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Post by Tamrin on May 14, 2012 12:51:43 GMT 10
Monday, 14 May Ancient Egypt: Panegyric of Isis (recollects the joy of Isis upon finding Osiris) 1771 - Birth of Robert Owen, Welsh factory owner and socialist 1803 - A Masonic meeting in Sydney was interrupted by military (all present arrested) 1912 - Death of August Strindberg, (Golden Dawn Frater) Swedish playwright and novelist 1925 - Death of Bro. Sir H. Rider Haggard, English writer (She, King Solomon’s Mines) 1940 - Death of Emma Goldman, US anarchist, feminist and author (Living My Life) 1948 - David Ben-Gurion, first Israeli Prime Minister, establishes State of Israel 1991 - Suicide of Jiang Qing, widow of Chinese leader Mao Tse Tung Che GuevaraArgentinian-born Cuban & Bolivian revolutionary and mass murderer (Born this day 1928) 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 gunpowder 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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Post by Tamrin on May 15, 2012 6:41:50 GMT 10
Tuesday, 15 May Ancient Rome: Mercuralia (festival in honour of Mercury) 1565 - Birth of Henrick de Keyser, Dutch architect “builder of Amsterdam” (died this day 1621) 1856 - Birth of L. Frank Baum, US Theosophist and children's book author (Wizard of Oz) 1886 - Death of Emily Dickinson, American poet 1890 - Birth of Katherine Anne Porter, US novelist (Ship of Fools) 1935 - Birth of Utah Phillips, American folksinger 1936 - Birth of Hugh Romney, aka Wavy Gravy, US entertainer and peace activist 1937 - Birth of Madeleine Albright, 64th US Secretary of State “Abelard and Heloise Surprised by the Abbot Fulbert” by Jean Vignaud, 1819 (Héloise died this day 1163)I looked for no marriage bond, no marriage portion…The name of wife may seem more sacred or more binding, but sweeter for me will always be the word mistress, or, if you will permit me, that of concubine or whore(From a letter to her lover, Peter Abelard)
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Post by Tamrin on May 16, 2012 8:44:44 GMT 10
Wednesday, 16 May Feast Day of Feast day of St Brendan the Elder (aka, the Navigator, or Voyager) 1718 - Birth of Maria G Agnesi, Italian mathematician curves= x²y=a²(a-y) 1912 - Birth of Studs Terkel, American journalist and progressive activist 1929 - Birth of Adrienne Cecile Rich, US feminist and writer (Diamond Cutters) 1942 - Death of Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski, Polish anthropologist 1944 - Death of Bro. George Ade, US novelist and playwright (Counsel Widow) 1979 - Death of Bro. Asa Philip Randolph, African-American labor leader and civil rights pioneer 1990 - Death of Sammy Davis Jr., US entertainer (Golden Boy) Felicia Hemans, English poet (Died this day 1835) The boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead
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Post by Tamrin on May 17, 2012 9:32:51 GMT 10
Thursday, 17 May International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (aka IDAHO) 1727 - Death of Catherine I (Catherine the Great, b. Marta Helena Skowroñska), Polish-born Empress of Russia 1873 - Birth of Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist 1902 - Discovery of the Antikythera mechanism by Greek Archaeologist Valerios Stais 1909 - Birth of Professor Julius Sumner Miller, American science popularizer 1930 - Death of Herbert David Croly, US founder (New Republic) 1954 - Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, ruled US school segregation of races to be unconstitutional 2007 - Death of Lloyd Chudley Alexander, US fantasy author (The Chronicles of Prydain) Edward JennerEnglish physician (discovered vaccination) (Born this day 1749) While the vaccine discovery was progressive, the joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities [smallpox], blended with the fond hope of enjoying independence and domestic peace and happiness, was often so excessive that, in pursuing my favourite subject among the meadows, I have sometimes found myself in a kind of reverie
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Post by Tamrin on May 18, 2012 8:31:23 GMT 10
Friday, 18 May World Goodwill Day (1899) 1048 - Birth of Omar Khayyám, Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer 1692 – Death of Bro. Elias Ashmole, English antiquarian and Freemason 1872 - Birth of Lord Bertrand Russell, FRS, English mathematician and philosopher (Nobel 1950) 1874 - Birth of Bro. Madeleine Pelletier, French psychiatrist, feminist, socialist and Freemason 1909 - Death of George Meredith, English poet and writer (Diana of Crossways) 1955 - Death of Mary McLeod Bethune, US educator & civil rights leader 1973 - Death of Jeannette Rankin, 1st US Congresswoman (1917-19, 41-43) Today's date, the eighteenth of May, should sometime become an occasion of great international celebration, for on this day ten years ago the first Peace Conference opened at The HagueFredrik Bajer (Said this day 1909)
