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Post by Tamrin on Jul 3, 2012 6:12:43 GMT 10
Tuesday, 3 July Feast day of St. Thomas (Doubting Thomas), Apostle to India 1863 - Battle of Gettysburg, major victory for Union forces in US Civil War 1883 - Birth of Franz Kafka, Bohemian-born Czech novelist (Metamorphosis) 1915 - US military forces occupy Haiti, remain until 1934 1937 - Birth of Tom Stoppard, OM, CBE, FRSL, Czech-born British playwright 1964 - Birth of Joanne Harris, British author (Chocolat) 1971 - Death of Jim Morrison, American poet and musician (The Doors) 1984 - US Supreme Court rules Jaycees may be forced to admit women as members Sir Apirana Turupa NgataMaori political and cultural leader (New Zealand) (Born this day 1874) If we are serious about nationhood, the partnership must incorporate the essence of an indigenous people recognising the importance of that people in holding on to their culture, their mana, whilst moving forward in contemporary times, in testing times
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 4, 2012 9:12:36 GMT 10
Wednesday, 4 July Ancient Rome: Feast Day of Pax[/color], goddess of Peace USA: Independence Day (Declaration ratified this day 1776) Italy: Garibaldi Day (Bro. Garibaldi born this day 1807) Astronomy: Annual Aphelion (greatest distance from Sun) 1187 - Saladin defeated Guy of Lusignan, King of Jerusalem, at the Battle of Hattin 1781 - Initiation of Bro. Robert Burns, Lodge St David (Tarbolton) Mauchline No.133, Ayrshire 1804 - Birth of Nathaniel Hawthorne, US author (House of 7 Gables, Scarlet Letter) 1848 - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published The Communist Manifesto 1884 - Statue of Liberty presented to US in Paris 1902 - Death of Swami Vivekananda, Indian mystic 1905 - Birth of Lionel Trilling, US author (1969 Poses Award, Liberal Imagination) We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness(From the US Declaration of Independence, ratified by Congress, July 4, 1776)
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 5, 2012 6:28:17 GMT 10
Thursday, 5 July Ancient Egypt: Sacred day of Ma'at, goddess of truth and justice 1687 - Isaac Newton's PRINCIPIA published by Royal Society in England 1810 - Birth of Bro. P.T. Barnum, American circus showman 1853 - Birth of Bro. Cecil John Rhodes, PC, DCL, British-South African empire builder 1857 - Birth of Clara Zetkin, German socialist and women's rights advocate 1889 - Birth of Jean Cocteau, French writer, artist, film maker (Le Potamak) 1945 - Death of John Curtin, 14th Australian Prime Minister (died in office) 1950 - Law of Return passes, guarantees all Jews right to live in Israel Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.US diplomat during the Vietnam War (Born this day 1902) Animosity is not a policy
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 6, 2012 6:15:57 GMT 10
Friday, 6 July Lutheran: Commemoration of Jan Hus, theologian and martyr, (1415) Old Catholic: Commemoration of St Thomas More, humanist and martyr (1535) 1747 - Birth of Bro. John Paul Jones, US naval hero ("I have not yet begun to fight") 1781 - Birth of Bro. Sir Stamford Raffles, founded Singapore 1830 - The Grand Lodge of Florida was instituted 1832 - Birth of Bro. Maximilian, Austrian archduke, made Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico 1887 - Birth of Annette Kellerman, Australian swimmer, entertainer, women's rights advocate and author 1935 - Birth of His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet 1971 - Death of Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, US jazz musician (Hello Dolly) Jan HusCzech priest, philosopher, reformer and university master (Martyred this day 1415) In 100 years, God will raise up a man whose calls for reform cannot be suppressed (Around 1515 Martin Luther was having misgivings about the Church and, in 1517, nailed his famous 95 Theses of Contention on to the church door at Wittenberg)
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 7, 2012 6:09:50 GMT 10
Saturday, 7 July Lament for London bombings (transport system, 7/7/2005) 1307 - Death of King Edward I of England (“Longshanks”), died on his way to fight Robert the Bruce 1816 - Death of Bro. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish-born English dramatist (School for Scandal) 1907 - Birth of Robert A Heinlein, US science-fiction author (Stranger in a Strange Land) 1923 - Birth of Jean Kerr, US playwright & novelist (Please Don't Eat the Daisies) 1930 - Death of Bro. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish physician and writer (Sherlock Holmes) 1940 - Birth of Ringo Starr, Beatles' drummer and actor (Magic Christian) 1987 - Kiwanis Clubs end men-only tradition, vote to admit women Thomas Hooker English-born Puritan clergyman, “Father of American Democracy” (Died this day 1647) They who have the power to appoint officers and magistrates, it is in their power, also, to set the bounds and limitations of the power and place unto which they call them
