On This Day

4/7/2017
@rookie54 invents the "scratch and sniff" app for most all smartphones with an "aroma exuder chip"
the patent request was denied
since that time he has selflessly devoted his entire fortune and 69% of his shack space to the invention of the levitation chip
and even tho many mysterious thingies have happened at or about the shack (reports of flying dogs, flying cats)
that patent has also been denied

1865 Abraham Lincoln was shot in the theatre

30 years since the bombing in Oklahoma City

Adolf Hitler was born on 20 April 1889.

500 yeras since the battle of Böblingne, one of the decisive battels in the uprising of the landfolk.

May 17, 1875
Aristides wins first Kentucky Derby
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2025/05/17/thisday-may17/5191747445251/

100 years ago two aeroplanes of the type Dornier Wal started from Spitzbergen to reach the North Pole.

I recollect watching the film about it some 40 to 50 years back.
YouTube

Today the genocide of the Herero and Nama is remembered in the first Genocide Remembrance Day in Namibia

YouTube

Today is our National Day.

75 years ago the Korea war started

60 years agaon was the last concert with Maria Callas.

80 years ago the first atomic bomb was brought to explosion (Trinity test)

25 years ago the Kursk sank in the Barents Sea

105 years ago the adoption of the 19th ammendment to the constitution of the USA was certified, giving all US women (in principle) the right to vote.

301 The republic of San Marino was founded (probably the oldest exsiting political body in Europe and beyond)