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250 years ago - January 1, 1773 - Amazing Grace was written
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.
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50 years ago - January 1, 1973 - the UK joins the European Economic Community (EEC)

precursor of the EU
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]

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40 years ago - 1983 -
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.



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80 years ago - 1943 -

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



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A few days late, but Jan 7th, 1982 saw the release of the COMMODORE 64 8-bit Home Computer.

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... and the beginning of using computers for pr0n, I see. :towel:
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Speaking of computers . . .

On this date in 1992, the HAL 9000 computer was turned on for the first time at the HAL plant in Urbana, Illinois. HAL went on to control the spacecraft Discovery on the ill-fated Jupiter mission in 2001.
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100 years ago - January 1923 - white mob terrorized and destroyed rural black community in Rosewood, Fla.
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.”





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Crap. Does this mean we are gonna be inflicted with a new round of brutalist monstrosities that will last for a thousand years instead of twenty?
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Suranis wrote: Thu Jan 19, 2023 12:50 pm concrete.jpg
Original Source: https://news.mit.edu/2023/roman-concret ... casts-0106

Note: in the right margin of this article references to popular news articles explaining this findings.
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Today in 1915, 108 years ago: Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates transcontinental service in the United States.
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50 years ago - January 27 , 1973 - End Of Vietnam War


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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.
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90 years ago - Jaunary 30, 1933 - Adolf Hitler became Reichskanzler of Germanys Weimar Republic
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.


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60 years ago - Feburary 1, 1963 - Switzerland, Lake of Zurich frozen and ice opened to the public

It had been freezing temperatures since early November 1962 and the water cooled down enough to let ice build up, first in the lower region of the lake around the city of Zurich, and growing from there. At February 1 the ice thickness was considered enough to carry the masses of visitors. By March 9 the ice had molten.

I was bicycling on the ice from Zurich to the upper end of the lake at Rapperswil, I have some pictures to be digitized to prove it.

Small picture gallery at https://www.blick.ch/schweiz/1963-frore ... 75947.html (you may want incognito mode, use Google Translate of the like for the German text).
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Cool. 8-)
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Today in 1893, 130 years ago: Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey.
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Today in 1862, 161 years ago: American Civil War: Forces under the command of Ulysses S. Grant and Andrew H. Foote give the Union its first victory of the war, capturing Fort Henry, Tennessee in the Battle of Fort Henry.
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Bush the senior.
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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.
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Fulton's Folly. ;)
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Today in 1809, 214 years ago: In the United States, Robert Fulton patents improvements for navigation with steamships.
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Spoiler- it worked. I recall anthracite coal being delivered to houses when I was a boy in Massachusetts.

The house in which I grew up had a formerly coal-fired steam heat furnace that had been converted to burn oil.
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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.
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Thanks for the video. I went on a movie hunt and verified that Bob Fosse was the choreographer. :biggrin:
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Nelson Mandela freed from 27 years of prison on this date.
https://www.biography.com/political-fig ... on-mandela
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111 years ago on this day, February 14th, 1912, Arizona was admitted to the Union as the 48th state, and the last of the contiguous states.

It's all been downhill since then :lol:
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