@HISTORY @History_Hit 1931 pic of Charlie Chaplin with Winson Churchill & his family at Morpeth Mansion @dianekaras

Dún Briste - Downpatrick, Ireland. The stack's base is composed of sedimentary rock dating back to the Carboniferous period, between 359 and 299 million years ago, linking it to an era rich with marine life.

Anne Schedeen, who starred in the 1980s sitcom “ALF,” has died at 77

Just keeping it real on the highways and byways of the land.

On this day in 1777, the United States chose its flag in one sentence, and the men who voted on it had no idea what they had just done. The timing could not have been worse. The country was barely a year removed from declaring independence and it was losing. The British had taken New York. Washington's army was battered and short on everything. Congress was drowning in crises: no money, restless officers, a war that might collapse at any moment. Survival, not symbolism, was the daily business. Yet on June 14, 1777, in the middle of all that, the Marine Committee tucked a brief resolution into the day's work. The full text was almost absurdly simple. "Resolved, that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white, that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation." That was the entire thing. No record of debate. No designer credited. The popular story that Betsy Ross sewed the first one is a charming legend that appeared a full century later, told by her grandson, with no solid evidence behind it. The resolution did not even specify how the stars should be arranged, which is why early American flags came in wild variety, stars in circles, rows, and scattered patterns, each maker improvising. These exhausted men, fighting for their lives, voting between a dozen other emergencies, accidentally created one of the most recognized symbols on the planet. That flag would go on to survive a civil war, fly through two world wars, get planted on the summit of Mount Everest, and be driven into the gray dust of the moon, where it still stands today. 249 years ago it was a single afterthought in the minutes of a desperate Congress. That sentence is why we celebrate Flag Day. Happy Flag Day.

The last son of a Civil War veteran just died on June 7, 2026 — at age 101. William Pool’s father, Charles, was born in 1844, fought in the Union Army (6th WV Infantry), lost his leg in battle, and was 80 years old when William was born in 1925. From horse & buggies to AI in one lifetime. William himself was a WWII vet — Battle of the Bulge, POW, Bronze Star. To think that children of the veterans of yhr American Civil War—which ended 161 years ago, we’re still walking amongst us until last week is mind blowing. History isn’t that far away. 🇺🇸

Overnight: A 17-year-old boy was shot and killed in the heart of Downtown Pittsburgh's Cultural District. Officers were called to Penn Ave and 7th Street at 12:15 am to reports of a shooting, per PGH Public Safety. It's next to the Benedum Center. @KDKA

KEY WEST,FL **AIRCRAFT CRASH** AIRCRAFT OFF THE EAST END OF THE RUNWAY INTO THE MANGROVES - PILOT AND 4 PASSENGERS - FD JUST NOW LOCATING THE SCENE AFTER 30 MINUTE SEARCH #BREAKING

Greatest Inventions by Year (Since 1995) ➊ 💿 1995 — DVD ➋ 📡 1996 — Mobile Web ➌ 🎵 1997 — MP3 Player ➍ 🔎 1998 — Google ➎ 📺 1999 — TiVo (DVR) ➏ 🧬 2000 — Human Genome Project ➐ 🎮 2001 — Xbox ➑ 📱 2002 — BlackBerry ➒ 🌐 2003 — Skype ➓ 📘 2004 — Facebook ⓫ 🎥 2005 — YouTube ⓬ 🐦 2006 — Twitter ⓭ 📱 2007 — iPhone ⓮ 🤖 2008 — Android ⓯ 🚗 2009 — Bitcoin ⓰ 📱 2010 — Instagram ⓱ 🧠 2011 — IBM Watson ⓲ 🚀 2012 — CRISPR ⓳ 🧬 2013 — Bioprinting ⓴ 🏠 2014 — Alexa ㉑ 🚗 2015 — Tesla Autopilot ㉒ 🧠 2016 — AlphaGo ㉓ 🚀 2017 — Reusable Rockets ㉔ 🧬 2018 — Deep Learning ㉕ 🧠 2019 — GPT-2 ㉖ 🦠 2020 — mRNA Vaccines ㉗ 🤖 2021 — DALL·E ㉘ 🧠 2022 — ChatGPT ㉙ 🧬 2023 — AI Copilots ㉚ 🌐 2024 — Multimodal AI

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Glenn Frey and Don Henley wrote the song incredibly quickly, in just two days, after they coincidentally encountered a beautiful woman with an older man at a restaurant in Los Angeles.

Yinzer. Actor. Legend. Michael Keaton at PNC Park.

Leonardo da Vinci invented the self supporting bridge in the 1400s. Here’s how it works:

I can't lie to you Dean Martin....yes, it is! Also love the classroom scenes with Sam Kinison and the business class where he hilariously schools the professor on how real estate and construction works in the real world. youtu.be/uSLscJ2cY04?is=Azq2…

It’s the 40th anniversary of Back to School, which features one of the best meta jokes ever. Rodney Dangerfield hires Kurt Vonnegut to write a paper about Kurt Vonnegut… and Sally Kellerman gives it an F, saying the writer “doesn’t know the first thing about Kurt Vonnegut.”

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The Battle of the Bulge: Winter Warfare in the Ardennes (1944–45) 🇺🇸🇩🇪 General Omar Bradley coordinates the defense as American troops endure brutal fighting in the bitter winter conditions of the Ardennes. Heavy artillery batteries pound German positions while M16 Multiple Gun Motor Carriages unleash devastating quad-.50 caliber fire in support of frontline troops. The footage also shows the grim aftermath of Operation Greif, including the execution of captured German commandos who had operated in American uniforms. One of the harshest and bloodiest chapters of the Western Front.

MEANING OF WATER BOTTLE CAP COLORS!!!!

I showed my 14 year old daughter this amazing chart illustrating the progression of best-selling musical artists during the 1970s and 80s, so that she would get some sense of how insane Michael Jackson’s run during the 1980s was. And now in 2026 he’s back near the top again…😱

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