Happy Solstice
(In 2016, summer/winter begins on the solstice; June 20 at 6:34 p.m. EDT.)
June 20 is the 171st day of the year, there are 194 days left in 2016
An icosahedron has 20 faces A dodecahedron has 20 vertices. 20 is the atomic number of calcium. "what's your 20?" = "10-20" = "where are you?" 20 is one meaning of "a score" A 20 is a Jackson until 2020 when it will be a Tubman 20 is an android app, - some sort of game
Title 20 of the US Code is EDUCATION
20 BCE Was the Year of the Consulship of Appuleius and Nerva Parthia and Rome entered into a peace treaty.
20 CE Was the Year of the Consulship of Marcus Valerius Messalla Barbatus and Cotta Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso committed suicide rather than face trial for the murder of Germanicus
On this day in: 1248 -- The University of Oxford received its Royal charter. 1756 -- A British garrison was imprisoned in the Black Hole of Calcutta. 1782 -- Congress adopted the Great Seal of the U.S., previously orphaned 1819 -- The SS Savannah became the first steam-propelled vessel to cross the Atlantic. 1837 -- Queen Victoria became queen. 1840 -- Samuel Morse got the patent for the telegraph. 1877 -- Alexander Graham Bell installed the first commercial phone service (in Canada.) 1893 -- Lizzie Borden was acquitted of the murders of her parents. 1945 -- The U.S. Secretary of State approved the transfer of Wernher von Braun and his team to the U.S.. 1963 -- The "red telephone" was set up between the USSR and the U.S. 1972 -- An 18½-minute gap appeared in the tape of Nixon and his advisers talking about Watergate 2003 -- The Wikimedia Foundation was foundedated founded
x YouTube VideoBorn this day in: 1907 -- Jimmy Driftwood, singer, songwriter, and banjo player 1924 -- Chet Atkins, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer 1924 -- Fritz Koenig, sculptor and academic, designed The Sphere 1928 -- Eric Dolphy, saxophonist, flute player, and composer 1937 -- Jerry Keller, singer &songwriter 1942 -- Brian Wilson, singer, songwriter & producer (The Beach Boys) 1945 -- Anne Murray, singer and guitarist 1946 -- enhydra lutris, ne'er do well, 60's radical, activist & rabble rouser 1947 -- Dolores "LaLa" Brooks, singer & songwriter (The Crystals) 1949 -- Alan Longmuir, bass player, songwriter, and actor (Bay City Rollers) 1949 -- Lionel Richie, singer, songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor (Commodores) 1954 -- Michael Anthony, bass player (Van Halen and Chickenfoot) 1960 -- John Taylor, singer, songwriter, bass player, producer and actor (Duran Duran, The Power Station, and Neurotic Outsiders) 1963 -- Amir Derakh, guitarist (Orgy, Rough Cutt, Julien-K, and Dead by Sunrise) 1971 -- Jeordie White, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and bass player (Marilyn Manson, Nine Inch Nails, A Perfect Circle, Goon Moon and The Desert Sessions) 1973 -- Chino Moreno, singer, songwriter (Deftones, Team Sleep, and Crosses) 1976 -- Jerome Fontamillas, singer and guitarist (Switchfoot, Mortal, and Fold Zandura) 1979 -- Charlotte Hatherley, singer, songwriter and guitarist (Ash, Nightnurse, and Client) 1980 -- Tony Lovato, singer, songwriter and guitarist (Mest) 1982 -- Example, singer, songwriter and producer
Died this day in: 1947 -- Bugsy Siegel, Businessman mobster 1958 -- Kurt Alder, chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate 1966 -- Georges Lemaître, priest, physicist, and astronomer 1996 -- Jim Ellison, singer, songwriter (Material Issue) 1997 -- Lawrence Payton, singer, songwriter and producer (Four Tops) 1999 -- Clifton Fadiman, author, critic, radio & TV personality 2006 -- Claydes Charles Smith, guitarist (Kool & the Gang) 2012 -- LeRoy Neiman, painter
Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such: Earliest date for the summer solstice in the Northern hemisphere and the winter solstice in the Southern hemisphere, and its related observance: International Surfing Day (on or near Summer solstice) World Refugee Day (International)
So, for music we gots -- Jimmy Driftwood Chet Atkins Eric Dolphy Jerry Keller Brian Wilson Anne Murray Dolores "LaLa" Brooks Alan Longmuir Lionel Richie Michael Anthony John Taylor Amir Derakh Jeordie White Chino Moreno Jerome Fontamillas Charlotte Hatherley Tony Lovato Example Jim Ellison Lawrence Payton Claydes Charles Smith
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