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Today in History: 6 February

1508 – Maximilian I proclaimed Holy Roman Emperor, first Emperor in centuries not crowned by the Pope

1836 – HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin arrive in Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania)

1862 – General Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Henry in Tennessee

1899 – Spanish-American War ends, peace treaty ratified by Senate

1935 – “Monopoly” board game goes on sale for 1st time

1952 – Queen Elizabeth II succeeds King George VI to the British throne and proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms including Canada, Australia and New Zealand

1964 – France & Great Britain sign accord over building channel tunnel

2014 – Jay Leno hosts “The Tonight Show” for the final time (NBC)

2020 – US astronaut Christina Koch completes the longest continuous spaceflight by a female astronaut after 328 days on the International Space Station, landing in Kazakhstan

2022 – Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first British monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee, marking seventy years on the throne

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1756 – Aaron Burr, 3rd US Vice President who killed Alexander Hamilton in a pistol duel

1895 – Babe Ruth, American Baseball Hall of Fame slugger

1913 – Mary Leakey, British archaeologist and anthropologist who discovered the earliest human footprints

1917 – Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hungarian-born American actress

1931 – Rip Torn, American actor, voice artist, and comedian

1940 – Tom Brokaw, American TV news anchor

1945 – Bob Marley, Jamaican reggae musician

1962 – Axl Rose, American rock singer-songwriter

1966 – Rick Astley, English pop singer-songwriter

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1685 – Charles II, King of England, Scotland, and Ireland

1804 – Joseph Priestley, English chemist, theologian, and author

1993 – Arthur Ashe, American tennis player

1994 – Jack Kirby, American cartoonist (X-Men, Spider-Man, Hulk, Captain America)

The Funnies:

Quote of the Day

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YouTube Song of the Day

Bonus!

Comic of the Day

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Mouseover: Good to be a little wary of advice that sounds too much like a self pep talk.

Explain XKCD

Image Credit: XKCD

Inspirobot Sometimes Controversial Inspirational Quote of the Day:

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In case you missed it, you can read yesterday’s timely Spark by @stevemorton9584 over here ….

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First, just for the heck of it.

Wow. That is just about the most disturbing take on Sound of Si(l)ence I have seen.

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1950: - Natalie Cole - American singer

1911: Ronald Reagan - president of the United States

1928: A woman calling herself Anastasia Tschaikovsky and claiming to be the youngest daughter of the murdered Russian czar Nicholas II arrives in New York City.

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For some reason, I always think of Darwin doing his thing in the 17th century, but nope, it wasn’t actually that long ago, relatively speaking.

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Love those two songs!

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I can hardly believe my eyes… You’ve Rickrolled the Spark!

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1964 – France & Great Britain sign accord over building channel tunnel

And a mere 30.25 years later it opened. Actually, not too bad considering the feats of engineering, politics, and finance required to make it happen.

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Ten years later, and I wonder how many people are still bitter about how Leno stole the Tonight Show job away from Conan O’Brien. Hope it was worth it.

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Welp, I guess I will have the Portal Still Alive song in my head for THE REST OF THE WEEK!!!

Thanks for that! :rofl:

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I was big in comics when I was young (and not so young, hehe), but he’s arguably the greatest creative influence on comics (nod to Stan, too, of course). I mean, Fantastic Four, Incredible Hulk, Mighty Thor, the Avengers, Iron Man, and X-Men (the latter being huge for me, although it was the Chris Claremont era). And he helped bring to life some great adversaries such as Doctor Doom and Galactus.

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1962 – Axl Rose, American rock singer-songwriter

Happy birthday, Axl! And welcome to the jungle, baby!

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Inspirobot - Normally, hard to read fonts are a pet peeve of mine, but that font looked kind of cool.

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The day the late-night TV talk show died.

Love today’s xkcd, especially the mouseover.

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RE: CotD - Love is a card game. In the beginning all you need is two hearts and a diamond. By the end all you want is a club and a spade.

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I know, right? I mean, what the actual heck… ?

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2020 – US astronaut Christina Koch completes the longest continuous spaceflight by a female astronaut after 328 days on the International Space Station, landing in Kazakhstan

I would have pushed it for a full year on board! Let’s be honest though. I wouldn’t make it through lift off leaving Earth LOL :joy:

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1935 – “Monopoly” board game goes on sale for 1st time: More information from The Atlantic:

1917 – Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hungarian-born American actress: Dahling
QotD: Sounds like Deep Thought’s answer.

@stevemorton9584 ​ you beat me to saying it! After being Rickrolled, I have nothing to contribute musically. Thank you @gurugabe1 ​ :).

@ismoonastar ​ do you understand being Rickrolled?

@shreddie @chrisdavis8 @panda-marie

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Would you expect anything else from me? The devil didn’t make me do it, I make the devil do his evil deeds.

@stevemorton9584 @jameswalker20 @ismoonastar

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GnR should’ve stopped after the Use Your Illusion pair of records. Been a joke since.

My fave of theirs outside of the Appetite for Destruction album:

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Inspirobot is actually speaking some words of wisdom, to an extent, anyway.

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