1886 – Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.

 Red_Dragon wrote:

*side note* 1956: Also the first year a Rock N Roll record ever hit the charts: "Hound dog" by EP

1956 – Elvis Presley makes his first national television appearance.

1926 – The first demonstration of the television by John Logie Baird.

1995 – The Norwegian rocket incident: Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after it mistakes Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, for a US Trident missile.

1978 – Soviet satellite Kosmos 954, with a nuclear reactor on board, burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering radioactive debris over Canada's Northwest Territories. Only 1% is recovered.

1961 – Goldsboro B-52 crash: A bomber carrying two H-bombs breaks up in mid-air over North Carolina. The uranium core of one weapon remains lost.

 Red_Dragon wrote:

Profoundly great ad. The spark for technological tribalism.

1984 – The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to popularize the computer mouse and the graphical user interface, is introduced during a Super Bowl XVIII television commercial.

1919 Prohibition is ratified in the USA.

1967 – Counterculture of the 1960s: The Human Be-In takes place in San Francisco, California's Golden Gate Park, launching the Summer of Love.

1968 – Johnny Cash performs at Folsom State Prison.

1922 – Leonard Thompson becomes the first person to be injected with insulin.

1927 – Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.

1901 – The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.

1870 – John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
These two things have what in common ?

 kurtster wrote:
 A wise man once wrote:.

1992 – The first discoveries of extrasolar planets are announced by astronomers Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail. They discovered two planets orbiting the pulsar PSR 1257+12.

 kurtster wrote:
As noted by R_D: 2021 – Supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump attack the United States Capitol to disrupt certification of the 2020 presidential election, resulting in five deaths and evacuation of the U.S. Congress.

Imagine the fear on one side of the door/glass with all those people coming after you to hurt/kill/hang/rape you - which is what the advancing crowd were yelling.

This seems like a problem, also. I would be hard pressed to believe that these were just "normal" suicides.

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