04/01 Open Thread: April Fools' Day and Edible Book Day

Did you her the one about how politicians are so concerned for the need for everyone to always speak the complete, unvarnished, full truth that they worked tirelessly to censor, outlaw, and otherwise eliminate disinformation and fake news? Gotcha, didn't I? ;-)

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On this day in history:

1545 -- Potosi, Bolivia, was founded

1572 -- The Watergeuzen captured Brielle, gaining the future Dutch Republic a toe-hold on land

1625 -- The Portuguese began the recapture of Bahia

1826 -- Samuel Morey got a patent on a "Gas or Vapor Engine".

1854 -- Dickens' "Hard Times" began serialisation

1924 -- Hitler got five years for the "Beer Hall Putsch" but only served nine months

1939 -- Franco announced the end of the Spanish Civil War

1944 -- The US accidently bombed the Swiss city of Schaffhausen.

1960 -- The TIROS-1 satellite transmitted the first television picture from space.

1969 – The Hawker Siddeley Harrier, the first operational V/STOL fighter aircraft entered service 1976 -- Apple Inc. was formed

1979 -- Iran became an Islamic republic, officially getting rid of the Shah

2001 -- The Netherlands instituted marriage equality

2004 – Google launches its Email service Gmail.

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Some people who were born on this day:

I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of Philosophers but from the fabric of Nature.

~~ William Harvey

1578 -- William Harvey, physician

1640 – Georg Mohr, mathematician and academic

1755 -- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, gastronome

1776 -- Marie-Sophie Germain, mathematician, physicist, philosopher

1815 -- Otto von Bismarck, politician

1834 – James Fisk, Infamour crook and robber baron

1866 -- Ferruccio Busoni, pianist, composer, and conductor

1868 – Edmond Rostand, poet and playwright

1873 -- Sergei Rachmaninoff, pianist, composer, and conductor

1875 – Edgar Wallace, journalist, author, and playwright

1895 -- Alberta Hunter, singer, songwriter, and nurse

1901 – Whittaker Chambers, journalist and spy

1906 – Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev, engineer

1908 -- Abraham Maslow, psychologist

1909 -- Eddy Duchin, pianist and bandleader

1910 -- Harry Carney, sax and clarinet player

1920 -- Toshiro Mifune, actor, quintessential man-bun wearer

1921 -- Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith, guitarist (no shit?), fiddler, and composer

1922 -- Duke Jordan, pianist and composer

1926 -- Anne McCaffrey, author and dragon rider

1927 -- Amos Milburn, singer, songwriter and pianist

1932 -- Debbie Reynolds, actress, singer, and dancer

1942 -- Samuel R. Delany, author

1946 -- Ronnie Lane, bassist and songwriter

1948 -- Jimmy Cliff, singer and musician

1949 -- Gil Scott-Heron, singer, songwriter, and author

1954 -- Jeff Porcaro, drummer and songwriter

1961 – Mark White, singer, songwriter, and guitarist

1963 – Teodoro de Villa Diaz, guitarist and songwriter

1975 – John Butler, singer, songwriter, and producer

2017 – Lonnie Brooks, blues singer and guitarist

2017 – Yevgeny Yevtushenko, poet and writer

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Some people who died on this day:

Art has nothing to do with taste. Art is not there to be tasted

~~ Max Ernst

1580 -- Alonso Mudarra, guitarist and composer

1917 -- Scott Joplin, pianist and composer

1968 – Lev Landau, physicist and academic

1976 -- Max Ernst, painter and sculptor

1984 -- Marvin Gaye, singer and songwriter

1999 -- Jesse Stone (aka Charles Calhoun), pianist and songwriter

2001 – Trịnh Công Sơn, guitarist and composer

2014 – King Fleming, pianist and bandleader

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Some Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such: US Air Force Academy Day April Fools Day National Sourdough Bread Day International Edible Book Festival aka Edible Book Day IF yesterday was Easter, then it is also: Easter Monday Dingus Day White House Egg Roll Day Egg Salad Sandwich Day

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