Good Morning #Nostr

#UNIX #calendar

Aug 09 #Persia defeats #Spartan King #Leonidas at #Thermopylae, 480 BC

Aug 09 #NationalDay in #Singapore

Aug 09 Dmitri #Shostakovich dies of lung cancer in #Moscow, #Russia, 1975

Aug 10 Major terrorist plot to destroy aircraft disrupted by

Scotland Yard, 2006

Aug 10 #IndependenceDay in #Ecuador

Aug 10 #IanAnderson (#JethroTull) is born in #Edinburgh, #Scotland, 1947

Aug 10 Alexander #Glazunov is born in #StPetersburg, #Russia, 1865

Aug 10 Puck Faire

Aug 11 Dog days end

Aug 11 France Ends War in Indochina, 1954

Aug 11 Heroes Day (2 days) in Zimbabwe

Aug 11 Independence Day in Chad

Aug 11 King Hussein's Accession to the Throne in Jordan

Aug 11 #OpenBSD/sparc is ELF, 2002

Aug 11 Perseid meteor shower (look north; three days)

Aug 12 Thomas Mann's Death, 1955

Aug 12 Cleopatra commits suicide, 30 BC

Aug 12 Queen's Birthday in Thailand

Aug 12 Giovanni Gabrieli dies due to a kidney stone, 1612

Aug 12 Maurice Greene is born in London, 1696

Aug 12 Leos Janacek dies in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, 1928

Aug 12 #OpenBSD/sparc is switched to wscons, 2002

Aug 12 First test flight of Space Shuttle "Enterprise" from 747, 1977