Observation - April 11th, 2026, Saturday

it is gray and raining

the concrete walk smells like spring

 

a long roll of thunder shakes the widows

the bass wave pushes through my chest

 

the flinty scent of weather drifts through the room

electrostatic in the air

It happened on March 26th

On this day in the year 196 before the common era (BCE) Ptolemy V, aged 13, is crowned King of Ptolemaic Egypt at Memphis by the High Priest of Ptah; the Rosetta Stone is inscribed afterward to proclaim this event; three hundred and twenty-three years later, the Greek astronomer and mathematician Ptolemy begins his observations of the heavens, which he continues to document for the next fourteen years.

On this day in the year 685 of the common era (CE), St. Cuthbert is consecrated bishop of Lindisfarne by archbishop Theodore at York, England; three hundred and forty-two years later, pope John XIX crowns Conrad II as the “Holy Roman” emperor, founding the Salian dynasty. Nine hundred and forty years after that, in 1967 CE, pope Paul VI issues the encyclical Populorum Progression; eighteen years later, pope John Paul II proclaims the first ever World Youth Day; forty-eight years later, the remains of Richard III of England (1452-85) are reburied at Leicester Cathedral in England after being discovered under a carpark in Leicester in 2012.

On this day in the year 1484 (CE) William Caxton prints his translation of Aesop's Fables.

On this day in 1534 CE, Lübeck accepts free Dutch ships into East Sea; one hundred and fifty-eight years later, king Maximilian is installed as land guardian of South Netherlands. Two hundred and eight years after that, in 1900 CE, the first edition of The (Free) People is printed in Amsterdam, the Netherlands; three years later, an American Hotel opens in Amsterdam. Twenty-three years after that, in 1926 CE, ‘de Graeff is appointed governor general of Dutch East Indies; forty-three years later, the Dutch commission the Dodewaard nuclear reactor in the Netherlands.

In 1552 CE, Amar Das becomes the Third Sikh Guru

In 1636 CE the University of Utrecht holds its opening ceremony; twenty-seven years later, the Quebec Seminary is established by François de Montmorency-Laval, the first bishop of New France...it is the first institution of higher learning in North America. Two hundred and five years later, in 1878 CE, the Hastings College of Law is founded in San Francisco, California.

In 1752 CE the Murder Act passes into law in Great Britain, allowing for the corpses of executed murderers to be given to the Company of Surgeons for dissection and experimentation.

In 1790 CE the United States (U.S.) Congress passes the Naturalization Act, requiring a two-year period of residency before citizenship may be conferred; fourteen years later, Congress orders the removal of all Native Americans living east of Mississippi to Louisiana. One hundred and six years after that, in 1910 CE, the U.S. forbids immigration to criminals, anarchists, paupers and the sick; twenty years late, Congress appropriates fifty-thousand dollars for the Inter-American highway system.

In 1804 CE the Territory of Orleans is organized through the Louisiana Purchase.

In 1812 CE, an  Earthquake measuring 7.7 on the Richter scale destroys 90% of Caracas, Venezuela, and killing an estimated fifteen to twenty thousand people; sixty years later a 7.8 earthquake shakes Owens Valley, California.

In 1820 CE, according to Mormon scholars, the future leader of the Mormon church, Joseph Smith, has his "First Vision" in a wooded area of New York; ten years later, the Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York.

In 1845 CE, Joseph Francis from NYC, patents a corrugated sheet-iron lifeboat, on this same day a patent is awarded for adhesive medicated plaster, precursor of the “Band-aid.” Twenty-seven years after that, in 1872 CE, Thomas J. Martin of Alabama, receives a U.S. patent for a pipe and valve fire extinguisher system.

In 1852 CE, Napoleon III issues the Decree of Paris Streets and officially launches the massive modernization of Paris by easing expropriation laws and empowering the executive to seize property for public utility, including road widening and sanitation. This, followed by Baron Haussmann's appointment in 1853, enabled the creation of wide boulevards, sanitation systems, and new, uniform street regulations; nineteen years later, municipal elections bring revolutionaries to power in Paris who form the short-lived Paris Commune government.

