December 19, 2016 Open Thread; Goan Independence Day.

December 19 is the 353rd day of the year. There are 12 days left.

Today's number is 19

19 is a prime number (the eighth prime) The only magic hexagon with more than 1 cell has 19 cells 19 is potassium The metonic cycle is roughly 19 years and pops up in calendars throughout history; 19 years = 235 lunar months A zero point hand in cribbage is called "nineteen" because no cribbage hand can have a 19 point score The 19th hole on a golf course is the bar

A go board is a 19 x 19 grid

Title 19 of the US Code is CUSTOMS DUTIES

19 BCE was the Year of the Consulship of Saturninus and Vespillo The Aqua Virgo was completed The poet Virgil died

19 CE was the Year of the Consulship of Silanus and Balbus Germanicus Julius Caesar died

On this day in:

1606 -- Settlers sailed from England to start colonizing the New World at Jamestown, Virginia.

1675 -- Colonists slaughtered great numners of Narragansett in the The Great Swamp Massacre 1777 -- The Continental Army went into winter quarters at Valley Forge 1941 -- Hitler became Supreme Commander-in-chief of the German Army. 1946 -- Official start of the Anti-French resistance in Viet Nam, though the Viet Min had been fighting since 1945. 1961 -- India annexed Goa, Daman and Diu, after freeing them from Portuguese rule. 1986 -- Gorbachev released Andrei Sakharov from exile in Gorky 1998 -- Clinton was impeached by the House

2012 -- Park Geun-hye was elected president of South Korea, the first female so elected

Born this day in:

1820 -- Mary Livermore, abolitionist, suffragette, and journalist

1852 -- Albert Abraham Michelson, physicist, chemist, and Nobel winner (think Michelson-Morley) 1875 -- Carter G. Woodson, historian and author, founded Black History Month 1899 -- Martin Luther King, Sr., largely forgotten pastor, missionary, and activist 1901 -- Rudolf Hell, engineer, invented the Hellschreiber 1910 -- Jean Genet, author, poet, and playwright 1915 -- Edith Piaf, singer, songwriter, and actress. The Little Sprrow 1918 -- Professor Longhair, singer, songwriter and pianist 1920 -- Little Jimmy Dickens, singer, songwriter and guitarist 1929 -- Bob Brookmeyer, trombonist, pianist, and composer (Played with Gerry Mulligan) 1929 -- Gregory Carroll, singer, songwriter and producer (one of the Orioles and other doo wop groups) 1935 -- Bobby Timmons, pianist and composer 1940 -- Phil Ochs, singer, songwriter and guitaris 1941 -- Maurice White, singer, songwriter and producer, Co-founder of Earth, Wind & FIre 1942 -- Cornell Dupree, guitarist 1944 -- Richard Leakey, paleontologist and politician (seems almost redundant) 1944 -- Alvin Lee, singer, songwriter and guitarist 1944 -- Zal Yanovsky, singer, songwriter and guitarist, co-founder of the Lovin' Spoonful

1945 -- John McEuen, singer, songwriter and guitarist, a Nitty, Gritty, Dirty guitarist

Died this day in:

1819 -- Thomas Fremantle, admiral and politician

1848 -- Emily Bronte, novelist and poet 1851 -- Joseph Mallord William Turner, painter 1953 -- Robert Andrews Millikan, experimental physicist 1993 -- Michael Clarke, drummer 1996 -- Marcello Mastroianni, actor and singer 1997 -- Jimmy Rogers, singer, songwriter and guitarist 2000 -- Rob Buck, guitarist and songwriter 2005 -- Vincent Gigante, lousy shot

2012 -- Robert Bork, lawyer, judge, and scholar; inspiration for the word borked

Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such:

Goan Independence Day

So, for music

Edith Piaf

Professor Longhair Little Jimmy Dickens Bob Brookmeyer Gregory Carroll Bobby Timmons Phil Ochs Maurice White Cornell Dupree Alvin Lee Zal Yanovsky John McEuen Michael Clarke Jimmy Rogers Rob Buck

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Little Jimmy Dickens

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