Sunday Open Thread: March 25 is International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the

Today's date is also Prickle-Prickle, Discord 11, 3184 YOLD (for you Discordians out there)

World History this day

1306 – Robert the Bruce became King of Scots 1807 – The Slave Trade Act outlawed the slave trade in the British Empire. 1957 – The European Economic Community was established 1996 – The EU banned the export of British beef and byproducts due to BSE

US History this day

1584 – Sir Walter Raleigh was given a patent to colonize Virginia 1894 – Coxey's Army set out for Washington, D.C. 1911 – The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire killed 146 workers 1931 – The Scottsboro Boys were arrested in Sweet Home Alabama and charged with rape 1947 – The Centralia #5 coal mine explosion killed 111 miners 1957 – US Customs seized copies of Ginsberg's "Howl" for being obscene, fuckers 1965 – Civil rights marchers finished their march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.

Science & Technology this day 1655 – Christiaan Huygens discovered Titan. 1979 – The Space Shuttle orbiter Columbia was delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center

The Arts this day 1969 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono held their first Bed-In for Peace

Misc. this day 1811 – Percy Bysshe Shelley was expelled from the University of Oxford for publishing "The Necessity of Atheism"

Birthdays of Note this day

1699 – Johann Adolph Hasse, singer and songwriter 1741 – Jean-Antoine Houdon, sculptor 1867 – Arturo Toscanini, cellist and conductor 1881 – Bela Bartok, pianist and composer 1881 – Mary Webb, author and poet 1903 – Frankie Carle, pianist and bandleader 1904 – Pete Johnson, pianist 1912 – Melita Norwood, civil servant and spy 1915 – Dorothy Squires, singer 1918 – Howard Cosell, sportscaster 1923 – Bonnie Guitar, singer, songwriter. and guitarist 1925 – Flannery O'Connor, short story writer and novelist 1929 – Cecil Taylor, pianist and composer 1932 – Penelope Gilliatt, author, critic, screenwriter 1934 – Johnny Burnette, singer and songwriter 1934 – Gloria Steinem, feminist, activist 1938 – Hoyt Axton, singer and songwriter 1939 – Toni Cade Bambara, writer, activist, filmmaker 1942 – Aretha Franklin, singer, songwriter and pianist 1947 – Elton John, singer, songwriter, pianist, producer

Deaths of Note this day

1918 – Claude Debussy, composer 1931 – Ida B. Wells,  journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, feminist, Georgist, 1958 – Tom Brown, trombonist 1965 – Viola Liuzzo, civil rights activist 1988 – Robert Joffrey, dancer, choreographer, co-founded Joffrey Ballet

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So now some music

Sir Walter Raleigh

Selma to Montgomery March  

John and Yoko  

Bela Bartok  

Frankie Carle  

Pete Johnson  

Cecil Taylor  

Johnny Burnette  

Hoyt Axton  

Aretha Franklin  

Elton John  

Calude Debussey  

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Photo: Image from page 24 of "The gospel of slavery : a primer of freedom" (1864)

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