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Happy #DarwinDay! 🧪
#OTD Charles Darwin was born 217 years ago today.
It’s not all cheetahs versus gazelles
Darwin the botanist • UNESCO recognition • Darwin’s address book • Charles Lyell • Leonard Jenyns • punctuated equilibria • what the heck are chins for? • and lots more…
-- MU-Peter Shimon

Richard Carter, FCD (@friendsofdarwin.bsky.social)
The latest edition of my free Friends of Charles Darwin newsletter went out earlier today to mark the 217th anniversary of Darwin’s birth. You can read it here… #HistSci https://substack.com/home/post/p-187638684

#OTD 2015 #Utrecht

#OTD On this day in 2012, I saw more electric cars gathered together in Oslo than I had ever seen before. It’s now a much more common sight in more and more places around the world.
#EV

Jimmy Carter wins Wisconsin primary, 50 years ago April 7, 1976, although Udall thought he had it. #OTD #Fargo Forum newspaper front page.

#NowPlaying “I’m Just A Bill” was first aired #OTD in 1976. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ8psP4S6BQ
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#OTD 2010

#OTD in 1788, the final seven ships joined the four vessels of the #FirstFleet already in #BotanyBay. (HMS Supply arrived on 18 Jan; three others on 19 Jan.)
Four days later, the two vessels of the French La Perou…

Physicist Yoichiro Nambu
(南部 陽一郎) was born #OTD in 1921.
He developed a theory of spontaneous symmetry breaking
to explain superconductivity,
paving the way for electroweak symmetry breaking via the Higgs mechanism in the Standard Model

#OTD 2011: #Amsterdam opende het 100e publieke laadpunt voor elektrisch vervoer, en het eerste in stadsdeel Nieuw-West

#OTD 2021: Time for the annual bicycle harvest in Utrecht

The aftermath of the first successful flight - 2.5 seconds, 12.5 meters high - of a liquid-fueled #rocket 100 years ago #OTD as photographed by Robert H. #Goddard himself in Auburn, Mass. The flight itself was neither filmed nor photographed but there is plentiful other material about the history-making experiments available, linked from https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/03/12/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-12-marz-2026/#Mar16 (much of it just gone up).

»Alle Macht den Räten (Sowjets) – Keine Macht der Partei«, das kann die Avantgarde der Diktatur des Proletariats im Sowjetrussland nicht ertragen und lässt die Rebellion von Kronstadt durch bolschewistische Truppen am 18. März des Jahres 1921 endgültig zerschlagen. Gegen das Vergessen!
#OTD #Kronstadt #RoterTerror #Sowjets #Lenin #Trotzki