08/09 International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples

Today is day 221 of the Gregorian Calendar year, Sweetmorn, Bureaucracy 2, 3187 YOLD (discordian) And let us not forget 3.0.8.13.13 mlc (the Mayan Long Count)

Today is the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples. There is really nothing one can say, or at lest nothing I feel qualified and entitled to say. Far too many wrongs that cannot be righted, far too many to even be remembered, yet we really should try.

Today is also the anniversary of the day that the US destroyed Nagasaki with an atomic bomb instantly killing 35,000, including 150 Japanese soldiers and at least 8 to 13 of the 400 allied POWs incarcerated there.

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On this day in 1974, Nixon resigned. Sadly, it did not catch on.

Lastly, it was on this day in 2014 that a Ferguson, Mo police officer shot and killed Michael Brown, leaving the body lie in the street either to ensure that he bled out and died or to serve as a warning to others, as is all too common in these all too frequent occurrences. As usual, we will never know with certainty what happened because the victim was rendered permanently unable to testify and most eyewitnesses recanted their orininal statements upon interrogation by the Ferguson PD, which had been harassing, abusing, and, with the aid of the local judiciary, exploiting the black population of Ferguson for as long as anybody can remember. The killing sparked some serious local unrest, media attention and political hand-wringing and then was buried under the normal news churn, which included a sufficiently plentiful supply of police violence against black people to indicate that despite said media attention and political hand-wringing, nothing had changed on a nationwide basis.

On this day in history:

21610 – The First Anglo-Powhatan War began in colonial Virginia. 1814 – The Creek signed the Treaty of Fort Jackson at gunpoint, giving up huge parts of Alabama and Georgia. 1842 – The Webster–Ashburton Treaty was signed, defining the US–Canada border east of the Rockies 1892 – Thomas Edison patented a two-way telegraph. 1944 – The USFS and the Wartime Advertising Council released the first posters featuring Smokey the Bear, 1945 – Nagasaki was destroyed when the US dropped an A-bomb on it–about 35,000 people were killed instantly, including 150 actual Japanese soldiers. 1974 – Richard Nixon became the first US President to resign 2014 – Michael Brown, a black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, was shot and killed by a Ferguson police officer

Born this day in:

He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping.

~~ Izaak Walton

1537 – Francesco Barozzi, mathematician, astronomer, and humanist 1593 – Izaak Walton, writer 1653 – John Oldham, poet and translator 1757 – Thomas Telford, architect and engineer, designed the Menai Suspension Bridge 1776 – Amedeo Avogadro, physicist and chemist (6.022 x 1023) 1861 – Dorothea Klumpke, astronomer and academic 1867 – Evelina Haverfield, nurse and activist 1878 – Eileen Gray, architect and furniture designer 1890 – Eino Kaila, philosopher, physicist, and psychologist 1896 – Erich Hückel, physicist and chemist 1896 – Jean Piaget, psychologist and philosopher 1902 – Zino Francescatti, violinist 1909 – Willa Beatrice Player, educator, 1911 – William Alfred Fowler, astronomer and astrophysicist 1913 – Wilbur Norman Christiansen, astronomer and engineer 1915 – Mareta West, astronomer and geologist 1922 – Philip Larkin, poet and novelist 1925 – David A. Huffman, computer scientist, developed Huffman coding 1931 – James Freeman Gilbert, geophysicist and academic 1939 – The Mighty Hannibal, singer, songwriter, and producer 1939 – Billy Henderson, singer 1939 – Butch Warren, bassist 1940 – Linda Keen, mathematician and academic 1946 – Rinus Gerritsen, rock bass player 1947 – Barbara Mason, singer and songwriter 1954 – Pete Thomas, drummer 1963 – Whitney Houston, singer, songwriter, producer, and actress 1968 – Sam Fogarino, drummer 1986 – Tyler Smith, singer, songwriter, and bass player

Died this day in:

The truth is lived, not taught.

~~ Hermann Hesse

1516 – Hieronymus Bosch, painter 1932 – John Charles Fields, mathematician, founder of the Fields Medal 1943 – Chaïm Soutine, painter and educator 1962 – Hermann Hesse, poet, novelist, and painter 1969 – C. F. Powell, physicist and academic 1974 – Bill Chase, trumpet player and bandleader 1975 – Dmitri Shostakovich, pianist and composer 1995 – Jerry Garcia, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist 1996 – Frank Whittle, soldier and engineer, invented the jet engine 2002 – Paul Samson, guitarist 2004 – Tony Mottola, guitarist and composer 2005 – Judith Rossner, author 2006 – James Van Allen, physicist and academic 2010 – Calvin "Fuzz" Jones, singer and bass player 2013 – Eduardo Falú, guitarist and composer

Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such: International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples (United Nations)[28] V-J Day National Hand Holding Day

Music goes here, iirc, well, With apologies ;-)

Billy Henderson

Butch Warren

Rinus Gerritsen

Barbara Mason

Pete Thomes

Whitney Houston