Today in history

[unloadonme]

17 November 1796 - Death of Catherine the Great.

Catherine the Great - Wikipedia

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[unloadonme]

17 November 1887 - Birth of Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein.

Bernard Montgomery - Wikipedia

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[Kulindahr]

^
I'm always a bit bemused by births and deaths as events in history; the former weren't important to anyone but their families for the most part, with some important to kingdoms since it meant there was a(nother) heir, and while the latter may have been important to the same two they really don't have much of an impact on us.

 

[pornoboy]

Happy 80th Birthday Joe..!

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[belamyi]

^ Damn those caps hurt the eyesight even more than the liftings, botox pricks and the sticked Turkish hairs...

 

[smokeshadow]

1985 - the introduction of a new operating system revolutionized the personal computer

Windows 1.0 1.01

Windows 1.0 was the first release of what eventually made it onto almost every desktop computer in the entire world. Many of you are probably unaware of this release from 1985; conceived from ideas found in the original Lisa/Macintosh and Xerox Star system, Windows 1.0 was Microsoft's attempt at...

winworldpc.com

 

[ShadowCat]

November 20 2022 the confirmed death of original Green Ranger Tommy Oliver, actor and martial artist Jason David Frank R.I.P.

 

[belamyi]

^ What!?! did some supersupervillain finish them all off all of a sudden?

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

1985 - the introduction of a new operating system revolutionized the personal computer

Windows 1.0 1.01

Windows 1.0 was the first release of what eventually made it onto almost every desktop computer in the entire world. Many of you are probably unaware of this release from 1985; conceived from ideas found in the original Lisa/Macintosh and Xerox Star system, Windows 1.0 was Microsoft's attempt at...

winworldpc.com

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Wait a second! Didn't Apple have windows before Microsoft?

 

[belamyi]

Wait a second! Didn't Apple have windows before Microsoft?

It had windows, not Windows.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

It had windows, not Windows.

Phew!

Thought Windows had stolen the idea for a sec.

 

[opinterph]

November 22, 1963

US President John F Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, Texas.

 

[ShadowCat]

No he killed himself

^ What!?! did some supersupervillain finish them all off all of a sudden?

 

[Latimer]

@belamyi Interestingly, Biden seems to have had an upper and lower facelift, and a lower blepheroplasty but not an upper one. He's had the caps for years. He should have had them redone at about the time he had the lifts. I think the work looks good. (The hair transplant looks better now that his hair is white than it did when his hair was black.)

 

[belamyi]

No he killed himself

Mind control!!

 

[ShadowCat]

Mind control!!

Again nope, just Suicide!

 

[belamyi]

Again nope, just Suicide!

Evil mind control!

 

[unloadonme]

26 November 1922 - Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3000 years.

Tomb of Tutankhamun - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Kulindahr]

Okay, this was actually yesterday but I fell asleep before getting to it.

25, 2348 BC:: According to Anglican Archbishop James Ussher's Old Testament chronology, Noah's flood began on this date.

Back to today:

1862: President Abraham Lincoln meets Harriet Beecher Stowe, the abolitionist author of Uncle Tom's Cabin and daughter of prominent minister Lyman Beecher. "So," Lincoln said upon meeting her, "you're the little woman that wrote the book that made this great war!"

 

[belamyi]

Okay, this was actually yesterday but I fell asleep before getting to it.

25, 2348 BC:: According to Anglican Archbishop James Ussher's Old Testament chronology, Noah's flood began on this date.

What time?