Sunday Open Thread: August 26 is Womens's Equality Day in the US

and it is also Pungenday, Bureaucracy 19, 3184 YOLD (for you Discordians out there)

World History this day

1071 – The Seljuq Turks hammered the Byzantine army at Manzikert, and took the emperor captive.The emperor was ransomed for some gold and assorted chunks of Anatolia. The Byzantine army was shattered and scattered, as well as demonstrably no longer invincible. The emperor was humiliated, there were coups and rebellions, and the whole empire went downhill from there fairly rapidly.

1346 – Though greatly outnumbered, the English won a horribly lopsided victory over the French at Crecy. The English use of massed longbows proved vastly superior to the French combination of crossbows and armored knights and took an especially heavy toll upon the knights. Because of this stunning victory, the war only dragged on for 107 more years, and, in the end, the French won.

1789 - The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was approved by the National Constituent Assembly of France, proving yet again that talk is cheap.

US History this day

1920 - The 19th amendment to US Constitution took effect, giving women the right to vote. Et Voila!, women's equality, non? Heh.

1970 - Leaders of the "second-wave feminist movement" led a nationwide Women's Strike for Equality. I surmise that a full on prolongued national strike by all women and all of their allies might accomplish something, probably martial law, unfortunately. Every woman in this country needs to go (re)read Lysistrata.

Science & Technology this day

1768 - Captain James Cook set sail from England aboard HMS Endeavour.

1791 - John Fitch got a US patent on the steamboat. 1

883 - The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa began its final stage

The Arts this day

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Misc. this day

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Birthdays of Note this day

1676 - Robert Walpole, scholar and politician

1728 - Johann Heinrich Lambert, physicist, astronomer, mathematician, logician

1740 - Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, inventor, developed a man carryng hot air balloon

1743 - Antoine Lavoisier, chemist

1873 - Lee de Forest, engineer, invented the triode

1874 - Zona Gale, novelist, short story writer, and playwright. Pulitzer winner.

1882 - James Franck, physicist

1901 - Jimmy Rushing, singer and bandleader

1906 - Albert Sabin, physician and virologist

1918 - Katherine Johnson, physicist and mathematician

1935 - Karen Sparck Jones, computer scientist

1937 - Don Bowman, country singer and songwriter who wrote wildwood weed

1940 - Vic Dana, dancer and singer 1940 —

Nik Turner, musician and songwriter 1941 - Chris Curtis, drummer and singer

1943 - Dori Caymmi, singer, songwriter, arranger, and guitarist

1944 - Maureen Tucker, singer, songwriter. and drummer

1946 - Valerie Simpson, singer and songwriter, half of Ashford & Simpson

1949 - Leon Redbone, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Deaths of Note this day

1723 - Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, microscopist and biologist

1865 - Johann Franz Encke, astronomer, think Encke's gap

1910 - William James, psychologist and philosopher

1958 - Ralph Vaughan Williams, composer 1972 - Francis Chichester, pilot and sailor

1974 - Charles Lindbergh, pilot and explorer

1981 - Lee Hays, singer, songwriter and weaver 1989 - Irving Stone, author

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It is pretty clear that we are not yet remotely close to achieving women's equality, and, if I may, I have a suggested solution to propose, yet another march:

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So now some music

Womens Equality Day

Jimmy Rushing

Don Bowman

Vic Dana

Chris Curtis

Dori Caymmi

Maureen Tucker

Valerie Simpson

Leon Redbone

Ralph Vaughn Williams

Lee Hays

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