ART AND CULTURE.
On this day: Black Monday and Other Historical Events That Occurred on January 21.
Tied day
to the economy – with a "Black Monday" in 2008 - but also the first car
produced in 1899 by Opel in Germany.
Success day in the entertainment industry
with "Saturday Night Fever", soundtrack of the homonymous film, which reaches the
First place in the standings and "Forrest Gump" who wins the Golden Globe.
Both
Headlines had a greater social impact than just the emotion of listening
music or see the movie, leaving a trace in the history of costume.
Discover in the gallery other events and characters related to January 21st.
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On this day: The Black Monday and Other Historical Events That Occurred on January 21.
Day linked to the economy - with a "Black Monday" in 2008 - but also the first car produced in 1899 by Opel in Germany.Day of successes in the entertainment sector with "Saturday Night Fever", soundtrack of the homonymous film, which reaches the first place in the standings and "Forrest Gump" which wins the Golden Globe. Both titles had a greater social impact than just the thrill of listening to music or seeing the film, leaving a trace in the history of costume.
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1793 – In
France execution of Louis XVI
Louis XVI of
France is executed by guillotine in Paris, following his
condemnation of "high treason" by Parliament French of
recent creation, during the French Revolution.
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1899 - Opel produces
his first car
The company was founded in Rüsselsheim, Assia, Germany, on January 21, 1862, by Adam Opel.
In the beginning, Opel produced sewing machines. The first car model sold 65
Exemplary, not exactly a success. (Photo: Opel Patent-Motorwagen)
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1978 - "Saturday Night Fever" is No. 1 in
ranking
The column
sound of the homonymous film, main protagonists Bee Gees, vendette
about 41 million copies worldwide; At the time it became the most
sold as always, a record that maintained until the publication of Thriller of
Michael Jackson. (pictured: John Travolta and Karen Lynn Gorney in the dance contest scene)
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1995 - "Forrest Gump" wins the Golden Globe
"Forrest Gump"
is a 1994 film directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks.
Loosely based on the 1986 novel of the same name by Winston Groom , the film
narrates the intense life of Forrest Gump, a man endowed with cognitive development
lower than the norm which, thanks to a series of favorable coincidences, becomes
direct witness of important events in the history of the United States.
By Dominic Alves from Brighton, England - Northern Rock Queue, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.
2008 - Black
Monday in stock markets worldwide
The great collapses
Stock market shares occur very often on Mondays, at the
reopening of trading after the end of the weekend. The most famous was
that of Monday, October 28, 1929, in which there was a drop in the Dow
Jones index of 12.8%, which started the "great depression". In 2008, the index
FTSE 100 had its biggest drop in points in one day, stocks
European ended with their worst result since September 11 and stocks
Asians fell as much as 15%. (Photo: People queuing outside a UK Northern Rock branch to withdraw their savings during the financial crisis)
By Christopher Johnson - Flickr: BASKETBALL: On the sidelines with TEAM USA in Manchester, CC BY-SA
2010 – Basketball NBA, Kobe Bryant reaches 25,000 points
The mourning
Kobe Bryant becomes the youngest player in NBA to make 25,000
career points, at the age of 31 years and 151 days, improving Wilt
Chamberlain by 35 days. He will close his career with 33,643, fourth all-time
behind Kareem Abdul Jabbar, LeBron James and Karl Malone.
By Timmons M. Erickson, Christopher L. Kirkland, Nicholas E. Timms, Aaron J. Cavosie & Thomas M.
2020 – The
Oldest crater in the world
A new
Research signed Nasa and published in "Nature Communications" has managed to
date the crater Yarrabubba in Australia: 2 billion and 229 million years,
therefore older than the South African Vredefort Dome , until today holder of the
record. The impact could also be linked to the end of the ice age of the
Paleo-Proterozoic.
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Who was born on
January 21st? 1905, Christian Dior, fashion designer
In 1942 Dior
He began working at the Lucien Lelongfashion house, where he and Pierre
Balmain became the main designers. On October 8, 1946, Dior opened a
his atelier in Paris with the financial help of Marcel Boussac, the king of
cotton. Dior succeeded in revolutionizing the fashion of the forties,
introducing a whole new style and idea of femininity. Today the
Maison Dior has over 200 boutiques worldwide. He died in 1957 in
Montecatini Terme (ITY) for a heart attack.
science
27/03/2024
The Six Degrees of Separation Theory, which assumes that each person can be connected to any other in the world through a chain of knowledge with no more than five intermediaries, is one of the most popular and suggestive social theories ever created, and may still be valid today in the age of social networking.
It was in the mid-1960s when a Harvard professor sent a letter to an unknown farmer in Nebraska, hoping that, through a completely random network of contacts, the letter would reach its true recipient in Boston.
Today, a study co-ordinated by the Institute of Complex Systems of the National Research Council in Florence (CNR-Isc) - signed by researchers from Spain, Israel, Russia, Slovenia and Chile - has shown that connections on social networks resemble those found by Milgram in the 1960s.
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25/03/2024
In Islam, the ḥajj is the traditional pilgrimage to the Holy Mosque in Mecca; it constitutes the fifth pillar of Islam. The pilgrimage is performed during the Dhū l-Ḥijja which is, in the Islamic calendar, the twelfth month of the year, of 29 or 30 days. In 2023, the pilgrimage is performed in the last days of June (Western calendar).
It is a pilgrimage that every Muslim is obliged to make on a compulsory basis, provided he or she has the means, first of all financial, and then physical. To date, hundreds of thousands of faithful have already celebrated the 'Tawaf of Advent', seven walks around the Kaaba, the black stone cube covered by the kiswa, an Italian silk cloth, embroidered in gold by Saudi artisans.
The significance, for followers of Islam, is to retrace the journey of Ibrahim and Ismail, i.e. Abraham and his son Ishmael in Christian and Jewish traditions.
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