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Post by Tamrin on Sept 8, 2009 7:28:38 GMT 10
8 September0070 - Following a six-month siege, Jerusalem surrendered to the 60,000 troops of Titus' Roman army. 1157- Birth of Richard I [Richard the Lion Hearted], King of England (1189-99) 1565 - Turkish siege of Malta broken by Maltese & Knights of St John 1900 - 6,000 killed when a hurricane & tidal wave destroys Galveston, Texas, most deadly in US history 1943 - Italy surrenders to the allies in WW II 1952 - Ernest Hemingway's "Old Man & the Sea" published 1974 - Pres Gerald Ford pardons former Pres R Nixon of all federal crimes  Gerald R. FordI have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that I can remember
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 9, 2009 7:09:13 GMT 10
9 September1087 - William I The Conqueror, King of England, & Duke of Normandy, dies 1585 - Birth of Cardinal A Jean de Plessicide de Richelieu, Louis XIII chief minister 1754 - Birth of William Bligh, [much maligned] nasty ship's captain (HMS Bounty) 1828 - Birth of Leo Tolstoy, Russia, novelist (War & Peace, Anna Karenina) 1908 - Orville Wright makes 1st 1-hr airplane flight, Fort Myer, Va 1965 - Tibet is made an autonomous region of China 1976 - Mao Tse-Tung, Chinese communist party chairman (1949-76), dies at 82  Mao Tse-Tung(Died this day 1976) Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 10, 2009 6:52:54 GMT 10
10 September1224 -The Franciscans (founded in 1209 by St. Francis of Assisi) first arrived in England. 1349 - Jews who survived a massacre in Constance Germany are burned to death 1776 - George Washington asks for a spy volunteer, Nathan Hale volunteers 1797 - Mary Wollstonecraft, British writer, philosopher, and feminis, died 1823 - Simon Bolivar named president of Peru 1960 - Running barefoot, Ethiopian Abebe Bikila wins Rome Olympic marathon 1967 - Gibraltar votes 12,138 to 44 to remain British  Abebe BikilaI wanted the world to know that my country Ethiopia
has always won with determination and heroism
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 11, 2009 6:26:12 GMT 10
11 September1609 - Henry Hudson discovers Manhattan island 1862 - Birth of O Henry, pen name of William Sidney Porter, short story writer 1885 - Birth of David Herbert "DH" Lawrence, England, writer (Lady Chatterly's Lover) 1919 - US marines invade Honduras 1948 - Quaid-i-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah, [founder of Pakistan] dies 1973 - Chile's President, Salvador Allende, deposed in a military coup 2001 - The worst terrorist attack on American soil - 2819+ die as a result of hijacked airplane attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Western Pennsylvania  O Henry (William Sidney Porter)(Born this day 1862) Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism
are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 12, 2009 7:21:34 GMT 10
12 September1649 - Drogheda, Ireland falls to Puritan troops; inhabitants massacred 1818 - Birth of Richard Jordan Gatling, US, inventor (hand-cranked machine gun) 1880 - Birth of Henry L Mencken, Baltimore, Md, newspaperman/critic (Prejudices) 1922 - The House of Bishops of the U.S. Protestant Episcopal Church voted 36-27 to delete the word "obey" from the vows of their denomination's official marriage service 1956 - Black students enter & are barred from Clay Ky elementary school 1974 - Coup overthrows Emperor Haile Selassie in Ethiopia (National Day) 1977 - Steven Biko, S African black student leader, dies in police custody  Steven Biko(Died this day 1977) The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 13, 2009 8:04:25 GMT 10
13 September0122 - Building begins on Hadrian's Wall 1321 - Dante Alighieri, author of the Divine Comedy, dies 1851 - Birth of Walter Reed, US Army Surgeon, proved mosquitoes transmit yellow fever 1857 - Birth of Milton S Hershey, chocolate manufacturer/philanthropist 1882 - Britain invades Egypt 1942 - German forces attack Stalingrad 1943 - Chiang Kai-shek became president of China  Milton S. Hershey(born this day 1857) The main object in view is to train young men
to useful trades and occupations, so that they can earn their own livelihood
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 14, 2009 7:20:55 GMT 10
14 September1752 - England & colonies adopt Gregorian calendar, 11 days disappear 1812 - Napoleon occupies Moscow 1847 - US troops under General Scott enter Mexico City 1849 - Birth of Ivan Pavlov, Russia, physiologist/pioneer in psychology 1852 - Arthur Wellesley General/Duke of Wellington, dies at 83 1928 - Birth of Albert Shanker, American labor leader (Amer Fed of Teachers) 1934 - Birth of Kate Millett, St Paul Minn, feminist/author (Sexual Politics)  Albert Shanker(Born this day 1928) There is no more reason to pay for private education than there is
to pay for a private swimming pool for those who do not use public facilities
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 15, 2009 7:20:49 GMT 10
15 September1613 - Birth of Francois duc de la Rochefoucald, Paris France, writer (Memoires) 1620 - Mayflower departs from Plymouth, England with 102 pilgrims 1789 - Birth of James Fenimore Cooper, 1st major American novelist (Prairie) 1890 - Birth of Dame Agatha Christie, mystery writer (Murder on the Orient Express) 1898 - National Afro-American Council forms in Rochester NY 1952 - UN turns over Eritrea to Ethiopia 1963 - 4 children killed in bombing of a black Baptist church in Birmingham  James Fenimore Cooper(Born this day 1789) It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law.
This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 16, 2009 6:30:13 GMT 10
16 SeptemberPapua-New Guinea: National Day (1975) 1498 - Tomas de Torquemada, inquisitor who burned 10,000 people, dies [good riddance] 1911 - Birth of Wilfred Burchett, Australia, communist/writer (Catapult to Freedom) 1946 - James J Jeans, cosmologist/astrophysicist (Mysterious Universe), died 1963 - Malaysia formed from Malaya, Singapore, Br. N. Borneo & Sarawak 1974 - Pres Ford announces conditional amnesty for US, Vietnam War deserters 1975 - Papua New Guinea gains independence from Australia (National Day) 1982 - Massacre of 1000+ Palestinian refugees at Chatila & Sabra begins  Wilfred Burchett(Born this day 1911) My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima
was that the question of the social responsibility of
a journalist was posed with greater urgency than ever
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 17, 2009 6:56:01 GMT 10
17 SeptemberJewish: Yom Kippur-Day of Atonement 1730 - Birth of Baron Frederick von Steuben,Germany, made Continental Army winners 1743 - Birth of Marquis de Condorcet, France, enlightenment philosopher 1869 - Birth of Christian Lange, Norway, pacifist/internationalist (Nobel 1921) 1908 - Thomas Selfridge becomes 1st fatality of powered flight 1948 - Count Folke Bernadotte UN mediator for Palestine, assassinated in Jerusalem by Jewish extremists 1953 - 1st successful separation of Siamese twins 1980 - Solidarity labor union in Poland forms  Marquis de Condorcet(Born this day 1743) As the mind learns to understand more complicated combinations of ideas,
simpler formulae soon reduce their complexity; so truths that were discovered only by
great effort, that could at first only be understood by men capable of profound thought,
are soon developed and proved by methods that are not beyond the reach
of common intelligence. The strength and the limits of man’s intelligence may remain
unaltered; and yet the instruments that he uses will increase and improve, the language
that fixes and determines his ideas will acquire greater breadth and precision and,
unlike mechanics where an increase of force means a decrease of speed, the methods that
lead genius to the discovery of truth increase at once the force and the speed of its operations
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