Monday Open Thread: December 3 is International Day of Persons with Disabilities

December 3 is the 337th day of the year It is also Boomtime, The Aftermath 45, 3184 YOLD  (discordian) And let us not forget 13.0.6.0.13 by the Mayan Long Count How many birds ya got?

Well, it's 12 - 03 so, mebbe 3?  

Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift, look out kid, ... On this day in history: 1901 – In his State of the Union message, Teddy Roosevelt asked Congress to curb the power of trusts. Heh. 1910 – Modern neon lighting was first demonstrated 1964 – Cops arrested over 800 students at UC, Berkeley, following their takeover and sit-in at the admin building during the Free Speech Movement 1976 – An unknown would be assassin tried to kill Bob Marley, his wife, and his manager. 1984 – A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, killed more than 3,800 people and injured between 150,000 and 600,000 more, of whom about 6,000 later died. 2005 – The first manned rocket aircraft delivery of U.S. Mail took place between Mojave, California and California City, California, a distance of roughly 12 miles and about a 20 minute drive by car. Porque? No sabe. Born this day in: 1596 – Nicola Amati, instrument maker 1616 – John Wallis, mathematician and cryptographer 1810 – Louisa Susannah Cheves McCord, author, poet, and political essayist 1833 – Carlos Finlay, epidemiologist and physician 1842 – Phoebe Hearst, suffragist, and feminist 1842 – Ellen Swallow Richards, industrial and safety engineer, environmental chemist 1857 – Joseph Conrad, author 1863 – Gussie Davis, songwriter, the first Black songwriter to become famous on Tin Pan Alley as a composer 1886 – Manne Siegbahn, physicist 1907 – Connee Boswell, jazz singer 1925 – Ferlin Husky, country singer 1927 – Andy Williams, singer 1931 – Jaye P. Morgan, singer and actress 1933 – Paul J. Crutzen, atmospheric chemist 1938 – Sally Shlaer, mathematician methodologist, and software engineer 1944 – Ralph McTell, singer, songwriter, and guitarist 1948 – Ozzy Osbourne, singer and songwriter 1949 – Mickey Thomas, singer and songwriter 1953 – Rob Waring, vibraphonist and composer 1963 – Terri Schiavo, religionista political football 1988 – Melissa Aldana, saxophonist Died this day in: 1888 – Carl Zeiss, physicist and lens maker, credited with inventing the optical instrument 1894 – Robert Louis Stevenson, author 1973 – Emile Christian, trombonist, cornet player, bassist, and composer 1999 – Scatman John, (scat) singer, songwriter and pianist 2014 – Ian McLagan, singer, songwriter, and keyboard player 2015 – Gladstone Anderson, singer and pianist  

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Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such: International Day of Persons with Disabilities  

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Music goes here, iirc, well,

FSM

Music to my ears, at any rate; words to live by. Is it time yet?

> Gussie Davis

Connee Boswell>??

Ferlin Husky

Ralph McTell

Mickey Thomas

Melissa Aldana

Emile Christian

Scatman John

Ian Mclagan

Gladstone Anderson

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picture:Author's own, March 3, 2013 It's an open thread, so do your thing Crossposted from http://caucus99percent.com  

Edit: fixed day of the year info.