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Post by Die Bullen on Feb 11, 2021 14:34:17 GMT
On February 11, 1847: Thomas Alva Edison -future inventor of the stock ticker, the phonograph, the improved incandescent light bulb, and the motion picture- is born in Milan, Ohio.
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Post by zontar on Feb 12, 2021 3:36:42 GMT
1963 - The Beatles recorded "Twist & Shout" and "I Saw Her Standing There." 1967 - The Monkees announced that they would be playing all the instruments on all future recordings. 1967- The Turtles release "Happy Together."
(Feb 11)
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Post by johnreardon on Feb 12, 2021 8:30:29 GMT
Saturday 12th February 1898 123 years ago
The first car crash resulting in a fatality happened when the steering gear failed on Henry Linfield’s electric car, and he crashed at the bottom of a hill at Purley Corner, Surrey, England.
All the main details of the accident were reported in the 'Evening Argus' newspaper of Brighton, where Henry had his home. As usual for this period, the article was particularly thorough:
"A sad fatal accident occurred on Saturday to Mr. Lindfield, a gentleman, of 42, Montpelier-street, Brighton. Mr. Lindfield, accompanied by his son, Mr. Bernard Lindfield, a young man of 18 or 19 years of age, was driving a motor car from London to Brighton.
They had passed through Croydon, and at about two o'clock were descending a long hill, the machine running of its own impetus. About half way down the hill the car began to sway, probably owing to the action of the brake, and at that time the son happened to remark, "I believe the bag has fallen out."
Directly afterwards the vehicle became unmanageable, and swerving round on to the path ran through a light fence of barbed wire and struck against a tree with great force. Unfortunately one of Mr. Lindfield's legs came between the motor car and the tree, the result being that it was completely smashed just below the knee.
The son was thrown from the vehicle. He escaped practically unhurt, and finding his father jammed against the tree at once obtained assistance. Mr. Lindfield was removed to the Croydon Hospital, where his injuries were found to be so serious (the main artery was shattered) that the three surgeons who were in attendance came to the conclusion that the only possibility of saving his life was by amputation of the injured limb.
This was done, but after the operation Mr. Lindfield remained unconscious, and yesterday morning at about nine o'clock he died. Mr. Lindfield was able, just after his admittance to the hospital, to converse with his son, and to give him some directions in case he should not survive.
The deceased gentleman, who was only 42 years of age, leaves two sons and a daughter to mourn his loss, for whom the greatest sympathy is felt. Mr. Lindfield was well-known and highly esteemed in Brighton, and the news of his untimely death will be received with very great regret by his many friends.
The motor car which Mr. Lindfield was driving was a two-seated one, which he had just purchased. He took considerable interest in motor cars, and had on the previous Saturday brought another one, which he had also just purchased for private use, from London to Brighton, but on that occasion, it may be remarked, he was accompanied by an engineer."
Today traffic accidents kill more than 1 million people a year worldwide!
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Post by zontar on Feb 12, 2021 11:46:48 GMT
1950 - Steve Hackett (guitarist for Genesis) is born in Pimlico, London, England. 1964 - The Beatles conclude their first American tour with two 25-minute shows at Carnegie Hall. 1968 - Jimi Hendrix returned home to Seattle where he received a key to the city and an honorary high school diploma. He also played for the students of Garfield High School from which he had dropped out. 1974 - Stevie Wonder jammed with Johnny Winter and Dr. John at the opening of the Bottom Line club in New York. Also appearing were James Taylor, Carly Simon and Mick Jagger. (Now that would have been cool to have seen) 2018 - Judas Priest guitarist Glenn Tipton announces he will no longer tour with the band due to Parkinson's disease, which he was diagnosed with in 2008.
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Post by Die Bullen on Feb 12, 2021 12:32:37 GMT
1294- Kublai Khan, the conqueror of Asia, dies at the age of 80.
1818- Chile gains independence from Spain.
1912-China becomes a republic following the overthrow of the Manchu dynasty.
1924- George Gershwin's groundbreaking symphonic jazz composition Rhapsody in Blue premieres with Gershwin himself playing the piano with Paul Whiteman's orchestra.
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Post by Sgt Rock on Feb 13, 2021 1:00:11 GMT
on this day, February 12th, 1928, my father was born in Lincoln County, Mississippi. 93 years ago. my dad passed away in August, 2009. times have certainly changed since 2009. knowing my dad, he would have had a difficult time coping with the way the world is presently.
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Post by johnreardon on Feb 13, 2021 10:04:28 GMT
1961 - Frank Sinatra Frank Sinatra launched his own record label, Reprise Records, in order to allow more artistic freedom for his own recordings. Hence, he garnered the nickname “The Chairman of the Board.”One of the label’s founding principles under Sinatra’s leadership was that each artist would have full creative freedom, and at some point complete ownership of their work. Reprise later became the home of many influential US acts such as Neil Young, Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell, Randy Newman and The Beach Boys.
