Today in History.....

[haiducii]

On this day: 18th October

In 1892, the first long-distance telephone line between New York and Chicago was officially opened. It could only handle one call at a time.

 

[haiducii]

On this day: 22nd October

In 1779, French balloonist André-Jacques Garnerin jumped out of a balloon over Parc Monceau in Paris using a silk parachute that he made himself.

Leonardo da Vinci conceived the idea of the parachute in his writings, and the Frenchman Louis-Sebastien Lenormand fashioned a kind of parachute out of two umbrellas and jumped from a tree in 1783, but André-Jacques Garnerin was the first to design and test parachutes capable of slowing a man’s fall from a high altitude.

In 1799, Garnerin’s wife, Jeanne-Genevieve, became the first female parachutist. In 1802, Garnerin made a spectacular jump from 8,000 feet during an exhibition in England. He died in a balloon accident in 1823 while preparing to test a new parachute.

 

[gorgik9]

Thanks a lot for the fantastic engraving of Garnerin's portrait!!!

 

[haiducii]

On this day: 23rd October

In 1908, the first Slovene Philharmonic Society was founded. The history of the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra and its predecessors Academia Philharmonicorum (1701), the Philharmonic Society (1794), and the first Slovenian Philharmonic make it one of the oldest in the world. Among the many great names to become honorary members of the Philharmonic Society and the Slovenian Philharmonic are Josef Haydn, Ludwig van Beethoven, Niccolò Paganini, Johannes Brahms and Carlos Kleiber.

 

[Shelter]

In 1908, the first Slovene Philharmonic Society was founded. The history of the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra and its predecessors Academia Philharmonicorum (1701), the Philharmonic Society (1794), and the first Slovenian Philharmonic make it one of the oldest in the world. Among the many great names to become honorary members of the Philharmonic Society and the Slovenian Philharmonic are Josef Haydn, Ludwig van Beethoven, Niccolò Paganini, Johannes Brahms and Carlos Kleiber.

Wow - thank you! I've learned something new. :thumbs up:

 

[gorgik9]

In 1908, the first Slovene Philharmonic Society was founded. The history of the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra and its predecessors Academia Philharmonicorum (1701), the Philharmonic Society (1794), and the first Slovenian Philharmonic make it one of the oldest in the world. Among the many great names to become honorary members of the Philharmonic Society and the Slovenian Philharmonic are Josef Haydn, Ludwig van Beethoven, Niccolò Paganini, Johannes Brahms and Carlos Kleiber.

WOW as Shelter said! But where is this beautiful old house? Ljubljana? Maribor?

 

[haiducii]

WOW as Shelter said! But where is this beautiful old house? Ljubljana? Maribor?

Congress Square / Ljubljana

 

[gorgik9]

Beautiful city!!! It's such a pity that so many Swedish cities and towns were utterly destroyed in the 1950s-60s-70s, and what we got was ugly booring concrete boxes and not particularly impressive "skyscrapers" - well, Empire State Building in NY and Sears Tower in Chicago are impressive buildings, but the so-called "scrapers" built in Stockholm in the 1960s are just ugly and bland...

 

[camyoo]

On this day: 24th October

1945 - Founding of the United Nations. Happy Birthday UN!

 

[topdog]

St Crispin's Day

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Today is the 601st anniversary of Henry V's Battle at Agincourt, the original Band of Brothers. Maybe this speech should be played for the Chicago and Cleveland teams playing in the World Series.

 

[gorgik9]

St Crispin's Day

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Today is the 601st anniversary of Henry V's Battle at Agincourt. Maybe this speech should be played for the Chicago and Cleveland teams playing in the World Series.

Isn't it remarcable that in the 15th century kings and soldiers spoke in iambic pentameter on the battlefield :rofl:

 

[topdog]

Isn't it remarcable that in the 15th century kings and soldiers spoke in iambic pentameter on the battlefield :rofl:

Not everyone appreciates the work that goes in to making a speech like that look easy.

