25 years ago today and on the last lap of the Daytona 500 we lost Dale Earnhardt.
One of the greatest talents in auto racing left us at the age of only 49. Rest well, Intimidator. You were and remain a legend. Thanks for the entertainment.
#DaleEarnhardt #25thAnniversary #NASCAR
40 Years Ago This Morning (January 28, 1986).
Seven brave souls slipped the surly bonds of Earth, and the world was changed.
#Challenger #40thAnniversary #SpaceShuttle #NASA
A new chapter in the Star Trek mythology begins tonight. Starfleet Academy's first episode has dropped!
#StarTrek #StarfleetAcademy
Christopher Pike (still wearing his Commander's rank braids) takes command of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 from his friend, Captain Robert April, the two men captured together for posterity in an image taken in the year 2250.
#StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds
Happy 100th Birthday to one of the giants of 20th century comedy, the irrepressible and irreplaceable Dick Van Dyke. The worlds of television, film, comedy and music would not be the same without him. We love you, Dick! Even the bad accents!
#DickVanDyke #100thBirthday
60 years ago today.
"That's what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown."
#CharlieBrown #Christmas #ACharlieBrownChristmas #60thAnniversary
"Few will have the greatness to bend #history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped."
100th Anniversary 🇺🇸 #RobertFKennedy, #RFK, was #BOTD 20 Novem
Born 100 years ago today.
#RobertFKennedy #RFK #Kennedys #100thAnniversary #Birthday
Released 48 years ago today on November 16, 1977.
The greatest UFO movie ever made, and one of Steven Spielberg's greatest masterpieces.
#CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind #UFO #StevenSpielberg #MovieHistory
Born 100 years ago today.
On October 23, 1925, the greatest talent to ever sit behind a talk show desk anywhere on this planet was born in Corning, Iowa. Happy Centennial, Johnny Carson. We still miss you.
#JohnnyCarson #100thBirthday #100YearsAgoToday #Centennial #TheTonightShow #Legend #TV
50 Years Ago Tonight (October 11, 1975):
NBC's Saturday Night premieres in the 11:30PM time slot formerly held by weekend reruns of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. The first host is George Carlin. In 1977 the official name will be changed to Saturday Night Live.
#SNL #50thAnniversary
This earns the Trip Tucker Facepalm Award, but in a good way.
Glorious. 🤣
#StarTrek #Enterprise #StarTrekEnterprise #FaithOfTheHeart
50 Years Ago Today (September 19, 1975).
The lunacy checks in for the first time. Fawlty Towers premieres on BBC Two, and English hotels are never again the same.
#FawltyTowers #BBC #50thAnniversary
I sympathize with Sundance. I can't swim, neither. 😂
RIP Robert Redford. Sundance has ridden into the sunset.
"You just keep thinkin', Butch. That's what you're good at."
#RobertRedford #RIP #NowIsAHelluvaTimeToTellMe #Sundance
Thirty years ago today on September 12, 1995, the greatest actor to ever take on the role of Sherlock Holmes left us. Jeremy Brett was Conan Doyle's whimsy made flesh.
#SherlockHolmes #PBS #Detective #ArthurConanDoyle #JeremyBrett
Here's a comparison of the Gorn bodysuit, worn by the actors/stuntmen playing the Gorn in #StarTrekSNW's "Terrarium" and #StarTrekTOS' "Arena". I like how the hands, legs, knees and feet are very similar to the original (the Gorn on #StarTrekENT was three-fingered, for example).
59 years ago tomorrow on September 8, 1966, the final frontier opened up before us, and the possibilities became endless.
#StarTrek #StarTrekDay
We get some really good shots of the Stamets-type shuttle Archimedes (NCC-1701/8) in #StarTrekSNW's "Terrarium". I believe this is also the first time that the shuttle's name at the front of the shuttle is legible on the show.
100 Years Ago Today (September 6, 1925):
The Phantom of the Opera, directed by Rupert Julian, premieres at the Astor Theatre in New York City. One of the greatest films in the annals of silent cinema is first seen by audiences.
#ThePhantomOfTheOpera #Movie #100thAnniversary #SilentFilms
40 Years Ago Today (September 1, 1985):
Dr. Robert Ballard discovers the wreck of RMS Titanic after 73 years unseen by human eyes.
#Titanic #40thAnniversary
The Sickbay biobed readout in Strange New Worlds versus a Sickbay biobed readout in TOS, in the chronology just six or seven years apart.
#StarTrek #TheOriginalSeries #StrangeNewWorlds #GraphicDesign
Released 50 years ago today on August 25, 1975.
Bruce's best album. Bruce's best song.
Born in the U.S.A. is outstanding, but it's not Born to Run.
#BornToRun #50thAnniversary #BruceSpringsteen #RockAndRoll
430 actually! But I imagine the advances in technology and removing bulkier equipment allowed the ship to double its crew complement, though that means downsizing quarters to what we saw in TOS. Smaller Captain's and officer's quarters, what with 227 more personnel occupying the ship.
From this week's episode of Strange New Worlds, the official in-universe length and mass of the Enterprise 1701. 442 meters long, 190,000 metric tons, carrying 203 officers and noncommissioned personnel (the exact same crew complement the Enterprise 1701 had in "The Cage(TOS)").
#StarTrek
80 Years Ago Today (August 15, 1945):
V-J Day.
World War II is effectively over, the official Japanese surrender being just eighteen short days away.
#WorldWarII #VJDay #80thAnniversary #History
80 Years Ago Today (August 6, 1945):
Hiroshima.
The Atomic Age begins, and the world begins its delicate dance on the knife's edge of nuclear destruction. Over the next forty years the world's nuclear arsenals grow to some 60,000 weapons.
#Hiroshima #Hiroshima80 #NuclearWeapons #AtomicBomb
USS Athena
The Academy itself is aboard the USS Athena, a new massive ship that serves as home base of the series
#StarTrek #StarfleetAcademy
