September 26, 1983 Soviet Air Force Colonel Stanislav Petrov, identified a report of an incoming nuclear missile, as a computer error and not an American first strike; single-handedly saved the world from nuclear war.6yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
60 years ago today November 12, 1958 A team of rock climbers: Mark Powell, Bill Feuerer and led by Warren Harding, completed the first ascent of The Nose on El Capitan in Yosemite Valley that the 3 had begun working on in July 1957.5yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/climbing
November 30, 2001 Gary Ridgway was apprehended and charged with four murders as the Green River Killer.He was eventually convicted of 49 of suspected 90 murders, making him the most prolific serial killer in United States history according to confirmed murders.5yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/serialkillers
August 31, 1985 The Nightstalker, Richard Ramirez Was Chased, Beat Down and Captured, By an Angry Mob In East L.A, After He Tried to CarJack a Getaway Car6yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/serialkillers
On November 17, 1894, H.H. Holmes aka America's First Serial Killer was arrested in Boston, Massachusetts. Many victims were said to have been killed in a mixed-use building which he owned dubbed The Murder Castle.5yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/serialkillers
San Jose was officially founded as California's first civilian settlement on November 29, 1777. 1777. Happy 241st Birthday San Jose. In 1791 due to severe flooding, the City Center moved 1 mile south from its site on the Guadalupe River to its present site at Plaza de Cesar Chavez.5yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/SanJose
September 3, 1942 The First Jewish Rebellion Against Liquidation By the Nazis Broke Out in the Łachwa Ghetto in Poland. Fighting Only With Axe Heads, Sticks and Their Bare Hands, 1,000 Jews Escaped, Killing 14 of Their Heavily Armed Oppressors in the Struggle. Yitzhak Rochzyn Led The Rebellion6yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/Judaism
December 22. 1808 Ludwig van Beethoven conducted and performed in concert at the Theater an der Wien, Vienna, the premiere of his Fifth Symphony, Sixth Symphony, Fourth Piano Concerto (performed by Beethoven himself) and Choral Fantasy (with Beethoven at the piano).5yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/classicalmusic
October 7, 1944 Jewish Sonderkommandos of Birkenau, Auschwitz attacked their SS guards with stones, axes, and makeshift hand grenades, which they also used to damage Crematorium IV (pictured here) and set it afire.6yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/Judaism
On 14 October 1943, the prisoners at Sorbibor Extermination Camp revolted, killing 11 German SS officers, overpowered Ukrainian camp guards and seized the armory. 300 of the 600 prisoners escaped.6yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/Judaism
Happy Birthday! December 4, 1965 The Grateful Dead's first concert performance under this new name. This first show under that name was performed in San Jose at at one of Ken Kesey's Acid Tests.5yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/gratefuldead
December 23, 1947 – The transistor was first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories. Pictured is the Bell Labs’ junction transistor, of germanium, which was fabricated 3 years later Giving rise to second generation computers using circuit boards and core memory in place of vacuum tubes.5yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/computers
November 18, 1963 Bell Telephone introduced dual-tone multi-frequency (DTMF ) dialing replacing traditional pulse dialing with Touch-Tone. The first push-button telephone went into service that day. Phreaking at 2600 hertz followed shortly. Pictured here is a Cap'n Crunch Bosun Whistle. Dig It!5yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/hacking
September 6, 1915 a prototype tank nicknamed Little Willie rolled off the assembly line in England. Little Willie was far from an overnight success. It weighed 14 tons, got stuck in trenches and crawled over rough terrain at only two miles per hour.6yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/TankPorn
August 26, 1939 First Televised Baseball Game. Announcer Red Barber called the Game for New York Station W2XBS between the Cincinnati Reds and Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn.The Reds won the first game, 5-2, and the Dodgers took game two, 6-1.6yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/baseball
November 18, 1978 In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones led his Peoples Temple to a mass murder–suicide that claimed 918 lives in all, 909 of them in Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Congressman Leo Ryan is murdered by members of the Peoples Temple hours earlier.5yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/cults
February 13, 1961 – An allegedly 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug.5yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/AncientAliens
October 14, 1962 U-2 reconnaissance photograph of Cuba, showing Soviet nuclear missiles, their transports and tents for fueling and maintenance. [591x468]6yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
November 17, 1947 American scientists John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain observe the basic principles of the transistor, a key element for the electronics revolution of the 20th century. Depicted is a replica of the first transistor5yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/computers
November 28 1895 The first American automobile race takes place over the 54 miles from Chicago's Jackson Park to Evanston, Illinois. The race was won in 10 hours but the drivers were forced by the police to have their cars pulled in the city by horses as they had no right to drive on city streets.5yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/NASCAR
