Tonight Mexico celebrates El Grito de Dolores, even though it happened tomorrow. It's their celebration, so it's up to them how to do it and when, n'est ce pas? In 1810 Mexico was still New Spain, ruled by the French Empire which had taken over Spain. In Dolores, New Spain Mexico at around 2:30 am on September 16, Roman Catholic priest Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla rang the church bell and delivered a speech to the people who assembled that was a call to arms, a call to revolution. This was the Cry of Dolores, El Grito de Dolores, known in Dolores as El Grito de Independencia. This touched off the 10 year Mexican Revolution which followed.

September 16 is Mexican Independence Day, and is celebrated as a national holiday, The holiday is presaged by a celebration of El Grito de Dolores on the night of September 15th. At around 11 pm the President of Mexico stands on the balcony of the National Palace and rings the exact same bell that Hidalgo rang in 1810. He or she then recites a patriotic shout recalling the cry of Dolores and the names of some of the heroes who fell in the revolution. After this shout the President rings the bell again and waves the Flag of Mexico followed by a band playing the Mexican National Anthem. As many a half a million people attend this ceremony and participate in part of the President's shout in a manner similar to a call and response.

On this day in 1835,Charles Darwin reached the Galápagos Islands aboard the HMS Beagle. There he saw, among other things, birds that have come to be known as Darwin's Finches, which were strong evidentiaary support for his evolving theory of natural selection. Of course, they could have sprung fully formed along with all other life forms from the head of Athena, or Zoroaster or some similar crazy theory, but there's no evidence at all for those fantasies.

On this day in 1959, Nikita Khrushchev became the first Soviet leader to visit the United States, BUT, they wouldn't let him go to Disneyland. There is an important message there for all of us if we can only figure out what we are being told.

On this day in history:

1789 – The United States "Department of Foreign Affairs"was renamed the Department of State

1812 – The Grande Armée under Napoleon reached the Kremlin during the failed French invasion of Russia.

1813 – Followers of the Eight Trigram Sect loyal to Lin Qing attacked the Forbidden City in a failed coup attempt

1821 – The Captaincy General of Guatemala declared independence from Spain.

1830 – The Liverpool to Manchester railway line opened

1835 – HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reached the Galápagos Islands.

1894 – Japan defeated the Qing dynasty in the Battle of Pyongyang, making the Qing army retreat to the Korean border

1915 – Chen Duxiu established the New Youth magazine in Shanghai launching the New Culture Movement

1940 – The climax of the Battle of Britain; the Luftwaffe launched its largest and most concentrated attack

1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill met in Quebec as part of the Octagon Conference to discuss strategy.

1945 – A hurricane hit southern Florida and the Bahamas, destroying 366 airplanes and 25 blimps at Naval Air Station Richmond.

1947 – Typhoon Kathleen hit the Kantō region in Japan killing around 1,000-2,000 people.

1948 – The F-86 Sabre set the world aircraft speed record at 671 miles per hour.

1950 – The U.S. X Corps landed at Inchon during the Korean War

1952 – The United Nations ceded Eritrea to Ethiopia.

1959 – Nikita Khrushchev became the first Soviet leader to visit the United States.

1962 – The Soviet ship Poltava headed toward Cuba, one of the events that set into motion the Cuban Missile Crisis.

1963 – Four children were killed in the bombing of an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.

1966 – President LBJ, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, wrote a letter to Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.

1968 – The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship was launched, the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.

1971 – The first Greenpeace ship departed from Vancouver to protest against the upcoming Cannikin nuclear weapon test in Alaska.

1981 – The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved Sandra Day O'Connor to be the first female justice of the US Supreme Court.

2008 – Lehman Brothers filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.

Some people who were born on this day:

Anything can happen, but it usually doesn't.

~~ Robert Benchley

1254 – Marco Polo, merchant and explorer (
1613 – François de La Rochefoucauld,soldier and author
1649 – Titus Oates, minister who fabricated the Popish Plot
1690 – Ignazio Prota, composer and educator
1736 – Jean Sylvain Bailly, astronomer, mathematician, and politician
1789 – James Fenimore Cooper, novelist, short story writer, and historian
1846 – George Franklin Grant, educator, dentist, and inventor
1852 – Edward Bouchet, physicist and educator
1857 – Anna Winlock, astronomer and academic
1858 – Jenő Hubay, violinist, composer, and educator
1863 – Horatio Parker, organist, composer, and educator
1868 – Louise C. McKinney, one of Canada's famous five who won the "persons case".