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 8, 2012 5:59:20 GMT 10
Sunday, 8 July USA: Liberty Bell Day (cracked again this day 1835) 1621 - Birth of Jean de la Fontaine, French fabulist and poet 1789 - The Grand Lodge of Connecticut was instituted 1822 - Death of Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (drowned) 1851 - Birth of Sir Arthur Evans, British archaeologist (excavated Knossos in Crete) 1893 - Birth of Fritz Perls, German-born father of Gestalt therapy 1918 - Birth of Nelson Mandela, South African President and political activist 1926 - Birth of Dr Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-born American psychiatrist and author Alec WaughEnglish novelist (Island in the Sun) (Born this day 1898) A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 9, 2012 6:38:39 GMT 10
Monday, 9 July Bahá'í: Lament for the Bab (Siyyid 'Alí Muhammad Shírází), executed this day 1850 Argentina: Independence Day (led by Bro. José de San Martín), declared this day 1816) 1764 - Birth of Ann Radcliffe, English gothic novelist (The Mysteries of Udolpho) 1797 - Death of Bro. Edmund Burke, English political theorist 1858 - Birth of Franz Boas, German-American anthropologist and linguist (Mind of Primitive Man) 1887 - Birth of Samuel Eliot Morison, historian (Admiral of the Ocean Sea) 1932 - Birth of Donald Rumsfeld, US politician (Secretary of Defence) 1977 - Death of Dr Loren Eiseley, US professor of Anthropology (Animal Secrets) 1978 - Nearly 100,000 demonstrators march on Washington supporting the Equal Rights Amendment Dame Barbara Cartland, DBE, CStJprolific British romantic novelist (Born this day 1901) You can't lose if you give them handsome highwaymen, duels, 3-foot fountains and whacking great horses and dogs all over the place
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 10, 2012 5:54:16 GMT 10
Tuesday, 10 July Coventry, England: Lady Godiva Day (1040) 1099 - Death of El Cid “The Master” (Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar), feared by Moors 1509 - Birth of John Calvin, French Protestant religious reformer & theologian 1723 - Birth of Sir William Blackstone, KC SL, English jurist (Blackstone's Commentaries) 1856 - Birth of Nikola Tesla, Croatian-American physicist, developed alternating current 1871 - Birth of Marcel Proust, French novelist (Remembrance of Things Past) 1875 - Birth of Mary McLeod Bethune, American educator & civil rights leader 1957 - Birth of Cindy Sheehan, American peace activist Alice MunroCanadian author (Dance of the Happy Shades) (Born this day 1931) The complexity of things — the things within things — just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 11, 2012 6:21:28 GMT 10
Wednesday, 11 July Ancient Greece: Commemoration of Theano, wife and successor of Pythagoras 1274 - Birth of Robert the Bruce, Scotland, King (1328-1329) 1405 - Zheng He, Chinese Ming admiral, sails to explore the world for the first time 1767 - Birth of John Quincy Adams, anti-Masonic 6th president of the United 1804 - Alexander Hamilton, US founding father, fatally shot in a duel by Aaron Burr 1812 - US invades Canada (Detroit frontier) 1899 - Birth of E.B. White, American writer (Charlotte's Web, Elements of Style) 1989 - Death of Sir Laurence Olivier, OM, British-American acting great Gough Whitlam21 st Australian Prime Minister (ALP, 1972-75) (Born this day 1916) The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 12, 2012 6:25:53 GMT 10
Thursday, 12 July Commemoration of the Battle of the Boyne (1690) 1450 - Death of Jack Cade, slain in Kent Rebellion of peasants & artisans 1536 - Death of Erasmus of Rotterdam, Dutch writer and philosopher 1799 - Britain passed the Combination Act, to stop workers taking combined action 1817 - Birth of Henry David Thoreau, American naturalist, author and pacifist 1904 - Birth of Pablo Neruda, Chilian poet (Residence on Earth — Nobel 1971) 1937 - Birth of Bill Cosby, American actor, comedian (I Spy, Cosby Show) 1939 - Birth of Phillip Adams, AO, Australian broadcaster and journalist Josiah WedgwoodEnglish potter and industrialist (Born this day 1730) Am I not a man and a brother?
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