On this day in history, July 19th, 1860, Lizzie Borden was born Fall River, Massachusetts.

Lizzie Borden gained notoriety after being tried and acquitted for the axe murders of her father and stepmother in 1892.

#OTD July 17 in 1918, the Romanov family was executed, ending the over 1000 year old reign of monarchy in Russia.

Can you locate on a #map where the final exile and execution of the Romanov family took place?

Click the link to guess: https://www.whereintheworldgame.com/?id=117&type=q

On July 3rd, 1973, David Bowie performed a concert at the Hammersmith in London, where he shocked the crowd by announcing the end of the band. While he was referring to the Spiders from Mars and associated persona, it still whipped the crowd into a frenzy of disbelief and shock.

It's easy to find the concert online today and remains a shocking testament to David Bowie's creative vision and ability to electrify a crowd with a combination of costuming, dance, mime, and absolute raw vocal power.

I celebrate every July 3rd as David Bowie Day.

#OTD June 30, 1908, 80 million trees and 2,150 km2 (830 sq mi) of forest were leveled by a probable meteoric air burst, known as the Tunguska event.

Can you locate on a #map where the event took place?
Click the link to guess: https://www.whereintheworldgame.com/?id=75&type=q

June 29, 2007 – The first iPhone was released by Apple Inc., launching a revolution in mobile computing and redefining what a "phone" could be.

The smartphone era began today — and the world has never looked back.

What’s the one piece of tech you can’t imagine living without now?

#TodayInHistory #TechHistory #iPhone #Apple #OnThisDay #Technology #Innovation #Brewminate #MobileRevolution

Read more stories blending history and modern thought: https://brewminate.com

#OTD June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated, adding to the tensions that would lead to World War 1.

Can you locate on a #map where the assassination took place?
Click the link to guess: https://www.whereintheworldgame.com/?id=145&type=q

#TodayInHistory 2005 – American social news and discussion site #Reddit is founded.

As of February 2025, Reddit is the ninth-most-visited website in the world.

It has received praise for many of its features, such as the ability to create several subreddits for niche communities. It has also been criticized for the spread of misinformation and its voting system which can encourage online echo chambers.

#TodayInHistory: June 18, 1908 - The University of the Philippines was established in the City of Manila. Happy 117th Foundation Day, UP! https://mainlib.upd.edu.ph/up-naming-mahal-the-genesis-of-9-up-campuses/

#TodayInHistory 1985 – Blake Ross, American computer programmer, is born.

Best known for his work as the co-creator of the #Mozilla #Firefox #webbrowser

He envisioned a smaller, easy-to-use browser that could have mass appeal, and Firefox was born from that idea. Released in November 2004, when Ross was 19, Firefox quickly grabbed market share, with 100 million downloads in less than a year.

#TodayInHistory 1955 – Tim Berners-Lee, English computer scientist, is born.

Best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, the #HTML markup language, the URL system, and #http. He is a professorial research fellow at the University of Oxford and a professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( #MIT ).

#TodayInHistory 2005 - At WWDC #Apple announces it is abandoning the #PowerPC in favor of #Intel processors for #Macintosh computers.

The first Intel-based Macintosh computers should be on the market by mid-2006, with PowerPC-based computers phased out by the end of 2007. Reasons given for the switch are the lack of a 3 GHz G5 processor, lack of G5 processors for portable computers, and the Intel processor future looks better for Apple computers.

#TodayInHistory 1955 - Namco Limited, Japanese video game and entertainment company, is founded.

Namco was one of the most influential companies in the arcade game industry, producing game franchises such as #PacMan, Galaxian, #TEKKEN, and Ridge Racer.

Namco entered the home market in 1984 with conversions of its arcade games for the #MSX and the #Nintendo Famicom / NES.

In 2006, Namco merged with Bandai to form what is now named Bandai Namco Holdings.

Today in 1703, Tsar Peter the Great founded the city of St Petersburg in #Russia.

I'll have to write up a coin which was minted there, but in the meantime, here is a Russian coin minutes less than 50 years after the founding of St Petersburg, the 1749 Denga: https://coinofnote.com/russia-1-denga-1749/

#numismatics #coins #CoinCollecting #TodayInHistory #history #histodons @numismatics @histodons

#OTD May 26, 1940, 338,000 Allied soldiers were evacuated during WW2 in an operation known as 'Operation Dynamo'. It's most famously known by another name based on the location.

Can you locate on a #map where this took place?
Click the link to guess: https://www.whereintheworldgame.com/?id=201&type=q

#TodayInHistory 1995 - At the Sun World conference in San Francisco, Sun Microsystems introduces the #Java interactive #programming language. Code-name during development was Oak.

It is intended to let programmers write once, run anywhere, meaning that compiled code can run on all platforms without the need to recompile.

It gained popularity shortly after its release, and has been a popular programming language since then, ranking third most popular in 2022.

#TodayInHistory 1955 – James Gosling, Canadian-American computer scientist, is born.

Best known as the founder and lead designer behind the #Java #programming language.

Gosling was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2004 for the conception and development of the architecture for the Java programming language and for contributions to windowing systems.

1. Mai: Lasst die Leute frei!

1993

#TodayInHistory 2005 - #Microsoft unveils the Xbox360 on MTV.

The 2nd console in the #Xbox series, part of the 7th generation. Although not the best-selling, it's deemed the most influential through its emphasis on digital media distribution and multiplayer gaming on Xbox Live.

#TodayInHistory 1995 - The first Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is held.

350 game companies show 1300 games. Total attendance is 28,000. Sony introduces the #PlayStation. #Atari announces a price cut for the Jaguar. #SNK shows the #NeoGeo CD system.

Köpi bleibt Risikokapital

2007