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Post by Die Bullen on Feb 13, 2021 18:10:57 GMT
1910: William Bradford Shockley, co-inventor of the transistor, is born in London, England, to William Shockley, an MIT-trained mining engineer, and May Shockley, a mathematics graduate of Stanford. Along with John Bardeen and Walter Brattain, Shockley invents the transistor at Bell Labs in 1947, making small, economical computers possible for the first time.
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Post by zontar on Feb 13, 2021 21:15:02 GMT
1778 - Composer Fernando Sor was born. 1914 - ASCAP, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is founded in New York City. 1950 - Peter Gabriel (original lead singer for Genesis) is born in Chobham, Surrey, England. 1974 - Led Zeppelin is forced to cancel a concert in Singapore when officials won't let them off the plane because of their long hair.
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Post by Die Bullen on Feb 14, 2021 0:49:01 GMT
On the evening of February 13, 1945, a series of Allied firebombing raids begins against the German city of Dresden, reducing the “Florence of the Elbe” to rubble and flames, and killing roughly 25,000 people.
I've been to Dresden and I know people who were there that day. They said they went into air raid shelters at night and when they emerged in the morning the city was simply gone...
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Post by johnreardon on Feb 14, 2021 10:22:28 GMT
First Tarzan Film February 14, 1918 The first movie featuring Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan character, Tarzan of the Apes, is released. It started Gordon Griffith as Tarzan as a child, Elmo Lincoln as adult Tarzan, and Enid Markey as Jane, making them the first to play these characters in film.
If you want to watch it
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Post by Die Bullen on Feb 14, 2021 13:52:53 GMT
On February 14, around the year 270 A.D., Valentine, a holy priest in Rome in the days of Emperor Claudius II, was executed.
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Post by Die Bullen on Feb 14, 2021 13:53:23 GMT
First Tarzan Film February 14, 1918 The first movie featuring Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan character, Tarzan of the Apes, is released. It started Gordon Griffith as Tarzan as a child, Elmo Lincoln as adult Tarzan, and Enid Markey as Jane, making them the first to play these characters in film. If you want to watch it That's interesting!
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Post by Die Bullen on Feb 14, 2021 14:05:48 GMT
Here's one more
February 14: 1946: The Computer Age is formally born as John W. Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, Jr., of the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering, officially unveil their Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer. The world's first large-scale electronic computer consists of 30 separate units containing well over 17,000 vacuum tubes and weighing more than 30 tons. ENIAC astounds the public onlookers by performing 5,000 additions and 300 multiplications per second.
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Post by infant on Feb 14, 2021 18:53:51 GMT
Here's one more February 14: 1946: The Computer Age is formally born as John W. Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, Jr., of the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering, officially unveil their Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer. The world's first large-scale electronic computer consists of 30 separate units containing well over 17,000 vacuum tubes and weighing more than 30 tons. ENIAC astounds the public onlookers by performing 5,000 additions and 300 multiplications per second. Can you imagine having to find the one bad tube that caused a breakdown??
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Post by Die Bullen on Feb 14, 2021 20:50:30 GMT
Here's one more February 14: 1946: The Computer Age is formally born as John W. Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, Jr., of the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering, officially unveil their Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer. The world's first large-scale electronic computer consists of 30 separate units containing well over 17,000 vacuum tubes and weighing more than 30 tons. ENIAC astounds the public onlookers by performing 5,000 additions and 300 multiplications per second. Can you imagine having to find the one bad tube that caused a breakdown?? And I am sure they were very unreliable... I can only imagine the heat that thing would throw off
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Post by zontar on Feb 15, 2021 0:46:47 GMT
1937 - American Chicago blues musician Magic Sam is born
1967 - Aretha Franklin recorded her version of Otis Redding's song "Respect" in New York.
1970 - The Who taped a concert at Leeds University in Leeds, England, for their forthcoming album, "Live at Leeds."
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Post by johnreardon on Feb 15, 2021 8:29:58 GMT
Decimalisation Day - 15th February 1971
The British Government launched a new, decimal currency across the country. The familiar pound (£), shilling (s) and pence (d) coins that had been in existence for more than 1000 years were to be phased out in the space of 18 months in favour of a system with 100 pennies to the pound rather than 240.
Inflation shot up after this day, mainly due to the fact that the lowest value coin half a new penny was equivalent to 1.2 old pennies.
In my opinion, they should have made the old ten bob the new £ as that would have meant 100 new pennies = 120 old pennies, meaning the lowest value coin = 0.6 of an old pence.
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Post by johnreardon on Feb 15, 2021 8:45:57 GMT
Here's one more February 14: 1946: The Computer Age is formally born as John W. Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, Jr., of the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering, officially unveil their Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer. The world's first large-scale electronic computer consists of 30 separate units containing well over 17,000 vacuum tubes and weighing more than 30 tons. ENIAC astounds the public onlookers by performing 5,000 additions and 300 multiplications per second. There's always doubts over 'firsts' in anything.
