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Post by Tamrin on Aug 21, 2009 6:51:32 GMT 10
21 August1831 - Nat Turner slave revolt kills 55 (Southampton County, Virginia) 1872 – Birth of Aubrey Beardsley, England, artist (Salome) 1906 – Birth of William "Count" Basie, jazz pianist 1906 – Birth of Friz Freleng, animator (Bugs Bunny-Emmy 1982) 1959 - Hawaii becomes 50th US state 1963 - Martial law declared in S Vietnam 1982 - Benigno S Aquino Jr, Philippines opposition leader, killed in Manila  Aubrey Beardsley(Born this day 1872) No language is rude that can boast polite writers
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 22, 2009 7:59:09 GMT 10
22 August1485 - Richard III slain at Bosworth Field-last of Plantagenets 1846 - US annexes New Mexico 1851 - Gold fields discovered in Australia 1864 - Geneva Convention signed, by 12 nations 1910 - Japan annexes Korea 1920 – Birth of Ray Bradbury, Ill, sci-fi author (Fahrenheit 451, Illustrated Man) 1978 - Jomo Kenyatta, president of Kenya, dies at 83 [/img] Jomo Kenyatta(Died this day 1978) Many people may think that, now there is Uhuru [“freedom”], now I can see the sun of Freedom shinning,
richness will pour down like manna from Heaven.
I tell you there will be nothing from Heaven.
We must all work hard, with our hands,
to save ourselves from poverty, ignorance, and disease[/center]
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 23, 2009 7:53:41 GMT 10
23 August1572 - Charles IX approves the massacre of French Protestants (Huguenots) 1754 - Birth of Louis XVI, Versailles, king of France (1774-92); guillotined 1785 - Birth of Oliver Hazard Perry, [US] naval hero (died this day 1819, 34th birthday) 1833 - Britain abolishes slavery in its colonies; 700,000 slaves freed 1914 - Japan declares war on Germany in World War I 1932 - Birth of Mark Russell, Buffalo NY, political satirist/pianist (Real People) 1989 - Yusef Hawkins shot by 30 whites in Bensonhurst because he's black  Well then, so be it! Kill them! But kill them all!
Don't leave a single one alive to reproach me!Attributed to Charles IXwhen authorising the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre (more than twice as many died in the following forty days than died in the three years of the French Revolution)
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 24, 2009 6:19:13 GMT 10
24 AugustRC, Ang, Luth: Feast of St Bartholomew, apostle Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre 1572 - The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre took place all across France, where thousands of French Protestants (Huguenots) were slaughtered: Depleted the intellectual, educational and financial reserves of the French nation 1759 - Birth of Wilbur Wilberforce, England, crusaded against slavery 1814 - British sack Washington, DC, White House burned 1872 - Birth of Sir Max Beerbohm, England, caricaturist/writer/wit (Saturday Review) 1936 - Australian Antarctic Territory created 1950 - Operation Magic Carpet-45,000 Yemenite Jews move to Israel 1954 - [US] Communist Control Act passed, at height of McCarthyism  William Wilberforce(Born this Day 1759) His maquette (above) was formerly held by Wilberforce Lodge No. 2134, UGLEIf to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 25, 2009 6:17:05 GMT 10
25 August0325 - The General Council of Nicea ended 1560 - Protestantism was formally adopted at the First General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. 1609 - Galileo demonstrates his 1st telescope to Venetian lawmakers 1900 - Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher, dies in Weimar, Germany 1925 - Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters organizes (Harlem NY) 1930 – Birth of Sean Connery, actor (James Bond, Man Who Would Be King) 1944 - Paris liberated from Nazi occupation  Sean Connery(Born this day 1930) I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don't ever want to be one.
I am a Scotsman! I was a Scotsman and I will always be one
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 26, 2009 6:52:50 GMT 10
26 AugustUS: Women's Equality Day (1973) / Susan B Anthony Day (1920) 0055 -BC- Roman forces under Julius Caesar invade Britain 1346 - English longbows defeat French in Battle of Crécy 1743 – Birth of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, Paris, father of mod chemistry (Oxygen) 1883 - Krakatoa erupts with increasingly large explosions kills 36,000 1907 - Houdini escapes from chains underwater at Aquatic Park in 57 sec 1920 – 19th [US] amendment passes-women's suffrage granted (about time!) 1942 - 7,000 Jews rounded up in Vichy Free Zone of France  Bro. Harry HoudiniHow the early priests came into possession of these secrets does not appear,
and if there were ever any records of this kind the Church would hardly allow them to become public
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Post by maximus on Aug 26, 2009 7:01:52 GMT 10
1346 - English longbows defeat French in Battle of Crécy Due to damp strings on the French crossbows, for the most part. ;D |
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 26, 2009 7:38:37 GMT 10
I have a dim recollection from High School of there being for a while a type of simplistic rock, paper, scissors notion, whereby crossbows beat pikes, longbows beat crossbows, and pikes beat longbows. |
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 27, 2009 6:41:32 GMT 10
27 August1635 - Lope Felix de Vega, dramatist/poet (Angelica, Arcadia), dies at 72 1770 - Birth of Georg Wilhelm F Hegel, German philosopher/inventor (dialectic) 1882 - Birth of Samuel Goldwyn, pioneer film maker/producer (MGM) 1883 - Krakatoa, west of Java, explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons 1912 - Edgar Rice Burroughs publishes Tarzan 1928 - Kellogg-Briand Pact, where 60 nations agree to outlaw war 1975 - Haile Selassie depossed Ethiopian emperor, dies at 83  Lope Felix de Vega(Died this day 1635) With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 28, 2009 6:45:06 GMT 10
28 AugustHong Kong: Festival of Hungry Ghosts 1749 – Birth of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Frankfurt, social philosopher (Faust) 1774 – Birth of Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton, 1st American Catholic saint 1867 - US occupies Midway Islands in the Pacific 1916 – Birth of C Wright Mills, sociologist, writer (The Power Elite) 1916 - Italy declares war against Germany during WW I 1917 - 10 suffragists arrested as they picket the White House 1963 - Martin Luther King Jr's "I have a dream speech" at Lincoln Memorial  C. Wright Mills(Born this day 1916) People with advantages are loath to believe that
they just happen to be people with advantages
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