Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlMEnglish · 2 days ago100 years ago today, prime ministers of the Dominions of the British Empire met in London to begin the month-long 1926 Imperial Conference. They adopted the term "Commonwealth of Nations" there.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-link100 years ago today, prime ministers of the Dominions of the British Empire met in London to begin the month-long 1926 Imperial Conference. They adopted the term "Commonwealth of Nations" there.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgArthur Besse@lemmy.mlMEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square0linkfedilink
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlMEnglish · edit-22 days ago50 years ago today, US President Gerald Ford signed the Copyright Act of 1976 into law. It introduced automatic copyright (no registration prerequisite) and extended the duration to life plus 50 yearsplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-link50 years ago today, US President Gerald Ford signed the Copyright Act of 1976 into law. It introduced automatic copyright (no registration prerequisite) and extended the duration to life plus 50 yearsplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgArthur Besse@lemmy.mlMEnglish · edit-22 days agomessage-square0linkfedilink
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlMEnglish · 3 days ago175 years ago today, Herman Melville's Moby-Dick was first publishedplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-link175 years ago today, Herman Melville's Moby-Dick was first publishedplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgArthur Besse@lemmy.mlMEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square0linkfedilink
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlMEnglish · 3 days ago1010 years ago today, a Danish army led by Cnut defeated an English army led by Edmund Ironside in the Battle of Assandun.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-link1010 years ago today, a Danish army led by Cnut defeated an English army led by Edmund Ironside in the Battle of Assandun.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgArthur Besse@lemmy.mlMEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square0linkfedilink
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlMEnglish · 4 days ago64 years ago today, in Guayaquil, Ecuador, Michael Craig Judge was born. His co-creations include Beavis and Butt-Head, King of the Hill, Silicon Valley, Office Space, and Idiocracyplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10
arrow-up12arrow-down1external-link64 years ago today, in Guayaquil, Ecuador, Michael Craig Judge was born. His co-creations include Beavis and Butt-Head, King of the Hill, Silicon Valley, Office Space, and Idiocracyplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgArthur Besse@lemmy.mlMEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square0linkfedilink
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlMEnglish · 4 days ago65 years ago today, childhood friends Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, having not seen each other since Jagger moved seven years prior, met by chance on Platform 2 at Dartford railway station in Kent.plus-squarelemmy.mlimagemessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1image65 years ago today, childhood friends Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, having not seen each other since Jagger moved seven years prior, met by chance on Platform 2 at Dartford railway station in Kent.plus-squarelemmy.mlArthur Besse@lemmy.mlMEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square0linkfedilink
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlMEnglish · 4 days ago65 years ago today, police led by Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon massacred dozens (possibly hundreds) of Algerians protesting in Paris. The French government acknowledged 40 killed, 37 years later.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-link65 years ago today, police led by Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon massacred dozens (possibly hundreds) of Algerians protesting in Paris. The French government acknowledged 40 killed, 37 years later.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgArthur Besse@lemmy.mlMEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square0linkfedilink
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlMEnglish · 4 days agoEight years ago today, recreational cannabis became legal in Canadaplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkEight years ago today, recreational cannabis became legal in Canadaplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgArthur Besse@lemmy.mlMEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square0linkfedilink
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlMEnglish · 5 days ago167 years ago today, abolitionist John Brown led 23 men on a raid of the Harpers Ferry Armory. It resulted in 19 of them being killed, but also galvanized both sides and helped to spark the Civil War.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-link167 years ago today, abolitionist John Brown led 23 men on a raid of the Harpers Ferry Armory. It resulted in 19 of them being killed, but also galvanized both sides and helped to spark the Civil War.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgArthur Besse@lemmy.mlMEnglish · 5 days agomessage-square0linkfedilink
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlMEnglish · 7 days ago60 years ago today, after decades of canceled plans, and finally five years of construction, Montreal's rubber-tired underground rapid transit system (Métro de Montréal) began operation.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-link60 years ago today, after decades of canceled plans, and finally five years of construction, Montreal's rubber-tired underground rapid transit system (Métro de Montréal) began operation.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgArthur Besse@lemmy.mlMEnglish · 7 days agomessage-square0linkfedilink