December 4, 1965 The Grateful Dead's first concert performance under this new name. This first show under that name was performed in San Jose at at one of Ken Kesey's Acid Tests. The very first Acid Test was a party at Ken Babbs' house in Soquel, Ca. on 27th November 1965,5yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/LSD
September 17, 1976 The First Space Shuttle -Enterprise Was Unveiled For The First Time6yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/nasa
August 31, 1985 The Night Stalker, Richard Ramirez Was Chased, Beat Down and Captured, By an Angry Mob In East L.A, After He Tried to CarJack a Getaway Car. Do You Think That EARONS Might Have Been Caught Earlier If He Victimized Poorer Communities?6yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/EARONS
1916 Van Buren Sisters Complete 60 Day 5,500 Mile Cross Country Trip On Their 1000cc Indian Moorcycles, Arriving In L.A. And Proving Women Capable Of Serving As Military Dispatch Riders, Having Been Arrested Several Times Along The Way For Wearing Men's Clothing. [600x476]6yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
September 17, 1916 Manfred von Richthofen (The Red Baron), a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkrafte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.6yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/wwi
December 23 1972 – The 16 survivors of the Andes flight disaster are rescued after 73 days, having reportedly survived by cannibalism.On the tenth day after the crash, the survivors learned from a transistor radio that the search had been called off.5yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/Survival
August 21, 1959 Amidst great fanfare on the mainland, Hawaii became the 50th State of the union. On January 17, 1893, Queen Liliʻuokalani was overthrown and replaced by a group of American expatriates and sugar planters supported by a division of U.S. Marines [330x514]6yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
December 28, 1912 – The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco. Pictured is a cable car being turned around at the end of the line, August 1964.5yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/sanfrancisco
Beautiful Wife, Yacht, Air Force One Bomber Jacket, Ray Bans, Humility,President John Kennedy (1963)6yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
St.Catherine's Monastery built at the foot of Mt. Sinai, between 548 and 565 C.E., on alleged site of Moses's burning bush and containing the world's oldest continually operating library.6yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/Libraryporn
December 16, 1985 – Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti are shot dead on the orders of John Gotti, who assumes leadership of New York's Gambino crime family.5yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/Mafia
December 3, 1984 Bhopal disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, kills more than 3,800 people outright and injures 150,000–600,000 others (some 6,000 of whom would later die from their injuries) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history.5yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/LateStageCapitalism
January 22, 1973 – In a bout for the world heavyweight boxing championship in Kingston, Jamaica, challenger George Foreman knocks down champion Joe Frazier six times in the first two rounds before the fight is stopped by referee Arthur Mercante5yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/Boxing
1924 – The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost was sold in London, England. Painted in aluminium paint with silver-plated fittings, the first RRSG known as AX201 is considered the most valuable car in the world; in 2005 its insured value was placed at US$35 million.5yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/classiccars
November 29, 1972 Atari releases Pong, the first commercially successful video game. Happy Birthday Gaming!5yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/gaming
November 1, 1963 The Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, with the largest radio telescope ever constructed, officially opened.5yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/Astronomy
August 19,1909 First Race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway won by Louis Schwitzer 500x3356yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
al-Qarawiyyin, Inside the oldest library in the world,opened in 859 C.E. at one of one of the oldest universities in the world.6yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/Libraryporn
One Of Only 2 Pictures Ever Taken Of The Supreme Court Of The United States In Session. This 1937 photograph was taken by a young woman who concealed her small camera in her handbag, cutting a hole through which the lens peeped. [568x384]6yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
September 19, 1995 The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber's manifesto. It was later revealed that Ted Kaczynski, was subjected to a purposely brutalizing psychological experiment, led by Harvard psychologist Henry Murray and possibly linked to the CIA Project MKUltra.6yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/serialkillers
September 6, 1916 The First Self Service Grocery Store Piggly Wiggly Opened in Memphis Tennessee. Only a Historic Marker Remains Near The Site of The First Piggly Wiggly. [769x417]6yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
1924 Before Jaywalking became a word.[1,200px × 962px (scaled to 700px × 561px)]6yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
