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Post by Tamrin on Oct 10, 2011 6:12:53 GMT 10
Monday, 10 October
World Day Against the Death Penalty0732 - Battle of Tours, France: The Franks, under Charles Martel, defeated the Moors 1609 - Baptism of Gerrard Winstanley, English Protestant religious and social reformer (Diggers) 1911 - Sun Yat-sen's revolutionaries overthrow Manchus (Taiwan National Day) 1924 - Birth of James Clavell, British novelist (Shogun), director and a WW II hero and POW 1930 - Birth of Harold Pinter, CH, CBE, English playwright (The Birthday Party) 1985 - Death of Orson Welles, US writer, actor and broadcaster (War of the Worlds, Citizen Kane) 2003 - Shirin Ebadi, Iranian human rights activist, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize  Charles FourierFrench philosopher and social theorist (Died this day 1837) The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 11, 2011 6:29:02 GMT 10
Tuesday, 11 October
Protestant: Remembrance of Ulrich Zwingli (died in battle this day 1531) 1884 - Birth of Eleanor Roosevelt, US 1st lady and Human Rights crusader 1885 - Birth of François Mauriac, French novelist, poet and playwright (Nobel 1952) 1911 - Initiation of Bro. Franklin D. Roosevelt, US President (Holland Lodge #8, New York City) 1925 - Birth of Elmore Leonard, American novelist and screenwriter 1962 - Pope John XXIII rescinds Catholic anathema against Freemasonry 1963 - Death of Jean Cocteau, multi-talented French artist 1963 - Death of Edith Piaf, French singer and cultural icon  Dawn FrenchBritish actor, writer and comedian (Vicar of Dibley) (Born this day 1957) Turn up your radio. Watch lots of telly and eat loads of choc.
Feel guilty. Stay up all night. Learn everything in six hours
that has taken you two years to compile. That's how I did it
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 12, 2011 5:24:09 GMT 10
Wednesday, 12 October
USA: Columbus Day (1492, European landfall in the Americas) 1681 - A London woman was publicly flogged for the crime of 'involving herself in politics' 1870 – Death of Bro. Robert E Lee, General of the Confederate Army 1875 - Birth of Aleister Crowley, English occultist, writer, mountaineer, poet, yogi and possible spy 1912 - Birth of Alice Childress, American playwright and author 1935 - Birth of Luciano Pavarotti, OMRI, Italian operatic tenor 1977 - Romark, self-professed British psychic, driving blindfolded smashed into a police van 2002 - A bomb destroyed a nightclub on the Indonesian island of Bali, killing 202 people  Edith CavellBritish nurse celebrated for saving the lives of soldiers from all sides without distinction (Executed this day 1915 for helping 200 Allied soldiers to escape) Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone(last words before being shot)
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 13, 2011 6:20:07 GMT 10
Thursday, 13 October
Black Friday (Knights Templar arrested, 1307) 1307 - French King Philip IV (Philip the Fair) arrests 15,000 of Knights Templar 1778 - The Grand Lodge of Virginia was instituted 1792 - Bro. George Washington and Brethren lay cornerstone of the Executive Mansion (White House) 1843 - Founding of B’nai B’rith (Sons of the Covenant), Jewish fraternal order, New York 1853 - Birth of Lillie Langtry, British-born US actor of stage and screen 1925 - Birth of Baroness Margaret Thatcher (Iron Lady), British PM (1979-90) 1934 - Birth of Nana Mouskouri, Greek singer  Lenny Bruce, American comedian (Born this day 1925) Let me tell you the truth. The truth is what is, and what should be is a fantasy.
