~~ Dylan

Jamestown is often described as the first permanent British settlement in what became the US. I have a quibble with that. Jamestown is currently some sort of living museum, a cross between a reenactment, a historical site, and Knott's Berry Farm. There was a point at which it ceased be be a functioning settlement, at which point it ceased being a "permanent settlement".
By contrast, St. Augustine, founded about 42 years earlier (by the Spanish) has been continuously occupied as a village/town/city since its founding and is today a functioning city with hotels, restaurants, bars, schools, a small private college, a small private airport, and about 14,000 people. Jamestown may have been permanent, but it wasn't a permanent "settlement" in the same fashion as St. Augustine.

Peter Minuit's legendary bargain purchase of Manhattan was just that, legend, or, if you prefer, a fraud. Manhattan was not for sale and could not be bought or sold, not from the Lenape or anybody else.

Presaging their intolerant legislation of 1988, the so called British "Act of Toleration" of 1689 was nothing of the kind. The act provided for tolerence for those who swore to follow all kinds of rules and adheres to all kinds of beliefs of the dominant cult and to nobody else.

On this day in history:

1218 – The disastrous Fifth Crusade left Acre for Egypt.

1595 – Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appeared, the first printed catalog of an institutional library.

1607 – One hundred English colonists disembarked in Jamestown, establishing a permanent beachhead for the invasion to follow

1626 – Peter Minuit allegedly bought Manhattan even though it wasn't for sale.

1683 – The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford,  opened.

1689 – The English Parliament passed the Act of Toleration which waas no such thing

1798 – The Irish Rebellion of 1798 began

1813 – Simón Bolívar entered Mérida, leading the invasion of Venezuela

1822 – Antonio José de Sucre won independence for the Presidency of Quito at the Battle of Pichincha

1844 – Samuel Morse sent a Bible text from DC to Baltimore by telegraph to open the line between those cities

1883 – The Brooklyn Bridge  opened to traffic

1930 – Amy Johnson landed in Darwin becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia

1940 – Igor Sikorsky performed the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight.

1940 – Iosif Grigulevich failed in an attempt to assassinate Trotsky.
 

1956 – The first Eurovision Song Contest was held

1958 – United Press International was formed

1961 – Freedom Riders were arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, for getting off their bus

1962 – Scott Carpenter orbited the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule.

1976 – The Judgment of Paris took place

1988 – The UK passed a law making it illegal for local governments to intentionally promote homosexuality

1993 – Eritrea gained its independence from Ethiopia.

2000 – Israeli troops withdrew from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation.

2002 – Russia and the United States signed an arms reduction treaty

Born this day in:

You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows

~~  Bob Dylan

1494 – Pontormo, painter
1544 – William Gilbert, physician, physicist, and astronomer
1868 – Charles Edward Taylor, Inventor, engineer, machinist, and mechanic; built the Wright Brothers' first engine and maintained their planes.
1686 – Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, physicist and engineer, developed the Fahrenheit scale 
1743 – Jean-Paul Marat, physician, journalist, revolutionary, and politician
1816 – Emanuel Leutze, painter
1830 – Alexei Savrasov, painter and academic
1863 – George Grey Barnard, sculptor
1878 – Lillian Moller Gilbreth, efficiency expert, time and motion studies promoter
1899 – Henri Michaux, poet and painter (d. 1984)
1902 – Sylvia Daoust, sculptor
1905 – George Nakashima, woodworker and architect
1905 – Mikhail Sholokhov, novelist and short story writer,
1924 – Philip Pearlstein, soldier and painter
1937 – Archie Shepp, saxophonist and composer
1938 – Prince Buster, singer, songwriter, and producer
1940 – Joseph Brodsky, poet and essayist
1941 – Bob Dylan, singer, songwriter, guitarist, artist, writer, and producer;
1944 – Patti LaBelle, singer, songwriter, and actress
1945 – Terry Callier, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1947 – Albert Bouchard, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and drummer
1947 – Waddy Wachtel, guitarist, singer, songwriter, and record producer
1955 – Rosanne Cash, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1956 – Larry Blackmon, singer, songwriter, and producer
1960 – Guy Fletcher, keyboard player, guitarist, and producer
1969 – Rich Robinson, guitarist and songwriter
1973 – Rodrigo, singer and songwriter
1976 – Alessandro Cortini, Isinger and keyboard player

Died this day in:

Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.

~~  William Lloyd Garrison

1543 – Nicolaus Copernicus, mathematician and astronomer
1632 – Robert Hues, mathematician and geographer
1734 – Georg Ernst Stahl, physician and chemist
1843 – Sylvestre François Lacroix, mathematician and academic
1848 – Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, author and composer
1879 – William Lloyd Garrison, journalist and activist
1881 – Samuel Palmer, painter and illustrator
1956 – Martha Annie Whiteley, chemist and mathematician
1963 – Elmore James, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1965 – Sonny Boy Williamson II, singer, songwriter, and harmonica player
1974 – Duke Ellington, pianist and composer
1991 – Gene Clark, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1996 – Joseph Mitchell, journalist and author (b. 1908)
2000 – Kurt Schork, journalist and scholar
2008 – Jimmy McGriff, organist and bandleader
2009 – Jay Bennett, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer
2010 – Paul Gray, bass player and songwriter
2012 – Kathi Kamen Goldmark, journalist and author
2014 – Stormé DeLarverie, LGBT hero, Read her wikipedia entry

Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:

Asparagus Day
National Escargot Day
Aviation Maintenance Technician Day (See Charles Edward Taylor, born 5.25/1868)

Music goes here, iirc, well, With apologies

Patti LaBelle

Elmore James

Sonny Boy Williamson II

Duke Ellington

Jimmy McGriff

Robert Zimmerman

All right, this is where you list your favorite 100 or so Dylan songs and make note of those I left out.  You may then post them in the comments but please don't hit me with all kinds of "How could you possibly leave out Lonseome Death of Hattie Carroll?" type static.  Alternatively, you could try to guess which one we played at our wedding (though I probably won't tell) or what my selection criteria were (ditto)

It's an open thread, so do your thing, got it? Below this point this is a public forum, your forum, nothing is off topic, so go for it