Sunday Open Thread: January 28th is Data Privacy Day

World History this day

1521 -- The Diet of Worms was convened to deal with Martin Luther's heresies 1573 -- The Warsaw Confederation established freedom of religion in Poland 1935 -- Iceland legalized therapeutic abortion. 1988 -- Canada's Supreme Court struck down all Canadian anti-abortion laws.

US History this day

1909 -- US troops finally left Cuba (except for Guantanamo) 1915 -- Congress created the US Coast Guard

Science & Technology this day

1724 -- The Russian Academy of Sciences was founded 1855 -- A locomotive went from the Atlantic to the Pacific on the Panama Canal Railway 1820 -- A Russian expedition discovered the Antarctic continent 1986 -- Space Shuttle Challenger exploded

The Arts this day

1813 -- Pride and Prejudice was published 1956 -- Elvis Presley made his first US TV appearance. 1985 -- USA for Africa recorded We Are the World,

Misc. this day

Data Privacy is what we whould have if we had a functioning Fourth Amendment. If our devices and their content, and our papers and their content, and our messages, e-mails and phone calls could not be seized, intercepted, recorded and retained against our wills without a real (Non-FISA) warrant issued by a real (Non-FISA) court based upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. It is alleged that we once had such rights, but surely not after the rise of Jedgar, and less so after the Putriot Act and FISA and oh so many court cases deferring, on our behalf, to the prescience of our police overlords.

Birthdays of Note this day

1608 -- Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, mathematician, physiologist and physicist 1611 -- Johannes Hevelius, astronomer 1622 -- Adrien Auzout, stronomer 1841 -- Henry Morton Stanley, explorer, found Dr. Livingstone 1853 -- Jose Marti,  journalist, poet, essayist, revolutionary philosopher and political theorist 1884 -- Auguste Piccard, physicist, inventor, balloonist, etc. 1912 -- Jackson Pollock, painter 1922 -- Anna Gordy Gaye, songwriter and producer 1927 -- Ronnie Scott, saxophonist 1929 -- Acker Bilk, singer and clarinettist 1943 -- Dick Taylor, guitarist and songwriter 1948 -- Bob Moses, drummer 1951 -- Billy Bass Nelson, basist 1954 -- Rick Warren, hater of great reknown and political connectedness 1968 -- Sarah McLachlan, singer, songwriter, pianist 1980 -- Nick Carter, backstreet boy

Deaths of Note this day

1687 -- Johannes Hevelius, astronomer, it must've been his day 1903 -- Augusta Holmes, pianist and composer 1939 -- W. B. Yeats, poet and playwright 1947 -- Reynaldo Hahn, composer 1993 -- Helen Sawyer Hogg, astronomer 2005 -- Jim Capaldi, singer,songwriter, and drummer 2009 -- Billy Powell, keyboards player and songwriter 2016 -- Signe Toly Anderson, singer 2016 -- Paul Kantner, guitarist

Crew of the Challenger, died this day 1986: Gregory Jarvis Christa McAuliffe Ronald McNair Ellison Onizuka Judith Resnik Dick Scobee Michael J. Smith

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So now some music

US Troops left Cuba (fake news)

Elvis  

MAGA Break

USA for Africa

Ronnie Scott  

Acker Bilk  

Dick Taylor  

(Rakalam) Bob Moses  

Billy Bass Nelson  

Sarah McLachlan  

Augusta Holmes  

Jim Capaldi  

Billy Powell  

Signe Toly Anderson  

Paul Kantner  

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Photo: Privacy, by EU Webnerd

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