#february 1966

[digitalfountains]

Veruschka by Richard Avedon

- Japan, February 1966

[chicinsilk]

Chanel Spring/Summer 1966 Haute Couture Collection. Sandals by Raymond Massaro, hairstyles by Alexandre de Paris. Photo Shahrockh Hatami. Elle Magazine February 1966.

Chanel Collection Haute Couture Printemps/Été 1966. Sandales de Raymond Massaro, coiffures de Alexandre de Paris. Photo Shahrockh Hatami. Magazine Elle février 1966.

[ludmilachaibemachado]

“Now I feel I can be myself - but it took me quite a while to discover that; and even longer to work out who I was exactly, because the 'me' in me had been hidden for so long."🌸

These photographs are of Pattie Boyd sunbathing on the beach, during her honeymoon in Barbados, February, 1966🌸

Via @patties_boyd on Instagram🌸

[theamericanpin-up]

Fritz Willis - February 1966 Artist's Sketch Pad Calendar Illustration - Brown & Bigelow Calendar Co. - American Pin-up Calendar Collection

[lonestarflight]

The Original Crew of Gemini 9

"Portrait of the Gemini 9 prime and backup crews. Seated are the Prime crew consisting of Astronauts Elliot M. See Jr. (left), command pilot, and Charles A. Bassett II, pilot. Standing are the backup crew consisting of Astronauts Thomas P. Stafford (left), command pilot, and Eugene A. Cernan, pilot."

The original prime crew of Gemini 9 (GT-9) was to be Elliot M. See Jr., command pilot, and Charles A. Bassett II, pilot. They were a part of NASA Astronaut Group 2 "New Nine" and Group 3 "The Fourteen", respectively, and this would have been their first spaceflight. On February 28, 1966, about four months before their scheduled May 17 spaceflight, they and the backup crew flew in two T-38s from Houston, Texas to St. Louis, Missouri. They were there for two weeks of simulator training for rendezvous and docking procedures, and to inspect their Gemini spacecraft at the McDonnell Aircraft plant.

"See and Bassett flew in one Northrop T-38A Talon jet trainer, tail number NASA 901 (Air Force serial number 63-8181), with See at the controls and Bassett in the rear seat. A second T-38, NASA 907, carried Stafford and Cernan in the same configuration. Weather at Lambert Field in St. Louis was poor, with rain, snow, and fog, broken clouds at 800 ft (240 m) and a cloud ceiling of 1,500 ft (460 m), requiring an instrument approach. When the two aircraft emerged below the clouds shortly before 9 am, both pilots realized that they had missed the outer marker and overshot the runway.

See then elected to perform a visual circling approach, a simplified landing procedure allowing flight under instrument rules, as long as the pilot can keep the airfield and any preceding aircraft in sight. The reported weather conditions at the airport were adequate for this type of approach, but visibility was irregular and deteriorating rapidly. Stafford began to follow See's plane, but when he lost sight of it in the clouds.

Astronaut Elliot M. See Jr. inside Gemini Static Article 5 spacecraft prior to water egress training in the Gulf of Mexico.

"As See and Bassett’s jet vanished from sight, Stafford barked to Cernan in his backseat: 'Goddammit, where’s he going?' It was the last they ever saw of their comrades."

"Stafford instead followed the standard procedure for a missed approach and pulled his aircraft up, back into the clouds for another attempt at an instrument landing.

See completed a full circle to the left at an altitude of 500 to 600 ft (150 to 180 m), and announced his intention to land on the southwest runway (24). With landing gear down and full flaps, the plane dropped quickly but too far left of the runway. See turned on his afterburner to increase power while pulling up and turning hard right. Seconds later, at 8:58 a.m. CST, the plane struck the roof of McDonnell Building 101 on the northeast side of the airport. It lost its right wing and landing gear on impact, then cartwheeled and crashed in a parking lot beyond the building which was in use as a construction staging area."

"The wreckage of their T-38 training jet, covered with firefighting foam. The jet clipped the roof of Building 101 with its right wing, then skipped twice along the roof before plunging into a construction yard nearby and exploding."

