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Today marks three years after #LeBronJames surpassed #KareemAbdul-Jabbar to become the #NBA's All-Time Leading Scorer. #OnThisDay #OnThisDayInHistory #OnThisDayInNBAHistory #OnThisDayInLakersHistory #HappyAnniversary 😀💛💜💛💜💛💜💛💜💛💜💛💜💛💜💛💜💛💜💛💜💛💜💛💜💛💜💛💜💛💜💛💜💛💜💜💛💜💛💜💛💜💛💜💛💜💛💜💛💜💛💜💛💜💛💜💛💜💛💜💛💜👑🏀
a basketball player with the number 10 on his jersey shakes hands with a fan
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February 8, 2026 at 1:30 AM
worksofginas.bsky.social
#OnThisDayInHistory, New Zealand becomes the first self-governing nation to grant women the vote in 1893. #ItsAboutDamnTime #Feminism
A black-and-white picture of a seated woman in a white dress with a dark-colored cape. She has a hat on and holds a large standard reading "New Zealand" with stars at the corners. She is on a platform, and there are people surrounding the platform
September 20, 2025 at 5:36 AM
alistaircoleman.bsky.social
Happy ninth anniversary to the Princess Diana well dressing if you’re celebrating.

#OnThisDayInHistory #OhMate #PrincessOfAreHarts #WithTheAngles
The 2017 Chesterfield well dressing of Princess Diana with MASSIVE HAIR and disconcerting teeth.
September 12, 2026 at 8:17 AM
weewalkingtours.bsky.social
#OnThisDayInHistory in 1297, William Wallace and Andrew de Moray led the Scots into victory over the English in the Battle of Stirling Bridge.

Here's a #ThrowbackThursday photo of our angels, Finn and Sawyer, commemorating this day in 2020.

#StirlingBridge #Stirling #Scotland #Dogs #History
Our angels, Sawyer (Golden Retriever on the left) and Finn (Black Labrador on the right), sit on green grass in front of Stirling Bridge in Stirling, Scotland.
September 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM
brownbadger.bsky.social
On this day in 2014, UKIP councillor David Silvester blamed the recent storms and heavy floods across Britain that winter, on the Government's decision to legalise gay marriage. #OnThisDayInHistory
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January 18, 2026 at 3:23 PM
pasquinel.bsky.social
Celestial Eyes, the original cover art for the first edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" (by Francis Cugat). The book was published 100 years ago today on April 10th, 1925. #art #booksky #vintage #oldschool #literature #painting #onthisdayinhistory #100th
April 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
glienkestephan.bsky.social
10.7.1964 Theodor Maunz (CSU) tritt von seinem Amt als bayerischer Kultusminister zurück.

#OTD #Geschichte #Bayern #Justiz #OnThisDayInHistory #Kalenderblatt
10.7.1964 Rücktritt Theodor Maunz (CSU) Maunz gibt Rücktritt als bayerischer Kultusminister bekannt, nachdem seine NS-Vergangenheit bekannt geworden ist. bis zu seinem Tod 1993 schreibt er u.a. anonym für die rechtsradikale National-Zeitung. M. ist ein typisches Beispiel dafür, wie mitunter stark belastetes Personal des untergegangenen Regimes ihren beruflichen Aufstieg in der Nachkriegszeit fortsetzen konnte. Man schwor den Amtseid auf das Grundgesetz, blieb ansonsten jedoch den alten Überzeugungen treu, behielt sie insgeheim für sich, oder knüpfte mit ihnen an den herrschenden Antikommunismus an. M. gehörte zu den Juristen, die vor 1945 die NS-Rechtsordnung entscheidend geformt hatten. Unten: Foto Maunz 1964
July 10, 2024 at 11:34 AM
mpsheritage.bsky.social
#OnThisDay in 1892 eight people visited the Crime Museum in the newly-opened New Scotland Yard by the Thames. They included three authors - Arthur Conan Doyle, his soon-to-be-brother-in-law E. W. Hornung, and Jerome K Jerome. #OTD #OnThisDayInHistory #Sherlock #ConanDoyle #Elementary #CM150
Eight lines in a visitor book, all with the date 2 December 1892. Each person has signed their name and given their address. This page is on display in our #CM150 exhibition at Sidcup until April 2026. Hornung had been a journalist in Whitechapel during the murders there and later wrote the Raffles novels on a gentleman thief, whereas Jerome (best-known for 'Three Men in a Boat') probably got far less inspiration from the collection ...
December 2, 2025 at 1:49 PM
enortonhistory.bsky.social
#OTD in 898 death of Odo, King of West Francia. As Count of Paris he had successfully resisted the Vikings during the Siege of Paris of 885-6, something that later led to him being elected as king. #france #king #royalty #vikings #onthisday #onthisdayinhistory
January 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM
enortonhistory.bsky.social
#OTD 680 death of Queen Balthild wife of Clovis II of Neustria & Burgundy. English by birth, she was sold into slavery & taken to Neustria, where met Clovis. Regent for her son. Her ornate chemise (sleeveless tabard) survives. On display in Chelles, near Paris #queen #royalty #onthisdayinhistory
January 30, 2025 at 6:07 PM
worksofginas.bsky.social
#OnThisDayInHistory, "The Dick Van Dyke Show" premieres in 1961. Originally meant to be a show starring Carl Reiner playing basically himself, the lead role was recast and the rest is history.
A black-and-white picture of the cast of "The Dick Van Dyke Show." From left to right they are Dick Van Dyke, Morey Amsterdam, Richard Deacon, Rose Marie, and Mary Tyler Moore. The men all wear dark suits with ties. Deacon is wearing glasses Rose Marie has a dark fur coat, and Mary Tyler Moore is in a sleeveless dress.
October 3, 2026 at 10:07 PM
enortonhistory.bsky.social
#OTD 1559 Elizabeth I crowned in Westminster Abbey. Bishop Oglethorpe of Carlisle officiated, as highest ranking Catholic bishop who could be persuaded to perform the ceremony. Elizabeth would later deprive him of his see & he died under house arrest #onthisday #onthisdayinhistory #elizabethi #tudor
January 15, 2025 at 10:34 PM
therainbownavy.bsky.social
🕯️ On This Day in LGBTQ+ History: January 10

