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LOTS of History
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August 21
Hello and greetings on this Monday, my fellow humans. May I present to you a few things that happened on this day, sometime ini the past.
Happy LOTS of History, and there’s probably 1 thing you didn’t know, coming up….
- 1770 – James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales.
a British explorer, cartographer and naval officer famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean and to New Zealand and Australia in particular. He made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific, during which he achieved the first recorded European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands, and the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand.
Pip’s notes – Dude, I want to play ‘finders – keepers’, cause I’d be taking over islands, and claiming land for ‘Pip-topia’ all over the place.
- 1778 – American Revolutionary War: British forces begin besieging the French outpost at Pondichéry.
The siege of Pondicherry was the first military action on the Indian subcontinent following the declaration of war between Great Britain and France in the American Revolutionary War. A British force besieged the French-controlled port of Pondicherry (now Puducherry) in August 1778, which capitulated after ten weeks of siege.
Pip’s notes – 10 weeks of stuff… I know people that throw in the towel within 2 minutes of work. Ebbs & Flows, I guess.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Pondicherry_(1778)
- 1821 – Jarvis Island is discovered by the crew of the ship, Eliza Frances.
an uninhabited 4.5 km2 (1.7 sq mi) coral island located in the South Pacific Ocean, about halfway between Hawaii and the Cook Islands.
It is an unincorporated, unorganized territory of the United States, administered by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service of the United States Department of the Interior as part of the National Wildlife Refuge system
Pip’s notes – Ya know what.. “Claimed”. I’m moving out there and taking over the island, next week. Y’all can keep this mainland silly stuff.
… wait, there’s no island listing on Zillow…
- 1911 – The Mona Lisa is stolen by Vincenzo Peruggia, a Louvre employee.[12]
an Italian museum worker, artist and thief, most famous for stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum in Paris.
There’s a story behind the theft, and y’all would beeed to check out the show notes to see all that fuss.
[In 1911, Peruggia perpetrated what has been described as the greatest art theft of the 20th century. It was a police theory that the former Louvre worker hid inside the museum on Sunday, 20 August, knowing the museum would be closed the following day. But, according to Peruggia’s interrogation in Florence after his arrest, he entered the museum on Monday, 21 August around 7 am, through the door where the other Louvre workers were entering. He said he wore one of the white smocks that museum employees customarily wore and was indistinguishable from the other workers. When the Salon Carré, where the Mona Lisa hung, was empty, he lifted the painting off the four iron pegs that secured it to the wall and took it to a nearby service staircase. There, he removed the protective case and frame. Some people report that he concealed the painting (which Leonardo painted on wood) under his smock. But Peruggia was only 160 centimetres (63 in) tall, and the Mona Lisa measures approx. 53 cm × 77 cm (21 in × 30 in), so it would not fit under a smock worn by someone his size. Instead, he said he took off his smock and wrapped it around the painting, tucked it under his arm, and left the Louvre through the same door he had entered.
Peruggia hid the painting in his apartment in Paris.
After keeping the painting hidden in a trunk in his apartment for two years, Peruggia returned to Italy with it. He kept it in his apartment in Florence, Italy for some time. However, Peruggia eventually grew impatient and was finally caught when he contacted Mario Fratelli, the owner of an art gallery in Florence. Fratelli’s story conflicts with Peruggia’s, but it was clear that Peruggia expected a reward for returning the painting to what he regarded as its “homeland”. Fratelli called in Giovanni Poggi, director of the Uffizi Gallery, who authenticated the painting. Poggi and Fratelli, after taking the painting for “safekeeping”, informed the police, who arrested Peruggia at his hotel. After its recovery, the painting was exhibited all over Italy with banner headlines rejoicing its return. The Mona Lisa was then returned to the Louvre in 1913. While the painting was famous before the theft, the notoriety it received from the newspaper headlines and the large scale police investigation helped the artwork become one of the best known in the world, gaining considerable public interest.]
Pip’s notes – Really dude, you hid the most famous painting in your apartment?!
(Sigh) silly humans… “artnapping”
- 1945 – Physicist Harry Daghlian is fatally irradiated in a criticality accident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
an American physicist with the Manhattan Project, which designed and produced the atomic bombs that were used in World War II. He accidentally irradiated himself on August 21, 1945, during a critical mass experiment at the remote Omega Site of the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico and died 25 days later from the resultant radiation poisoning.
Herbert Lehr (left) and Harry Daghlian, Jr. (right), loading the assembled tamper plug containing the plutonium pit and initiator into a sedan for transport from the McDonald ranch house to the shot tower on July 13, 1945.
Daghlian was irradiated as a result of a criticality accident that occurred when he accidentally dropped a tungsten carbide brick onto a 6.2 kg bomb core made of plutonium–gallium alloy. This core, subsequently nicknamed the “demon core”, was later involved in the death of another physicist, Louis Slotin.
Pip’s notes – I do believe that could be ‘karma’ stepping in. Considering Hiroshima and Nagasaki boms have about 200,000 human body count.
- 1968 – James Anderson Jr. posthumously receives the first Medal of Honor to be awarded to an African American U.S. Marine.
a United States Marine who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for heroism while serving in Vietnam in February 1967. When his Medal of Honor was awarded on August 21, 1968, he became the first African American U.S. Marine recipient of the Medal of Honor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Anderson_Jr.
- 1986 – Carbon dioxide gas erupts from volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing up to 1,800 people within a 20-kilometer range.
