Today is day 179 of the Gregorian Calendar year, Prickle-Prickle, Confusion 33, 3187 YOLD (discordian) And let us not forget 13.0.8.11.11 mlc (the Mayan Long Count)
IT IS ALSO INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY, BUT THIS IS ABOUT TAU AT THE MOMENT:
AND ANOTHER TAU VIDEO BECAUSE PI REALLY IS WRONG
ALSO PLEASE REMEMBER THAT IT IS INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY SO TRY TO REMEMBER WHAT THE CAPS LOCK KEY USED TO BE CALLED. NO LUCK?? TOO YOUNG?? IT WAS CALLED
On this day in history:
1709 – Peter the Great defeated Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava. 1841 – The Paris Opera Ballet premiered Giselle 1865 – The Army of the Potomac was disbanded. 1882 – The Anglo-French Convention of 1882 marked the territorial boundaries between Guinea and Sierra Leone which are, of course, in Africa, not England or France. 1902 – The U.S. Congress passed the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal. 1911 – The Nakhla meteorite fell to Earth in Egypt containing evidence of aqueous processes on Mars,. 1914 – Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie were assassinated in Sarajevo 1919 – The Treaty of Versailles was signed, ending the state of war between Germany and the Allies of World War I. 1942 – Nazi Germany started its strategic summer offensive against the Soviet Union, oops 1948 – The Tito–Stalin Split resulted in the expulsion of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia from the Cominform. 1950 – South Korea executed between 60,000 and 200,000 suspected communist sympathizers (the Bodo League massacre) and blew up the Hangang Bridge which was packed with its own refugees and stranded their 5th division. Meanwhile, the North Korean Army conducted the Seoul National University Hospital massacre killing between 700 and 900 people.. 1964 – Malcolm X formed the Organization of Afro-American Unity. 1969 – The Stonewall Uprising began 1976 – The Angolan court sentenced US and UK mercenaries to death and prison terms in the Luanda Trial. 1978 – The Supremes barred quota systems in college admissions (Regents of the University of California v. Bakke) . 2001 – Slobodan Miloševic was extradited to the ICTY in The Hague to stand trial. 2004 – Sovereign power was handed to a puppet government by the Coalition Provisional Authority, putatively ending the U.S.-led rule of that Iraq. 2009 – Honduran president Manuel Zelaya was ousted by a local military coup which was, of course, blessed by the the US Secretary of State
Born this day in:
Life is full of infinite absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.
~~ Luigi Pirandello 1577 – Peter Paul Rubens, painter and diplomat 1712 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, philosopher and polymath 1824 – Paul Broca, physician, anatomist, and anthropologist 1825 – Emil Erlenmeyer, chemist 1831 – Joseph Joachim, violinist, composer, and conductor 1867 – Luigi Pirandello, dramatist, novelist, and poet 1894 – Jessie Baetz, artist, composer and pianist 1902 – Richard Rodgers, playwright and composer 1906 – Maria Goeppert Mayer, physicist and academic 1907 – Jimmy Mundy, saxophonist and composer 1909 – Eric Ambler, author and screenwriter 1912 – Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, physicist and philosopher 1922 – Hans Frauenfelder, physicist and biophysicist 1923 – Pete Candoli, trumpet player 1926 – George Booth, cartoonist 1926 – Mel Brooks, actor, director, producer, and screenwriter 1926 – Robert Ledley, academic and inventor 1927 – Correlli Barnett, historian and author 1927 – Frank Sherwood Rowland, chemist and academic 1930 – William C. Campbell, biologist and parasitologist 1934 – Bette Greene, journalist and author 1941 – Joseph Goguen, computer scientist and academic, developed the OBJ language 1943 – Klaus von Klitzing, physicist and academic 1945 – David Knights, bass player and producer 1945 – Raul Seixas, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer 1958 – Félix Gray, singer and songwriter 1959 – Clint Boon, singer and keyboard player 1964 – Steve Williamson, saxophonist and composer 1966 – Bobby Bare Jr., singer, songwriter and guitarist 1968 – Chayanne, singer-songwriter and actor 1975 – Jon Nödtveidt, singer, songwriter, and guitarist 1977 – Mark Stoermer, bass player, songwriter, and producer 1977 – Harun Tekin, singer and guitarist
Died this day in:
What is this thing we call government? Is it anything but organized violence? The law orders you to obey, and if you don't obey, it will compel you by force - all governments, all law and authority finally rest on force and violence, on punishment or fear of punishment.
~~ Alexandeer Berkman 1798 – John Henry Colclough, revolutionary 1889 – Maria Mitchell, astronomer and academic 1936 – Alexander Berkman, author and activist 1939 – Douglas H. Johnston, governor of the Chickasaw Nation 1965 – Red Nichols, cornet player, bandleader, and composer 1980 – José Iturbi, pianist and conductor 1995 – Petri Walli, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer 2014 – Seymour Barab, cellist and composer 2016 – Scotty Moore, guitarist
Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such: INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY Tau Day, a day similar to Pi Day celebrating the number Tau, which is equivalent to C/r, or, some would say 2*Pi. National Tapioca Day
Music goes here, iirc, well, With apologies ;-)
National Tapioca Day
Jimmy Mundy
Pete Candoli
David Knights
Raul Seixas
Clint Boon
Steve Williamson
Red Nichols
Jose Iturbe
Scotty Moore
Ok, it's an open thread, so it's up to you folks now. So what's on your mind?
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