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11/06 is National Saxophone Day [1]

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Date: 2023-11-06

It is the birthday of Adolphe Sax, who invented a variety of instruments, but, principally, the Saxophone. That is a saxophone pictured above. They say that a picture is worth a thousand words, but can it really say "sax"? I don't think so, here's some sax.

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NB: Those who play the sax are neither saxists or saxophonies, but saxophonists, got it?

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On this day in history:

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1528 -- Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca stumbled across what would someday be Tejas ***

1856 -- George Eliot submitted "Scenes of Clerical Life" for publication

1865 -- The CSS Shenandoah finally surrendered to the US

1913 -- Mohandas Gandhi was busted for leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.

1935 -- Edwin Armstrong presented FM to the Institute of Radio Engineers.

1943 -- The Red Army recaptured Kiev from the Nazis

1944 -- Plutonium was first produced at Hanford for use in Fat Man against Nagasaki

1947 -- Meet the Press made its TV debut

1962 -- The UN condemned South Africa's apartheid and called for a boycott by members

2012 -- Tammy Baldwin became the first openly gay US Senator

*** Perhaps his name, Head of a Cow, is what doomed the state to fill up with cowpokes and cowtowns?

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Some people who were born on this day:

The capitalist knows that his acts are irrational, but they are necessary episodes in the economic process which this society has brought forth.

~~ Harold Ross

1558 -- Thomas Kyd, playwright 1692 -- Louis Racine, poet 1753 -- Jean-Baptiste Breval, cellist and composer 1814 -- Adolphe Sax, invented the Krummhorn Saxophone 1833 -- Jonas Lie, author, poet, and playwright 1854 -- John Philip Sousa, invented sousaphone, wrote marches, honorary Python 1861 -- James Naismith, invented basketball 1892 -- Harold Ross, journalist, co-founder of The New Yorker 1916 -- Ray Conniff, composer and conductor 1921 -- James Jones, novelist 1923 -- Don Lusher, trombonist and bandleader 1932 -- Stonewall Jackson, cw singer and songwriter 1937 -- Eugene Pitt, doo-wop singer 1938 -- P. J. Proby, singer and songwriter 1938 -- Diana E. H. Russell, activist and author 1939 -- Michael Schwerner, activist, civil rights martyr 1940 -- Ruth Messinger, activistv 1941 -- Guy Clark, singer, songwriter, and guitarist 1941 -- Doug Sahm, ditto, also plays bajo sexto 1945 -- Lani Hall, singer, lyricist and author 1946 -- George Young, guitarist and songwriter 1948 -- Glenn Frey, singer, songwriter and guitarist 1949 -- Arturo Sandoval, trumpet player, pianist and composer 1955 -- Maria Shriver, jurnalist, author 1961 -- Florent Pagny, singer, songwriter and actor 1962 -- Annette Zilinskas, singer and bass player 1964 -- Corey Glover, singer, songwriter, and guitarist 1964 -- Greg Graffin, singer and songwriter 1966 -- Paul Gilbert, guitarist and singer 1976 -- Mike Herrera, singer, songwriter and bass player 1976 -- Jodi Martin, singer, songwriter and suitarist 1988 -- Conchita Wurst, singer, Eurovision winner

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Some people who died on this day:

“Politicians are like weather vanes. Our job is to make the wind blow.”

~~ David Brower

1632 -- Gustavus Adolphus 1816 -- Gouverneur Morris, wrote the preamble to the US Constitution 1893 -- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composer 1965 -- Clarence Williams, singer, songwriter and pianist 1970 -- Agustin Lara, singer, songwriter and actor 1989 -- Dickie Goodman, half of Buchanan and Goodman 2000 -- David Brower, Sierra Club founder 2000 -- L. Sprague de Camp, author 2005 -- Miguel Aceves Mejia, King of the Falsetto 2007 -- Hank Thompson, singer, songwriter and guitarist 2014 -- Rick Rosas, bassist

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Some Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such: International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict Malaria Day in the Americas National Saxophone Day

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Today's Tunes

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Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca

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Jean-Baptiste Breval

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Adolphe Sax

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John Philip Sousa

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Harold Ross

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Ray Conniff

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Don Lusher

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Stonewall Jackson

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Eugene Pitt

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P. J. Proby

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Guy Clark

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Doug Sahm

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Lani Hall

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George Young

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Glenn Frey

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Arturo Sandoval

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Florent Pagny

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Annette Zilinskas

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Corey Glover

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Greg Graffin

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Paul Gilbert

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Mike Herrera

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Jodi Martin

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Conchita Wurst

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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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Clarence Williams (with Sidney Bechtet and Louis Armstrong)

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Agustin Lara

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Dickie Goodman

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Miguel Aceves Mejia

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Hank Thompson

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Rick Rosas

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Bonus:

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Doug Sahm (Texas Tornados)

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Doug Sahm and friends

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Rick Rosas

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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, Cabeza de Vaca, George Eliott, Gandhi, Tammy Baldwin, Adolphe Sax, John Phillip Souza, Rick Rosas, Doug Sahm, Augustin Lara, Tchaikovsky, James Jones, Annette Zilinskas

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