December 9 is day 343 of the Gregorian Calendar year, Pungenday, The Aftermath 51, 3185 YOLD (discordian), And let us not forget 13.0.7.1.4 by the Mayan Long Count
Anna's Day is the day to start the preparation process of the lutefisk to be consumed on Christmas Eve. You have been notified, so get to it.
-On this day in history:
-1793 – New York City's first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, was established by Noah Webster. 1897 – Marguerite Durand founded the feminist daily newspaper La Fronde in Paris.. 1905 – France passed the law separating church and state. I wonder if it works any better than ours has?. 1953 – General Electric announced that all communist employees would be fired 1958 – The John Birch Society was founded 1962 – The Petrified Forest National Park was created. 1968 – Douglas Engelbart gave "The Mother of All Demos" 1979 – The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified. This is the only known extinction that TPTB gave a shit bout 1996 – Gwen Jacob was acquitted of committing an indecent act, effectively legalizing female toplessness in Ontario, Canada.. 2017 – Australia legalized same-sex marriage.
- -Born this day in:
-1608 – John Milton, poet 1617 – Richard Lovelace, ditto 1748 – Claude Louis Berthollet, chemist 1779 – Tabitha Babbitt, tool maker and inventor 1813 – Thomas Andrews, chemist 1842 – Peter Kropotkin, zoologist, economist, geographer, and philosopher 1861 – Hélène Smith, medium, psychic and occultist. Hooray for the Oxford comma 1868 – Fritz Haber, chemist 1883 – Nikolai Luzin, mathematician 1900 – Albert Weisbord, activist 1905 – Dalton Trumbo, author, screenwriter, and blacklistee 1906 – Grace Hopper, computer scientist, invented COBOL, for better or worse 1906 – Freddy Martin, bandleader and saxophonist 1932 – Donald Byrd, trumpet player 1932 – Billy Edd Wheeler, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and playwright 1934 – Junior Wells, singer, songwriter, and harmonica player. 1940 – Clancy Eccles, singer, songwriter, and producer 1941 – Dan Hicks, singer, songwriter, and guitarist 1943 – Kenny Vance, singer, songwriter, and producer 1944 – Neil Innes, singer and songwriter 1946 – Dennis Dunaway, bass player and songwriter 1957 – Donny Osmond, singer, songwriter, dancer, actor, Osmond 1958 – Nick Seymour, bass player, songwriter, and producer 1968 – Brian Bell, singer, songwriter and guitarist 1969 – Jakob Dylan, ditto
- - -Died this day in: 1996 – Patty Donahue, singer and songwriter 2002 – Mary Hansen, singer and guitarist 2006 – Georgia Gibbs, singer 2010 – James Moody, saxophonist, flautist, and composer
- - -Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such: Anna's day International Anti-Corruption Day (United Nations) snerk, anti-corruption day, heh, hee,hee,hee. Oh, I needed a good laugh.
- - -Music goes here, iirc, well, With apologies ;-)
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