Today In History

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60 years ago - 1964 - The product NUTELLA was created in Italy

OUR HERITAGE

NUTELLA®: A STORY OF LOVE AND PASSION

Do you know the history of Nutella®‘s signature recipe and unmistakable taste?

After World War II, cocoa was extremely scarce. Ferrero, originally from Piedmont in Italy, turned this tricky problem into a smart solution, creating a sweet paste made from hazelnuts, sugar and just a little of the rare cocoa. The ancestor of Nutella® was born.

Nutella History

Our Heritage Giandujot
1946
The Giandujot

The sweet paste of the first recipe was shaped into a loaf that could be sliced and spread on bread, named after a local carnival character.

SuperCrema Jar Poster
1951
SuperCrema

The 'Giandujot' paste was transformed into a creamy new product that was easier to spread named SuperCrema.

Nutella is Born
1964
Nutella® is born

The recipe was improved and the first-ever jar of a new hazelnut and cocoa cream was created, a name that today is synonymous with the spread & smile: Nutella®.



https://www.nutella.com/int/en/inside-n ... r-heritage

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300 years ago - 22 April 1724 - philosopher Immanuel Kant born in Königsberg

Immanuel Kant[a] (22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers. Born in Königsberg, Kant's comprehensive and systematic works in epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics have made him one of the most influential and controversial figures in modern Western philosophy, being called the "father of modern ethics", "father of modern aesthetics" and, by bringing together rationalism and empiricism, the "father of modern philosophy".


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Kant

[W. Kevin Vicklund]

re: The OKC bombing

I was out visiting my grandparents in Arizona, with my father. For reasons I don't remember, we delayed our return by a day. Had we kept to our original schedule, I would have been driving on the interstate only a couple miles away when the bomb detonated. Driving past the next day was surreal.

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200 years ago - April 19, 1824 - Death of British poet George Gordon Byron

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron FRS (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was a British poet and peer.[1][2] He is one of the major figures of the Romantic movement,[3][4][5] and is regarded as being among the greatest of English poets.[6] Among his best-known works are the lengthy narratives Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage; much of his shorter lyrics in Hebrew Melodies also became popular.

Byron was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, before he travelled extensively across Europe to such places as Italy, where he lived for seven years in Venice, Ravenna, and Pisa after he was forced to flee England due to threats of lynching.[7] During his stay in Italy, he would frequently visit his friend and fellow poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.[8] Later in life, Byron joined the Greek War of Independence to fight the Ottoman Empire, for which Greeks revere him as a folk hero.[9] He died leading a campaign in 1824, at the age of 36, from a fever contracted after the first and second sieges of Missolonghi.

His one child conceived within marriage, Ada Lovelace, was a founding figure in the field of computer programming based on her notes for Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine.[10][11][12] Byron's extramarital children include Allegra Byron, who died in childhood, and possibly Elizabeth Medora Leigh, daughter of his half-sister Augusta Leigh.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Byron

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Did not know that she was the daughter of Byron: "His one child conceived within marriage, Ada Lovelace, was a founding figure in the field of computer programming based on her notes for Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine."

[Suranis]

1500 Pedro Álvares Cabral is the first European to discover Brazil, landing near Monte Pascoal, claims it for Portugal
1915 First military use of poison gas occurs when Germany uses chlorine gas against the Allies at Ypres in World War I [1]
1993 Holocaust Memorial Museum dedicated in Washington, D.C.

1994 7,000 Tutsi slaughtered by Hutus in the stadium at Kibuye, Rwanda
2006 Nepali security forces open fire on Pro-democracy protesters demonstrating against King Gyanendra, injuring hundreds. The protesters go on to secure the restoration of Parliament and a federal state.
2016 Paris Agreement on climate change signed in New York binding 195 nations to an increase in the global average temperature to less than 2°C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the increase to 1.5°C
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Today in Film & TV

1954 US Senate Army-McCarthy televised hearings begin
1976 Barbara Walters becomes the first female US nightly network news anchor (ABC News)

Today in Music

1876 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky completes his ballet "Swan Lake"

Today in Sport

1903 NY Highlanders (Yankees) first MLB game; lose 3-1 before 11,950 vs Washington Senators at American League Park

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In honor of the above mentioned Swan Lake, enjoy three creative versions of the classic Dance of the Little Swans.

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Funny, and Wow!

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Happy disinfectant day! Four years ago…when things were awesome!

"The disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute, and is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside, or almost a cleaning. It gets in the lungs" -- Trump seems to suggests that injecting disinfectant inside people could be a treatment for the coronavirus

"I think a lot of people are gonna go outside all of the sudden" -- Trump on DHS's preliminary finding that the coronavirus doesn't do as well in sunlight as it does inside

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30 years ago - April 27, 1994 - End of apartheid in South Africa with all-race election

It’s 30 years since apartheid ended. South Africa’s celebrations are set against growing discontent

BY NQOBILE NTSHANGASE AND GERALD IMRAY
Updated 8:25 PM CEST, April 27, 2024

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — South Africa marked 30 years since the end of apartheid and the birth of its democracy with a ceremony in the capital Saturday that included a 21-gun salute and the waving of the nation’s multicolored flag.

But any sense of celebration on the momentous anniversary was set against a growing discontent with the current government.

President Cyril Ramaphosa presided over the gathering in a huge white tent in the gardens of the government buildings in Pretoria as head of state.

He also spoke as the leader of the African National Congress party, which was widely credited with liberating South Africa’s Black majority from the racist system of oppression that made the country a pariah for nearly a half-century.

The ANC has been in power ever since the first democratic, all-race election of April 27, 1994, the vote that officially ended apartheid.

But this Freedom Day holiday marking that day fell amid a poignant backdrop: Analysts and polls predict that the waning popularity of the party once led by Nelson Mandela is likely to see it lose its parliamentary majority for the first time as a new generation of South Africans make their voices heard in what might be the most important election since 1994 next month.


https://apnews.com/article/south-africa ... da145ef22d