Five years ago today, Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone in his greatest keynote. He said it was five years ahead of the competition. He was wrong. They still haven’t caught up.
We miss you, Steve.
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On this day in history, Franklin Delano Roosevelt took to the mech warrior suit crafted for him by Howard Stark and singlehandedly saved America.
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off premiered 25 years ago today.
“This is the saddest moment of my life.”
-Ed White, reentering his Gemini capsule after becoming the first spacewalker. June 5, 1965
He who warned, uh, the British that they weren’t going to be taking away our arms uh by ringing those bells and making sure as he’s riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be secure and we were going to be free and we were going to be armed.
As we all know, after he rang those bells on horseback, he got in his Trans-Am and drove a shipment M-16s and flashbangs to the minutemen on the front lines in Gettysburg.
“I believe this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth. ”
John F. Kennedy, May 25, 1961; 50 years ago today.
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Happy 100th Birthday.
We might have been a free and great people together.
Thomas Jefferson, cut from the Declaration of Independence.
(via Peggy Noonan: A Cold Man’s Warm Words)
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