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August 1st
Yes, Humans… Happy Taco Tuesday, and we are in August, now. Tick-Tock and all.
This Tuesday is PACKED with nuggets. This Florida dude didn’t know if we’re having Tinfoil Tuesdays or not, so there could be some history nugs that get passed over for time.
Lets get going for LOTS of History, because a rubber duck said squeek.
Not Soo Current Events
- 1498 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit what is now Venezuela. (the first, that we know of…)
Pip’s notes – Yo! Here’s an idea – a Columbus Cruise line, a themed ocean Cruise that visits all the places Columbus visisted, as the 1st white dude, trying to claim everything he saw. or something… anyway
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus
- 1620 – The ship ‘Speedwell’ leaves with the ‘Mayflower’ from the city of Delfshaven, to bring pilgrims to America by way of England.
The two ships began the voyage on 5 August 1620, but Speedwell was found to be taking on water, and the two ships put into Dartmouth in Devon for repairs.
On the second attempt, Mayflower and Speedwell sailed about 100 leagues (about 300 nautical miles (560 km; 350 mi)) beyond Land’s End in Cornwall, but Speedwell was again found to be taking on water.
Both vessels returned to Dartmouth in Devon. The Separatists decided to go on to America on Mayflower.
According to Bradford, Speedwell was sold at auction in London, and after being repaired made a number of successful voyages for her new owners.
((((((((((((((( time cut if needed – Prior to the voyage, Speedwell had been refitted in Delfshaven and had two masts. Nathaniel Philbrick theorizes that the crew used a mast that was too big for the ship, and that the added stress caused holes to form in the hull.
William Bradford wrote that the “overmasting” strained the ship’s hull, but attributes the main cause of her leaking to actions on the part of the crew. ))))))))))))))))
Passenger Robert Cushman wrote from Dartmouth in August 1620 that the leaking was caused by a loose board approximately two feet long.
Eleven people from Speedwell boarded Mayflower, leaving 20 people to return to London (including Cushman) while a combined company of 102 continued the voyage. For a third time, Mayflower headed for the New World.
She left Plymouth on September 6 1620 and entered Cape Cod Bay on 11 November. Speedwell’s replacement, Fortune, eventually followed, arriving at Plymouth Colony one year later on 9 November 1621.
Philippe de Lannoy on Speedwell made the trip.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedwell_(1577_ship)
- 1801 – First Barbary War: The American schooner USS Enterprise captures the Ppolacca-class ship from Tripoli, in a single-ship action off the coast of modern-day Libya.
A conflict during the Barbary Wars, in which the United States and Sweden fought against Tripolitania.
Tipolitania had declared war against Sweden and the United States over disputes regarding tributary payments made by both states in exchange for a cessation of Tripolitatian commerce raiding at sea.
United States President Thomas Jefferson refused to pay this tribute. Sweden had been at war with the Tripolitans since 1800
Barbary corsairs led attacks upon American merchant shipping in an attempt to extort ransom for the lives of captured sailors, and ultimately tribute from the United States to avoid further attacks, as they had with the various European states.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Barbary_War
- 1849 – The ‘Joven Daniel’ ship of the Chilean Navy wrecks at the coast of Araucanía, Chile, leading to allegations that local Mapuche tribes murdered survivors and kidnapped Elisa Bravo.
Reportedly Millaguir had visited the site of the wreck six days after the events and said to the Chileans that the survivors had been murdered and the cargo stolen.
Further, surviving children and women were kidnapped and then raped and murdered
- 1907 – The start of the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, the origin of the worldwide Scouting movement.
the site of a boys’ camping event on Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour, southern England, organised by Lieutenant-General Baden-Powell to test his ideas for the book Scouting for Boys.
Boys from different social backgrounds participated from 1 to 8 August 1907 in activities around camping, observation, woodcraft, chivalry, lifesaving and patriotism. The event is regarded as the origin of the worldwide Scout movement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownsea_Island_Scout_camp
- 1957 – The United States and Canada form the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).
a combined organization of the United States and Canada that provides aerospace warning, air sovereignty, and protection for Canada and the continental United States
Pip’s notes – Did Canada really want to be a part of NORAD, or feel they needed to, due to the U.S. playing with atomic missles and such
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NORAD
- 1965 – Frank Herbert’s novel, Dune was published for the first time. It was named as the world’s best-selling science fiction novel in 2003.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Herbert
- 1981 – MTV begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its first video, “Video Killed the Radio Star” by The Buggles.
