From today's featured article
Did you know ...
- ... that a heavily modified Monotron synthesizer (PCB pictured) was nicknamed "FrankenSynth" by music resource site Ask.Audio?
- ... that the 1834 Philadelphia race riot began at a carousel before spreading to other parts of the city?
- ... that the May Queen dress worn by Florence Pugh in the film Midsommar was made of 10,000 silk flowers and reportedly sold for US$65,000 at auction?
- ... that William J. McGee said that the 2022 Southwest Airlines flight delays were the result of "appearing to regulate rather than actually regulating"?
- ... that the contest of the 1830 Liverpool by-election was considered to be "in great measure a personal one"?
- ... that Berta Berkovich, who was skilled in sewing, managed to survive Auschwitz in a fashion salon established by the wife of the concentration camp commandant?
- ... that the 1931 Valentine earthquake was the strongest earthquake in recorded history to hit Texas?
- ... that Kangal can be a hazard to cyclists in Turkey?
In the news
- An earthquake (damage pictured) strikes Turkey and Syria, killing more than 4,000 people and injuring nearly 18,000 others.
- Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf dies at the age of 79.
- A Chinese balloon suspected of surveillance and espionage is shot down after overflying Canada and the United States.
- Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) makes its closest approach to the Earth.
- A suicide bombing in a mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan, kills 100 people and injures more than 220 others.
On this day
- 1813 – Napoleonic Wars: Two evenly matched French and British frigates fought for four hours at the Îles de Los off the Guinean coast, resulting in a stalemate.
- 1900 – A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco fell ill with the bubonic plague in the first epidemic of the disease in the continental United States.
- 1943 – World War II: Japan successfully withdrew its troops from Guadalcanal.
- 2014 – Researchers announced the discovery of the Happisburgh footprints (pictured) in Norfolk, England, the oldest known hominid footprints outside Africa at more than 800,000 years old.
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