September 10 is the 253rd day of the year; as well as Pungenday, Bureaucracy 34, 3184 YOLD
to discordians.

Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift, look out kid, ...

On this day in:

1823 – Simón Bolívar became President of Peru.

1846 – Elias Howe got a patent for the sewing machine.

1858 – George Mary Searle discovered the asteroid 55 Pandora but didn't open any boxes

1897 – A sheriff's posse murdered 19 unarmed striking immigrant miners in Lattimer, Pennsylvania, because that was, essentially, their real job according to their real masters and bosses.

1960 – At the Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila became the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal, winning the marathon in bare feet.

Born this day in:

1659 – Henry Purcell, English organist and composer

1801 – Marie Laveau, voodoo queen of New Orleans

1839 – Isaac K. Funk, minister and publisher, co-founder of Funk & Wagnalls

1839 – Charles Sanders Peirce, mathematician, statistician, and philosopher

1892 – Arthur Compton, physicist who discovered Compton Scattering

1925 – Roy Brown, singer and songwriter

1940 – Roy Ayers, singer, songwriter, keyboard player, vibraphonist, and producer

1941 – Stephen Jay Gould, paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, author

1941 – Christopher Hogwood, harpsichordist and conductor

1942 – Danny Hutton, singer

1945 – José Feliciano, singer, songwriter and guitarist

1949 – Barriemore Barlow, drummer and songwriter, friend of Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond

1950 – Rosie Flores, singer and guitarist

1952 – Medea Benjamin, activist

1960 – David Lowery, singer, songwriter, guitarist, co-founded Camper Van Beethoven

Died this day in:

1797 – Mary Wollstonecraft, philosopher, historian, author and activist

1931 – Salvatore Maranzano, businessman

1935 – Huey Long, actual bona-fide progressive and arguable moderately socialist Democrat, advocate of redistricuton of the wealth to eliminate poverty, infrastructure, taxing oil production, and similar things. Assassinated on the evening of 9/8, he died early in the morning of 9/10.

1961 – Leo Carrillo, Pancho

1976 – Dalton Trumbo, screenwriter, author, member of the Hollywood Ten.

2005 – Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, singer, guitarist and fiddle player

Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such:
World Suicide Prevention Day

picture: Image from page 123 of "Bulletin - United States National Museum" (1877)

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