Sunday Open Thread: July 15 is Linda Ronstadt's birthday

and it is also Sweetmorn, Confusion 50, 3184 YOLD (for you Discordians out there)

World History this day

1240 - A Novgorodian army under Nevsky beat the Swedes in the Battle of the Neva.

1410 - Armed forces of Poland and Lithuania beat the army of the Teutonic Order at Grunwald

1741 - Aleksei Chirikov sighted Alaska and put men ashore, the first Europeans to visit Alaska

1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte surrendered

US History this day

1806 - Zebulon Pike left St. Louis "to explore the west"

1870 - Georgia became the last state to be readmitted to the Union (no comment)

1979 - Carter gave his "malaise speech".

Science & Technology this day

1799 - The Rosetta Stone was found

2003 - AOL Time Warner disbanded Netscape.

2003 - The Mozilla Foundation was established

2006 - Twttr ws lnchd

The Arts this day

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Misc. this day

1834 - The Spanish Inquisition was unexpectedly disbanded

1838 - Ralph Waldo Emerson gave the Divinity School Address denying Jesus was a god.*

1955 - Eighteen Nobel laureates signed the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, meh.

* The protestant community reacted exactly as one would expect.

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Birthdays of Note this day

1606 - Rembrandt, painter and etcher

1796 - Thomas Bulfinch, mythologist

1848 - Vilfredo Pareto, economist and sociologist

1858 - Emmeline Pankhurst, political activist and suffragette

1905 - Dorothy Fields, songwriter

1913 - Cowboy Copas, country singer, songwriter and guitarist

1915 - Frankie Yankovic, polka musician

1919 - Iris Murdoch, author

1929 - Francis Bebey, guitarist, poet and writer

1930 - Jacques Derrida, philosopher

1942 - Vivian Malone Jones, civil rights activist, 'Bama integrator & first black grad

1944 - Millie Jackson, singer and songwriter

1946 - Linda Ronstadt, singer, songwriter, producer, and actress

1947 - Roky Erickson, singer, songwriter and musician. 13th floor dude

1948 - Artimus Pyle, Southron rock drummer and songwriter (Lynyrd Skynyrd)

1949 - Trevor Horn, bassist, singer, songwriter, keyboard player, producer and buggle

1950 - Arianna Huffington, arch conservative anti-feminist who then became "liberal" and made a fortune off of huffpo.

1951 - Gregory Isaacs, singer and songwriter

1952 - Marky Ramone, drummer and songwriter

1953 - Jean-Bertrand Aristide, hugely popular twice deposed politician

1956 - Joe Satriani, singer, songwriter and guitarist

1966 - Jason Bonham, singer, songwriter and drummer

Deaths of Note this day

1542 - Lisa del Giocondo, see song selection

1904 - Anton Chekhov, playwright and author

1959 - Ernest Bloch, composer

1982 - Bill Justis, saxophonist, songwriter, and producer

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So now some music

Rosetta Stone

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Napoleon Bonaparte

Trevor Horn

Joe Satriani

Lisa del Giocondo

Bill Justis

Oh yeah, Linda:

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Photo: Image taken from page 129 of "1812." - The British Library

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