Monday Open Thread: February 11 is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science

February 11 is the 42nd day of the year It is also Boomtime, Chaos 42, 3185 YOLD  (discordian) And let us not forget 13.0.6.4.3 by the Mayan Long Count Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift, look out kid, ... On this day in history: 1929 – The Kingdom of Italy and the Vatican signed the Lateran Treaty. 1943 – General Eisenhower was picked to command the allied armies in Europe. 1971 – Eighty-seven countries, including the United States, signed the Seabed Arms Control Treaty. 1990 – Nelson Mandela was released from Victor Verster Prison. 2011 – The first wave of the Egyptian revolution culminated in Mubarak's resignation. Born this day in: 1847 – Thomas Edison, inventor 1898 – Leo Szilard, physicist 1914 – Josh White, blues singer, songwriter, guitarist, actor, and activist 1915 – Richard Hamming, American mathematician 1934 – Manuel Noriega, CIA asset, and later fall guy for GHWB's need for a war 1935 – Gene Vincent, singer and guitarist 1937 – Phillip Walker, singer and guitarist 1939 – Gerry Goffin, songwriter 1941 – Sérgio Mendes, pianist and composer 1962 – Sheryl Crow, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actress Died this day in: 1868 – Léon Foucault, physicist and academic 1931 – Charles Algernon Parsons, engineer, invented the steam turbine 1948 – Sergei Eisenstein, director and screenwriter 1963 – Sylvia Plath, poet, novelist, and short story write 1986 – Frank Herbert, journalist and author 1994 – Paul Feyerabend, philosopher, UC Prof. 2000 – Lord Kitchner, singer 2006 – Peter Benchley, author, screenwriter, and ocean activist (once he actually learned about his subjects). 2012 – Whitney Houston, singer, songwriter, producer, and actress 2013 – Rick Huxley, bass player  

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Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such: International Day of Women and Girls in Science Inventors' Day (United States)  

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Music goes here, iirc, well,

Josh White

Gene Vincent

Phillip Walker

Gerry Goffin

Sergio Mendes

Sheryl Crow

Leon Foucault

Lord Kitchner

Whitney Houston

Rick Huxley

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