~~     Solidarity

WOW!  Is that cool or what?  An International Human Solidarity Day, awesome!  Too bad it's a fantasy.  I mean, nothing says "human Solidarity" like the ever growing and expanding US War Machine, now, does it?  One could hope that our new Space Farce could find some E.T.s to go wage war on, thus unifying humanity, but it wouldn't work.  All of humanity would still have to do everything the US wanted, when the US wanted and how the US wanted for the US to stop trying to control them by sanctions and warfare.

Sure sounds nice, though.

On this day in history:

1192 – Richard I of England was captured and imprisoned by Leopold V of Austria on his way home to England after the Third Crusade.

1803 – The Louisiana Purchase was completed at a ceremony in New Orleans.

1832 – HMS Clio arrived at Port Egmont under orders to take possession of the Falkland Islands.

1860 – South Carolina voted to secede from the United States.

1915 – The last Australian troops were evacuated from Gallipoli.

1924 – Adolf Hitler was released from Landsberg Prison.

1941 – First battle of the American Volunteer Group, better known as the "Flying Tigers", in Kunming, China.

1942 – Japanese air forces bombed Calcutta, India.

1951 – The EBR-1 in Arco, Idaho became the first nuclear power plant to generate electricity, powering four light bulbs.

1955 – Cardiff was proclaimed the capital city of Wales, United Kingdom.

1957 – The initial production version of the Boeing 707 made its first flight.

1967 – A Pennsylvania Railroad Budd Metroliner exceeded 155 mph

1971 – The international aid organization Doctors Without Borders was founded

1985 – Pope John Paul II announced the institution of World Youth Day.

1989 – The United States invasion of Panama deposed Manuel Noriega.

1995 – NATO began peacekeeping in Bosnia.

1999 – Macau was handed over to China by Portugal.

2019 – The US Space Force became the newest branch of the US War Machine.

Born this day in:

To silence criticism is to silence freedom.

~~     Sidney Hook

1494 – Oronce Finé, mathematician and cartographer
1496 – Joseph ha-Kohen, historian and physician
1629 – Pieter de Hooch, painter
1641 – Urban Hjärne, chemist, geologist, and physician
1740 – Arthur Lee,  physician and diplomat
1786 – Pietro Raimondi, composer
1792 – Nicolas Toussaint Charlet, painter and educator
1812 – Laura M. Hawley Thurston, poet and educator
1838 – Edwin Abbott Abbott, theologian, author, and educator
1841 – Ferdinand Buisson, academic and politician,
1871 – Henry Kimball Hadley, composer and conductor
1873 – Kan'ichi Asakawa, historian, author, and academic
1873 – Mehmet Akif Ersoy, poet, academic, and politician
1890 – Jaroslav Heyrovský, chemist and academic
1901 – Robert J. Van de Graaff, physicist and academic
1902 – Sidney Hook, philosopher and author
1911 – Hortense Calisher, author
1916 – Michel Chartrand, trade union leader and activist
1917 – David Bohm, physicist, neuropsychologist, and philosopher
1922 – Beverly Pepper, sculptor and painter
1939 – Kim Weston, soul singer
1945 – Peter Criss, singer, songwriter, drummer, and producer
1948 – Alan Parsons, keyboard player and producer
1948 – Mitsuko Uchida, pianist
1951 – Marta Russell, author and activist
1954 – Michael Badalucco, actor
1954 – Sandra Cisneros, author and poet
1956 – Guy Babylon, keyboard player and songwriter
1956 – Anita Ward, disco/R&B singer
1957 – Billy Bragg, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1957 – Mike Watt, American singer-songwriter and bass player
1959 – Jackie Fox, bass player
1961 – Mike Keneally, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1966 – Chris Robinson, singer, songwriter and guitarist

Died this day in:

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”

~~     John Steinbeck

1590 – Ambroise Paré, physician and surgeon
1658 – Jean Jannon, designer and typefounder
1723 – Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, physician and botanist
1812 – Sacagawea, explorer
1915 – Upendrakishore Ray, painter and composer
1968 – John Steinbeck, novelist and short story writer
1973 – Bobby Darin, singer, songwriter, and actor
1974 – André Jolivet, guitarist and composer
1982 – Arthur Rubinstein, pianist and composer
1984 – Stanley Milgram, psychologist and academic
1996 – Carl Sagan, astronomer, astrophysicist, and cosmologist
1998 – Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, physiologist and biophysicist
1999 – Hank Snow, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
2020 - Fanny Waterman, pianist

Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:
Abolition of Slavery Day, also known as Fête des Cafres (Réunion, French Guiana)
National Sangria Day
International Human Solidarity Day (International)
Cathode Ray Tube Day

Music goes here, iirc, well, With apologies

Gallipoli Evacuation

Kim Weston

Alan Parsons

Billy Bragg

Jackie Fox

Chris Robinson

Bobby Darin

Arthur Rubinstein

Hank Snow

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