#OTD 2015 Odiham RCAF Sea King tyre burst during inflation aerossurance.com/helicopters/... #aviationmaintenance #flightsafety #aviationsafety

#OTD AD54 - Emperor Claudius, Rome’s fourth emperor, died aged 63 after nearly 14 years in power. Poisoned mushrooms? A poisoned feather? Ancient accounts differ, but his wife & niece, Agrippina, was the chief suspect. Claudius also launched Rome’s invasion of Britain in AD 43.

#RomanEmpire

AC/DC released their first live album, "If You Want Blood You've Got It," #OTD 1978.

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Walter Houser Brattain died #OTD in 1987. He was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics alongside W. Shockley and J. Bardeen, for their invention of the transistor, which is the basic building block of modern electronics.
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Peter Barlow was born #OTD in 1776. An English mathematician and physicist, he designed an achromatic doublet lens to increase the focal length of telescopes. Barlow's wheel is an early homopolar electric motor.
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#OTD 13 October 1884: Greenwich, UK, was adopted as the prime meridian at International Meridian Conference in Washington DC 🧪 🌐 🌍️

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#OTD 13 Oct 1499

Claude was born to #LouisXII & Anne of Brittany
Married at 14 to François, her coronation delayed likely due to pregnancy-she had 7 in 8yrs!

She attended the 1520 #FieldofClothofGold, though heavily pregnant

She died aged 24

Hear her FoCoG experience: youtu.be/qDa-IWnCgC0

"What attracted me was less art itself than the artist’s life and all that it meant for me: the idea of creativity and freedom of expression and action."

Pierre Bonnard was born #otd 1867

🎨 "Les Parisiens" (1893)

#OTD in 1093, Count Robert I of Flanders died. In 1071 he became count after he deposed his young nephew Arnulf III. He also hated his brother-in-law William the Conqueror with a vengeance and was hatching a plan with the Danish king to invade England.

+++ On this day, 48 years ago, the 13th of October 1978, Public Image Ltd released their debut single 'Public Image', via Virgin Records. +++

Initial copies came wrapped up in a mocked up newspaper.

#publicimageltd #publicimage #johnlydon #OTD #postpunk #dub #pil #newwave #alt

Guten Morgen!
Allan Ramsay, * 13.10.1713 in Edinburgh; † 10.8.1784 in Dover, war ein schottischer Porträtmaler 🎨 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Janet Carmichael, geborene Grant, spätere Countess of Hyndford, 1750 🖼️
Tate Gallery 🏛️
#OTD #ArtHistory #PortraitPainting #Rococo #BskyArt #History #Museum

Tender portrait of 1758 of his wife Margaret Lindsay of Evelick (they had eloped in 1752) by eminent Scottish artist Allan Ramsay, Principal Painter in Ordinary to George III, friend of Samuel Johnson, born #OTD 1713; painted Bonnie Prince Charlie, Hume, Rousseau.
National Galleries of Scotland

719 years ago, on the 13th of October 1307, King Philip IV of France had hundreds of Knights Templar arrested on charges of heresy, to which most later confessed under torture. Philips IV was deeply in debt to the Templars after his war against England. #otd #history 🗃️

🕯 #OTD in the #History of #Architecture 13 October 1269, the beautiful present church of #WestminsterAbbey had its consecration ceremony in the presence of King #HenryIII.

Trooper: You're quite an individual, Kit.

Kit: Think they'll take that into consideration?

🎞️ #OTD in #Film #History 13 October 1973, #TerrenceMalick's brilliant debut BADLANDS, starring #MartinSheen and #SissySpacek premiered at the #NYFF.

“Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.”

🥃📚 #OTD in #Theatre #History 13 October 1962, #EdwardAlbee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" opened at the Billy Rose Theatre on Broadway, directed by Alan Schneider.

"Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night!"

🎞️ #OTD in #Film #History 13 October 1950, #JosephLMankiewicz's Best Picture Oscar-winning "All About Eve," starring #BetteDavis, #AnneBaxter, #GeorgeSanders, and a young #MarilynMonroe, premiered in New York.