Today is day 109 of the Gregorian Calendar year, Prickle-Prickle, Discord 36, 3187 YOLD discordian And let us not forget 13.0.8.8.1 mlc (the Mayan Long Count)
Bicycle Day is really about Albert Hoffman's first ever intentional LSD trip, including his bicycle ride home from the lab. Now lissen up folks:
Patriots Day, and John Parker Day memorialize the start of the US Revolutionary War with the battles of Lexington and Concord.
On this day in history:
1506 – The Lisbon Massacre (of Jews by Catholics) began. 1713 – Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI issued the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713. 1770 – Captain James Cook sighted the eastern coast of what is now Australia. 1775 – The Revolutionary war began with the battles of Lexington and Concord. 1818 – Augustin Fresnel signed his preliminary "Note on the Theory of Diffraction". 1927 – Mae West was sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity. 1943 – The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising began. 1943 – Albert Hofmann deliberately dosed himself with LSD for the first time. 1960 – South Korean students held a nationwide protest against Syngman Rhee, 1971 – Salyut 1, the first space station, was launched. 1993 – The FBI siege of the Branch Davidians ended when a fire broke out. 1995 – The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was bombed 2011 – Fidel Castro resigned as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba
Born this day in:
One of the big misapprehensions about mathematics that we perpetrate in our classrooms is that the teacher always seems to know the answer to any problem that is discussed. This gives students the idea that there is a book somewhere with all the right answers to all of the interesting questions, and that teachers know those answers. And if one could get hold of the book, one would have everything settled. That's so unlike the true nature of mathematics.
~~ Leon Henkin 1806 – Sarah Bagley, labor organizer 1831 – Mary Louise Booth, writer, editor and translator 1872 – Alice Salomon, social reformer 1877 – Ole Evinrude, engineer who invented the outboard motor 1912 – Glenn T. Seaborg, chemist and academic 1919 – Sol Kaplan, pianist and composer 1920 – Gene Leis, guitarist, composer, and producer 1921 – Leon Henkin, logician 1934 – Dickie Goodman, singer, songwriter, and producer 1941 – Bobby Russell, singer and songwriter 1942 – Alan Price, keyboard player, singer, and composer 1944 – Bernie Worrell, keyboard player and songwriter 1960 – Ara Gevorgyan, pianist, composer, and producer 1964 – Kim Weaver, astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic
Died this day in:
“The great object of life is sensation- to feel that we exist, even though in pain.”
~~ Lord Byron 1588 – Paolo Veronese, painter 1824 – Lord Byron, poet and playwright 1831 – Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, astronomer and mathematician 1882 – Charles Darwin, biologist and theorist 1906 – Pierre Curie, physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate 1914 – Charles Sanders Peirce, mathematician and philosopher 1916 – Ephraim Shay, engineer who designed the Shay locomotive 1989 – Daphne du Maurier, novelist and playwright 1998 – Octavio Paz, poet, philosopher, and academic 2009 – J. G. Ballard, novelist, short story writer, and essayist
Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such: Bicycle Day National Garlic Day Patriots' Day (Massachusetts, Maine and Wisconsin, United States) John Parker Day National Amaretto Day
Music goes here, iirc, well, With apologies ;-)
Bicycle Day
Gene Leis
Dickie Goodman
Bobby Russell
Alan Price
Bernie Worrell
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