Sunday Open Thread: May 27 is Slavery Abolition Day (Guadeloupe, Saint Bartholemy, Saint Martin)

and it is also Boomtime, Confusion 1, 3184 YOLD (for you Discordians out there)

World History this day 1703 -- Peter the Great founded Saint Petersburg. 1905 -- The Battle of Tsushima started 1967 -- Australia passed a constitutional referendum granting the government the power to make laws to benefit Indigenous Australians and to count them in the national census.

US History this day

1907 -- The first US Bubonic plague epidemic broke out in San Francisco. 1933 -- The Federal Securities Act was signed 1962 -- The Centralia mine fire started 1965 -- US warships began shelling targets in South Vietnam. 2016 -- Barack Obama visited Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park

Science & Technology this day

1937 -- The Golden Gate Bridge opened to pedestrian traffic

The Arts this day

Misc. this day

Birthdays of Note this day

1818 -- Amelia Bloomer, activits and journalist 1819 -- Julia Ward Howe, poet, activist, abolitionist, and songwriter 1836 -- Jay Gould, swindler, robber baron 1837 -- Wild Bill Hickok, gambler and gunslinger 1871 -- Georges Rouault, painter and illustrator 1894 -- Dashiell Hammett, writer 1897 -- John Cockcroft, physicist 1907 -- Rachel Carson, biologist, environmentalist, and author 1912 -- John Cheever, novelist and short story writer 1915 -- Ester Sore', singer and songwriter 1915 -- Herman Wouk, novelist 1923 -- Henry Kissinger, war criminal 1930 -- John Barth, author 1934 -- Harlan Ellison, author and screenwriter 1935 -- Ramsey Lewis, jazz pianist and composer 1939 -- Don Williams, country singer, songwriter and guitarist 1943 -- Cilla Black, singer and actress 1945 -- Bruce Cockburn, singer, songwriter and guitarist 1946 -- Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen, bassist and comoser 1950 -- Dee Dee Bridgewater, singer, songwriter, and actress 1957 -- Siouxsie Sioux, singer, songwriter and musician

Deaths of Note this day

1564 -- John Calvin, religionist 1707 -- Francoise-Athenais, marquise de Montespan, royal mistress 1867 -- Thomas Bulfinch, mythologist 1910 -- Robert Koch, physician and microbiologist, 1949 -- Robert Ripley, cartoonist and publisher 1992 -- Uncle Charlie Osborne, fiddler 2011 -- Gil Scott-Heron, poet, activist, singer, songwrite,r and musician, accused of inventing rap

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So now some music

Jay Gould

Ester Sore'  

Henry Kissinger  

Ramsey Lewis  

Don Williams  

Cilla Black  

Bruce Cockburn  

Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen  

Dee Dee Bridgewater  

Siouxsie Sioux  

Gil Scott-Heron  

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Photo: New York Public Library [Three women from Guadeloupe.] Digital ID: 1206544. Sherman, Augustus F. (Augustus Francis) -- Photographer

It's an open thread, so do your thing

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