English naturalist Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species
A book that argues for the gradual evolution of species through natural selection (it immediately sells out its initial print run).
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Ragtime to Riches: Celebrating Scott Joplin with New AI Generated Images!
Today is Scott Joplin’s birthday! It is not possible to grow up in this world without hearing music from Scott Joplin! As a child, I heard my father and my grandmother use “The Entertainer” as their standard to test the quality and usefulness of any instrument! It is THE CLASSIC…
During a severe thunderstorm over Washington, a man calling himself D. B. Cooper parachuted from Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305, a Boeing 727 that he had hijacked, with US$200,000 in ransom money.
He was never apprehended, and nearly 50 years later, the case would remain the only unsolved skyjacking in history. Let’s make it weirder! 9 months later On August 30, 1972, the actress Cameron Diaz was born.
Gustav Mahler premieres his Symphony No. 1, in Budapest.
The Symphony No. 1 in D major by Gustav Mahler was mainly composed between late 1887 and March 1888, though it incorporates music Mahler had composed for previous works. It was composed while Mahler was second conductor at the Leipzig Opera, Germany. The “Titan” referred to in Mahler’s Symphony No….