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Post by Tamrin on Sept 18, 2009 6:19:00 GMT 10
18 September1709 - Birth of Dr Samuel Johnson, writer (Boswell's tour guide) 1793 - Washington lays cornerstone of Capitol building1810 - Chile declares independence from Spain (National Day) 1819 - Birth of Jean Bernard Léon Foucault, his pendulum proved Earth rotates 1945 - 1000 whites walk out of Gary Ind schools to protest integration 1961 - Dag Hammarskjold, UN Sect General, dies in an air crash over the Congo 1982 - Christian militia begin massacre of 600 Palestinians in Lebanon  Dag Hammarskjold(Died this day 1961) Everything will be all right - you know when?
When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations
as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 19, 2009 8:50:41 GMT 10
19 September1356 - English defeat French at Battle of Poitiers 1846 - Elizabeth Barrett & Robert Browning elopes 1881 - James A Garfield, US president, dies of gunshot wound 1911 - Birth of William Golding, England, novelist (Lord of the Flies-Nobel 1983) 1928 - Mickey Mouse's screen debut (Steamboat Willie at Colony Theater NYC) 1945 - Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) sentenced to death in London 1959 - Nikita Khrushchev is denied access to Disneyland William Golding(Born this day 1911) Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 20, 2009 8:04:56 GMT 10
20 September0357 - BC - Birth of Alexander III the Great, king of Macedonia, emperor 0622 - Mohammad's Hegira [flight from danger (Mecca to Medina)] 1519 - Magellan starts 1st successful circumnavigation of the world 1565 - Spaniards capture Fort Caroline Fla & massacre the French [Huguenots] 1884 - Equal Rights Party nominates female candidates for [US] Pres & VP 1945 - German rocket engineers begin work in US 1962 - James Meredith is blocked from entering Miss U as its 1st black  Alexander the Great(Born this day 357 BCE) If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes[Alexander had asked if there was any favour he might do for Diogenes; the philosopher replied, "Yes: Stand out of my sunlight"]
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 21, 2009 7:06:29 GMT 10
21 SeptemberInternational Day of Peace 1348 - Jews in Zurich Switzerland are accused of poisoning wells 1776 - Nathan Hale spied on British for American rebels, hanged 1780 - Benedict Arnold gives British Major Andr‚ plans to West Point 1866 - Birth of H(erbert) G(eorge) Wells, Bromley, England (War of the Worlds) 1886 - Birth of Teiichi Igarashi, Japan, climbed Mt Fuji at age 99 1897 - NY Sun runs famous "Yes, Virginia there is a Santa Claus," editorial 1964 - Malta gains independence from Britain  Benedict ArnoldIf your great umbrage would care to meet my high dudgeon at 12 paces,
I would be happy to entertain you at dawn
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 22, 2009 6:48:46 GMT 10
22 September
Equinox1290 - “Birth” of Bilbo Baggins (in Shire Reconning) 1692 - Last person hanged for witchcraft in US 1694 - Birth of Lord Chesterfield, letter writer; introduced Gregorian calendar (1752) 1791 - Birth of Michael Faraday, discovered principle of electric motor 1863 - President Lincoln makes his Emancipation Proclamation speech 1949 - USSR detonates its 1st atomic bomb 1960 - Mali (without Senegal) gains independence from France (National Day)  Michael Faraday(Born this day 1791) The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are
concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 23, 2009 6:54:50 GMT 10
23 September1803 - Battle of Assaye-British-Indian forces beat Maratha Army 1838 - Birth of Victoria Chaflin Woodhull, Ohio, feminist/reformer/free love/1st female presidential candidate 1868 - Grito de Lares proclaims Puerto Rico's independence (crushed by Spain) 1869 - Birth of Edgar Lee Masters, poet/novelist (Spoon River Anthology) 1879 - Baldwin steam motors tram 1st tried in Sydney, Australia 1889 - Birth of Walter Lippmann, NYC, journalist/political writer (Men of Destany) 1939 - Sigmund Freud, created psychoanalysis, dies at 83  (Born this day 1869) Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own,
when the corner-stone is laid and memorial tablets are erected
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 24, 2009 7:25:54 GMT 10
24 September1541 - Phillippus Paracelsus, physician/alchemist, dies at 48 1683 - Jews are expelled from all French possessions in America 1717 - Birth of Horace Walpole, England, writer (The Castle of Otranto) 1895 - 1st round-the-world trip by a woman on a bicycle (took 15 months) 1896 - Birth of F Scott Fitzgerald, St Paul Minn, author (Great Gatsby) 1898 - Birth of Baron Florey, Australia, pathologist; purified penicillin (Nobel '45) 1957 - Eisenhower orders US troops to desegregate Little Rock schools  F. Scott Fitzgerald(Born this day 1896) The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas
in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 25, 2009 6:53:11 GMT 10
25 September1555 - The Peace of Augsburg was signed, resolving bitter disputes between Protestants and Catholics in the German states. 1644 - Birth of Olaus Rímer, Denmark, 1st to accurately measure speed of light 1926 - Henry Ford announces the 8 hour, 5-day work week 1956 - 1st transatlantic telephone cable goes into operation 1957 - 300 US Army troops guard 9 black kids return to Central HS in Ark 1960 - Emily Post, etiquette expert, dies at 86 1990 - Saddam Hussein warns US will repeat Vietnam experience  Saddam HusseinAmerica needs wisdom, not force. It had used force, along with the West,
to its extreme extent, only to find out later that it did not achieve what they wanted
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 26, 2009 8:26:29 GMT 10
26 September1729 - Birth of Moses Mendelssohn, philosopher/critic/Bible translator 1774 - Birth of pioneer environmentalist Jonathan Chapman (Johnny Appleseed). 1820 - Daniel Boone, frontiersman, dies in Missouri at 85 1824 - Kapiolani defies Pele (Hawaiian volcano goddess) & lives1888 - Birth of T.S. Eliot, St Louis poet/dramatist/critic (Waste Land-Nobel 1948) 1889 - Birth of Martin Heidegger, Germany, Existentialist (Being & Time) 1983 - Australia II wins America's Cup yacht race (1st non-US winner)  Moses Mendelssohn(Born this day 1729) I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among
materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute
that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 27, 2009 7:41:14 GMT 10
27 September1540 - Society of Jesus (Jesuits) founded by Ignatius Loyola 1722 - Birth of Samuel Adams, revolutionary rabble rouser/(Lt Gov-Mass, 1789-94) 1779 - John Adams negotiates Revolutionary War peace terms with Britain 1817 - Birth of Hiram R Revels, Fayetteville NC, 1st black US senator 1821 - Mexican Empire declares its independence 1937 - 1st Santa Claus school opens (Albion NY) 1988 - Lab tests reportedly show Shroud of Turin not Christ`s burial cloth  Samuel Adams(Born this day 1722) It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate,
tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds
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