Monday OT: Nov. 25 is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

On this day in history:

1491 – The siege of Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, ends with the Treaty of Granada unleashing Ferdinand and Isabellas Catholic theocracy and imperium.

1876 – United States Army troops sacked the sleeping village of Cheyenne Chief Dull Knife at the headwaters of the Powder River.

1915 – Albert Einstein presented the field equations of general relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.

1947 – The US fascisti brought about the blacklisting of The "Hollywood Ten".

1952 – Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap opened in London to become the longest continuously-running play in history.

1960 – The Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic were assassinated.

1963 – John F. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald were both buried but in separate locales.

1970 – Yukio Mishima commited seppuku.

1986 – U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese announced that illegal profits from illegal covert weapons sales to Iran were illegally diverted to the Contra rebels in Nicaragua. Echoes of our war on Zelaya, launched 11/18/1909. Nothing ever changes but the names.

Born this day in:
 

1562 – Lope de Vega, playwright and poet

1778 – Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, author and activist

1841 – Ernst Schröder, mathematician and academic

1844 – Karl Benz, engineer

1846 – Carrie Nation, domestic terrorist

1865 – Kate Gleason, engineer

1895 – Helen Hooven Santmyer, poet and author

1896 – Virgil Thomson, composer and critic 1900 - Helen Gahagan Douglas, actress and politician smeared by Nixon

1915 – Augusto Pinochet, US tool guilty of horrendous crimes against humanity. Part of Kissinger's legacy.

1924 – Paul Desmond, saxophonist and composer

1926 – Poul Anderson, author

1931 – Nat Adderley, cornet and trumpet player

1940 – Percy Sledge, singer

1942 – Bob Lind, singer, songwriter and guitarist

1943 – Jerry Portnoy, singer, songwriter and harmonica player

1951 – Bill Morrissey, singer & songwriter

1959 – Steve Rothery, guitarist and songwriter

1963 – Holly Cole, singer and actress

1966 – Stacy Lattisaw, singer

Died this day in:

1944 – Kenesaw Mountain Landis, lawyer and judge, as if they weren't a dime a dozen, first Commissioner of Baseball

1968 – Upton Sinclair, novelist, critic, and essayist

2011 – Coco Robicheaux, singer, songwriter, and guitarist

2013 – Chico Hamilton, drummer and bandleader

2015 – Svein Christiansen, drummer and composer

2016 – Fidel Castro, held the US at bay for 57 years, accomplishing much in spite of being continuously warred upon in one way or another.

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

International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

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