
🕶️🟢 TODAY IN HISTORY – May 21, 1999
The premiere of Matrix in Brazilian theaters wasn’t just a movie. It was like a code drop into pop culture.
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The premiere of Matrix in Brazilian theaters wasn’t just a movie. It was like a code drop into pop culture.
On that day, Thomas Edison dropped the cinetoscope on the world: a little box with a window where the future peeked back at you.
On that day, Albert Einstein dropped his thesis on the Theory of Relativity, a concept so mind-blowing that classical physics just looked down and was like, “Yeah… I’m totally out of the game.”
It was on that day, during the 25th anniversary special of Motown, that the King of Pop made history. Michael Jackson debuted the Moonwalk. The rest? It’s like an eternal slow-mo replay.
On May 13, 1985, Dire Straits dropped Brothers in Arms — one of the first albums fully recorded in digital technology.
On May 9, 1962, physicist Theodore Maiman got the patent for the world’s first laser, the Ruby Laser.
A pharmacist had an idea. He mixed syrup with sparkling water… and accidentally created the most famous soda on the planet.
On April 30, 1938, a kinda crazy rabbit with a mischievous look and a tongue sharper than a BBB edit was born—or like, almost born—the icon that would totally redefine animated humor:
🐇 “Happy Rabbit,” the prototype for Bugs Bunny, made his debut in a Warner Bros. short called Porky’s Hare Hunt.
🚀 On April 28, 2003, the iTunes Store was born.
Over 200,000 songs available legally online.
🚨 On this day, Nintendo officially dropped “Mario Bros.” in Japan. It was a game that, on paper, was about plumbers fighting turtles in sewers filled with… fire. But in reality? It kicked off the biggest phenomenon in video game history.
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June 26, 1964 — The Beatles drop A Hard Day’s Night in the US
And that’s when pop culture realized it could be a whole multi-platform vibe.
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June 25, 2009 — Michael Jackson passes away in Los Angeles
And the whole world just stopped, like, for the first time, in real time.
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