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@Torunn said
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On this day—January 3rd—in 1892, the author of The Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit was born!
J.R.R. Tolkien

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The British Museum was openend.

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I just Googled that - they found the fourth bomb almost 900 metres deep in the ocean.


Also on this day:

1377 Pope Gregory XI moves the Papacy back to Rome from Avignon

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@Martin

Also on this day (in 2026) my wife has embarrassed me / threatened my manhood / got involved in job demarcation.

I am playing chess and she has the atrocity to clean the BBQ !!!!

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My Father took me to the first and the subsequent James Bond movies during the sixties; been hooked on a DB5 ever since.

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50 years ago the first commercial Concorde flights took place.

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1880 the US patent 223898 was issued on the improved Incandescent light bulb

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40 years ago the "Challenger" was destroyed during the ascending flight into space.

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55 years ago women gained the right to vote in Switzerland.

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50 years ago Island severed diplomatic ties to the UK in the framework on the "Cod wars".

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110 years ago the battle of Verdun began.

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1147: the name "Austria" was first used in a document signed by Konrad III.

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@Ponderable said
1147: the name "Austria" was first used in a document signed by Konrad III.
1936 an attempted coup d’état happened in Japan.😲