12/06 is Miners' Day

It's Miners' Day There is much, too much, that one could and should say about the history of mining in the US, but I decided not to write that rant.  We can all compose it here now, just sitting back and contemplating all of it, in its entirety and from all angles and perspectives.

On this day in history:

1240 – Kyiv fell to the Mongols under Batu Khan. 1492 – Columbus landed on Hispaniola 1534 – The city of Quito, Ecuador, was founded 1790 – The U.S. Congress moved from New York City to Philadelphia. 1884 – The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C.,was completed. 1897 – London became the world's first city with licensed taxicabs. 1904 – Teddy Roosevelt said that the U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable. 1917 – USS Jacob Jones was sunk by German submarine SM U-53. 1921 – The Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed in London by British and Irish representatives. 1922 – The Irish Free State came into existence. 1928 – The government of Colombia sent military forces to suppress a month-long strike by United Fruit Company workers, 1933 – U.S. federal judge John M. Woolsey ruled that James Joyce's novel Ulysses is not obscene. YES! 1967 – Adrian Kantrowitz performed the first human heart transplant in the United States. 1969 –  Eighteen-year old Meredith Hunter was killed at the Altamont Free Concert 1971 – Pakistan severed diplomatic relations with India, initiating the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. 1973 – The US House of Representatives voted to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States. 1978 – Spain ratified the Spanish Constitution of 1978 in a referendum. 1998 – Hugo Chávez was victorious in Venezuela's presidential elections. 1999 – The RIAA sued Napster, alleging copyright infringement 2006 – NASA revealed photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars. 2017 – Donald Trump's administration officially announced the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

Born this day in:

I had the first integrated Army band in World War II.

~~     Dave Brubeck 1545 – Janus Dousa, historian 1586 – Niccolò Zucchi, Italian astronomer and physicist 1640 – Claude Fleury, historian and author 1645 – Maria de Dominici, sculptor and painter 1778 – Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, physicist and chemist 1835 – Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig, chemist 1841 – Frédéric Bazille, painter and soldier 1848 – Johann Palisa, astronomer 1853 – Hans Molisch, botanist and academic 1863 – Charles Martin Hall, chemist and engineer 1884 – Cornelia Meigs, author, playwright, and academic 1886 – Joyce Kilmer, soldier, author, and poet 1887 – Joseph Lamb, pianist and composer 1890 – Yoshio Nishina, physicist and academic 1896 – Ira Gershwin, songwriter 1898 – Alfred Eisenstaedt, photographer and journalist 1901 – Eliot Porter, photographer and academic 1904 – Ève Curie, journalist and pianist 1905 – Elizabeth Yates, journalist and author 1907 – John Barkley Rosser Sr., logician 1908 – Herta Freitag, mathematician 1916 – Hugo Peretti, songwriter and producer 1919 – Paul de Man, philosopher, literary critic and theorist 1920 – Dave Brubeck, pianist and composer 1920 – George Porter, chemist and academic, 1929 – Frank Springer, comic book illustrator 1936 – Bill Ashton, saxophonist and composer 1941 – Helen Cornelius, country singer, songwriter, and actress 1941 – Bill Thomas, academic and politician 1942 – Robb Royer, guitarist, keyboard player, and songwriter 1943 – Mike Smith, singer, songwriter, keyboard player, and producer 1943 – Keith West, singer, songwriter, and music producer 1946 – Frankie Beverly, singer, songwriter, musician, and producer 1947 – Miroslav Vitouš, bassist and songwriter 1949 – Linda Barnes, author, playwright, and educator 1949 – Linda Creed, singer and songwriter 1949 – Doug Marlette, author and cartoonist 1952 – Craig Newmark, Acomputer programmer and entrepreneur; founded Craigslist 1952 – Shio Sato, illustrator 1954 – Chris Stamey, singer, songwriter, musician, and music producer 1955 – Anne Begg, educator and politician 1955 – Rick Buckler, drummer, songwriter, and producer 1956 – Peter Buck, guitarist, songwriter, and producer 1956 – Randy Rhoads, guitarist, songwriter, and producer 1957 – Adrian Borland, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer 1958 – Nick Park, animator, director, producer, and screenwriter 1959 – Satoru Iwata, game programmer and businessman 1959 – Stephen Muggleton, computer scientist and engineer 1959 – Deborah Estrin, computer scientist and academic 1961 – David Lovering, drummer 1961 – Jonathan Melvoin, musician 1962 – Ben Watt, singer, songwriter, musician, author, DJ, and radio presenter 1970 – Ulf Ekberg, singer, songwriter, keyboard player, and producer

Died this day in:

If you dissent without breaking the law then you are legitimizing the system that allows this kind of latitude. You have to break the law to touch the state.

~~     Philip Berrigan 1562 – Jan van Scorel, painter 1616 – Ahmad Ibn al-Qadi, writer, judge and mathematician 1718 – Nicholas Rowe, poet and playwright 1746 – Lady Grizel Baillie, poet and songwriter 1771 – Giovanni Battista Morgagni, anatomist and pathologist 1779 – Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, painter 1855 – William John Swainson, ornithologist and entomologist 1882 – Anthony Trollope, novelist, essayist, and short story writer 1918 – Alexander Dianin, chemist 1951 – Harold Ross,  journalist and publisher, founded The New Yorker 1988 – Roy Orbison, singer, songwriter, and guitarist 1989 – Sammy Fain, pianist and composer 2002 – Philip Berrigan, priest and activist 2011 – Dobie Gray, singer, songwriter, and producer 2013 – Stan Tracey, pianist and composer

Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such: Anniversary of the Founding of Quito (Ecuador) Miners' Day Constitution Day (Spain) National Microwave Oven Day  

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

Ira Gershwin

- Hugo Peretti

Dave Brubeck

Roy Orbison

Dobie Grey