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1861 the MIT was established.

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80 years ago I was born.🤔👍😁

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@Great-Big-Stees said
80 years ago I was born.🤔👍😁
Congratulations!

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@Great-Big-Stees said
80 years ago I was born.🤔👍😁
My much belated congratulations on your very special birthday. 😍

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65 years ago: the famous Bay of Pigs Invasion was started

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@Ponderable said
65 years ago: the famous Bay of Pigs Invasion was started
Yes, and unfortunately it was abandoned rather rapidly, stranding the first wave of Cuban freedom fighters.

A very poor decision by JFK, something his CIA never got over.

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@Great-Big-Stees said
80 years ago I was born.🤔👍😁
Congrats and still swinging the golf club!!! You are a tough old bugger. 😉

Hang around for a while, the place wouldn't be the same without you!

-VR

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1561 the battle of Mühlberg decided the Schmalkaldic war in favour of Emperor Charles V.

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Hubble Space Telescope deployed…1990

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Disaster at the nuclear reactor, Chernobyl, Ukraine, 26.4.1986. Still too hot to touch.

https://apnews.com/video/ap-sees-inside-chernobyl-nuclear-power-plant-40-years-after-disaster-2842eeabbe1e4fc88c9e9b38e4e4eecd

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25 years ago the first space tourist Dennis Tito returns to Earth.

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@Very-Rusty said
Congrats and still swinging the golf club!!! You are a tough old bugger. 😉

Hang around for a while, the place wouldn't be the same without you!

-VR
He hits the ball about as far as the length of the club as well, 2 hours for one hole then hits the 19th.

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@The-only-Mr-T said
He hits the ball about as far as the length of the club as well, 2 hours for one hole then hits the 19th.
On a Positive note he is still hitting the ball!!! 😉

-VR

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@The-only-Mr-T said
He hits the ball about as far as the length of the club as well, 2 hours for one hole then hits the 19th.
Keeps him fit! 🙂

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Happy birthday, David Attenborough:


https://apnews.com/article/david-attenborough-100th-birthday-nature-presenter-db91049358ead2a725920b782d10ed72