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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 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 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.

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 2022 Vanishing point

#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.

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).

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 2018

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

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.

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