On 23 August 1946, Keith Moon was born in Wembley. Twenty years later, on 23 August 1966, NASA’s Lunar Orbiter 1 took the first photograph of Earth from the vicinity of the Moon. So, on Keith Moon’s twentieth birthday, a camera at the Moon turned around and looked back at Earth. Moon on the Moon. […]
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21 August brings together punk rock and one of the most audacious art thefts in history. On 21 August 1952, Joe Strummer was born in Ankara, Turkey. He would go on to become the frontman of The Clash, one of the defining bands of the British punk movement. Exactly 41 years earlier, on 21 August […]
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Today, 20 August, brings together two very different creative figures who were born on exactly the same date: rock singer Robert Plant, born in 1948, and Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen, born in 1910. Plant was born in West Bromwich, in England’s Black Country, and grew up nearby in Halesowen. He would go on to become […]
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On 3 August 1811, two seemingly unrelated events took place. In the Swiss Alps, the Jungfrau was climbed for the first time by the Meyer brothers and two experienced mountain guides. Reaching one of Europe’s great Alpine summits required determination, skill and endurance. At the time, such an ascent was the preserve of only the […]
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🥗 Peter O’Toole, Oil and the Fires of History: The 2 August Link Salad 🎬 The Star of the Day: Peter O’Toole Some days in Linkology have one obvious starting point. For 2 August, that link is undoubtedly Peter O’Toole. Born on 2 August 1932, O’Toole became one of cinema’s greatest actors, but one role […]
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