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July 19th
Hello, humans & happy Camel day. We’ve come to day 200 of 2023, and here’s LOTS of history from previous ‘todays’.
And may I say a common quote, ‘God made man. Sam Colt made them equal’,
You’ll see why in the Birthday’s section.
- 484 – Leontius, Roman usurper, is crowned Eastern emperor at Tarsus (modern Turkey). He is recognized in Antioch and makes it his capital.
Leontius’s coronation took place in Tarsus on July 19, 484 – the day was chosen, following the advice of some astrologers, as a favourable day – at the hands of the empress dowager Verina, who then sent a letter to the Governors of the Diocese of the East and of the Diocese of Egypt suggesting they accept the usurper as Emperor.
Leontius was recognized in Antioch, where he entered July 27, and in some other places; he even had time to nominate officers and to mint coins, before facing the reaction of Zeno.
Pip’s notes – I think I’m missing something… I assumed these are the same dudes in the ‘300’ movie/story… May have to dig into this story later.
I mean, movies don’t lie about historical stories….. (snickers)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leontius_(usurper)
- 1545 – The warship Mary Rose sinks off Portsmouth; in 1982 the wreck is salvaged in one of the most complex and expensive projects in the history of maritime archaeology.
She served for 33 years in several wars against France, Scotland, and Brittany. After being substantially rebuilt in 1536, she saw her last action on 19 July 1545.
She led the attack on the galleys of a French invasion fleet, but sank in the Solent, the strait north of the Isle of Wight.
The wreck is a Protected Wreck managed by Historic England.
The finds include weapons, sailing equipment, naval supplies, and a wide array of objects used by the crew.
Many of the artefacts are unique to the Mary Rose and have provided insights into topics ranging from naval warfare to the history of musical instruments.
Pip’s notes – The common explanation for the ship’s name was that it was inspired by Henry VIII’s favourite sister, Mary Tudor, Queen of France, and the rose as the emblem of the Tudors.
According to the historians David Childs, David Loades and Peter Marsden, no direct evidence of naming the ship after the King’s sister exists.
It was far more common at the time to give ships pious Christian names, a long-standing tradition in Western Europe, or to associate them with their royal patrons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Rose
- 1701 – Representatives of the Iroquois Confederacy sign the Nanfan Treaty, ceding a large territory north of the Ohio River to England.
The treaty was conducted in Albany, New York, on July 19, 1701, and amended by both parties on September 14, 1726
Pip’s notes – Not for long, bishes….
Can you imagine some 1700’s Karen, seeing an American Indian, walking down the street of New York, there to sign treaties?
I can see a few of them, running into a local store or shop to get away.
oh, goodness, I could be scalped’.. meanwhile that same Indian possibly speaks better English than said 1700’s century Karen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanfan_Treaty
- 1843 – Brunel’s steamship the SS Great Britain is launched, becoming the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull and screw propeller, becoming the largest vessel afloat in the world.
She was the largest passenger ship in the world from 1845 to 1854.
She was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806–1859), for the Great Western Steamship Company’s transatlantic service between Bristol and New York City.
While other ships had been built of iron or equipped with a screw propeller, Great Britain was the first to combine these features in a large ocean-going ship.
She was the first iron steamer to cross the Atlantic Ocean, which she did in 1845 taking 14 days for the journey.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Great_Britain
- 1903 – Maurice Garin wins the first Tour de France
the first cycling race set up and sponsored by the newspaper L’Auto, ancestor of the current daily, L’Équipe.
It ran from 1 to 19 July in six stages over 2,428 km (1,509 mi)
The race was invented to boost the circulation of L’Auto, after its circulation started to plummet from competition with the long-standing Le Vélo.
Originally scheduled to start in June, the race was postponed one month, and the prize money was increased, after a disappointing level of applications from competitors.
Pip’s notes – (more snickers) an Italian then French road bicycle racer best known for winning the inaugural Tour de France in 1903, and for being stripped of his title in the second Tour in 1904 along with eight others, for cheating.
Misbehaviour was rife too between riders and nine were thrown out during the race for, among other things, riding in or being pulled by cars.
There were claims, too, that the organisers had allowed Garin to break rules — at one stage being given food where it was not permitted by its chief official — because his sponsor, La Française, had a financial stake in the race.
Pip’s side notes – Yo! you want to see some funny stuff on how humans are gonna human, spend a few minutes reading the story about the 1904 race.
“The race aroused a passion among spectators, who felled trees to hold back rivals and beat up others at night outside”.
