#onthisday

Source Waking up today with the weight of that date hanging in the air feels almost physical, like something subtle pressing against my chest, reminding me that time can be both ruthless and generous.

#TalDiacomoHoy el 04 de abril de 1968, es asesinado Martin Luther King Jr. a sus 39 años por un disparo de arma de fuego mientras se encontraba en el balcón del motel Lorraine. El presunto asesino fue

The Farmboy's cousin is getting married today, which was kind of a shocker for us because we often see him at the construction site, but we only learned about it yesterday evening. We thought it was

'After Life’ was the series I was hooked on for the whole of 2020. A year that, although it seems exaggerated, I don't know if we still remember it as it was... My story, I don't know if it's the worst

It was kind of a very big deal at the time

On December 29, 2006: Kobe Bryant went off for 58 Points against the Bobcats #OTD #OnThisDay #NBA #KobeBryant #LosAngelesLakers On December 29, 2020: Bucks broke the NBA record for most 3-pointers made

Throughout May, ill be looking back at historical moments from the past. From conflicts to coronations, sporting moments to royal memories, and famous firsts and lasts, with my love of all things shiny

T-shirts from my collection Today is the end of 'Zappadan' - stretching from 4th December, the day Frank Zappa died in 1993, to today, his birthday. FZ was famous for many things, but mostly the poster

On this day a miraculous home run hit by Bobby Thompson in the bottom of the ninth inning wins the New York Giants the National League pennant over the Brooklyn Dodgers. The win eliminated the Dodgers

The Seoul Olympics: The scene is set for a showdown between Canadian, Ben Johnson and American, Carl Lewis, two titans of the track. The heats had been run and won sorting the wheat from the chaff and

These days it seems odd to think that women were once prohibited from voting - It wasn't just women either of course with many denied the ability to vote. This year though some two billion voters across

A high-school drop out created one of the largest and most globally-recognised companies on this day over a hundred years ago. It cost two thousand dollars to incorporate General Motors, a tiny drop in

One of the most recognisable faces in hop hop is Tupac Shakur even years after his death in 1996 from gunshot wounds sustained in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas. The shooting wasn't Tupac's first though.

Smith is one of the most common of names in western society, in England it's the most common surname and also in Australia and America it's very prevalent - 2 million in the USA apparently. But...There's

The name Uncle Sam is synonymous with the United States but why and who first came up with the iconic image? The name is linked to the 1812 war and the United States Army. The army were supplied barrels

The year was 1994 and I was in high school. Bellevue, Washington is a little-known location near Seattle and was Jeff Bezos' home at the time. These days I would imagine that he has many places he calls

Hi PALs, This is an effort to provide some information on Five selected famous personalities born on this day. Courtesy of this information goes to onthisday.com, famousbirthdays.com and wikipedia.org

#onthisday Nobel Prize winning chemist Dororthy Hodgkin was born in 1910. ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ Hodgkin read chemistry at Oxford, receiving a first in 1932. After completing her PHD at Cambridge she returned to Oxford

Kiedy strzelił na niebie ukazała się tęcza... Z pewnością nie takich wieści oczekiwał w swoją noc poślubną. Tuż po pierwszej w nocy meldunek feldmarszałka Wilhelma Keitla nie dawał już żadnych nadziei.