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LOTS of History
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July 31
Happy Monday, humans. I’m hoping it was a prosperous weekend for most of ya.
If everything goes well, I moved my old Jeep up to Dodge, without much trouble.
Only took 3..er, 4 years.
Project takes time, right?
So, Happy Black Tot Day (1970), here’s LOTS of History –
- 1492 – All remaining Jews are expelled from Spain when the Alhambra Decree takes effect.
an edict issued on 31 March 1492, by the joint Catholic Monarchs of Spain (Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon) ordering the expulsion of practising Jews from the Crowns of Castile and Aragon and its territories and possessions by 31 July of that year.
The primary purpose was to eliminate the influence of practising Jews on Spain’s large formerly-Jewish converso New Christian population, to ensure the latter and their descendants did not revert to Judaism.
Over half of Spain’s Jews had converted as a result of the religious persecution and pogroms which occurred in 1391.
Pip’s cut and paste – The Spanish government has actively pursued a policy of reconciliation with the descendants of its expelled Jews. In 1924, the regime of Primo de Rivera granted the possibility of obtaining Spanish citizenship to a part of the Sephardic Jewish diaspora.
As stated above, the Alhambra decree was officially revoked in 1968, after the Second Vatican Council rejected the charge of deicide traditionally attributed to the Jews.
In 1992, in a ceremony marking the 500th anniversary of the Edict of Expulsion, King Juan Carlos prayed alongside Israeli president Chaim Herzog and members of the Jewish community in the Beth Yaacov Synagogue.
The King said, (the Hebrew name for Spain)”Sefarad” isn’t a nostalgic memory anymore; it is a place where it must not be said that Jews should simply ‘feel’ at home there, for indeed Hispano-Jews are at home in Spain…What matters is not accountability for what we may have done wrong or right, but the willingness to look to the future, and analyze the past in light of our future.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alhambra_Decree
- 1715 – Seven days after a Spanish treasure fleet of 12 ships left Havana, Cuba for Spain, 11 of them sink in a storm off the coast of Florida.
At two in the morning on Wednesday, seven days after departing from Havana, Cuba, all eleven ships of the fleet were lost in a hurricane along the east coast of Florida.
A 12th ship, the French frigate “Le Grifon”, had sailed with the fleet.
Its captain was unfamiliar with the Florida coastline and elected to stay further out to sea.
The “Grifon” safely returned to Europe.
Pip’s notes – Oh, I’m calling BS on that! You KNOW those dozen ship captains paid off #12 (the rookie).
The other 11 Captains made it to Florida & lived like kings… er, Captains…
Pip’s post notes – Maybe not, a few centuries later, treasure is salvaged from these wrecks.
In the 2008 movie Fool’s Gold, the protagonists are searching for the location of one of the sunken ships of the treasure fleet (along with its treasure)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1715_Treasure_Fleet
- 1790 – The first U.S. patent is issued, to inventor Samuel Hopkins for a potash process
Potash (/ˈpɒtæʃ/) includes various mined and manufactured salts that contain potassium in water-soluble form.
The name derives from pot ash, plant ashes or wood ash soaked in water in a pot, the primary means of manufacturing potash before the Industrial Era.
The word potassium is derived from potash.
Pip’s notes – Pot-ashe or Po-tashe? A dude is wondering what is this stuff…
Pip’s ‘WTF is it’ notes – Potash is produced worldwide in amounts exceeding 90 million tonnes (40 million tonnes K2O equivalent) per year, with Canada being the largest producer, mostly for use in fertilizer.
Various kinds of fertilizer-potash constitute the single greatest industrial use of the element potassium in the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potash
- 1874 – Patrick Francis Healy became the first African-American inaugurated as president of a predominantly white university, Georgetown University.
an American Catholic priest and Jesuit who was an influential president of Georgetown University, becoming known as its “second founder”.
The university’s flagship building, Healy Hall, bears his name.
Though he considered himself and was largely accepted as White, Healy was posthumously recognized as the first Black American to become a Jesuit, earn a PhD, and become the president of a predominantly White university.
Pip’s notes – Though Healy’s biracial background was not widely known during his lifetime, there was a resurgent interest in his history in the mid-20th century.
In the early 1950s, Jesuit sociologist Albert S. Foley began inquiring into the history of the Healy family, culminating in a 1954 book that described their mixed race.
