Monday OT: July 8 is Kevin Bacon's Birthday

July 8 is the 190th day of the Gregorian Calendar year, Prickle-Prickle, Confusion 43, 3185 YOLD (discordian), And let us not forget 13.0.6.11.10 by the Mayan Long Count

Kevin Bacon, who is linked to Putin, is also linked to Bill and Hillary, who are both linked to Putin, Trump, who is Linked to Putin, Comer, who is linked to Putin, Bill Gates and George Soros, who are linked to Putin, and oh sooo many others, like, DiFi, for example, who is also linked to Putin. "For Realz?" You may ask. Yep, 'cause ...

OK, the Bacon number, like the Erdos number, are special cases of the idea of Six Degrees of Separation set out by Frigyes Karinthy in 1929 . I am for sure linked to Putin, though, as of yet, I don't know how. But, that matters not, I, like Trump and the Clintons alike are guilty of some je ne sais quoi by association, to wit:

and, some additional and different info and science --

So, comrades, come let us forget our respective Putin numbers and see what else befell the world on this day.

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Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift, look out kid, ...  

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On this day in history:  

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1709 – Peter the Great beat Charles XII at the Battle of Poltava, ending Sweden's days as a world power 1776 – The first reading of the US Declaration of Independence 1853 – The Perry Expedition arrived in Edo. 1898 – Soapy Smith was killed in a shootout on Juneau's Wharf, which is a big thing up there. 1947 – There were broadcasts that a UFO crashed at Roswell, NM. Their veracity was denied. 1948 – The USAF accepted its first female recruits. 1960 – Francis Gary Powers was charged with espionage for spying on the USSR in a U-2 1970 – Nixon declared Native American self-determination to be official US policy 1972 – The Mossad assassinated Palestinian author Ghassan Kanafani.

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Born this day in: 1895 – Igor Tamm, physicist, co-discoverer of Cherenkov radiation 1900 – George Antheil, composer and pianist 1908 – Louis Jordan, singer, songwriter, saxophonist, friend of Caledonia, and actor 1914 – Billy Eckstine, singer and trumpet player 1924 – Johnnie Johnson, pianist and songwriter 1930 – Jerry Vale, wedding singer 1935 – Steve Lawrence, singer, and actor generally teamed with Eydie Gorme' 1940 – Joe B. Mauldin, songwriter, Cricket, and bass player 1944 – Jaimoe, drummer 1958 – Kevin Bacon, actor and musician linked to Putin and the Clintons 1961 – Karl Seglem, saxophonist and record producer 1970 – Beck, singer, songwriter, and producer  

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Died this day in: 1695 – Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician, astronomer, and physicist 1822 – Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet known for skylarking about 1939 – Havelock Ellis, psychologist and author 1943 – Jean Moulin, French ResistanceResistance fighter and leader 2015 – Ken Stabler, The Snake  

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Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such: International Tartan Day  

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Music goes here, iirc, well,

Roswell, NM

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Louis Jordan

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Billy Eckstine

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Johnnie Johnson

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Jerry Vale

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Steve Lawrence

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Joe B. Maulding

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Jaimoe

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Karl Seglem

Oxofon

Goat Horn

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Beck

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Kenny Stabler

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Image is bacon, of course  

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It's an open thread, so do your thing

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Cross posted from http://caucus99percent.com