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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 1967 this was the number one record in the country by the Strawberry Alarm Clock 🍓 ⏰:
"Incense & Peppermints"
One founding member of that largely anonymous combo would eventually go on to join #LynyrdSkynyrd in 1972, contributing to its formative stages originally playing bass before mov…

#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…

#OTD 2012 Polder.

#OTD in 1937, Alan Turing’s paper ‘On Computable Numbers with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem’ was published: https://people.math.ethz.ch/~halorenz/4students/Litera…

#OTD 2023: checking out the new underwater mega-bicycle parking facility at Amsterdam Central Station

60 years ago #OTD (or tomorrow) #comet #IkeyaSeki showed a dramatic tail: https://solarviews.com/cap/comet/ikeya.htm - and this chemical 'raw' picture proves it beyond doubt ... while nowadays creepy 'astrophotographers' past high-end stacks of the faint tails of comet Lemmon into landscape pictures creating similar "photographs" which then get likes galore. Sigh ...

Outlaws & Molly Hatchet bringing #Seventies #SouthernRock to #LongBeach Arena #OTD 1979 wth a lil' help from 94.7 KMET AND Wolf & R…

101 years ago, #OTD in 1925,
Edwin Hubble announced that Andromeda and other spiral nebulae were definitely separate galaxies outside the Milky Way
https://mastoreader.io/?url=https:%2

#OTD 2014 vanuit het net nieuwe TivoliVredenburg, #Utrecht. Ter vergelijking ongeveer zelfde uitzicht in september 2025. Dit ziet er over een jaar weer heel anders uit, nu het Smakkelaarsveld bebouwd wordt.

#OTD in 1969, in the midst of #SanFrancisco #GoodTimesBadTimes gigs opening for Country Joe & The Fish at Bill Graham's Fillmore West at Van Ness & Market (formerly the Carousel Ballroom),

#OTD 2022 Vanishing point

#OTD Am 21. November 2013 starten die Proteste auf dem Euromaidan in Kyiv und werden das Ende des pro-russischen Regimes unter Viktor Janukowitsch einläuten
#Euromaidan #Ukraine https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2018-11/ukraine-maidan-euromaidan-jahrestag-proteste-fs

35 yrs ago #OTD
made this flyer for an Indie Rock showcase in #SF as the US invades Iraq
with #VomitLaunch & X-Tal

#OTD 2022.

#OTD in 2022 right before the poorly grounded buzzing audio signal completely went out in the middle of his pedantic #Presidential voting rights speech in #Atlanta , after he'd rambled on for awhile about how great it was to work …

#OTD 2021

#OTD 2013: A time when Tesla still meant progress. One of the first Tesla Superchargers in Europe, in Zevenaar 🇳🇱. Until then, #EV fast chargers were often single devices, but this was one of the first hubs.

Where I wuz #OTD 1988
Playing this gig...
Looters
Bedlam Rovers
HARM FARM
& TRIBE
Klub Komotion 2779 16th St.
Five Dollar Donation » ALL AGES Show
Think I still have an audio cassette of gig!?!

#OTD 2018

60 years ago #OTD the launch of #Gemini 6A was aborted after the engines had already fired - how this played out on #LiveTV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htmd4BrNJ5k (and see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_6A#First_launch_attempt for what had happened).

#OTD in 1993 UK Independent newspaper profiled a Mega Millionaire #Saudi Scion and his C.I.A. BACKED "ARMY ON THE ROAD TO PEACE” IN #SUDAN

37 yrs ago #OTD my band played the #Subterranean Records Showcase at The Oasis at 11th & Folsom in #SF
There were Tupper Upper drink specials named after the reclusive label head Steve at a club that had a swimming pool and I rec…

#OTD in 1987 the historic #Leinenkugel's brewery in Chippewa Falls #Wisconsin was sold to Miller Brewing Company. In an eventual arrangement with Pabst, somehow

#OTD 2001 een van mijn eerste digitale foto's. Tjikke-tjikke-tik.
#Utrecht

De compagnie van Frans Banninck Cocq
🎗️
📷 #OTD 2024

#WhereIWuz
37 years ago #OTD I saw:
Tooth And Nail / Eskimo
at Klub Komotion
in San Francisco
all ages gig
$5 at the door.
flyer image courtesy Aaron Cometbus Punk and Underground Press Collection, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

1997 #OTD in SF's then thriving #SOMA nitelife district, Berkeley based bad boys "Psycotic Pineapple" held a reunion gig at the late great Robin Reichart's Transmission Theater, next door to his Paradise Lounge and across from Boz Scagg's Slim's (all three

Great Gig #OTD 1988 at Kennel Klub in SF
#TheBeanigscand #Looters

#OTD 1988 I wuz in basement of The Wilson Center in NW DC catching #Fugazi return to USA set during a benefit for National Coalition for the Homeless, put together by Mark Anderson's #PositiveForce org. Opening acts that played in…

Yesterday and tomorrow 50 years ago #OTD German TV viewers saw the premiere of an extraordinary nature documentary in two parts: #spiders by #HorstStern was a towering triumph in #TV nature #documentaries, and I still recall being blown away seeing it back then.

#OTD in 1993 I recall I caught Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys with the BarnStompers from Holland at an after hours warehouse party decorated with haybales at 21st an Harrison in SF. I recall the door man was a sketchy white supremacist redneck, who objected to letting in a person of color I came with.... The more things change, the more things do stay the same in this country.

Just stumbled upon this late great #JimmyCliff performance clip shot just over 50 ys ago #OTD appearing on David Letterman show in November 1985 promoting his LP #CliffHanger ...

Heute vor vier Jahren war Querdenken in Bremen wirklich in einer Scheißsituation. 😃 #Querdenken #Bremen #SchwarzerBlock #OTD https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UgGee999yR4

#OTD 1961 in #OlympiaWA Etta James' Filipino heritage cousin Sugar Pie DeSanto opens for #JamesBrown at the Evergreen College Ballroom in #Olympia

#OTD in 1977, in a move to restore confidence in federal #government officials, and end any questions about #ethics, potential #corruption and perc…

Pittsburgh PA #OTD 1976
#Steeltown #NYE with #Elvis

#OTD in 1992, I was at a free lunchtime gig on #SproulPlaza at #UCBerkeley diggin #Devo .
I was down in the pit just below the stage with my …