Monday Open Thread; November 20 is Transgender Day of Remembrance

November 20 is the 324th day of the year, there are 41 days left

Today's number is 20

An icosahedron has 20 faces A dodecahedron has 20 vertices. 20 is the atomic number of calcium. "what's your 20?" = "10-20" = "where are you?" 20 is one meaning of "a score" A 20 is a Jackson until 2020 when it will be a Tubman 20 is an android app, - some sort of game

Title 20 of the US Code is EDUCATION

20 BCE was the Year of the Consulship of Appuleius and Nerva Parthia and Rome entered into a peace treaty.

20 CE was the Year of the Consulship of Marcus Valerius Messalla Barbatus and Cotta Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso committed suicide rather than face trial for the murder of Germanicus

On this day in:

1695 -- Zumbi was killed by the forces of Portuguese bandeirante Domingos Jorge Velho. 1789 -- New Jersey was the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights. 1805 -- Beethoven's opera, Fidelio, premiered 1820 -- An 80-ton sperm whale attacked the whaling ship Essex, inspiring Melville 1910 -- Francisco I. Madero started the Mexican revolution by issuing the Plan de San Luis Potosi 1945 -- Trials of 24 Nazi war criminals began at the Nuremberg Palace of Justice 1959 -- The UN adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child. The US was appalled 1962 -- The Cuban Missile Crisis ended 1969 -- The Plain Dealer published explicit photographs of dead villagers from My Lai 1969 -- Native American activists seized control of Alcatraz 1974 -- The DOJ filed its final anti-trust suit against AT&T. (Remember when we opposed monopolies?) 1980 -- A Texaco oil probe was droilled into a salt mine, draining Lake Peigneur into same 1985 -- Micro$oft Windoze 1.0 was released, condemning multitudes to bugware and malware 1994 -- The Angolan government and UNITA rebels signed the Lusaka Protocol *** 1998 -- Zarya, the first module of the ISS, was launched

*** During the Angola conflilcts, the US, at one point, was aiding rebels in their attacks on Angola's source of oil and oil revenues, the Cabinda exclave. Luckily, the Cabinda oil operations, run by Gulf Oil Corporation of the US, later merged into Chevron and thence into Chevron-Texaco, were ably defended from the US' proxy attacks by Cuban soldiers.

Born this day in:

1602 -- Otto von Guericke, physicist 1625 -- Paulus Potter, painter 1765 -- Thomas Fremantle, sailor, admiral, one of Nelson's buds. 1858 -- Selma Lagerlof, author, won Nobel for literature 1881 -- Arthur Marshall, pianist and composer 1884 -- Norman Thomas, preacher, socialist, pacifist & perrenial US Presidential candidate 1889 -- Edwin Hubble, astronomer, discovered expansion of the universe 1900 -- Chester Gould, cartoonist 1903 -- Alexandra Danilova, ballerina 1908 -- Alistair Cooke, journalist, PBS host 1921 -- Jim Garrison, lawyer 1924 -- Benoit Mandelbrot, mathematician 1925 -- George Barris, engineer and car designer 1925 -- June Christy, singer 1925 -- Robert F. Kennedy, politician 1937 -- Ruth Laredo, pianist 1939 -- Dick Smothers, little Dickie Smothers, actor and comic 1942 -- Joe Biden, politician 1942 -- Norman Greenbaum, one hit wonder 1942 -- Meredith Monk, composer and choreographer 1944 -- Mike Vernon, record producer 1946 -- Duane Allman, singer, songwriter, guitarist 1946 -- Judy Woodruff, journalist, talking had, CFR member 1947 -- Joe Walsh, singer, songwriter, guitarist 1948 -- Barbara Hendricks, singer 1954 -- Frank Marino, guitarist, singer and songwriter 1961 -- Jim Brickman, singer, songwriter, pianist 1971 -- Marco Oppedisano, guitarist and composer 1975 -- Dierks Bentley, singer and songwriter 1975 -- Davey Havok, vocalist 1977 -- Josh Turner, singer, songwriter, guitarist

Died this day in:

869 -- Edmund the Martyr, "Almost nothing is known about Edmund." - Wikipedia 1695 -- Zumbi, king of the Quilombo dos Palmares (escaped slaves & other fugitives) 1758 -- Johan Helmich Roman, violinist and composer 1764 -- Christian Goldbach, mathematician 1856 -- Farkas Bolyai, mathematician and geometer 1894 -- Anton Rubinstein, pianist, composer, and conductor 1910 -- Leo Tolstoy, author 1934 -- Willem de Sitter, mathematician, physicist and astronomer 1936 -- Buenaventura Durruti, activist 1973 -- Allan Sherman, comedian 1976 -- Trofim Lysenko, infamous biologist 1997 -- Robert Palmer, writer, musicologist, musician, producer 2005 -- Chris Whitley singer, songwriter, guitarist 2010 -- Chalmers Johnson, author

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