⚠️ January 10, 2017: Federal signals indicate weakening protections for transgender students in U.S. schools...

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#lgbtqhistory, #transyouth. #onthisdayinhistory
#lgbtqhistory #transyouth #onthisday | Malcolm Montgomery🏳️‍🌈
🕯️ On This Day in LGBTQ+ History: January 10 ⚠️ January 10, 2017: Federal signals indicate weakening protections for transgender students in U.S. schools By this day in 2017, LGBTQ+ advocates, educa...
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January 10, 2026 at 12:49 PM
weewalkingtours.bsky.social
#OnThisDayInHistory 1305 the Scottish legend, William Wallace, was brutally executed.

However, Walter and Arthur decided to celebrate his life instead by visiting Lanark and four amazing depictions of William Wallace.🦮🐾🦮🐾💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

#WilliamWallace #Lanark #Scotland #Braveheart #GoldenRetrievers #Travel
Our Golden Retriever explorers, Arthur (on the left) and Walter (on the right) stand with a wooden statue of William Wallace in the Wallace Memorial Rose Garden by Castlebank Park in Lanark, Scotland. They are surrounded by trees and flowers. Our Golden Retriever explorers, Arthur (on the left) and Walter (on the right), stand on the High Street in Lanark, Scotland in front of St Nicholas Parish Church. There is a statue of William Wallace in the centre niche of the church tower. Our Golden Retriever explorers, Walter (on the left) and Arthur (on the right) sit on a wooden bench in front of a mural of William Wallace outside the Wallace House. Wallace is depicted wearing his iconic chainmail hood. In his right hand he is clutching a sword. Our Golden Retriever explorers, Walter (on the left) and Arthur (on the right) sit on a wooden bench in front of a mural of William Wallace outside the Wallace House. Wallace is depicted wearing his iconic chainmail hood. He is clutching a sword in both hands.
August 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
brownbadger.bsky.social
1988 British television programme "That's Life!" surprises guest Sir Nicholas Winton with an audience full of grown-up children that he saved from German-occupied Czechoslovakia, bringing them to safety in the UK. #OnThisDayInHistory
February 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
enortonhistory.bsky.social
#OTD 1480 birth of Margaret of Austria, daughter of Mary of Burgundy &Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I. named for her mother’s English stepmother, Margaret of York. As regent of the Netherlands, she was a highly significant ruler and power on the European stage #onthisday #royalty #onthisdayinhistory
January 10, 2025 at 5:03 PM
passamezzo.bsky.social
A song for #5november
Thomas Campion's #lutesong, 'Bravely decked come forth bright day', celebrating the foiling of the #GunpowderPlot #otd 1605.
From Two Books of Ayres, 1613

