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Post by Tamrin on Dec 31, 2008 7:19:47 GMT 10
31 December(New Year's Eve) (Scotland: Hogmanay) 1384 - John Wycliffe, English religious reformer/bible translator, dies 1564 - Willem van Orange demands freedom of conscience/religion 1744 - James Bradley announces discovery of Earth's motion of nutation (wobble) 1879 - Cornerstone laid for Honolulu's Iolani Palace (only royal palace in US) 1908 - Birthday of Simon Wiesenthal, Polish/Austrian nazi hunter (Wiesenthal Center) 1924 - Edwin Hubble announces existence of distant galactic systems 1995 - Calvin/Hobbes (comic strip), "dies"
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 1, 2009 7:31:08 GMT 10
1 January(New Year's Day) 1729 - Birthday of Edmund Burke, British author/famous Whig (Philosophy & Inquiry...) 1854 - Birthday of Sir James Frazer, Britain, anthropologist/author (The Golden Bough) 1863 - Emancipation Proclamation (ending slavery) issued by Lincoln 1901 - Australia declares independence from federation of UK colonies 1977 - 1st woman formally ordained an Episcopal priest (Jacqueline Means) 1992 - Bush is 1st US President to address Australian Parliament 1995 - Last "Far Side" by cartoonist Gary Larson (started 1980)  Newspapers will run a headline: 'Shark kills human.' You never see a headline from
the other perspective: 'Man swims in shark-infested water, forgets he's shark food'Gary Larson
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 2, 2009 5:31:20 GMT 10
2 January(Japan: Shigoto Hajime-Begin Work Day [beginning of the work year]) 1776 - Austria ends interrogation torture 1893 - 1st US commemoratives & 1st US stamp to picture a woman issued 1903 - President T Roosevelt shuts down post office in Indianola MI, for refusing to accept its appointed postmistress because she was black 1923 - Ku Klux Klan surprise attack on black residential area Rosewood FL, 8 killed (compensation awarded in 1995) 1947 - Mahatma Gandhi begins march for peace in East-Bengali 1965 - Martin Luther King Jr. begins a drive to register black voters 1966 - 1st Jewish child born in Spain since 1492 expulsion  Rosewood, Florida, a community of about 350 people,
wiped off the map by white supremacists in 1923.
Knowledge of the massacre was suppressed until the 1990's
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 3, 2009 7:56:56 GMT 10
3 January1521 - Martin Luther excommunicated by Roman Catholic Church 1624 - Birthday of William Tucker, 1st Black child born in America 1870 - Birthday of Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson (a.k.a. Henry Handel Richardson), Australia, novelist 1892 - Birthday of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, South Africa, philologist/writer (Lord of Rings) 1924 - British Egyptologist Howard Carter finds sarcophagus of Tutankhamun 1962 - Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro 1985 - Israel government confirms resettlement of 10,000 Ethiopian Jews
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 4, 2009 6:56:38 GMT 10
4 January0041 - Caligula, murdered 0838 - Babak [Khorramdin], Persian social/religious reformer, martyred 1809 - Birthday of Louis Braille, Coupvray France, developer (reading system for blind) 1821 - Elizabeth Ann Seton 1st native-born American saint, dies in Maryland 1887 - Thomas Stevens is 1st man to bicycle around the world (San Francisco-San Francisco); 21,700km 1944 - Ralph Bunche appointed 1st Negro official in US State Department 1974 - Nixon refuses to hand over tapes subpoenaed by Watergate Committee
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 5, 2009 5:26:35 GMT 10
5 January(12th Night, end of Christmas season 1527 - Felix Manz, 29, became the first Protestant to be martyred by other Protestants 1800 - 1st Swedenborgian temple in US holds 1st service, Baltimore MD 1906 - Birthday of Kathleen Kenyon, 1st person to place date on remains of Jericho 1911 - Portuguese expel Jesuits 1919 - National Socialist Party (Nazi) forms as German Farmers Party 1922 - Sir Ernest Shackleton, Antarctic explorer (Endurance), dies aboard his ship at 47 1932 - Birthday of Umberto Eco, author (Name of the Rose)
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 6, 2009 5:38:14 GMT 10
6 January(Epiphany) 1412 - Birthday of Joan of Arc, Domremy, martyr 1496 - Moorish fortress Alhambra, near Grenada, surrenders to the Christians 1639 - Virginia is 1st colony to order surplus crops (tobacco) destroyed 1822 - Birthday of Heinrich Schliemann, German polyglot/archeologist (Troy) 1883 - Birthday of Khalil Gibran, Lebanon, mystic poet (The Prophet, Broken Wings) 1884 - Gregor Mendel, Augustine monk/heredity pioneer, dies at 61 1955 - Birthday of Rowan Atkinson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne England, comedian/actor (Mr Bean, Blackadder)
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 7, 2009 6:27:47 GMT 10
7 January 1610 - Galileo discovers 1st 3 Jupiter satellites, Io, Europa & Ganymede 1618 - Francis Bacon becomes English lord chancellor 1822 - Liberia colonized by Americans 1912 - Birthday of Charles Addams, cartoonist (New Yorker, Addams Family) 1925 - Birthday of Gerald Malcolm Durrell, Britain, zoologist/writer (Mockery Bird) 1943 - Nikola Tesla, Yugoslavian physicist (tesla motor), dies at 86 1959 - US recognizes Fidel Castro's Cuban government
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 8, 2009 5:45:52 GMT 10
8 January1324 - Marco Polo, Venetian explorer/Governor of Nanking, dies 1800 - Wild Boy of Aveyron discovered in southern France 1815 - Battle of New Orleans - War of 1812 ended 12/24/1814 but nobody knew 1823 - Birthday of Alfred Russel Wallace, British zoologist/co-discoverer (evolution) 1925 - 1st all-female US state supreme court appointed, Texas 1941 - Lord Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scout movement, dies at 83 1942 - Birthday of Stephen Hawking, English physicist (Black Holes & Baby Universes)
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 9, 2009 5:35:04 GMT 10
9 January1843 - Caroline Herschel, "1st lady of astronomy", dies at 98 in Germany 1859 - Birthday of Carrie Lane Chapman Catt, women's rights leader/founder (League of Women Voters) 1902 - Birthday of Jose Maria Escrivá de Balaguer y Albás, Spanish priest (Opus Dei) 1908 - Simone de Beauvoir, France, author (Mandarins, 2nd Sex) 1941 - Birthday of Joan Baez, Staten Island, folk singer/human rights advocate 1970 - After 140 years of unofficial racial discrimination, the Mormons issued an official statement declaring that blacks were not yet to receive the priesthood "for reasons which we believe are known to God, but which He has not made fully known to man." 1980 - 63 beheaded in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
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