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Booked tickets for #Avatar 2 for Dec 16. Can't wait :)

#History -- 150 years ago today, the first-ever international football match took place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England. It was watched by 4,000 spectators and ended as a 0-0 draw.

#History -- 50 years ago today, Atari released Pong, the first commercially successful video game. And hey, it was my first too! I have fond memories playing it as a child.

(Photo is from the Computerspielemuseum Berlin, 2017, taken by by Shadowgate - https://www.flickr.com/photos/shadowgate/35522359383/)

#History -- 100 years ago today, the media company Time Inc. was founded in New York City, which later rose to become the largest publisher in the US.

#History -- 50 years ago today, the Soviet Union made its final attempt at launching the N1 rocket. It was the Soviet counterpart to the US Saturn V, a super heavy-lift launch vehicle intended to deliver payloads beyond low Earth orbit. Underfunded and rushed, each of the four attempts to launch an N1 failed, and the program was canceled.

#History -- 100 years ago today, 87-year-old Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia took the oath of office, becoming the first female US Senator.

Before you celebrate: She was also a white supremacist and Congress's last former slave owner, she spoke vigorously in favor of lynching, and she served for only one day.

#History -- 100 years ago today, Freikorps officers Gerhard Roßbach, Heinz Hauenstein, and Albert Leo Schlageter held the founding meeting of the Greater German Workers' Party, a front organization of the just-banned Nazi party NSDAP, at the "Zum Reichskanzler" restaurant in Berlin-Kreuzberg.

😂 😂 (comic's from www.deathbulge.com)

"Let them tweet cake" -- love it!

Today I learned they're planning a new megacity in #Germany, #Belgium, and the #Netherlands. 45 million citizens! The project is called #Tristate City. They basically want to combine the entire Ruhrgebiet, Belgium and the Netherlands into one giant city. I'm floored.

Philosophical question: Do you think religious people could ever get behind a statement like this? The world would be a much better place if they did.

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As of today, we're 8 billion people on this planet.

#History -- 100 years ago today, at least 300 workers were massacred by police and military during a general strike in #Guayaquil, #Ecuador. Workers had made demands such as pay increases, shorter hours, safer working conditions, and government control of foreign currency exchange rates.

Where I'd want to be right now.

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100 years ago today, the British Broadcasting Company began radio service in the United Kingdom, on medium wave from London's Marconi House. The first news bulletin was read by Arthur Burrows, the company's founding Director of Programmes.

#History #BBC #London

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I'm sure he's the spy on board. "Fuck, Kirk's coming!! Quick, look busy!"