Pip’s notes – (Checks ‘apocolptic bingo card’) not bingo… Didn’t see that one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Nyos
- 1993 – NASA loses contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft.
a robotic space probe launched by NASA on September 25, 1992, to study the Martian surface, atmosphere, climate and magnetic field. On August 21, 1993, during the interplanetary cruise phase, communication with the spacecraft was lost, three days prior to the probe’s orbital insertion. Attempts to re-establish communications with the spacecraft were unsuccessful.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Observer
- 2000 – American golfer Tiger Woods wins the 82nd PGA Championship and becomes the first golfer since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win three majors in a calendar year.
Pip’s notes – Because sportsball
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_Woods
- 2017 – A solar eclipse traverses the continental United States.
dubbed the “Great American Eclipse” by some media,[1] was a total solar eclipse visible within a band that spanned the contiguous United States from the Pacific to the Atlantic coasts. It was also visible as a partial solar eclipse from as far north as Nunavut in northern Canada to as far south as northern South America. In northwestern Europe and Africa, it was partially visible in the late evening. In northeastern Asia, it was partially visible at sunrise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_August_21,_2017
Happy Birthdays
- 1754 – William Murdoch, Scottish engineer and inventor, created gas lighting (d. 1839)
Before electricity became sufficiently widespread and economical to allow for general public use, gas was the most prevalent method of outdoor and indoor lighting in cities and suburbs, areas where the infrastructure for distribution of the gaseous fuel was practical.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Murdoch
- 1879 – Claude Grahame-White, English pilot and engineer (d. 1959)
an English pioneer of aviation, and the first to make a night flight, during the Daily Mail-sponsored 1910 London to Manchester air race.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Grahame-White
- 1891 – Emiliano Mercado del Toro, Puerto Rican-American soldier (d. 2007)
a Puerto Rican supercentenarian and military veteran who was, at age 115, the world’s oldest person following the death of 116-year-old Elizabeth Bolden on December 11, 2006, and the world’s oldest man from November 19, 2004 (death of Fred H. Hale, Sr.) until his own death on January 24, 2007.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emiliano_Mercado_del_Toro
- 1916 – Bill Lee, American actor and singer (d. 1980)
an American playback singer who provided a voice or singing voice in many films, for actors in musicals and for many Disney characters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Lee_(singer)
- 1930 – Frank Perry, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1995)
an American stage director and filmmaker. His 1962 independent film David and Lisa earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay (written by his then-wife Eleanor Perry). The couple collaborated on five more films, including The Swimmer, Diary of a Mad Housewife, and the Emmy Award–nominated A Christmas Memory, based on a short story by Truman Capote
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Perry
- 1938 – Kenny Rogers, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (d. 2020)
Rogers was particularly popular with country audiences but also charted more than 120 hit singles across various genres, topping the country and pop album charts for more than 200 individual weeks in the United States alone. He sold more than 100 million records worldwide during his lifetime, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_Rogers
- 1952 – Keith Hart, Canadian firefighter, wrestler, and trainer
e is a member of the Hart wrestling family and the third child of Helen and Stu Hart, CM. He is best known for his work for Stampede Wrestling and several appearances for WWE, often with his siblings Bret, Owen, Bruce and Diana. In Stampede he won several championships and for WWE he participated in the seventh edition of Survivor Series.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Hart_(wrestler)
- 1961 – Stephen Hillenburg, American marine biologist, cartoonist, animator and creator of SpongeBob SquarePants (d. 2018)
an American animator, writer, producer, director, and marine science educator. He is known for creating the Nickelodeon animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants, on which he served as the showrunner for the first three seasons of the show, and which has become the fifth-longest-running American animated series.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hillenburg
Passings
- 1796 – John McKinly, American physician and politician, first Governor of Delaware (b. 1721)
an American physician and politician from Wilmington, Delaware. He was a veteran of the French and Indian War, served in the Delaware General Assembly, was the first elected President of Delaware, and for a time was a member of the Federalist Party.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McKinly
- 1888 – James Farnell, Australian politician, eighth Premier of New South Wales (b. 1825)
an Australian politician and Premier of New South Wales.[1] Farnell was a hard-working legislator who gave much study to the land question and also tried hard for some years to pass a bill for the regulation of contagious diseases.[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Farnell
- 1960 – David B. Steinman, American engineer, designed the Mackinac Bridge (b. 1886)
an American civil engineer. He was the designer of the Mackinac Bridge and many other notable bridges, and a published author. He grew up in New York City’s lower Manhattan, and lived with the ambition of making his mark on the Brooklyn Bridge that he lived under.
1960 – David B. Steinman, American engineer, designed the Mackinac Bridge (b. 1886)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mackinac_Bridge
- 1978 – Charles Eames, American architect, co-designed the Eames House (b. 1907)
- 1988 – Ray Eames, American architect, co-designed the Eames House (b. 1912)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eames_House
Holidays
- Ninoy Aquino Day (Philippines)
The celebration took place for the first time in 1991.[2][3] The day is intended to increase awareness of the factors and issues that affect older adults, such as health deterioration and elder abuse. It is also a day to recognize and acknowledge the contributions of older people to society
- Youth Day (Morocco)
- World Senior Citizen’s Day
The celebration took place for the first time in 1991.ddThe day is intended to increase awareness of the factors and issues that affect older adults, such as health deterioration and elder abuse. It is also a day to recognize and acknowledge the contributions of older people to society