It's Houseplant Appreciation Day. What can one say, they clean the air, bring the outdoors in, soften the hard edges and change the mood. Enjoy them if yu have them, consider getting one or more if you don't.
It's also Fête du Vodoun, so get with it!
On this day in history:
49 BCE – Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon, starting a civil war 9 CE – The Western Han dynasty ended and the Xin dynasty began. 1776 – Thomas Paine published his pamphlet Common Sense 1812 – The first steamboat on the Ohio or Mississippi Rivers arrived in New Orleans, 82 days after departing Pittsburgh, 1863 – The Metropolitan Railway opened between Paddington and Farringdon 1870 – John D. Rockefeller incorporated Standard Oil 1901 – The first great Texas oil gusher was discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas. 1901 – Automobile Club of America installed signs on major highways in New York. 1920 – The Treaty of Versailles took effect, officially ending World War I. 1920 – League of Nations Covenant entered into force. 1927 – Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis was released in Germany. 1946 – The first General Assembly of the United Nations met 1946 – The US Army Signal Corps successfully bounced radio waves off the Moon, receiving the reflected signals 1966 – Tashkent Declaration resolved the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. 1984 – The United States and Holy See re-established full diplomatic relations 1985 – Sandinista Daniel Ortega became president of Nicaragua
Born this day in:
Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer, Art is all the rest
~~ Donald Knuth 1850 – John Wellborn Root, architect 1891 – Heinrich Behmann, mathematician and academic 1898 – Katharine Burr Blodgett, physicist and engineer 1900 – Violette Cordery, racing driver 1907 – Gordon Kidd Teal, engineer and inventor 1911 – Binod Bihari Chowdhury, activist 1911 – Norman Heatley, biologist and chemist 1916 – Sune Bergström, biochemist and academic 1927 – Gisele MacKenzie, singer and actress 1927 – Johnnie Ray, singer, songwriter, and pianist 1935 – Ronnie Hawkins, rockabilly singer, songwriter, and guitarist 1936 – Robert Woodrow Wilson, physicist and astronomer 1938 – Donald Knuth, computer scientist and mathematician 1939 – Scott McKenzie, singer, songwriter, and guitarist 1940 – Godfrey Hewitt, geneticist and academic 1943 – Jim Croce, singer and songwriter 1944 – Frank Sinatra, Jr., singer and actor 1945 – Rod Stewart, singer and songwriter 1945 – Gunther von Hagens, anatomist, invented plastination 1948 – Donald Fagen, singer, songwriter, and musician 1953 – Pat Benatar, singer and songwriter 1956 – Shawn Colvin, singer, songwriter, and guitarist 1962 – Kathryn S. McKinley, computer scientist and academic 1964 – Brad Roberts, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
Died this day in:
When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.
~~ Sinclair Lewis 1552 – Johann Cochlaeus, humanist and controversialist 1654 – Nicholas Culpeper, botanist, physician, and astrologer 1778 – Carl Linnaeus, botanist and physician 1855 – Mary Russell Mitford, author and playwright 1862 – Samuel Colt, engineer and businessman 1917 – Buffalo Bill, soldier and hunter 1941 – Issai Schur, mathematician and academic 1949 – Erich von Drygalski, geographer and geophysicist 1951 – Sinclair Lewis, novelist, short-story writer, and playwright 1954 – Chester Wilmot, journalist and historian 1961 – Dashiell Hammett, detective novelist and screenwriter 1976 – Howlin' Wolf, singer, songwriter, harmonicist, and guitarist 1987 – Marion Hutton, singer 1997 – Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, biochemist and academic, 2011 – Margaret Whiting, singer 2013 – Claude Nobs, founded the Montreux Jazz Festival 2014 – Sam Berns, activist 2016 – David Bowie, singer, songwriter, producer, and actor 2017 – Buddy Greco, jazz and pop singer and pianist
Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such: Fête du Vodoun (Benin) Houseplant Appreciation Day Peculiar People Day
Music goes here, iirc, well, With apologies ;-)
Johnnie Ray
Ronnie Hawkins
Scott McKenzie
Jim Croce
Rod Stewart
Donald Fagan
Pat Benatar
Howlin' Wolf
David Bowie
Buddy Greco
Ok, it's an open thread, so it's up to you folks now. So what's on your mind?
Cross posted from http://caucus99percent.com