December 16 is day 350 of the Gregorian Calendar year, Setting Orange, The Aftermath 58, 3185 YOLD (Discordian) And let us not forget 13.0.7.1.11 by the Mayan Long Count
-If you don't know and would like to -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Posadas
-On this day in history:
-1689 – Royal assent is given to the Bill of Rights, enumerating certain rights in England. 1773 – The Boston Tea Party. 1843 – John T. Graves announced the discovery of octonions to William Hamilton ,. 1907 – The Great White Fleet began circumnavigating the world 1937 – Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe vanished forever from Alcatraz in what is described as an attempted escape by the usual sources. 1947 – The first practical point-contact transistor was built. 1968 – The Second Vatican Council in an arrogant and fatuous act of political theater claimed to have revoked the Edict of Expulsion of Jews from Spain. This was preposterously stupid and ineffectual both because the expulsion was long moot, having occurred in 1492 and because the Vatican had no power whatsoever to revoke it, since it was issued not by the Papacy but by Ferdinand and Isabella. 1979 – Libya and four other OPEC nations raised crude oil prices, driving the US batshit crazy
- -Born this day in:
-1534 – Hans Bol, artist 1770 – Ludwig van Beethoven, composer 1775 – Jane Austen, author 1776 – Johann Wilhelm Ritter, chemist, physicist, and philosopher 1787 – Mary Russell Mitford, author and dramatist 1804 – Viktor Bunyakovsky, mathematician 1863 – George Santayana, poet, philosopher, and author 1895 – Marie Hall Ets, author and illustrator 1901 – Margaret Mead, anthropologist and author 1905 – Piet Hein, mathematician 1917 – Arthur C. Clarke, author 1921 – Eulalio González, actor, humorist, singer, songwriter, director, producer, and screenwriter 1930 – Sam Most, flautist and saxophonist 1936 – Morris Dees, lawyer, activist and co-founder of the SPLC 1945 – Tony Hicks, singer and guitarist 1946 – Benny Andersson, pianist, singer, songwriter, and producer 1949 – Billy Gibbons, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer 1951 – Robben Ford, guitarist and songwriter 1951 – Mark Heard, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer --
-Died this day in: 1474 – Ali Qushji, astronomer, mathematician, and physicist 1594 – Allison Balfour, witch 2007 – Dan Fogelberg, singer, songwriter, and guitarist -
-Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such: First day of Las Posadas
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