circa November 7, 1984 ?, picture of Tomorrow Land at 1964 Worlds Fairgrounds {600x360}6yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
November 1, 1987 British Rail Class 43 (HST) hits the record speed of 238 km/h for rail vehicles with on-board fuel to generate electricity for traction motors. Why don't we have high speed rail in the United States?5yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/trains
November 4 , 1737 The Teatro di San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is inaugurated in Naples, Italy.5yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/opera
The bomber was shot down by Hawker Hurricane fighter aircraft of No. 111 Squadron RAF. It crash landed near RAF Biggin Hill, 18 August 1940., The Hardest Day in The Battle of Britain.800x5296yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
December 20, 1968 The Zodiac killed his first confirmed victims: David Arthur Faraday, 17, and Betty Lou Jensen, 16 , on Lake Herman Road, within the city limits of Benicia, California. Coordinates: 38°5′41.61′′N 122°8′38.24′′W5yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/serialkillers
August 2, 1943 Smoke from Burning SS Barracks, Rises Above Treblinka Extermination Camp, After Jewish Prisoners Revolt 965x7666yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
August 15,1969 Michael Lang producer begins Woodstock Music and Art Fair 864X5886yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Mata Hari in 1906. A Dutch exotic dancer executed October 15, 1917 by French firing squad upon conviction of spying for Germany. [496x534]6yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
December 3, Happy 54th Birthday Free Speech Movement. On this day in 1964 police arrested over 800 students at the University of California, Berkeley, following their takeover and sit-in at the administration building in protest of the UC Regents' decision to forbid protests on UC property.5yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/FreeSpeech
India Indentured Servants (circa 1860-1911) arriving in Natal, South Africa 498x3066yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
December 26 1862 – The largest mass-hanging in U.S. history took place in Mankato, Minnesota, where 38 Native Americans died. Treaty violations by the United States and late or unfair annuity payments by Indian agents, caused increasing hunger and hardship among the Dakota iled Dakota War of 1862.5yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/minnesota
October 18, 1954 Texas Instruments announced the first transistor radio. Following their development in 1954, made possible by the invention of the transistor in 1947, they became the most popular electronic communication device in history, with billions manufactured during the 1960s and 1970s.5yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/computerscience
Dick Shawn and Barrie Chase dance scene, in the movie Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)6yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Migrant Child Detention Facility in McAllen, Texas. Photo provided by Custom and Border Protection. MAGA5yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/occupywallstreet
December 9, 1968 Douglas Engelbart gave what became known as The Mother of All Demos, publicly debuting the computer mouse, hypertext, and the bit-mapped graphical user interface using the oN-Line System (NLS).5yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/computers
August 16,1974 The Ramones play their first public gig at CBGB’s in downtown Manhattan6yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and the 69.42 carat diamond ring he bought her (Oct 1969)6yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
September 5, 1877 Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is killed-bayoneted by a United States soldier after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson in Nebraska. [360x500]6yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
December 19 1924– German serial killer Fritz Haarmann is sentenced to death by beheading for the sexual assault, murder, mutilation and dismemberment of a minimum of 24 boys and young men between 1918 and 1924 in Hanover, Germany.5yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/serialkillers
Original Gangster: Isom Dart aka The Calico Cowboy, born into slavery 1849; a successful cattle rustler himself;trained horses for the Hole In The Wall Gang;sniped by Tom Horn August3, 1900.6yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
November 4, 1953 Premier How To Marry a Millionaire Bogie, Bacall and Monroe6yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Jaqueline Bisset and Aleksandr Godunov. On August 22, 1979 Aleksandr Godunov, became the first Soviet dancer to defect from the Bolshoi Ballet to the United States.6yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
November 1 , 1955 is commonly attributed as the start of the Vietnam War. Does anyone know what happened on that date, to justify the designation of November 1, 1955 to mark the War's beginning?5yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/VietnamWar
R.I.P. Sweet Princess (1 July 1961 – 31 August 1997) wedded July 29, 19816yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
October 18,1963 Felicette, a black and white female Parisian stray cat, becomes the first cat launched into space.5yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/Awww
Circa 1965 The Screaming Abdabs later known as Pink Floyd. On November 30,1979 Pink Floyd's rock opera, The Wall was released, conceived by Roger Waters as a rock opera in 1977 when his frustration with the audience became so acute that he spat on them.5yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
August 15,1969 Michael Lang producer begins Woodstock Music and Art Fair 864X5886yr ⋅ way26e ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
