January 20 is day 20 of the Gregorian Calendar year, Setting Orange, Chaos 20, 3186 YOLD (Discordian) And let us not forget 13.0.7.3.6 by the Mayan Long Count
- Kindly Reduce Expectations
We are getting ready to head out on yet another multi-week adventure in the near future. This means that I need to write, post and schedule a whole bunch of OTs for the period of my absence, as well as some to bridge the gap between now and the start date. This means, among other things, that you shouldn't expect too much from them and will need to provide content as well as commentary yourselves (as if you don't already, heh). So, here we go ...
-On this day in history:
-. 1567 – Portuguese forces drove the French out of Rio de Janeiro for good. 1649 – Charles I of England went on trial for treason and other "high crimes". 1783 – Great Britain signed preliminary articles of peace with France, setting up the end of the American Revolutionary War . 1839 – In the Battle of Yungay, Chile defeated an alliance between Peru and Bolivia and broke up that alliance. 1841 – Hong Kong Island was occupied by the British. 1887 – The US Senate allowed the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base. 1949 – Truman announced the Point Four Program for economic aid to poor countries 1954 – The National Negro Network was established in the US with 40 charter member radio stations. 1981 – Twenty minutes after the inaugeration of Ronald Reagan Iran released 52 American hostages whose prior release had been held up by Iran at the request of the GOP to create a political campaign talking point. 1986 – Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is celebrated as a US federal holiday for the first time.
- -Born this day in:
-1029 – Alp Arslan, sultan 1526 – Rafael Bombelli, mathematician 1573 – Simon Marius, astronomer and academic who made the first observations of the Galilean moons of Jupiter 1741 – Carl Linnaeus the Younger, botanist and author 1775 – André-Marie Ampère, physicist and mathematician 1856 – Harriot Stanton Blatch, suffragist and organizer 1882 – Johnny Torrio, Chicago businessman 1883 – Enoch L. Johnson, New Jersey businessman 1883 – Forrest Wilson, journalist and author 1888 – Lead Belly, legendary singer, songwriter, guitarist, prone to social commentary 1910 – Joy Adamson, painter and author 1918 – Juan García Esquivel, pianist, composer, and bandleader 1920 – Federico Fellini, director and screenwriter 1922 – Ray Anthony, trumpet player, composer, bandleader, and actor 1923 – Slim Whitman, country and western singer, songwriter and musician 1926 – David Tudor, pianist and composer (think Nash) 1931 – David Lee, physicist and academic 1931 – Hachidai Nakamura, pianist and composer (think Sukiyaki) 1952 – Paul Stanley, singer,songwriter, guitarist, and producer 1957 – Andy Sheppard, saxophonist and composer 1960 – Scott Thunes, bass player
- -Died this day in: 1900 – John Ruskin, painter and critic 1921 – Mary Watson Whitney,astronomer and academic 1947 – Andrew Volstead, can you say "Volstead Act"? 1962 – Robinson Jeffers, poet and philosopher 1965 – Alan Freed, DJ, not like "DJ badass whoop-de-do", but a real Disc Jockey 1996 – Gerry Mulligan, saxophonist and composer who was part of the birth of cool 2012 – Etta James, singer and songwriter 2012 – John Levy, bassist and manager
- - -Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such: Martin Luther King Jr. Day Leadbelly's Birthday (Unofficial)
- - -Music goes here, iirc, well, With apologies ;-)
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