People Walking on Westmoreland Street

On this day in 1811 crewmembers who had survived the previous day's attack on their vessel by Tla-o-qui-aht detonated a powdeer magazine, blowing up the ship and killing about 100 of the attacking Indians. The ship was the Oacufuc Fur Company's Tonquin. The company and ship were based in an area which, we are told, was contested among Great Britain, The USA, The Spanish Empire and the US Empire. From the above recitation of facts, it is pretty clear that the Tla-o-qui-aht of Clayoquot Sound were also parties to the conflict, but they seemingly need not be considered to have an interest in the matter because they were just non-European heathens and all like that. It's 2025 and we still can't get this crap right.

On this day in 1897 a treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States was signed. A bogus country backed by bogus paperwork and military force was annexed to a party to the overthrow of the legitimate government of Hawaii and its replacement with the bogus Republic. However, we did, in the fullness of time, apologize. That's more than the vast majority of our other victims got.

W00T! On this day in 1904, James Joyce began a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently used the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses.This day is, ergo, celebrated far and wide as Bloom Day, in honor ot the Novel's "hero" Leopold Bloom and the famous soliloquy of his charming wife Molly:

I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another… then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes."

On this day in history:

1487 – The last battle of the War of the Roses, the Battle of Stoke Field, King Henry VII won

1755 – The French surrender Canada's Fort Beauséjour to the British, leading to the expulsion of the Acadians

1779 – Spain declared war on the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the Great Siege of Gibraltar began.

1811 – Survivors of an attack the previous day by Tla-o-qui-aht on board the Pacific Fur Company's ship Tonquin, intentionally detonated a powder magazine on the ship, destroying it and killing about 100 attackers.

1858 – Abraham Lincoln delivered his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois.

1871 – The Universities Tests Act 1871 allowed students to enter the universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests, a small win for free thought

1884 – The first purpose-built roller coaster opened in New York's Coney Island amusement park.

1897 – A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States was signed

1903 – Roald Amundsen left Oslo, Norway, to commence the first east–west navigation of the Northwest Passage.

1904 – James Joyce begans a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently used the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses

1933 – The National Industrial Recovery Act was passed in the US, allowing businesses to avoid antitrust prosecution

1940 – Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain became Chief of State of Vichy France

1961 – Rudolf Nureyev defected from the Soviet Union.

1963 – Vostok 6 mission Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space.

1963 – A Joint Communique was signed between President Ngo Dinh Diem and Buddhist leaders. in South Vietnam

1972 – The largest single-site hydroelectric power project in Canada was inaugurated at Churchill Falls

1976 – A peaceful march by students in Soweto, South Africa, turned into days of rioting when police opened fire on the crowd.

2010 – Bhutan became the first country to institute a total ban on tobacco.

2012 – China successfully launched its Shenzhou 9 spacecraft, carrying three astronauts, including the first female Chinese astronaut Liu Yang, to the Tiangong-1 orbital module.

2012 – The US' robotic Boeing X-37B spaceplane returned to Earth after a classified 469-day orbital mission

2019 – Upwards of 2,000,000 people participated in the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests

Some people who were born on this day:

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.

~~ Adam Smith

1591 – Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, physician, mathematician, and theorist
1723 – Adam Smith, philosopher with invisible hnds
1738 – Mary Katherine Goddard, publisher
1801 – Julius Plücker, mathematician and physicist
1806 – Edward Davy, physician and chemist
1838 – Frederic Archer, organist, composer, and conductor
1840 – Ernst Otto Schlick, engineer and author
1867 – René Seyssaud, painter, precursor of Fauvism
1882 – Mohammad Mosaddegh, educator and politician, 60th Prime Minister of Iran, victim of first CIA "regime change"
1888 – Alexander Friedmann, physicist and mathematician
1896 – Murray Leinster, author and screenwriter
1897 – Georg Wittig, chemist and academic
1899 – Helen Traubel, operatic soprano
1902 – Barbara McClintock, geneticist and academic
1914 – Eleanor Sokoloff, pianist and teacher
1915 – John Tukey, mathematician and academic
1915 – Marga Faulstich, glass chemist
1917 – Katharine Graham, publisher
1920 – Raymond Lemieux, chemist and academic
1937 – Erich Segal, author and screenwriter
1938 – Joyce Carol Oates, novelist, short story writer, critic, and poet
1939 – Billy "Crash" Craddock, singer and songwriter
1941 – Lamont Dozier, songwriter and producer
1942 – Eddie Levert, R&B/soul singer-songwriter, musician, and actor
1946 – Tom Harrell, trumpet player and composer
1946 – Iain Matthews, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1947 – Tom Malone, trombonist, composer, and producer
1951 – Charlie Dominici, singer and guitarist
1952 – Gino Vannelli, singer and songwriter
1953 – Ian Mosley, drummer
1954 – Garry Roberts, guitarist
1962 – Anthony Wong, singer
1968 – Adam Schmitt, singer, songwriter, musician, and producer
1980 – Joey Yung, singer
1981 – Ola Kvernberg, violinist
1987 – Diana DeGarmo, singer, songwriter, and actress
1988 – Keshia Chanté, singer
1990 – John Newman, musician, singer, songwriter and record producer
1991 – Joe McElderry, inger and songwriter
1993 – Gnash,singer, songwriter, rapper, DJ and record producer
1995 – Ki Hui-hyeon, singer, songwriter, and actress
1999 – Snail Mail, singer and songwriter

Some people who died on this day:

When it is a question of ascertaining whether or not some human act has really taken place, [historians] cannot be too painstaking. If they proceed to the reasons for that act, they are content with the merest appearance, ordinarily founded upon one of those maxims of common-place psychology which are neither more nor less true than their opposites.

~~ Marc Bloch

1468 – Jean Le Fèvre de Saint-Remy, historian and author
1777 – Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, poet and playwright
1804 – Johann Adam Hiller, composer and conductor
1878 – Kikuchi Yōsai, painter
1902 – Ernst Schröder, mathematician and academic (
1929 – Vernon Louis Parrington, historian and scholar
1930 – Elmer Ambrose Sperry, inventor, co-invented the gyrocompass
1939 – Chick Webb, drummer and bandleader
1940 – DuBose Heyward, author
1944 – Marc Bloch, historian and academic
1952 – Andrew Lawson, geologist and academic
1970 – Sydney Chapman, mathematician and geophysicist
1977 – Wernher von Braun, physicist and engineer
1982 – James Honeyman-Scott, guitarist and songwriter
1986 – Maurice Duruflé, organist and composer
1987 – Marguerite de Angeli, author and illustrator
1994 – Kristen Pfaff, bass player and songwriter
1999 – Screaming Lord Sutch, singer and activist
2010 – Maureen Forrester, singer and academic
2016 – Jo Cox, political activist and MP

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

Birthday of Leonard P. Howell (Rastafari)
Bloomsday
World Sea Turtle Day
National Cannoli Day
National Fudge Day
National Tortilla Day
National Vinegar Day
Fresh Veggies Day

Today's Tunes

Expulsion of the Acadians from Canada

Adam Smith's Invisible Hands (Econ 1A)

(Econ 885)

Nureyev

Billy "Crash" Craddock

Lamont Dozier

Eddie Levert

Tom Harrell

Ian Matthews

Tom Malone

Gino Vannelli

Ola Kvernberg

Johann Adam Hiller

Chick Webb

James Honeyman-scott

Kristen Pfaff

Screaming Lord Sutch

I won't be here when this posts

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, Bloomsday, The Acadians, Hawaii, Nureyev, Mohammad Mosaddegh, Chick Webb