Fans wer cutting down trees to block riders, sometimes chasing them with sticks & throwing rocks at the other riders… yikes.
Check the show notes for the links
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1903_Tour_de_France
- 1963 – Joe Walker flies a North American X-15 to a record altitude of 106,010 meters (347,800 feet) on X-15 Flight 90.
Exceeding an altitude of 100 km, this flight qualifies as a human spaceflight under international convention.
Like many X-series aircraft, the X-15 was designed to be carried aloft and drop launched from under the wing of a B-52 mother ship.
Pip’s notes – How many humans have been “launched”? The old Orlando Wet ‘n Wild waterpark had the ‘Bomb bay’ that the floor dropped out from under you, dropping you on a very steep water slide. I don’t think that counts…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet_%27n_Wild_Orlando
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_X-15
- 1977 – The world’s first Global Positioning System (GPS) signal was transmitted from Navigation Technology Satellite 2 (NTS-2) and received at Rockwell Collins in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, at 12:41 a.m. Eastern time.
Pip’s notes – “Recalculating”… Yeah! of course you’re recalculating! You told me to turn after I passed the turn!
(pulls out Rand McNally map & protractor) How do ya read this thing, again?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System
- 1983 – The first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head in a CT is published.
M. Vannier and his co-workers J. Marsh of two different St. Louis hospitals, and J. Warren (McDonnell Aircraft Company) published the first three-dimensional reconstruction of single CT slices of the human head.
Pip’s notes – Funny what 3 people can build… (looks at a ducktion cup) =D
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_W._Vannier
the rest of the wiki notes were about war, gunmen, carbombs, and 2 plane crashes.
Happy Birthdays
- 1814 – Samuel Colt, American businessman, founded the Colt’s Manufacturing Company (d. 1862)
an American inventor, industrialist, and businessman who established Colt’s Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company (now Colt’s Manufacturing Company) and made the mass production of revolvers commercially viable.
Colt’s manufacturing methods were sophisticated. His use of interchangeable parts helped him become one of the first to use the assembly line efficiently. Moreover, his innovative use of art, celebrity endorsements, and corporate gifts to promote his wares made him a pioneer of advertising, product placement, and mass marketing.
Colt’s first two business ventures were producing firearms in Paterson, New Jersey, and making underwater mines; both ended in disappointment. His business affairs improved rapidly after 1847, when the Texas Rangers ordered 1,000 revolvers during the American war with Mexico. Later, his firearms were used widely during the settling of the western frontier. Colt died in 1862 as one of the wealthiest men in America.
Pip’s notes – pew, pew, pew!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Colt
- 1860 – Lizzie Borden, American woman, tried and acquitted for the murders of her father and step-mother in 1892 (d. 1927)
an American woman who was tried and acquitted of the August 4, 1892, axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts.
No one else was charged in the murders, and despite ostracism from other residents, Borden spent the remainder of her life in Fall River.
Pip’s notes – Also, I it’s been too long since watching “So I Married an Axe Murderer”.
There was someone else on today, the Duke Lacrossee fake accuser
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizzie_Borden
- 1929 – Gaston Glock, Austrian engineer and businessman, co-founded Glock Ges.m.b.H.
GLLLLOOOOOOOCCCCCCCKKKKKK!!!!!!! Yes, please. There’s a good story about the murder attempt in 1999, (quoted) “To murder Glock with a rubber mallet in a car park, and make it look like an accident”….. Yes, because those ferral rubber mallets end up taking soo many lives ‘on accident’…
Glock began as a manufacturer of curtain rods in the 1960s, and knives for the Austrian military in the 1970s,[2] and did not design or manufacture a firearm until he was 52 years old. He already had experience with polymers as a result of his previous business ventures. In 1980, he bought an injection-moulding machine to manufacture handles and sheaths for the field knives he was making for the Austrian army in his garage workshop.
His first pistol took one year to produce from the design and concept stage to production, and he applied for an Austrian patent in April 1981 for the pistol known as the Glock 17.
Pip’s 1st note – Pip speaking from memory – the Glock 17 pistol was specfically designed to hold 17 rounds, plus 1 in the chamber.
Let me please repeat that – what Karen calls ‘high capacity’ is actually normal capacity, unlike your perscription drugs from you “doctor” are near infininate.
