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Post by Tamrin on Jan 29, 2009 6:16:05 GMT 10
29 January1499 - Birth of Katherine von Bora, former German nun who became Martin Luther's wife 1688 - Birth of Emanuel Swedenborg, Sweden, religious leader (Angelic Wisdom) 1737 - Birth of Thomas Paine, political essayist (Common Sense, Age of Reason) 1834 - President Jackson orders 1st use of US troops to suppress a labor dispute 1856 - Victoria Cross established to acknowledge bravery 1939 - Birth of Germaine Greer, Melbourne Australia, feminist/author (Female Eunuch) 1989 - Episcopal church appoints 1st female bishop
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 30, 2009 6:30:45 GMT 10
30 January England: Women Peerage Day (1958) 1649 - Charles I, King of Great Britain (1625-49), beheaded for treason 1797 - Congress refuses to accept 1st petitions from American blacks 1939 - Hitler calls for the extermination of Jews 1948 - Mahatma Gandhi, India spiritual and political leader, assassinated by Hindu extremists... 1973 - Jury finds Watergate defendants Liddy & McCord guilty on all counts 1993 - 100,000n Europeans demonstrate against fascism & racism 1995 - Gerald M Durrell, British zoologist/author (Mockery Bird), dies at 70
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 31, 2009 9:45:24 GMT 10
31 January1606 - Guy Fawkes, convicted in the "Gunpowder Plot", executed at 35 1788 - Charles E Stuart, English pretender to the throne, dies at 67 1865 - Congress passes 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery in America (121-24) 1871 - Millions of birds fly over western San Francisco, darken the sky 1968 - Viet Cong's Tet offensive begins 1968 - Nauru (formerly Pleasant Island) declares independence from Australia 1982 - 10 Arabian oryx (extinct except in zoos) released in Oman
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 1, 2009 9:02:02 GMT 10
1 FebruaryUS: National Freedom Day1650 - Rene Descartes, philosopher "I think therefore I am", stops thinking 1865 - 13th amendment approved (National Freedom Day) 1867 - [U.S.] Bricklayers start working 8-hour days 1878 - Birth of Hattie Wyatt Caraway, politician/teacher/1st woman elected to [U.S.] senate 1902 - China's empress Tzu-hsi forbids binding woman's feet 1933 - Dutch bishops forbid membership in non-catholic unions 1959 - Swiss males vote against voting rights for women
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 2, 2009 5:42:15 GMT 10
2 February(US: Groundhog Day) 1650 - Birth of Nell [Eleanor] Gwyn, English actress/mistress (King Charles II) 1882 - Birth of James Joyce, Ireland, novelist/poet (Dubliners, Ulysses, Finnigan's Wake) 1905 - Birth of Ayn Rand, writer (Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead) 1906 - Pope encyclical against separation of church & state 1948 - President Truman urges congress to adopt a civil rights program 1970 - Bertrand Russell, philosopher, British MP, dies in Merioneth at 97 1986 - Dalai Lama meets Pope John Paul II in India
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Post by maximus on Feb 2, 2009 12:56:14 GMT 10
Happy Birthday Ayn Rand!
It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master. |
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 3, 2009 5:46:31 GMT 10
3 February("The Day the Music Died" - American Pie*) 1377 - Mass [papal] execution of population of Cesena Italy 1870 - 15th Amendment (Black suffrage) passed 1894 - Birth of Norman Rockwell, US, artist/illustrator (Sat Evening Post covers) 1907 - Birth of James A Michener, New York NY, writer (Tales of the South Pacific...) 1943 - Alexander Goode, rabbi who surrendered his life jacket, drowns 1959 - *The Big Bopper [Jiles Perry Richardson], rocker (Chantilly Lace), dies in a plane in Iowa crash at 28 1959 - *Buddy Holly, rocker (That'll be the Day), dies in a plane crash in Iowa at 22 1959 - *Richie Valens, rock vocalist (Donna, La Bamba), killed in plane crash in Iowa at 17 1993 - Federal trial of 4 police officers charged with civil rights violations in videotaped beating of Rodney King begins in Los Angeles CA
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 4, 2009 5:45:49 GMT 10
4 February1846 - Mormons leave Nauvoo MO for settlement in the west 1893 - Birth of Raymond Dart, Australian paleoanthropologist (Australopithecus) 1899 - Revolt against US occupation of Philippines 1913 - Birth of Rosa Lee Parks, civil rights activist (bus protester) 1938 - Hitler seizes control of German army & puts Nazi in key posts 1974 - Chimpanzee Nim Chimsky signs his 1st word, at 2½ months 1997 - OJ Simpson found liable in murders of Ron Goldman & Nicole Simpson   Rosa Parks was, " ...a charter member of Alonzo Mitchell Chapter 636
Mizpah Grand Chapter of Order of Eastern Star, Alabama", associated with Prince Hall Masonry.
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 5, 2009 5:30:48 GMT 10
5 February0045 - BC- Cato, Roman patriot & philosopher, commits suicide 1848 - Birth of Belle Starr [Myra Belle Shirley], US female outlaw (wild west) 1881 - Thomas Carlyle, historian/essayist, dies in London at 85 1945 - US troops under General Douglas MacArthur enter Manilla 1963 - Maarten Schmidt discovers enormous red shifts in quasars 1972 - US airlines begin mandatory inspection of passengers & baggage 1973 - Funeral for LC William Nolde, last US soldier killed in Vietnam War
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 6, 2009 6:32:11 GMT 10
6 February(New Zealand: Waitangi Day - New Zealand) 1564 - Birth of Christopher Marlowe, English poet/dramatist (Dr Faustus) 1626 - Huguenot rebels & the French sign Peace of La Rochelle 1685 - Charles II, King of England/Scotland/Ireland (1660-85), dies at 54 1778 - France recognizes US, signs treaty of aid in Paris; 1st US treaty 1778 - England declares war on France 1840 - Waitangi Day; treaty signed between Britain & Maoris of New Zealand 1918 - Britain grants women (30 & over) the vote 1945 - Birth of Bob Marley, Jamaican reggae vocalist (Bob Marley & Wailers-Roots Rock Reggae)
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