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Post by Tamrin on Sept 30, 2011 6:51:30 GMT 10
Friday, 30 September
International Translation Day (date in honour of St. Jerome) 0420 - Death of Saint Jerome, Doctor of the Church, Roman translator of the Vulgate Bible 1207 - Birth of Jalâl ad-Dîn Muhammad Rumi, Persian poet, jurist, theologian, and Sufi mystic 1452 - 1st book published, Johann Guttenberg's Bible 1924 - Birth of Truman Capote, American short short story writer (In Cold Blood) 1928 - Birth of Elie Wiesel, holocaust survivor, author (Souls on Fire), Nazi hunter (Nobel 1986) 1946 - 22 Nazi leaders found guilty of war crimes at Nuremberg 1949 - Initiation of Bro. Gerald R. Ford, US President, Malta Lodge #465, Grand Rapids, Michigan [/url] (The Magic Flute) (premiered this day 1791) Oh Isis and Osiris, Favor This noble pair with Wisdom's light!
Grant them your aid in their endeavor, lead them to find the path of right!
Let them be strong against temptation, but if they fail in their probation,
do not their virtue need deny, Take them to your abode on high[/center]
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 1, 2011 8:46:42 GMT 10
Saturday, 1 October
UN: International Day of Older Persons 1684 - Death of Pierre Corneille, French author (le Cid) 1847 - Birth of Bro. Annie Besant, England, Co-Mason, Fabian, Theosophist, women’s rights and Indian indepencence advocate, social reformer and freethinker 1893 - Birth of Faith Baldwin, US author of romance and fiction 1928 - Establishment of The Philalethes Society (“the oldest independent masonic research body”) 1935 - Birth of Dame Julie Andrews, DBE, British Broadway actor and singer 1946 - Nuremberg Tribunal rejected "following orders" as a defence in crimes against humanity 1979 - US returns Canal Zone to Panama after 75 years (but not the canal)  Isaac BonewitsUS Neopagan leader and author (Born this day 1949) Christians have oppressed Jews, Moslems, Buddhists, Pagans, and each other
throughout their centuries of power, preaching religious intolerance as the word of
Jehovah whenever they had the military, political, or economic power to make it stick
— and then piously preaching brotherhood, peace, and toleration when they didn’t
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 2, 2011 14:40:37 GMT 10
Sunday, 2 October
World Farm Animals Day0322 - BCE - Death of Aristotle, Greek philosopher and polymath 1851 - Birth of Ferdinand Foch, French General believed to be responsible for Allies winning WW I 1869 - Birth of Mohandas K Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi), Indian activist and pacifist 1879 - Birth of Wallace Stevens, American poet and businessman 1890 - Birth of Julius "Groucho" Marx, US comedian (Marx Bros, You Bet Your Life) 1904 - Birth of Graham Greene, OM, CH, British novelist (Our Man in Havana) 1968 - Death of Marcel Duchamp, French Surrealist artist (Dada)  (self-depiction) Rosaleen NortonNZ-born artist, known in Australia as 'the Witch of Kings Cross' (Born this day 1917) This figleaf morality expresses a very unhealthy attitude
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 3, 2011 8:55:08 GMT 10
Monday, 3 October
Ancient Ancient Greece: Oschophoria (bearing green branches to commemorate Theseus' return) Australia: Labour Day Holiday (not all States) 1226 - Death of St Francis of Assisi, Italian friar and preacher (Franciscan Order) 1535 - Publication of first English-language Bible by Miles Coverdale 1896 - Death of William Morris, British utopian socialist 1900 - Birth of Thomas Wolfe, American novelist (Look Homeward Angel) 1916 - Birth of James Herriot, Scottish veterinarian, author of country vet books 1925 - Birth of Gore Vidal, US author and playwright (Myra Breckinridge, Lincoln) 1967 - Death of Woody Guthrie, Radical American folk singer, songwriter  Chief Kooweskoowe (John Ross)Tsalagi (Cherokee) chief, (the ‘Moses of his people’) led the Tsalagi on the 'Trail of Tears’ (murderous forced relocation march) (Born this day 1790) Here, homeless and outcasts, we are only for a short space to be permitted
to take a passing view of the houses and farms we once inhabited and
cultivated and the places in which we happily worshiped Almighty God
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 4, 2011 5:55:04 GMT 10
Tuesday, 4 October
World Animal Day1582 - Death of St Teresa of Ávila, Spanish mystic, Carmelite nun and Doctor of the Catholic Church 1880 - Birth of Damon Runyon, US writer (Guys & Dolls - based on his work) 1904 - Death of Bro. Frederic Auguste Bertholdi (Amilcar Hasenfratz), French sculptor (Statue of Liberty) 1928 - Birth of Alvin Toffler, American futurologist and author 1937 - Birth of Jackie Collins, UK-born US romantic novelist 1941 - Birth of Anne Rice, American writer (The Vampire Chronicles) 1970 - Death of Janis Joplin, American singer, songwriter, painter, dancer and music arranger  Brendan GillAmerican writer (The New Yorker) (Born this day 1914) Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 5, 2011 6:09:11 GMT 10
