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Feb 15 1970.

The world of music changed forever, Black Sabbath's First Album was released. After watching Rosemary's Baby two aimless young chaps decided that people like to be scared. So they brought in Terence Butler and Bill Ward to complete the band.

The location still stands.

 
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Feb 15 1970.

The world of music changed forever, Black Sabbath's First Album was released. After watching Rosemary's Baby two aimless young chaps decided that people like to be scared. So they brought in Terence Butler and Bill Ward to complete the band.

The location still stands.

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Never listened to it. Fucking drag music. Once Ozzy went solo, he was good.
 
Pretty sure it was February 13th. The record company in England (Vertigo) wanted to tie the album’s release into the date as it’s superstitious. Also, they added the church bells, rain and thunder as an intro without the band’s knowledge. Same with the gatefold sleeve… it had an upside down cross with a rather somber poem. The band themselves weren’t really into the occult; it was just a marketing gimmick! The album was released in the States in June of that year.
 
I can recall on 1010 CFRB, just before the noon news.
Taylor Parnaby up to about year 2009 would do an on this day feature called 'tattered little date book'.

It was a loss when he retired, and even sadder when he passed away earlier this year.

Wierd family connection to me
His mom was the United Church organist where he grew up in Orillia.
So every Thursday she would have choir practice, like every other church choir in Canada at the time.
I seem to recall his dad was a newspaper man and often worked late.

My mom, who was a few years older, would babysit "Hap', as he was known, on Thursday nights.
When he was too little to be by himself while his mom was out.

My mom died peacefully eariler this year.
 
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I can recall on 1010 CFRB, just before the noon news.
Taylor Parnaby up to about year 2009 would do an on this day feature called 'tattered little date book'.

It was a loss when he retired, and even sadder when he passed away earlier this year.

Wierd family connection to me
His mom was the United Church organist where he grew up in Orillia.
So every Thursday she would have choir practice, like every other church choir in Canada at the time.
I seem to recall his dad was a newspaper man and often worked late.

My mom, who was a few years older, would babysit "Hap', as he was known, on Thursday nights.
When he was too little to be by himself while his mom was out.

My mom died peacefully eariler this year.
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Condolences Ponderling.
 
Two portentous events happened on Feb 15.

Alexei Navalny died in a Siberian Penal Colony, suspected poison in 2024.

The mafia State of Fulgencio Batista was toppled by Fidel Castro who became Premier in 1959. He ruled Cuba until 2008.
 
Insidious Von said:
Feb 15 1970.

The world of music changed forever, Black Sabbath's First Album was released. After watching Rosemary's Baby two aimless young chaps decided that people like to be scared. So they brought in Terence Butler and Bill Ward to complete the band.

The location still stands.

Click to expand...

How great in those times to come up with that type of music. Brilliant
 
April 8 217.

On this day in history the vicious Emperor Caracalla was assassinated. He was out on campaign against the Parthians (Iran) when he was stabbed in the ass while taking a piss.
 
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August 25 1609. Galileo Galilei observed that Jupiter had moons confirming Copernicus's theory that the Earth revolved around the Sun.

Galileo did not invent the telescope, he perfected it. He had the assistance of Venetian glass blowers to do it. They would produce lenses according to his specifications...they also gave a boost to the glasses industry.


Galileo's notebooks were smuggled out of Florence to Amsterdam.
 
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Oct 7th 1571.

The Ottoman Empire lost it's first significant defeat to the Europeans at the Battle of Lepanto. The Turks had ship superiority they also had hubris working against them. Unbeknownst to them the Europeans had now achieved artillery superiority. The Ottoman fleet took their time getting out of the Gulf of Corinth, allowing the Europeans to be in battle formation in the Gulf of Patras. The Ottomans got blasted by cannon fire, they would never again get close to Venice. From that point on, every war the Ottomans staged in the Balkans was a war of attrition.


Had the Ottomans made it to the Adriatic, they may have won.
 
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Most people don't care about 16th century European military history anymore, but October 7 IS a significant historical date.

On October 7, 2023, (recent history to anyone older than Gen Z), Hamas and several other Palestinian militant groups launched an attack into Israel. Repercussions from that event still influence world politics and 90% of all posts on TERB made by frankfooter.
 
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Oct 8, 1919
The first transcontinental air race in history begins between New York and San Francisco
63 planes participating - 48 westbound from New York, 15 eastbound from San Francisco
Amazing story of grit and determination
Those pilots were real men.

The Great Transcontinental Air Race

Belvin Maynard’s 1919 victory inspired aviators across America—and made a hero of the ‘Flying Parson’. Late in the morning on October 16, 1919, a de
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Oct 23 1945

Jackie Robinson signs a contract with the Montreal Royals, the minor league affiliate of the Brooklyn Dodgers. He was initially supposed to sign with Sanford in Florida. The locals threatened to lynch him if he set foot on the baseball grounds. Sanford went into decline, it would eventually become part of it's once smaller neighbour Orlando.

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I recently watched the 1950 biopic The Jackie Robinson Story, with Jackie as himself. I didn't download, only because I'm low on disk space on the external drive I'm currently using, and another is in the shop for repair or data recovery. My geek is The Best for data recovery - where somebody else will say 'it can't be done', he'll say 'I can do it. I can't speak for someone else'.

One particularly difficult job took 8.5 months running 24/7. At times, the transfer speed was in bytes per second. He has yet to be defeated, but one time he just said the hard drive was corrupted, and the was nothing he could do about it, so I wasn't charged anything. I have no idea what data I lost, but shit happens.


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The Jackie Robinson Story (1950) Full Movie & Trailer 4K | Jackie Robinson Plays Himself (Remastered Audio) : William Joseph Heineman, Alfred E. Green : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Follow the extraordinary true journey of Jackie Robinson, the multi-sport UCLA star who became the first African-American player in modern Major League...
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