Both astronauts died instantly from trauma sustained in the crash. Inside Building 101, 17 McDonnell employees and contractors received mostly minor injuries from falling debris. The crash set off several small fires inside the building, and caused minor flooding from broken pipes and sprinklers. Stafford and Cernan didn't see the crash and made an instrument landing 14 minutes later. They were asked by the control tower, “Who was in NASA 901?” Stafford replied back “See and Bassett." They were told that McDonnell Aircraft Corp. had a message for them. "A few minutes later, as Stafford opened his canopy, there was James McDonnell ('Mr. Mac' himself, aviation pioneer and founder of McDonnell Aircraft Corp.) waiting for them. In solemn tones, he explained that See and Bassett were dead."

"A truck slowly pulls the Gemini IX capsule past flags at half staff at a McDonnell parking lot on March 2, 1966, in memory of the two astronauts who were to have flown it into space."

See, 38, had been a civilian test pilot and the married father of two girls. Bassett, 34, an Air Force pilot, left a wife, a daughter and a son.

"Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton flew to St. Louis to lead an investigation. Their closed investigative hearing was held in Building 101. On May 27, their report cited deteriorating weather conditions and a descent that was too steep for See to pull out."

The backup crew, Thomas P. Stafford (left), command pilot, and Eugene A. Cernan, pilot.

"The promotion of Stafford and Cernan from backup to prime crew meant that a new backup crew was required. Jim Lovell and Buzz Aldrin were originally the backup crew for Gemini 10. This is significant as the standard crew rotation meant that a spot on the backup crew of Gemini 10 would have placed Buzz Aldrin on the prime crew of the non-existent mission after Gemini 12 (the crew rotation usually meant that after serving on a backup crew, an astronaut could expect to skip two missions and then be on a prime crew). Being moved up to the backup crew of Gemini 9 meant that Aldrin flew as part of the prime crew on Gemini 12, which played a major part in his selection for the Apollo 8 backup and Apollo 11 prime crews, ultimately making him the second human on the Moon."

-Information from Wikipedia: link, link

NASA ID: S66-15620, S66-28075, S66-15622, S66-15621, S65-28456

source, source

[dateinthelife]

13 February 1966/13 February 2011

The Beatles are nominated for 10 Grammy awards. They will win none of those.

Weirdly, they WILL win one at the Awards on 13 February 2011, for their stereo box sex*, while Paul McCartney will win Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance for his live 'Helter Skelter' on Good Evening New York, which just goes to show how perseverance pays off and you should follow your dreams.

*Yes this is a typo. No they did not release a stereo box sex. I guess you know now which word my phone is more uses to me using.

[gracie-bird]

Princess Grace of Monaco and Princess Caroline arriving at Geneva airport, welcomed by Canadian ambassador Mr Rae, on February 22, 1966.

[doo-wop-city]

Stella Star at the Starlux Boutique 1966, Part 2

Many posts ago, I shared part 1 of my visit to Starlux Boutique to experience all the changes they made for 1966. Here is part 2 of this adventure. These photos were taken on February 23rd, 1966. (…Or, was that 2022?) I’m living like a queen, where the bedroom is covered in curved, streamlined Googie motifs. I’m looking to the north through the window. You may have noticed my MCM watch, which…

[spookyfoxdreamer]

Sonny Rollins - Alfie's Theme

[chicinsilk]

Paris February 02, 1966 in the salons of the Chanel house at 31 rue Cambon, models present creations from the Spring/Summer 1966 Collection: a white piqué blouse with a Claudine collar with a black crepe chou on a gray and white tweed coat with a thin belt, a low-cut cocktail dress with thin straps with an inlaid braid belt and a jacket lined with pink-red taffeta, a black chiffon wrap-shoulder dance dress with a cape edged with ruching and three ruffles of tiny pleats , a white lace sheath split on the side over a cascade of sky moire ribbons. Pumps and sandals by Raymond Massaro, hairstyles by Alexandre de Paris.