A terrible, terrible lie that someone gave to the people long ago
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 14, 2011 12:27:29 GMT 10
Friday, 14 October
World Organ Donation Day 1644 - Birth of William Penn, English-born American Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania 1888 - Birth of Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand writer (Aloe, Garden Party) 1890 - Birth of Dwight David Eisenhower, 34th US President 1906 - Birth of Hannah Arendt, German historian (Origins of Totalitarianism) 1944 - Suicide of Erwin Rommel, German WWII Field Marshal 1989 - The Grand Lodge of Connecticut recognized the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Connecticut. This was the first US recognition of Prince Hall Masonry that remained in force, and led to similar actions by more than 2/3 of all US Grand Lodges 1991 - Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese opposition leader  Miles FranklinAustralian author and feminist (My Brilliant Career) (Born this day 1879) Our greatest heart-treasure is a knowledge that there is in creation an individual to
whom our existence is necessary - some one who is part of our life as we are part of theirs,
some one in whose life we feel assured our death would leave a gap for a day or two
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 15, 2011 11:06:48 GMT 10
Saturday, 15 October
USA: National Grouch Day1794 - The Grand Lodge of Vermont was instituted 1814 - Birth of Mikhail Lermontov (Poet of the Caucasus), Russian poet, author and painter) 1844 - Birth of Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (Thus Spoke Zarathustra) 1881 - Birth of P.G. Wodehouse, KBE, British comic novelist (Jeeves the butler) 1905 - Birth of C.P. Snow, English physicist and novelist (Strangers and Brothers) 1908 - Birth of John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian-American writer (Affluent Society) 1917 - Birth of Arthur Schlesinger Jr., US historian and author (1946 Pulitzer — Age of Jackson)  Mario PuzoAmerican novelist (The Godfather) (Born this day 1920) The man with the briefcase can steal more money than the man with the gun
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 16, 2011 8:54:12 GMT 10
Sunday, 16 October
World Food Day1646 - Bro. Elias Ashmole was made a Free-Mason at Warrington in Lancashire 1800 - The Grand Lodge of Kentucky was instituted 1854 - Birth of Bro. Oscar Wilde, Irish literary wit (The Picture of Dorian Gray) 1859 - Bro. John Brown, militant US abolitionist, led raid on the Federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry 1886 - Birth of David Ben-Gurion, Polish-born first Prime Minister of Israel 1888 - Birth of Eugene O'Neill, American playwright (Long Day's Journey Into Night) 2002 - Bibliotheca Alexandrina, commemorating the Library of Alexandria, was officially inaugurated  Daisy Bates, aka 'Kabbarli' (grandmother) Irish born Australian journalist, studied Aboriginal culture (Born this day 1859) The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does.
No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 17, 2011 7:22:39 GMT 10
Monday, 17 October
International Day for the Eradication of Poverty1483 - Pope Sixtus IV launched the Spanish Inquisition  1586 - Death of Sir Philip Sidney, Elizabethan poet, courtier and soldier 1711 - Birth of Jupiter Hammon, America's first published black poet 1903 - Birth of Nathanael West, American novelist (The Day of the Locust) 1915 - Birth of Arthur Miller, American playwright (The Crucible) 1930 - Birth of Jimmy Breslin, American journalist and author 1957 - Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Albert Camus, French author  A.S. NeillBritish anti-authoritarian educator (The Free Child) (Born this day 1883) No one is wise enough or good enough to mould the character of any child.
What is wrong with our sick, neurotic world is that we have been moulded,
and an adult generation that has seen two great wars and seems about to
launch a third should not be trusted to mould the character of a rat
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 18, 2011 6:11:13 GMT 10
Tuesday, 18 October
Feast day of St Luke the Evangelist 1616 - Birth of Nicholas Culpeper, English author, botanist, herbalist, physician and astrologer 1685 - Louis XIV revoked the 1598 Edict of Nantes, which had permitted French Protestants limited religious tolerance. The Huguenot exodus which followed, drained France's industrial economy, perhaps assisted in the formation of the premier grand lodge in England, and possibly hastened the revolution in France 1785 - Birth of Thomas Love Peacock, English author (Headlong Hall) 1806 - Assassination of Bro. Emperor Jacques I of Haiti (Jean-Jacques Dessalines) 1859 - Birth of Henri Bergson, French philosopher (Creative Evolution-Nobel 1927) 1871 - Death of Charles Babbage, FRS, mathematician and inventor of computing machines 1931 - Death of Thomas Alva Edison, US inventor and businessman  Ntozake ShangeAfrican-American poet, playwright and feminist (Born this day 1948) Our society allows people to be absolutely neurotic and totally out of touch
with their feelings and everyone else's feelings, and yet be very respectable
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 19, 2011 5:37:42 GMT 10
Wednesday, 19 October
Ancient Rome: Armilustrium (in honour of Mars) 1605 - Birth of Thomas Browne, English writer 1745 - Death of Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish author 1784 - Birth of James Henry Leigh Hunt, English poet (Abou Ben Adhem) 1833 - Birth of Adam Lindsay Gordon, Australian poet, jockey and politician 1895 - Birth of Lewis Mumford, US cultural historian, city planner and writer 1931 – Birth of John Le Carré, British novelist (The Spy Who Came in from the Cold) 1942 - Birth of Andrew Vachss, American author (Burke series) and attorney (Child Protection)  John WoolmanAmerican itinerant Quaker preacher campaigned against conscription, taxation and slavery (Born this day 1720) There is a principle which is pure, placed in the human mind, which in different places and ages
hath had different names. It is, however, pure and proceeds from God. It is deep and inward,
confined to no forms of religion nor excluded from any, where the heart stands in perfect sincerity.
In whomsoever this takes root and grows, of what nation soever, they become brethren
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