Correction: As @arnie58.bsky.social has pointed out, the ultimatum was not issued in December. Somehow this post didn't get out correctly and was sent out today, when I queued another. I will work on my software, as it seems to have halted completely for quite some time. I'm truely sorry.

Only 61 years ago, the Vatican decided to allow the catholic Mass to be held in languages other than Latin. This marked a great change as for the first time, everyone attending would be able to understand the bible verses read. Only then, official translations of the catholic bible could be made.

Today 110 years ago, in 1914, Austria-Hungary issued an ultimatum to Serbia, demanding Austrians to be allowed to determine who killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand. All but one of the demands listed were accepted, leading to the start of WW I.

On this day in 13 BC, the position of Pontifex Maximus is incorporated into the position of emperor.

Nikolaus Kopernikus’ book “De revolutionibus orbium coelestium” describing the heliocentric theory was forbidden by the roman inquisition today in 1616.

Since it was in danger of being mistaken for a white flag of truce, the “Stainless Flag” of the Confederate States of America was changed in 1865 to include a red bar. This was also justified with other symbolic reasons.

Today marks the 1230th anniversary of the first known mention of the german city Frankfurt.

The pumpkin toadlet is extremely bad at landing after a jump. The reason is most likely their small ears.

#frog #facts

In 1969 neural networks were widely believed to be unfit for solvibg complex problems. Only in 1985 were the allegedly fatal problems resolved and neural networks as a learning algorithm had a renaissance.

#facts

There was a game of soccer football in Brazil where the ball's leather ripped apart and only the inner bubble of the ball flew into the goal. The final score was 0:0.5

Today in 1971 the Sterling Pound was changed to no longer divide into 20 Shilling or 240 Pence, but into 100 Pence to allign it with the internationally used decimal system. 🗃️

The average measured temperature of the human body is decreasing.
Some think it was measured differently, some say the thermometer was at fault.
But even then: Compared to first studies on body temperature by Carl Rinhold August Wunderlich before 1870 we all are cooler (by about 0.5° C or 0.9° F).

In Algeria, India, Jordan, Iraq and Syria the Internet in the whole country is turned off for the days of the general exams.

pulse.internetsociety.org/blog/iraq-ex...
blog.cloudflare.com/exam-interne...
smex.org/wp-content/u...

There‘s 5G cellular network on Mount Everest and 3G on the Moon.
The latter doesn’t include the dark side away from Earth though.
Nokia plans to launch a mission to bring 4G to Earth’s natural satellite this year.

ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citation...

The Democratic Republic of China, aka Taiwan just writes China in their passports. Even though Taiwan can’t be recognized as a country officially by any country with relations to the People’s Republic of China (mainland), just China is accepted by everyone.

Mark Twain, Winston Churchill and Magnus Carlsen have the same birthday (November 30th)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novembe...

The aerosol spray dispenser was invented 98 years ago

42 years ago the iconic german song „Da Da Da ich lieb dich nicht du liebst mich nicht aha aha aha“ was released. The translated title would be „Da Da Da I don’t love you you don’t love me aha aha aha“
It is part of the „Neue Deutsche Welle“ music genre and movement, same as „99 Luftballons“ by Nena

Today Saint Petersburg State University turns 300.

It was founded in 1724 by Peter the Great.

Completely unrelated, today the first execution by gas chamber is 100 years ago.

Sources:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_P...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_cha...