Sunday Open Thread: August 27th is LBJs Birthday

World History this day

0410 -- The end of the Visigoth sack of Rome 1883 -- Krakatoa was destroyed by volcanic explosions 1928 -- Fifteen nations signed the Kellogg-Briand Pact outlawing war

US History this day

1832 -- The Black Hawk war ended 1859 -- Oil was discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania 1918 -- La batalla del 27 de agosto between the US Army and Mexican civilians living in Nogales

Science & Technology this day

1939 -- First flight of the world's first jet aircraft, the He 178. 1962 -- The Mariner 2 was launched to Venus by NASA. 1956 -- The first industrial scale nuclear power plant went online at Calder Hall in the UK

The Arts this day

Misc. this day

Birthdays of Note this day

1770 -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, philosopher 1858 -- Giuseppe Peano, mathematician and philosopher 1871 -- Theodore Dreiser, journalist and author 1875 -- Katharine McCormick, biologist and suffragest who developed first birth control pill 1890 -- Man Ray, photographer and painter 1896 -- Leon Theremin, physicist, engineer, inventor of the theremin 1899 -- C. S. Forester, novelist 1908 -- Lyndon B. Johnson, old school Democrat 1909 -- Lester Young, pork pie hat, saxophonist 1929 -- Ira Levin, author and playwright 1937 -- Alice Coltrane, multi instrumentalist, composer and swamini 1939 -- William Least Heat-Moon, author and historian, go read his "Blue HIghways" 1940 -- Sonny Sharrock, free jazz guitarist 1942 -- Daryl Dragon, keyboardist, horny muskrat 1944 -- Tim Bogert, singer, bassist, Vanilla Fudge 1949 -- Jeff Cook, singer, songwriter, guitarist 1956 -- Glen Matlock, bassist, original Sex Pistol

Deaths of Note this day

1576 -- Titian, painter 1635 -- Lope de Vega, playwright and poet 1963 -- W. E. B. Du Bois, activist, sociologist, historian, co-founder of the NAACP, anti-capitalist, peacenik 1965 -- Le Corbusier, architect 1975 -- Haile Selassie, Ethiopian emperor, Lion of Judah 1990 -- Stevie Ray Vaughan, guitarist

The He 178

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