Pip’s notes – OOH! We need a pun-song called “Reality Shows killed the MTV channel”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Killed_the_Radio_Star
- 1993 – The Great Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Flood of 1993 comes to a peak.
The flood was among the most costly and devastating to ever occur in the United States, with $15 billion in damages (approx. $27 billion in 2021 dollars).
Pip’s notes – According to the U.S. INflation calculator, that cost would be $31,672,214.53.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Flood_of_1993
Happy Birthdays
- 1770 – William Clark, American soldier, explorer, and politician, 4th Governor of Missouri Territory (d. 1838)
an American explorer, soldier, Indian agent, and territorial governor.
Along with Meriwether Lewis, Clark led the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804–1806 across the Louisiana Purchase to the Pacific Ocean, the first major effort to explore and map much of what is now the Western United States and to assert American claims to the Pacific Northwest.
Pip’s notes – It’s hard for ‘recalculating’ to pop up when he was the dude making the maps.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Clark
- 1779 – Francis Scott Key, American lawyer, author, and poet (d. 1843)
an American lawyer, author, and amateur poet from Frederick, Maryland, best known as the author of the text of the U.S. national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner”.
Pip’s notes – F-Key assisted his uncle Philip Barton Key in the sensational conspiracy trial of Aaron Burr and in the expulsion of Senator John Smith of Ohio.
He made the first of his many arguments before the United States Supreme Court in 1807.
In 1808, he assisted President Thomas Jefferson’s attorney general in United States v. Peters
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Scott_Key
- 1885 – George de Hevesy, Hungarian-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1966)
a Hungarian radiochemist and Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate, recognized in 1943 for his key role in the development of radioactive tracers to study chemical processes such as in the metabolism of animals. He also co-discovered the element hafnium.
Pip’s notes – Prior to the onset of World War II, Max von Laue and James Franck had sent their gold Nobel Prize medals to Denmark to keep them from being confiscated by the Nazis. After the Nazi invasion of Denmark this placed them in danger; it was illegal at the time to send gold out of Germany, and were it discovered that Laue and Franck had done so, they could have faced prosecution. To prevent this, de Hevesy concealed the medals by dissolving them in aqua regia and placing the resulting solution on a shelf in his laboratory at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen. After the war, he returned to find the solution undisturbed and precipitated the gold out of the acid. The Nobel Society then recast the medals using the recovered gold and returned them to the two laureates
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_de_Hevesy
- 1929 – Ann Calvello, American roller derby racer (d. 2006)
an American athlete and notable personality in the sport of roller derby.
Calvello competed in roller derby in seven decades, the 1940s through the 2000s. She broke into the sport in 1948 originally skating for a league called International Roller Speedway. Skating with the original Roller Derby, beginning in 1948, she would be named women’s ‘Captain’ of her team within six months.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Calvello
- 1931 – Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Elliott grew up inspired by the rodeos at Madison Square Garden, and wanted to be a cowboy.
Encouraged instead to follow his father’s example and become a surgeon, Elliott rebelled, running away from home at the age of 15 to join Col. Jim Eskew’s Rodeo, the only rodeo east of the Mississippi. They traveled throughout the Mid-Atlantic states and New England.
Elliott was with them for only three months before his parents tracked him down and had him sent home, but he had been exposed to his first singing cowboy, Brahmer Rogers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramblin%27_Jack_Elliott
- 1948 – Avi Arad, Israeli-American screenwriter and producer, founded Marvel Studios
an Israeli-American film producer who became the CEO of the company Toy Biz in the 1990s and soon afterward became the chief creative officer of Marvel Entertainment, and the chairman, CEO, and founder of Marvel Studios
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avi_Arad
- 1957 – Taylor Negron, American actor and screenwriter (d. 2015)
an American actor, comedian, writer and artist. He is perhaps best known for his roles as Albert in Punchline (1988) and as Milo in the 1991 action comedy The Last Boy Scout.
Pip’s notes – Hey! look at that, “The Last Boyscout” movie reference on the same day the boyscouts started? hah!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Negron
Passings
- 1807 – John Walker, English actor, philologist, and lexicographer (b. 1732)
After running a school at Kensington, Walker began to teach elocution, and this became his principal employment for the rest of his life. He was the friend of the leading literary men of his time, including Samuel Johnson and Edmund Burke.