#earlymusic #earlymodern #onthisday #onthisdayinhistory #guyfawkes #gunpowdertreasonandplot #jamesI #17thCentury
November 5, 2025 at 9:58 AM
mpsheritage.bsky.social
Happy birthday to Jane Austen, 54 years the Met's senior! In 1866 her elder brother Edward's grand-daughter Elizabeth Adela Knight married Captain Edward Bradford, future Met Commissioner. They are now buried near @chawtonhouse.bsky.social . #Austen250 #JaneAusten #OTD #OnThisDayInHistory
Detail of a caricature of Bradford by 'Spy' (Leslie Ward) in Punch Magazine, 15 November 1890. A white-haired balding man with a white walrus moustache, he wears a tie and shirt under a frock coat with the left arm pinned up - a tigress had bitten off that arm while he was hunting her in 1863 (her claws are now in our collection alongside Bradford's medals). He and Elizabeth are now buried at Chawton.
December 16, 2025 at 2:14 PM
worksofginas.bsky.social
#OnThisDayInHistory, "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" opens in the US in 1975. This post makes me shiver in antici.....pation.
Tim Curry, dressed as Dr. Frank-N-Furter, lounges in a pair of lips. He wears a leather bustier, a pearl necklace, black panties and garter belt, and black fishnet stockings and platform heels. The words "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" appear above him in dripping font.
September 27, 2026 at 6:33 AM
mpsheritage.bsky.social
#OnThisDay 115 years ago began the trial of the murderer of Cora Crippen, a Polish-American music hall artiste also known by her stage name Belle Elmore. The investigation leading to it is fully covered in our #CM150 exhibition in Sidcup. #OTD #OnThisDayInHistory #truecrime #storyofamurder
Pencil sketch by William Hartley (one of 21 of the pre-trial hearings and trials of Crippen and his lover Ethel Le Neve in our collection), showing the moustachioed and besuited Dr William Willcox being cross-examined by Arthur Newton, part of Crippen's defence team. In the foreground is one of the wardresses from Holloway Prison who had charge of Le Neve, whilst another image inset at bottom right shows PC Gooch of the Met.
October 18, 2025 at 8:28 PM
weewalkingtours.bsky.social
Happy Birthday to John Logie Baird, the inventor of television, because #OnThisDayInHistory - 13 August 1888- he was born in Helensburgh, Scotland! 🎉🥳📺💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

#JohnLogieBaird #Helensburgh #Scotland #HistoryOfTelevision #ScottishHistory #Television
A picture of a statue bust of John Logie Baird is framed in a retro television frame.
August 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
mpsheritage.bsky.social
#OnThisDay in 1876 civil engineer Arthur Dyson was murdered in Whalley Range, Manchester by serial burglar Charlie Peace, who was stalking Dyson's wife Katharine. He was convicted of that murder in 1879 after being captured by Met PC Edward Robinson in Blackheath. #OTD #OnThisDayInHistory #Movember
Newspaper sketch of PC Robinson in a greatcoat and Met helmet, the chinstrap in front of his full beard and large moustache. His collar number 202R can be seen. At top left the inscription 'CONSTABLE ROBINSON. AN HONOUR TO THE FORCE.'.
November 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
mpsheritage.bsky.social
#OnThisDay 115 years ago Ch Insp Walter Dew boarded the SS Montrose on its arrival in Canada & arrested the suspected murderer of Cora Crippen, the first-ever arrest thanks to a wireless message. The case features in our current #CM150 exhibition in Sidcup. #OnThisDayInHistory #OTD #truecrime #CM150
A muffled and hatted H H Crippen being brought down the gangplank of the SS Megantic by the bowler-hatted Dew at Liverpool on 27 August 1910.
July 31, 2025 at 9:50 AM
mpsheritage.bsky.social
Born into an Irish family in Shadwell #OnThisDay 175 years ago, Edward Henry was head of Met CID (1901-1903), Commissioner (1903-1918) and creator of the Met's Fingerprint Department (1901), drawing on research in Bengal by Hemchandra Bose and Azizul Haque. #OTD #OnThisDayInHistory #CM150
Black and white courtroom sketch by William Hartley of a man with a walrus moustache sitting behind an open box, probably a portable writing desk. The caption reads 'Sir Edw. Henry watches for the police'. It shows Henry, probably at the trial of Albert Bowes for attempting to assassinate him in 1912.
July 26, 2025 at 8:19 AM
cwjohnsonjr.bsky.social
#OnThisDayInHistory the last American plane of the Berlin Airlift, a C-54, dropped off supplies in West Berlin. The free West had won the first battle of the Cold War against Soviet Russia. Those who made it possible should be honored with a movie. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjTx...
October 1, 2026 at 4:15 AM