Sunday Open Thread: February 25 is George Harrison's Birthday

World History this day

1843 -- Lord George Paulet occupied the Kingdom of Hawaii in the name of Great Britain 1932 -- Adolf Hitler became a naturalized German citizen 1948 -- The Communist Party took control of the Czechoslovakian government 1956 -- Nikita Khrushchev denounced Stalin's cult of personality 1968 -- The Ha My massacre in South Vietnam 1986 -- Ferdinand Marcos fled the Philippines and Corazon Aquino became president 1991 -- The Warsaw Pact was disbanded temporarily scaring the US MIC 1992 -- Khojaly massacre in Azerbaijan. 1994 -- Mosque of Abraham massacre in the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron

US History this day

1870 -- Hiram Rhodes Revels, became a US Senator and becoming the first African American in Congress 1901 -- J. P. Morgan incorporated the United States Steel Corporation. 1919 -- Oregon became the first U.S. state to tax gasoline

Science & Technology this day

1836 -- Samuel Colt got a patent on the Colt revolver.

The Arts this day

Misc. this day

Birthdays of Note this day

1644 -- Thomas Newcomen, pastor and engineer, invented Newcomen engine 1670 -- Maria Margarethe Kirch, astronomer and mathematician 1707 -- Carlo Goldoni, playwright and composer 1841 -- Pierre-Auguste Renoir, painter and sculptor 1873 -- Enrico Caruso, tenor 1888 -- John Foster Dulles, war monger and war criminal 1894 -- Meher Baba, yet another Avatar 1901 -- Zeppo Marx, a Marx Brother 1906 -- Mary Coyle Chase, journalist and playwright 1910 -- Millicent Fenwick, journalist, politician, and diplomate, civil rights advocate 1917 -- Anthony Burgess, author, playwright, and critic 1918 -- Bobby Riggs, loudmouther loser 1920 -- Sun Myung Moon, yet another Messiah 1927 -- Ralph Stanley, singer and banjo player 1929 -- Tommy Newsom, saxophonist and bandleader 1932 -- Faron Young, country music singer, songwriter and guitarist 1943 -- George Harrison, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer 1946 -- Pete Wernick, banjo player 1947 -- Doug Yule, singer, songwriter and guitarist

Deaths of Note this day

1634 -- Albrecht von Wallenstein, military contractor 1723 -- Christopher Wren, architect 1914 -- John Tenniel, illustrator and political cartoonist. ** 1950 -- George Minot, physician and medical researcher 1957 -- Bugs Moran, businesssman 1970 -- Mark Rothko, painter 1983 -- Tennessee Williams, playwright 1994 -- Baruch Goldstein, terrorist 1999 -- Glenn T. Seaborg, chemist 2009 -- Philip Jose Farmer, author 2012 -- Louisiana Red, singer, songwriter and guitarist 2014 -- Paco de Lucia, guitarist

** Did the original art for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

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So now some music heh, starting with opera versus opry

Enrico Caruso

Ralph Stanley  

George Harrison  

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Photo: "Birthday" by Michele Sabetha

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