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Post by Tamrin on Oct 20, 2011 5:11:10 GMT 10
Thursday, 20 October
Bahá'í Faith: Birth of the Báb (1819) 1822 - Birth of Thomas Hughes, English novelist (Tom Brown's Schooldays) 1854 - Birth of Arthur Rimbaud, France, poet and adventurer (Illuminations) 1859 - Birth of John Dewey, philosopher, psychologist and educational theorist (Learn by doing) 1890 - Death of Bro. Captain Sir Richard Burton, English explorer, translator, writer and soldier 1926 - Death of Eugene Debs, American labor activist and presidential candidate 1928 - Birth of Dr Joyce Brothers, American popular psychologist 1953 - The Grand Lodge of the State of Israel was instituted  Bro. Sir Christopher Wren, FRSEnglish architect (rebuilt London) (Born this day 1632) If you want to see my monument, look around you! 
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 21, 2011 6:08:22 GMT 10
Friday, 21 October
Old British Empire: Trafalgar Day (1805) 1772 - Birth of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet (Rime of the Ancient Mariner) 1790 - Birth of Alphonse de Lamartine, French writer, poet 1805 - Death of Bro. Admiral Horatio Nelson, Battle of Trafalgar 1833 - Birth of Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Stockholm, created dynamite & Peace Prizes 1914 - Birth of Martin Gardner, Scientific American math and puzzles columnist 1929 - Birth of Ursula K Le Guin, American science fiction author (The Left Hand of Darkness) 1969 - Death of Jack Kerouac, US Beat poet  Judge Judy SheindlinAmerican judge, television host (Born this day 1942) If it doesn't make sense, it's usually not true
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 22, 2011 9:13:10 GMT 10
Saturday, 22 October
USA: Make a Difference Day (fourth Saturday in October) 0741 - Death of French leader Charles Martel, Frankish leader, vanquished Saracens 1811 - Birth of Bro. Franz von List, Hungarian piano virtuoso and composer 1834 - Creation in London of the South Australian Lodge of Friendship No. 613 (first in S.A.) 1844 - Birth of Sarah Bernhardt, French stage actress 1919 - Birth of Doris Lessing, Persian-born British novelist (Golden Notebook) 1920 - Birth of Timothy Leary, US academic (Harvard professor), acid head 1936 - Birth of Bobby Seale, US civil rights activist  John ReedUS radical journalist, poet and communist activist (Born this day 1887) In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every
act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 23, 2011 14:08:59 GMT 10
Sunday, 23 October
Chemistry: Mole Day (6:02am to 6:02pm, 6.02×1023 is the number of molecules in a mole) 4004 - BCE - Date of Creation (9am), according to Irish Archbishop James Ussher (1581 - 1656) 1641 - Irish Rebellion, thousands Protestant settlers massacred by Irish nationalists 1844 - Birth of Louis Riel, Canadian politician, leader of Métis insurrection 1903 - Death of Francis Ellingwood Abbot, theologian (Scientific Theism) 1942 - Birth of Michael Crichton, US novelist (Andromeda Strain, Congo, Looker) 1942 – Birth of Dame Anita Roddick, British businesswoman and human rights activist 1958 - Boris Pasternak, Soviet novelist, wins Nobel Prize for Literature  Robert BridgesEnglish Poet Laureate (Born this day 1844) Man's reason is in such deep insolvency to sense, that tho' she guide his highest flight
heav'nward, and teach him dignity morals manners and human comfort, she can
delicately and dangerously bedizen the rioting joys that fringe the sad pathways of Hell
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 24, 2011 5:55:05 GMT 10
Monday, 24 October
Mesopotamia: Commemoration of Lilith
United Nations Day1260 - Chartres Cathedral in France was consecrated 1632 - Birth of Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch microbiologist (first to see bacteria, 1657) 1868 - Birth of Bro. Alexandra David-Néel, first foreign woman explorer of Tibet 1929 - 'Black Thursday' crash of the New York Stock Exchange 1945 - United Nations Charter becomes effective 1970 - Election of Bro. Salvador Allende Gossens as president of Chile 1991 - Death of Gene Roddenberry, US Star Trek creator  Tycho BraheDanish astronomer, alchemist (Died this day 1601) With a firm and steadfast mind one should hold under all
conditions, that everywhere the earth is below and the sky
above, and to the energetic man, every region is his fatherlandSimilar to this is the following statement by Bro. Alexandra David-Néel (born this day 1868): If "heaven is the Lord's," the earth is the inheritance of
man, and that consequently any honest traveler has the
right to walk as he chooses, all over that globe which is his
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 25, 2011 6:01:00 GMT 10
Tuesday, 25 October
