Today is the 263rd day of the year. There are only 103 days left in 2020. Here are a few Interesting Facts about this date in History. I hope you like today’s cruise through time.
In 1960 Chubby Checker’s “The Twist” hits #1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Now we will learn how to do the Twist!
Wasn’t that Fun? Now every time “The Twist” comes on we can Jive to it in style. Maybe even teach it to some friends.
Ötzi the Iceman, 3,300 BCE old mummy discovered by German tourists in Italian alps On this day in 1991.
Ötzi the Iceman, 3,300 BCE old mummy discovered by German tourists in Italian alps On this day in 1991
“Living links to the Iceman have now been revealed by a new DNA study. Gene researchers looking at unusual markers on the Iceman’s male sex chromosome report that they have uncovered at least 19 genetic relatives of Ötzi in Austria’s Tyrol region.
The match was made from samples of 3,700 anonymous blood donors in a study led by Walther Parson at Innsbruck Medical University. Sharing a rare mutation known as G-L91, “the Iceman and those 19 share a common ancestor, who may have lived 10,000 to 12,000 years ago,” Parson said.
The finding supports previous research suggesting that Ötzi and his ancestors were of farming stock. The study used Y-chromosome markers that are passed from father to son to trace the Neolithic migrations that brought farming to Europe via the Alps. Ötzi belonged to a Y-chromosome group called haplogroup G, which is rooted, like farming, in the Middle East.
The study’s overall results fit the idea that the changes of the Neolithic Revolution spurred people westward into the Tyrol region, Parson said.
He is nevertheless wary of any suggestion that Ötzi’s distant relatives might be a chip off the old block, either physically or in their liking for simple grain porridge”. (National Geographic)
Space Shuttle Endeavour Begins Final Journey
September 19th, 2012 : The US Space Shuttle Endeavour began its final journey by piggy-backing on a Boeing 747 jet from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center to the California Science Center. The Endeavour had been in service since 1992 and had made twenty-five trips into space.
International Talk Like A Pirate Day
John Baur and Mark Summers (aka Ol’ Chumbucket and Cap’n Slappy) created this international day in 1995. He created the holiday while playing racquetball on June 6, 1995—the 51st anniversary of the invasion of Normandy. Out of respect to the battle’s veterans, a new observance date was quickly sought.
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