January 28 is the 28th day of the year
It is also Pungenday, Chaos 28, 3185 YOLD (discordian)
And let us not forget 13.0.6.3.9 by the Mayan Long Count
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Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift, look out kid, ...
On this day in history:
1573 – The signing of the Articles of the Warsaw Confederation established freedom of religion in Poland.
1624 – Saint Kitts became the first British colony in the Caribbean.
1813 – Pride and Prejudice was first published.
1855 – The first rail crossing from the Atlantic to the Pacific was made by a locomotive on the Panama Canal Railway.
1909 – US troops finally left Cuba (except for GITMO).
1935 – Iceland became the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion.
1985 – USA for Africa recorded We Are the World.
1986 – The Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated after liftoff
1988 – The Canadian Supreme Court struck down all anti-abortion laws (R v Morgentaler).
Born this day in:
1611 – Johannes Hevelius, astronomer and politician.
1841 – Henry Morton Stanley, explorer and journalist,
1853 – José Martí, journalist, poet, and theorist.
1873 – Colette, novelist and journalist.
1884 – Auguste Piccard, physicist and explorer.
1887 – Arthur Rubinstein, pianist and conductor.
1912 – Jackson Pollock, painter.
1927 – Ronnie Scott, saxophonist.
1929 – Acker Bilk, singer and clarinet player.
1929 – Claes Oldenburg, sculptor and illustrator.
1951 – Billy Bass Nelson, bassist.
Died this day in:
1687 – Johannes Hevelius, astronomer.
1939 – W. B. Yeats, poet.
1986 – Gregory Jarvis, Christa McAuliffe, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Judith Resnik, Dick Scobee, and Michael J. Smith, astronauts.
2005 – Jim Capaldi, singer, songwriter, and drummer.
2016 – Paul Kantner, singer, songwriter, and guitarist.
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Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:
Data Privacy Day
(so support the EFF)
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Music goes here, iirc, well,
Warsaw Confederation
Sea to Sea Rail Crossing
Iceland sets women free
USA for Africa
Canada also sets women free
Ronnie Scott
Aker Bilk
Billy Bass Nelson
Jim Capaldi
Paul Kantner
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It's an open thread, so do your thing
I have a bunch of lab tests and will be in and out all day.
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