Monday Open Thread: April 29 is International Dance Day (UNESCO)

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Monday, Apr. 29, 2019 Monday, Apr. 29, 2019 at 6:06:09am PDT

no image description available — Swan Lake

April 29 is the 119th day of the Gregorian Calendar year,

Prickle-Prickle, Discord 46, 3185 YOLD (discordian),

And let us not forget 13.0.6.8.0 by the Mayan Long Count

The UK Peoples' Budget was put up and passed by the UK's "liberal government" led by Lloyd George and his trusty sidekick, Winnie Churchill. It levied both material property taxes and progressive income taxes on the UK's wealthy. The land taxes and taxes on the increase in land's value when it changed hands were based on the ideas of Henry George of the US. The funds so raised were to be used to provide various social welfare benefits for the poor. Lloyd George declared that:

This is a war Budget. It is for raising money to wage implacable warfare against poverty and squalidness. I cannot help hoping and believing that before this generation has passed away, we shall have advanced a great step towards that good time, when poverty, and the wretchedness and human degradation which always follows in its camp, will be as remote to the people of this country as the wolves which once infested its forests.

Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift, look out kid, ...

On this day in history:

1770 – James Cook arrived at and named Botany Bay, Australia
1910 – The UK Parliament passed the People's Budget, with the expressed intent of redistributing wealth.
1916 – Irish rebel leaders surrendered to British forces, ending the Easter Rising
1945 – The Dachau concentration camp was liberated by United States troops
1970 – US and South Vietnamese forces invaded Cambodia
1975 – The U.S. started evacuating U.S. citizens from Saigon. This was called Operation Frequent ~~Flyer~~ Wind
1992 – The Rodney King riots began

Born this day in:

1667 – John Arbuthnot, Scottish-English physician and polymath
1854 – Henri Poincaré, French mathematician, physicist, and engineer
1863 – William Randolph Hearst, archetypal yellow journalist
1878 – Friedrich Adler, artist and designer
1893 – Harold Urey, chemist and astronomer
1899 – Duke Ellington, pianist, composer, and bandleader
1922 – Toots Thielemans, guitarist and harmonica player
1931 – Lonnie Donegan, singer, songwriter, guitarist; the sking of skiffle
1933 – Rod McKuen, poet, singer and songwriter
1933 – Willie Nelson, singer, songwriter, guitarist, producer, hop head, and actor
1935 – Otis Rush, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1936 – April Stevens, pop singer
1943 – Duane Allen, Oakridege Boy
1945 – Hugh Hopper, bass guitarist
1947 – Tommy James, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer, first to plug a mike into a guitar amp tremolo
1968 – Carnie Wilson, singer and songwriter

Died this day in:

1768 – Georg Brandt, chemist and mineralogist; discovered cobalt
1905 – Ignacio Cervantes, pianist and composer
1951 – Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher and smart-ass
1967 – J. B. Lenoir, singer, songwriter and suitarist
1993 – Mick Ronson, guitarist, songwriter and producer
1997 – Mike Royko, jurnalist and author
2008 – Albert Hofmann, chemist

Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:

International Dance Day (UNESCO)

Music goes here, iirc, well,

Dance! Swan Lake! You Betcha!