Plant Power Day was invented by a European company that specializes in plant based foods.  The idea  is to make plants and plant based foods the focus of every meal.  To each their own.  Plants have power other than as food, they, for example, clean our air and help clean our water as well.  They have been the basis and/or inspiration for a lot of medications, and, of course, there's always weed, the answer to the question of "why do humans have cannibinoid receptors, doc?"

On this day in history:

1277 – The University of Paris issued the last of its series of condemnations of various heresies

1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte captured Jaffa where his troops then killed more than 2,000 Albanian captives.

1876 – Alexander Graham Bell got a patent for an invention he called the "telephone".

1900 – The German liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse became the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.

1931 – The Parliament House of Finland was officially inaugurated in Helsinki, Finland.

1936 – Germany reoccupied the Rhineland.

1945 – American troops seized the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine river at Remagen.

1965 – A group of 600 civil rights marchers was brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama.

1967 – Indonesia's provisional parliament, revoked Sukarno's mandate as President of Indonesia.

Born this day in:

Humans always have fear of an unknown situation -- this is normal. The important thing is what we do about it. If fear is permitted to become a paralyzing thing that interferes with proper action, then it is harmful. The best antidote to fear is to know all we can about a situation.

~~     John Herschel

1481 – Baldassare Peruzzi, architect and painter
1671 – Rob Roy MacGregor, "outlaw" folk hero
1678 – Filippo Juvarra, architect, designed the Basilica of Superga 
1765 – Nicéphore Niépce, inventor who, invented photography 
1788 – Antoine César Becquerel, physicist and biochemist
1792 – John Herschel, mathematician and astronomer
1811 – Increase A. Lapham, botanist and author
1837 – Henry Draper, physician and astronomer
1839 – Ludwig Mond, chemist who discovered the metal carbonyls 
1849 – Luther Burbank, botanist and author
1857 – Julius Wagner-Jauregg, physician and academic
1872 – Piet Mondrian, painter
1875 – Maurice Ravel, pianist, composer, and conductor
1885 – Milton Avery, painter
1886 – G. I. Taylor, mathematician and physicist
1886 – Wilson Dallam Wallis, anthropologist
1894 – Ana María O'Neill, scholar and activist
1917 – Janet Collins, ballerina and choreographer
1917 – Betty Holberton, engineer and programmer
1922 – Olga Ladyzhenskaya, mathematician and academic
1930 – Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, photographer and politician
1938 – David Baltimore, biologist and academic
1938 – Janet Guthrie, professional race car driver
1939 – Danyel Gérard, singer and songwriter
1943 – Chris White, singer, songwriter, and bass player
1944 – Townes Van Zandt,  singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1945 – Arthur Lee, singer, songwriter, and musician
1952 – Ernie Isley, guitarist and songwriter
1962 – Taylor Dayne, singer, songwriter, and actress
1978 – Jaqueline Jesus, psychologist and activist
1979 – Amanda Somerville, singer and -songwriter
1984 – Lindsay McCaul, singer and -songwriter
1998 – Amanda Gorman, poet and activist

Died this day in:

Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging, nor political campaigns, but rather in the development of self-thinking individuals.

Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.

~~     Lucy Parsons

1274 – Saint Thomas Aquinas, priest and "philosopher"
1625 – Johann Bayer, lawyer, uranographer, and cartographer
1809 – Jean-Pierre Blanchard, inventor, best known as a pioneer in balloon flight
1897 – Harriet Ann Jacobs, Abolitionist and author
1928 – Robert Abbe, surgeon and radiologist
1947 – Lucy Parsons, communist anarchist labor organizer
1952 – Paramahansa Yogananda, guru and philosopher
1954 – Otto Diels, chemist and academic,
1957 – Wyndham Lewis, painter and critic
1967 – Alice B. Toklas, writer
1971 – Richard Montague, mathematician and philosopher
1982 – Ida Barney, astronomer, mathematician, and academic
1988 – Divine, drag queen and film actor
1993 – J. Merrill Knapp, musicologist
1997 – Edward Mills Purcell, physicist and academic
1999 – Sidney Gottlieb, infamous spook
1999 – Stanley Kubrick, director, producer, and screenwriter
2000 – Pee Wee King, singer and songwriter
2001 – Frankie Carle, pianist and bandleader
2006 – Ali Farka Touré, singer, songwriter and guitarist
2007 – Ronnie Wells, singer and educator
2013 – Peter Banks, guitarist and songwriter
2013 – Claude King, singer, songwriter, and guitarist

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

Casimir Pulaski Day
Plant Power Day

Music goes here, iirc, well, With apologies

Ravel

Danyel Gérard

Chris White

Townes Van Zandt

Arthur Lee

Ernie Isley

Pee Wee King (heh)

Frankie Carle

Ali Farka Touré
Debe

Savane

Ai Du

Ronnie Wells

Peter Banks

BONUS
Talking Timbuktu, full album:

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