08/23 - IDftRotSTaiA

Today is day 235 of the Gregorian Calendar year, Setting Orange, Bureaucracy 16, 3187 YOLD (discordian) And let us not forget 13.0.8.14.7 mlc (the Mayan Long Count)

Hey, Look!! It's a UN holiday. Bet you couldn't guess. This one happens to be the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition Phew. While abolished, it is still not gone, and still needs to be ferreted out and stopped except, of course, where it is still legal, such as those places where it is built into what they call a criminal justice system.

Today is also Hug Your Sweetheart Day, but if you need a special official, day for that, maybe you'd better just forget about it.

The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre on this day in 1572 was a great amount of mob violence and targeted assassinations carried out by French Catholics against French Huguenots in Paris. It was and largely still is believed to have been instigated by Queen Catherine de' Medici. After one particular assassination failed, the king stepped in and ordered the murder of a select group of Huguenots and the massacre spread like wildfire out into the country and to other cities, towns and villages, leaving as many as 30,000 dead depending upon who you believe. There was a fair amount of berayal and treachery involved and though technically part of the French Wars of Religion, it was such a large and perfidious massacre that Protestants throughout all of Europe began to consider Catholicism to be a "bloody and treacherous religion" (Chadwick, Henry; Evans, G. R. (1987). Atlas of the Christian church. London: Macmillan. p. 113. ISBN 978-0-333-44157-2. as reported in Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Bartholomew%27s_Day_massacre)

On this day in history:

AD 79 – Mount Vesuvius started stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan 1244 – Jerusalem's citadel, the Tower of David, surrendered to the Khwarezmian Empire. 1305 – Sir William Wallace was executed for high treason in London. 1382 – The Golden Horde led by Tokhtamysh besieged the capital of the Grand Duchy of Moscow. 1541 – Jacques Cartier landed near Quebec City 1572 – Mob violence against thousands of Huguenots in Paris resulted in the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre. 1741 – At least 2,000 people along the Japanese coast drowned in a tsunami caused by the eruption of Oshima. 1775 – King George III delivered his Proclamation of Rebellion to the Court of St James stating that the American colonies had proceeded to a state of open and avowed rebellion. 1831 – Nat Turner's rebellion was suppressed. 1839 – The UK captured Hong Kong as a base for the First Opium War with Qing China, a war it started to prevent China from banning opium and opium trade. 1898 – The Southern Cross Expedition departed from London. 1904 – The automobile tire chain was patented. 1923 – Captain Lowell Smith and Lieutenant John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling of an airplane 1927 – Sacco and Vanzetti were executed for being Italian Anarchists 1942 – The Battle of Stalingrad began 1943 – Kharkiv was liberated by the Soviet Union after the Battle of Kursk. 1944 – Marseille was liberated by the Allies. 1954 – The first flight of the Lockheed C-130 "Herky Bird" 1966 – Lunar Orbiter 1 took the first photo of Earth from lunar orbit 1970 – The Salad Bowl strike, the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history, began 1975 – The start of the Wave Hill walk-off by Gurindji people in Australia 1990 – West and East Germany announced that they will reunite on October 3. 1991 – The World Wide Web was opened to the public.

Born this day in:

Just when you're beginning to think pretty well of people, you run across somebody who puts sugar on sliced tomatoes.

It's easy to see the faults in people I know; it's hardest to see the good. Especially when the good isn't there.

~~ Will Cuppy

1482 – Jo Gwang-jo, philosopher 1486 – Sigismund von Herberstein, historian and diplomat 1623 – Stanislaw Lubieniecki, astronomer, theologian, and historian 1769 – Georges Cuvier, biologist and academic 1783 – William Tierney Clark, engineer 1829 – Moritz Cantor, mathematician and historian 1846 – Alexander Milne Calder, sculptor 1847 – Sarah Frances Whiting, physicist and astronomer 1849 – William Ernest Henley, poet and critic 1852 – Arnold Toynbee, economist and historian 1868 – Edgar Lee Masters, lawyer, author, poet, and playwright 1875 – William Eccles, physicist and engineer 1875 – Eugene Lanceray, painter and sculptor 1884 – Will Cuppy, author and critic 1897 – Henry F. Pringle, historian and journalist 1900 – Malvina Reynolds, singer, songwriter, and activist 1905 – Ernie Bushmiller, cartoonist 1908 – Hannah Frank, sculptor and illustrator 1913 – Bob Crosby, singer and bandleader 1917 – Tex Williams, singer, songwriter, and guitarist 1919 – Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin, mathematician and theorist 1923 – Edgar F. Codd, computer scientist and programmer 1926 – Clifford Geertz, anthropologist and academic 1927 – Allan Kaprow, painter and author 1927 – Martial Solal, pianist and composer 1931 – Hamilton O. Smith, microbiologist and academic, 1932 – Mark Russell, comedian and pianist 1933 – Robert Curl, chemist and academic 1936 – Rudy Lewis, singer 1938 – Roger Greenaway, singer, songwriter, and producer 1943 – Pino Presti, bass player, composer, conductor, and producer 1946 – Keith Moon, drummer, songwriter, and producer 1947 – Linda Thompson, folk-rock singer and songwriter 1948 – Lev Zeleny, physicist and academic 1949 – Rick Springfield, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actor 1951 – Jimi Jamison, singer, songwriter and musician 1953 – Bobby G, singer and songwriter 1956 – Andreas Floer, mathematician and academic 1959 – Edwyn Collins, singer, songwriter, and guitarist 1960 – Gary Hoey, guitarist, songwriter, and producer 1961 – Dean DeLeo, guitarist and songwriter 1962 – Shaun Ryder, singer, songwriter, and actor 1968 – Laura Claycomb, soprano 1969 – Keith Tyson, painter and illustrator 1974 – Konstantin Novoselov, physicist and academic 1975 – Eliza Carthy, folk musician 1978 – Julian Casablancas, singer, songwriter, and producer 1989 – Lianne La Havas, British singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist 1989 – Trixie Mattel, American drag queen, actor, and country singer

Died this day in:

“Every man dies, but not every man truly lives.”

“There are wars, there is pain, there is suffering, and there is even death. But none of these things prepare you for Monday morning.”

~~ William Wallace 1305 – William Wallace, rebel commander

1328 – Nicolaas Zannekin, peasant leader (in the battle of Cassel) 1540 – Guillaume Budé, philosopher and scholar 1806 – Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, physicist and engineer 1813 – Alexander Wilson (ornithologist), poet, ornithologist, and illustrator 1867 – Auguste-Marseille Barthélemy, poet and author 1927 – Nicola Sacco, Italian anarchist victim of US "justice" system 1927 – Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchist victim of US "justice" system 1933 – Adolf Loos, architect and theoretician, designed Villa Müller 1949 – Helen Churchill Candee, geographer, journalist, feminist, and author ( 1960 – Oscar Hammerstein II, director, producer, and composer 1977 – Naum Gabo, sculptor and academic 1982 – Stanford Moore, biochemist and academic 1989 – R. D. Laing, psychiatrist and author 1990 – David Rose, pianist and composer 1997 – John Kendrew, biochemist and crystallographer, 2001 – Peter Maas, journalist and author 2006 – Maynard Ferguson, trumpet player and bandleader (b. 1928) 2012 – Jerry Nelson, American puppeteer and voice actor

Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such: Battle of Kursk Day (Russia)

Daffodil Day

European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism

International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition

Buttered Corn Day

Ride The Wind Day

Cuban Sandwich Day

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

Malvina Reynolds

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Bob Crosby

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