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Post by Tamrin on May 19, 2012 9:28:42 GMT 10
Saturday, 19 May Feast day of Blessed Alcuin of York, 'The schoolmaster of his age' 1762 - Birth of Bro. Johann G Fichte, German philosopher (Wissenschaftslehre) 1861 - Birth of Dame Nellie Melba, Australian opera diva 1864 - Death of Nathaniel Hawthorne, US writer (Scarlet Letter) 1915 - Death of John Simpson Kirkpatrick, English-born Australian stretcher-bearer 1925 - Birth of Malcolm X, US civil rights leader (Black Muslims) 1933 - Birth of Edward de Bono, British developer of 'lateral thinking' 1935 - Death of Thomas E Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), British officer (Arab Revolt) Alcuin of YorkEnglish scholar, ecclesiastic, poet and teacher (Died this day 804) Those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness
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Post by Tamrin on May 20, 2012 7:46:20 GMT 10
Sunday, 20 May Viking: Festival of Mjøllnir (Thor's short-handled war hammer) 1506 - Death of Christopher Columbus, Italian navigator and explorer 1799 - Birth of Bro. Honoré de Balzac, French novelist (Pere Goriot, Human Comedy) 1806 - Birth of John Stuart Mill, British Utilitarian philosopher and political economist 1834 - Death of Bro. Marquis de Lafayette, French-American general 1910 - Funeral for Britain's MW Bro. King Edward VII (former GM UGLE) 1956 - Death of Max Beerbohm, English caricaturist and writer (Yet Again) 1972 - Death of Walter Winchell, American newspaper and radio commentator Bro. General Toussaint L'OuvertureHaitian revolutionary leader (Born this day 1743) I was born a slave, but nature gave me a soul of a free man
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Post by Tamrin on May 21, 2012 6:34:28 GMT 10
Monday, 21 May Ancient Greece: Birth of Plato (427 BCE) 1688 - Birth of Bro. Alexander Pope, English poet (Rape of the Lock) 1808 - Birth of Gérard de Nerval, French poet and writer (Sylvia) 1810 - Death of Bro. Charles Chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont, androgynous French spy 1856 - The world's first eight-hour working day was achieved, by Australian stonemasons 1921 - Birth of Andrei Sakharov, Russian Nobel Prize winning physicist and human rights activist 1930 - Birth of Malcolm Fraser, AC, CH, 22nd Prime Minister of Australia 1951 - Birth of Al Franken, US Senator and comedian (Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them) Elizabeth FryEnglish prison and social reformer and a Quaker philanthropist (Born this day 1780) Does Capital punishment tend to the security of the people? By No means. It hardens the hearts of men, and makes the loss of life appear light to them; it renders life insecure, inasmuch as the law holds out that Property is of greater value than life
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Post by Tamrin on May 22, 2012 6:35:02 GMT 10
Tuesday, 22 May International Day for Biological Diversity (formerly 29 December) 1803 - Governor King bans Masonic meetings in New South Wales without his permission 1813 - Birth of Richard Wagner, German anti-Semite and composer (Ring, Flying Dutchman) 1859 - Birth of Bro. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish author (Sherlock Holmes) 1885 - Death of Victor Hugo, French Martinist and author (Les Misérables) 1927 - Birth of Peter Matthiessen, American naturalist and author (The Snow Leopard) 1936 - Birth of M. Scott Peck, American psychiatrist and author (The Road Less Travelled) 1943 - Birth of Betty Williams, US social activist, co-recipient of the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize Constantine the Great, Roman Emperor (Died this day 337) In hoc signo vinces
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Post by Tamrin on May 23, 2012 6:53:15 GMT 10
Wednesday, 23 May Ancient Rome: Rosalia, festival of roses (sacred to Venus) Bahá'í: Festival of Bab’s Declaration, prophesying the coming of Bahá'u'lláh (1844) 1707 - Birth of Carolus Linnæus, Swedish botanist, "Father of Taxonomy" 1734 - Birth of Bro. Friedrich Anton Mesmer, Austrian physician and hypnotist (Mesmerism) 1799 - Birth of Thomas Hood, English poet and composer (Song of the Shirt) 1810 - Birth of Margaret Fuller, American writer and critic (New York Tribune) 1838 - Start of the “ Trail of Tears”, genocidal relocation of the Tsalagi (Cherokee) Nation 1906 - Death of Henrik Johan Ibsen, Norwegian playwright (A Doll’s House) 1926 - Joe Slovo, South African South African politician and anti-Apartheid activist Bro. Elias AshmoleEnglish antiquarian, collector, politician and student of astrology and alchemy (Born this day 1617) I was made a Free-Mason at Warrington in Lancashire with Coll. Henry Mainwaring of Karincham in Cheshire. The names of those that were of the Lodge, Mr Rich: Penkett Warden. M James Collier, Mr Rich Sanchey, Henry Littler, John Ellam, Rich: Ellam, Hugh Brewer(16 October 1646, 4:30 pm)
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