World History this day
1843 -- Lord George Paulet occupied the Kingdom of Hawaii in the name of Great Britain
1932 -- Adolf Hitler became a naturalized German citizen
1948 -- The Communist Party took control of the Czechoslovakian government
1956 -- Nikita Khrushchev denounced Stalin's cult of personality
1968 -- The Ha My massacre in South Vietnam
1986 -- Ferdinand Marcos fled the Philippines and Corazon Aquino became president
1991 -- The Warsaw Pact was disbanded temporarily scaring the US MIC
1992 -- Khojaly massacre in Azerbaijan.
1994 -- Mosque of Abraham massacre in the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron
US History this day
1870 -- Hiram Rhodes Revels, became a US Senator and becoming the first African American in Congress
1901 -- J. P. Morgan incorporated the United States Steel Corporation.
1919 -- Oregon became the first U.S. state to tax gasoline
Science & Technology this day
1836 -- Samuel Colt got a patent on the Colt revolver.
The Arts this day
Misc. this day
Birthdays of Note this day
1644 -- Thomas Newcomen, pastor and engineer, invented Newcomen engine
1670 -- Maria Margarethe Kirch, astronomer and mathematician
1707 -- Carlo Goldoni, playwright and composer
1841 -- Pierre-Auguste Renoir, painter and sculptor
1873 -- Enrico Caruso, tenor
1888 -- John Foster Dulles, war monger and war criminal
1894 -- Meher Baba, yet another Avatar
1901 -- Zeppo Marx, a Marx Brother
1906 -- Mary Coyle Chase, journalist and playwright
1910 -- Millicent Fenwick, journalist, politician, and diplomate, civil rights advocate
1917 -- Anthony Burgess, author, playwright, and critic
1918 -- Bobby Riggs, loudmouther loser
1920 -- Sun Myung Moon, yet another Messiah
1927 -- Ralph Stanley, singer and banjo player
1929 -- Tommy Newsom, saxophonist and bandleader
1932 -- Faron Young, country music singer, songwriter and guitarist
1943 -- George Harrison, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1946 -- Pete Wernick, banjo player
1947 -- Doug Yule, singer, songwriter and guitarist
Deaths of Note this day
1634 -- Albrecht von Wallenstein, military contractor
1723 -- Christopher Wren, architect
1914 -- John Tenniel, illustrator and political cartoonist. **
1950 -- George Minot, physician and medical researcher
1957 -- Bugs Moran, businesssman
1970 -- Mark Rothko, painter
1983 -- Tennessee Williams, playwright
1994 -- Baruch Goldstein, terrorist
1999 -- Glenn T. Seaborg, chemist
2009 -- Philip Jose Farmer, author
2012 -- Louisiana Red, singer, songwriter and guitarist
2014 -- Paco de Lucia, guitarist
** Did the original art for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
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So now some music
heh, starting with opera versus opry
Enrico Caruso
Ralph Stanley
George Harrison
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Photo: "Birthday" by Michele Sabetha
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