Pip’s notes – Oh Captain! My Captain!
Elocution is the study of formal speaking in pronunciation, grammar, style, and tone as well as the idea and practice of effective speech and its forms.
Dude, I need to re-watch ‘Dead Poets Society’. Robin Williams telling young men to use their words carefully… but here we are, seeming like it’s the 1984 new dictionary, cuttiong out words or changing the meaning.
Passings – unknown how. The search gets flooded with a Marvel comic character, the phyco Captain America dude.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elocution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Walker_(lexicographer)
- 1866 – John Ross, American tribal chief (b. 1790)
the Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation from 1828 to 1866; he served longer in that position than any other person. Described as the Moses of his people, Ross influenced the nation through such tumultuous events as the relocation to Indian Territory and the American Civil War.
Ross first went to Washington, DC, in 1816 as part of a Cherokee delegation to negotiate issues of national boundaries, land ownership, and white encroachment. As the only delegate fluent in English, Ross became the principal negotiator despite his relative youth.
In 1824, Ross boldly petitioned Congress for redress of Cherokee grievances, which made the Cherokee the first tribe ever to do so. Along the way, Ross built political support in the US capital for the Cherokee cause.
Passings- I can’t find how the dude died. He passed either on the way to, or in D.C. I’d say it was a gvnt hit.
Pip’s notes – Ingloreus Bastards movie reference – You’re the best French speaker among us, congratulations, you’re promoted to head interpreter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ross_(Cherokee_chief)
Here’s the big name event…..(at least for Pip)
- 1922 – Donát Bánki, Hungarian engineer (b. 1856)
a Hungarian mechanical engineer and inventor of Jewish heritage. In 1893 he invented the carburetor for the stationary engine, together with János Csonka (known as the Bánki-Csonka engine).
The invention is often, incorrectly credited to the German Wilhelm Maybach, who submitted his patent half a year after Bánki and Csonka.
Bánki also greatly contributed to the design of compressors for combustion engines
Pip’s notes – Some sources say that the idea of the carburetor came from a flower girl. One evening, Bánki saw her while walking home from the Budapest Technical University. She was sprinkling water onto her flowers by blowing spray from her mouth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%C3%A1t_B%C3%A1nki
- 1966 – Charles Whitman, American murderer (b. 1941)
(sigh) A.K.A. the “Texas Tower Sniper”.
Pip’s notes – While skimming through the dude’s death and autopsy stuff, it seemed like over a short time, after seeing many doctors, they prescribed this dude with valium… cause, yeah, that helps.
During the autopsy, it was discovered a “pecan-sized” brain tumor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Whitman
- 1996 – Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian physician and surgeon (b. 1929)
a Canadian physician and pediatric surgeon, who worked in Uganda from 1961 until her death in 1996.
Despite considerable hardship, including civil war and the AIDS epidemic, she cofounded with her husband a university hospital in the north of Uganda.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucille_Teasdale-Corti
- 2009 – Corazon Aquino, Filipino politician, 11th President of the Philippines (b. 1933)
a Filipino politician who served as the 11th president of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992. She was the most prominent figure of the 1986 People Power Revolution, which ended the two-decade rule of President Ferdinand Marcos and led to the establishment of the current democratic Fifth Philippine Republic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corazon_Aquino
Holidays
- Armed Forces Day (Lebanon)
- Emancipation Day is commemorated in many parts of the former British Empire, which marks the day the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 came into effect which abolished chattel slavery in the British Empire
- Minden Day (United Kingdom)
- National Day, celebrates the independence of Benin from France in 1960.
- National Day, commemorates Switzerland becoming a single unit in 1291.
- Official Birthday and Coronation Day of the King of Tonga (Tonga)
- Parents’ Day (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
- Statehood Day (Colorado)
- Swiss National Day (Switzerland)
- Lammas (England, Scotland, Neopagans)
- Pachamama Raymi (Quechuan in Ecuador and Peru)
- The first day of Carnaval del Pueblo (Burgess Park, London, England)
- Victory Day (Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam)
- World Scout Scarf Day
- Yorkshire Day (Yorkshire, England)
Pip, signing off and