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Have you heard about the 'Pauli principle'? It's the brainchild of physics laureate Wolfgang Pauli who was born #OTD in 1900. His principle proposed that no two electrons in an atom could have identical sets of quantum numbers. Learn more about Pauli: bit.ly/2J1kcyt
Pan-Africantist and Ghanaian independence leader Kwame Nkrumah died Apr. 27, 1972. Leader of Ghana from its independence in 1957 until he was overthrown in a CIA-assisted coup in 1966, Nkrumah's policies challenged Western neo-colonialism in Africa. #OTD #Ghana #Africa
#OTD #CivilWar Shooter staged trend: April 26, 1865: Abraham Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth is cornered, shot and killed by the US Army. Also Gen. Joe Johnson surrenders the last Confederate Army, his 30,000-man Army of Tennessee in Durham, #NC.🍾🎉🥳https://t.co/qUMqUJGiWg
#OTD 2016, Rev. Samuel Kyle's, passed away. He was at the Lorraine Motel to pick up Martin Luther King, Jr. to take him to dinner at his home on April 4, 1968. He witnessed King's assassination. He was the founder of Monumental Baptist Church in Memphis.
Hack Wilson had a lot of great seasons, but his 1930 campaign was tough to top. The Hall of Famer, who was born #OTD in 1900, collected 191 RBI for the @Cubs in ’30 – setting a single-season record that stands to this day.
26 Apr 1649: Samuel Hartlib, polymath, voted a pension of £100 per annum #otd for "the advancement of Arts & Laerning" (Hartlib to John Aubrey 8th Mar, 1653, Ms. Aubrey 12, fols. 155r–156v, Hartlib Project, Oxford)
Apollo 16 command module pilot T.K. Mattingly performed an 83-minute spacewalk #OTD in 1972 during the return trip from the Moon. It was to retrieve film cassettes from the Scientific Instrument Module bay at the rear of the service module.
German composer, conductor and pianist Georg Berg was born #OTD in 1884 in Berlin. He was excluded from the Reichsmusikkammer and listed in the anti-Semitic texts Judentum und Musik and Lexikon der Juden in der Musik. lexm.uni-hamburg.de/object/lexm_le…
#OTD in 1943 During the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, German authorities posted notices across occupied Warsaw reminding that helping Jews was punishable by death. These were not empty threats - the punishment often extended to entire families, and even those who failed to report Jews
April 26, 1944 #OTD World War II: Marshal Philippe Pétain (Pictured) made his first and only visit to Paris, France to inspect damage from Allied bombings. #OnThisDay #History
Ukrainian composer, musicologist and editor Leopold Spinner (born #OTD in 1906) escaped Nazi persecution in 1938. In England he worked in a train factory before joining Boosey & Hawkes in 1947, eventually as chief editor, focusing on Stravinsky’s scores. holocaustmusic.ort.org/resistance-and…
#OtD 26 Apr 1937 the ancient Basque city of Guernica was bombed and largely obliterated by the German and Italian air forces at the behest of the Spanish nationalists during the civil war. The event was famously depicted by Picasso. More in this podcast: workingclasshistory.com/2020/06/17/e39…
#OTD in 1914 the Franck-Hertz electron collisions experiment showing internal quantum levels of atoms was first presented and supported Niels Bohr's theory on the structure of the atom. Photos: James Franck, a vacuum tube used in the experiment, and Gustav Hertz. #NobelPrize
26 Apr 1585: John Norreys military hardliner & a man involved in massacres takes his seat as MP for County #Cork #otd
#OTD 1955 Diem fires Van Sang as Director General of National Police & Surete and replaces him with Col. Ngoc Le. Sang declares he can only be removed by Bao Dai.
On this day in #History, April 26, 1865 – #Union cavalry troopers cornered and shot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Abraham Lincoln. #OTD #Confederate #civilwar Historygonewilder.com
#OTD in 1936, Huck Geary’s two-run double in the top of the 17th inning was the big hit in the #Bisons 10-9 win at Syracuse. It was the #Buffalo native’s fourth hit of the game. @Mike_Buczkowski
Pan-Africantist and Ghanaian independence leader Kwame Nkrumah died Apr. 27, 1972. Leader of Ghana from its independence in 1957 until he was overthrown in a CIA-assisted coup in 1966, Nkrumah's policies challenged Western neo-colonialism in Africa. #OTD #Ghana #Africa
On this day, April 26, 2024 was one for the ages. I documented at least 10 tornadoes between Lincoln, Ne to north of Harlan, IA. #otd #iawx #newx
#OTD 2016, Rev. Samuel Kyle's, passed away. He was at the Lorraine Motel to pick up Martin Luther King, Jr. to take him to dinner at his home on April 4, 1968. He witnessed King's assassination. He was the founder of Monumental Baptist Church in Memphis.
