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December 2024 Photo Theme - Lighting - Isabeau - Dec 6, 2024 - 9:25am
 
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If not RP, what are you listening to right now? - miamizsun - Dec 6, 2024 - 7:50am
 
2 questions. - GeneP59 - Dec 6, 2024 - 6:15am
 
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RP Staff Okay in Eureka???? - Red_Dragon - Dec 5, 2024 - 4:36pm
 
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Great Old Songs You Rarely Hear Anymore - kurtster - Dec 1, 2024 - 5:23am
 
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-PUNS- FRUIT - oldviolin - Nov 29, 2024 - 9:30am
 
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Posted: Dec 6, 2024 - 6:12am

2006 – NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.
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Posted: Dec 4, 2024 - 6:42am

1971 – During a concert by Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention at the Montreux Casino, an audience member fires a flare gun into the ceiling, causing a fire that destroys the venue. The incident served as the inspiration for Deep Purple's 1973 song Smoke on the Water.
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Posted: Dec 3, 2024 - 6:46am

1997 – In Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, representatives from 121 countries sign the Ottawa Treaty prohibiting manufacture and deployment of anti-personnel landmines. The United States, People's Republic of China, and Russia do not sign the treaty, however.
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Posted: Dec 3, 2024 - 6:46am

1992 – A test engineer for Sema Group uses a personal computer to send the world's first text message via the Vodafone network to the phone of a colleague.
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Posted: Dec 3, 2024 - 6:45am

1984 – Bhopal disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, kills more than 3,800 people outright and injures 150,000–600,000 others (some 6,000 of whom later died from their injuries) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history.
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Posted: Dec 3, 2024 - 6:44am

1979 – Iranian Revolution: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini becomes the first Supreme Leader of Iran.
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Posted: Dec 3, 2024 - 6:44am

1967 – At Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, a transplant team headed by Christiaan Barnard carries out the first heart transplant on a human (53-year-old Louis Washkansky).
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Posted: Dec 2, 2024 - 11:55am

1970 – The United States Environmental Protection Agency begins operations.
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Posted: Dec 2, 2024 - 11:51am

1942 – World War II: During the Manhattan Project, a team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first artificial self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
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Posted: Dec 1, 2024 - 8:50am

2020 – The Arecibo Telescope collapsed.
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Posted: Dec 1, 2024 - 8:49am

2019 – The outbreak of coronavirus infection began in Wuhan.
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Posted: Dec 1, 2024 - 8:43am

1955 – American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to that city's bus boycott.
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Posted: Dec 1, 2024 - 8:42am

1952 – The New York Daily News reports the news of Christine Jorgensen, the first notable case of sex reassignment surgery.
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Posted: Nov 30, 2024 - 12:55pm

1999 – Exxon and Mobil sign a US$73.7 billion agreement to merge, thus creating ExxonMobil, the world's largest company.
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Posted: Nov 29, 2024 - 7:00pm

Today in history I sold the very first "EVERYBODY GO INSIDE - HERE COMES A HABOOB!" t-shirt. Many (many) years after designing it.
https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-...



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Posted: Nov 26, 2024 - 5:57am

2004 – The last Poʻouli (Black-faced honeycreeper) dies of avian malaria in the Maui Bird Conservation Center in Olinda, Hawaii, before it could breed, making the species in all probability extinct.
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Posted: Nov 25, 2024 - 7:28pm

 Red_Dragon wrote:

1977 – Ali Maow Maalin, the last natural case of smallpox, develops a rash in Somalia. The WHO and the CDC consider this date to be the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, the most spectacular success of vaccination.



Today, I heard on NPR that M Pox evolved from ceasing vaccination against small pox in 1980.   
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Posted: Nov 25, 2024 - 6:06am

1947 – Red Scare: The "Hollywood Ten" are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios.
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Posted: Nov 24, 2024 - 8:23am

1974 – Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discover the 40% complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton, nicknamed "Lucy" (after The Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"), in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia's Afar Depression.
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Posted: Nov 24, 2024 - 8:21am

1971 – During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (aka D. B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money. He has never been found.
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