HistoricalReflection

#OTD #ThisDayInHistory #TDIH

[All day Astronomy @forallcurious]

🚨: Japanese scientists made history by becoming the first nation to successfully generate electricity in space and beam it wirelessly back to Earth

[Presidential Wisdom @PrezWisdom]

Vice President George HW Bush 🇺🇸 greets New Hampshire teacher Christa McAuliffe following the announcement that she was chosen for the "Teacher in Space" program.

McAuliffe and 6 other astronauts would die in the Challenger disaster #OTD 1986

#POTUS ♥️

[OldSchool @xacct01]

#OTD in 1995: The #1 song was "Creep" by TLC

[HistoricalReflection @JeffCasey2]

@CordeiroRick 70

[Tammi Minoski 🟦 @TammiMinoski]

#OTD 1904: New York Mayor George McClellan renamed Longacre Square #TimesSquare, after The New York Times relocated its HQ to the newly erected Times Building. https://t.co/pLujdaUAZq… #NYCHIstory

[Tammi Minoski 🟦 @TammiMinoski]

#OTD 1963: Congress enacted that President #Kennedy was authorized and directed to declare by proclamation that Sir #WinstonChurchill shall be an honorary citizen of the United States. Churchill's son Randolph remarked at the ceremony. https://t.co/NxsMN9HWOK #ChurchillDay 🇬🇧 🇺🇸

[Tammi Minoski 🟦 @TammiMinoski]

#OTD 1964: Dr. #MLKJr and #MalcolmX met for the first and only time. Both men were on Capitol Hill watching a Senate hearing regarding the soon to be Civil Rights Bill of 1964. #CivilRights #USHistory

[Tammi Minoski 🟦 @TammiMinoski]

#OTD 1919: WWI veteran #BenitoMussolini broke with the Socialist Party and founded the Fascist Revolutionary Party in Milan, Italy. https://t.co/49Zo2WgGIy #EuropeanHistory #Fascism

[Today In History @TodayThatWas]

Jan. 5/1923 - Record producer & founder of Sun Records Sam Phillips' birthday is today. He would have turned "100", unfortunately he passed away July 30/2003.

[Today In History @TodayThatWas]

Jan. 5/1978 - Actress & model January Jones' birthday is today.

[Dan Rather @DanRather]

If you want to watch a movie to understand the Trump Administration, it isn’t All the President's Men. It’s The Godfather.

[HistoricalReflection @JeffCasey2]

@DanRather #history will definitely agree

[Tammi Minoski 🟦 @TammiMinoski]

Jack Jouett rode to Charlottesville to warn Gov. #ThomasJefferson of the approaching British Army on June 4, 1781. Jefferson retreated to his second home at Poplar Forest, leaving VA without an elected governor. https://t.co/rSoOHxHmQk #AmRev #RevWar

[Tammi Minoski 🟦 @TammiMinoski]

On June 10, 1752, #BenjaminFranklin conducted his electrical experiments with lightning, successfully extracting sparks from a cloud and proving that lightning is electricity. https://t.co/Y47C49TbjI #PAHistory #History

[HistoricalReflection @JeffCasey2]

#OTD March 11, 1971 #JimMorrison leaves for Paris to re-orient himself emotionally and creatively, and to avoid the jail sentence given to him in Miami, Florida. He never returns to the US.

#TDIH #doors #music #rocknroll

[HistoricalReflection @JeffCasey2]

#OTD March 11, 1942 1st deportation train leaves Paris for #Auschwitz Concentration Camp

#TDIH

[HistoricalReflection @JeffCasey2]

#OTD March 11, 1892 1st public #basketball game (Springfield, Massachusetts)

#TDIH

[Lord.of.Wisdom.BCE @Lord_of_Wisdom1]

Today in 1853 the National Black convention meets in Rochester NY, ex-slave Frederick Douglass best known as a leader of the abolitionist movement in the American North East, "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave" and the newspaper "North Star" attends.

[HistoricalReflection @JeffCasey2]

#OTD March 09, 1959 the first #Barbie doll goes on display at the American Toy Fair in New York City.

#ThisDayInHistory #toys https://t.co/becWRb5Xa4

[HistoricalReflection @JeffCasey2]

#OTD March 8 1983 President Reagan called the USSR an "Evil Empire."

#UkraineRussianWar #History #ThisDayInHistory