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Post by Tamrin on Feb 27, 2009 6:16:01 GMT 10
27 February0280 - Birth of Constantine the Great, Roman emperor (306-37), adopted Christianity 1861 - Birth of Rudolph Steiner, Kraljevic Austria, founder (doctrine of anthroposophy movement) 1872 - Charlotte Ray, 1st Black woman lawyer, graduated Harvard U 1922 - [US] Supreme Court unanimously upheld 19th amend woman's right to vote 1933 - German parliament building, Reichstag, destroyed by fire (set by Nazis, blamed on communists) 1934 - Birth of Ralph Nader, Winsted CT, consumer advocate (Unsafe at Any Speed) 1970 - New York Times (falsely) reports US army has ended domestic surveillance
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 28, 2009 9:23:58 GMT 10
28 February1646 - Roger Scott was tried in Massachusetts for sleeping in church 1692 - Salem witch hunt begins 1784 - John Wesley charters Methodist Church 1854 - Republican Party formally organized at Ripon WI 1879 - "Exodus of 1879" southern blacks flee political/economic exploitation 1979 - Mr Ed, the "talking horse" dies 1986 - Sven Olof Palme, Swedish PM (1969-76, 82-86), assassinated at 59
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 1, 2009 6:33:54 GMT 10
1 March1562 - Blood bath at Vassy; General de Guise allows 1200 huguenots murder 1848 - Birth of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, US, sculptor/designer (1907 $20 gold piece) [see below] 1864 - Birth of Rebecca Lee, 1st black woman to get a medical degree 1913 - Federal income tax takes effect (16th amendment) 1932 - Charles Lindbergh Jr (20 months), kidnapped in New Jersey; found dead May 12 1947 - International Monetary Fund began operations 1965 - Australia suspends champion swimmer Dawn Fraser for 10-years for misconduct  The Statue of Silence was the first important commission for an original work of art received by the young sculptor, Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907). The statue was moved from the New York City Lodge to the Masonic Care Community of New York in 1922.
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 2, 2009 5:45:12 GMT 10
2 MarchEthiopia: Battle of Aduwa Day (1896) 1807 - [US] Congress bans slave trade effective January 1, 1808 1896 - Battle of Aduwa, Abyssinia (Ethiopia) defeats invading Italians 1904 - Birth of Dr Seuss [Theodor Geisel], children's book author (Green Eggs and Ham, Horton Hears a Who!) 1939 - Howard Carter, British archaeologist/Egyptologist (King Tut), dies at 65 [image below] 1939 - Mass Legislature votes to ratify the Bill of Rights; 147 years late 1983 - Final episode of MASH; 125,000,000 viewers 1994 - Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh promises to surrender if taped statement is broadcast; it is, but he doesn't
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 3, 2009 6:21:09 GMT 10
3 MarchArab: Mohammed's Birthday World: Day of Prayer 1191 - Saladin [Salah ad-Din]) Yusuf, sultan of Egypt/Syria, dies at 52 1703 - Robert Hooke, scientific genius, dies in London 1842 - 1st US child labor law regulating working hours passed (Massachusetts) 1847 - Birth of Alexander Graham Bell, Edinburgh Scotland, inventor (telephone) 1863 - 1st US wartime military conscription bill enacted 1887 - Anne Sullivan begins teaching 6 year old blind-deaf Helen Keller 1913 - Ida B Wells-Barnett demonstrates for female suffrage in Washington DC
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 4, 2009 5:28:50 GMT 10
4 MarchUS: Constitution Day (1789) 1394 - Birth of Prince Henry the Navigator, sponsors Portuguese voyages of discovery 1675 - John Flamsteed, appointed 1st Astronomer Royal of England 1789 - 1st [US] Congress declares constitution in effect (9 senators, 13 representatives) 1923 - Birth of Patrick Moore, England, astronomer/writer (A-Z of Astronomy) 1933 - FDR inaugrated as 32nd President, pledges to pull US out of Depression & says "We have nothing to fear but fear itself" 1934 - Birth of Jane van Lawick-Goodall, ethologist/chimp expert (1974 Walker Prize) 1966 - John Lennon says "We (Beatles) are more popular than Jesus"
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 5, 2009 5:05:36 GMT 10
5 March1291 - Sa'ad al'Da'ulah, Jewish grand vizier of Persia, assassinated 1512 - Birth of Gerardus Mercator, Rupelmonde (Belgium), geographer/mapmaker 1616 - Copernicus' "de Revolutionibus" placed on Catholic Forbidden index 1770 - Boston Massacre, British troops kill 5 in crowd; Crispus Attackus becomes 1st black to die for American freedom 1931 - Gandhi & British viceroy Lord Irwin sign pact 1953 - Josef V Stalin, soviet leader responsible for 11 million murders, dies at 73 1991 - Iraq repealed its annexation of Kuwait
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Post by maximus on Mar 6, 2009 0:43:11 GMT 10
1770 - Boston Massacre, British troops kill 5 in crowd; Crispus Attackus becomes 1st black to die for American freedom. And the Redcoats were coming to confiscate the colonist's firearms.  |
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 6, 2009 6:35:28 GMT 10
6 March1619 - Birth of Cyrano de Bergerac, famous nose, dramatist (A Voyage to the Moon) 1665 - Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society starts publishing 1775 - 1st Negro Mason in US initiated, Boston [Prince Hall]1836 - Davy Crockett, US pioneer (Alamo), killed in battle at 49 1926 - Birth of Alan Greenspan, economist/Presidential advisor (Federal Reserve Board) 1944 - Birth of Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Gisborne New Zealand, operatic soprano (Don Giovanni) 1982 - Ayn Rand, author-philosopher (The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged), dies in New York at 77
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 7, 2009 5:46:16 GMT 10
7 March0322 - BC - Aristotle dies 1274 - St Thomas Aquinas, Italian thelogian dies at 48 1530 - King Henry VIII's divorce request is denied by the Pope Henry then declares that he, not the Pope, is supreme head of England's church 1848 - In Hawaii, Great Mahele (division of lands) signed 1876 - Battle at Gura: Ethiopian emperor Yohannes beats Egyptians 1906 - Finnish Senate accepts universal suffrage, except for poor [!?] 1965 - Alabama state troopers & 600 black protestors clash in Selma
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