#OTD #CivilWar Shooter staged trend: April 26, 1865: Abraham Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth is cornered, shot and killed by the US Army. Also Gen. Joe Johnson surrenders the last Confederate Army, his 30,000-man Army of Tennessee in Durham, #NC.🍾🎉🥳https://t.co/qUMqUJGiWg
Hack Wilson had a lot of great seasons, but his 1930 campaign was tough to top. The Hall of Famer, who was born #OTD in 1900, collected 191 RBI for the @Cubs in ’30 – setting a single-season record that stands to this day.
26th April 1897: Aston Villa won 1-0 at Preston to confirm the League Title and to complete The Double #OTD 129 yrs ago. An Ideal Retro Birthday / Fathers Day Gift Idea for an #AstonVillaFC #AVFC💜 Fan #NFOAVL #NOTAVL #UnaiEmery #Emery #McGinn #MOTD2 ➡️ ow.ly/X3fS50KqqZv
26 Apr 1606 : Ben Jonson #poet & #playwright defends himself & his wife Anne robustly against recusancy charges #otd in #London (BM)
26 Apr 1535: St. John Houghton, Prior of the #London Charterhouse and fellow Carthusians Robert Lawrence and Augustine Webster are interrogated #otd by Thomas Cromwell for their refusal to take the Supremacy Oath. Executed 4 May.
26 Apr 1601: William Herbert 3rd Earl of #Pembroke is released from the Fleet prison #otd but banished to Wilton due to his involvement with Lady Mary Fitton, her pregnancy & his refusal to marry her (NPG)
26 Apr 1585: John Norreys military hardliner & a man involved in massacres takes his seat as MP for County #Cork #otd
April 26, 1969 - #Montreal Expos Bill Stoneman (26) in action, pitching vs Pittsburgh Pirates at Forbes Field. #MLB #OTD #1960s #Expos
26th April 1902: Newton Heath were renamed Manchester United #OTD 124 years ago. An Ideal Vintage Retro Birthday / Fathers Day Gift Idea for a #MUFC #ManUnited #ManUtd #ManU ❤️ Fan #MUNBRE #Carrick #Bruno #Cunha #Mbeumo #BusbyBabes #MattBusby #MOTD2 ➡️ ow.ly/bvtl50Kq8pp
26th April 1955: Henry Cooper suffered his first professional defeat, a 5th Round TKO against Italian Uber Bacilieri in their Heavyweight bout at Harringay Arena, #OTD 71 years ago. An Ideal Retro Birthday / Fathers Day Gift Idea for a Boxing 🥊 Fan ➡️ ow.ly/J7kk50GYWJj
April 26, 1877: Residents of Minnesota held a day of prayer, asking for deliverance from a plague of grasshoppers. An 1875 swarm over Nebraska covered 1,800 miles x 110 miles. hearthstonelegacy.com/when-the-skies… #todayinhistory #otd #christian #plague #prayer #minnesota #locust #repent
#OTD 199 years ago, #FranzSchubert composed the poignantly intense yet rather minimalistic piano gem, Allegretto in C- . Played it for a friend this evening. 🎹
On this day in 1961, Chris Mars was born to make music--playing drums for most of The Replacements' career and then, most of the instruments on his subsequent solo projects--before deciding to focus on painting, which has kept him busy the last third of a century or so.#OTD
852 Jews from Würzburg were deported to the East #OTD 25 April 1942 The deportation was documented by German policemen, and the photos were collected in an album discovered in August 1947 by the prosecution team in the Nuremberg Trials. Learn more: bit.ly/3Nuh9nu
#OTD in 1988, USS Bonefish (SS-582) was forced to the surface where the crew abandoned the sub because of an intense fire in the battery compartment. 89 men were rescued by USS Carr and USS John F. Kennedy, but three sailors died. The Navy decided to scrap the Bonefish due to the
Happy Birthday Turner Classic Movies :) TCM debuted 32 years ago today on April 14, 1994, at 6PM ET, with Ted Turner launching the channel at a ceremony in New York City's Times Square. #otd #TCM
#OTD in 1952, USS Wasp (CVA-18) collided with destroyer minesweeper USS Hobson (DMS-26) while conducting night flying operations. Wasp lost a 75-foot chunk of bow, but Hobson was split in two and went down with 176 men. It was the greatest loss of life on a Navy ship since WWII.