Wednesday, 5 OctoberWorld Teachers’ Day 1713 - Birth of Bro. Denis Diderot, France, encyclopedist (Dictionnaire Encyclopédie) 1728 - Birth of Bro. Chevalier d'Éon, French spy, English Freemason (gender conjectured) 1874 - The Grand Lodge of Oklahoma was instituted 1902 - Birth of Ray Kroc, US Businessman (McDonalds) 1911 - Birth of Flann O'Brien, Irish novelist (The Hair of Dogma) 1936 - Birth of Václav Havel, Czech playwright, human rights campaigner and president 1983 – Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Lech Walesa, Polish Solidarity leader  René CassinFrench jurist, law professor and judge Nobel Peace Prize recipient 1968 (Universal Declaration of Human Rights) (Born this day 1887) As corollaries to the right of every individual to life and to full participation
in society, the Declaration incorporated in the list of human rights the right
to work and a certain number of economic, social, and cultural rights
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 6, 2011 5:42:13 GMT 10
Thursday, 6 October
Ang, Luth: Commemoration of St William Tyndale, 16th C. Protestant martyr 1767 - Birth of Bro. Henri Christophe, Haïtian General, President then King 1892 - Death of Alfred Lord Tennyson, FRS, British poet laureate 1901 - Bro. Booker T. Washington becomes the African-American to dine at the White House 1914 - Birth of Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian, anthropologist and explorer (Kon Tiki, Aku-Aku) 1922 - Premier of the world’s first talking movie, “The Jazz Singer,” starring Bro. Al Jolson 1950 – Birth of David Brin, American science fiction author 1981 - Assassination of Anwar al-Sadat, President of Egypt  Richard DedekindGerman mathematician (Nature & Meaning of Numbers) (Born this day 1831) That which is provable, ought not to be believed in science without proof
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 7, 2011 6:04:48 GMT 10
Friday, 7 October
Ancient Greece: Feast Day of Pallas Athena 1849 - Death of Edgar Allan Poe, US poet and novelist 1879 - Birth of Joe Hill, US labor organizer, poet and songwriter 1885 - Birth of Niels Bohr, Danish quantum physicist (Nobel 1922) 1894 - Death of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr, American physician and writer 1931 - Birth of Desmond Tutu, South African archbishop and anti-apartheid activist 1935 – Birth of Thomas Keneally, AO, Australian author (Schindler’s Ark, aka Schindler’s List) 1939 - Birth of Clive James, Australian writer, essayist and commentator  RD (Ronald David) LaingScottish radical 'anti-psychiatrist' and author (Born this day 1927) We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 8, 2011 17:02:42 GMT 10
Saturday, 8 October
Remembrance of the Great Chicago Fire (1871) 1754 - Death of Henry Fielding, English author (Tom jones) 1820 - Suicide of Bro. Henri Christophe, Haitian general, President, then King 1872 - Birth of John Cowper Powys, British writer (Wood & Stone) 1901 - Birth of Sir Mark Oliphant, Australian physicist, humanitarian and S.A. Governor 1920 - Birth of Frank Herbert, American science fiction author 1940 - Birth of David Carradine, American actor and martial artist 1941 - Birth of Jesse Jackson, US clergyman and presidential candidate  Juan PeronArgentine military officer, statesman and president (Born this day 1895) If I had not been born Peron, I would have liked to be Peron
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 9, 2011 8:16:17 GMT 10
Sunday, 9 October
Ancient Rome: Feast day of Felicitas (goddess of good fortune) 1000 - Leif Erikson discovered Vinland, becoming the first known European to set foot in North America 1635 - Banishment of Roger Williams, Massachusetts theologian (separation of church and state) 1806 - Death of Benjamin Banneker, American astronomer and mathematician 1939 - Birth of John Pilger, progressive Australian journalist, author 1940 - Birth of John Lennon, British singer, songwriter (Beatles) 1942 - The Statute of Westminster Adoption Act formalized Australian autonomy 1950 - Birth of Jody Williams, American teacher, aid worker and anti-landmine activist  Che GuevaraSouth American revolutionary and war criminal (Executed this day 1967) Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any enemy that
falls in my hands! My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gun-
powder and blood. With the deaths of my enemies I prepare my being for
the sacred fight and join the triumphant proletariat with a bestial howl!
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