St Crispin's Day (Battle of Agincourt, 1415) 1400 - Death of Geoffrey Chaucer, English author (The Canterbury Tales) 1616 - Dutch sea captain Dirk Hartog landed in Australia (more than 150 years before Cook) 1800 - Birth of Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay, English poet, abolitionist, historian 1806 - Birth of Max Stirner (born Johann Kaspar Schmidt), "high brow" German philosopher 1881 - Birth of Pablo Picasso, Spanish artist (3 Dancers, Guernica) 1913 - Birth of Norman O Brown, American philosopher (Love's Body) 1941 - Birth of Anne Tyler, American novelist (The Accidental Tourist)  Bro. Admiral Richard E ByrdUS polar explorer (1926) (Born this day 1888) Few men during their lifetime comes anywhere near exhausting the resources
dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 26, 2011 6:32:09 GMT 10
Wednesday, 26 October
Ancient Egypt: Moon Festival of Hathor
International: Intersex Awareness Day0899 - Death of St King Alfred the Great, king of England (871 / 899) 1764 - Death of Bro. William Hogarth, famous English painter and engraver (Night) 1879 - Birth of Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary (president of first Soviet) 1881 - Shootout at the OK Corral, in Tombstone, Arizona 1902 - Death of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American feminist 1945 - Birth of Pat Conroy, American novelist (The Prince of Tides) 1979 - The World Health Organisation announced the eradication of smallpox  Bro. Georges Danton, French revolutionary (Born this day 1759) In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 27, 2011 5:56:21 GMT 10
Thursday, 27 October
Coptic: Feast Day of St Frumentius, Apostle of Ethiopia (d. c.383) UN: Universal Children’s Day0939 - Death of King Athelstan I of England ( York Legend, 926) 1728 - Birth of James Cook, English captain, explorer, discovered Sandwich Islands & claimed Australia 1858 - Birth of Bro. Theodore Roosevelt, (R) 26th US President (Nobel 1906) 1914 - Birth of Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet (Child's Christmas in Wales) 1932 - Birth of Sylvia Plath, American poet and novelist (The Bell Jar) 1939 - Birth of John Cleese, English comedian and actor (Monty Python, Fawlty Towers) 1950 - Birth of Fran Lebowitz, American writer (Metropolitan Life and Social Studies)  Nawal El SaadawiEgyptian feminist writer, activist and physician (Born this day 1931) They said, “You are a savage and dangerous woman.”
I am speaking the truth. And the truth is savage and dangerous
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 28, 2011 12:18:23 GMT 10
Friday, 28 October
Ancient Egypt: First day of Isia festival, commemorating the search of Isis for Osiris Phoenicia: Feast of Baal (Ba'al; Haddad) 0312 - Roman Emperor Constantine wins the battle at Milvian Bridge (In hoc signo vinces) 1466 - Birth of Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch scholar and author (In Praise of Folly) 1585 - Birth of Cornelius Jansen, theologian ( Jansenism) 1704 - Death of John Locke, English empirical philosopher 1903 - Birth of Evelyn Waugh, London, author (Brideshead Revisited) 1914 - Birth of Dr Jonas Salk, US medical researcher, made polio a fear of the past 1955 - Birth of Bill Gates, software tycoon, co-founder and Chairman of Microsoft  [url=http://www.njfreemason.net/Statue%20of%20Liberty%20history.htm ] Liberty Enlightening the World (Statue of Liberty)[/url] (Dedicated this day 1886) The Virgin is consecrated to Isis, just as Leo is consecrated to her husband
Osiris ... The sphinx, composed of a Lion and a Virgin, was used as a symbol to
designate the overflowing Nile ... they put a wheat-ear in the hand of a virgin,
to express the idea of the months, perhaps because the sign of Virgin was called
by the Orientals, Sounbouleh or Schibbolet, that is to say, epi or wheat ear Brother Joseph Jerome de Lalandefounder of Lodge Des Neuf Soers (Nine Sisters), Paris; Astronomie par M. de la Lande, 1731 (Today is the Isia, for Isis)[/center]
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 29, 2011 10:33:41 GMT 10
Saturday, 29 October
Turkey: Republic Day (Ataturk defeated Ottoman Empire, 1923) 1618 - Execution of Sir Walter Raleigh, English poet, soldier, courtier, spy and explorer 1656 – Birth of Edmond Halley, FRS, British physicist, meteorologist and astronomer (Halley’s Comet) 1740 - Birth of Bro. James Boswell, Scottish biographer (Samuel Johnson) 1783 - Death of Bro. Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician and encyclopædist 1863 - International Committee of the Red Cross founded 1882 - Birth of Jean Giraudoux, French playwright (Eglantine, Provinciales) 1891 - Birth of Fanny Brice, American Broadway star (the original “Funny Girl”)  Cyrus the Great, (Cyrus II of Persia, Achaemenid Emperor)(Conquered Babylon this day 539 BCE) I can never be persuaded that the soul lives on longer
than it dwells in this mortal body: It too dies on separation.
Remember this as my last and dying words
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