Sunday Open Thread: May 6 is International No Diet Day

Today's date is also Sweetmorn, Discord 53, 3184 YOLD (for you Discordians out there)

World History this day

1659 -- Some of the British Army removed Cromwell as Lord Protector and reinstalled the Rump Parliament. 1682 -- Louis XIV of France moved his court to the Palace of Versailles. 1954 -- Roger Bannister broke the four minute mile 1996 -- The body of former CIA director William Colby washed up on a riverbank * 1997 -- The Bank of England was freed from political control

* Because of the CIA's role in US imperialism, assassinations, covert and overt wars, subversion and the like, anything relating to the CIA is deemed to be world history and not merely US

US History this day

1861 -- Arkansas seceded from the US 1877 -- Crazy Horse surrendered to United States troops 1882 -- Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act. 1935 -- Executive Order 7034 created the WPA

Science & Technology this day

1889 -- The Eiffel Tower officially opened to the public 1937 -- The zeppelin Hindenburg cought fire and was destroyed while attempting to dock 1941 -- The first flight of the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt. 1949 -- EDSAC, the first practical electronic digital stored-program computer, performed its first operation.

The Arts this day

1940 -- John Steinbeck won a Pulitzer Prize for The Grapes of Wrath.

Misc. this day

1536 -- King Henry VIII ordered English-language Bibles be placed in every church

Birthdays of Note this day

1758 -- Maximilien Robespierre, lawyer and politician 1856 -- Sigmund Freud, quack, profoundly ignorant of Occam's razor 1856 -- Robert Peary, explorer, US admiral 1872 -- Willem de Sitter, mathematician, physicist, and astronomer 1896 -- Rolf Maximilian Sievert, medical physicist 1913 -- Carmen Cavallaro, pianist 1916 -- Robert H. Dicke, physicist and astronomer 1939 -- Eddie C. Campbell, singer and guitarist 1943 -- Andreas Baader, terrorist, co-founder of the Red Army Faction 1945 -- Bob Seger, singer, songwriter, and guitarist 1968 -- Laetitia Sadier, singer and keyboard player 1971 -- Chris Shiflett, singer, songwriter, and guitarist

Deaths of Note this day

1862 -- Henry David Thoreau, essayist, poet, and philosopher 1902 -- Bret Harte, author and poet 1919 -- L. Frank Baum, novelist 1949 -- Maurice Maeterlinck, poet and playwright 1952 -- Maria Montessori, physician and educator 1963 -- Theodore von Karman, aerodynamicist, mathematician, physicist, and engineer 1963 -- Ted Weems, violinist, trombonist, and bandleader 1983 -- Kai Winding, trombonist and composer 1992 -- Marlene Dietrich, actress and singer 2002 -- Otis Blackwell, singer, songwriter, and pianist 2004 -- Barney Kessel, guitarist and composer 2014 -- Farley Mowat, environmentalist and author

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So now some music

Carmen Cavallaro

Eddie C. Campbell  

Bob Seger  

Chris Shiflett  

Ted Weems  

Kai Winding  

Marlene Dietrich  

Elvis Otis Blackwell  

Barney Kessel  

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Photo: public domain

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