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11/20 is Transgender Day of Remembrance

by enhydra lutris

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Monday, Nov. 20, 2023 Monday, Nov. 20, 2023 at 6:06:16am PST

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Transgender Day of Remembrance it a day to remember all of the transgender people killed as a result of prejudice and hatred. It is also a day to raise awareness of the fact that transgender people not only exist but are people's friends and family, coworkers and neighbors. I have never known any transgender persons and hence will say very little more on the topic, which I seriously feel would be a socially salubrious posture for most similarly ignorant people to take, especially those who run around pontificating on this and that when all they are doing is projecting.

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On this day in history:

1695 -- Zumbi was killed by the forces of Portuguese bandeirante Domingos Jorge Velho.

1789 -- New Jersey was the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights.

1805 -- Beethoven's opera, Fidelio, premiered

1820 -- An 80-ton sperm whale attacked the whaling ship Essex, inspiring Melville

1910 -- Francisco I. Madero started the Mexican revolution by issuing the Plan de San Luis Potosi 1945 -- Trials of 24 Nazi war criminals began at the Nuremberg Palace of Justice

1959 -- The UN adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child. The US was appalled

1962 -- The Cuban Missile Crisis ended

1969 -- The Plain Dealer published explicit photographs of dead villagers from My Lai

1969 -- Native American activists seized control of Alcatraz

1974 -- The DOJ filed its final anti-trust suit against AT&T. (Remember when we opposed monopolies?)

1980 -- A Texaco oil probe was drilled into a salt mine, draining Lake Peigneur into same

1985 -- Micro$oft Windoze 1.0 was released, condemning multitudes to bugware and malware

1994 -- The Angolan government and UNITA rebels signed the Lusaka Protocol ***

1998 -- Zarya, the first module of the ISS, was launched

*** During the Angola conflilcts, the US, at one point, was aiding rebels in their attacks on Angola's source of oil and oil revenues, the Cabinda exclave. Luckily, the Cabinda oil operations, run by Gulf Oil Corporation of the US, later merged into Chevron and thence into Chevron-Texaco, were ably defended from the US' proxy attacks by Cuban soldiers.

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Some people who were born on this day:

The very existence of armaments and great armies psychologically accustoms us to accept the philosophy of militarism. They inevitably increase fear and hate in the world.

~~ Norman Thomas

1602 -- Otto von Guericke, physicist

1625 -- Paulus Potter, painter

1765 -- Thomas Fremantle, sailor, admiral, one of Nelson's buds.

1858 -- Selma Lagerlof, author, won Nobel for literature

1881 -- Arthur Marshall, pianist and composer

1884 -- Norman Thomas, preacher, socialist, pacifist & perennial US Presidential candidate

1889 -- Edwin Hubble, astronomer, discovered expansion of the universe

1900 -- Chester Gould, cartoonist 1903 -- Alexandra Danilova, ballerina

1908 -- Alistair Cooke, journalist, PBS host

1921 -- Jim Garrison, lawyer

1924 -- Benoit Mandelbrot, mathematician

1925 -- George Barris, engineer and car designer

1925 -- June Christy, singer

1925 -- Robert F. Kennedy, politician

1937 -- Ruth Laredo, pianist

1939 -- Dick Smothers, little Dickie Smothers, actor and comic

1942 -- Joe Biden, politician

1942 -- Norman Greenbaum, one hit wonder

1942 -- Meredith Monk, composer and choreographer

1944 -- Mike Vernon, record producer

1946 -- Duane Allman, singer, songwriter, guitarist

1946 -- Judy Woodruff, journalist, talking had, CFR member

1947 -- Joe Walsh, singer, songwriter, guitarist

1948 -- Barbara Hendricks, singer

1954 -- Frank Marino, guitarist, singer and songwriter

1961 -- Jim Brickman, singer, songwriter, pianist

1971 -- Marco Oppedisano, guitarist and composer

1975 -- Dierks Bentley, singer and songwriter

1975 -- Davey Havok, vocalist

1977 -- Josh Turner, singer, songwriter, guitarist

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Some people who died on this day:

“It is time to realize, however, that the real dangers to America today come not from the newly rich people of East Asia but from our own ideological rigidity, our deep-seated belief in our own propaganda.”

~~ Chalmers Johnson

869 -- Edmund the Martyr, "Almost nothing is known about Edmund." - Wikipedia

1695 -- Zumbi, king of the Quilombo dos Palmares (escaped slaves & other fugitives)

1758 -- Johan Helmich Roman, violinist and composer

1764 -- Christian Goldbach, mathematician

1856 -- Farkas Bolyai, mathematician and geometer

1894 -- Anton Rubinstein, pianist, composer, and conductor

1910 -- Leo Tolstoy, author

1934 -- Willem de Sitter, mathematician, physicist and astronomer

1936 -- Buenaventura Durruti, activist

1973 -- Allan Sherman, comedian

1976 -- Trofim Lysenko, infamous biologist

1997 -- Robert Palmer, writer, musicologist, musician, producer

2005 -- Chris Whitley singer, songwriter, guitarist

2010 -- Chalmers Johnson, author

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Some Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such: Transgender Day of Remembrance Universal Children's Day (International) NOT CELEBRATED IN THE US (The US has also refused to sign the Convention on the Rights of the Child, because we accord them none once born) National Peanut Butter Fudge Day National Absurdity Day

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