diary of a brain: Lockdown 654

Lockdown Day 654- 9 January 2022

Sunday number 93.

Tonight's image focus is on historical happenings one could not think could've happened in the same year:

Marilyn Monroe and Queen Elizabeth were both born in 1926. Here they meet at a movie première in 1956:

Anne Frank and Martin Luther King were both born in 1929, both being symbols of resistance in their own way:

The movie Star Wars came out in 1977, the same year the last Guillotine execution was carried out in France:

1843 was the year the Fax machine was invented. In that same year, the first oxwagon crossed the Oregon trail:

Did you know...... you could take The London Underground to the last public hanging in the UK in 1868!:

In 1997 Princess Diana and Mother Theresa died just days apart;

Diana died in Paris on 31 August and Mother Theresa died in India on 5 September:

After proposing his continental drift theory in 1912 of which he could not explain the force behind it, Alfred Wegener died in 1930, with scientists still at odds on the theory of plate tectonics.

In 1967, this theory was accepted by the geo-scientific community.

By thát time, NASA and the Soviet Union were already exploring space, launching rockets and preparing to land on the moon:

In 1940 the first prisoners arrived at Auschwitz concentration camp just 5 days after the first Macdonalds opened on May 15th in San Bernadine, California:

1945 - One of the Wright brothers who invented the first aeroplane was still alive to see aeroplanes dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Orville Wright bemoaned the misuse of such a wonderful machine they intended for good causes:

Charlie Chaplin and Adolf Hitler were both born in 1889. Chaplin portrayed Hitler in the 1940 political comedy The Great Dictator:

Charlie Chaplin died in 1977, the same year Apple was incorporated. This link between these two vastly different eras shows the rapid advancement of technology in the post war era: