On this day in 1616 in a desperate attempt to prop up sacred superstitions, the church banned Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaulti de Galilei from teaching or defending the nefarious heretical idea that the earth orbited the sun. They did this, mind you, for his own good, for his and for ours, and it was a blessed and holy event. Without such vigilant policing of ideas and speech we are at risk of being exposed to FAKE NEWS like heliocentrism, women's equality, or worse.
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On this day in history:
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1616 -- Galileo was banned from teaching or defending heliocentrism by the Roman Catholic Church **
1876 – Japan and Korea signed the Treaty of Kangwha
1919 -- Woodrow Wilson established the Grand Canyon National Park.
1929 -- Calvin Coolidge established the Grand Teton National Park
1935 -- Adolf Hitler ordered the Luftwaffe to be re-formed
1935 -- Robert Watson-Watt demonstrated radar's possibility
1971 -- U Thant signed a UN proclamation declaring the vernal equinox as Earth Day.
1987 -- The Tower Commission rebuked Reagan for not controlling his national security staff. ***
1993 -- 1993 World Trade Center bombing (you know, the truck bomb)
1995 -- Barings Bank collapsed after a broker lost $1.4 billion gambling on futures. (This in no way discouraged Clinton from passing laws (plural) designed to encourage US banks to engage in such gambling)
2012 – Trayvon Martin was shot to death by George Zimmerman
** It is heretical for anyone to think for themselves, let alone encourage others to do so.
*** Something nobody since has ever done either
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Some people who were born on this day:
To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.
~~ Claude Adrien Helvetius
1564 -- Christopher Marlowe, playwright "This is hell nor am I out of it"
1677 – Nicola Fago, composer and teacher
1715 -- Claude Adrien Helvetius, heretical philosopher 1
786 – François Arago, mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician,
1802 -- Victor Hugo, author, poet, and playwright
1842 -- Camille Flammarion, astronomer and author
1846 -- Buffalo Bill, showman
1861 – Nadezhda Krupskaya, revolutionary and politician
1877 – Rudolph Dirks, illustrator
1893 -- Dorothy Whipple, author
1918 -- Theodore Sturgeon, author
1921 -- Betty Hutton, actress and singer
1928 -- Fats Domino, singer, songwriter, and pianist
1932 -- Johnny Cash, singer, songwriter, and guitarist,
1943 -- Paul Cotton, singer, songwriter, and guitarist (poco)
1943 -- Bob "The Bear" Hite, singer, songwriter, and musician
1945 -- Mitch Ryder, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1947 -- Sandie Shaw, singer and shrink
1950 -- Jonathan Cain, singer, songwriter, and keyboard player (journey)
1958 -- Susan Helms, general, engineer, and astronaut
1968 – Tim Commerford, bass player
1971 – Erykah Badu, singer, songwriter, producer, actress
1979 -- Corinne Bailey Rae, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1984 – Natalia Lafourcade, singer and songwriter
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Some people who died on this day:
"... the essence of philosophy is not the possession of the truth but the search for truth....Philosophy means to be on the way. Its questions are more essential than its answers, and every answer becomes a new question.”
~~ Karl Jaspers
1548 -- Lorenzino de' Medici, writer and assassin
1903 -- Richard Jordan Gatling, gencidal massacre enabler, invented the Gatling gun
1969 -- Karl Jaspers, shrink and philosopher
1989 -- Roy Eldridge, trumpet player
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Some Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:
World Pistachio Day
Tell a Fairy Tale Day
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Today's Tunes
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Galileo
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Barings Bank
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Fats Domino
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Johnny Cash
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Paul Cotton
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Bob Hite
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Mitch Ryder
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Sandie Shaw
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Jonathan Cain
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Tim Commerford
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Erykah Badu
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Corinne Bailey Rae
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Roy Eldridge
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The only one true dogma any of us ever needs
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Bonus Antoine
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Ok, it's an open thread, so it's up to you folks now. So what's on your mind?
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Cross posted from http://caucus99percent.com
Open Thread, Galileo, heresy, Fats Domino, Bob Hite, Mitch Ryder, Paul Cotton, Boogie Music
Edit — fixed concatenation (maybe) and some typos