In 1979, Brighton established the first nudist beach in Britain, despite protests from those who feared it would lead to great depravity.
10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 9 August:
#OnThisDate in 1927, Grauman's Chinese Theater opened in Hollywood. Norma Talmadge was the first celebrity to leave her footprint in the concrete outside, when she stepped into wet cement by accident.
10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 18 May:
#OnThisDate, 40 years ago, Ayrton Senna won his first Formula 1 GP in Estoril, Portugal. The race occurred under heavy rain, and Senna, driving the Lotus #12, crossed the finish line one minute ahead of the second place, Michele Alboreto, in the Ferrari.
In 1889, the French flag was placed on top of the Eiffel Tower by French engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, officially marking its completion.
10 weird and wondrful things which happened on 31 March:
In 1912, both the Oxford and Cambridge boats sank in the Thames, so the boat race had to be rerun.
10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 28 March.
The urban myth pf Ronald Opus, The Bendigo Tickler and Captain Scott's diary: some of the weird and wonderful things which happened on 23 March:
In 1996, world Chess champion Garry Kasparov faced off against an IBM computer dubbed "Deep Blue" in Philadelphia. He lost.
10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 10 February:
In 1867, the four bronze lions at the base of Nelson's column in Trafalgar Square, London, were completed by painter Sir Edwin Landseer and put in position.
10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 31 January:
The first casualties to result from an air raid over Britain occurred on this date in 1915 when a Zeppelin dropped six bombs on Great Yarmouth by mistake.
10 events which happened on 19 January:
In 1914, the world's first airline started operation in St. Petersburg, Florida. Called the "St. Petersburg Tampa Airboat Line". The somewhat appropriately named Tony Jannus was the pilot.
10 weird and wonderful things which happened on January 1st
The world’s heaviest quintuplets were born on this date in 1956 in Pondicherry, India, weighing in at a total of 25lb.
10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 30 December:
This date in 1757 saw the birth of William Blake, poet and artist. He said, "When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend."
10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 28 November:
In 1978, Georgi Markov, a 49 year old Bulgarian dissident, died three days after being stabbed with a poisoned Umbrella tip while waiting for a bus near Waterloo Bridge in London. The incident became known as “The Umbrella Murder”.
10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 11 September:
Two popular TV shows were first broadcast on this date. Star Trek, with an episode entitled The Man Trap in 1966, and Only Fools and Horses in 1981.
10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 8 September:
Painter Anna Grandma Moses marked her 100th birthday on this date in 1960, and at a party in her honour danced a jig with her doctor.
10 weird and wonderfulo things which happened on 7 September:
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2022/09/7-september.html
#onthisday #OnThisDate #ThisDayInHistory #7September #September 7
In 2000 Australia's first female and oldest Olympic athlete, Edie Payne, aged 93, who'd competed in the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam, opened the Sydney Games village.
10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 1 September:
Jerome Connor, one of Ireland's most significant sculptors, died under shameful circumstances 81 years ago #OnThisDay
#GlobalIrishNation #IrishBiography #IrishHistory #VisualArts #IrishArts #OnThisDate #OTD
https://www.irishstewpodcast.com/blog/otd-jerome-connor-1874-1943
Heute vor 110 Jahren beginnt der 1. #Weltkrieg. Wir haben ein umfangreiches Dossier mit Artikeln, virtuellen Ausstellungen und Bildergalerien zusammengestellt:
https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/content/dossiers/erster-weltkrieg
Bild (Detail): Parodistische Landkarte, Hamburg 1915, aus der virtuellen Ausstellung "Kriegsbilder" vom Hessischen Landesarchiv
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#ErsterWeltkieg #OnThisDay #OnThisDate
“Fantastic! You are a first class dilettante!”
#OnThisDate, July 20, Sinong lumikha ng yoyo? Sinong lumikha ng moon buggy? [Who Invented the Yoyo? Who Invented the Moon Buggy?] (Kidlat Tahimik, 1979) is the #FilmDuJour.
https://write.underworld.fr/settima/sinong-lumikha-ng-yoyo-bl37
#KidlatTahimik #KidlatGottliebKalayaan #documentary #animation #fantasy #SciFi #comedy #Philippines #WestGermany #1970s ★★★★½
“Grünes Licht für ehrgeizige, strebsame und arbeitswillige junge Menschen.”
#OnThisDate, July 20, Die glücklichen Minuten des Georg Hauser [The Happy Minutes of Georg Hauser] (Mansur Madavi, 1974) is the #FilmDuJour.
https://write.underworld.fr/settima/die-glucklichen-minuten-des-georg-hauser-1974
