I had considered just diving into a few of Bo's better or more famous tunes, but decided to throw in a little bit of other date determined info and artists. Very few.
On this day in history:
1066 - The Grenada massacre 1419 - Battle of La Rochelle; use of guns by Castilian fleet 1702 - English Colonists under James Moore abandoned their siege of St. Augustine 1853 - The Gadsden Purchase (Southern AZ and Southwest NM, from Mexico) 1922 – The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was formed. 1936 – The UAW staged its first sit-down strike. 1972 – Nixon's criminal heavy bombing of the civilian populaces of Hanoi and Haiphong ended. 2006 - Saddam Hussein was executed. This glorious triumph only cost a little over 757 billion bucks and only involved killing some 600,000 Iraqi civilians. W00t!
Some people who were born on this day:
“Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.”
~~ Rudyard Kipling
1724 – Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, painter 1865 – Rudyard Kipling, author and poet 1924 – Yvonne Brill, rocket and jet propulsion engineer 1928 – Bo Diddley, The Originator 1930 – Roy Yorke Calne, surgeon, organ transsplant specialist 1930 – Elmira Minita Gordon, educator, 1st Governor-General of Belize, double dame 1930 – Red Rhodes, pedal steel guitarist 1930 – Tu Youyou, chemist and pharmacist, discovered artemisinin and dihydroartemisinin 1931 – Skeeter Davis, singer and songwriter 1931 – John T. Houghton, atmospheric physicist 1934 – John N. Bahcall, astronomer and astrophysicist who co-developed the Hubble Telescope 1934 – Del Shannon, singer, songwriter and guitarist 1935 – Sandy Koufax, pitcher, heh 1942 – Michael Nesmith, Monkee 1945 – Davy Jones, another Monkee 1946 – Clive Bunker, drummer and songwriter 1947 – Jeff Lynne, singer, songwriter, guitarist, Wilbury, and producer 1950 – Bjarne Stroustrup, computer scientist, created the C++ programming language 1951 – Chris Jasper, musician, singer, songwriter, and producer, also Isley 1965 – Heidi Fleiss, noted enterpreneur
Some people who died on this day:
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
~~ Alfred North Whitehead
1788 – Francesco Zuccarelli, painter 1906 – Josephine Butler, feminist and social reformer 1916 – Grigori Rasputin, mystic and eminence grise 1947 – Alfred North Whitehead, mathematician and philosopher, co-authored Principia Mathematica 2010 – Bobby Farrell, dancer and performer with Boney M
Some Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such: The fifth day of Kwanzaa. (United States) Bacon Day
Today's Tunes
Queen Anne's War Siege of St. Augustine
Skeeter Davis
Del Shannon
Michael Nesmith & Davy Jones
Clive Bunker
Jeff Lynne
Chris Jasper
Grigory Rasputin and Bobby Farrell two-fer
Bo Diddley
Ok, it's an open thread, so it's up to you folks now. What's on your mind?
Cross posted from http://caucus99percent.com Open Thread, USSR, UAW, Nixon, Saddam Hussein, Bo Diddley, Alfred North Whitehead