I remembered the "Y2K" computer scare from when I was a kid, but not the fears of 9.9.99... my article 2022 on the concerns about 1999 September bugs.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/the-9-9-99-computer-bug-that-wasnt/

#1999 #glitch #bugs #thisdayinhistory

Happy Birthday to the World Wide Web 🥳

On this day in 1991, Tim Berners-Lee released files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.

#ThisDayInHistory

June 28, 1889: American astronomer Maria Mitchell died at age seventy in Lynn, Massachusetts. The first American woman to work as a professional astronomer, she discovered a comet, which as a result became known as "Miss Mitchell's Comet" and won a gold medal prize for her discovery, which was presented to her by King Frederik VI of Denmark. She became the first woman elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1848 and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1850.

https://www.mariamitchell.org/about/about-maria-mitchell

#MariaMitchell #Astronomy #ThisDayInHistory

#OnThisDay in 1917, Paradise Inn on Mount Rainier opened
#HistoryLink #ThisDayInHistory #Seattle

https://historylink.org/File/9223

50 years ago today, Walter Carr opened #ElliottBayBooks in #Seattle
#historylink #thisdayinhistory #onthisday #books

https://historylink.org/File/3589

Happy anniversary iPhone!

On this day in 2007, the iPhone was released! What a magical time it was. Really, it set the smartphone industry as we know it today in motion.

What do you remember about that day? What was your first experience with an iPhone?

#iPhone #Apple #Tech #History #ThisDayInHistory #TechHistory #AllThingsTech

100 years ago today, The Seattle Times fired E. B. White. The future essayist blamed himself
#books #Seattle #historylink #thisdayinhistory #onthisday

https://historylink.org/File/3467

#OnThisDay in 1890, African American families in the Puget Sound region first celebrated #Juneteenth
#Seattle #historylink #thisdayinhistory

https://historylink.org/File/271

#OnThisDay in 1969, the Seattle City Council voted unanimously for urban renewal of the Pike Place Public Market and nearby buildings. All but a small portion of the Market was to be demolished for new garages, offices and, residential towers.
#Seattle #ThisDayInHistory #HistoryLink

https://www.historylink.org/File/1244

#OnThisDay in 1859, the Pig War erupted on San Juan Island between the US and Great Britain
#HistoryLink #ThisDayInHistory #Seattle

https://historylink.org/File/5724

Three years ago today, an estimated 60,000 participated in a March of Silence in Seattle to protest police brutality and institutional racism
#seattle #historylink #ThisDayInHistory #OnThisDay

https://www.historylink.org/File/21088

June 10, 1692: Bridget Bishop was hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, the first victim of the Salem Witch Trials. She may have been accused because she stood to inherit from her deceased husband, and she was said to own a tavern in her home where shuffleboard was played and minors were served.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-salem-witch-hanging

#BridgetBishop #SalemWitchTrials #Salem #Massachusetts #ThisDayInHistory

June 4, 1925: American academic Margaret Murray Washington died in Tuskegee, Alabama. One of ten children born to sharecroppers, she spent much of her time reading and quickly excelled in school, enrolling in Fisk University, where she completed the college preparatory course in five years and college in four. She became the principal of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, which later became Tuskegee University, and married Booker T. Washington in 1893. She also created the Tuskegee Woman's Club and merged local organizations with women clubs to help improve the values and liberation of womanhood in African-American women of the Jim Crow south.

https://www.thoughtco.com/margaret-murray-washington-3528124

#MargaretMurrayWashington #Tuskegee #ThisDayInHistory

One year ago today, Black Arts Legacies, a digital archive exploring the history, diversity, and impact of Seattle Black artists, debuted
#Seattle #ThisDayInHistory #HistoryLink

https://www.historylink.org/File/22552

#OnThisDay in 1910, African Americans Samuel and Susie Stone won a legal battle for the right to live in Seattle's exclusive Mount Baker District
#Seattle #ThisDayInHistory #HistoryLink

https://www.historylink.org/File/9570

#OnThisDay in 1866, Chief Seattle died.
#Seattle #ThisDayInHistory #HistoryLink

https://historylink.org/File/171

#OnThisDay in 1889, the Great #Seattle Fire destroyed much of the city's commercial core and waterfront
#ThisDayInHistory #HistoryLink

https://historylink.org/file/21090

June 5th: After weeks of protests and two days after Chinese soldiers opened fire on protesters, an unknown man carrying shopping bags stands in front of a column of tanks in Tiananmen Square, preventing their advance.

In 1989.

#History #TodayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #OnThisDayInHistory

#Hero

June 2, 1962: English poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West died at Sissinghurst Castle in Kent, aged seventy. Born at Knole House in Kent to Lionel Edward Sackville-West, 3rd Baron Sackville, and Victoria Sackville-Wes, she was a successful novelist, poet, and journalist, as well as a prolific letter writer and diarist who published more than a dozen collections of poetry as well as thirteen novels during her lifetime. She was twice awarded the Hawthornden Prize for Imaginative Literature. She was the inspiration for the androgynous protagonist of 'Orlando: A Biography', by her famous friend and lover, Virginia Woolf.

https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/features/who-was-vita-sackville-west

#VitaSackvilleWest #BritishLiterature #Poetry #LGBTQA #PrideMonth #ThisDayInHistory

#OnThisDay in 1996, the Seattle SuperSonics won the Western Conference Championship, and earned a trip to the NBA Finals.

RIP Sonics 💚💛
#Seattle #HistoryLink #ThisDayInHistory

https://historylink.org/File/3068