In 1859 CE the first supposed sighting of Vulcan is declared, a planet thought to orbit the sun, inside the orbit of Mercury, only the planet doesn't exist, and its sighting was something that happen in the human consciousness, similar to an AI hallucination…sometimes we just make it up.

In 1863 CE, fully committed to half measures and unmoved by basic morality, voters in West Virginia approve the gradual emancipation of slaves.

In 1881 CE Thessaly is freed from Ottoman rule becoming a part of Greece again.

In 1885 CE, Eastman Film Co. manufactures the first commercial motion picture film; forty-two years later, Alfred Hugenberg purchases the German film company UFA. On this same day, in 1927 CE, the Gaumont-British Film Corporation forms.

In 1885 CE the first modern and “legal cremation” is held at the township of Woking, in Surrey, England.

In 1895 CE, king Alfonso of Spain plants a pine sapling in Madrid, initiating Spain’s Arbor Day tradition, a precursor to the modern Earth Day movement.

In 1909 CE Russian military forces invade northern Persia to support Mohammad Ali Shah's coup d'état against the constitutional government in Persia and relieve the siege of Tabriz.

In 1924 CE, George Bernard Shaw's play Saint Joan, opens in London, England; sixteen years later, The Fifth Column, a play by Ernest Hemingway and adapted by Benjamin Glazer premieres in New York, New York courtesy of the Theater Guild

In 1926 CE the first lip-reading tournament is held in the United States.

In 1931 CE, Leo Bentley bowls three consecutive perfect games in Lorain, Ohio.

In 1934 CE, driving tests are introduced in Britain.

In 1935 CE, RJ Mitchell & Major Sorley discuss the armament of Supermarine Spitfire.

In 1937 CE, the spinach growers of Crystal City, Texas erect statue of Popeye; also on this day, William H. Hastie becomes the first person of African descent to hold a federal judgeship, in the Virgin Islands, U.S..

In 1942 CE the first "Eichmann transport" carries the condemned to Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps, also on this day a German offensive in North Africa under General Erwin Rommel fails. One year later, in 1943 CE, Elsie S. Ott is becomes the first female to be awarded U.S. Air Force Medal; one year later, seven hundred and five British bombers attack Essen, Germany. One year after that, in 1945 CE, allied generals Dwight D. Eisenhower, Omar Bradley and George S. Patton launch an attack at Remagen on the Rhine, and the U.S. 7^th Army crosses Worms while Churchill looks on; also on this day, allies led by the U.S. Marine Corps secure the island of Iwo Jima, taking it from Imperial Japanese Army, after eighteen thousand Japanese, and six thousand Americans are killed. Later that day in 1945 CE, there is a Kamikaze attack on the U.S. battle fleet near Kerama Retto.

In 1953 CE, Dr. Jonas Salk announces that he has successfully tested a vaccine to prevent polio, clinical trials begin; three years later, the Medic Alert Foundation forms. Sixty-two years after that, in 2018 CE, a U.S. soldier receives the world's first penis-and-scrotum transplant at John’s Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland; one year later, the maker of Oxycontin, Purdue Pharma, agrees to pay the State of Oklahoma a two hundred, and seventy million dollar settlement ahead of trial, after facing accusations that company had been intentionally fueling the American opioid epidemic. On this same day in 2019 CE, a state of emergency is declared in Rockland County, New York due to an outbreak of the measles epidemic, with unvaccinated children banned from public spaces for thirty days after one hundred and fifty three cases.

In 1954 CE the United States performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island; sixteen years later, the five-hundredth nuclear explosion since 1945 is announced by the U.S. government. Thirteen years after that, in 1983 CE, the U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.

