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August 29, 1997: Judgment Day cometh...




They are getting closer to the singularity...


Thought-to-text chip smaller than Neuralink achieves 91% accuracy


Year 1 in the Coptic calendar started on August 29, 284 in the Julian calendar. It was the year that Diocletian became Roman Emperor. In commemoration of the widespread prosecution of Christians during that era, years in the Coptic calendar are designated A.M., which is short for Anno Martyrum, Year of the Martyrs.

In this system of counting, the beginning of Diocletian's reign in 284 was used as the epoch, making Diocletian's first year in power into the Year 1 of that calendar. Western Christians were aware of this count but did not use it; Dionysius Exiguus replaced the anno Diocletiani era with his anno Domini (AD) era because he did not wish to continue the memory of a tyrant who persecuted Christians.


August 29, 1786: Shays' Rebellion started – an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts and Worcester in response to a debt crisis among the citizenry and in opposition to the state government's increased efforts to collect taxes both on individuals and their trades. American Revolutionary War veteran Capt. Daniel Shays led four thousand rebels (called Shaysites) in a protest against economic and civil rights injustices.



Some four thousand people signed confessions acknowledging participation in the events of the rebellion in exchange for amnesty. Several hundred participants were eventually indicted on charges relating to the rebellion, but most of these were pardoned under a general amnesty that excluded only a few ringleaders. Eighteen men were convicted and sentenced to death, but most of these had their sentences commuted or overturned on appeal, or were pardoned. John Bly and Charles Rose, however, were hanged on December 6, 1787. They were also accused of a common-law crime, as both were looters.

Thomas Jefferson was serving as ambassador to France at the time and refused to be alarmed by Shays' Rebellion. He argued in a letter to James Madison on January 30, 1787, that occasional rebellion serves to preserve freedoms. In a letter to William Stephens Smith on November 13, 1787, Jefferson wrote, "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."

One of the leaders of the pro government faction included names that continued to appear in the early Federalist history of Lenox and Berkshire County: David Ingersoll

Shays' was pardoned in 1788 and he returned to Massachusetts briefly then moved to Sparta, New York, where his legend made him a popular attraction for visitors.

Re-dedicated replacement gravestone on August 12, 2016 (corrected name spelling) for Captain Daniel Shays, 5th Massachusetts Infantry, Continental Army and leader of Shays' Rebellion.



However, recent scholarship has suggested that Shays' role in the protests was significantly and strategically exaggerated by Massachusetts elites, who had a political interest in shifting blame for bad economic conditions away from themselves. Certainly sounds familiar!

Sources::

Shays' Rebellion

Shays' Rebellion (US History)

Constitution Daily

Letter To George Washington from Henry Knox, 23 October 1786

Aug. 29, 1786: Shays’ Rebellion

The Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon

The people's history of the world, Edward Sylvester Ellis; vol. VI

Creating a Demagogue: The Political Origins of Daniel Shays’s Erroneous Legacy in American Political History (Sept 2021)


Last Battle of Shays' Rebellion: (song starts @ 1:48)





August 29, 1882: the mighty Aussies tasted their first victory on English soil against a full strength England team in the Ashes series. And this inspired a young London journalist to write this mock "obituary" which appeared in the Sporting Times, and announced its cremation. Ever since the England vs Australia test series has been called "The Ashes".




August 29, 1915: The first commissioned US Navy submarine lost at sea, USS F-4 (SS 23), sank 25 March 1915 was raised to the surface on this day. The successful salvage revealed the accident's cause — a hull failure caused by leaky battery acid — which led to design changes in future sub classes. All 21 aboard perished just outside Pearl Harbor.


USS F-4 (SS-23) | On Eternal Patrol - USS F-4 (SS-23)

I wonder how many humans have been killed in the last 109 years by faulty/leaky BATTERIES?



August 29, 1948: NBC produced a live broadcast of a simulated attack on USS Leyte. It was considered a major feat, requiring one of the largest engineering crews assigned to a single telecast at that point in TV history. One million viewers on the East Coast tuned in to watch Corsairs fight Hellcats. Operation TV was deemed a success, with an admiral stating that radar had given the Navy the ability to find the enemy, and "some time in the future, television may enable us to see the enemy."



The video signal was sent from the deck of the Leyte to the roof of the Empire State Building in New York City. From there it was relayed to Radio City for mixing with the audio, then was relayed to the Empire State Building for telecasting to the viewing audience. The audio signal was sent from the Leyte to RCA at Riverhead, Long Island where the program material was relayed to the RCA Communications Building in New York City from where it was carried to Radio City to be mixed with the video carrier and thus on to the Empire State Building where the program finally took to the air. The possibility of error naturally increased as each new link was added to the chain.

RADIO & Television News (Feb 1949)

In Sept 1942, RCA began a top secret weapons project for the US Navy called Madame X technology. It was described as second only to the atomic bomb. This project cost was staggering, at $800 million back then.

The secret project was Madame X vacuum tubes, which included a proximity fuse used to electronically detonate its payload when it was in range of its target, as opposed to relying on a direct hit. James V. Forrestal, former secretary of the Navy said, "The proximity fuse had helped blaze the trail to Japan. Without the protection this ingenious device has given the surface ships of the fleet, our westward push could not have been so swift and the cost in men and ships would have been immeasurably greater."


August 29, 1967: the final episode of THE FUGITIVE aired on ABC.




Shiny Metal Sphere and Occupants, August 29, 1967 case from the Cussac Plateau in France. The occupants then flew up above the sphere and dived into it. They were described as bearded little people in black silky shiny suits with no eyes or mouth...floating up and diving into a brilliant silvery luminous sphere. Did those kids have too much wine? Strange story.


THE A.P.R.O. BULLETIN (TUCSON, ARIZONA- JULY-AUGUST, 1968)



Vignettes of early radiation workers with John G. Trump, who has been involved in the "development of high-voltage radiation producing machines making them available for research applications such as medicine." August 29, 1978.




August 29, 2005: AGREEMENT between the Department of Defense of the United States of America and the Ministry of Health of Ukraine Concerning Cooperation in the Area of Prevention of Proliferation of Technology, Pathogens and Expertise that could be Used in the Development of Biological Weapons. Signed & Entered into force.


DOD & Ukraine Biological Weapons Agreement