointed the chairman of the NSDAP, Adolf Hitler, as Reich Chancellor after the cabinet set up on December 3, 1932 under Kurt von Schleicher had failed. Franz von Papen became Vice-Chancellor. The National Socialists Wilhelm Frick and Hermann Göring were appointed to the cabinet as Reich Ministers of the Interior and Ministers without Portfolio, respectively. Continue reading On February 1, 1933, Hitler dissolved the Reichstag. Hitler's seizure of power effectively spelled the end of Weimar democracy.


Gernam original https://weimar.bundesarchiv.de/WEIMAR/D ... itler.html

Judge Roy Ferguson @JudgeFergusonTX wrote: Happy #LawyerCat day for all who celebrate!! Today is the 2nd anniversary of Lawyercat. To celebrate, here is the full and complete hearing from start to finish, with a few seconds at the end that you haven't seen! For the next year, may you all be here live and #NotaCat.

On This Day In History
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Today in 1809, 214 years ago: In the United States, Robert Fulton patents improvements for navigation with steamships.

On This Day In History
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Today in 1808, 215 years ago: In the United States, anthracite coal is experimentally burned for the first time as fuel.