Special Historical Reminder -- Not a Meetup

Today, April 19th 250 years ago, the "shot heard around the world" was fired at Lexington Green in Massachusetts. Paul Revere had finished his midnight ride a few hours earlier:

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/revolutionary-war/battles/lexington-and-concord

Here in the Pacific Northwest, Europeans made their first contact that same year:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_expeditions_to_the_Pacific_Northwest
It would be another 17 years before Europeans came upon the embayment we know today as Elliot Bay.