1876 – Bruno Walter,pianist, composer, and conductor
1883 – Esteban Terradas i Illa, mathematician and engineer
1886 – Paul Lévy, mathematician and theorist
1889 – Robert Benchley, humorist, newspaper columnist, and actor
1890 – Ernest Bullock,organist and composer
1890 – Agatha Christie, crime novelist, short story writer, and playwright
1890 – Frank Martin, pianist and composer
1892 – Silpa Bhirasri, sculptor and educator
1894 – Oskar Klein, physicist and academic
1901 – Donald Bailey, engineer, designed Bailey bridge
1903 – Roy Acuff, singer, songwriter, and fiddler
1906 – Walter E. Rollins, songwriter
1908 – Kid Sheik, trumpet player
1913 – Henry Brant, composer and conductor
1913 – Bruno Hoffmann, glass harp player
1915 – Al Casey, guitarist and composer
1918 – Margot Loyola, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1921 – Gene Roland, pianist and composer
1923 – Anton Heiller, organist, composer, and conductor
1924 – Bobby Short, singer and pianist
1926 – Jean-Pierre Serre, mathematician and academic
1928 – Cannonball Adderley, saxophonist and bandleader
1929 – Murray Gell-Mann, physicist and academic
1929 – Stan Kelly-Bootle, singer, songwriter, computer scientist, and author
1941 – Signe Toly Anderson, folk and rock singer
1942 – Lee Dorman, bass player
1952 – Kelly Keagy, singer and drummer
1956 – Maggie Reilly, singer and songwriter
1956 – Ned Rothenberg, saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer
1964 – Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein, guitarist and songwriter
1969 – Allen Shellenberger, drummer
1972 – Kit Chan, singer and songwriter
1977 – Angela Aki, singer and songwriter
1978 – Zach Filkins, guitarist
2000 – Felix, singer

Some people who died on this day:

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

~~ Thomas Wolfe

596 – Leonhard Rauwolf, physician and botanist
1613 – Thomas Overbury, poet and author
1700 – André Le Nôtre, gardener and landscape architect, did Versailles
1750 – Charles Theodore Pachelbel, organist and composer
1841 – Alessandro Rolla, Italian iolinist and composer
1842 – Pierre Baillot, violinist and composer
1859 – Isambard Kingdom Brunel, architect and engineer, designed the Great Western Railway
1874 – Charles-Amédée Kohler,chocolatier who invented hazlenut chocolate
1883 – Joseph Plateau, physicist and academic
1893 – Thomas Hawksley, engineer
1907 – William Wales, inventor
1915 – Ernest Gagnon, organist and composer
1938 – Thomas Wolfe, novelist
1945 – Anton Webern, composer and conductor
1945 – Linnie Marsh Wolfe, librarian and author
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1965 – Steve Brown, bassist
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1978 – Edmund Crispin, writer and composer
1980 – Bill Evans, pianist and composer
1981 – Rafael Méndez, trumpet player and composer
1983 – Prince Far I, DJ and producer
1985 – Cootie Williams, Americantrumpet player
1989 – Robert Penn Warren, novelist, poet, and literary critic
2004 – Johnny Ramone, guitarist and songwriter
2007 – Aldemaro Romero, pianist, composer, and conductor
2008 – Richard Wright,singer, songwriter, and keyboard player (born 1943)
2010 – Arrow, singer, songwriter
2013 – Jackie Lomax, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
2018 – Helen Clare, singer
2019 – Ric Ocasek, musician
2024 – Tito Jackson, singer, songwriter, and guitarist

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

Battle of Britain Day (United Kingdom)
Cry of Dolores, celebrated on the eve of Independence Day (Mexico).
International Day of Democracy (Definition?)
Greenpeace Day
National Caregivers Day
World Lymphoma Awareness Day (International)
National Linguine Day

Today's Tunes

Jenő Hubay

Roy Acuff

Kid Sheik

Henry Brant

Bruno Hoffman

Al Casey

Margot Loyola

Gene Roland

Bobby Short

Cannonball Adderley

Stan Kelly-Bootle

Signe Toly Anderson
chauffeur blues

high flying bird

Lee Dorman

Maggie Reilly

Ned Rothenberg

Kit Chan

Angela Aki

Zach Filkins

Charles Theodore Pachelbel

Steve Brown

Bill Evans,
Waltz for Debby

Peace Piece

Cootie Williams

Johnny Ramone

Richard Wright

More Bill Evans

Bill Evans was the pianist for Miles Davis' 1958-1959 sextet and played piano on every track of Kind of Blue except Freddy the Freeloader

Apropos:

Bill Evans Trio's lost recordings reveal jazz revolution in progress

https://boingboing.net/2025/09/04/bill-evans-trios-lost-recordings-revea...

Craft Recordings' Haunted Heart: The Legendary Riverside Studio Recordings offers a look into the creative process of this influential group. The 5-LP set, due November 21st, centers on their acclaimed albums "Portrait in Jazz" (1960) and "Explorations" (1961).

NOTE: Appears to be vinyl only

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