NEW Improved Monday Open Thread: August 20 is World Mosquito Day - Invite one to lunch

August 20 is the 232nd day of the year; as well as Boomtime, Bureaucracy 13, 3184 YOLD to discordians. At least 16 artists or groups have produced albums named simply 20 or Twenty. C'mon, folks we need 4 more. 20 relates to 2 Platonic Solids, Woo Hoo! An icosahedron has 20 faces and a dodecahedron has 20 vertices. Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift, look out kid, ... On this day in: 1775 - The Spanish established the Presidio San Augustin del Tucson in a town that eventually became Tucson, Arizona. That's August 20 Seventeen Seventy FIVE, almost a year before the Declaration of Independence, right AZ? 1858 - Charles Darwin publishesd his theory of evolution through natural selection. 1882 - Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture was first performed 1940 - Leon Trotsky was fatally wounded. 1991 - More than 100,000 people rallied outside the Soviet Union's parliament building protesting the coup aiming to depose President Mikhail Gorbachev. The coup failed within a couple of days.

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Born this day in: 1720 - Bernard de Bury, late baroque harpsichord player and composer 1881 - Edgar Guest, poet 1890 - H. P. Lovecraft, author 1905 - Jack Teagarden, singer, songwriter and trombonist 1918 - Jacqueline Susann, actor and author 1926 - Frank Rosolino, jazz trombonist 1934 - Sneaky Pete Kleinow, country-rock pedal-steel guitarist and songwriter 1942 - Isaac Hayes, singer, songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor 1947 - James Pankow, trombone player, songwriter, and singer 1948 - Robert Plant, singer and songwriter 1949 - Phil Lynott, singer, songwriter, bass player, and producer 1952 - Doug Fieger, singer, songwriter and guitarist 1952 - John Hiatt, singer, songwriter and guitarist 1953 - Leroy Burgess, singer, songwriter, keyboard player

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Died this day in: 2009 - Larry Knechtel, keyboardist and bass player, Wrecking Crew 2013 - Elmore Leonard, author 2013 - Marian McPartland, pianist and composer

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Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such: Saint Stephen's Day (Hungary) World Mosquito Day

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Tucson

Jack Teagarden

Frank Rosolino

Sneaky Pete Kleinow

Isaac Hayes

James Pankow

Robert Plant

Phil Lynott

Doug Fieger

John Hiatt

Larry Knechtel

Marian McPartland

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