Monday OT: May 11 is National Women's Check Up Day

April 27 is day 132 of the Gregorian Calendar year, Sweetmorn, Discord 58, 3186 YOLD (Discordian) And let us not forget 13.0.7.8.18 by the Mayan Long Count

In 1880, Seven people were killed in a gunfight near Mussel Slough, in California's central valley. This originated in a land dispute between some settlers and the Southern Pacific Railroad. The shoot out occurred about 6 miles from the current location of Hanford, which is about 20 miles West of Visalia, aka East Nowhere, and 10 miles East of the Leemore Naval Air Station**..Of course, Hanford wasn't incorporated until 11 years after the shoot out, and Leemore NAS was built in 1961 or so. So why should anybody care about this gunfight at the nowhere corral? It was the inspiration for Frank Norris' novel, The Octopus: A Story of California, a couple of other novels and a lot of muckracking journalism ** The Navy likes to now and then dump these Naval Air Bases inland, well away from any navigable bodies of water. If anybody besides Az wants a Giggle, they can fire up their favorite search engine and look for the China Lake Naval Air Station.  

On this day in history: 1846 – President James K. Polk asked for a Declaration of War against Mexico. 1880 – Seven people were killed in the Mussel Slough Tragedy 1894 – Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers went on a wildcat strike. 1960 – Adolf Eichmann was captured in Argentina. 1973 – Daniel Ellsberg's charges for releasing the Pentagon Papers were dismissed. 1997 – Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch 1998 – India conducted three underground atomic tests   Born this day in: 1875 – Harriet Quimby, pilot and screenwriter 1881 – Theodore von Kármán, mathematician, physicist, and engineer 1888 – Irving Berlin, pianist and composer 1894 – Martha Graham, dancer and choreographer 1904 – Salvador Dalí, artist 1905 – Lise de Baissac, SOE agent, war hero 1905 – Catherine Bauer Wurster, architect and public housing advocate 1941 – Eric Burdon, musician   Died this day in: 1686 – Otto von Guericke, physicist and politician 1849 – Juliette Récamier, businesswoman and salonist 1916 – Karl Schwarzschild, astronomer and physicist 1920 – James Colosimo, businessman 1927 – Juan Gris, painter and sculptor 1979 – Lester Flatt, singer, songwriter, and guitarist 1981 – Bob Marley, singer, songwriter, and guitarist 1988 – Kim Philby, spook 2003 – Noel Redding, bass player 2008 – John Rutsey, drummer   Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such: National Women's Check Up Day   Music goes here, iirc, well, With apologies ;-)    Image is Medical Bldg   It's an open thread, so do your thing

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