The Colossus computer was used at Bletchley Park in 1944 to crack the enigma code. Us Brits would say that's the first. Unfortunately, the machines were ordered to be destroyed after the war and the public weren't made aware of them until 1970s. They weren't fully declassified until 2007. By this time, there were decades of ENIAC claiming to be the first
Charles Babbage & Ada Lovelace really sowed the seeds of computing in the 19th Century with their difference engine
Many in the computing field are still arguing the toss over which came first.
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Post by Die Bullen on Feb 15, 2021 14:34:08 GMT
1809: Cyrus Hall McCormick is born on a farm in Rockbridge County, VA. He goes on to perfect the mechanical reaper -- the technological breakthrough that turns the Midwestern plains of the U.S. into the breadbasket of the world.
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Post by Die Bullen on Feb 15, 2021 14:35:59 GMT
Here's one more February 14: 1946: The Computer Age is formally born as John W. Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, Jr., of the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering, officially unveil their Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer. The world's first large-scale electronic computer consists of 30 separate units containing well over 17,000 vacuum tubes and weighing more than 30 tons. ENIAC astounds the public onlookers by performing 5,000 additions and 300 multiplications per second. There's always doubts over 'firsts' in anything. Very true. I know you and I certainly didn't trap the benefits either way!
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Post by zontar on Feb 16, 2021 0:28:48 GMT
Feb 15 2014 --I bought my Ibanez SR500F (Fretless bass) Feb 15 prior to 2014 I bought my Traynor TBM10 practice bass amp (TBM=Traynor Bass Mate)
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Post by zontar on Feb 16, 2021 0:39:55 GMT
Buying that fretless bass made a bigger difference in my life (Most likely not in yours though) than most (Not all, but most) of what has been posted for any date so far. Although it may not be as interesting to read about.
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Post by Die Bullen on Feb 16, 2021 1:41:16 GMT
Feb 15 2014 --I bought my Ibanez SR500F (Fretless bass) Feb 15 prior to 2014 I bought my Traynor TBM10 practice bass amp (TBM=Traynor Bass Mate) How do you know the date that you bought them?
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Post by zontar on Feb 16, 2021 2:06:05 GMT
Feb 15 2014 --I bought my Ibanez SR500F (Fretless bass) Feb 15 prior to 2014 I bought my Traynor TBM10 practice bass amp (TBM=Traynor Bass Mate) How do you know the date that you bought them? Because I was there... I also have a list & receipts.
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Post by Die Bullen on Feb 16, 2021 2:21:16 GMT
How do you know the date that you bought them? Because I was there... I also have a list & receipts. My memory just isn't that good for details like that unless another event is tied to it...
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Post by zontar on Feb 16, 2021 8:45:34 GMT
Because I was there... I also have a list & receipts. My memory just isn't that good for details like that unless another event is tied to it... Well I have a list.
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Post by johnreardon on Feb 16, 2021 8:52:03 GMT
Feb 15 2014 --I bought my Ibanez SR500F (Fretless bass) Feb 15 prior to 2014 I bought my Traynor TBM10 practice bass amp (TBM=Traynor Bass Mate) How do you know the date that you bought them? I'm a bit sad, but I record my purchases in a spreadsheet. It has the following columns:
- Make
- Model
- Colour
- Serial No
- Date Bought
- Shop
- Price
- Sale Value
- Notes
I started doing it when I had a lot more guitars and I was concerned about what the wife or family would do with them if anything happened to me. I didn't want them to be robbed by anyone trying to buy them. Even with just 12 guitars, the potential sale value is going to be in the mid £20ks
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Post by johnreardon on Feb 16, 2021 8:53:06 GMT
1957 - Pete Murray Disc jockey Pete Murray began hosting BBC television's first Rock 'n' Roll music program The Six-Five Special, named for the time the show began, five minutes after six. The show was given air-time immediately after the abolition of what was called the Toddlers' Truce, which had seen television stop between 6 and 7pm so children could be put to bed.
1964 - The Beatles The Beatles made their second live appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, exactly one week after the first. Before an audience of 3,500 at the Deauville Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida, The Beatles performed ‘She Loves You’, ‘This Boy’, ‘All My Loving’, ‘I Saw Her Standing There’, ‘From Me to You’, and ‘I Want to Hold Your Hand’.
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Post by Die Bullen on Feb 16, 2021 12:34:32 GMT
How do you know the date that you bought them? I'm a bit sad, but I record my purchases in a spreadsheet. It has the following columns:
- Make
- Model
- Colour
- Serial No
- Date Bought
- Shop
- Price
- Sale Value
- Notes
I started doing it when I had a lot more guitars and I was concerned about what the wife or family would do with them if anything happened to me. I didn't want them to be robbed by anyone trying to buy them. Even with just 12 guitars, the potential sale value is going to be in the mid £20ks
I used to do that but through the years I stopped updating it. I should try to find it any see just how out of date it is.
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