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Post by Tamrin on Dec 21, 2008 7:02:15 GMT 10
21 December( Solstice) 1117 – Birthday of Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury 1429 - Jacquemart de Bléharies Tournay, "heretic," burned to death 1620 - 103 Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock 1762 - James Cook marries Elizabeth Batts 1898 - Scientists Pierre & Marie Curie discover radium 1919 - J. Edgar Hoover deports anarchists/feminist Emma Goldman to Russia 1948 - State of Eire (formerly Irish Free State) declares its independence
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 22, 2008 5:35:14 GMT 10
22 December (Wicca: Yule sabbat) 1440 - Bluebeard pirate, executed 1515 - Birthday of Mary of Lorraine, France, pro-French Regent of Scotland 1753 – Birthday of Dugald Stewart, Edinburgh Scotland, philosopher (Scottish common sense) 1849 – Birthday of Fritz Mauthner, Bohemia, German author/philosopher (skepticism) 1894 - French officer Alfred Dreyfus court-martialled for treason, triggers worldwide charges of anti-Semitism (Dreyfus later vindicated) 1903 – Birthday of Dr Barbara Moore, walked across US in 86 days in 1960 1919 - US deports 250 alien radicals, including anarchist Emma Goldman
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 23, 2008 5:16:52 GMT 10
23 December ( "Festivus", Seinfeld) 1620 - French huguenots declare war on King Louis XIII 1779 - Benedict Arnold court-martialed for improper conduct 1790 – Birthday of Jean-François Champollion, deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphics 1888 - Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh cuts off his left ear 1967 - Ruth Fuller Sasaki head of 1st Zen Institute of America, dies at 75 1986 - Rutan & Yeager make 1st around-the-world flight without refuelling 1996 - 4 women ordained priests in Jamaica, 1st in 330-year Anglican history
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 24, 2008 5:40:33 GMT 10
24 December(Christmas Eve) 1565 – Compromise of the Nobles closes against inquisition 1818 – Birthday of James Prescott Joule, physicist (discovered conservation of energy) 1905 – Birthday of Howard Hughes, reclusive billionaire (Hughes Aircraft)/inventor 1972 - Charles Atlas [Angelo Siciliano], body builder, dies at 79 1991 - Walter Hudson, 1,025 lb man, dies at 46 1993 - Norman Vincent Peale, rev, (Power of Positive Thinking), dies at 95 1997 - 1st time a Channukah candle is officially lit in Vatican City  The Pregnant Madonna
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 25, 2008 6:48:33 GMT 10
25 December(Christmas Day) BCE -- Traditional birthday of Horus, Attis, Krishna, Dionysus, Mithra, etc., etc.0001 - 1st Christmas, according to calendar-maker Dionysus Exiguus 0004 - BC - Jesus of Nazareth religious leader/philosopher (estimated date) 0337 - Earliest possible date that Christmas was celebrated on Dec 25th 0352 - 1st definite date Christmas was celebrated on Dec 25th 1223 - St Francis of Assisi assembles 1st Nativity scene (Greccio, Italy) 1651 - Massachusetts General Court ordered a fine (five shillings) for "observing any such day as Christmas" 1818 - 1st known Christmas carol ("Silent Night, Holy Night" by Franz Joseph Gruber & Joseph Mohr) sung 1950 - Coronation Stone, taken from Scone in Scotland by Edward I in 1296, stolen from Westminster Abbey & smuggled back to Scotland 1624 – Birthday of Angelus Silesius [Johann Scheffler] German mystic (St Seelenlust) 1865 – Birthday of Evangeline Cory Booth Salvation Army general (1904-34) 1974 - Cyclone Tracy virtually destroys Darwin Australia 1989 - Japanese scientist achieves -271.8ºC, coldest temp ever recorded
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 26, 2008 7:30:49 GMT 10
26 December(Boxing Day) 1492 - 1st Spanish settlement in New World founded, by Columbus 1620 - Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth MA 1731 - Birthday of Anthony Ziesenis, architect/sculptor (Town Hall of Westzaan) 1893 - Birthday of Mao Tse-tung, of little red book fame, PM of China People's Republic (1949-76) 1933 - US forswears armed intervention in the Western Hemisphere 1985 - Dian Fossey, zoologist (Gorillas in the Mist), murdered at 53 2004 - Tsunami devastates Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, and Thailand
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 27, 2008 2:45:42 GMT 10
27 December(Feast Day of St John the Evangelist) 0537 - St Sofia, church in Constantinople, consecrated 1571 - Birthday of Johann Kepler, Württemberg Germany, astronomer (elliptical orbits) 1813 - [Union of the "Moderns" and the "Antients," to form UGLE]1822 - Birthday of Louis Pasteur, Dole France, bacteriologist (pasteurization) 1855 - Birthday of Paul Ehrenreich German ethnologist/mythologist 1901 - Birthday of Marlene Dietrich Berlin Germany, singer/actress (Blue Angel) 1949 - Queen Juliana (Netherlands) grants sovereignty to Indonesia
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 28, 2008 7:24:26 GMT 10
28 December1065 - Westminister Abbey opens in London 1816 - American Colonization Society organizes 1895 - World's 1st movie theater opens in Paris 1981 - Birthday of Elizabeth Jordan Carr, 1st American test tube baby 1983 - US says they will leave UNESCO on Dec 31, 1984 1988 - John Tarrant, 1st Australian born Zen teacher, receives Dharma Transmission 1989 - Earthquake at Newcastle, Australia, 11 die
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 29, 2008 10:53:00 GMT 10
29 December1170 - Thomas Beckett, archbishop, assassinated by 4 knights of King Henry II 1776 - Birthday of Charles Macintosh, Scotland, patented waterproof fabric 1809 - Birthday of Albert Pike, Brigadier-General (Confederate Army), died in 18911815 - Saartjie Baartman, the Hottentot Venus, dies in Paris 1852 - Emma Snodgrass arrested in Boston for wearing pants 1876 - Frédéric A Bartholdi (Statue of Liberty sculptor) weds Jeanne-Emilie 1890 - US 7th Cavalry massacre 200+ captive Sioux at Wounded Knee SD; Indian "war" in the west
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 30, 2008 7:30:58 GMT 10
30 December0039 - Birthday of Titus, 10th Roman emperor (79-81), conqueror of Jerusalem 1835 - After gold discovery in Georgia, Cherokees are forced to move across Mississippi River 1861 - US, banks stops payments in gold 1865 - Birthday of Rudyard Kipling, Bombay, author (Jungle Book, Gunga Din-Nobel 1907) 1869 - Philadelphia Knights of Labor forms 1894 - Amelia Jenks Bloomer, suffragist (Bloomers named for her), dies at 76 1993 - Vatican recognizes Israel
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