| Today's number is 21 |
| 21 is the product of 2 primes (3 x 7) |
| 21 is the sum of the first 6 natural numbers. 1+2+3+4+5+6 = 21 |
| 21 is a fibonnacci number 0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21 |
| 21st Amendment ended prohibition |
| 21 is Scandium |
| 21 is the total of the spots on one 6 sided die (see: sum of the first 6 natural numbers, duh) |
| In several countries 21 is the legal age of majority. |
| In all US states 21 is the legal drinking age. |
| In some countries 21 is the voting age. |
| The highest-winning point total in Blackjack is 21 |
| There are 21 shillings in a guinea. |
| Holy Shit, Batman, 21 is 3 x 7! Accordingly, x/21, whenever x =3n, is the same as n/7 which gets us back to the freaky repeating decimal (0.142857) discussed on the 7th and the 14th. The decimal part of n/7 where n is a natural number not a multiple of 999,999 or 7 is the remainder x 0.142857 repeated on out to infinity. n/14 has similar rules, and now we get to n/21, which is, for example ... |
| 1/21 = 0.047619047619 repeat == (1/7)/3 |
| 2/21 = 0.095238095238 repeat == (2/7)/3 |
| 3/21 = 0.142857142857 repeat == (3/7)/3 == 1/7, Bingo! |
| 4/21 = 0.190476 repeat == (4/7)/3 |
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| 21 BCE was The Year of the Consulship of Lollius and Lepidus |
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| 21 CE was The Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Caesar |
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| On this date in |
| 630 | Emperor Heraclius returned The True Cross to Jerusalem. No one has seen it since. |
| 1152 | The Marriage of Louis VII of France and Eleanor of Aquitane was annulled |
| 1556 |
Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, was burned at the stake for being a prot. heresy
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| 1804 | France adopted the Code Napoleon as its civil law |
| 1844 | The Bahai calendar began, day one of year one |
| 1871 | Henry Morton Stanley went looking for David Livingstone |
| 1925 | Teaching evolution was outlawed in Tennessee |
| 1937 | Police under orders of the U.S. appointed governor of Puerto Rico massacred 19 peaceful marchers and wounded over 100 more people in Ponca, |
| 1946 | The L.A. Rams signed Kenny Washington, the first African American football player since 1933, |
| 1960 | South African police in Sharpeville slaughtered 69 unarmed black demonstrators and wounded 180 more |
| 1965 | Dr. Martin Luther KIng Jr. led a civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, AL. |
| 1970 | S.F. Mayor Joe Alioto proclaimed the first Earth Day |
| 1980 | Jimmy Carter announced the U.S. boycott of the Summer Olympics |
| 1986 | Debi Thomas became the first African American to win the World Figure Skating Championships |
| 1990 | Namibia finally became independent of South Africa |
| 2006 | Twitter was founded, grammar died |
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Born this day in |
| 1768 | Joseph Fourier, a transformative mathematician & physicist |
| 1806 | Benito Juarez, a Mexican politician |
| 1839 |
Modest Mussorgsky, a pianist & composer
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| 1867 |
Florenz Ziegfield Jr, a man noted for his follies
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| 1902 |
Son House, a singer and guitarist |
| 1902 |
Santo Pecora a trombonist (New Orleans Rhythm Kings)
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| 1904 | Forrest Mars, the inventor of the M & M |
| 1910 | Julio Gallo, maker of Thunderbird, Night Train, Hearty Burgundy (not a Burgundy) & other plonk. |
| 1918 |
Charles Thompson, a pianist & composer |
| 1922 | Russ Meyer, a movie maker |
| 1925 |
Harold Ashby, a saxophonist |
| 1930 |
Otis Spann, a singer & pianist |
| 1940 |
Solomon Burke. a singer & songwriter |
| 1942 |
Amina Claudine Meyers, a singer, pianist & songwriter |
| 1943 |
Vivian Stanshall, a singer, songwriter, & guitarist (Bonzo Dog DooDah Band) YAY! |
| 1944 |
Hideki Ishima, invented the sitarla, plays same |
| 1944 |
David Lindley a guitarist, songwriter & producer |
| 1944 | Gaye Adegbalola, a singer & guitarist
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| 1945 |
Ross Stone, a singer & keyboardist (Sly & the Family Stone) |
| 1946 |
Ray Dorset a singer, guitarist & songwriter (Mungo Jerry) |
| 1949 |
Eddie Money, a singer, songwriter & guitarist |
| 1950 |
Roger Hodgson, a singer, songwriter and keyboardist (Supertramp) |
| 1951 |
Conrad Lozano, a bass player (Los Lobos) |
| 1962 | Matthew Broderick, a notorious truant |
| 1963 |
Shawn Lane, a guitarist |
| 1967 |
Jonas Berggren, a singer, songwriter & producer (Ace of Base) |
| 1974 |
Kevin Leahy, a drummer (BoDeans) |
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Died this day in |
| 1076 | Robert I, Duke of Burgundy (see J. Gallo, supra) |
| 1306 | Robert II, Duke of Burgundy (see J. Gallo, supra)
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| 1556 | Thomas Cranmer, who was burnt for Heresy |
| 1656 | James Ussher, who determined the date & time of Creation |
| 1804 | Louis Antoine, Duke d’Enghien, the last Conde’ |
| 1843 | Robert Southey, a poet. |
| 1958 | Cyril M. Kornbluth, a sci-fi author |
| 1978 |
Louis Cottrell Jr., who played sax & clarinet |
| 1991 |
Leo Fender, like Fender telecaster, stratocaster, etc. |
| 2005 |
Bobby Short, a singer & pianist |
| 2011 |
Loleatta Holloway, a singer & songwriter (The Caravans) |
| 2011 |
Pinetop Perkins, a singer & pianist |
| 2015 | Hans Erni, a painter, sculptor & illustrator |
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So it looks like we gots a ton o’ tunes today ...
Louis Cottrell Jr.
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