On This Day Posts
September 20th, 1963, United Nations Headquarters, New York, USA – The 35th President of the United States of America stands in front of the 18 th assembly of the United Nations.
For the millions of paraskevidekatriaphobics out there, this day in history has not always been so bad!
September 6th, 1766, Eaglesfield, The Kingdom of Great Britain – A second child is born into a Quaker family in the picturesque Lake District of North Western England.
August 30th, 1836, The Republic of Texas – The penultimate day of the northern hemisphere Summer breaks over Buffalo Bayou.
August 23rd 1990, CERN, Switzerland – An Oxford-educated computer scientist sits behind his NeXT Workstation at The European Organization for Nuclear Research.
August 16th 1954, Kapuskasing, Ontario, Canada – A baby boy is born to Shirley and Phillip Cameron the year that first oil from Alberta arrives in the refining hub of Sarnia, Ontario.
August 9th 1776, Turin, The Kingdom of Sardinia and Piedmont – A son is born into the household of the Count of Quaregna and Cerreto in what is now northern Italy. After several disagreements on suitable names...
August 2nd, 1776, Pennsylvania State House: The Declaration of Independence is first signed by John Hancock, President of Congress, leading to the popular slang term for signature.
July 26th 1989 – Robert T. Morris, Jr. becomes the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
July 19th, 1843, Bristol, United Kingdom – It is a dreary Wednesday morning at Bristol Docks.
July 12th, 654 ab urbe condita, urbis romae – A son is born to in the Eternal City to a patrician family, the gens Julia. The proud parents, Gaius and Aurelia are no ordinary toffs, in fact they claim descent from Iulus, son of the...
July 5th, 1687, London, The Kingdom of England – The last of 305 pages is pressed in the first run of a new book sanctioned by The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge.
A motorcade makes its way through the packed streets of Sarajevo. The third car from the front is a convertible 1911 Gråf & Stift Double Phaeton.
June 21st, 2009, Nuuk, Kalaallit Nunaat – In a historic ceremony, the world’s largest island assumes self-determination with responsibility for self-government of judicial affairs, policing, and natural resources.
June 17th 1822, Royal Astronomical Society, London – A paper is read to the assembled gentlemen of the learned society.
June 7th, 1494, Tordesillas, The Kingdom of Spain – Six Iberian nobles put quill to parchment in the small town of Tordesillas outside of Valladolid, the capital of Castilla y Leôn. Don Enrique Enriques, Don Gutierre de Cardenas, D...
31st May, 1927, Highland Park, Michigan, USA – The conveyor belts whir to a halt and tired workers down tools. The end of the working day at a factory in Wayne County signals the end of an era.
Six days aft...
In the coming decades, the Kola Superdeep Borehole (KSB) project, would be literally ground breaking, with it’s SG3 branch becoming the deepest artificial point on Earth, at 12,262 metres (40,230 feet) in 1992.
May 17th, 1902, Athens, Greece – Valerios Stais is sorting through hundreds of objects at the National Museum of Archaeology. The finds were recovered from a shipwreck discovered two years ago by local sponge...
May 10th, 1877, Bucharest, The Romanian United Principalities – The Romanian Senate adopts Foreign Affairs Minister Mihail Kogalniceanu's Declaration of Independence, proclaiming the country’s split from the Ottoman Empire.
May 3rd, 1874 - Today we celebrate the birthday of Vagn Walfrid Ekman, born 139 years ago on this very day in Stockholm, Sweden.The son of prominent oceanographer, Fredrik Laurentz Ekman, Vagn Walfrid would de...
April 27th 1956, Newark, New Jersey – The converted World War II oil tanker, the SS Ideal X leaves port bound for Houston, Texas. 160 metres long, 21 metres high and 9.1 metres at the beam, her stats belied nothing special...
April 19th 1883, Lemberg, Austria-Hungary – A second son is born into the household of Arthur Edler von Mises and Adele Landau in capital of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria (yes really).
12th April 1705, Kingsbridge, Devon, UK – The first of six children is born into the Quaker household of William and Edith Cookworthy. William Jr. was a gifted scholar, but his education came to an abrupt halt when his fat...
April 5th, 1722 – Tasked by the East India Company with finding Terra Australis, - the hypothetical Southern continent - Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen and his crew land on Rapa Nui, a windswept island with a population of...