In 1955 CE The Ballad of Davy Crockett, recorded by Bill Hayes becomes the #1 record in U.S.; fifteen years later, folk singer Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul & Mary) pleads guilty to "taking immoral liberties" with a 14-year-old girl and serves 3 months in prison. He is granted presidential pardon by Ronald Regan in 1981. Six years after that, in 1976 CE, Wings release the album: Wings at the Speed of Sound; one year later, Elvis Costello releases his first record: Less Than Zero. Three years after that, in 1980 CE, The Police perform in Bombay gets, it is the nation’s first rock concert in a decade; two years later, Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder release the single: Ebony & Ivory in the UK. Three years after that, in 1986 CE, Geffen records signs Guns & Roses; thirty-six years later, the British rock band Genesis performs the final concert of their farewell tour at the O2 Arena in London, England.

In 1958 CE, at the 30^th Academy Awards, The Bridge on the River Kwai wins Best Picture, eleven years later, Marcus Welby, M.D., starring Robert Young and James Brolin debuts as a TV movie on ABC-TV, prior to becoming a weekly series. Two years after that, in 1971 CE The Benny Hill Show tops TV ratings in UK; two years later, the television soap opera, The Young & the Restless, premieres on CBS. Two years after that, in 1975 CE, Ken Russell's film Tommy, based on the rock opera by The Who, premieres in London; Roger Daltrey and Ann-Margret star, Tina Turner and Elton John are featured; fifteen years later, Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa wins the Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement. Five years after that, in 2000 CE, American Beauty, wins best picture at the 72^nd Academy Awards; eighteen years later, Marvel’s Black Panther becomes the highest-grossing superhero film in America.

In 1958 CE the U.S. Army launches America's third successful satellite, Explorer III; eleven years later, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) launches the weather satellite Meteor I. Twelve years after that, in 1981 CE, the U.S.S.R.’s Soyuz T-4 lands, six years later, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (N.A.S.A.) launches Fltsatcom-6…it fails to reach orbit.

In 1960 CE the Baltimore Orioles and Cincinnati Reds have a series planned for Havana, Cuba moved to Miami, Florida; sixteen years later, the American League approves the purchase of the Toronto franchise by LaBatt Brewing for seven Million dollars. Three years after that, in 1979 CE, the San Diego Padres and the San Francisco Giants announce plans to play exhibition series in Tokyo…the Giant’s players reject it.

In 1962 CE the U.S. Supreme Court ratifies the concept of one-person-one-vote for the apportionment of seats in state legislatures.

In 1966 CE, large-scale anti-Vietnam War protests take place in the United States, including in New York City, Washington, D.C. and Chicago; sixteen years later, the groundbreaking takes place in Washington, D.C. for Vietnam Veterans Memorial, a conflict that claimed the lives, of fifty-nine thousand Americans, while wounding one hundred and fifty-four thousand more service men and women.

In 1970 CE, in Northern Ireland, The Police Act becomes law; providing for the disarmament of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (R.U.C.) and the establishment of an R.U.C. reserve force; two years later, William Whitelaw appointed as the first Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.

In 1972 CE the LA Lakers break the NBA wins record by winning 69 of 82 games…this record stands twenty-four years.

In 1973 CE Susan Shaw becomes the first woman in one hundred and seventy-one years to step foot inside the London Stock exchange; four years later, Focus on the Family is founded by American evangelist Dr. James Dobson.

In 1974 CE, George Foreman win a technical knock-out in his match with Ken Norton, winning the combined titles Heavyweight Champion of the World from the World Boxing Association (W.B.A.), the World Boxing Council (W.B.C.) and the The Ring, in Caracas, Venezuela; eighteen years later, Mike Tyson is sentenced to ten years in prison for the rape of Desiree Washington.

In 1974 CE the Romanian communist party names party leader Nicolae Ceaușescu as president.

In 1975 CE The Biological Weapons Convention is enacted with the force of international law.

In 1976 CE, queen Elizabeth II of England, sends the first royal e-mail from the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment.

