December 16 is day 357 of the Gregorian Calendar year, Boomtime, The Aftermath 65, 3185 YOLD (Discordian) And let us not forget 13.0.7.1.18 by the Mayan Long Count
-HumanLight is a Humanist holiday created to provide a specifically Humanist celebration during the so-called western world's holiday season. The intended focus of the holiday is on the "positive, secular human values of reason, compassion, humanity and hope". Sadly, this makes it somewhat exclusionary, because many featherless bipeds who are ostensibly members of Homo sapiens lack the ability to feel compassion and many others, while arguably capable of feeling something akin to compassion are seemingly constitutionally incapable of acting upon any such feelings that they may have. For example, psychopaths, sociopaths, and many (most?) corporatists. Perhaps those persons could Join Henry Kissinger in celebrating Nixon'x notorious bombing of the civilian population of Hanoi from December 18th to December 29th and exulting over the 1,600 pointless civilian deaths caused by this petulant temper tantrum
-On this day in history:
-1815 – Jane Austen's "Emma" was published 1913 – The Federal Reserve Act was signed into law 1919 – Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 became law in Britain 1947 – The first demonstration of the transistor 1954 – The first successful kidney transplant took place 1968 – The crew of the us spy ship Pueblo were released 1986 – Voyager lander after completing the world's first non-stop, non-refueled flight around the world. 2002 – A Mig 25 shot down a US Predator drone maintaining the US' illegal no-fly zone in Iraq. This was the first known combat between an airplane and a drone.
- -Born this day in:
-1745 – John Jay, abolitionist, jurist, author, politician 1912 – Anna J. Harrison, chemist and academic 1926 – Harold Dorman, singer and songwriter 1929 – Chet Baker, singer, trumpet and flugelhorn player 1935 – Johnny Kidd, singer and songwriter 1935 – Esther Phillips, singer 1940 – Jorma Kaukonen, singer, songwriter, and guitarist 1940 – Eugene Record, singer and songwriter 1941 – Tim Hardin, singer, songwriter, and musician 1946 – Robbie Dupree, singer and songwriter 1948 – Jim Ferguson, guitarist, composer, and journalist 1949 – Adrian Belew, singer, songwriter, and guitarist 1951 – Anthony Phillips, guitarist and songwriter 1955 – Grace Knight, singer and songwriter 1964 – Eddie Vedder, singer, songwriter and guitarist 1975 – Lady Starlight, singer and songwriter 1977 – Tore Johansen, trumpeter and composer
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Died this day in: 2007 – Oscar Peterson, pianist and composer 2013 – Yusef Lateef, saxophonist and composer 2013 – Ricky Lawson, drummer and composer
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Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such: Day of all level operational control structures servicemen (Ukraine) Festivus HumanLight (Secular humanism in United States) -- Who Knew?? Night of the Radishes (Oaxaca City, Mexico) National Pfeffernüsse Day (US)
- - -Music goes here, iirc, well, With apologies ;-)
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