December 2 is day 336 of the Gregorian Calendar year, Sweetmorn, The Aftermath 44, 3185 YOLD (discordian), And let us not forget 13.0.7.0.17 by the Mayan Long Count On this day in history:
-1823 – President James Monroe warned European powers not to interfere in the Americas. 1845 – U.S. President James K. Polk proposed that the United States should aggressively expand into the West. 1859 – Abolitionist leader John Brown was hanged 1942 – A team led by Enrico Fermi initiated the first artificial self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction. 1943 – The town of Bari, Italy, was inadvertently subjected to a US mustard gas attack when a German bombing raid blew up secret US stockpiles of the gas on a wharf and a liberty ship. This was the only use of poison gas in the European theater during WWII. 1949 – The Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others was adopted. 1954 – The US Senate voted 65 to 22 to censure Joseph McCarthy 1956 – The Granma reached the shores of Cuba's Oriente Province carrying Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and 80 other members of the 26th of July Movement 1961 – Fidel Castro declared that Cuba would adopt Communism. 1962 – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield became the first American official to comment adversely on the Vietnam war's progress. 1970 – The US Environmental Protection Agency began operations. 1976 – Fidel Castro became President of Cuba 1980 – Four American missionaries were raped and murdered by a Salvadoran Junta death squad. 2001 – Enron filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
- -Born this day in:
-1859 – Georges Seurat, painter 1866 – Harry Burleigh, composer, a major influence in "American music" 1909 – Joseph P. Lash, activist and author 1917 – Sylvia Syms, singer 1923 – Maria Callas, soprano and actress 1929 – Dan Jenkins, journalist and author 1929 – Leon Litwack, historian and author 1930 – Gary Becker, economist and academic, 1931 – Wynton Kelly, pianist and composer 1941 – Tom McGuinness, guitarist, songwriter, author, and producer 1946 – David Macaulay, author and illustrator 1948 – Toninho Horta, Brazilian guitarist and composer 1950 – John Wesley Ryles, country music singer, songwriter, and guitarist 1950 – Paul Watson, activist, founded the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society 1960 – Peter Blakeley, singer, songwriter, and guitarist 1960 – Razzle, rock drummer (Hanoi Rocks) 1960 – Rick Savage, singer, songwriter, and bass player 1968 – Nate Mendel, singer, songwriter, and bass player 1986 – Tal Wilkenfeld, bass player and composer
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Died this day in: 1547 – Hernán Cortés, good riddance 1594 – Gerardus Mercator, mathematician, cartographer, and philosopher 1665 – Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet, author and salonnière 1814 – Marquis de Sade, philosopher, author, and politician 1859 – John Brown, abolitionist 1881 – Jenny von Westphalen, German author (b. 1814) 1885 – Allen Wright, Principal chief of the Choctaw Nation; an irony master who proposed the name "Oklahoma", from Choctaw words okra and umma, meaning "Territory of the Red People." 1892 – Jay Gould, infamous robber baron 1918 – Edmond Rostand, poet and playwright, author of Cyrano 1966 – L. E. J. Brouwer, mathematician and philosopher 1980 – Romain Gary, author, director, and screenwriter 1990 – Aaron Copland, composer and conductor 1997 – Michael Hedges, singer, songwriter, and guitarist 1999 – Charlie Byrd, guitarist 2008 – Odetta, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actress 2009 – Eric Woolfson, singer, songwriter, pianist, and producer 2013 – Junior Murvin, singer and songwriter 2014 – Bobby Keys, saxophonist, check this guy's history out.
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Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such: International Day for the Abolition of Slavery (United Nations) Maybe somebody could figure out a way to get rid of the open slave markets that came into being once the US and NATO got rid of Gaddafi and left behind a failed state.
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