In 1979 CE Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat sign the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty in Washington, D.C.; also on this day, OPEC announces a 14.5% price increase for crude oil.

In 2001 CE. Kazakhstan's Prime Minister opens an oil pipeline from the giant Tengiz Field to the Russian port of Novorossiysk, giving the Central Asian producer its first direct link to international markets.

In 1996 CE The International Monetary Fund (I.M.F.) approves a 10.2 billion-dollar loan for Russia; one year later, thirty-nine bodies are found in in Rancho Santa Fe, California as a part of the Heaven's Gate cult-suicides. Two years after that, in 1999 CE, a jury in Michigan finds Dr. Jack Kevorkian guilty of second-degree murder for administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill man; also on this day in 1999 CE, the "Melissa worm" infects Microsoft Word processing and email systems around the world.

In 2012 CE, Canadian filmmaker James Cameron becomes the first person to visit Challenger Deep in over 50 years…it is the deepest point on Earth.

In 2017 CE, anti-corruption protests in Russia result in hundreds arrested including opposition leader Alexei Navalny; also on this day, Carrie Lam is the first woman elected to lead Hong Kong by the Beijing-influenced electoral committee. One year after that, in 2018 CE, the United States, the European Union and Ukraine expel more than one hundred diplomats from the Russian Federation in response to Russia’s use of nerve gas as a tool of assignation in United Kingdom.

In 2018 CE the American entertainer and entrepreneur, Stormy Daniels, in an interview with CBS's 60 Minutes claims she had an affair with Donald Trump and was threatened to keep quiet about it, before being paid to be quiet about…

Also on this day in 2018 CE, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission confirms it will investigate Facebook over privacy concerns; one year later, the European Parliament votes for changes to copyright laws, making internet companies responsible for copyright infringements. Seven years after that, in 2026 CE, Meta and YouTube lose a landmark social media addiction trial, awarding $6 million in damages to a 20-year-old woman.

In 2019 CE, a painting by Pablo Picasso, Buste de Femme (Dora Maar, 1938), is recovered by a Dutch detective after having been stolen twenty-years earlier.

In 2020 CE, confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States exceed all other countries on this date, with 81,578 cases and 1,180 deaths…according to the New York Times; also on this day, a record number of Americans file for unemployment: 3.3 million according to the U.S. Department of Labor.

In 2020 CE the United States Justice Department, in an unequal exercise of its legal authority, charges Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and other officials in his administration with "narco-terrorism," a crime for which there is no statute, ostensibly for flooding the America with drugs, though there are many other responsible parties including other state actors who are not given the same treatment.

In 2022 CE, U.S. President Joe Biden says of Russian President Vladimir Putin, “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power" in unscripted remarks in Poland…he had failed to come to Ukraine’s aid in their hour of need, and in contravention to treaty obligations that the United States had entered into when Ukraine gave up their Nuclear Weapons at the end of the Cold War, together with N.A.T.O. and their allies in Europe to defend Ukraine in the face of Russian aggression,

In 2024 CE the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore is struck by a Singapore-flagged cargo ship that had lost power (steering), causing the 1.6-mile-long, forty-seven-year-old structure to completely collapse…six maintenance workers lost their lives.

In 2025 CE, Masaki Kashiwara is the first Japanese mathematician to be awarded Mathematics' greatest award, the Abel Prize, for his work on the theory of symmetry.

 

Reference

https://www.onthisday.com/

It happened on March 25th

On this day in the year 1 of the common era CE, marks the origination of the Dionysian mystery religion’s Incarnation of the Word; thirty years later, Christians celebrate the first Easter, according to calendar maker of Dionysius Exiguus. One thousand three hundred and seventy- eight years after that, in 1409 CE, at Council of Pisa opens, and elects the antipope Alexander V; one hundred and seventy-four years later, before officials in Brussels, the Dutch scholar Coinelius Loos recants his earlier written protest against witchcraft persecution in Trier, Germany.

