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Today is May 15.
Peace Officers Memorial Day, as well International Conscientious Objectors Day, is observed today. Also, today is Nakba Day, so, grab 'em by the nakba. Events 1536 Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, stands trial in London on charges of treason, adultery and incest; she is condemned to death by a specially-selected jury. 1618 Johannes Kepler confirms his previously rejected discovery of the third law of planetary motion (he first discovered it on March 8 but soon rejected the idea after some initial calculations were made). 1718 James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents the world's first machine gun, the Puckle Gun. 1730 Robert Walpole effectively became the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. 1776 American Revolution: The Fifth Virginia Convention instructs its Continental Congress delegation to propose a resolution of independence from Great Britain, paving the way for the United States Declaration of Independence. 1793 Diego Marνn Aguilera flies a glider for "about 360 meters", at a height of 56 meters, during one of the first attempted manned flights. 1800 King George III of the United Kingdom survives an assassination attempt by James Hadfield, who is later acquitted by reason of insanity. 1817 Opening of the first private mental health hospital in the United States, the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason (now Friends Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). 1851 The first Australian gold rush is proclaimed, although the discovery had been made three months earlier. 1862 President Abraham Lincoln signs a bill into law creating the United States Bureau of Agriculture. It is later renamed the United States Department of Agriculture. 1905 Las Vega$ is founded when 110 acres (0.45 km2), in what later would become downtown, are auctioned off. 1911 In Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States, the United States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be an "unreasonable" monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and orders the company to be broken up. 1919 The Winnipeg general strike begins. By 11:00, almost the whole working population of Winnipeg had walked off the job. 1940 McDonald's opens its first restaurant in San Bernardino, California. 1941 Joltin' Joe DiMaggio begins a 56-game hitting streak. 1957 At Malden Island in the Pacific Ocean, Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb in Operation Grapple. 1970 President Richard Nixon appoints Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington the first female United States Army generals. 1972 In Laurel, Maryland, Arthur Bremer shoots and paralyzes Alabama Governor George Wallace while he is campaigning to become President. 2008 California becomes the second U.S. state after Massachusetts in 2004 to legalize same-sex marriage after the state's own Supreme Court rules a previous ban unconstitutional. 2010 Jessica Watson becomes the youngest person to sail, non-stop and unassisted around the world solo. 1856 L. Frank Baum, 1859 Pierre Curie, 1902 Richard J. Daley, 1905 Joseph Cotten, 1905 Abraham Zapruder (American businessman and amateur photographer, filmed the Zapruder film), 1909 James Mason, 1918 Eddy Arnold, 1923 Richard Avedon, 1931 Ken Venturi, 1937 Madeleine Albright, 1937 Trini Lopez, 1940 Roger Ailes, 1940 Lainie Kazan, 1942 K. T. Oslin, 1945 Jerry Quarry, 1948 Brian Eno, 1952 Chazz Palminteri, 1953 George Brett, 1956 Dan Patrick, 1967 Smokin' John Smoltz, 1969 Emmitt Smith, 1976 Ryan Leaf, 1981 Jamie-Lynn Sigler, 1987 Andy Murray 1886 Emily Dickinson, 1967 Edward Hopper, 2003 June Carter Cash, 2007 Jerry Falwell
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Drop your weapons and surrender or I'll Puckle you!
That ought to strike fear in the hearts of the brigands.
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How'd he die?
He died in the war. Oh. What happened? He was puckled. Ooh, snap!
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Today is May 16.
