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#OTD - 3/3/1921 - Discovery of #Insulin
#OnThisDay #TIH
🖼️An illustration of Canadian scientists Frederick G. #Banting & Charles H. #Best in the laboratory, testing insulin on a #diabetic #dog.
#Art #Illustration #Medical #Hormone #Pancreas #Glucose #BloodSugar
#OTD #Classic #Movie 1933 "King Kong" starring Fay Wray premieres Radio City Music Hall & RKO Roxy in NYC to rave reviews. Deemed "culturally, historically and aesthetically significant" by Library of Congress,selected 4 preservation National Film Registry https://t.co/qXULebwdoq
Today's brown skin character OTD is: Rumi Usagiyama / Mirko from My Hero Academia! The 5th-highest ranked hero in Japan and the highest-ranked female hero. She has a Japanese name but some viewers speculate she could be black or latina.
#OTD 2 Mar 1619
#AnneofDenmark 1st #Stuart Queen Consort wife of #JamesVIandI died at Hampton Court Palace, her son future #CharlesI by her side
Dropsy (oedema) was cited as CoD she was 44
Her burial in King Henry VII's Chapel @wabbey was delayed until 13th May!
@17thCenturyLady
#DocSavage, who debuted on this day in 1933, influenced everyone from Jonny Quest to the Fantastic Four to The Man From UNCLE.
#HappyBirthday #pulpmagazines #pulpfiction #JonnyQuest #FantasticFour #ManFromUNCLE #OTD
#OTD in 1941
Return of the snow birds
Cover of The New Yorker, March 1, 1941
Constantin Alajálov
#TheNewYorkerCover #ConstantinAlajálov #airport #airtravel #wintervacation #servants #chauffeur
Carel Fabritius, The Goldfinch, 1654
(Mauritshuis, The Hague)
The artist was baptised #otd 27 Feb 1622 in Middenbeemster.
Killed aged 32 in an explosion in Delft 12 Oct 1654.
#OTD 27 February 2002 comedian, writer and Goon Show legend Spike Milligan died. PUNCH cartoon by Trog (Wally Fawkes) 1985. #performer #icon #tv #television
#OTD in 1971
Cover of The New Yorker, February 27, 1971
Donald Reilly
#TheNewYorkerCover #DonaldReilly #snowmobiles
Today's a very special day for us😇- it's our birthday!🎂😀Happy birthday, Max Planck Society! 🤗 75 years ago, on February 26, 1948, the Max Planck Society was founded in Göttingen as the successor organization to the Kaiser Wilhelm Society. #OTD #maxplanck75 #maxplanckhistory
#OTD in 1927
‘Design, Color, Craftsmanship are Vital Factors in Producing that Extra Value found in every Certain-teed Product’ #Illustration by Herbert Paus (1880-1946)
#illustrationart #illustrationartists #HerbertPaus #Certainteed
‘The restless changes in public taste; in...
#OTD in 1934
‘As Tsak, the two-headed monster advances toward Flash and his friend, Flash slips and falls! Prince Thun of the Lionmen leaps to his rescue! . . .’
Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon. February 25, 1934.
#AlexRaymond #FlashGordon #ScienceFiction
#OTD in 1933
Cover of The New Yorker, February 25, 1933
Rea Irvin
#TheNewYorkerCover #ReaIrvin #figureskating #iceskating
Died #OTD 1895, David Lyall, "botanical explorer of Antarctica, New Zealand, the Artic and North America", Fellow of @LinneanSociety (1862). Ast.Surgeon on HMS Terror under #Crozier on the #Ross expedition to #Antarctica (1839-43), part of Belcher's search for #Franklin 1852-4.
#OnThisDay 24 February 1655 a proclamation was issued banning horse racing for 6 months. The ban was introduced as it was feared Royalist agents were using races as a cover to meet, but was only temporary as Oliver Cromwell was rather fond of horse racing! #17thCentury #OTD
bandori rarepair otd is riyo!! this ship consists of rimi from popipa and sayo from roselia!! sayo loves buying basket of yummy treats for rimi and sometimes writes letters to her and give them to her cause she doesn't like showing affection in real life, rimi understands!!
~☆ First character w/ anger issues OTD is Peril from Wings of Fire who is a bisexual demigirl with BPD (headcanon) ! This character uses she/her pronouns ☆
#RIP #OTD in 1821, poet ("Ode to a Nightingale", "Sleep and Poetry", "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"), John Keats, died in a villa on the Spanish Steps in Rome, today the Keats-Shelley Memorial House museum, at the age of 25 from tuberculosis https://t.co/QhNMFFfu30
Sir William Jardine was born #OTD in 1800. With his brother-in-law, William Lizars, they published the popular 40 volume 'The Naturalist's Library' 1833-43. It was comparatively low in price & helped to inspire a wider interest in natural history.
Parrots based on Edward Lear.
OTD 1603 dark days for the Irish as Tyrone took refuge in the forests around Toome with just 60 men 'shifting his lodging both night and day' to evade capture. Worse, Cormac MacBaron, Tyrone's brother and possibly finest field commander submitted to Sir Henry Docwra #nineyearswar