Mostly retired (from Twitter, anyway). See my Likes or my history shortlist (link below). Also at @HistoryForToday.
Las Vegas, NV
Joined February 2010
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"The real barrier wasn't in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight."
#OTD in 1947, Chuck Yeager became the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound in Bell X-1. Read more on the blog: s.si.edu/3VlyAWa
ALT Chuck Yeager, wearing a leather jacket, stands in front of the Bell X-1, with his hand on the door. The name "Glamorous Glennis" can be seen on the nose of the aircraft.
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Margaret Hamilton, who led the 100-person team that wrote the onboard software for the Apollo missions, has died. nyti.ms/3U9IrTj
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🗞️On October 2, 1950, Charles Schulz’s ‘Peanuts’ comic strip debuted in just seven U.S. newspapers. The first strip featured Charlie Brown, Shermy and Patty. Snoopy arrived two days later, on October 4
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30 Sept 1955: U.S. #actor James Dean dies in a #car wreck at the age of 24. He was born on February 8, 1931 in Marion, Indiana. Despite starring in only three major films—East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause, and Giant—he became a cultural icon. #JamesDean #History #OTD #ad amzn.to/349WPwH
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After appeasing Hitler in Munich, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, today 1938, declares "peace in our time":
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Rounding up from .39955 to .400 wasn’t going to cut it for The Kid.
Ted Williams knocked six hits on the final day of the 1941 season for a .406 batting average – and 85 years later, no AL or NL hitter has matched the mark. ow.ly/sJWp50ZSbRs
ALT Ted Williams, wearing a Boston uniform, follows through on his left-handed swing. (National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum)
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Einstein's revolutionary equation about the equivalence of matter and energy (E = mc2) was published #OnThisDay in 1905. It was thought energy and mass were unrelated, but @AlbertEinstein's equation showed energy and mass are different forms of the same thing.
#NobelPrize
ALT A black and white portrait of Albert Einstein looking directly into the camera.
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Sept. 27, 1942: Signalman 1st Class Douglas A. Munro shielded 10 landing craft evacuating nearly 500 Marines from Point Cruz, Guadalcanal. He was killed at 22. Every Marine got off the beach.
Commandant Adm. Kevin Lunday paid his respects earlier this month.
Munro remains the only Coast Guardsman awarded the Medal of Honor. 84 years. We remember.
#USCG @USMC
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180 years ago today, the search for the planet Neptune was successful for German astronomer Johann Galle. He was able to find it by using French astronomer Urbain-Jean-Joseph Le Verrier's calculations of this yet-unknown planet.
ALT A image of the planet Neptune, appearing in shades of purple with wispy cloud patterns across its surface. The background is black, highlighting the planet's features.
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The northernmost point in Brazil is closer to Canada than to the southernmost point in Brazil.
The easternmost point in Brazil is closer to Africa than to the westernmost point in Brazil.
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Happy Constitution Day!📜On September 17, 1787, delegates gathered at the Constitutional Convention to sign the U.S. Constitution, establishing the foundation of our nation's government.
The National Archives is proud to be the permanent home to our nation's founding documents.
ALT Constitution of the United States, September 17, 1787. NAID: 1667751
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Katherine Johnson #OTD in 1918. As a mathematician who calculated trajectories for some of NASA’s most important missions, her contribution to history cannot be overstated, though it was overlooked for decades. More on her legacy: s.si.edu/4oKqHIy
ALT A person is sitting at a desk with documents and a typewriter. They are smiling and wearing glasses. In the background, there is a chalkboard and a lunar map.
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99 years ago today, my Shero, Althea Gibson, was born.
Last year, we celebrated the 75th anniversary of Althea breaking the color barrier in tennis at the U.S. Open.
This year, let's continue to remember her courage and strength, and how she blazed a trail for so many to follow.
📷: Alamy
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Today is the 82nd anniversary of D-Day – the Allied landings in Normandy, which significantly hastened the countdown to the Nazis' collapse in World War II. It is one of the most important moments of unity among the defenders of life in human history, and it was less than a year until the peoples’ aspiration for freedom and the hope of peace prevailed in May 1945. It happened then. We are working to make it happen again today.
And although yesterday in Petersburg another cynical order to continue killing was issued for the army trying to destroy our freedom, history has seen this before. The Nazis also had their own hopes after D-Day. But freedom still wins. And even in the darkest circumstances, people find ways to come together to protect life.
I thank all those who are now helping to protect the values that prevailed in World War II. I thank everyone who is defending life. Glory to Ukraine!
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A day 60+ years in the making.
It is with great pride and so much gratitude that I share with you that I am a college graduate with a Bachelor's in History from @CalStateLA.
There aren't words adequate enough to encapsulate all that I am feeling in this moment, so I'll simply say this:
It is never too late to learn, to grow, or to chase the dream that still quietly calls your name. Life has a way of rerouting our paths and asking us to begin again when we least expect it.
But the dream does not expire simply because time has passed.
Whether you're 18 or 82, your goals are still worthy of pursuit.
Keep going for it. Keep believing in yourself. And never let anyone convince you that your moment has passed. Because sometimes the most meaningful victories arrive after the longest journeys.
📷: @CalStateLA
#Classof2026
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May 18, 1980: Mount St Helens erupts in Washington state, causing the largest landslide in history, killing 57 people and costing $1 billion in damage.
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18 May 1944, after four months of fighting including four assaults, Monte Cassino, an historic hilltop abbey founded in AD 529 by Benedict of Nursia, captured by Allied forces with Polish II Corps playing key role. Battle cost 55,000 Allied casualties, 20,000 German ones. #WW2
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On May 17, 1943, after dropping off Ava Gardner in Las Vegas, Howard Hughes with four on board, including two CAA inspectors, flew his Sikorsky-43 over Lake Mead. 2 died as a result of a crash while trying to land on the lake. tinyurl.com/5ytudcfc
UNLV: tinyurl.com/27hsv56n
