Monday Open Thread: September 10 is World Suicide Prevention Day

September 10 is the 253rd day of the year; as well as Pungenday, Bureaucracy 34, 3184 YOLD
to discordians.

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Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift, look out kid, ...

On this day in:

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.

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.

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Born this day in:

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

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Died this day in:

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

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Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such:
World Suicide Prevention Day

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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


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picture: Image from page 123 of "Bulletin - United States National Museum" (1877)

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Arrow's picture

I hold in my hand the envelops....

Have a great Monday everyone.

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I want a Pony!

enhydra lutris's picture

@Arrow to you this fine morning. Have yourself a glorious day.

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

@Arrow at Bambi. HA! Good one Smile

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@QMS

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In other “Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feasts & Such”, today is the first day of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year. Wishing you all a sweet and happy new year.

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"Please clap." -- Jeb Bush

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@Outsourcing Is Treason
information. I usually skip religious holidays, because fairness would require that I include them all and almost every day of the year has a boatload of Christian feast days. Today is on the low end with less than 10.

Christian feast day:
Alexander Crummell (Episcopal Church)
Aubert
Blessed Thomas Tsugi, Charles Spinola, and Great Martyrs of Nagasaki
Edmund James Peck (Anglican Church of Canada)
Nicholas of Tolentino
Theodard of Maastricht
September 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

That's why I usually seek out some sort of internationals "holiday" of significance, like world peace day or international day of the woman, or something snarkable (usually US only) like national fruit loops appreciation day or somesuch.

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

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an "International Day of Absolutely No Significance", where people everywhere shake hands and walk away.
Thanks for the OT.

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Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.

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@earthling1
might be a problem of the "no non-interesting number" form, but we should be able to get around it.

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were did i go wrong? Sorry, i'm late, el; cheers for the OT.

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@smiley7 and yu are right, but -- Lessee, we have some somewhat arbitrarily selected days of celebration of specific things and or ideas mapped on to specific days throughout the year. Easter, Thanksgiving, International Day of the Woman, and Strawberry Daquiri Day. Most aren't "holidays" anyway, beyond the sense in which all days are. We could go with celebration days, but all days are celebration days too, or days of celebration, so perhaps "days of recognition and awareness". Have a happy Tuesday (heh I'm seriously late replying).

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --