In a happy coincidence with my activities yesterday, it turns out that today is the 150th anniversary of the first cross-country express train, which pulled into San Francisco on 4 June 1876 after a 4-day trip from New York City. Tickets cost $40 for third class (about $1,245 today) up to over $100 in first class ($3,112 today).
Exactly 100 years later, on 4 June 1976, an unknown band called the Sex Pistols played a gig in Manchester, England, with only a few people in attendance. But those few included Steven Patrick Morrissey, Tony Wilson, Ian Curtis, Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, Howard Devoto, and Pete Shelley, who were blown away by the new "punk" sound.
It also would have been Alexei Navalny's 50th birthday.
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