In the 1960s and 1970s, Georgetown University began publicly identifying Healy as Black.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Francis_Healy
- 1948 – USS Nevada is sunk by an aerial torpedo after surviving hits from two atomic bombs (as part of post-war tests) and being used for target practice by three other ships.
Launched in 1914, Nevada was a leap forward in dreadnought technology; four of her new features would be included on almost every subsequent US battleship: triple gun turrets, oil in place of coal for fuel, geared steam turbines for greater range, and the “all or nothing” armor principle.
These features made Nevada, alongside her sister ship Oklahoma, the first US Navy “standard-type” battleships.
At the end of World War II, the Navy decided that, due to age, Nevada would not be retained as part of the active fleet and she was instead assigned as a target ship for the atomic experiments at Bikini Atoll in July 1946 (Operation Crossroads).
The ship was hit by the blast from atomic bomb Able, and was left heavily damaged and radioactive.
Unfit for further service, Nevada was decommissioned on 29 August 1946 and sunk for naval gunfire practice on 31 July 1948.
Pip’s notes – Wait, they sunk a radioactive ship?… Isn’t that how Godzilla got started?? What the fuaaa. There’s another thing to prep for.
Pip’s side notes – I haven’t kept up with new bullet sizes. Is there a “anti-godzilla” round?
Pip’s salad infused notes – “Hey dude, hold the camera and film me. I’m gonna go kneecap Godzilla with my 12ga. I’ll go viral!”….
(that story didn’t end well, in my head. Funny, but not well)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Nevada_(BB-36)
Happy Birthdays
- 1718 – John Canton, English physicist and academic (d. 1772)
a British physicist. As a schoolboy, he became the first person to determine the latitude of Stroud, whilst making a sundial.
The sundial caught the attention of many, including Dr Henry Miles, a Stroud-born Fellow of the Royal Society.
Miles encouraged Canton to leave Gloucestershire to become a trainee teacher for Samuel Watkins, the headmaster of a Nonconformist school in Spital Square, London, with whom he ultimately entered into partnership.
In 1750 he read a paper before the Royal Society on a method of making artificial magnets, and was subsequently elected a Fellow of the society (FRS)
He was the first in England to verify Benjamin Franklin’s hypothesis of the identity of lightning and electricity, and he made several important electrical discoveries.
Pip’s notes – I didn’t look into it, but I’m curious if the dude tried the ‘kite & key’ thing..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Canton
- 1800 – Friedrich Wöhler, German chemist and academic (d. 1882)
a German chemist known for his work in both organic and inorganic chemistry, being the first to isolate the chemical elements beryllium and yttrium in pure metallic form. He was the first to prepare several inorganic compounds, including silane and silicon nitride.
Pip’s notes – In his lifetime, Wöhler wrote about 275 books, editions, and papers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_W%C3%B6hler
- 1867 – S. S. Kresge, American businessman, founded Kmart (d. 1966)
An American businessman. He created and owned two chains of department stores, the S. S. Kresge Company, one of the 20th century’s largest discount retail organizations, and the Kresge-Newark traditional department store chain, which was renamed the Kmart Corporation in 1977.
Pip’s notes – I’m pretty sure I got my 1st BB rifle at a K-Mart on 17-92 and 436 corner…(sigh) lots of memories. The local pinball & arcade – “The Fun Machine”, The OG brick “Pizza Hut”, where we had birthdays & Big screens of cartoons.
- 1912 – Milton Friedman, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)
an American economist and statistician who received the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his research on consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and the complexity of stabilization policy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Friedman
- 1926 – Bernard Nathanson, American physician and activist (d. 2011)
an American medical doctor and co-founder, in 1969, of the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws (NARAL), later renamed National Abortion Rights Action League. He was also the former director of New York City’s Center for Reproductive and Sexual Health, but later became an anti-abortion activist.
Pip’s notes – Didn’t see that kind of activist coming… ok. There’s a ‘pro’ and ‘anti’ post on this dude’s wiki page. Link is in the History notes, if you want to read it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Nathanson
- 1956 – Ron Kuby, American lawyer and radio host
an American criminal defense and civil rights lawyer, radio talk show host and television commentator. He has also hosted radio programs on WABC Radio in New York City and Air America radio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Kuby
- 1962 – Wesley Snipes, American actor and producer
Pip’s notes – Oh heck, I didn’t know Dude was born in Orlando. Cheers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley_Snipes
- 1965 – J. K. Rowling, English author and film producer
Joanne Rowling, best known by her pen name J. K. Rowling, is a British author and philanthropist.