On this day in the year 421 CE, the City of Venice is founded…at noon on a Friday.

On this day in 1199 CE, king Richard “the Lion Heart” of England, is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting the French, which leads to his death on April 6^th; one hundred and seven years later, having killed his rival John Comyn, the lord of Badenoch, Robert the Bruce is crowned Robert I, king of Scots.

In 1436 CE the Florence Cathedral (Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore), which began construction in 1296, is consecrated by Pope Eugene IV. Designed by Filippo Brunelleschi with support from Michaelangelo; Leonardo Da Vinci resolve the crucial engineering problem of counterbalancing the weight of the dome,  

In 1584 CE the English privateer and explorer, Sir Walter Raleigh is granted a seven-year royal charter by Elizabeth I to explore and colonize North America; sixteen years later, Henry Hudson embarks on an attempt to find the northwest passage to Asia for the Dutch East India Company, the passage long dreamt of, did not in fact exist…he explored North America instead. Thirty four years after, in 1634 CE, under charter granted to Lord Baltimore and led by his brother Leonard Calvert the first European immigrants and settlers in what became Maryland, establish a Catholic colony; thirteen years later, the Dutch East India Company ship Nieuw Haarlem is shipwrecked without loss of life in shallow waters in Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope, which leads to the founding of the Dutch Cape Colony.

In 1655 CE, Astronomer Christiaan Huygens discovers Saturn's largest moon, Titan; fourteen years later, Mount Etna erupts, killing twenty thousand people and destroying the town of destroying Nicolosi, Sicily.

In 1753 CE, Voltaire leaves the court of Frederik II of Prussia; fifty-eight years later, Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for his publication of the pamphlet titled: The Necessity of Atheism.

In 1807 CE, British Parliament abolishes the slave trade throughout the British Empire; a penalty of £120 per slave is introduced for ship captains; the “Am I Not a Man and a Brother?” emblem is displayed by abolitionists determined to end the slave trade in the British Empire.

In 1813 CE the first United States (U.S.) flag is flown in battle, on the Pacific by the United States Ship, the Essex a frigate.

In 1814 CE the Netherlands Bank is established; seventy-four years later, the Socialist leader Domela Nieuwenhuis is elected to Dutch 2nd Chamber

In 1821 CE the Greek Revolution against the Ottoman Empire is officially declared, after hostilities had begun two months earlier.

In 1847 CE, pope Pius IX issues his encyclical, On Aid for Ireland; one hundred and twenty-one years later, Members of the Derry Housing Action Committee (DHAC) disrupt a meeting of Londonderry Corporation to protest the lack of housing provision in the city and Northern Ireland. Two years after that, in 1969 CE, Ian Paisley and Ronald Bunting, loyalists in Northern Ireland are jailed for organizing an illegal counter demonstration in Armagh the previous year; two years later, James Callaghan speaks at a rally of the Northern Ireland labor movement, but rejects calls for the Labor Party to open membership to those living in Northern Ireland.

In 1856 CE, A. E. Burnside patents the Burnside Carbine; one year later, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville receives a patent for his phonautograph, a device which created visual images of sound; forty-sic year later, Irving W. Colburn patents a sheet glass drawing machine

In 1863 CE the first U.S. Army Medals of Honor are awarded to six army soldiers by the U.S. Secretary of War Edwin Stanton in Washington.

In 1882 CE the first demonstration of pancake making is held at a department store in New York, New York; one hundred and thirty-five years later, the largest banana split ever made  is engineered, at 8,040 meters long, Innisfail, Australia

In 1894 CE, Coxey's “Army of the Unemployed” sets out from Massillon, Ohio, for Washington, D.C.; six years later, the United States Socialist Party forms in Indianapolis.

