February 10

This day in history:

• 1846 – First Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Sobraon: British defeat Sikhs in the final battle of the war.
• 1989 – Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee, becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party.
• 1920 – About 75% of the population in Zone I votes to join Denmark in the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites.
• 1930 – The Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng launches the failed Yên Bái mutiny in hope of overthrowing French protectorate over Vietnam.

Births:

• 1824 – Samuel Plimsoll, English merchant and politician (d. 1898)
• 1964 – Glenn Beck, American journalist, producer, and author
• 1944 – Frank Keating, American lawyer and politician, 25th Governor of Oklahoma

Deaths:

• 2022 – Olsen Filipaina, New Zealand rugby league player (b. 1957)
• 2011 – Trevor Bailey, English cricketer and journalist (b. 1923)
• 2003 – Ron Ziegler, American politician, 14th White House Press Secretary (b. 1939)

Holidays:

• Kurdish Authors Union Day (Iraqi Kurdistan)
• National Memorial Day of the Exiles and Foibe (Italy)
• Feast of St. Paul's Shipwreck (Malta)

Random Article of the day:

Shinsei Motemote Ōkoku

Shinsei Motemote Ōkoku (Japanese: 神聖モテモテ王国, lit. "The Holy Motemote Kingdom") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ken Nagai. It was serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday from March 27, 1996 to February 9, 2000. Its chapters were collected in six tankōbon volumes.

In 1996, world Chess champion Garry Kasparov faced off against an IBM computer dubbed "Deep Blue" in Philadelphia. He lost.

10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 10 February:

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2022/02/10-february.html

#ThisDayInHistory #otd #OnThisDate #onthisday #10February #February10

[15:01] Eurostar direct trains to London set to resume in February

Direct train services between Amsterdam and London will resume on February 10, once work on the Dutch capital’s main railway...

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2024/10/eurostar-direct-trains-to-london-set-to-resume-in-february/

#Amsterdam #London #February10 #Dutch

February 10

This day in history:

• 1846 – First Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Sobraon: British defeat Sikhs in the final battle of the war.
• 1763 – French and Indian War: The Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain.
• 1862 – American Civil War: A Union naval flotilla destroys the bulk of the Confederate Mosquito Fleet in the Battle of Elizabeth City on the Pasquotank River in North Carolina.
• 1861 – Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America.

Births:

• 1955 – Tom LaGarde, American basketball player
• 1963 – Lenny Dykstra, American baseball player
• 1968 – Garrett Reisman, American engineer and astronaut

Deaths:

• 1967 – Dionysios Kokkinos, Greek historian and author (b. 1884)
• 1957 – Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (b. 1867)
• 1992 – Alex Haley, American soldier, journalist, and author (b. 1921)

Random Article of the day:
Louis Michel (physicist)

Louis Michel (1923–1999) was a French mathematical physicist at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHÉS). He was born in Roanne, in the Loire department in central France, on 4 May 1923, and died in Bures-sur-Yvette (Essonne), in the Île-de-France region, on 30 December 1999.

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#PenQuote #February10 #LiveForToday #RealizeToday #HopeForTomorrow #CarryOnTomorrow

Song of the Day February 10 2024

In honor or the birth of Roberta Flack

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberta_Flack

Roberta Flack - “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face”

https://youtu.be/VqW-eO3jTVU?si=ibhuOC1h4kcrxpqi

#SongOfTheDay #SOTD #SOTD2024 #February10 #RobertaFlack #TheFirstTimeEverISawYourFace #PopClassic #Ballad #1970s

Song of the Day February 10 2024

In honor or the birth of Roberta Flack

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberta_Flack

Roberta Flack - “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face”

https://youtu.be/VqW-eO3jTVU?si=ibhuOC1h4kcrxpqi

#SongOfTheDay #SOTD #SOTD2024 #February10 #RobertaFlack #TheFirstTimeEverISawYourFace #PopClassic #Ballad #1970s

Flickr, the photography site that I have been an avid user of since 2009, even though it’s been sort of overlooked and forgotten by most of the social media and photography universe, is going to celebrate it’s 20th birthday next month. The big day is a few days after my wife’s birthday, and a week-ish after my step son’s birthday, which is also my nephew’s birthday.

https://www.threads.net/@flickr/post/C2f3EUUyu8R

I guess Threads embeds still don’t work with wordpress.com. Hmmm…

This might work better… friggin’ zuckerberg…

A post shared by Flickr (@flickr)

Anyway, they have a bunch of things planned including some photowalks. I don’t see anything scheduled for Boston and even if they do schedule something it’s 99.9999% guaranteed that I would not join in, even from a social distance. Still… it would be nice, right? Granted, not nice enough for me to try to get something started. No way in hell would Mr Introvert do something crazy like that. No thank you.

Anyway, Flickr’s birthday is February 10th. Take some pictures to celebrate.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/01/24/flickr-turning-20/

#anniversary #birthday #February10 #Flickr #flickrS20thBirthday #photography #photos #photowalk #socialMedia #tech

In 1996, world Chess champion Garry Kasparov faced off against an IBM computer dubbed "Deep Blue" in Philadelphia. He lost.

10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 10 February:

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2022/02/10-february.html

#OnThisDay #OnThisDate #ThisDayInHistory #OTD #February10 #10February