On This Day

@ponderable said
100 years ago the Permanent Court of International Justice had their first session. It worked until 1947.

1784: William Herschel discovers a foreign Galaxy known today as NGC 4412.

@ponderable said
1784: William Herschel discovers a foreign Galaxy known today as NGC 4412.

@great-big-stees said
Hang on a minute…that’s my postal code.😲

700 years ago: The Battle of Burton Bridge ended.

Chemical warfare🤷‍♂️😒🚬

1702: 1st London (England not Ontario) daily newspaper.

44 B.C. Gaius Julius Caesar was stabbed to Death

30 years ago, a bomb exploded in Buenos Aires, before the Israeli embassy.

50 years ago, the group, later known as ABBA recorded their first single.

1516: The "Reinheitsgebot" is issued which governs, what can be used in brewing beer, namely water, barley and hops (yeats came with the ingredinets, today they add "brewers yeats"😉.

@ponderable said
1516: The "Reinheitsgebot" is issued which governs, what can be used in brewing beer, namely water, barley and hops (yeats came with the ingredinets, today they add "brewers yeats"😉.

On this day last year (23 April 2021), it was announced that 1,620,569 people in Indonesia had, up till that point, contracted COVID-19, and 44,007 of them had died. Meanwhile, 101,106 people were still being treated.

The figures today are 6,043,595 people have contracted COVID-19, and 156,054 of them have died. Meanwhile, 19,589 are still being treated.

23rd April 1595: a Dutch expedition under the leadership of Cornelis de Houtman departs for Banten a town at the western end of Java island.

@fmf said
23rd April 1595: a Dutch expedition under the leadership of Cornelis de Houtman departs for Banten a town at the western end of Java island.