Monday OT - June 15: Global Wind Day

June 15 is day 167 of the Gregorian Calendar year, Sweetmorn, Confusion 20, 3186 YOLD (Discordian) And let us not forget 13.0.7.10.13 mlc (the Mayan Long Count)

On June 15, 1992, The US Supreme Court ruled in  US v Álvarez-Machaín  that it is perfectly cool to forceably kidnap foreigners abroad and bring them to the US for trial.  LexisNexis summarises the holding as follows:  

The Court held that the fact of Alvarez-Machain's forcible abduction from a nation with which the U.S. has an extradition treaty does not prohibit his trial in a United States court for violations of the criminal laws in the U.S. The Court construed the treaty and concluded that there were no express provisions concerning obligations to refrain from forcible abductions, or the consequences under the treaty if such abduction occurred. The Court concluded that the language of the treaty, in the context of its history, did not support the finding that the treaty prohibited abductions outside of its terms. Nor did the Court find that the treaty should be interpreted so as to include an implied term prohibiting prosecution, where a defendant's presence was obtained by means other than those established by the treaty. The Court noted that the violation of any principle of international law did not constitute a violation of the treaty. The Court thus refused to imply in the treaty a term prohibiting international abductions.

  https://www.lexisnexis.com/community/casebrief/p/casebrief-united-states-v-alvarez-machain This turns out to be but a continuation of the Kerr-Frisbie doctrine named after two prior Supreme Court Cases. In Kerr v Illinois, dealing with a US citizen kidnapped from Peru, the court held

forcible abduction is no sufficient reason why the party should not answer when brought within the jurisdiction of the court which has the right to try him for such an offence

and in Frisbie v Collins the court held that kidnapping a suspect in Chicago to be be tried in Michigan was copacetic despite the violation of federal kidnapping statutes involved.   On this day in history: 763 BC – The Assyrians recorded a solar eclipse, later used to date Mesopotamian history. 1215 – King John put his seal to the Magna Carta.  1648 – Margaret Jones was hanged in Boston for witchcraft. Served her right I'm sure. 1667 – The first human blood transfusion was administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys. 1752 – Benjamin Franklin proved that lightning is electricity  1800 – The Provisional Army of the United States was dissolved, because everybody knew that standing armies sucked for innumerable reasons, duh.. 1844 – Charles Goodyear received a patent for vulcanizing rubber. 1846 – The Oregon Treaty set the 49th parallel as the border between the US and Canada from the Rockies to the Strait of Juan de Fuca. 1859 – The US - UK "Pig War" was fought over the continuation of the above boundary through the San Juan Islands.  Total casualties 1 pig. 1877 – Henry Ossian Flipper was the first African American cadet to graduate from the United States Military Academy. 1878 – Eadweard Muybridge took a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it runs; the study became the basis of motion pictures. 1919 – John Alcock and Arthur Brown completed the first nonstop transatlantic flight. 1921 – Bessie Coleman earned her pilot's license, becoming the first female pilot of African-American descent. 1944 – In the Saskatchewan general election, the CCF was elected and formed the first socialist government in North America. Stalin is said to have been elated. 1977 – The first democratic elections in Spain, after Franco's death in 1975. 1985 – Rembrandt's Danaë was attacked by a man using sulfuric acid and a knife. 1992 – The US Supreme Court ruled that it is permissible to forcibly kidnap suspects in foreign countries and bring them to the United States for trial, without the approval of those other countries. (United States v. Álvarez-Machaín) 2001 – The People's Republic of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan formed the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. Clearly seriously evil of them.   Born this day in: 

moonflowers-- one by one the wind rustles them    ~Issa

1330 – Edward, the Black Prince of England 1479 – Lisa del Giocondo, model, subject of the Mona Lisa 1542 – Richard Grenville, captain and explorer 1618 – François Blondel, architect  1763 – Kobayashi Issa, Buddhist priest and poet; one of "The Great Four" (haiku masters)  1809 – François-Xavier Garneau, poet and historian 1843 – Edvard Grieg, pianist and composer 1888 – Ramón López Velarde, poet and author 1894 – Nikolai Chebotaryov, mathematician and theorist 1906 – Gordon Welchman, mathematician and author 1910 – David Rose, pianist, composer, and conductor 1911 – Wilbert Awdry, author, co-created Thomas the Tank Engine  1921 – Erroll Garner, pianist and composer 1922 – Jaki Byard, pianist and composer 1934 – Ruby Nash Garnett, R&B singer (Ruby & the Romantics) 1937 – Waylon Jennings, singer, songwriter, and guitarist 1939 – Ward Connerly, activist and businessman, founded the American Civil Rights Institute 1941 – Harry Nilsson, singer and songwriter 1943 – Johnny Hallyday,  singer and actor 1946 – Noddy Holder, singer. songwriter, musician, and actor 1946 – Demis Roussos, singer, songwriter, and bass player 1951 – Steve Walsh, singer, songwriter, and musician (Kansas)   Died this day in: 1381 – Wat Tyler, rebel leader 1768 – James Short, mathematician and optician 1968 – Wes Montgomery,  guitarist and songwriter 1984 – Meredith Willson, playwright, composer, and conductor 1995 – John Vincent Atanasoff,  physicist and inventor, invented the Atanasoff–Berry computer  2013 – Kenneth G. Wilson, physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate 2018 – Matt "Guitar" Murphy,  guitarist   Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such: Global Wind Day   Music goes here, iirc, well, With apologies ;-)    Image is kites   It's an open thread, so do your thing

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