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On This Day In History<p>Today in 1971, 54 years ago: The Provisional Government of Bangladesh is formed.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
Radio Jammor<p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/TDIM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TDIM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/BOTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BOTD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Music</span></a> 🎂<br>2/2<br>Stephen Singleton, musician/composer, ABC, 1959<br>Michael Sembello, singer/songwriter/musician, 1954<br>Linda Martin, singer, 1952<br>Jan Hammer, musician/composer/producer, 1948</p><p>Also BOTD Peter McNeish AKA Pete Shelley, Ronald Wycherley AKA Billy Fury</p>
Radio Jammor<p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/TDIM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TDIM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/BOTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BOTD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Music</span></a> 🎂<br>1/2<br>Avriel "Avi" Kaplan, singer/songwriter/guitar, Pentatonix, solo, 1989<br>Eliza Caird AKA Eliza Doolittle, singer/songwriter/piano, 1988 <br>Victoria Beckham AKA Posh Spice, singer, The Spice Girls, 1974<br>Reginald Noble AKA Redman, rapper/DJ/producer, 1970<br>Matt Chamberlain, (session) drums/producer/songwriter, with many, 1967<br>Liz Phair, singer/songwriter/musician, 1967<br>"Maynard" James Keenan, singer/songwriter/producer, Tool &amp; others, 1964</p>
Graham Downs<p>Wow, we've been using the term FOMO since 2004 already? Or to put it another way, wow, we've only been using the term FOMO since 2004? I thought it was longer... :) <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>English</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>words</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 1869, 156 years ago: Morelos is admitted as the 27th state of Mexico.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 1912, 113 years ago: Russian troops open fire on striking goldfield workers in northeast Siberia, killing at least 150.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 1986, 39 years ago: An alleged state of war lasting 335 years between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly declared peace bringing an end to any hypothetical war that may have been legally considered to exist.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 1864, 161 years ago: in North Carolina - in the context of the American Civil War - the Battle of Plymouth begins, where Confederate forces attack that city.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>*1942 – French prisoner of war General Henri Giraud escapes from his castle prison in Festung Königstein.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 1826, 199 years ago: Santa Fe de Antioquia ceases to be the capital of Antioquia (Colombia), a title obtained by Medellín.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 1864, 161 years ago: American Civil War: The Battle of Plymouth begins: Confederate forces attack Plymouth, North Carolina.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 1951, 74 years ago: the Argentine Antarctic Institute was created, a scientific-technological organization whose function is to define, develop, direct, control, coordinate and disseminate Argentine scientific-technological activity in Antarctica.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 1523, 502 years ago: the Amerindian chief Diriangén, at the head of warriors "dirianes" = "men or settlers of the heights" and "nagrandanos" = "men or settlers of the lowlands or plains", confronts the Spanish conquerors under the command of Gil González Dávila, in what is considered the first demonstration of rebellion against the conquest in the territory of present-day Nicaragua.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 1975, 50 years ago: The Cambodian Civil War ends. The Khmer Rouge captures the capital Phnom Penh and Cambodian government forces surrender.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 1863, 162 years ago: As part of the American Civil War, the Grierson Raid begins, in which troops under Union Army Colonel Benjamin Grierson attack downtown Mississippi.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 2019, 6 years ago: in Lima (Peru), Alan García Pérez, twice president, shoots himself in the head, when the Police were going to arrest him for the Odebrecht case.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
Knowledge Zone<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a> First Earth-Size <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Planet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Planet</span></a> (Kepler-186f) Found In The 'Habitable Zone' of Another Star (2014).</p><p>Birth Anniversary of J. P. Morgan (1837) - American financier and <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Banker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Banker</span></a>.</p><p>Today is World <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Hemophilia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hemophilia</span></a> Day.</p><p><a href="https://knowledgezone.co.in/news" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">knowledgezone.co.in/news</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 1995, 30 years ago: in Pakistan, the child Iqbal Masih (12), a symbol of the fight against child slavery, is shot dead.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 2001, 24 years ago: India and Bangladesh begin a five-day border conflict, but are unable to resolve the disputes about their border.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 1917, 108 years ago: in Russia Lenin returns to Petrograd (now called St. Petersburg) from his exile in Switzerland.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
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