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Sergei Korolev, the designer of space victories, was born on January 12, 1907. #Korolev was behind the development and launching of #Sputnik-1, the first human Earth orbit mission by Gagarin on #Vostok LV, and a spacecraft with a promising future: #Soyuz
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January 11, 2026 at 7:44 PM
January 11, 1971 "Pearl" is released, Janis Joplin's fourth album, released posthumously, just three months after her death. Includes songs like "Me and Bobby McGee" and "Mercedes Benz" It was the only album recorded together with the Full Tilt Boogie Band
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January 11, 2026 at 7:43 PM
On January 11 th 2008, Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to successfully climb Mount Everest, passed away at 88 years old.

"It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves."
~Sir Edmund Hillary

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January 11, 2026 at 7:42 PM
The #Apollo8 crew gifted a signed version of their iconic Earthrise photo to President Johnson on January 9, 1969 during a ceremony in which they were honored with @NASA Distinguished Medals.

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January 9, 2026 at 7:56 PM
“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.”

- Simone de Beauvoir

On January 9, 1908
Simone de Beauvoir, French writer and feminist who gave a literary transcription to the themes of existentialism, was born in Paris.

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January 9, 2026 at 7:55 PM
#HappyBirthday to legendary Joan Baez @joancbaez
- The folk singer, activist and painter turns 85 today.
Born on Staten Island, New York, on January 9, 1941.

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January 9, 2026 at 7:55 PM
#HappyBirthday to Kurt #Tucholsky, born in #Moabit, #Berlin, January 9, 1890
German-Jewish journalist, satirist and writer

"What is satire permitted to do? Anything."

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January 9, 2026 at 7:53 PM
January 9, 1969: NASA announced that Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins will comprise the crew of #Apollo11, “the earliest flight on which a Moon landing might be made.”
This portrait was taken on the day after the announcement

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January 9, 2026 at 7:52 PM
January 10, 1969: A tense moment at the NASA press conference in Houston as Buzz Aldrin attempts to answer the question, “Which one of you gentlemen will be the first man to step on the lunar surface?”
#Apollo11
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January 9, 2026 at 7:40 PM
We can be heroes just for one day.⚡️

It's 10 years ago today
that David Bowie died.

Remember the Lightning... #davidbowie
Sadly passed away January 10, 2016

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January 9, 2026 at 7:38 PM
On January 10, 1962 – #Apollo program: NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket launch vehicle, which became known as the Saturn V Moon rocket.

The three-stage, liquid-fueled behemoth launched every Apollo mission to the #Moon.
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January 9, 2026 at 7:38 PM
"The Stars Look Very Different Today"
~David Bowie

#Happybirthday #DavidBowie
He would have been 79, (January 8, 1947)

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January 8, 2026 at 3:08 PM
If Life were fair....

#HappyBirthday #ElvisPresley
91 years young!
January 8, 1935

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January 8, 2026 at 3:07 PM
Happy birthday to the one and only David Bowie! #DavidBowie
He would have been 79 today.
January 8, 1947
January 8, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Ground Control to Major Tom
Take your protein pills and put your helmet on

David Bowie would have been 79 today. #HappyBirthday to the immortal #DavidBowie, one of the greatest British artists of all time!
January 8, 1947

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January 8, 2026 at 3:06 PM
"If you feel you are in a black hole, don't give up.
There's a way out."

Remembering Stephen Hawking,
he would've turned 84 on January 8, 2026

#StephenHawking

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January 8, 2026 at 2:58 PM
#Artemis — daughter of Zeus, twin sister of #Apollo 🤫
Apollo Program, Artemis Program 🚀

#NASA knows how to remember 😉✨

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January 6, 2026 at 4:47 PM
#OTD
Remember Syd #Barrett (January 6, 1946 – July 7, 2006)

#History 2006 Syd #Barrett founding member and 1 lead-singer of #PINKFLOYD dies aged 60

"Now there's a look in your eyes,
like black holes in the sky."

Shine on you crazy diamond

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January 5, 2026 at 10:53 PM
On January 6, 1745 Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier was born in Annonay, France. He and his brother Joseph-Michel Montgolfier developed the hot-air balloon and conducted the first untethered flights.

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January 5, 2026 at 10:52 PM
I am not afraid. I was born to do this.
- Jeanne d'Arc
born this day January 6, 1412.

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January 5, 2026 at 10:51 PM
What an irony,
on David Bowie's birthday (RIP)
(January 8, 1947)

"This Is Not America"

Remember: Window of the Capitol after January 6 attack, five years ago...
January 5, 2026 at 10:49 PM
Once #Apollo8 returned and the film developed, the reaction was astonishment.

Here is the Times of London
(January 6, 1969).

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January 5, 2026 at 10:47 PM
January 6, 1969 the head of the astronaut office at Nasa, Deke Slayton, called the crew of #Apollo11 Neil Armstrong, “Buzz” Aldrin & Michael Collins into his office in Houston, and told them that their mission, set for July, might involve a lunar landing.
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January 5, 2026 at 10:46 PM
Forever Young:
We remember John Watts Young
- the only person to have piloted four different classes of spacecraft: Gemini, the Apollo Command and Service Module, the Apollo Lunar Module and the Space Shuttle.
He died on January 5, 2018. #Space

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January 4, 2026 at 3:40 PM
On January 5, 1921, Swiss author and dramatist Friedrich #Dürrenmatt was born.
5. January 1921 – 14. December.1990

"Die Welt ist eine Pulverfabrik,
in der das Rauchen nicht verboten ist."

"Es gibt zu viele Wichtigtuer,
die nichts Wichtiges tun!"
January 4, 2026 at 3:39 PM