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7/10 - Nikola Tesla Day [1]

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Date: 2023-07-10

Nikola Tesla was a Serb who emigrated to the US where he bacame an inventor, electrical engineer and mechanical engineer. He was a proponent of aalternating current and developed an assortment of alternating current devices including the Tesla Coil and was granted nearly 300 patents. The international unit of magnetic flux density is named the Tesla in his honor.

On 07/10/2024, Paavo Nurmi won the Olympic 1,500 meter and 5,000 meter races one hour apart, setting records in both events. Somewhat prodigous for it day, it was arguably less so for Mr. Nurmi, known as the Flying Finn. He set 22 world records, held a 121 race winning streak at distances from 800 meters up and a 14 year winning streak in some other events including the 10,000 meter run. There's more if you are interested in such things

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On this day in history:

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1499 -- Nicolau Coelho returned to Lisbon having found the sea route to India with Vasco da Gama.

1778 - France declared war on Great Britain in support of the American Revolution

1821 -- The US took possession of Florida

1913 -- The temperature in Death Valley hit 134 F

1921 - Bloody Sunday in Belfast

1924 - Paavo Nurmi won the Olympic 1,500 and 5,000 m races an hour apart

1925 -- The Scopes Trial began

1938 - Howard Hughes began his (91 hour) record around the world flight

1940 -- The Vichy government was established

1951 -- Negotiations to end the Korean War began

1962 -- Telstar was launched

1966 -- The Chicago Freedom Movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., held a rally at Soldier Field

1985 -- Assassins of the French DGSE bombed and sunk the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland killing Fernando Pereira.

1991 -- Boris Yeltsin took office as President of Russia

1992 -- Manuel Noriega was sentenced to 40 years for pissing off his former boss and the US' first known CIA president, Bush the elder. This was the first application of the Bush doctrine, according to which the US can pass extraterritorial laws and edicts governing the behavior of foreign citizens and governments within their home countries and enforce such edicts and laws by military invasions, kidnappings, and other acts of war.

1997 - Scientists reported the findings of a DNA study of a Neanderthal skeleton that supported the "Out of Africa" of evolution 72 years after Scopes

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Some people who were born on this day:

It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.

~~ William Blackstone

1509 -- John Calvin, yet another preacher

1723 -- William Blackstone, lawyer and judge, author of The Commentaries ...

1830 -- Camille Pissarro, influential painter

1832 -- Alvan Graham Clark, astronomer and telescope maker who discovered Sirius B

1834 -- James Abbott McNeill Whistler, painter famous for his mom

1856 -- Nikola Tesla, physicist, engineer, and inventor

1871 -- Marcel Proust, writer

1875 -- Mary McLeod Bethune, activist and educator, started what became Bethune-Cookman U.

1878 -- Otto Freundlich, sculpter and painter

1891 -- Edith Quimby, medical researcher and physicist, a founder of nuclear medicine

1894 – Jimmy McHugh, composer

1895 -- Carl Orff, composer

1897 -- Legs Diamond, businessman

1902 – Kurt Alder, chemist and academic

1902 – Nicolás Guillén, poet, journalist, and activist

1903 – John Wyndham, author

1905 -- Mildred Benson, author (Nancy Drew)

1907 -- Blind Boy Fuller, Piedmont Blues guitarist and singer

1911 -- Cootie Williams, trumpet player and bandleader

1920 -- David Brinkley, journalist

1920 -- Owen Chamberlain, physicist, co-discoverer of anti-proton

1921 -- Harvey Ball, illustator and recognized creator of the smiley face

1921 -- Eunice Kennedy Shriver, activist and co-founder of the Special Olympics

1922 -- Jean Kerr, author and playwright

1930 – Janette Sherman, physician, author, researcher in occupational and environmental health

1931 -- Alice Munro, author

1933 - Jumpin' Gene Simmons, rockabilly singer and songwriter

1938 -- Lee Morgan, trumpet player and composer

1939 -- Mavis Staples, THE Mavis Staples

1943 -- Jerry Miller, guitarist, singer and songwriter

1947 -- Arlo Guthrie, singer, songwriter, guitarist, activist

1974 -- Imelda May, singer and songwriter, plays: bodhran, guitar, bass guitar and tambourine. She has a truly bodacious bodhran

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Some people who died on this day:

“You don’t win battles with hate. Anger and hate can make you brave, make you strong, but they also make you stupid. You end up tripping over your own two feet.”

~~ Emperor Hadrian

0138 -- Hadrian, Roman emperor, walled off the Scots

1851 -- Louis Daguerre, photographer and physicist, invented the daguerreotype

1941 -- Jelly Roll Morton, pianist and bandleader

1954 -- Calogero Vizzini, Sicilian mafia leader

1979 -- Arthur Fiedler, conductor

1987 -- John Hammond, record producer and activist, the people he "discovered", produced or promoted will boggle your mind

1989 -- Mel Blanc, voice of nearly all but Fudd

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Some Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:

Nikola Tesla Day





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Today's Tunes



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MUSICAL TESLA COILS !!

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x YouTube Video

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x YouTube Video

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Scopes

x YouTube Video

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Tellstar

x YouTube Video

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Noreiga

x YouTube Video

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Jimmy McHugh

x YouTube Video

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Carl Orff (sort of)

x YouTube Video

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Blind Boy Fuller

x YouTube Video

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Cootie Williams

x YouTube Video

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Jumpin' Gene Simmons

x YouTube Video

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Lee Morgan

x YouTube Video

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Mavis Staples

x YouTube Video

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Jerry Miller

x YouTube Video

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Arlo Guthrie

x YouTube Video

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Imedla May

x YouTube Video

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Jelly Roll Morton

x YouTube Video

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Arthur Fiedler

x YouTube Video

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John Hammond -

x YouTube Video

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Mel Blanc

x YouTube Video

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Bonus:

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Blind Boy Fuller

x YouTube Video

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Mavis Staples

x YouTube Video

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Another side of Imelda May:

x YouTube Video

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What an Ornament sounds like:

x YouTube Video

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

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Cross posted from http://caucus99percent.com





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