20 avril 1808 : Naissance de Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, empereur des Français sous le nom de Napoléon III.
Élu président de la République en 1848, il devient empereur après un coup d'état en 1851.
Son règne est marqué par un développement économique et industriel, ainsi que par la transformation de Paris sous l'égide du baron Haussmann.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napol%C3%A9on_III

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Pierre Louis Maupertuis set off for Lapland 290 years ago #OnThisDay on the Second French Geodesic Mission.

The question he sought to answer was whether the Earth flatter around the poles or the Equator.

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https://www.historytoday.com/archive/great-debates/measuring-shape-earth

A @[email protected] stoppage time winner away to Tottenham Hotspur, #OnThisDay in 2025 😍

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#TopicOfTheDay: The #Keeling #Curve is a graph of the accumulation of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere based on continuous measurements taken at the Mauna Loa Observatory on the island of Hawaii from 1958 to the present day.

The curve is named for the scientist Charles David Keeling (Born #OnThisDay in 1928), who started the monitoring program and supervised it until his death in 2005.

https://knowledgezone.co.in/posts/61dee3303bb9a4836753ac95

𝑶𝒏 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝑫𝒂𝒚... in 2024, we were given a treat at The Grove, as the Yeltz beat St Ives Town 4-3 on our final home game of the 23/24 season!

Want to watch this Yeltz classic back? ➡️ https://youtu.be/_guuQiZT20w?si=LUx5MZk_qEl3Voqq

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#OnThisDay in 2019: Arman Tsarukyan made his UFC debut vs Islam Makhachev!

Relive the fight on @[email protected] 📺

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#OnThisDay in #history:

1303 – The Sapienza University of Rome is instituted by a bull of Pope Boniface VIII.

1862 – Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard complete the experiment disproving the theory of spontaneous generation.

1902 – Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.

1946 – The League of Nations officially dissolves, giving most of its power to the United Nations.

1999 – Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 14 people and injure 23 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado.

*Events selected are not necessarily positive/happy/to-be-celebrated, but items I thought were historically interesting and/or significant to their time and I'm trying to select items from a broad range of history and not clumped too close together.

20 avril 1893 : Naissance de l'acteur et réalisateur américain Harold Lloyd.
Il est l'un des comédiens de cinéma les plus influents de l'ère du cinéma muet. Il réalisa près de 200 films comiques, muets et parlants, de 1914 à 1947 🎬.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Lloyd

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