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LOTS of History
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May 23rd
Just a note humans, there are 222 days left in 2023. Make Tuesday great again!
Here’s LOTS of history from today’s past –
- 1788 – South Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution as the eighth American state.
Pip’s notes- I hear it’s nice there, though the people might be questionable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Carolina
- 1829 – Accordion patent granted to Cyrill Demian in Vienna, Austrian Empire.
Pip’s notes- I was curious and looked up the ‘top songs with an accordion’ with
bands like ‘the talking heads’, Rolling Stones’, and Dropkick Murphy’ are up top.
Side notes- Spotify does have a Accordion Mix playlist, FYI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accordion
- 1911 – The New York Public Library is dedicated.
At the behest of Joseph Cogswell, John Jacob Astor placed a codicil in his will
to bequeath $400,000 (equivalent of $12.5 million in 2022) for the creation of a public library
Pip’s notes- With nearly 53 million items and 92 locations, the New York Public Library
is the second largest public library in the United States (behind the Library of Congress)
and the fourth largest in the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Public_Library
- 1934 – American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police
and killed in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.
The couple were known for their bank robberies, although they preferred
to rob small stores or rural funeral homes.
They are believed to have taken at least nine police officers and four civilians.
Pip’s notes- Funeral homes?? Didn’t know that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_and_Clyde
- 1992 – Italy’s most prominent anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife and
three body guards are killed by the Corleonesi clan with a half-ton bomb near Capaci, Sicily.
Pip’s notes – I went down this rabbit hole…. 881 lbs of explosives used
to take this dude out. Damn…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Falcone
- 1995 – The first version of the Java programming language was released.
Pip’s notes- I was thinking of a different Java (sips coffee)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(programming_language)
Happy Birthdays –
- 1707 – Carl Linnaeus, Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist (d. 1778)
known as the “father of modern taxonomy”.
Pip’s notes – Taxonomy –
The classifying groups of biological organisms based on shared characteristics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Linnaeus
- 1908 – John Bardeen, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
Assisted in inventing the transistor, and later superconductors.
After serving in World War II, he was a researcher at Bell Labs
and a professor at the University of Illinois.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bardeen
- 1934 – Robert Moog, electronic engineer and inventor (d. 2005)
of the Moog synthesizer which which debuted in 1964.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Moog
- 1958 – Drew Carey, American actor, game show host, and entrepreneur
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew_Carey
- 1974 – Jewel, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actress, and poet
As of 2021, has sold over 30 million albums worldwide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewel_(singer)
Passings –
- 1937 – John D. Rockefeller, American businessman and philanthropist,
founded the Standard Oil Company and Rockefeller University (b. 1839)
Supreme Court ruled in 1911 that Standard Oil must be
dismantled for violation of federal antitrust laws.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Rockefeller
- 2002 – Big Bill Neidjie, Australian activist and last
speaker of the Gaagudju language (b. c. 1920)
Pip’s notes- the gugu-achu language was in northern Australia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bill_Neidjie
- Bonus round name *
2014 – Mikhail Egorovich Alekseev, Russian linguist and academic (b. 1949)
the vice-director of the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences,
and the head of its section on Caucasian languages.
Pip’s notes- I saw this name and can picture a struggling look on Brian’s face
while trying to read the name. (attempted humor)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Alekseev_(linguist)
Holidays –
- World Turtle Day
Held every May 23rd, It began in 2000 and is sponsored by American Tortoise Rescue.
Pip’s notes- I assume most of us get 12 packs and not 6 packs with the plastic beer holder,
so we shouldn’t need to remind ourselves to cut up the plastic holders.
Pip’s side notes- I did a search for when was Shredder day, nothing found.
Heroes in a Half-shell Turtle Power!
(try to get that out of your head now)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Turtle_Day
https://www.worldturtleday.org/
- Today in wiki – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_23