1568 – Mary, Queen of Scots, flees to England. 1770 – A 14-year-old Marie Antoinette marries 15-year-old Louis-Auguste who later becomes king of France. You'd think they married young, but it was the 1700s, they were middle-aged. 1843 – The first major wagon train heading for the Pacific Northwest sets out on the Oregon Trail with one thousand pioneers from Elm Grove, Missouri. 1866 – The U.S. Congress eliminates the half dime coin and replaces it with the five cent piece, or nickel. 1868 – United States President Andrew Johnson is acquitted in his impeachment trial by one vote in the United States Senate. 1874 – A flood on the Mill River in Massachusetts destroys much of four villages and kills 139 people. 1891 – The International Electrotechnical Exhibition opens in Frankfurt, Germany, and will feature the world's first long distance transmission of high-power, three-phase electric current (the most common form today). 1916 – The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the French Third Republic sign the secret wartime Sykes-Picot Agreement partitioning former Ottoman territories such as Iraq and Syria. 1918 – The Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government during wartime an imprisonable offense. It will be repealed less than two years later. 1919 – A naval Curtiss NC-4 aircraft commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight. 1929 – In Hollywood, the first Academy Awards ceremony takes place. 1960 – Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser (a ruby laser), at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California. 1965 - Driving away from a gig at the Civic Hall, Long Beach, California, the limo taking The Rolling Stones back to their hotel was besieged by fans who caved in the roof by standing on it. The band attempted to hold the roof up while their chauffeur drove off with bodies falling onto the road. 1966 - The Beach Boys released the album Pet Sounds in the US. The album is now regarded as the masterpiece of composer-producer Brian Wilson. To confirm this, Pet Sounds has been widely ranked as one of the most influential records ever released and has been ranked at No.1 in several music magazines lists of greatest albums of all time, including New Musical Express, The Times and Mojo Magazine. In 2003, it was ranked No.2 in Rolling Stones 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list, (Sgt. Pepper's came first). 1969 - Pete Townshend spent the night in a US jail for assaulting a man during a Who gig at The Fillmore East. What Townshend didn't know was the man who jumped onto the stage was a plainclothes policeman trying to warn the audience that a fire had broken out. The Who guitarist was later fined $30 for the offence. 1984 - Ozzy Osbourne was arrested in Memphis, Tennessee for 'staggering drunk' down Beale Street. Osbourne was released from the Memphis jail five hours later, after drying out, and was not required to return for a court appearance. He continued on with a tour in support of 1983’s Bark at the Moon. 1991 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom addresses a joint session of the United States Congress. She is the first British monarch to address the U.S. Congress. 2010 - Ronnie James Dio, singer with Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath and his own band Dio, died after a six-month battle with stomach cancer. He was 67 years old. Dio’s career began in 1957 with The Vegas Kings, which later changed to Ronnie and the Rumblers, then Ronnie and the Redcaps, then in 1961, Ronnie Dio and the Prophets. In 1967, Dio and Prophets guitarist Nick Pantas formed the Electric Elves, which shortened its name to Elf. 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Funny, I'd never heard of the Mill River flood.
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Today is May 17.
Also, Canadians observe a National Day Against Homophobia, while the world marks today as International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (aka IDAHO), as well as World Hypertension Day, and World Information Society Day Quote:
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Today In Music History
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1963 - The first Monterey Folk Festival took place over three days in Monterey, California. The festival featured Joan Baez, Bob Dylan and Peter Paul and Mary. The 1967 Monterey Rock festival is remembered for the first major American appearances by Jimi Hendrix and The Who as well as the first major public performances of Janis Joplin. It was also the first major performance by Otis Redding in front of a predominantly white audience. 1964 - Bob Dylan made his first major concert UK appearance when he played at the Royal Festival Hall in London with an afternoon show listed as a Folksong Concert. Dylan's 18-song set included the live debut of Mr. Tambourine Man and took place on a Sunday afternoon. In the interval, Dylan received a telegram from John Lennon seeking a meeting which never materialized. 1966 - During a UK tour, Bob Dylan appeared at The Free Trade Hall in Manchester. This was the concert where a member of the audience shouted out Judas at Dylan unhappy with the singer's move from acoustic to electric. Dylan replied with "Youre a liar", the entire concert was eventually officially released in The Bootleg Series by Sony Music in 1999. 1971 - [Tony Orlando &] Dawn were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Knock Three Times', the group's first of two UK No.1's. Singer Tony Orlando had retired from singing when he was persuaded to front Dawn for studio recordings. 1975 - Elton John was awarded a Platinum Record for sales of a million copies of the LP 'Captain Fantastic and The Brown Dirt Cowboy', the first album ever to be certified Platinum on the day of its release. 1987 - A fire destroyed Tom Petty's house in Los Angeles, the cost was estimated at $800,000. 1996 - US blues guitarist Johnny Guitar Watson died of a heart attack while on tour in Yokohama, Japan. According to eyewitness reports, he collapsed mid guitar solo. His last words were "ain't that a bitch." 2006 - Paul McCartney and his wife Heather Mills admitted that they had given up the fight to save their marriage, saying that after four years together, they were going their separate ways. 2012 - Donna Summer, the 1970s pop singer known as the Queen of Disco, died of lung cancer, an illness she believed she contracted from inhaling toxic particles released after the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York. 2013, Bob Dylan was made an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Dylan, who was unable to attend the New York ceremony, said he felt "extremely honoured" and "lucky" to be admitted.
