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Post by Tamrin on Aug 3, 2009 7:34:46 GMT 10
3 AugustBritish Commonwealth: Bank Holiday US: National Smile Week begins 1492 - Columbus sets sail from Palos, Spain for "Indies" 1753 - Birth of Charles Earl Stanhope, England, radical politician/scientist 1882 - [US] Congress passes 1st law restricting immigration 1900 - Birth of John T Scopes, Tennessee teacher convicted for teaching evolution 1954 - Colette France, novelist (Claudine), dies at 81 1963 - Great Train Robbery-$2.5 M ($3.25 M) robbed 1970 - Mairiam Hargrave of Yorkshire, passes her driving test on 40th try  Christopher ColumbusFollowing the light of the sun, we left the Old World
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 4, 2009 6:22:09 GMT 10
4 August1265 - Simon de Montfort, English baron, dies in battle [called the first directly elected parliament in medieval Europe] 1753 - George Washington becomes a Master Mason1792 - Birth of Percy Bysshe Shelley, England, romantic poet (Adonais) 1901 - Birth of Louis Armstrong, New Orleans, Jazz musician & bandleader, "Hello Dolly" 1914 - Germany declares war on Belgium; Britain declares war on Germany 1944 - Anne Frank, 15, (Diary of Anne Frank) is arrested by Nazis 1964 - Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman & James Chaney found buried inside an earthen dam in Mississippi  Louis Armstrong(Born this day 1901) I see trees of green........ red roses too
I see ’em bloom..... for me and for you
And I think to myself.... what a wonderful world.
I see skies of blue..... clouds of white
Bright blessed days....dark sacred nights
And I think to myself .....what a wonderful world.
The colors of a rainbow.....so pretty ..in the sky
Are also on the faces.....of people ..going by
I see friends shaking hands.....sayin’.. how do you do
They’re really sayin’......I love you
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 5, 2009 6:45:59 GMT 10
5 AugustWorld: Test Ban Day (Int'l Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War) 1656 - Eight Quakers from England arrived in Boston and were immediately imprisoned 1861 - US levies its 1st Income Tax (3% of incomes over $800) 1876 - Birth of Mary R Beard, Indianapolis, historian ( Woman as a Force in History) 1884 - Cornerstone for Statue of Liberty laid on Bedloe's Island (NYC)1930 - Birth of Neil Armstrong, Ohio, X-15 pilot, 1st Moonwalker (Gemini 8, Apollo 11) 1945 - Atom Bomb dropped on Hiroshima (Aug 6th in Japan) 1962 - Marilyn Monroe found dead of apparent self-inflicted drug overdose  As Masons, we cannot appropriate to ourselves alone the lessons
which this monument will teach.
Not only to us, but to all men will it appealDeputy G.M., R.W. Bro. Lawrence(Dedicating the commencement of work on the pedestal for the Statue of Liberty)
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 6, 2009 7:10:00 GMT 10
6 AugustJamaica: Independence Day (1962) 1809 – Birth of Alfred Lord Tennyson, poet laureate of England 1881 – Birth of Sir Alexander Fleming, cashed in on penicillin (Nobel 1954) 1911 – Birth of Lucille Ball, Jamestown NY, comedienne/actress (I Love Lucy, Mame) 1927 – Birth of Andy Warhol, pop artist (or 08081930) 1946 - US officially submits to jurisdiction of World Court 1962 - Jamaica gains independence from Britain 1965 – [US] Federal Voting Rights Act guarantees black voting rights  Andy Warhol(Born this day 1927) They always say time changes things,
but you actually have to change them yourself
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 7, 2009 6:45:44 GMT 10
7 August1560 - Ratification of the Scots Confession by the Scottish Parliament marked the triumph of the Reformation in Scotland 1876 – Birth of Mata Hari, dancer/courtesan/spy (WW I) 1882 - Hatfields of south WV & McCoys of east Ky feud, 100 wounded or die 1903 – Birth of Louis Leakey, anthropologist (1964 Richard Hooper Medal) 1928 – Birth of Amazing "James" Randi, Toronto Ontario, skeptic magician 1938 – Birth of Helen Caldicott, Melbourne Australia, physician/anti-war activist 1942 – Birth of Garrison Keillor, PBS radio personality (Prairie Home Companion)  Garrison Keillor(Born this day 1942) Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed,
