Slave_Auction

Hey, Look!! It's a UN holiday.  Bet you couldn't guess.  This one happens to be the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition  Phew.  While abolished, it is still not gone, and still needs to be ferreted out and stopped except, of course, where it is still legal, such as those places where it is built into what they call a criminal justice system.

Today is also Hug Your Sweetheart Day, but if you need a special official, day for that, maybe you'd better just forget about it.

The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre on this day in 1572 was a great amount of mob violence and targeted assassinations carried out by French Catholics against French Huguenots in Paris.  It was and largely still is believed to have been instigated by Queen Catherine de' Medici.  After one particular assassination failed, the king stepped in and ordered the murder of a select group of Huguenots and the massacre spread like wildfire out into the country and to other cities, towns and villages, leaving as many as 30,000 dead depending upon who you believe.  There was a fair amount of berayal and treachery involved and though technically part of the French Wars of Religion, it was such a large and perfidious massacre that Protestants throughout all of Europe began to consider Catholicism to be a "bloody and treacherous religion" (Chadwick, Henry; Evans, G. R. (1987). Atlas of the Christian church. London: Macmillan. p. 113. ISBN 978-0-333-44157-2. as reported in Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Bartholomew%27s_Day_massacre) 

On this day in history:

AD 79 – Mount Vesuvius started stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan

1244 – Jerusalem's citadel, the Tower of David, surrendered to the Khwarezmian Empire.

1305 – Sir William Wallace was executed for high treason in London.

1382 – The Golden Horde led by Tokhtamysh besieged the capital of the Grand Duchy of Moscow.

1541 – Jacques Cartier landed near Quebec City

1572 – Mob violence against thousands of Huguenots in Paris resulted in the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre.

1741 – At least 2,000 people along the Japanese coast drowned in a tsunami caused by the eruption of Oshima.

1775 – King George III delivered his Proclamation of Rebellion to the Court of St James stating that the American colonies had proceeded to a state of open and avowed rebellion.

1831 – Nat Turner's rebellion was suppressed.

1839 – The UK captured Hong Kong as a base for the First Opium War with Qing China, a war it started to prevent China from banning opium and opium trade.

1898 – The Southern Cross Expedition departed from London.

1904 – The automobile tire chain was patented.

1923 – Captain Lowell Smith and Lieutenant John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling  of an airplane

1927 – Sacco and Vanzetti were executed for being Italian Anarchists

1942 – The Battle of Stalingrad began

1943 – Kharkiv was liberated by the Soviet Union after the Battle of Kursk.

1944 – Marseille was liberated by the Allies.

1954 – The first flight of the Lockheed C-130 "Herky Bird"

1966 – Lunar Orbiter 1 took the first photo of Earth from lunar orbit

1970 – The Salad Bowl strike, the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history, began

1975 – The start of the Wave Hill walk-off by Gurindji people in Australia

1990 – West and East Germany announced that they will reunite on October 3.

1991 – The World Wide Web was opened to the public.

Born this day in:

Just when you're beginning to think pretty well of people, you run across somebody who puts sugar on sliced tomatoes.

It's easy to see the faults in people I know; it's hardest to see the good. Especially when the good isn't there.

~~    Will Cuppy

1482 – Jo Gwang-jo, philosopher
1486 – Sigismund von Herberstein, historian and diplomat
1623 – Stanislaw Lubieniecki, astronomer, theologian, and historian
1769 – Georges Cuvier, biologist and academic
1783 – William Tierney Clark, engineer
1829 – Moritz Cantor, mathematician and historian
1846 – Alexander Milne Calder, sculptor
1847 – Sarah Frances Whiting, physicist and astronomer
1849 – William Ernest Henley, poet and critic
1852 – Arnold Toynbee, economist and historian
1868 – Edgar Lee Masters, lawyer, author, poet, and playwright
1875 – William Eccles, physicist and engineer
1875 – Eugene Lanceray, painter and sculptor
1884 – Will Cuppy, author and critic
1897 – Henry F. Pringle, historian and journalist
1900 – Malvina Reynolds, singer, songwriter, and activist
1905 – Ernie Bushmiller, cartoonist
1908 – Hannah Frank, sculptor and illustrator
1913 – Bob Crosby, singer and bandleader
1917 – Tex Williams, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1919 – Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin, mathematician and theorist
1923 – Edgar F. Codd, computer scientist and programmer
1926 – Clifford Geertz, anthropologist and academic
1927 – Allan Kaprow, painter and author
1927 – Martial Solal, pianist and composer
1931 – Hamilton O. Smith,  microbiologist and academic,
1932 – Mark Russell, comedian and pianist
1933 – Robert Curl, chemist and academic
1936 – Rudy Lewis, singer
1938 – Roger Greenaway, singer, songwriter, and producer
1943 – Pino Presti, bass player, composer, conductor, and producer
1946 – Keith Moon, drummer, songwriter, and producer
1947 – Linda Thompson, folk-rock singer and songwriter
1948 – Lev Zeleny, physicist and academic
1949 – Rick Springfield, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1951 – Jimi Jamison, singer, songwriter and musician
1953 – Bobby G, singer and songwriter
1956 – Andreas Floer, mathematician and academic
1959 – Edwyn Collins, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1960 – Gary Hoey, guitarist, songwriter, and producer
1961 – Dean DeLeo, guitarist and songwriter
1962 – Shaun Ryder, singer, songwriter, and actor
1968 – Laura Claycomb, soprano
1969 – Keith Tyson, painter and illustrator
1974 – Konstantin Novoselov, physicist and academic
1975 – Eliza Carthy, folk musician
1978 – Julian Casablancas, singer, songwriter, and producer
1989 – Lianne La Havas, British singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist
1989 – Trixie Mattel, American drag queen, actor, and country singer

Died this day in:

“Every man dies, but not every man truly lives.”

“There are wars, there is pain, there is suffering, and there is even death. But none of these things prepare you for Monday morning.”

~~     William Wallace

1305 – William Wallace, rebel commander
1328 – Nicolaas Zannekin, peasant leader (in the battle of Cassel)
1540 – Guillaume Budé, philosopher and scholar
1806 – Charles-Augustin de Coulomb,  physicist and engineer
1813 – Alexander Wilson (ornithologist), poet, ornithologist, and illustrator
1867 – Auguste-Marseille Barthélemy, poet and author
1927 – Nicola Sacco, Italian anarchist victim of US "justice" system
1927 – Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchist victim of US "justice" system
1933 – Adolf Loos, architect and theoretician, designed Villa Müller 
1949 – Helen Churchill Candee, geographer, journalist, feminist, and author (
1960 – Oscar Hammerstein II, director, producer, and composer
1977 – Naum Gabo, sculptor and academic
1982 – Stanford Moore, biochemist and academic
1989 – R. D. Laing, psychiatrist and author
1990 – David Rose,  pianist and composer
1997 – John Kendrew, biochemist and crystallographer,
2001 – Peter Maas, journalist and author
2006 – Maynard Ferguson, trumpet player and bandleader (b. 1928)
2012 – Jerry Nelson, American puppeteer and voice actor

Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:
Battle of Kursk Day (Russia)
Daffodil Day
European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism
International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition
Buttered Corn Day
Ride The Wind Day
Cuban Sandwich Day
Ride The Wind Day

Music goes here, iirc, well, With apologies

Malvina Reynolds

Bob Crosby

Tex Williams

Rudy Lewis

Pino Presti

Keith Moon

Sacco & Vanzetti

David Rose

David Rose

Maynard Ferguson

Pino Presti and Maynard Ferguson

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

I may have jury duty today