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~~ The Seamstress, public domain by Jaci XIV

On this day in:

1573 – German pirate Klein Henszlein and 33 of his crew were beheaded in Hamburg.

1823 – Simón Bolívar became President of Peru.

1846 – Elias Howe got a patent for the sewing machine.

1858 – George Mary Searle discovered the asteroid 55 Pandora but didn't open any boxes

1897 – A sheriff's posse murdered 19 unarmed striking immigrant miners in Lattimer, Pennsylvania, because that was, essentially, their real job according to their real masters and bosses.

1937 – Nine nations attended the Nyon Conference to address international piracy in the Mediterranean Sea.

1960 – At the Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila became the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal, winning the marathon in bare feet.

1961 – In the Italian Grand Prix, a crash caused the death of German Formula One driver Wolfgang von Trips and 15 spectators who were hit by his Ferrari, the deadliest accident in F1 history

2008 – The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history, is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.

Born this day in:

It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man.

~~ Charles Sanders Peirce

1659 – Henry Purcell, English organist and composer

1801 – Marie Laveau, voodoo queen of New Orleans

1839 – Isaac K. Funk, minister and publisher, co-founder of Funk & Wagnalls

1839 – Charles Sanders Peirce, mathematician, statistician, and philosopher

1892 – Arthur Compton, physicist who discovered Compton Scattering

1925 – Roy Brown, singer and songwriter

1940 – Roy Ayers, singer, songwriter, keyboard player, vibraphonist, and producer

1941 – Stephen Jay Gould, paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, author

1941 – Christopher Hogwood, harpsichordist and conductor

1942 – Danny Hutton, singer

1945 – José Feliciano, singer, songwriter and guitarist

1949 – Barriemore Barlow, drummer and songwriter, friend of Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond

1950 – Rosie Flores, singer and guitarist

1952 – Medea Benjamin, activist

1960 – David Lowery, singer, songwriter, guitarist, co-founded Camper Van Beethoven

Died this day in:

Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out.

~~ Mary Wollstonecraft

1797 – Mary Wollstonecraft, philosopher, historian, author and activist

1931 – Salvatore Maranzano, businessman

1935 – Huey Long, actual bona-fide progressive and arguable moderately socialist Democrat, advocate of redistricuton of the wealth to eliminate poverty, infrastructure, taxing oil production, and similar things. Assassinated on the evening of 9/8, he died early in the morning of 9/10.

1961 – Leo Carrillo, Pancho

1976 – Dalton Trumbo, screenwriter, author, member of the Hollywood Ten.

2005 – Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, singer, guitarist and fiddle player

Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such:
World Suicide Prevention Day
Sew Be it Day
National Hot Dog Day
National Port Wine Day

Today's Tunes

National Port Wine Day

Henry Purcell

Marie Laveau

Isaac K. Funk

Roy Brown

Roy Ayers

Christopher Hogwood

Danny Hutton

Barriemore Barlow

Rosie Flores

David Lowery

Leo Carrillo

Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown

It's an open thread, so do your thing

I won't be here when this posts

Open Thread, September 10, Suicide Prevention Day, Marie Laveau, Henry Purcell, Stephen Jay Gould, Clarence, Rosie Flores