~~ Tau (not Tao, but, then again, maybe same-same.)

IT IS ALSO INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY, BUT THIS IS ABOUT TAU AT THE MOMENT:

AND ANOTHER TAU VIDEO BECAUSE PI REALLY IS WRONG

ALSO PLEASE REMEMBER THAT IT IS INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY SO TRY TO REMEMBER WHAT THE CAPS LOCK KEY USED TO BE CALLED.  NO LUCK??  TOO YOUNG?? IT WAS CALLED

On this day in history:

1709 – Peter the Great defeated Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava.

1841 – The Paris Opera Ballet premiered Giselle

1865 – The Army of the Potomac was disbanded.

1882 – The Anglo-French Convention of 1882 marked the territorial boundaries between Guinea and Sierra Leone which are, of course, in Africa, not England or France.

1902 – The U.S. Congress passed the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.

1911 – The Nakhla meteorite fell to Earth in Egypt containing evidence of aqueous processes on Mars,.

1914 – Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie were assassinated in Sarajevo

1919 – The Treaty of Versailles was signed, ending the state of war between Germany and the Allies of World War I.

1942 – Nazi Germany started its strategic summer offensive against the Soviet Union, oops

1948 – The Tito–Stalin Split resulted in the expulsion of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia from the Cominform.

1950 – South Korea executed between 60,000 and 200,000 suspected communist sympathizers (the Bodo League massacre) and blew up the Hangang Bridge which was packed with its own refugees and stranded  their 5th division.  Meanwhile,
the North Korean Army conducted the Seoul National University Hospital massacre killing between 700 and 900 people..

1964 – Malcolm X formed the Organization of Afro-American Unity.

1969 – The Stonewall Uprising began

1976 – The Angolan court sentenced US and UK mercenaries to death and prison terms in the Luanda Trial.

1978 – The Supremes barred quota systems in college admissions (Regents of the University of California v. Bakke) .

2001 – Slobodan Miloševic was extradited to the ICTY in The Hague to stand trial.

2004 – Sovereign power was handed to a puppet government by the Coalition Provisional Authority, putatively ending the U.S.-led rule of that Iraq.

2009 – Honduran president Manuel Zelaya was ousted by a local military coup which was, of course, blessed by the the US Secretary of State

Born this day in:

Life is full of infinite absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.

~~     Luigi Pirandello

1577 – Peter Paul Rubens, painter and diplomat
1712 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, philosopher and polymath
1824 – Paul Broca, physician, anatomist, and anthropologist
1825 – Emil Erlenmeyer, chemist
1831 – Joseph Joachim, violinist, composer, and conductor
1867 – Luigi Pirandello, dramatist, novelist, and poet 
1894 – Jessie Baetz, artist, composer and pianist
1902 – Richard Rodgers, playwright and composer
1906 – Maria Goeppert Mayer, physicist and academic
1907 – Jimmy Mundy, saxophonist and composer
1909 – Eric Ambler, author and screenwriter
1912 – Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, physicist and philosopher
1922 – Hans Frauenfelder, physicist and biophysicist
1923 – Pete Candoli, trumpet player
1926 – George Booth, cartoonist
1926 – Mel Brooks, actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1926 – Robert Ledley, academic and inventor
1927 – Correlli Barnett, historian and author
1927 – Frank Sherwood Rowland, chemist and academic
1930 – William C. Campbell, biologist and parasitologist
1934 – Bette Greene, journalist and author
1941 – Joseph Goguen, computer scientist and academic, developed the OBJ language
1943 – Klaus von Klitzing, physicist and academic
1945 – David Knights, bass player and producer
1945 – Raul Seixas, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1958 – Félix Gray, singer and songwriter
1959 – Clint Boon, singer and keyboard player
1964 – Steve Williamson, saxophonist and composer
1966 – Bobby Bare Jr., singer, songwriter and guitarist
1968 – Chayanne, singer-songwriter and actor
1975 – Jon Nödtveidt, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1977 – Mark Stoermer, bass player, songwriter, and producer
1977 – Harun Tekin, singer and guitarist

Died this day in:

What is this thing we call government? Is it anything but organized violence? The law orders you to obey, and if you don't obey, it will compel you by force - all governments, all law and authority finally rest on force and violence, on punishment or fear of punishment.

~~ Alexandeer Berkman

1798 – John Henry Colclough, revolutionary
1889 – Maria Mitchell, astronomer and academic
1936 – Alexander Berkman, author and activist
1939 – Douglas H. Johnston, governor of the Chickasaw Nation 
1965 – Red Nichols, cornet player, bandleader, and composer
1980 – José Iturbi, pianist and conductor
1995 – Petri Walli, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer
2014 – Seymour Barab, cellist and composer
2016 – Scotty Moore, guitarist

Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:
INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY
Tau Day, a day similar to Pi Day celebrating the number Tau, which is equivalent to C/r, or, some would say 2*Pi.
National Tapioca Day

Music goes here, iirc, well, With apologies

National Tapioca Day

Jimmy Mundy

Pete Candoli

David Knights

Raul Seixas

Clint Boon

Steve Williamson

Red Nichols

Jose Iturbe

Scotty Moore

Ok, it's an open thread, so it's up to you folks now. So what's on your mind?