Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

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Jan 16, 1924: Young women today are deforming their bodies for a slim figure, warns physician-nutritionist Caroline Hedger. She calls their poor posture “the debutante crouch.” “Things that should be on the first floor are in the basement and the girls’ stomachs are not home.”



Jan 16, 1924: Licerio Gerónimo, a hero of the Philippine independence movement and a general in the 1899-1902 insurgency against U.S. rule, dies at 68. In one battle, his troops killed Major General Henry Lawton. His claim to fame as the general who brought down Henry Ware Lawton is considered ironic, as Lawton had been previously credited with the capture of the Apache leader Geronimo.




Jan 16, 1924: A serum has been discovered that cures scarlet fever, a killer of thousands of children in recent decades. Dr. Alphonse Raymond Dochez (April 21, 1882 – June 30, 1964) American physician and microbiologist at Rockefeller Institute (1908-1919) and of Presbyterian Hospital in New York announces his breakthrough after six years of research.



The cause of scarlet fever, which brings a rash and fever and in some places had a 25% mortality rate, had been recently determined to be a streptococcal infection. Improved hygiene and public health was already reducing the disease’s prevalence before the serum’s discovery. The development of antibiotics during WWII will all but eradicate scarlet fever throughout the Western world. Dochez devotes much of the rest of his career to virology, and is the first to theorize that the common cold is caused by a virus.


Front of a flyer advertising the Broadway production of "Night of January 16th," a play written by Ayn Rand and produced by Al Woods, 1934. Advertisements invited patrons to join the play's jury.




Jan 16, 1943, Brig. Gen. Leslie Groves officially endorsed the Hanford Site for Manhattan Project plutonium production.




Jan 16, 1969: Space Race: Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform the first-ever docking of crewed spacecraft in orbit, the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another, and the only time such a transfer was accomplished with a space walk.




Jan 16, 1991: Operation Desert Storm begins. President George HW Bush announced the beginning of the first Gulf War. In his televised address to the nation, Mr. Bush quoted a gung ho Marine named "Hollywood" Huddleston. In 2012 ex Marine Bourne P. "Hollywood" Huddleston was convicted of murdering his wife.


“Our strategy to go after this [Iraqi] army is very simple. First we’re going to cut it off, and then we’re going to kill it.”
– General Colin Powell, 23 February 1991

The coalition launched a massive air campaign, prompting Hussein to declare that "the mother of all battles has begun."

Actual Footage of Desert Storm's First Apache Strikes


My dad developed/enhanced/enlarged/printed some of the Desert Storm Apache tango still-shots which were hand delivered to General Colin Powell.


Jan 16, 1980: CIA agent Tony Mendez, gaining inspiration from Battle for the Planet of the Apes, begins working on a sci-fi movie backstory, to help extract the six US embassy staff hiding in Tehran.




Jan 16, 2015: Elon Musk reveals space internet plan.

Jan 16, 2022: Elon says 1469 Starlink satellites active, 272 moving to operational orbits, Laser links activate soon.

"The road to hell is paved with good intentions. I mean, it's mostly paved with bad intentions, but there is some good intention paving stones in there too." — @elonmusk





So wonderful for our beloved DHS masters to celebrate this day with us. sarc!