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Post by Tamrin on Oct 20, 2009 5:43:18 GMT 10
20 October1600 - Battle of Sekigahara sets Tokugawa clan as Japan's rulers (shoguns) 1632 - Birth of Sir Christopher Wren, England, astronomer/great architect 1819 - Birth of Mirza Ali Muhammad [ The Báb], forerunner of Bah 'u'll h 1854 - Birth of Arthur Rimbaud, France, poet/adventurer (Illuminations) 1859 - Birth of John Dewey, philosopher, educational theorist/writer (Learn by doing) 1964 - Herbert Hoover, 31st president of US, dies in NY at 90 1972 - Harlow Shapley, discoverer of the Sun's position in the galaxy, dies
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 21, 2009 6:04:50 GMT 10
21 October2137 - BCE - 1st recorded total eclipse of the sun, China 1772 - Birth of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, England, poet (Rime of the Ancient Mariner) 1805 - Adm Horatio Nelson dies in the Battle of Trafalgar 1833 - Birth of Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Stockholm, created dynamite & Peace Prizes 1914 - Birth of Martin Gardner, Scientific American math & puzzles columnist 1945 - Women in France allowed to vote for 1st time 1950 - Chinese forces occupy Tibet  Martin Gardner(Born this day 1914) Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads:
ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant generals
- the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history,
the great scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned, if at all
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 22, 2009 6:28:09 GMT 10
22 October1844 - The "Great Disappointment" began when this latest date, set for the return of Christ by religious leader William Miller, passed without event. 1887 - Birth of John Reed, journalist who reported on Mexican, Russian revolutions 1905 - Birth of Karl Jansky, discovered cosmic radio emissions in 1932 1919 - Birth of Doris Lessing, novelist (Golden Notebook) 1920 - Birth of Timothy Leary, Harvard prof, LSD taker 1934 - Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd shot dead by FBI in Ohio 1963 - 225,000 students boycott Chicago schools in Freedom Day protest  John Reed(Born this day 1887) War means an ugly mob-madness, crucifying the truth tellers, choking the artists,
sidetracking reforms, revolutions, and the working of social forces
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 23, 2009 5:48:23 GMT 10
23 October4004 - BCE - According to the sacred timeline worked out by Archbishop James Ussher, 73, "the heavens and the earth" were created on this date at 9:00 a.m. (GMT). Ussher's "Chronologies of he Old and New Testaments" was first published 1650-54 1844 - Birth of Louis Riel, Manitoba, leader of insurrection of Métis 1903 - Francis Ellingwood Abbot, theologian (Scientific Theism), dies at 66 1905 - Birth of Felix Bloch, US physicist (Nobel 1952) 1942 - Birth of Michael Crichton US novelist (Andromeda Strain, Congo, Looker) 1956 - Hungarian Revolution began 1958 - Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak, wins Nobel Prize for Literature  Michael Crichton(Born this day 1942) Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels;
it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 24, 2009 7:51:03 GMT 10
24 OctoberUnited Nations Day 1260 - Chartres Cathedral in France was consecrated 1601 - Tycho Brahe astronomer, dies in Prague at 54 1911 - Robert Scott's expedition leaves Cape Evans for South Pole 1935 - Italy invades Ethiopia 1945 - United Nations Charter becomes effective 1970 - Salvador Allende Gossens elected president of Chile 1991 - Gene Roddenberry, Star Trek creator, dies of a heart attack at 70  Gene Roddenberry(Born this day 1991) Time is the fire in which we burn
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 25, 2009 7:15:32 GMT 10
25 October1147 - Armies of the Second Crusade (1147-49) destroyed by Saracens at Dorylaeum 1400 - Geoffrey Chaucer, author, dies in London 1415 - Battle of Agincourt, Welsh longbow defeats the armored knight 1800 - Birth of Thomas Babington Macaulay, England, poet/historian (Ivry, Naaseby) 1854 - The Light Brigade charges (Battle of Balaklava) (Crimean War) 1881 - Birth of Pablo Picasso, Spain, artist (3 Dancers, Guernica) 1888 - Birth of Richard E Byrd, Virginia, admiral/polar explorer (1926)  Richard E Byrd(Born this day 1888) Few men during their lifetime comes anywhere near exhausting the resources
dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 26, 2009 5:28:41 GMT 10
26 October1466 - Birth of Desiderius Erasmus, Holland, scholar/author (In Praise of Folly) 1759 - Birth of Georges Danton, France, revolutionary leader 1868 - White terrorists kill several blacks in St Bernard Parish La 1879 - Birth of Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary (pres of 1st Soviet) 1881 - Shootout at the OK corral, in Tombstone, Az 1905 - 1st Soviet (workers' council) formed, St Petersburg, Russia 1916 - Margaret Sanger arrested for obscenity (advocating birth control)  Georges Danton(Born this day 1759) At last I perceive that in revolutions
the supreme power rests with the most abandoned
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 27, 2009 6:15:50 GMT 10
27 October1553 - Michael Servetus, Spanish physician burns at stake for heresy 1728 - Birth of James Cook, captain/explorer, discovered Sandwich Islands & claimed Australia 1811 - Birth of Issac Merrit Singer, inventor (1st practical home sewing machine) 1858 - Birth of Theodore Roosevelt, (R) 26th Pres (1901-09) (Nobel 1906) 1914 - Birth of Dylan Thomas, Swansea, Wales, poet (Child's Christmas in Wales) 1939 - Birth of John Cleese, comedian/actor (Monty Python, Fawlty Towers) 1969 - Ralph Nader sets up a consumer organization known as Nader's Raiders  Ralph NaderA society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 28, 2009 5:50:03 GMT 10
28 October0312 - Constantine, 32, wins the battle at Milvian Bridge (In hoc signo vinces) 0900 - Alfred the Great, English monarch, dies 1886 - Statue of Liberty dedicated by Pres Grover Cleveland 1903 - Birth of Evelyn Waugh, London, author (Brideshead Revisited) 1914 - Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, founded at Howard University, incorporates 1914 - Birth of Dr Jonas Salk, NYC, medical researcher, made polio a fear of the past 1936 - FDR rededicates Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary  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 appealR.W. Bro. Lawrence (Deputy G.M., N.Y.), 28/10/1886
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 29, 2009 5:29:45 GMT 10
29 OctoberTurkey: Republic Day (1923) 1618 - Sir Walter Raleigh is executed in London 1740 - Birth of James Boswell, Scotland, Samuel Johnson's biographer 1863 - Intl Comm of the Red Cross founded (Nobel 1917, 1944, 1963) 1882 - Birth of Jean Giraudoux, Bellac France, playwright (Eglantine, Provinciales) 1910 - Birth of Alfred J Ayer, England, Neopositivist philosopher/logician 1911 - Joseph Pulitzer, American newspaperman, dies in Charleston, SC 1923 - Turkey proclaimed a republic (National Day)  Jean Giraudoux(Born this day 1882) One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace
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