Nikola Tesla was a Serb who emigrated to the US where he bacame an inventor, electrical engineer and mechanical engineer. He was a proponent of aalternating current and developed an assortment of alternating current devices including the Tesla Coil and was granted nearly 300 patents. The international unit of magnetic flux density is named the Tesla in his honor.
On 07/10/2024, Paavo Nurmi won the Olympic 1,500 meter and 5,000 meter races one hour apart, setting records in both events. Somewhat prodigous for it day, it was arguably less so for Mr. Nurmi, known as the Flying Finn. He set 22 world records, held a 121 race winning streak at distances from 800 meters up and a 14 year winning streak in some other events including the 10,000 meter run. There's more if you are interested in such things
On this day in history:
1499 -- Nicolau Coelho returned to Lisbon having found the sea route to India with Vasco da Gama. 1778 - France declared war on Great Britain in support of the American Revolution 1821 -- The US took possession of Florida 1913 -- The temperature in Death Valley hit 134 F 1921 - Bloody Sunday in Belfast 1924 - Paavo Nurmi won the Olympic 1,500 and 5,000 m races an hour apart 1925 -- The Scopes Trial began 1938 - Howard Hughes began his (91 hour) record around the world flight 1940 -- The Vichy government was established 1951 -- Negotiations to end the Korean War began 1962 -- Telstar was launched 1966 -- The Chicago Freedom Movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., held a rally at Soldier Field 1985 -- Assassins of the French DGSE bombed and sunk the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland killing Fernando Pereira. 1991 -- Boris Yeltsin took office as President of Russia 1992 -- Manuel Noriega was sentenced to 40 years for pissing off his former boss and the US' first known CIA president, Bush the elder. This was the first application of the Bush doctrine, according to which the US can pass extraterritorial laws and edicts governing the behavior of foreign citizens and governments within their home countries and enforce such edicts and laws by military invasions, kidnappings, and other acts of war. 1997 - Scientists reported the findings of a DNA study of a Neanderthal skeleton that supported the "Out of Africa" of evolution 72 years after Scopes
Some people who were born on this day:
It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.
~~ William Blackstone
1509 -- John Calvin, yet another preacher 1723 -- William Blackstone, lawyer and judge, author of The Commentaries ... 1830 -- Camille Pissarro, influential painter 1832 -- Alvan Graham Clark, astronomer and telescope maker who discovered Sirius B 1834 -- James Abbott McNeill Whistler, painter famous for his mom 1856 -- Nikola Tesla, physicist, engineer, and inventor 1871 -- Marcel Proust, writer 1875 -- Mary McLeod Bethune, activist and educator, started what became Bethune-Cookman U. 1878 -- Otto Freundlich, sculpter and painter 1891 -- Edith Quimby, medical researcher and physicist, a founder of nuclear medicine 1894 – Jimmy McHugh, composer 1895 -- Carl Orff, composer 1897 -- Legs Diamond, businessman 1902 – Kurt Alder, chemist and academic 1902 – Nicolás Guillén, poet, journalist, and activist 1903 – John Wyndham, author 1905 -- Mildred Benson, author (Nancy Drew) 1907 -- Blind Boy Fuller, Piedmont Blues guitarist and singer 1911 -- Cootie Williams, trumpet player and bandleader 1920 -- David Brinkley, journalist 1920 -- Owen Chamberlain, physicist, co-discoverer of anti-proton 1921 -- Harvey Ball, illustator and recognized creator of the smiley face 1921 -- Eunice Kennedy Shriver, activist and co-founder of the Special Olympics 1922 -- Jean Kerr, author and playwright 1930 – Janette Sherman, physician, author, researcher in occupational and environmental health 1931 -- Alice Munro, author 1933 - Jumpin' Gene Simmons, rockabilly singer and songwriter 1938 -- Lee Morgan, trumpet player and composer 1939 -- Mavis Staples, THE Mavis Staples 1943 -- Jerry Miller, guitarist, singer and songwriter 1947 -- Arlo Guthrie, singer, songwriter, guitarist, activist 1974 -- Imelda May, singer and songwriter, plays: bodhran, guitar, bass guitar and tambourine. She has a truly bodacious bodhran
Some people who died on this day:
“You don’t win battles with hate. Anger and hate can make you brave, make you strong, but they also make you stupid. You end up tripping over your own two feet.”
~~ Emperor Hadrian
0138 -- Hadrian, Roman emperor, walled off the Scots 1851 -- Louis Daguerre, photographer and physicist, invented the daguerreotype 1941 -- Jelly Roll Morton, pianist and bandleader 1954 -- Calogero Vizzini, Sicilian mafia leader 1979 -- Arthur Fiedler, conductor 1987 -- John Hammond, record producer and activist, the people he "discovered", produced or promoted will boggle your mind 1989 -- Mel Blanc, voice of nearly all but Fudd
Some Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such: Nikola Tesla Day
Today's Tunes
MUSICAL TESLA COILS !!
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Scopes
Tellstar
Noreiga
Jimmy McHugh
Carl Orff (sort of)
Blind Boy Fuller
Cootie Williams
Jumpin' Gene Simmons
Lee Morgan
Mavis Staples
Jerry Miller
Arlo Guthrie
Imedla May
Jelly Roll Morton
Arthur Fiedler
John Hammond -
Mel Blanc
Bonus:
Blind Boy Fuller
Mavis Staples
Another side of Imelda May:
What an Ornament sounds like:
Ok, it's an open thread, so it's up to you folks now. So what's on your mind?
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