In 1898 CE, swami Vivekananda initiates Margaret Noble (Sister Nivedita) into the vow of Brahmacharya, she is the first Western woman to be received into an Indian monastic order; thirteen years later L. D. Swamikannu publishes the Manual of Indian Chronology, in Bombay

In 1898 CE the writer O. Henry is sentenced to five years in prison for embezzling eight hundred and fifty-four dollars from a bank, purportedly to pay for his sick wife's medical bills; he then goes on to write many classics while in jail including: Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking.

In 1902 CE, five hundred and sixty-seven students in Russia are tried and found guilty for rioting and “political disaffection”; ninety-five are banished to Siberia.

In 1905 CE a collection of Confederate battle flags captured during the American Civil War are returned to South…the treasonous states should never have been allowed to possess the tokens of their traitorous rebellion.

In 1910 CE, Chalmers Auto Company offers a new car to each leagues' batting champ.

In 1911 CE the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in Greenwich Village, New York catches fire. One hundred and forty-five people die in the conflagration, one hundred and thirty-two of them girls; two years later, the Palace Theatre, home of vaudeville, opens in New York, New York. Seventy-seven years after that, in 1990 CE, a fire in an illegal New York City social club, kills eighty-seven people.

In 1915 CE, the first submarine disaster occurs when a United States (U.S.) F-4 sinks off the Hawaiian Coast, killing twenty-one people crewing the vessel; on that same day, a German U-Boat torpedoes the Netherlands merchant ship Medea.

In 1916 CE Jess Willard fights Frank Moran to a “no-decision” in ten rounds for the heavyweight boxing title in New Tork, New York; forty-two years later, Sugar Ray Robinson becomes the first boxer to win a world championship five times. Thirty years after that, in 1988 CE, Robin Givens demands full access to husband Mike Tyson's money; seven years later Mike Tyson is released from prison after serving three years for sexual assault.

In 1917 CE the Canadian flying ace Billy Bishop claims his first victory in aerial combat, shooting down and mortally wounding German Leutnant Theiller; fifty-three years later, the Concorde makes its 1st supersonic flight (700 MPH/1,127 KPH). Forty-eight years after that, in 2018 CE the first scheduled non-stop flight between Australia and the UK takes place, it leaves Perth for Heathrow airport in London, flight time: seventeen hours; one year later, a British Airways flight from London mistakenly flies to Edinburgh, Scotland, instead of Düsseldorf, Germany, when the wrong flight plan is submitted.

In 1918 CE the Belarusian People's Republic is established; one year later; Woodrow Wilson's dream of a League of Nations becomes a reality after the League Covenant is adopted at the Paris Peace Conference. One year after that, in 1920 CE, marks Greek Independence Day; three years later the British government grants Trans-Jordan autonomy. Twenty-six years after that, in 1949 CE, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) begins Operation Pribioi: the mass deportation of ninety thousand Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians to inhospitable areas in the Soviet Union; six years later, East Germany is granted “full sovereignty” by the occupying power, the U.S.S.R.. Two years after that, in 1957 CE, the Treaty of Rome establishes the European Economic Community (Common Market); one year later, West German parliament declares its intent to acquire its own nuclear arsenal. One year after that, in 1959 CE, French President De Gaulle acknowledges the Oder-Neisse boundary; five years later, Britain sets a memorial for the late U.S. President John F. Kennedy. One year after that, in 1965 CE, the West German Bondsdag extends war crimes retribution; six years later, the European Council accepts the Mansholt Plan that lays off five million farmers.Twenty-seven years after that, in 2006 CE, protesters demand a re-election in Belarus following a rigged presidential election result and a clash with riot police. Opposition leader Aleksander Kozulin is among several protesters arrested.

In 1931 CE the Scottsboro’s are accused of raping a white woman, arrested in Alabama; thirty-four years later, the reverend doctor, Martin Luther King Jr. leads twenty-five thousand people to the state capitol in Montgomery, Alabama. One year after that, in 1966 CE, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that so-called "poll tax" are unconstitutional; fifty-five  years later. the Republican-led Georgia State Senate passes restrictive changes to state voting. U.S. president Joe Biden calls it "Jim Crow in the 21st Century" and "a blatant attack on the Constitution."

