Sunday Open Thread:June 3 is World Bicycle Day also Mabo Day in Australia

and it is also Prickle-Prickle, Confusion 8, 3184 YOLD (for you Discordians out there)

Last and far, far least, it is Confederate Memorial Day in Kentucky, Louisiana, and Tennessee,

World History this day

1326 – The Treaty of Novgorod established the Russia - Norway border 1539 – Hernando de Soto claimed Florida for Espana 1885 – Cree leader Big Bear, escaped the North-West Mounted Police. 1940 – The Luftwaffe bombed Paris. 1963 – South Vietnamese troops attacked protesting Buddhists with chemical weapons 1979 – A blowout at the Ixtoc I well in the Gulf of Mexico spilled at least 3,000,000 barrels 1984 – Indian troops launched a 3 day attack on the Sikh Golden Temple, killing over 5,000 1992 – Aboriginal land rights were granted in Australia in Mabo v Queensland (No 2) 2006 – Montenegro declared independence from Serbia

US History this day

1621 – The Dutch West India Company landed a charter for New Netherland. 1781 – Jack Jouett began a midnight ride to warn Jefferson and the Virginia legislature of a British raid 1916 – The National Defense Act increased the National Guard by 450,000 men 1943 – The Zoot Suit Riots. Sailors, Marines and cops attacked Latino youths in L.A. 2013 – Chelsea Manning's trial for ratting out war criminals began

Science & Technology this day

1889 – The first US long-distance electric power line ran 14 miles  between Willamette Falls and downtown Portland 1965 – The launch of Gemini 4, the first multi-day NASA space mission 1973 – A Soviet supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 crashed, the first crash of a supersonic passenger aircraft.

The Arts this day

Misc. this day

1140 – Peter Abelard was found guilty of heresy. Good on him.

Birthdays of Note this day

1603 –- Pietro Paolini, painter 1853 -- Flinders Petrie, archaeologist and egyptologist 1873 -- Otto Loewi, psychobiologist and pharmacologist 1877 -- Raoul Dufy, painter 1897 -- Memphis Minnie, singer, songwriter and guitarist 1906 -- Josephine Baker, singer, dancer, actress, resistance operative, andactivist 1924 -- Jimmy Rogers, singer, guitarist, harmonica player, blues legend 1926 -- Allen Ginsberg, poet, who is with you in Rockland. 1927 -- Boots Randolph, saxophonist, composer and soundtrack 1930 -- Marion Zimmer Bradley, author and poet 1930 -- Dakota Staton, singer 1936 -- Larry McMurtry, author and screenwriter 1939 -- Ian Hunter, singer, songwriter, and guitarist 1942 -- Curtis Mayfield, singer, songwriter and producer 1946 -- Michael Clarke, drummer, byrd, burrito 1952 -- Billy Powell, keyboards and songwriter, confederate 1961 -- Lawrence Lessig, author, attorney, founder of creative commons

Deaths of Note this day

1657 -- William Harvey, physician, anatomist, physiologist 1875 -- Georges Bizet, pianist and composer 1899 -- Johann Strauss II, composer 1975 -- Ozzie Nelson, actor and bandleader 2009 -- Koko Taylor, queen of the blues 2016 -- Muhammad Ali, The Greatest

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So now some music

Bicycle Day

Flinders Petrie  

Memphis Minnie  

Josephine Baker  

Jimmy Rogers  

Boots Randolph  

Dakota Staton  

Curtis Mayfield  

Billy Powell  

Georges Bizet  

Johann Strauss II  

Ozzie Nelson  

KoKo Taylor  

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Photo: is author's own

It's an open thread, so do your thing

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