Sunday Open Thread: March 18 is Anniversary of the Oil Expropriation (Mexico)

Today's date is also Boomtime, Discord 4, 3184 YOLD (for you Discordians out there)

World History this day

0037 -- The Senate tossed Tiberius's will and made Caligula Emperor 1834 -- Six English labourers were sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union. 1871 -- The declaration of the Paris Commune 1915 -- Three battleships were lost during a failed Franco-British attack on the Dardanelles 1922 -- Gandhi was sentenced to six years imprisonment for civil disobedience 1938 -- Mexico created Pemex by expropriating all foreign-owned oil reserves and facilities 1970 -- Lon Nol overthrew Prince Norodom Sihanouk 1990 -- The first democratic elections in East Germany were held

US History this day

1644 -- The Third Anglo-Powhatan War started 1741 -- The New York Conspiracy of 1741 started 1850 -- American Express was founded by Henry Wells and William Fargo. 1874 -- Hawaii signed a treaty granting the US exclusive trade rights 1968 -- Congress took the U.S. off of the Gold Standard 1969 -- The US started secretly bombing Cambodia

Science & Technology this day 1965 -- Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov, became the first person to walk in space.

The Arts this day

Misc. this day 1314 -- Jacques de Molay was burned at the stake. It has been alleged that he was a reformer and was about to start reforming "any day now" (starting with yet another Crusade), and I'm sure that he was. I'm sure he and Philip IV were both honorable men reformers, for are we not all honorable menreformers? At any rate, in the end, as in the beginning, it was all about money, the Templars were just too damn rich for their own good.

Birthdays of Note this day

1634 -- Madame de La Fayette, author 1640 -- Philippe de La Hire, mathematician, painter, and astronomer 1690 -- Christian Goldbach, mathematician and conjecturer 1846 -- Kicking Bear, Native American tribal leader and Ghost Dancer 1848 -- Nathanael Greene Herreshoff, naval architect 1858 -- Rudolf Diesel, engineer and inventor 1904 -- Margaret Tucker, indigenous rights activist and author 1922 -- Seymour Martin Lipset, sociologist 1922 -- Fred Shuttlesworth, activist, co-founded the SCLC 1925 -- Alessandro Alessandroni, musician and whistler 1934 -- Charley Pride, country singer 1941 -- Wilson Pickett, singer and songwriter 1945 -- Eric Woolfson, singer, songwriter, pianist, and producer (Alan Parsons Project) 1947 -- B. J. Wilson, drummer 1951 -- Bill Frisell, guitarist and composer 1963 -- Vanessa L. Williams, model, actress, and singer 1964 -- Courtney Pine, sax and clarinet player

Deaths of Note this day

1823 -- Jean-Baptiste Breval, cellist and composer 1871 -- Augustus De Morgan, mathematician and logician 1898 -- Matilda Joslyn Gage, author, suffragist, Native American rights activist, abolitionist, and freethinker 1907 -- Marcellin Berthelot,  chemist 1956 -- Louis Bromfield, farmer, conservationist and author 1978 -- Leigh Brackett, author 1980 -- Erich Fromm, psychologist and philosopher 1988 -- Billy Butterfield, trumpet and cornet player 2001 -- John Phillips, singer, songwriter and guitarist 2017 -- Chuck Berry, guitarist, singer, songwriter

Applies similarly in set theory with respect to union and intersection

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So now some music

Alessandro Alessandroni

Charley Pride  

Wilson Pickett  

Eric Woolfson  

B. J. Wilson  

Bill Frisell  

Vanessa L. Williams  

Courtney Pine  

Jean-Baptiste Breval  

Billy Butterfield  

John Phillips  

Chuck Berry  

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Photo: Image from page 40 of "Races for the America's cup" (1893)

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