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"Half the free world’s mercury was in Oak Ridge: Union Carbide and the Atomic Energy Commission and successor agencies “LOST” 10% OF IT."
4.2 million pounds, not 2.4. Just sayin'.
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Mercury is pretty dense though, so it's not like 4.2 million pounds of it is a lot. That's like one jar.
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Today is May 18.
This date is observed as International Museum Day, as well as World AIDS Vaccine Day. Today is also Day of Remembrance of Crimean Tatar Genocide. I didn't know about Crimean tatars...I knew about Irish taters... Events 332 Constantine the Great announced free distributions of food to the citizens in Constantinople. Welfare is born. 1291 Fall of Acre, the end of Crusader presence in the Holy Land. 1593 Playwright Thomas Kyd's accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe. 1652 Rhode Island passes the first law in English-speaking North America making slavery illegal. 1756 The Seven Years' War begins when Great Britain declares war on France. 1860 Abraham Lincoln wins the Republican Party presidential nomination over William H. Seward, who later becomes the United States Secretary of State. 1896 The United States Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that the "separate but equal" doctrine is constitutional. 1896 Khodynka Tragedy: A mass panic on Khodynka Field in Moscow during the festivities of the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II results in the deaths of 1,389 people. The cause was the rumor that beer & pretzels were in short supply. No shit. 1926 Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears in Venice, California. 1933 New Deal: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an act creating the Tennessee Valley Authority. 1944 World War II: Battle of Monte Cassino: Conclusion after seven days of the fourth battle as German paratroopers evacuate Monte Cassino. 1953 Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier. 1966 - During his 1966 world tour, Bob Dylan and Robbie Robertson from The Band were filmed singing several songs in a hotel room in Glasgow, Scotland, the footage turning up in the film Eat The Document. The film was originally commissioned for the ABC television series Stage '66, but after Dylan edited the film himself ABC rejected it as 'incomprehensible for a mainstream audience'. 1974 - Ray Stevens started a three week 1980 Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington, United States, killing 57 people and causing $3 billion in damage. 1990 In France, a modified TGV train achieves a new rail world speed record of 515.3 km/h (320.2 mph). 1994 Israeli troops finish retreating from the Gaza Strip after occupying it, giving the area to the Palestine to govern. 2009 The LTTE are defeated by the Sri Lankan government, ending almost 26 years of fighting between the two sides. 2011 - John Lennon's handwritten lyrics for the 1967 Beatles song 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' sold for $237,132 (£145,644) at an auction in the US. 1048 Omar Khayyαm, 1822 Mathew Brady, 1850 Oliver Heaviside (KennellyHeaviside layer), 1892 Ezio Pinza, 1897 Frank Capra, 1911 Big Joe Turner♪ ♫, 1912 Richard Brooks (director Blackboard Jungle, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Elmer Gantry), 1912 Perry Como♪ ♫, 1920 Pope John Paul II, 1922 Kai Winding♪ ♫, 1928 Pernell Roberts, 1930 Fred Saberhagen (author Berserker stories/books), 1931 Don Martin (Mad's Maddest Artist), 1946 Reggie Jackson, 1947 Gail Strickland (The Drowning Pool), 1948 Joe Bonsall♪ ♫(The Oak Ridge Boys), 1950 Mark Mothersbaugh♪ ♫(Devo), 1952 George Strait♪ ♫, 1955 Chow Yun-fat (Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, John Woo movies), 1969 Martika♪ ♫, 1970 Tina Fey, 1975 Jack Johnson♪ ♫, 1979 Jens Bergensten (co-designed Minecraft) 1675 Jacques Marquette, 1808 Elijah Craig (invented Bourbon, PBUH), 1955 Mary McLeod Bethune, 1973 Jeannette Rankin, 1980 Victims of Mount St. Helens eruption: Reid Blackburn, American photographer and journalist David A. Johnston, American volcanologist and geologist Harry Truman, owner/operator of Mount St. Helens Lodge 1981 William Saroyan, 1990 Jill Ireland, 1995 Elisha Cook, Jr., 1995 Alexander Godunov, 1995 Elizabeth Montgomery, 2012 Peter Jones(Crowded House), 2012 Alan Oakley (designed the Raleigh Chopper) 2013 Steve Forrest, 2017 Roger Ailes (founder of Fox News)
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