#OTD in 1945, FDR died. One month later, USS Coral Sea was renamed in his honor. In 1950, USS Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first carrier to take nuclear weapons to sea. The weapons would have been delivered by P2V Neptune bombers launched with "Jet-assisted take-off" (JATO).
#OTD in 1943 During the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, German authorities posted notices across occupied Warsaw reminding that helping Jews was punishable by death. These were not empty threats - the punishment often extended to entire families, and even those who failed to report Jews
#OTD in 1960, USS Triton completed the first submerged circumnavigation of the world while under command of CAPT Edward Beach, Jr. Starting and ending at the St. Peter and Paul Rocks in the Atlantic, the Triton traveled 26,723 nautical miles in 60 days and 21 hours.
#OTD April 16, 1521: German reformer Martin Luther arrives at the Diet of Worms, expecting a chance to debate the concerns he raised in his 95 Theses, particularly the abuse of indulgences. To his surprise, it is not a debate but a judicial hearing demanding he recant his
#OTD in 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL snipers eliminated three Somali pirates who were holding Captain Richard Phillips hostage on a lifeboat. The pirates had earlier seized the Maersk Alabama, the first U.S.-flagged ship to have been boarded by pirates in two centuries.
#OTD in 1947, Jackie Robinson bravely walked through that door. Thank god. Here's my painting of him at Ebbets Field on August 28, 1949.
18 April 1906: At 5:12 am, an estimated 7.9 magnitude #earthquake destroyed 80% of San Francisco, California and killed some 2,500 people. #History #OTD #ad amzn.to/3ewRq7q
The British Library announced it had acquired the St Cuthbert Gospel for the nation #OTD in 2012, following a successful fundraising appeal. An 8thC manuscript copy of the Gospel of St John, it is the earliest surviving intact European book. 📸British Library
#OtD 22 Apr 1993 Stephen Lawrence, a Black British man, was murdered by racists in London. Public pressure following the failure to convict the killers led to revelations of institutional racism within the British Police stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9445/s…
#OTD in 1945, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's funeral train left Warm Springs, Georgia for his final resting place in Hyde Park, New York. FDR's friend Chief Petty Officer Graham Jackson wept as he played "Goin' Home" on the accordion.
#OTD 14 April 1932 Cockcroft and Walton split the lithium atom with a proton beam. They were awarded the 1951 #NobelPrize in Physics for their pioneering work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles. More info: bit.ly/2JnnNKo
#OTD in 1803, Emperor Alexander I blessed iconic health resort, gem of Russia’s South — #MineralnyeVody, issuing decree to develop this stunning spa region laid amid pristine nature 🏔 For more than 2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ years people flock here to heal their body & soul ❤️ #VisitCaucasus
Michał Maciejowski, a Polish Air Force pilot in Britain and a fighter ace, died #OTD in 2001 in Winnipeg. Between 1940 and 1943, he shot down around 10 German aircraft. Known in the RAF as “Michael Manson” or “Mickey,” he was among the Polish pilots defending Allied skies.
🚗 #OTD in 1970, mass production of the iconic VAZ-2101 aka #kopeyka began Initially built on @fiat 124 platform, it was for tougher roads and stood on its own, notorious for durability & easy maintenance. A total of 4.8 million units were produced, many exported 🌍
#OTD in 1942, just 4 months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Colonel James Doolittle led a daring bombing raid over Japan. 16 B-25 bombers took off from the deck of the USS Hornet, targeting 6 Japanese cities. Though the damage was minimal, it was an important morale
Hit by an iceberg late on April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic sank hours later #OTD in the cold waters of the North Atlantic. More than 1,500 people died. A dramatic memorial to the victims by artist Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney stands along the Washington Canal, south of the Wharf.
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