one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 8, 2009 7:51:48 GMT 10
8 AugustNepal: Tij Day - Woman's holiday 1471 - Death of Thomas Kepis, 91, Dutch mystic and devotional author. 1879 - Birth of Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary, peasant leader 1884 – Birth of Sara Teasdale, US, poet (1st Pulitzer Prize-1918-"Love Songs") 1940 - Battle of Britain began as Germany launches air attacks 1976 - John Roselli, hired by CIA to kill Castro, found murdered 1988 - Russian troops begin pull out of Afghanistan after 9 year war 1990 - Iraq annexes Kuwait  Sara Teasdale(Born this day 1884) Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things,
blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings,
and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 9, 2009 9:04:21 GMT 10
9 August Singapore: National Day (1965) 1848 - Barnburners (anti-slavery) party merges with the Free Soil Party, nominating Martin Van Buren for president 1896 – Birth of Jean Piaget, Swiss, pioneer developmental psychologist/zoologist 1902 - [M.W. Bro.] Edward VII of England crowned after death of his mother Victoria 1936 - Jesse Owens wins 4th gold medal of Berlin Olympics 1942 - British arrests Indian nationalist Mohandas K Gandhi 1945 - US drops 2nd atomic bomb "Fat Man" on Japan destroys part of Nagasaki 1965 - Singapore gains independence from Malaysia (National Day)  Martin Van BurenThose who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded
by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude.
The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results,
the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 10, 2009 7:18:24 GMT 10
10 August1519 - Magellan's 5 ship set sail to circumnavigate the Earth 1792 - Mobs in Paris attack the palace of Louis XVI 1831 - Former slave Nat Turner led violent insurrection against slavery 1846 - [US] Congress charters the "nation's attic," the Smithsonian Institution 1874 - Birth of Herbert Clark Hoover, West Branch, Iowa, (R) 31st [US] Pres (1929-1933) 1945 - Japan announces willingness to surrender to Allies 1961 - England applies for membership in the European Common Market  And about this time I had a vision -
and I saw white spirits and black spirits engaged in battle,
and the sun was darkened – the thunder rolled in the Heavens,
and blood flowed in streams – and I heard a voice saying,
"Such is your luck, such you are called to see,
and let it come rough or smooth, you must surely bear it."Nat Turner
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 11, 2009 6:41:12 GMT 10
11 August1772 - Explosive eruption blows 4,000' off Papandayan Java, kills 3,000 1833 – Birth of Robert Green Ingersoll, NY, author/politician/agnostic (Att Gen-R-Ill) 1868 - Thaddeus Stevens, architect of Radical Reconstruction, dies at 76 1933 – Birth of Jerry Falwell, televangelist, Moral Majority head 1945 - Allies refuse Japan's surrender offer to retain Emperor Hirohito 1956 - Jackson Pollock, abstract artist, dies in auto accident (East Hampton) 1975 - US vetoes proposed admission of North & South Vietnam to UN
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 12, 2009 6:34:26 GMT 10
12 August1553 - Pope Julius III orders confiscation & burning of the Talmud 1881 – Birth of Cecil B deMille, Mass, directed God (10 Commandments) 1887 – Birth of Erwin Schrödinger, Austria, physicist (had a cat) 1898 - Hawaii formally annexed to US 1931 – Birth of William Golding, author (Lord of the Flies-Nobel 1983) 1953 - Soviet Union conducts secret test of its 1st hydrogen bomb 1981 - IBM introduces the PC and PC-DOS version 1.0  Erwin Schrödinger(Born this day 1887) Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe
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