She wrote Harry Potter, a seven-volume children’s fantasy series published from 1997 to 2007.
The series has sold over 600 million copies, been translated into 84 languages, and spawned a global media franchise including films and video games.
Pip’s notes – At birth, she had no middle name.
Staff at Bloomsbury Publishing asked that she use two initials rather than her full name, anticipating that young boys – their target audience – would not want to read a book written by a woman.
She chose K (for Kathleen) as the second initial of her pen name, from her paternal grandmother, and because of the ease of pronunciation of two consecutive letters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._K._Rowling
- 1978 – Zac Brown, American country singer-songwriter and guitarist
An American country music band based in Atlanta, Georgia.
Pip’s notes – You’re damn right there’s going to be some Zac Brown Band playing, sometime today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zac_Brown_Band
Passings
- 1875 – Andrew Johnson, American general and politician, 17th President of the United States (b. 1808)
He assumed the presidency following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, as he was vice president at that time.
Johnson was a Democrat who ran with Lincoln on the National Union Party ticket, coming to office as the Civil War concluded.
He favored quick restoration of the seceded states to the Union without protection for the newly freed people who were formerly enslaved.
This led to conflict with the Republican-dominated Congress, culminating in his impeachment by the House of Representatives in 1868.
He was acquitted in the Senate by one vote.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Johnson
- 1944 – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French pilot and poet (b. 1900)
a French writer, poet, journalist and pioneering aviator. He received several prestigious literary awards for his novella The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince) and for his lyrical aviation writings, including Wind, Sand and Stars and Night Flight. They were translated into many languages.
Pip’s notes – pilot & poet. Both worlds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_de_Saint-Exup%C3%A9ry
- 1958 – Eino Kaila, Finnish philosopher and psychologist, attendant of the Vienna circle (b. 1890)
was a Finnish philosopher, critic and teacher.
He worked in numerous fields including psychology, physics and theater, and attempted to find unifying principles behind various branches of human and natural sciences.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eino_Kaila
- 2004 – Virginia Grey, American actress (b. 1917)
an American actress who appeared in more than 100 films and a number of radio and television shows from the 1930s to the early 1980s
Grey gave up training to be a nurse and returned to films in the 1930s, with bit parts and work as an extra.
She eventually signed a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) and appeared in several films, including The Hardys Ride High with Mickey Rooney, Another Thin Man, Hullabaloo, and The Big Store.
Pip’s notes – complete blank. No clue… moving on
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Grey
- 2015 – Howard W. Jones, American surgeon and academic (b. 1910)
Howard Wilbur Jones, Jr. (December 30, 1910 – July 31, 2015) was an American gynecological surgeon and in vitro fertilization (IVF) specialist. Jones and his wife, Georgeanna Seegar Jones, were two of the earliest reproductive medicine specialists in the United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_W._Jones
- 2019 – Harold Prince, Broadway producer and director, who received more Tony awards than anyone else in history (b. 1928)
One of the foremost figures in 20th century American theatre, Prince became associated throughout his career with many of the most noteworthy musicals in Broadway history, including West Side Story, Fiddler on the Roof, Cabaret, Sweeney Todd, and Phantom of the Opera, the longest running show in Broadway history.
Pip’s notes – Which one is the Tony’s? Actually, don’t tell me, I don’t care.
Care–rring on, to the holidays….
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Prince
Holidays
- 1970 – Black Tot Day: The last day on which the Royal Navy issued sailors with a daily rum ration (the daily tot).
Pip’s notes – (meme face) Wait, you dudes ration?… oh.
- Treasury Day (Poland)
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- Warriors’ Day (Malaysia)
a day in Malaysia that commemorates the servicemen killed during the two World Wars and the Malayan Emergency. By extension, it honours all individuals who lost their lives in the line of duty throughout Malaysia’s history.
Get Ducking going on this Monday, and GSD.
“Don’t you duck me, baby… Don’t yooooo!” … yeah, no.
Pip, with Ducktion Cups, Get monday to not be monday, and do stuff.
Other than that, I’m gonna grab a salad bowl and enjoy my Sunday… which is your Monday.