 

[haiducii]

On this day: 26th October

In 1984, Dr. Leonard Bailey transplanted a baboon heart into an infant known as Baby Fae. At 11:35 a.m., Fae's new heart began to beat spontaneously. ''There was absolute awe,'' recalled Sandra Nehlsen-Cannarella, a transplantation immunologist working on Fae. ''I don’t think there was a dry eye in the room.'' She lived for 21 days after the transplant, two weeks longer than anyone with a simian heart ever had before.

 

[haiducii]

On this day: 29th October

In 1998, John Glenn flew on the Discovery shuttle at the age of 77 years, making him the oldest person to fly in space. STS-95 Discovery was a 9-day mission during which the crew supported a variety of research payloads including deployment of the Spartan solar-observing spacecraft, the Hubble Space Telescope Orbital Systems Test Platform, and investigations on space flight and the aging process. The mission was accomplished in 134 Earth orbits, traveling 3.6 million miles in 213 hours and 44 minutes.

 

[topdog]

The Birth of the Internet

It's Geek Christmas!

Today in 1969 the first computer-to-computer link; the link was accomplished through ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network). It became the forerunner of the Internet.

The first successful message on the ARPANET was sent by UCLA student programmer Charley Kline, at 10:30 pm on 29 October 1969, from Boelter Hall 3420.[32] Kline transmitted from the university's SDS Sigma 7 Host computer to the Stanford Research Institute's SDS 940 Host computer. The message text was the word login; on an earlier attempt the l and the o letters were transmitted, but the system then crashed. Hence, the literal first message over the ARPANET was lo. About an hour later, after the programmers repaired the code that caused the crash, the SDS Sigma 7 computer effected a full login. The first permanent ARPANET link was established on 21 November 1969, between the IMP at UCLA and the IMP at the Stanford Research Institute. By 5 December 1969, the entire four-node network was established

 

[gb2000ie]

It's Geek Christmas!

Today in 1969 the first computer-to-computer link; the link was accomplished through ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network). It became the forerunner of the Internet.

And to this day, if you peep under the hood of the technologies that hold our modern internet together, you'll find the four letters ARPA.

My favourite example is the reverse DNS zones.

Forward DNS turns a human-friendly name into an IP address. E.g. www.google.com is 216.58.198.68.

Reverse DNS is designed to do the opposite, to turn an IP address into a human-friendly name. Reverse DNS uses the DNS system, so someone had to come up with a scheme for encoding an IP as a DNS name. For various reasons that do actually make sense on deeper inspection, the rule is simple, take the IP, reverserve the order of the four numbers (not the digits, the four numbers as blocks), and append .inaddr.arpa to the end.

So, the reverse DNS name for the IP address 216.58.198.68 is 68.198.58.216.in-addr.arpa

So, today, in 2016, the top-level domain for all reverse DNS lookups is arpa! That just goes to show just how pivotal the ARPANet was in the design and implementation of what we now call the Internet.

B.

 

[haiducii]

On this day: 30th October

In 2014, Sweden officially recognises state of Palestine. By doing so, it became the first EU country in Western Europe to recognize the State of Palestine. ''Today the government takes the decision to recognise the state of Palestine,'' Margot Wallström, the Swedish foreign minister said in a statement published in the Dagens Nyheter newspaper. ''It is an important step that confirms the Palestinians' right to self-determination,'' the foreign minister said. ''We hope that this will show the way for others.''

 

[haiducii]

On this day: 31st October

In 1984, Indira Gandhi, the Prime Minister of India, was killed by two of her Sikh bodyguards in New Delhi. The night before her death she told a political rally: "I don't mind if my life goes in the service of the nation. If I die today, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation."

 

[haiducii]

On this day: 1st November

In 1967, the first issue of Rolling Stone hits the streets. The first cover was a still image from John Lennon's movie How I Won the War, where he first wore his iconic round eyeglasses. The front-page story was an investigation into what happened to the profits from the Monterey Pop Festival.

 

[haiducii]

On this day: 2nd November

In 1903, London's Daily Mirror newspaper is first published. The Mirror was founded by Alfred Harmsworth, later Viscount Northcliffe, as a newspaper for women.