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Throwback Thursday - Share an Interesting Historical Event

2272 sats \ 13 comments \ @sn 18 Jan history

It's time for a history lesson.

Let's hear some historical events that you think other stackers should know about. Any topic counts.

Feel free to share events that happened in your home country, things you experienced personally, or simply share some lessons you learned from watching historical events unfold from afar.

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552 sats \ 0 replies \ @macarena 18 Jan

https://blog.dustintrammell.com/block-286-and-satoshis-coins/

After reading the article, I learned that initially you could send Bitcoin to an IP address.

In the first few publicly-available versions of the software, you could send bitcoin by either bitcoin address or by IP address. Connecting by IP address would allow the receiving wallet to provide to the sending wallet a recipient bitcoin address for the coins to be received by on-chain

385 sats \ 2 replies \ @Scholarhacker 18 Jan

Before being retrofit with steam engines and reinforcements and being sent off under Franklin’s command to find the North West Passage, HMS Erebus and Terror had been sailed to Antarctica on a mission to map the earths magnetic field.

Franklin’s mission would end in disaster with his ice bound ships being abandoned and his surviving men devolving into cannibalism.

It would be 170 years before his ships would be located but the mystery of what happened, what doomed them, remains to this day.

100 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 19 Jan

Also there are two volcanoes near Antarctica named for the ships.

And the desk currently in the oval office is made from timbers from a ship that was sent to find Franklin.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scholarhacker 19 Jan

Had not heard that in all my reading.

Good to know and thanks for posting.

310 sats \ 0 replies \ @Doo_Deux 18 Jan

For me it is the invention of the marine chronometer by John Harrison this is what really opened up trade and expansion to the new world, and to accurate timekeeping that we all rely on.

https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/harrisons-clocks-longitude-problem

235 sats \ 0 replies \ @dd6800 18 Jan

The Paris Peace Conference was a series of meetings held between January (18th) and May 1919 in Paris, France, to negotiate the peace treaties that would end World War I.

The Paris Peace Conference had a profound effect on the course of European history. It created a new international order that would last for decades and helped set the stage for World War II.

https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/wwi/89875.htm

235 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 18 Jan

Carnation Revolution in Portugal, 1975, put an end to a 45-year dictatorship. Only four people died that day, demonstrating that revolutions can be made almost without bloodshed.

Fernando dos Reis, Fernando Gesteira, José Arruda and José Barneto were the only fatalities of April Revolution, in front of PIDE headquarters. The youngest was only 18, while the oldest was 37. They left home that day with the enthusiasm of those who know they are living through a historic moment, about to witness the milestone of change.

The four men headed for the PIDE headquarters, a place that symbolized fear and terror, which supported the power and strength of the Estado Novo. Many other people had the same idea, but with different luck.

The PIDE/DGS agents opened fire with no regard for whom, shooting to kill and scaring the people who were at the siege. Several people fell, including the four men who are now remembered as forgotten heroes of April 25.

https://canalalentejo.sapo.pt/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/cravo.webp

221 sats \ 0 replies \ @OneOneSeven 18 Jan

8000 pages of financial records from the MK Ultra program were mistakenly NOT destroyed in 1973, like the rest of the records were, by order of CIA Director Richard Helms.

In 1977, a FOIA request led to their accidental re-discovery, which led to investigations and revelations about MKULTRA, COINTELPRO, and more.

85 sats \ 1 reply \ @Signal312 18 Jan

Slavery was widely practiced, all around the world. The idea that slavery only existed in the pre Civil War south is wrong.

The ORIGIN of the word Slave refers to Slavs, from Slavic countries.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @398ja 19 Jan freebie

...And every culture has participated in slavery, in one way or another, as perpetrators and as victims. The British ended the transatlantic slave trade, freed many slaves, but the practice continued on the African continent, until... today! The Arab slave trade was extremely brutal. Arabs enslaved Europeans, but also Africans, by the millions, during a very long period of time. They castrated all their African captives, a practice that killed many of them.

110 sats \ 0 replies \ @riberet19 18 Jan

The first modern bank was opened in Venice in 1171 and the first banking law was enacted in 1271 in this Italian city. The Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, founded in 1472 by the city government as Monte de Piedad, is the oldest banking entity still in operation in the world.

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @hasherstacker 18 Jan

TL; DR

The history of Bitcoin On Oct. 31, 2008, an anonymous individual who went by the name of Satoshi Nakamoto published a white paper detailing a design for a “peer-to-peer electronic cash system,” a global financial infrastructure based on cryptographic proof instead of trust. Bitcoin, rules without rulers.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Msd0457890 22 Jun

Hello, from history, I have always been struck by the battles that took place to liberate America from the Spanish empire, highlighting characters such as Simón Bolívar, known as the “Liberator of America” who fought to achieve the independence of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela and among other characters who helped liberate America in its entirety.