Monday Open Thread: March 4 is National Grammar Day (United States)

March 4 is the 63rd day of the Gregorian Calendar year Pungenday, Chaos 63, 3185 YOLD  (discordian) And let us not forget 13.0.6.5.4 by the Mayan Long Count Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift, look out kid, ...  

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On this day in history it was a seriously ugly day for indigenous peoples in the Americas: 1493 – Christopher Columbus arrived back in Lisbon. 1519 – Hernán Cortés arrived in Mexico 1628 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony received a Royal charter 1675 – John Flamsteed became the first Astronomer Royal of England. 1681 – Charles II granted a land charter to William Penn 1789 – The first Congress of the US met and put the US Constitution into effect. 1791 – Vermont was admitted to the United States. 1917 – Jeannette Rankin became the first female member of the United States House of Representatives. 1933 – Frances Perkins became the US Secretary of Labor, the first female cabinet member. 1960 – The freighter La Coubre was blown up at dockside in Havana, probably by the US Born this day in: 1394 – Henry the Navigator, "explorer" 1678 – Antonio Vivaldi, violinist and composer 1745 – Casimir Pulaski, the father of US cavalry 1778 – Robert Emmet, nationalist, rebel. patriot, commander 1901 – Wilbur R. Franks, scientist 1904 – George Gamow, physicist and cosmologist 1908 – Thomas Shaw, American singer and guitarist 1928 – Alan Sillitoe, writer, "angry young man" 1931 – Alice Rivlin, economist, debt reductionist, member of the catfood commission 1932 – Miriam Makeba, singer, songwriter, and actress, "Mama Africa" 1932 – Ed Roth, illustrator, "Big Daddy Roth" 1936 – Eric Allandale, trombonist and songwriter 1944 – Bobby Womack, singer and songwriter 1947 – Bob Lewis, guitarist, co-founder of Devo 1961 – Ray Mancini, pugilist, "Boom Boom" Died this day in: 1852 – Nikolai Gogol, author and playwright 1858 – Matthew C. Perry, diplomat 1944 – Louis Capone, businessman, unrelated to Al, another businessman 1976 – Walter H. Schottky, physicist and engineer 1989 – Tiny Grimes, guitarist 1993 – Art Hodes, pianist  

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Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such: National Grammar Day (Uied States)

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Music goes here, iirc, well,

Vivaldi

Thomas Shaw

Miriam Makeba

Ray Mancini

Tiny Grimes

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Image is Sachin Joshi's English Grammar Resources  

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