Monday Open Thread; July 24 is Simon Bolivar Day (Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia, and Bolivia)

July 24 is the 205th day of the year. There are 160 days left.

Today's number is 24

24 is 2 (a prime) x 12 (a great number system base) 24 is 4 factoral 24 is the sum of two primes, 11 & 13 24 is the number of ways that 4 different things can be ordered Ten to the 24 of anything is a yotta (rhymes with lotta) A tesseract (hypercube) has 24 square faces The product of any 4 consecutive numbers is divisible by 24 24 is chromium There are 24 major & minor keys in western tonal music 24 carat gold is 100% pure (and seriously malleable) There are 24 hours in a day (by convention)

Title 24 of the US Code is HOSPITALS AND ASYLUMS..

24 BCE was the Consulship of Augustus and Flaccus Tenth consulship for Augustus, ho hum.

24 CE was the Year of the Consulship of Cethegus and Varro King Yuri of Silla became such Namhae, king of Silla, died Strabo died

On this day in:

1534 -- Jacques Cartier claimed the Gaspe' Peninsula for France 1823 -- Chile abolished Slavery 1823 -- The Battle of Lake Maracaibo cemented independence for the Gran Colombia. 1847 -- Brigham Young led 148 Mormons into Salt Lake Valley 1901 -- O. Henry was released from prison after doing time for embezzlement 1911 -- Machu Picchu was re-discovered by Hiram Bingham III 1922 -- The draft of the British Mandate of Palestine was formally confirmed by the League of Nations 1929 -- The Kellogg-Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, went into effect, heh 1943 -- Operation Gomorrah (bombing of Hamburg) began, eventually killing over 30,000 people 1950 -- Cape Canaveral Air Force Station began operating 1974 -- The Supremes ordered Tricky Dick to turn over the tapes 1983 -- The Sri Lankan Civil War began

Born this day in:

1783 -- Simon Bolivar, revolutionary 1786 -- Joseph Nicollet, mathematician and astronomer who mapped the upper Mississippi 1802 -- Alexandre Dumas, novelist and playwright 1860 -- Alphonse Mucha, painter and illustrator 1877 -- Calogero Vizzini, sicilian Mafia boss 1889 -- Agnes Meyer Driscoll, aka Madam X, a cryptanalyst 1895 -- Robert Graves, poet, novelist & critic 1897 -- Amelia Earhart, pilot and author 1900 -- Zelda Fitzgerald, writer, first US flapper 1912 -- Essie Summers, major romance novelist 1914 -- Frances Oldham Kelsey, pharmacologist and FDA reviewer, refused to approve thalidomide 1916 -- John D. MacDonald, author 1920 -- Bella Abzug, aka Battling Bella, lawyer, activist, politician and hat fancier 1921 -- Billy Taylor, jazz pianist 1935 -- Pat Oliphant, political cartoonist 1942 -- Heinz, bassist, singer and songwriter (Telstar) 1942 -- David Miner, guitarist, singer, songwriter, co-founder of The Great Society 1944 -- Jim Armstrong, guitarist 1946 -- Herve Vilard, singer and songwriter 1953 -- Jon Faddis, trumpet player 1969 -- Jennifer Lopez, actress, singer and dancer

Died this day in:

1601 -- Joris Hoefnagel, painter and printmaker 1986 -- Fritz Albert Lipmann, biochemist, co-discoverer of coenzyme A 1992 -- Arletty, star of Les Enfants du Paradis 2012 -- Larry Hoppen, singer and guitarist, co-founder of Orleans

Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such: World Day for International Justice

So, for music

The Kellogg-Briand Pact Cape Canaveral Billy Taylor Heinz David Miner Jim Armstrong Herve Vilard John Faddis J-Lo Larry Hoppen

The Kellogg-Briand Pact

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Cape Canaveral

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Billy Taylor

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Heinz

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David Miner