Sunday Open Thread: September 10th is World Suicide Prevention Day

World History this day

1823 -- Simon Bolivar became President of Peru. 1937 -- Nine nations attended the Nyon Conference to strengthen non-intervention in the Spanish Civil War 1939 -- The submarine HMS Triton sunk the submarine HMS Oxley 1939 -- Canada declared war on Germany, 1967 -- The people of Gibraltar voted to remain a British dependency 1977 -- Hamida Djandoubi became the last person executed by the guillotine in France. 2002 -- Switzerland joined the U.N.

US History this day

1570 -- Spanish missionaries landed in Virginia and established the Ajacan Mission 1608 -- John Smith was elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia. 1897 -- A sheriff's posse massacred 19 unarmed striking miners in Lattimer, Pennsylvania.

Science & Technology this day

1846 -- Elias Howe got a patent for the sewing machine. 1858 -- George Mary Searle discovered the asteroid 55 Pandora. 2008 -- The Large Hadron Collider at CERN was powered up.

The Arts this day

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Birthdays of Note this day

1550 -- Alonso Perez de Guzman, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, Spanish General ** 1659 -- Henry Purcell, organist and composer 1758 -- Hannah Webster Foster, novelist 1793 -- Harriet Arbuthnot, diarist, Wellington's bud. 1801 -- Marie Laveau, renowned New Orleans practitioner of Voodoo. 1839 -- Isaac K. Funk, co-founded Funk & Wagnalls 1839 -- Charles Sanders Peirce, logician, mathematician, statistician, and philosopher. Invented semiotics 1852 -- Alice Brown Davis, first female Principal Chief of the Seminole Tribe of Oklahoma 1892 -- Arthur Compton, physicist, Nobel winner (Compton effect). 1907 -- Dorothy Hill, geologist and palaeontologist 1924 -- Boyd K. Packer, super big-shot Mormon homophobe 1925 -- Roy Brown, singer and songwriter 1925 -- Boris Tchaikovsky, pianist and composer 1934 -- Charles Kuralt, journalist 1940 -- Roy Ayers, vibraphonist, singer, songwriter, and keyboard player, 1941 -- Stephen Jay Gould, paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. 1942 -- Danny Hutton, singer 1945 -- Jose Feliciano, singer, songwriter and guitarist 1950 -- Joe Perry, Aerosmith singer, songwriter and guitarist 1960 -- David Lowery, singer, songwriter and guitarist, founded Camper Van Beethoven

** In his book The Decline and fall of Practically Everybody, Will Cuppy devoted a chapter to Phillip The Sap (possibly better known as Phillip II of Spain). In that chapter, he noted that:

Phillip knew nothing whatever about ships, so he built the Spanish Armada and placed it in charge of the Duke of Medina-Sidona, who knew even less. The Duke of Medina-Sidona had never sailed a ship, but he said he would try.

Deaths of Note this day

1797 -- Mary Wollstonecraft, philosopher, historian, womens' rights advocate and novelist 1851 -- Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, pioneer in the field of education for the deaf 1931 -- Salvatore Maranzano, businessman 1935 -- Huey Long, populist Democrat who denounced banks and the wealthy and advocated "Share Our Wealth" 1961 -- Leo Carrillo, actor 1976 -- Dalton Trumbo, screenwriter and novelist 2005 -- Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, singer, guitarist, harmonica player and fiddle player

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