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@burger_jaap@mastodon.social
2026-07-04 06:34:21

#OTD 2015 Grand Départ Tour de France, Utrecht

The Dom Tower illuminated in red, white and blue
A cyclist wearing a time trial helmet, with a large crowd lining the road
Support vehicle, topped by a metre-high figure of Miffy wearing the yellow jersey of the Tour de France
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social
2026-05-30 06:34:09

#OTD 2010 Magenta Ensemble

A telephone box with a magenta-pink Deutsche Telekom logo, and a handset in the same colour. Behind it are large drainage pipes connected together in the same magenta-pink colour.
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
2026-06-21 16:42:23

25 years ago #OTD I observed a long Total #SolarEclipse in #Zambia: lots of pictures in the albums geocities.ws/skyreports/zam200 = web.archive.org/web/2013052902 and a long story (in German) in geocities.ws/skyreports/zam200 = web.archive.org/web/2012052705

@doktrock@toad.social
2026-04-17 00:31:23

50 years ago, 16 April 1976. "13 Oil Rig Workers Die When Survival Capsule Capsizes" in the Gulf of Mexico. They had tried to escape from an offshore drilling platform. #OTD Fargo Forum newspaper.

Portion of a front page of a newspaper, Friday, April 16, 1976. Corpus Christi, Texas (AP). "13 men who scrambled into a saucer-like survival capsule before an oil drilling platform sank in the wind-whipped Gulf of Mexico died later when the capsule capsized, the Coast Guard said today." (story continues.) Photo of a capsule- with a caption "this survival capsule is similar to the one that capsized early Friday..."
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
2026-06-19 20:26:58

50 years ago #OTD the #Viking 1 Orbiter with its precious Lander cargo entered into orbit around #Mars: facebook.com/VikingMarsMission - the landing came a month later.

@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
2026-06-20 18:35:31

RE: #OTD the #cosmologist George #Lemaître died:

@doktrock@toad.social
2026-05-17 14:48:29

News story on a significant earthquake in Uzbekistan, 50 years ago, May 17, 1976 (Fargo-Moorhead Forum archives). Mentions the Medvedev scale, apparently now the the MSK or MSK-64 scale. That scale is not mentioned in North American, physical geology textbooks I have seen, although it's apparently similar to the Mercalli scale.
Also, the first page of a scientific paper on it, from 1980. ⚒️🧪
#OTD

Beginning of a news story. MOSCOW (AP) - A severe earthquake struck a wide area of Soviet Central Asia today and caused "serious damage in a number of places," officials reported. Ine three largest cities in the region — Tashkent, Bukhara and Samarkand - reported no casualties and virtually no damage, but communications were cut with the town of Gazli and some other small communities that received the brunt of the quake's force. The earthquake, centered in the sparsely populated Kulzhuktau mou…
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Vol. 70, No. 5, pp. 1715-1736, October 1980 FAULTING PROCESS OF THE MAY 17, 1976 GAZLI, USSR EARTHQUAKE By STEPHEN HARTZELL ABSTRACT The May 17, 1976 Gazli earthquake (m, = 6.2, Ms = 7.0) has both seismological and engineering importance. Waveform modeling of long-period IDA Ray- leigh waves, and WWSSN long- and short-period body waves indicates a thrust mechanism with strike N40°E, dip 54°SE, and rake of 78°. The moment is estimated to be 1.6 ×…
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social
2026-05-12 13:05:41

#OTD 2014 Cross-border rail @ Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi
SNCB - NS - DB - SNCF

White ICE high-speed train with NS Dutch railways logo, silver grey TGV high-speed train with SNCF logo
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
2026-05-18 02:21:29

RE: #OTD the first large #planetarium in the world opened in Wuppertal, Germany, also introducing the ant-shaped projector design which most would use for the following 3/4 century.

@doktrock@toad.social
2026-04-08 02:33:58

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

Part of the front page with large headline "Carter Emerges As Wisconsin Winner" ; smaller "Udall Claims Premature Victory." MILWAUKEE (AP) Rep. Morris Udall, who prematurely claimed victory in Wisconsin's Democratic primary that belonged to Jimmy Carter said today he had stopped "the Carter landslide." "It was practically a dead heat in Wisconsin" the Arizona Democrat told a group of United Auto...
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
2026-06-12 22:45:31

40 ago #OTD the 'Red Elvis' #DeanReed was found dead: youtube.com/watch?v=2XdaCWyUyNQ = his cover of "Rock ‘N Roll (I Gave You The Best Years Of My Life)", my favorite version (the original youtube.com/watch?v=mmNHwqmYDac and the German adaptation youtube.com/watch?v=Ns73GmANQ5c are also great) - see deanreed.de and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Reed about a remarkable life ...

@burger_jaap@mastodon.social
2026-04-06 10:11:22

#OTD 2010

A view of the water, with the Statue of Liberty on the left and the Manhattan skyline in the background on the right. Cloudy skies with sunshine
@ose_rouge@don.linxx.net
2026-04-19 11:26:02

RE: #OTD

@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
2026-05-11 16:16:01

75 years ago #OTD the #interstellar #hydrogen line at 21 cm was detected for the first time in Europe (sci-hub.vg/10.1038/168357a0), following the first-ever detection - in the U.S. - in March 1951 (sci-hub.vg/10.1038/168356a0): see astron.nl/may-11-75-years-of-t for what followed.

@burger_jaap@mastodon.social
2026-04-13 07:32:58

#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

Cars in a car park. Large sign with text in Norwegian: El-motorvogn parkering Filipstad [Electric vehicle parking, Filipstad]
@ose_rouge@don.linxx.net
2026-05-16 16:31:12

#OTD im Jahr 1945 leisten die Befreiten den Schwur von Mauthausen: »Der Friede und die Freiheit sind die Garanten des Glücks der Völker, und der Aufbau der Welt auf neuen Grundlagen sozialer und nationaler Gerechtigkeit ist der einzige Weg zur friedlichen Zusammenarbeit der Staaten und Völker. (…) >

@ose_rouge@don.linxx.net
2026-05-06 20:11:56

Kritik der Bundeswehr in der Praxis. Hier gegen die Gelöbnisfeier am 6. Mai 1980 in Bremen. #OTD de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gel%B

@ose_rouge@don.linxx.net
2026-06-27 10:46:06
Content warning: Antisemitismus von links

Deutsche linksradikale Militante. Hier immerhin im verspäteten Reflexionsmodus. Aus »Gerd Albartus ist tot.« Positionspapier der RZ, 1991. #OTD #Entebbe #RZ #Antisemitismus