Sunday Open Thread: July 1 is the Holy Feast of the Genocidal Imperialist SOB Junipero Serra

and it is also Boomtime, Confusion 36, 3184 YOLD (for you Discordians out there)

World History this day

1690 - The Battle of the Boyne 1862 - The Russian State Library was founded 1867 - The British North America Act of 1867 more or less created Canada 1885 - Leopold II of Belgium created the Congo Free State 1898 - The Battle of San Juan Hill 1916 - The first day of the Battle of the Somme 1935 - Cops and Mounties ambushed strikers taking part in the On-to-Ottawa Trek. 1960 - Somaliabecame independent 1960 - Ghana became a republic 1962 - Rwanda and Burundi gined independence 1967 - The EU was formally created 1991 - The Warsaw Pact was officially dissolved * 1997 - China took overf Hong Kong 2002 - The ICC was established to prosecute genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.**

* NATO, being unrelated to defence, not only wasn't, but continues to expand ** By non-US actors only

US History this day

1863 - The Battle of Gettysburg started 1870 - The United States Department of Justice came into being 1922 - The Great Railroad Strike of 1922 1968 - The CIA's criminal rape, torture, and war crimes "Phoenix Program" was established 1968 - The UAW broke off from the AFL-CIO

Science & Technology this day

1770 - Lexell's Comet passed closer to earth than any other ever has 1819 - The discovery of the Great Comet of 1819, 1858 - Joint reading of Darwin and Wallace's papers to the Linnean Society of London. 1874 - The Sholes and Glidden typewriter went on sale 1881 - The first international phone call was made, New Brunswick to Maine 1931 - Wiley Post and Harold Gatty circvumnavigated the globe in a fixed-ing aircraft 1958 - Flooding of the Saint Lawrence Seaway started 1979 - Sony introduced the Walkman.

The Arts this day

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Misc. this day

1523 - Johann Esch and Heinrich Voes were burned at the stake by the Catholic church for wrong thinking 1766 - Francois-Jean de la Barre was tortured and beheaded for not saluting a Catholic procession 1879 - The first edition of The Watchtower was published

Birthdays of Note this day

1586 - Claudio Saracini, lute player and composer 1646 - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, philosopher and mathematician 1804 - George Sand, author and playwright 1850 - Florence Earle Coates, poet 1869 - William Strunk Jr., author and educator, also Strunk of Strunk & White 1872 - Louis Bleriot, pilot and engineer 1899 - Thomas A. Dorsey, pianist and composer 1906 - Jean Dieudonne, mathematician 1912 - David Brower, environmentalist, Sierra Club Foundation founder 1912 - Sally Kirkland, journalist and editor 1915 - Willie Dixon, singer, songwriter, bass player, guitarist, and producer 1921 - Michalina Wislocka, gynecologist and sexologist 1928 - Bobby Day, singer, songwriter, pianist, and producer 1935 - James Cotton, singer, songwriter and harmonica player 1939 - Delaney Bramlett, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer 1941 - Myron Scholes, economist and bullshitter * 1941 - Twyla Tharp, dancer and choreographer 1945 - Debbie Harry,  singer, sonwriter, actress, Blondie 1951 - Anne Feeney, singer, songwriter and activist 1951 - Victor Willis, singer, songwriter, pianist, and actor. Village person 1952 - Dan Aykroyd, actor, numbah one Chips fan 1961 - Michelle Wright, singer, songwriter, and guitarist

* The first well known case of the application of the laws governing the behavior of molecules in a gas to ecom,  if we all agree to use that value, who cares how we got it

Deaths of Note this day

1884 - Allan Pinkerton, detective, spy, abolitionist*, mercenary and anti-labor thug 1896 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, author and abolitionist 1983 - Buckminster Fuller, architect, designer, inventor, futurist and systems analyst 1995 - Wolfman Jack, you know, Wolfman Jack, the DJ 2003 - Herbie Mann, flute and sax player 2005 - Renaldo Benson, singer and songwriter (Four Tops) 2005 - Luther Vandross, singer, songwriter and producer

* Acted in support of abolitionists in US but actively worked to suppress them in Spanish Cuba.

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So now some music

Willie Dixon

Bobby Day  

James Cotton  

Delaney Bramlett  

Debbie Harry  

Victor Willis  

Dan Aykroyd  

Herbie Mann  

Renaldo Benson  

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Photo:   Mission San Luis Rey, no known copyright restrictions.

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