It's International Amateur Radio Day Ham radio operators like amateur enthusiasts in most technical fields have contributed a lot to the advancement and spread of both the hobby and the technology used. They have also often provided emergency communication services under a wide range of circumstances in a wide range of locations, even in this day and age.
BONUS: If it is at all possible that you might ever so slightly disagree with the officially approved and promulgated narrative concerning anything whatsoever, being a HAM could very well permit you to express that disagreement. Nobody has to listen to you, but your ISP or the tweeter or faceplant or any other such enforcer of the official narrative cannot disappear or otherwise censer you. This has the added benefit of allowing you to verifiably say "I told ya so" when the official narrative changes as it so often does and has.
In the US is is also National Lineman Appreciation Day. Sorry, but it really isn't my fault
We have A YAAD, Yet Another Awareness Day. In this case, Adult Autism Awareness Day Awareness days are when we declare the need to be aware of something like poverty or hunger or Adult Autism that we intend to do nothing whatsoever about, nothing to aid, assist, alleviate, ameliorate, or even understand, but we are, by golly, aware of it. Aren't we wonderful.
It's Invention Day in Japan. Something to think about. Just sayin'.
On this day in history:
1689 – Bostonians rose up in rebellion against Sir Edmund Andros. 1738 – Real Academia de la Historia ("Royal Academy of History") was founded in Madrid. 1775 – Paul Revere and other riders warned the countryside of British troop movements. 1783 – The first instance of black slaves in the United States of America being counted as three fifths of persons (for the purpose of taxation), in a resolution of the Congress of the Confederation. This was later adopted in the 1787 Constitution. 1847 – US victory at the battle of Cerro Gordo opened the way for invasion of Mexico. 1899 – The St. Andrew's Ambulance Association was granted a royal charter by Queen Victoria. 1902 – The 7.5 Mw? Guatemala earthquake shook Guatemala with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing between 800 and 2,000. 1906 – An earthquake and fire destroyed much of San Francisco, California. 1930 – The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) announced that "there is no news" in their evening report. 1942 – Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe and Nagoya were bombed by Doolittle's raiders. 1942 – Pierre Laval became Prime Minister of Vichy France. 1943 – Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto was killed when his aircraft was shot down by U.S. fighters over Bougainville Island. 1946 – The International Court of Justice held its inaugural meeting in The Hague, Netherlands. 1949 – The Republic of Ireland Act went into effect. 1954 – Gamal Abdel Nasser seized power in Egypt.
Some people who were born on this day:
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
~~ Clarence Darrow
1480 – Lucrezia Borgia, daughter of Pope Alexander VI, a Borgia. 1772 – David Ricardo, economist and politician 1813 – James McCune Smith, physician, apothecary, abolitionist, and author 1819 – Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, lawyer and activist ( made Grito de Yara) 1857 – Clarence Darrow, lawyer 1858 – Dhondo Keshav Karve, educator and activist, Bharat Ratna Awardee 1863 – Siegfried Bettmann, founder of the Triumph Motorcycle Company and Mayor of Coventry 1864 – Richard Harding Davis, journalist and author 1882 – Leopold Stokowski, conductor 1889 – Jessie Street, activist 1892 – Eugene Houdry, mechanical engineer and inventor 1900 – Bertha Isaacs, teacher, tennis player, politician and women's rights activist 1901 – Al Lewis, songwriter 1905 – George H. Hitchings, physician and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate 1916 – Carl Burgos, illustrator 1918 – Clifton Hillegass, publisher, founded CliffsNotes 1918 – Tony Mottola, guitarist and composer 1919 – Esther Afua Ocloo, entrepreneur and pioneer of microlending 1924 – Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, singer, songwriter, fiddle player, and guitarist 1934 – George Shirley, tenor and educator 1937 – Keiko Abe, marimba player and composer 1939 – Glen Hardin, pianist and arranger 1940 – Mike Vickers, guitarist, saxophonist, and songwriter 1944 – Kathy Acker, author and poet 1950 – Grigory Sokolov, pianist and composer 1954 – Robert Greenberg, pianist and composer 1958 – Gabi Delgado-López, singer, co-founder of D.A.F. 1981 – Audrey Tang, computer scientist and academic
Some people who died on this day:
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
~~ Albert Einstein
943 – Fujiwara no Atsutada, nobleman and poet 1556 – Luigi Alamanni, poet and politician 1732 – Louis Feuillée, astronomer, geographer, and botanist 1802 – Erasmus Darwin, physician and botanist 1832 – Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet, painter 1873 – Justus von Liebig, chemist and academic 1898 – Gustave Moreau, painter and academic 1912 – Martha Ripley, physician 1936 – Milton Brown, singer and bandleader 1936 – Ottorino Respighi, composer and conductor 1945 – John Ambrose Fleming, physicist and engineer, invented the vacuum tube 1945 – Ernie Pyle, journalist and soldier 1955 – Albert Einstein, physicist, engineer, and academic 2008 – Germaine Tillion, ethnologist and anthropologist 2012 – Dick Clark, television host and producer, founded Dick Clark Productions 2012 – Robert O. Ragland, musician
Some Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such: Coma Patients' Day (Poland) Adult Autism Awareness Day Dyngus Day Friend's Day (Brazil) National Lineman Appreciation Day (US) International Amateur Radio Day Boston Marathon Day (Boston, US) International Day For Monuments and Sites Invention Day (Japan)
MUSIC goes here; With apologies ;-)
Al Lewis
Tony Mottola
Gatemouth Brown
George Shirley
Keiko Abe
Glen Hardin
Mike Vickers
Grigory Sokolov
Gabi Delgado-López
Milton Brown
Ottorino Respighi
Ok, it's an open thread, so it's up to you folks now. So what's on your mind?
I won’t be here when this posts, sorry
Cross posted from http://caucus99percent.com