In 1936 CE a two-hundred-inch mirror, for use in building the Hale telescope, leaves Corning, New York for California…it was the largest telescopic mirror ever made at the time; sixty years later, Comet C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake) approaches within 0.1018 Astronomical Units (A.U.) of Earth.

In 1937 CE, it is revealed that Quaker Oats pays Babe Ruth $25,000 per year for appearing in their advertisements; also on this day, the Washington Daily News becomes the first U.S. newspaper to insert perfumed advertising pages into their circular.

In 1939 CE, Billboard Magazine introduces the hillbilly (country) music charts; thirty-two years later, Elvis Presley performs live at Pearl Harbor’s Bloch Arena in a benefit for the USS Arizona Memorial. Elvis’ return to the concert stage after a stint in the US Army raises $60K and worldwide awareness for the project. Five years after that, 1966 CE, the Beatles pose for photographer Robert Whitaker with mutilated dolls and butchered meat for album cover of "Yesterday & Today", it is later pulled from circulation and replaced with a different photo; one year later, The Turtle's Happy Together goes to number one. Two years after that, in 1969 CE, the American singer Judy Garland’s gives what becomes her very last concert, at Falkoner Centret in Copenhagen, Denmark; on this same day, John Lennon and new wife Yoko Ono stage their first bed-in-for-peace, at the Hilton Hotel in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Two years after that, in 1971 CE, Tom Jones' cover version of Paul Anka's "She's a Lady" goes gold; four years later  Linda Ronstadt releases cover of the Everly Brothers' 1960 song "When Will I Be Loved" as a single. Eight years after that, in 1983 CE, at the Motown 25 Concert takes palce, celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of Motown records, and taped for broadcast at the Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, California. The performers include: The Miracles; The Temptations; The Four Tops; Diana Ross and the Supremes; The Jackson 5; and Michael Jackson who unveils his "moonwalk" dance move. Eight years later, singer Reba McEntire performs as scheduled at the Academy Awards ceremony, just 9 days after nearly her entire band dies in a plane crash. Six years after that, in 1997 CE, Life After Death, the second studio album by The Notorious B.I.G. is released, becoming the Billboard Song of the Year in 1997; nineteen years later, The Rolling Stones perform a free outdoor concert at the Ciudad Deportiva.

In 1941 CE, Carolina Paprika Mills in Dillon, South Carolina is incorporated.

In 1943 CE, ninety-seven percent of all Dutch physicians strike against Nazi registration; one year later German troop execute three hundred and thirty-five citizens of Rome.

In 1943 CE, Akira Kurosawa's debut film Sanshiro Sugata is released; eleven years later, RCA manufactures the first color TV set, featuring a 12.5-inch screen, costing $1,000. Thirty-one years after that, in 1985 CE, Amadeus win Best Picture at the 57th Academy Awards; six years later, Kevin Kostner’s Dances with Wolves takes the top prize. In 1996 CE, Mel Gibson’s Braveheart wins, and in 2001 CE, at the 73rd Academy Awards the prize goes to Gladiator.

In 1951 CE Edward Mills Purcell and Harold I. Ewen detect 21-cm radiation at Harvard physics lab; sixty-five years later, the European center for particle research, CERN, approves an experiment to find evidence for 'ghost particles' by smashing particles against a hard surface

In 1954 CE, pope Pius XII issues the encyclical "Sacra Virginitas" (On Consecrated Virginity), overlooking the fundamentally distorted nature, not of celibacy, but of the lifelong commitment to celibacy that ordination in to the priesthood and other so-called sacred vocation demand; one year later, U.S. Customs agents seize copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on the basis that they are obscene. Five years after that, in 1960 CE, the U.S. Court of Appeals, Judge Frederick van Pelt Bryan in New York, New York, rules that D.H. Lawrence's novel, Lady Chatterley's Lover, is not obscene, thereby overturning a ban on shipping it that been arbitrarily imposed by the U.S. Postal Service; fifteen years later, at St. Catherine's Monastery on the Sinai Peninsula, a cache of manuscript are discovered including fragments of pages from the Codex Sinaiticus and a palimpsest with the first ever example of the Caucasian-Albanian language in script.

