Thursday, January 17, 2019

January 16

On This Day in...
1909 – Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
1969 – Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform the first-ever docking of manned spacecraft in orbit, the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another, and the only time such a transfer was accomplished with a space walk.

Happy Birthday to...
Lucas Achtschellinck

Peter Scheemakers

Francesco Scavullo

Bob Bogle


Lisa Milroy

Damo Suzuki


John Carpenter


Dieter Mobius
Conny Plank, holding his son Stephan, and Dieter Moebius at Conny's studio, 1974


Sade

Stevie Jackson


"...that no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief, but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of Religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge or affect their civil capacities..." (from the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom drafted by Thomas Jefferson and enacted into state law on January 16, 1786)

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January 19

On This Day in... 1920 - The American Civil Liberties Union was founded 1983 – Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia. 1986 –...