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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…

#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.

De compagnie van Frans Banninck Cocq
🎗️
📷 #OTD 2024

Brigitte Bardot was born on this day in 1934. She’s 91!
Here she is singing a duet with Serge Gainsbourg in a comic strip setting with words of the song written on balloons. Very French. Very 60s.
#music #otd

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.

Robert McNees (@mcnees.bsky.social)
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. 👩‍🔬 🧪

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 ...

63 years ago, on the 27th of September 1962,
Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring was published.
It handled the environmental harm caused by the pesticide DDT
and the disinformation spread by the chemical industry.
Carson managed to sway public opinion and even policy.
#otd #history 🗃️

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!

#OTD in 2007 op de Domtoren, richting station #Utrecht CS. Ter vergelijking een latere foto (2 juni 2022 ter gelegenheid van 900 jaar stadsrechten)

30 years ago #OTD I was in #India to observe a Total #SolarEclipse lasting under a minute in Neem Ka Thana, Rajasthan: my report on the whole trip to this amazing country - written originally for an English magazine - can be found at https://geocities.restorativland.org/CapeCanaveral/5599/india_95_story.html while the picture here was taken by Voyto Rušin at the same observing camp and processed by Miloslav Druckmüller: http://www.zam.fme.vutbr.cz/~druck/eclipse/Ecl1995i/0-info.htm

#OTD 2014: spending the night at the #Bauhaus in Dessau

Fifty Fgn Yrs Ago Twas 2nd of 2 BIG nights with #EltonJohn added by popular demand at #DodgerStadium #OTD in 1975

Brown Dirt Cowboys Need Not Apply as

60 years ago #OTD #comet #IkeyaSeki reached perihelion, -10 mag., was visible in daylight and showed a spectacular tail in the following weeks: https://groups.io/g/comets-ml/message/32770 and https://www.astronomy.com/today-in-the-history-of-astronomy/sept-18-1965-discovery-of-comet-ikeya-seki/ and https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-01854/

Where I Wuz 41 Years Ago #OTD Tonight:
#BigBlack at #DCSpace
Oct 24, 1984: Washington, DC
Probably my first time seeing the scrawny yet still freakishly imposing Albini backed by his drum machine "Roland" , wi…

Ten years (!) ago #OTD the first - and shockingly clear - #GravitationalWave signal was seen by the two LIGO detectors ... rumors flew immediately but the official announcement came only in February 2016: https://telescoper.blog/2025/09/14/a-decade-of-gravitational-waves/ and a lot more in https://ligo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/LIGO-magazine-issue27.pdf plus a long article from back then in https://cplberry.com/2016/02/11/gw150914/ and a 1-1/2-hour documentary at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX4vCNi544w

#OTD: 13 years ago, I visited the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart.
It is one of Germany's temples to “das Auto”. Architectural gems, this one is by UN Studio.

#OTD in 1988 (37 yrs ago!) in the peace sign shaped park / traffic circle at the center of sleepy #Cotati #California, a free outdoor show featured Sam Andrew of Big Brother & The Holding Co with two upstart bands opening :

#OTD 4 years ago.

This is a picture I took on this exact day 14 years ago. It shows compact electric vehicles for shared mobility in Berlin, Germany. The future was here — where did it go?
#OTD #EV

#ClevelandRocks
#OTD in 1973 For $6 At The Door with Mott The Hoople & #Aerosmith at the 2,000 capacity John Carroll Jesuit college gym . If I'm not mistaken, school alum and future

#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 …

44 Years Ago Tonight
#TheWaitresses from Ohio
#BerkeleySquare on University
#BerkeleyCA #OTD 1981
1st Ever Sho…

Where I Wuz #OTD 1993
32 years ago
#Rancid / #MachineHead
#BerkeleySquare

Where Wuz #OTD Oct 20, 1988
Boner Records Showcase
Bomb / #SteelpoleBathtub
at #CoveredWagon #SanFrancisco

Where I Wuz #OTD 1990
putting on a #ShredOfDignity Skate Rock show at SF Women's Building with #MTX and teenage opening band from #LeastBay

#FrankSinatra #Junior #ShowBiz #WaltWhitman Theater #OTD …

#OTD #LAWeekly's #NewWave Music Album Chart for this week in 1981...
Early 80's faves including #BowWowWow at #1, U2 's

#WhereIWuz #OTD 30 yrs ago today
#Warfield in SF
#SoulAsylum let their played their