Social Media Ideas Generator 15 August
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Post Ideas
Everyone's favourite day of the week. Ask your followers if they want to share what they're up to today.
Re-write and post a previous post that received a lot of engagement. Create something similar and try sharing it again.
Share your business philosophy with your followers. If you strive for excellence, transparence and honesty then tell people!
Cuteness still wins the internet - hands down. Share something 'cute' about someone or something related to your business.
Historic Events
On this day in 1999: Beni Ounif massacre in Algeria; some 29 people killed at a false roadblock near the Moroccan border, leading to temporary tensions with Morocco.
On this day in 1998: Apple Computer begins shipping the iMac to retail outlets in the US. Price is US$1299. 278,000 units are shipped in the first six weeks.
On this day in 1998: The Real Irish Republican Army detonates a car bomb in Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, killing 29 and injuring over 200.
On this day in 1998: Omagh bomb in Northern Ireland, becoming the worst terrorist incident of The Troubles
On this day in 1996: Bob Dole is nominated for President of the USA, and Jack Kemp for Vice President, at the Republican National Convention in San Diego, California.
On this day in 1995: In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet matriculated at The Citadel, but drops out in less than a week.
On this day in 1991: 750,000 attend Paul Simon's free concert in Central Park, New York.
On this day in 1991: Marietta Tree, United Nations Commissioner of Human Rights, dies at age 74.
On this day in 1989: In Sixiangkou, People's Republic of China, a building is hit by a falling meteorite.
On this day in 1978: US House of Representatives approves (233-169), 39-month extension for Equal Rights Amendment.
On this day in 1975: Miki Takeo makes the first official pilgrimage to Yasukuni Shrine by a sitting prime minister on the anniversary of the end of World War II.
On this day in 1974: Longest team (six) trampoline bouncing marathon (1,248 hours (52 days)).
On this day in 1974: Yook Young-soo, First Lady of South Korea is killed amid an apparent assassination attempt upon President of the South Korea, Park Chung-hee, during the anniversarial ceremony of the Liberation day.
On this day in 1971: US President Richard Nixon's administration refuses to settle foreign debts in gold at $35 per ounce, dropping the gold standard, and allowing the dollar to float in foreign exchanges. The president also imposes a ten percent duty increase on many imports, and a 90-day wage and price freeze.
On this day in 1971: President Richard Nixon ends convertibility of U.S. dollar into gold
On this day in 1952: 9 inches of rainfall creates a 20-foot wave in Lynmouth, England, killing 34.
On this day in 1912: New York Yankees player Guy Zinn sets record by stealing home twice in a game.
On this day in 1894: Sante Jeronimo Caserio executed for the Marie Francois Sadi Carnot assesination
On this day in 1877: Thomas Edison makes the first-ever recording - Mary Had a Little Lamb
On this day in 1864: Off New England coast, CSS Tallahassee captures six yankee schooners.
On this day in 1863: The Satsuma war begins between the Satsuma clan and the United Kingdom (Traditional Japanese date: July 2, 1863).
On this day in 1832: Gregory XVI encyclical On liberalism and religious indifferentism.
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Births
F DeLorme Roche Jr in Roanoke, Virginia, USA; bartender extrodinaire (Guru of life, love and Libation) was born on this day in 1967.
MCA (Adam Yauch); rocker (The Beastie Boys-You Gotta Fight) was born on this day in 1964.
Matt Johnson; rocker (The The - Infected Soul Mining) was born on this day in 1961.
Maureen Peanut Louie Harper in San Francisco, California, USA; tennis player (Denver-1985) was born on this day in 1960.
Tommy Aldridge; heavy metal rocker (Ozzy - Diary of a Mad Man) was born on this day in 1960.
Princess Anne in England (daughter of Queen Elizabeth II) was born on this day in 1950.
Gerald Velez in the Congas; musician (Spyro Gyra - Morning Dance) was born on this day in 1947.
Manley Lanier Sonny Carter Jr in Macon, Georgia, USA; US Navy/astronaut (STS 33) was born on this day in 1947.
Kathryn Jean Whitmire in Houston, Texas, USA; four-time Mayor of Houston was born on this day in 1946.
Jimmy Webb in Elk City, Oklahoma, USA; songwriter (MacArthur Park, Up Up and Away) was born on this day in 1946.
Mahamandaleshwar Paramhans Swami Maheshwarananda, Indian guru was born on this day in 1945.
Gene Upshaw; NFL guard (Oakland Raiders), NFLPA leader was born on this day in 1945.
Don Rich in Olympia, Washington, USA; guitarist/country singer (Hee Haw) was born on this day in 1941.
Phyllis Schlafly in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA; right-winger/Eagle Forum president was born on this day in 1924.
Lukas Foss (Fuchs) Berlin Germany, composer (Prairie) was born on this day in 1922.
Huntz Hall actor (Cyclone, Gas Pump Girls, The Rating Game) was born on this day in 1920.
Chuck Boyajian in Ohio, USA; Disneyland worker 1955-81 as Manager of Custodial Operations was born on this day in 1917.
Julia Child Pasadena California, chef (French Chef) was born on this day in 1912.
Wendy Hiller actress (Major Barbara, David Copperfield) was born on this day in 1912.
Arias Arnulfo three time president of Panama (1940-41, 1949-51, 1968) was born on this day in 1901.
Catherine Doherty, Social justice activist (d 1985) was born on this day in 1896.
Gerty Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d 1957) was born on this day in 1896.
Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer and computing pioneer (d 1950) was born on this day in 1893.
Harlow H Curtice president of General Motors (1953-8) was born on this day in 1893.
Louis, 7th duc de Broglie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d 1987) was born on this day in 1892.
Louis-Victor due de Broglie France, physicist (Nobel Prize 1929) was born on this day in 1892.
TE Lawrence Tremadoc Wales, soldier/writer (aka Lawrence of Arabia) was born on this day in 1888.
Ferber Edna, Michigan, writer (Showboat, Cimarron, Giant) was born on this day in 1887.
Ethel Barrymore Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; actress (Constant Wife, Corn is Green) was born on this day in 1879.
Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, Russian counter-revolutionary (d 1928) was born on this day in 1878.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, English composer (d 1912) was born on this day in 1875.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor London, composer (Hiawatha's Wedding Feast) was born on this day in 1875.
Sri Aurobindo, Indian writer, nationalist, philosopher, and guru (d 1950) was born on this day in 1872.
Henrietta Vinton Davis American elocutionist, dramatist, impersonator, public speaker (d 1941) was born on this day in 1860.
J Keir Hardie first Labour representative in British Parliament was born on this day in 1856.
Walter Crane England, painter/illustrator (Beauty and Beast) was born on this day in 1845.
Thomas De Quincey Eng, writer (Confessions of English Opium Eater) was born on this day in 1785.
Sir Walter Scott Scotland, novelist/poet (Lady of Lake) was born on this day in 1771.
Napoleon Bonaparte in Ajaccio, Corsica; (emperor of France 1804-13, 1814-15) was born on this day in 1769.
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