On this day in 1993 Ian Murdock officially founded the Debian distribution.
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/intro.en.html#beginning
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Today in Computing History in 1981, IBM introduced its first personal computer (PC), the IBM Model 5150. Although personal computers already existed, IBM’s entry into the market brought mainstream attention thanks to its brand recognition and marketing power. The IBM PC sold 65,000 units in just four months, setting a new benchmark for the industry. It quickly dominated the market and defined the “IBM-compatible” era, maintaining its lead until Apple introduced the Macintosh in 1984.
#OnThisDay, 7 Aug 1948, American high jumper Alice Coachman wins Olympic gold, the first Black woman to win a gold medal.
Later in life, she established the Alice Coachman Track and Field Foundation to help support younger athletes and provide assistance to retired Olympic veterans.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #OlympicWomen #Histodons
#OnThisDay, 5 Aug 1888, Bertha Benz drove from Mannheim to Pforzheim: the first journey of 100+km in a car by *anyone*.
She'd got tired of her husband tinkering with his prototype so took it on the road with her sons. And without him.
Along the way, she made running repairs to the engine and realised there would need to be refueling stations.
#WomenInSTEM #EuropeanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
Franz Liszt died in Bayreuth #OTD in 1886.
So here's a film of Louis Kentner playing the second (Italian) book of Années de pèlerinage at a recital in London in the 1960s.
This is just utterly wonderful.
Bach died #OTD in 1750
Kirsten Flagstad sings Erbarme dich, mein Gott from the St Matthew Passion with the Philharmonia and Walter Susskind in 1950.
Vivaldi died #OTD in 1741.
Sara Mingardo sings Mentre dormi, Amor fomenti from L'Olimpaide with Concerto Italiano and Rinaldo Alessendrini.
Greater Feast of Shuhada' Sadaqat, Sinéad O'Connor, Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor, died July 26, 2023 at Herne Hill, London, England https://hermetic.com/hermeneuticon/sinead-o-connor #calendar #historic #OTD #OnThisDay
#OnThisDay, 22 July 1952 (or just after) Prof. Virginia Apgar presents her new way of testing the health of newborn babies to a professional congress.
Apgar’s name is used as a mnemonic for the tests, which assess activity (tone), pulse, grimace, appearance, and respiration. This is a backcronym, where someone has picked words that will create an acronym that is also a specific name.
The Apgar test has saved countless newborn lives.
#OtD 19 Jul 1883 thousands of telegraphers working for Western Union across the US walked out on strike demanding equal pay for equal work for men and women, along with other demands, like a pay increase and an eight-hour day https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9099/western-union-telegraphers-strike
#OnThisDay, 18 July 1976, Romanian Nadia Comăneci becomes the first gymnast to score a perfect 10 at the Olympics. She broke the scoreboards as they only went to 9.99.
In 1989, having lived under tight surveillance and control since she was a child, she defected to the USA by walking through the night from Romania to Hungary.
#Éphéméride : il y a 155 ans (1870) était défini le dogme de l'infaillibilité pontificale
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#OtD 18 Jul 1887 the Argentinian anarchist bakers' union was founded in Buenos Aires with the help of Italian anarchists Errico Malatesta and Ettore Mattei. It publicly launched on 4 Aug and held its first strike the following year https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8989/argentina-bakers'-union-formed
#OnThisDay, 11 July 1871, Margaret E Knight wins a patent lawsuit and is awarded the patent for flat-bottomed paper bag making machines.
No reliable image, so here's a bag in use.
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Very early #OnThisDay, 7 Jul 1944 Krystyna Skarbek parachutes into France to work as a Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent. The British SOE worked with resistance fighters across German-occupied Europe.
Skarbek had been the first woman to be an SOE agent when she'd previously been sent to Hungary and Poland in 1939-41.
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