Died #otd Jan Lambrecht Domien Sleeckx (1818-1901), Flemish writer, 125 years ago today #JanLambrechtDomienSleeckx life story...

Died #otd Fox Conner (1874-1951), United States Army general, 75 years ago today #FoxConner life story...

Died #otd Katsuya Kitamura (1985-2022), Japanese wrestler, 4 years ago today #KatsuyaKitamura life story...

Died #otd Olga Oleinik (1925-2001), Soviet mathematician, 25 years ago today #OlgaOleinik life story...

Died #otd Shahlyla Baloch (1996-2016), Pakistani footballer, 10 years ago today #ShahlylaBaloch life story...

Died #otd Ray Fosse (1947-2021), American baseball player, 5 years ago today #RayFosse life story...

Died #otd Major Griffin-Gracy (1946-2025), American author, 1 year ago today #MajorGriffinGracy life story...

Died #otd Eliseus Williams (1867-1926), Welsh poet, 100 years ago today #EliseusWilliams life story...

#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.

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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.