Paris 02 février 1966 dans les salons de la maison Chanel au 31 rue Cambon, des mannequins présentent des créations de la Collection Printemps/Été 1966 : une blouse de piqué blanc à col Claudine à chou de crèpe noir sur un manteau en tweed gris et blanc avec une fine ceinture, une robe de cocktail décolletée à fines bretelles avec une ceinture galon incrustée et une veste doublée de taffetas rose-rouge, une robe à danser en mousseline noire à épaules enveloppées avec une cape bordée de ruchés et trois volants de minuscules plissés, un fourreau en dentelle blanche fendu sur le côté sur une cascade de rubans de moire ciel. Escarpins et sandales de Raymond Massaro, coiffures de Alexandre de Paris.

(Photo by KEYSTONE-FRANCE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

[ludmilachaibemachado]

Pattie Boyd and George Harrison during their honeymoon in Barbados, February 1966🌸

Via @thebeatleswomen on Instagram🌸

[theamericanpin-up]

Alberto Vargas - February 1966 Playboy Magazine Vargas Girl Illustration - American Pin-up Calendar Collection

[jevilowo]

I love dates in the tf2 lore. I love knowing exactly when stuff happened. Which makes THIS THING I JUST FOUND a BEAUTIFUL MIRACLE

You've seen this image before, but have you noticed the dates on the prison card thingies? Presumably this is written the American Way (the writers are so american they make Scout and Sniper both call their mothers "mom" despite preferring "ma" and "mum" respectively, as shown previously SEVERal times), so Spy and Scout were arrested on

The 7th of September, 1972.

We can do a lot with this information.

Mann Co was taken over by Grey and Olivia half a month before this: roughly the 23rd of August

Contrary to popular belief, most of the comics have to take place in 1973! Seeing as 6 months after late August is late February.

This also means Scout had to have been born in 1946/7. Not sure about Sniper, I have yet to overanalyse the New Zealand timeline paragraph. I'll get to it eventually.

Medic implies in comic 6 that our mercs have worked together for "at least eight years", while talking about the lore breaking Demo eyeball halloween thing. Assuming the "at least" confusion is over the 1972 Halloween they missed while not working together, the Teufort Nine were hired in 1964.

(I've almost mentally rationalised the lore breaking eyeball as a thing they do at like 4am after regular Scream Fortress shenanigans. Almost.)

Scout claims he has known Ms Pauling for six years. During the War! update, Demoman is unfamiliar with Ms Pauling (he knows she works for the administrator, but thats it), so we can assume that is the point she started working more closely with the mercs, and also 1966/7

I really need to go back to actively working on my timeline instead of passively wondering at 11pm "hey what time of year is it in the comics" and going down a rabbit hole.

Uh if you want to build off this, feel free to, but tell society twas I, the great and nobel Jevil_Owo, who first conceptualised all this.

UPDATE! This post seems to be picking up reblog steam again, so now is a good time to say I was WRONG about the mercs being hired around 1964.

This blog post from 2009 claims the WAR update took place in 1962, meaning the mercs have to have been hired in early 1962 at the latest.

Seeing as Scout would have been 15/16 in 1962, and as that's kind of the youngest one can be hired for just about anything, I'd assume it actually is 1962 they were hired. Ok thats enough I just felt it was my duty as Person Timelining to update people on this Discovery.

[mogwai-movie-house]

Very rare shot of a smiling Buster Keaton, in the middle of shooting his great masterpiece The General, who died this day back in 1966.

(October 4, 1895 - February 1, 1966)

[dateinthelife]

12 February 1966

John Lennon and Ringo Starr visit the Scotch of St James nightclub.

Not sure how that makes it different from lots of other nights, but there you go.

[doo-wop-city]

Stella Celebrates 1967 at the Wildwood Sign

I posted my New Years’ celebration photos previously. Going through my 150th Post Spectacular made me think a lot about several past adventures, and this one came to mind. i also had the Wildwoods sign on my mind after recently posting my visit to the sign to take photos of it. So, it’s as good time as any to share one of my many visits to the Wildwoods sign, this time during my first outing in…