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlMEnglish · 7 days ago960 years ago today, in the first battle of the Norman Conquest, William the Conqueror defeated the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, Harold Godwinson, in the Battle of Hastingsplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-link960 years ago today, in the first battle of the Norman Conquest, William the Conqueror defeated the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, Harold Godwinson, in the Battle of Hastingsplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgArthur Besse@lemmy.mlMEnglish · 7 days agomessage-square0linkfedilink
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlMEnglish · 7 days ago35 years ago today, Star Trek: The Next Generation 5x04 Silicon Avatar first aired. It featured a powerful warp-capable life form called the Crystalline Entity which resembled a giant snowflake.plus-squarememory-alpha.fandom.comexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-link35 years ago today, Star Trek: The Next Generation 5x04 Silicon Avatar first aired. It featured a powerful warp-capable life form called the Crystalline Entity which resembled a giant snowflake.plus-squarememory-alpha.fandom.comArthur Besse@lemmy.mlMEnglish · 7 days agomessage-square0linkfedilink
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlMEnglish · edit-28 days ago145 years ago today in Paris, proto-Zionist Eliezer Ben Yehuda and two friends had what is thought to be the first conversation in modern Hebrewplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-link145 years ago today in Paris, proto-Zionist Eliezer Ben Yehuda and two friends had what is thought to be the first conversation in modern Hebrewplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgArthur Besse@lemmy.mlMEnglish · edit-28 days agomessage-square0linkfedilink
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlMEnglish · 8 days ago80 years ago today, France had a constitutional referendum in which 53% of voters (with 68% turnout) approved the constitution of the French Fourth Republic. It would last for 12 years.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-link80 years ago today, France had a constitutional referendum in which 53% of voters (with 68% turnout) approved the constitution of the French Fourth Republic. It would last for 12 years.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgArthur Besse@lemmy.mlMEnglish · 8 days agomessage-square0linkfedilink
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlMEnglish · edit-29 days ago534 years ago today, Christopher Columbus's first transatlantic expedition made landfall on an island the Taíno people called Guanahani in what is today the Bahamas.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-link534 years ago today, Christopher Columbus's first transatlantic expedition made landfall on an island the Taíno people called Guanahani in what is today the Bahamas.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgArthur Besse@lemmy.mlMEnglish · edit-29 days agomessage-square0linkfedilink
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlMEnglish · 9 days ago9 years ago today, the United States withdrew from UNESCO. It stopped paying its dues six years earlier, due to a US law prohibiting funding any organization which accepts Palestine as a full member.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10
arrow-up12arrow-down1external-link9 years ago today, the United States withdrew from UNESCO. It stopped paying its dues six years earlier, due to a US law prohibiting funding any organization which accepts Palestine as a full member.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgArthur Besse@lemmy.mlMEnglish · 9 days agomessage-square0linkfedilink
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlMEnglish · 9 days ago21 years ago today, Shenzhou 6 launched on a Long March 2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. It was China's second human spaceflight.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-link21 years ago today, Shenzhou 6 launched on a Long March 2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. It was China's second human spaceflight.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgArthur Besse@lemmy.mlMEnglish · 9 days agomessage-square0linkfedilink
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlMEnglish · 9 days ago55 years ago today, the Shah of Iran's "2,500-year celebration of the Persian Empire" began.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-link55 years ago today, the Shah of Iran's "2,500-year celebration of the Persian Empire" began.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgArthur Besse@lemmy.mlMEnglish · 9 days agomessage-square0linkfedilink
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlMEnglish · edit-29 days ago62 years ago today, the Soviet Union launched Voskhod 1. It was the first human spaceflight to carry more than one person, and the first without pressure suits. It completed 16 orbits.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10
arrow-up12arrow-down1external-link62 years ago today, the Soviet Union launched Voskhod 1. It was the first human spaceflight to carry more than one person, and the first without pressure suits. It completed 16 orbits.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgArthur Besse@lemmy.mlMEnglish · edit-29 days agomessage-square0linkfedilink
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlMEnglish · 9 days ago155 years ago today, in British India the first "Criminal Tribes Act" was enacted. It criminalized entire communities by designating them and their members as habitual criminals.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-link155 years ago today, in British India the first "Criminal Tribes Act" was enacted. It criminalized entire communities by designating them and their members as habitual criminals.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgArthur Besse@lemmy.mlMEnglish · 9 days agomessage-square0linkfedilink
