Notices by Bob the Traveler (bobthetraveler@mastodon.world)

Prepare for tomorrow's #Equinox, align your #megaliths at dawn https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/uk/stonehenge/?s=mb

OTD in 2017, #GOP President Donald #Trump used Twitter to attack people who disapproved of Trump's refusal to condemn the violent white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia https://toilet-guru.com/blog/63.html?s=mb #racist

The FBI searched one of Donald #Trump's golf resorts OTD in 2022, recoving over 13,000 government documents which he had illegally taken while leaving office, eventually leading to his indictment for 37 felonies https://toilet-guru.com/blog/63.html?s=mb #treason

OTD in 2024 conspiracy theorist Robert F Kennedy Jr posted a video saying he had abandoned a dead bear in Central Park in NYC in 2014. See his family's experimental home water fluoridation unit used around 1960 https://toilet-guru.com/robert-f-kennedy.html?s=mb #RFKjr #Conspiracy

Homer Plessy of New Orleans was arrested OTD in 1892 for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train while being 1/8 African-American; he lost the resulting court case https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/usa/montgomery-alabama/?s=mb #CivilRights #history

Ezra Taft Benson, who died OTD in 1994 was Secretary of Agriculture during both presidential terms of Dwight D. Eisenhower and then the 13th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints https://toilet-guru.com/overview-faith.html?s=mb #history

OTD in 1972 US President Richard Nixon announced his order to place naval mines in major North Vietnamese ports to stem the flow of weapons and other goods to that nation https://toilet-guru.com/blog/27.html?s=mb #history

Jerry Siegel, who died OTD in 1996, created the character of #Superman; today Superman would have no place to change clothes https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/usa/new-york-phone-booths/?s=mb #travel #NewYorkCity

Scottish chemist Charles Macintosh, born OTD in 1766, invented waterproof fabric; wear his invention when trekking across the moors https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/uk/the-road-to-the-isles/?s=mb #travel #Scotland

Josef Stalin ordered the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class" OTD in 1929 https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/russia/moscow.html?s=mb #travel #Fussia #history

Today is the feast day of Eanflæd, mid-7th century Deiran princess, queen of #Northumbria and later, the abbess of an influential Christian monastery in Whitby, #England https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/uk/hadrians-wall/?s=mb #travel #history

OTD in 1986, National Security Council member Oliver North and his secretary Fawn Hall started to shred documents implicating them in the Iran–Contra affair https://cromwell-intl.com/cybersecurity/availability/storage-longevity.html?s=mb #cybersecurity

French painter Jules Dupré, who died OTD in 1889, was one of the chief members of the Barbizon school of landscape painters https://toilet-guru.com/claude-monet.html?s=mb #travel #France #art

The first episode of Star Trek, "The Man Trap", aired OTD in 1966 https://cromwell-intl.com/technical/how-to-copy-dvds.html?s=mb #StarTrek #history

OTD in 2022 #GOP politician Sarah Palin was defeated in a special election in #Alaska by Yup'ik Native Mary Peltola https://toilet-guru.com/blog/39.html?s=mb #science

OTD in 2022 #GOP politician Sarah Palin was defeated in a special election in #Alaska by Yup'ik Native Mary Peltola https://toilet-guru.com/blog/39.html?s=mb #science

Satoshi Hino, born OTD in 1978, has worked as a voice actor in several #anime, he is a first dan in kendo https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/japan/tokyo-akihabara/?s=mb #travel #Japan

A supernova was seen OTD in 1054 by Chinese Song dynasty, Arab, and possibly Amerindian observers near the star Zeta Tauri; bright enough to be seen in the day for several months, its remnants form the Crab Nebula https://toilet-guru.com/blog/36.html?s=mb #astronomy history

OTD in 1865 at Fort Towson in the Oklahoma Territory, Brigadier General Stand Watie surrendered the last significant Confederate army, almost 11 weeks after #ConfederateSurrenderDay https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/usa/washington-lee-mansion/?s=mb #history #BlackLivesMatter

Bruiser Brody, who innovated the "brawling" style of professional #wrestling, was born OTD in 1946 https://cromwell-intl.com/oliver-cromwell/crom-fu-fighting.html?s=mb #history #kayfabe @PopeGrover