Happy Birthday A. A. Milne!
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Today is A. A. Milne's birthday. He is known for creating the beloved Winnie the Pooh.
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Today is A. A. Milne's birthday. He is known for creating the beloved Winnie the Pooh.
Today marks the 40th anniversary of the start of the children's show, Sesame Street. In the late 1960s, the Carnegie Institute granted Joan Cooney $8 million to start the Children's Television Workshop, and on November 10th, 1969, the first episode of Sesame Street aired on PBS.
Over the years, Sesame Street has influenced countless generations of kids well into their adult lives. There is hardly an modern internet user today who cannot attribute their appreciation of clever, colorful, and to the point media segments to their childhood fascination with Sesame Street. Even many modern internet memes can find their roots in the classic children's show, such as the "Om nom nom."
Here's to another 40 years!
Today is the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. It was one of the earliest memories of historical significance I can remember. At the time, I didn't even know what it was about, but I was amazed at all the celebration. For those who don't know, the Berlin Wall was a physical barrier that separated West Germany from the communist run East Germany. It was the major symbolic representation of the tensions between the American Allied forces and the Soviet Communist regime during the Cold War.
The fall of the Berlin Wall effectively marked the beginning of the end of the decades long Cold War. More photos are available on Google's tribute page as well as wikipedia.
Today is a special day in scientific history. Today, November 5th, marks the 54th anniversary of Doctor Emmett L. Brown's amazing discovery of the Flux Capacitor, spearheading the age of Time Travel. Though it took until 1985 for the energy technology to catch up with the requirements, Dr. Brown created and tested his first time machine with great success, traveling both forwards to 2015 and backwards 1885.
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