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10/23 - Mole Day starts at 6:02 am [1]
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Date: 2023-10-23
At 6:02 it will be 6:02 10-23, and thus it is mole day because 6.02x10**23 particles constitute a mole.
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OK, moving on
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“A boy has never wept… nor dashed a thousand kim for nothing.”
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On this day in history:
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1707 -- The first meeting of Great Britain's Parliament
1739 -- The War of Jenkins' Ear began.
1850 -- The US' first National Women's Rights Convention began
1861 -- Lincoln suspended habeas corpus, today it is merely ignored
1906 -- Alberto Santos-Dumont achieved the first heavier than air flight in Europe
1915 -- 25,000 - 33,000 women marched on NYC's Fifth Avenue demanding suffrage ***
1917 -- Lenin called for the October Revolution.
1929 -- The New York Stock Exchange began to crash.
1935 -- Dutch Schultz and others were gunned down in a bar in Newark, New Jersey
1942 -- The Second Battle of El Alamein took place
1942 -- The Battle for Henderson Field on Guadalcanal began
1944 -- Battle of Leyte Gulf began
1946 -- The UN General Assembly convened for the first time
1955 -- Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem took control of "South Vietnam"
1956 -- The Hungarian revolution began
1972 -- A 5 month US bombing campaign against North Vietnam ended
1973 -- Nixon agreed to turn over the tapes
1983 -- The Marines barracks in Beirut was hit by a truck bomb
1989 -- The Hungarian Republic was declared
1998 -- "Land for peace" between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat
*** Note that they didn't waste time with DC or other socio-political backwaters, but went straight to the seat of power.
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Some people who were born on this day:
“The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I’ve parodied over the years.”
~~ "Weird Al" Yankovic
1875 – Gilbert N. Lewis, chemist and academic, coined the word photon
1892 – Speckled Red, piano player, singer and songwriter
1894 – Emma Vyssotsky, astronomer and academic
1905 – Gertrude Ederle, swimmer, first woman to swim the English Channel
1927 -- Sonny Criss, saxophonist and composer
1933 -- Carol Fran, singer, songwriter and pianist
1937 – Johnny Carroll, rockabilly musician and singer
1940 -- Ellie Greenwich, singer, songwriter and producer
1943 -- Alida Chelli, actress and singer
1944 -- Mike Harding, singer, songwriter and comedian
1945 -- Kim Larsen, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1947 -- Greg Ridley, bass player, Humble Pie co-founder
1949 -- Wurzel, singer and guitarist
1951 -- Charly Garcia, singer, songwriter and keyboard player
1952 -- Pierre Moerlen, drummer (Gong, tubular bells,)
1956 -- Dianne Reeves, singer
1956 -- Dwight Yoakam, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1958 -- Rose Nabinger, singer
1959 -- "Weird Al" Yankovic, singer, songwriter, comedian, actor
1960 -- Mirwais Ahmadzai, keyboard player and songwriter
1964 -- Robert Trujillo, bass player and songwriter
1967 -- Dale Crover, singer, songwriter, and drummer
1972 -- Jimmy Wayne, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1974 -- Christine Yoshikawa, pianist
1975 -- Jessicka, American singer and songwriter
1990 -- Paradise Oskar, singer, songwriter and guitarist
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Some people who died on this day:
We didn't have any instruments, so I had to use my guitar.
~~ Maybelle Carter
1939 -- Zane Grey, dentist and author
1950 -- Al Jolson, actor and singer
1978 -- Maybelle Carter, singer and autoharp player
2004 -- Robert Merrill, singer and actor
2012 -- Michael Marra, singer and songwriter
2013 -- Gypie Mayo, guitarist and songwriter but not Wilco
2014 -- Joan Quigley, Whitehouse astrologer under Reagan
2014 -- Alvin Stardust, singer and actor
2015 -- Leon Bibb, singer
2016 -- Pete Burns, singer and songwriter
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Some Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such: Mole Day (International observance)
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Today's Tunes
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Parliament
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October Revolution
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Speckled Red
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Sonny Criss
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Carol Fran
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Johnny Carroll
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Ellie Greenwich
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Alida Chelli
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Mike Harding
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Greg Ridley
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Wurzel
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Charley Garcia
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Pierre Moerlen
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Dianne Reeves
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Dwight Yoakam
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Rose Nabinger
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Wierd Al Yankovic
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Mirwais Ahmadzai
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Robert Trujillo
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Dale Crover
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Christine Yoshikawa
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Jessicka
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Paradise Oskar (Look Ma, no effing truetone!)
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Zane Grey
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Al Jolsen
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Maybelle Carter
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Robert Merrill
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Michael Mara
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Gypie Mayo
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Leon Bibb
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Pete Burns
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Bonus:
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Sonny Criss
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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 Open Thread, Mole Day, Parliament, October Revolution, Dutch Schultz, UN General Assembly, Sonny Criss, Zane Grey, Dianne Reeves, Maybelle Carter, National Women's Rights Convention
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