In 1957 CE the National Basketball Association (NBA) modifies the free-throw rule

In 1960 CE the first guided missile is launched from a nuclear-powered submarine, the United States Ship, Halibut; one year later, Explorer 10 is launched into an elongated-Earth-orbit (177/181,000 km). on this same day in 1961 CE, Sputnik 10 carries a dog into Earth orbit; later recovered alive, then euthanized and dissected for scientific research. Eighteen years later, the Space Shuttle Columbia arrives at Kennedy Space Centre to prepare for its first launch. Nine years after that, in 1988 CE, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (N.A.S.A.) launches space vehicle S-206; four years later, Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returns to Earth after a 10-month stay aboard the Mir space station. On this same day in 1992 CE, the Russian manned space craft TM-14, lands; twenty-seven years later, N.A.S.A. cancels a planned historic all-female spacewalk because it doesn't have enough spacesuits to fit women.

In 1967 CE, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan; one year later, the U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.

In 1974 CE the Chipko forest conservation movement begins in Reni Village, Western Himalayas, India, when a local woman named Gaura Devi hugs a tree to prevent its logging…and the tree hugger moniker was established.

In 1976 CE the Argentine military junta bans leftist political parties; fifty-three years later, continuing power-blackouts in Caracas, Venezuela, prompt government to tell workers and students to stay at home.

In 1986 CE the U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Air Force could ban wearing of yarmulkes; one year later, the Court rules that gender-based workplace affirmative action plans do not constitute discrimination on the basis of sex under the Civil Rights Act 1964.

In 1992 CE British scientists find a new “largest” perfect #, expressed as: (2 756839 -1 * 2 756839)

In 1996 CE the European Union's Veterinarian Committee bans the export of British beef and its by-products as a result of "mad cow disease" (BSE); also on this day, the United states issues the newly-redesigned $100 bill.

In 2006 CE, a gunman kills six people before taking his own life at a party in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood.

In 2018 CE (Juche 95 on the North Korean Calendar), North Korean leader Kim Jong-un embarks on a surprise trip to Beijing by train to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping.

In 2019 CE, Apple introduces new TV streaming platform Apple TV+, news service Apple News+ and an Apple credit card.

In 2020 CE, Spain's death toll from COVID-19 overtakes China's at three thousand, four hundred and thirty-four to become the second most impacted nation behind Italy, with seven thousand, five hundred and three death, and a worldwide death toll of twenty thousand, eight hundred and thirty-six; one year later, U.S. president Joe Biden announces a new goal of two hundred million vaccinations in his administration's first one hundred days.

In 2024 CE, the first widespread outbreak of bird-flu in cows is reported at farms in six U.S. States, including one human being at a Texas dairy farm.

In 2024 CE, properties belonging to performer and music producer, Sean "Diddy" Combs, are searched by federal authorities in response to credible allegations of sex trafficking and sexual assault…crimes for which he was later charged, tried and found guilty of.

In 2026 CE, a California jury finds Meta and YouTube liable on all counts in a lawsuit accusing the tech giants of negligence for intentionally designing addictive platforms, and failing to provide adequate warnings, thereby injuring a young woman's mental health; the plaintiff is awarded nearly six million dollars...snap and TikTok had quietly settled their aspects of the case before trial.

Also on this day in 2026 CE,  Sarah Mullally (age 63) is installed as the Archbishop of Canterbury, the most senior cleric in the Church of England; she is the first female to hold the office.

 

Reference

https://www.onthisday.com/