
2025-06-28 10:14:26
Happy Birthday Elon Musk STONEWALL WAS A RIOT, WE WILL NOT BE QUIET #OTD (28th of June)
Happy Birthday Elon Musk STONEWALL WAS A RIOT, WE WILL NOT BE QUIET #OTD (28th of June)
Mathematician Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck was born #OTD in 1942.
She is known for her work on PDEs, calculus of variations, topology, and gauge theory, and was the second woman (after Emmy Noether!) to give the plenary lecture to the International Congress of Mathematicians.
35 years ago #OTD the #Hubble Space Telescope with its mishappen optics took this image of #Saturn - which could be sharpened a lot mathematically (as the paper https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1991ApJ...369L..51W later described) since the object was so bright. It's being said that this one image was used by NASA to convince key U.S. politicians that the broken satellite still had some life in it ... and so it was, for 35 years now!
Show at #GuildTheater I helped book #OTD 32 years ago in #Sacramento 1993
50 years ago #OTD at 16:09 UTC #Soyuz 19 and the final #Apollo spacecraft docked in orbit in the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project or Экспериментальный полёт «Союз»–«Аполлон» (the Americans and Soviets never agreed on which s/c comes first): https://www.nasa.gov/apollo-soyuz-test-project/ = various NASA materials, https://historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPortal/history/astp.htm = many links, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/sp-4209.pdf = a biiiig book, https://www.facebook.com/AstroDrewMorgan/posts/pfbid0wcN12LcAfRYYTmiWS71GQ47P42jukXVhd2QWA7eBzgg1wbdZAKq8LXVGTC9o7tKtl and https://www.facebook.com/ralf.heckel1/posts/pfbid02jcFp85PRy2UBUs4JVhPQcBnmddC8sQbPL3Vx26XoFMvbbsToNJmpLMDrRfce98HPl and https://www.facebook.com/groups/176051159106442/posts/24331420949809459 and https://www.facebook.com/groups/48800622850/posts/10162318303047851 = more visuals, https://www.youtube.com/live/Mu7iEyaOmDM = an online event, https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/07/not-that-into-peace-doves-the-apollo-soyuz-patch-nasa-rejected/ and https://www.spacerockethistory.com/2025/02/space-rocket-history-457-apollo-soyuz-test-project-soviet-concerns-with-apollo/ and http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-071425a-apollo-soyuz-test-project-astp-official-flight-kit-ofk-apk.html and https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/science/apollo-soyuz-test-project-1975-anniversary.html?smid=bs-share = articles and https://scicomm.xyz/@Nick_Stevens_graphics@mastodon.art/114858897568849751 = a contemporary cartoon.
#OTD 2024. Rotterdam.
#OTD 11 jaar geleden kwam de Russische agressie ook naar Nederland. De MH17 werd door een Russische luchtdoelraket neergeschoten, 298 mensen kwamen om het leven.
Ik herinner me nog de eerste teletekstmelding, maar wat mij vooral is bijgebleven is (weken later) het dagelijkse ritueel van het overbrengen van de slachtoffers. Deze video is door iemand anders gemaakt op de plek waar ik ook een aan…
400 years ago #OTD the astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini a.k.a. #Cassini I (because they would become an astro-dynasty) was born: while #meridiana of Bologna: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Petronio,_Bologna
#OTD 10 years ago.
München
#OTD #July4th 1988
Juice Newton & Exile performed concert sets outdoors before the annual fireworks outside the Coliseum in #RichmondVA. Juice had flown in from Buffalo, where the night before she'd performed before a paid…
#OTD in 1997 , 28 Years Ago!
I was at #SierraNevada #WorldMusic #Festival on the riverfront celebrating
Where I wuz at #OTD 41 yrs ago...
$5 #AllAges Punk/ Funk Spectacular at #Georgetown University Hall of Nations
#GoGo Beat Masters