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~~ Joshua Tree Storm Clouds

Today is World Meteorological Day Meteorology is the study of the atmosphere, including the interaction between the atmosphere and the surface, and short term variations in weather conditions with an eye toward weather forecasting. Said forecasting has become somewhat trickier of late for a variety of reasons including inadequately updated models, and greatly reduced data collection. The reduced data collection, resulting in something similar to a GIGO situation is due to budgetart comstraints imposed on NOAA and other organizations by those who dislike the conclusions currently drawn by climatologists based on available data. Science, FWIW, progresses in part by learning from errors. Ignorance, OTOH doesn't progress whatsoever and is more likely to be regressive than anything.

Today is also National Tamale Day That should speak for itself. I'll have dos with carnitas filling and a mole sauce, por favor.

On this day in history:

1806 – After traveling across the Louisiana Purchase to the Pacific Ocean, Lewis and Clark and their Corps of Discovery headed home

1848 – The ship John Wickliffe arrived at Port Chalmers carrying the first Scottish settlers for Dunedin, New Zealand. Otago province was founded.

1857 – Elisha Otis's first elevator was installed at 488 Broadway New York City.

1868 – The University of California was founded in Oakland, California when the Organic Act was signed into law.

1879 – The Battle of Topáter, the first battle of the "War of the Pacific" between Chile and the joint forces of Bolivia and Peru.

1901 – Emilio Aguinaldo, only President of the First Philippine Republic, was captured by US forces

1919 – In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founded his Fascist political movement.

1933 – The Reichstag passed the Enabling Act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.

1956 – Pakistan became the first Islamic republic in the world.

1965 – NASA launched Gemini 3, the United States' first two-man space flight

1978 – The first UNIFIL troops arrived in Lebanon for a peacekeeping mission along the Blue Line.

1982 – Guatemala's government was overthrown in a coup by General Efraín Ríos Montt

1983 – President Ronald Reagan made his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles (aka the SDI idiocy).

1994 – At an election rally in Tijuana, Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio was assassinated by Mario Aburto Martínez.

1996 – Taiwan held its first direct elections and chose Lee Teng-hui as President.

2001 – The Russian Mir space station was disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere

2003 – Battle of Nasiriyah, first major conflict during the US invasion of Iraq.

2008 – Official opening of Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad, India

2010 – The Affordable Care Act became law in the US

2014 – The World Health Organization (WHO) reported cases of Ebola in the forested rural region of southeastern Guinea, marking the beginning of the largest Ebola outbreak in history.

2018 – President of Peru Pedro Pablo Kuczynski resigned from the presidency amid a mass corruption scandal

2019 – The Kazakh capital of Astana was renamed to Nur-Sultan.

2020 – Prime Minister Boris Johnson put the United Kingdom into its first national lockdown in response to COVID-19.

2021 – A container ship ran aground and obstructs the Suez Canal for six days.

2025 – Israel Defense Forces killed 15 aid workers in the Rafah paramedic massacre.

Some people who were born on this day:

The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.

~~ Erich Fromm

1514 – Lorenzino de' Medici, writer and assassin
1599 – Thomas Selle, composer
1749 – Pierre-Simon Laplace, mathematician and astronomer
1750 – Johannes Matthias Sperger, bassist and composer
1769 – William Smith, geologist and cartographer
1826 – Ludwig Minkus, violinist and composer
1834 – Julius Reubke, pianist and composer
1842 – Susan Jane Cunningham, mathematician
1876 – Ziya Gökalp, sociologist, poet and activist
1876 – Thakin Kodaw Hmaing, poet, writer and political leader
1878 – Franz Schreker, composer and conductor
1881 – Roger Martin du Gard, h novelist and paleographer
1881 – Hermann Staudinger, chemist and academic
1882 – Emmy Noether, mathematician, physicist and academic
1887 – Josef Čapek, painter and poet invented the word "robot" *
1887 – Juan Gris, S painter and sculptor
1887 – Sidney Hillman, labor leader
1891 – Po Kya, author and educationist
1900 – Erich Fromm, psychologist and sociologist
1907 – Daniel Bovet, pharmacologist and academic
1909 – Charles Werner, editorial cartoonist
1910 – Akira Kurosawa, director, producer and screenwriter
1912 – Eleanor Cameron, children's author and critic
1912 – Wernher von Braun, physicist and engineer
1919 – Subhadra Joshi, freedom activist and politician
1921 – Donald Campbell, race car driver (set multiple world land and water speed records
1924 – Olga Kennard, crystallographer and academic
1924 – Bette Nesmith Graham, inventor of Liquid Paper
1928 – Lee Sexton, banjo player
1934 – Ludvig Faddeev, mathematician and physicist
1937 – Craig Breedlove, race car driver, set multiple world land speed records
1937 – Robert Gallo, physician and academic
1942 – Jimmy Miller, record producer and musician
1942 – Walter Rodney, historian, scholar and activist
1944 – Tony McPhee, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1944 – Michael Nyman, composer of minimalist music and pianist
1944 – Ric Ocasek, singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer
1945 – Franco Battiato, singer, songwriter, and director
1945 – David Grisman, American mandolin player and composer
1947 – Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, author and nurse
1950 – Phil Lanzon, keyboard player and songwriter
1952 – Kim Stanley Robinson, author
1953 – Chaka Khan, singer and songwriter
1961 – Roger Crisp, philosopher and academic
1965 – Gary Whitehead, poet and painter
1968 – Damon Albarn, singer, songwriter, producer and actor
1975 – Burak Gürpınar, drummer
1981 – Brett Young, singer, songwriter
1986 – Brett Eldredge, singer, songwriterand musician
1993 – Eddy Chen, wiolinist, member of violin duo TwoSet Violin

* His brother Karel Čapek introduced the word into literature with RUR
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Some people who died on this day:

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

~~ Stendhal

1675 – Anthoni van Noordt, organist and composer
1748 – Johann Gottfried Walther, organist and composer
1754 – Johann Jakob Wettstein, theologian and critic
1842 – Stendhal, novelist
1946 – Gilbert N. Lewis, chemist
1953 – Raoul Dufy, painter and illustrator
1960 – Franklin Pierce Adams, journalist and author
1967 – Lalla Carlsen, singer and actress
1978 – Halyna Kuzmenko, teacher and anarchist revolutionary
1981 – Beatrice Tinsley, astronomer and cosmologist
1992 – Friedrich Hayek, economist, philosopher, and academic
2003 – Fritz Spiegl, Aflute player and journalist
2006 – Cindy Walker, singerm songwriter, and dancer
2007 – Paul Cohen, mathematician and theorist
2011 – Jean Bartik, computer scientist and engineer
2014 – Dave Brockie, singer, songwriter, and bass player
2015 – Lil' Chris, singer, songwriter, actor, and television personality
2017 – Miroslava Breach, investigative journalist

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

National Tamale Day
World Meteorological Day

Today's Tunes

World meteorologial Day

National Tamale Day

Johannes Matthias Sperger

Franz Schreker

Lee Sexton

Wernher von Braun

Jimmy Miller

Tony McPhee

Michael Nyman

Ric Ocasek

David Grisman

Phil Lanzon

Chaka Khan

Eddy Chen

Cindy Walker

Bonus Grisman
w/ Rob Wasserman on bass

w/ Stephane Grapelli

w/ Jerry

Old And In The Way
Peter Rowan - guitar and vocals
Jerry Garcia - banjo and vocals
David Grisman - mandolin and vocals
John Kahn - bass
Vassar Clements - viola

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

Happy Birthday JtC and Bronwyn

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