Pip’s notes – A dude recalls the Playstation 2 game – SOCOM, where my gamer tag was ‘Walks with a 9’… A florida dude bets 20 sats that he’s more native than that Elizabeth Warren.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaston_Glock
- 1938 – Richard Jordan, American actor (d. 1993)
A long-time member of the New York Shakespeare Festival, he performed in many Off Broadway and Broadway plays. His films include Logan’s Run, Les Misérables, Old Boyfriends, Raise the Titanic, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, The Yakuza, Interiors, The Bunker, Dune, The Secret of My Success, Timebomb, The Hunt for Red October, Posse and Gettysburg.
Pip’s notes – it’s the secret group, those Shakespearians, again.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Jordan
- 1952 – Allen Collins, American guitarist and songwriter (d. 1990)
an American guitarist, and one of the founding members of the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. He co-wrote many of the band’s songs with frontman and original lead singer Ronnie Van Zant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Collins
- 1976 – Benedict Cumberbatch, English actor
Ok, Pip’s 4th wall break – Yeah, y’all know him as ‘Dr. Strange’, but I’d suggest he played the best ‘Sherlock Homes’ character, period.
Pip’s notes – In February 2014, Cumberbatch appeared with Sesame Street characters Murray and Count von Count for PBS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_Cumberbatch
Passings
- 1982 – Hugh Everett III, American physicist and mathematician (b. 1930)
an American physicist who first proposed the many-worlds interpretation (MWI) of quantum physics, which he termed his “relative state” formulation.
In contrast to the then-dominant Copenhagen interpretation, the MWI posits that the wave function never collapses and that all possibilities of a quantum superposition are objectively real.
Pip’s notes – At the age of twelve he wrote a letter to Albert Einstein asking him whether that which maintained the universe was something random or unifying.[4] Einstein responded as follows:
Dear Hugh: There is no such thing like an irresistible force and immovable body. But there seems to be a very stubborn boy who has forced his way victoriously through strange difficulties created by himself for this purpose. Sincerely yours, A. Einstein
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Everett_III
- 2004 – J. Gordon Edwards, American entomologist, mountaineer, and DDT advocate
an American entomologist and proponent of the use and safety of the pesticide DDT.
He was an outspoken critic of Rachel Carson and efforts to ban DDT, famously eating the substance to demonstrate its safety to humans.
(Pip’s foreshadowing thought – tell me this dude died from some from of problems rooting from DDT…. )
His 1961 book A Climber’s Guide to Glacier National Park, republished several times since, made him known as the “patron saint of climbing” in the park, where he died while hiking, aged 84.
Pip’s notes – fuuuuk… I was hoping for tripple cancer of the asshole for this dude who pushed DDT.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.Gordon_Edwards(entomologist_and_mountaineer)
- 2015 – Carmino Ravosa, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (b. 1930)
an American composer and lyricist, singer, pianist, as well as a producer, director, and musical historian.
He was an author and editor for Silver Burdett & Ginn’s music textbook series “World of Music” and “The Music Connection”, and the composer of the theme musicals in the two series.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmino_Ravosa
- 2018 – Denis Ten, Kazakhstani figure skater (b. 1993)
a Kazakhstani figure skater.[1] He was the 2014 Olympic bronze medalist, a two-time World medalist (silver in 2013, bronze in 2015), the 2015 Four Continents champion, the 2017 Winter Universiade champion, and a five-time national champion of Kazakhstan.
Ten was stabbed in the thigh on 19 July 2018 in Almaty by two carjackers who were attempting to steal his car mirrors, which were worth about 68 U.S. dollars.
After being stabbed, Ten lost about 3 litres (5.3 imp pt) of blood and died from the severe blood loss at the Central Clinical Hospital in Almaty, three hours after being admitted
Pip’s notes – I didn’t think I’d post this dude’s passing… but I’m damn sure willing to bet this dude was worth way more than fucking $68 worth of car sideview mirrors…. (sigh)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Ten
Holidays
- Martyrs’ Day (Myanmar)
a Burmese national holiday observed on 19 July to commemorate Gen. Aung San and seven other leaders of the pre-independence interim government, and one bodyguard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyrs%27_Day_(Myanmar)
- Sandinista Day or Liberation Day (Nicaragua)
Celebrated on 19 July on a national level. It marks the day that the National Liberation Army defeated the Somoza dictatorship in the Nicaraguan Revolution.
In recent years it is mostly a political celebration for members of the FSLN.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_Nicaragua
Cheers humans, clean you’re pew-pew if you’re happy about Colt or Glock, and I didn’t know their birthdays were on the same day, until yesterday.
And now y’all know, today.
and, there is a difference between a firearm’s ‘magazine’ and ‘clip’…
(Pip’s arm hair stands up, with fustration)
Now, go dry-hump Wednesday and GSD. Ducktion Cups approve.