Don't know what that's about and don't want to.
It's also the International Day against Nuclear Tests. WOW, that's an oldie. How about trying to stop the nuclear war that all of the war harks are trying to provoke instead? Maybe try Individual Rights Day instead? Not in this country, we don't believe in them. Sure, we talk about them all the time on the international stage, but, all hat and no pony as they say in Tejas or someplace like that. We could go with Motorist Consideration Monday, but I suspect that to be a sloganism for being considerate to other motorists and that goes nowhere. This is the age of inconsiderateness, nobody has any consideration for anybody else, and why not, that is our founding principle, win everything and beat everybody else at all costs. It is every person for themselves and winner take all and god wanted it that way which is why USA, USA, USA! If anything defines predatory rentier capitalism it is "self and selfishness uber alles". So, I guess that leaves us with Potteries Bottle Oven Day which sounds like the kind of word salad that comes out of the mouths of our politicians, so it must really be something profound, at least as much as maybe Fish Peanut Locomotive Day or somesuch verbiage. /rant
On this day in history:
0708 -- First minting of copper coins in Japan 1756 -- Frederick the Great started the French and Indian War by attacking Saxony 1786 -- Shays' Rebellion started 1825 -- Portugal recognized Brazil's independence 1831 -- Faraday discovered electromagnetic induction. 1885 -- Gottlieb Daimler patented the first motorcycle (& first ICE powered vehicle) 1911 -- Ishi came in from the cold 1916 -- The US passed the Philippine Autonomy Act 1922 -- The first radio ad was broadcast 1949 -- The Soviet Union tested its first A-bomb 1970 -- Rioting cops killed 3 people at the Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War in East LA 1991 -- The Soviet Union's Supreme Soviet suspended all activities of the Soviet Communist Party 2005 -- Hurricane Katrina hit the US Gulf Coast.
Some people who were born on this day:
Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.
~~ John Locke
1632 -- John Locke, physician and philosopher 1777 -- Hyacinth, founder of Sinology 1780 -- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, painter and illustrator 1862 -- Maurice Maeterlinck, poet and playwright 1920 -- Charlie Parker, saxophonist and composer 1924 -- Dinah Washington, singer and pianist 1927 -- Jimmy C. Newman, singer, songwriter and guitarist; Opry dude 1938 -- Robert Rubin, economic Shiva 1945 -- Chris Copping, singer, songwriter and guitarist 1951 -- Geoff Whitehorn, singer, songwriter and guitarist 1952 -- Dave Malone, singer, songwriter and guitarist, collaborated with the Iguanas 1958 -- Michael Jackson, singer, songwriter, producer, dancer, and actor. A smoothie 1960 -- Tony MacAlpine, guitarist, songwriter, and producer 1971 -- Alex Griffin, bass player 1975 -- Kyle Cook, singer, songwriter and guitarist 1985 -- Achilles Liarmakopoulos, trombonist
Some people who died on this day:
... for as the overflowing of water doe at length make the river loose its proper channell, so those that seeke to extend their power beyond their bounds, have ever hitherto lost not only their powers by them usurped, but often even that also which by right belonged unto them …
~~ John (Freeborn John) Lilburne
1533 -- Atahualpa, Sovereign emperor, victim of Spanish/Papal Imperialism 1657 -- John Lilburne, activist, freeborn John, a leveller 1769 -- Edmond Hoyle, author and educator, according to whom ... 1780 -- Jacques-Germain Soufflot, architect who co-designed The Pantheon 1856 -- Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, anti-slavery activist and author 1930 -- William Archibald Spooner, priest, author and Oxford Don after whom Spoonerisms are named 1946 -- John Steuart Curry, painter and academic 1968 -- Ulysses S. Grant III, the guy buried in Grant's tomb 1976 -- Jimmy Reed, singer, songwriter and guitarist 1981 -- Lowell Thomas, journalist and author 2007 -- Alfred Peet, patron saint of coffee, founded Peet's Coffee & Tea in Berkeley in 1966. 2011 -- David "Honeyboy" Edwards, singer, songwriter and guitarist
Some Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such: Christian Feast of the Beheading of John the Baptist (I shit you not) International Day against Nuclear Tests (international) Individual Rights Day Motorist Consideration Monday Potteries Bottle Oven Day
Today's Tunes
Frederick the Great of Prussia, flautist and composer
Charlie Parker
Dinah Washington
Jimmy C. Newman
Chris Copping
Geoff Whitehorn
Dave Malone
Michael Jackson
Tony MacAlpine
Alex Griffin
Achilles Liarmakopoulos
Jimmy Reed
David "Honeyboy" Edwards
Ok, it's an open thread, so it's up to you folks now. So what's on your mind?
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