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Post by Tamrin on Dec 19, 2009 8:11:50 GMT 10
19 December1741 - Vitus J Bering, Dutch navigator/explorer, dies 1790 - Birth of Sir William Parry, England, Arctic explorer 1821 - Birth of Mary Ashton Livermore, American reformer/women's suffrage leader 1831 - Birth of Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop, Hawaii 1915 - Birth of Edith Piaf [E Giovanna Gassion], Paris France, chanteuse (Little Sparrow) 1950 - Tibet's Dalai Lama flees Chinese invasion 1986 - USSR frees dissident Andrei Sakharov from internal exile  Mary Ashton Livermore(Born this day 1821) Above the titles of wife and mother, which, although dear,
are transitory and accidental, there is the title human being,
which precedes and out-ranks every other
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 20, 2009 6:24:07 GMT 10
20 December1552 - Death of Katherine von Bora, 53, a former nun and the widow of German reformer Martin Luther 1720 - Birth of Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie/Young Pretender)1803 - Louisiana Purchase formally transferred from France to US for $27 million 1865 - Birth of Maud Gonne, Irish nationalist (Irish Joan of Arc) [Fr. Golden Dawn] 1902 - Birth of Sidney Hook, anticommunist philosopher (Paradoxes of Freedom) 1993 - W Edwards Deming, US economist (helped Japan after WWII), dies at 93 1996 - Carl Sagan, scientist (Contact), dies at 62  Maud Gonne(Born this day 1865) The English may batter us to pieces,
but they will never succeed in breaking our spirit
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 21, 2009 10:31:32 GMT 10
21 DecemberSummer Solstice (Southern Hemisphere) 1375 - Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian poet (Vita di Dante, Decameron), dies 1620 - 103 Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock 1892 - Birth of Dame Rebecca West, England, journalist/novelist/critic/feminist (Meaning of Treason) 1898 - Scientists Pierre & Marie [Marie & Pierre] Curie discover radium 1919 - J Edgar Hoover deports anarchists/feminist Emma Goldman to Russia 1940 - F Scott Fitzgerald, author (Great Gatsby, Zelda), dies of a heart attack in Hollywood at 44 1945 - George S Patton, US general (Sicily/Normandy), dies in car accident in Heidelberg at 60  Giovanni Boccaccio(Died this day 1375) People tend to believe the bad rather than the good
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 22, 2009 7:57:26 GMT 10
22 DecemberWicca: Yule sabbat 1639 - Baptism of Jean-Baptiste Racine, French dramatist (Andromaque) (baptized) 1753 - Birth of Dugald Stewart, Edinburgh Scotland, philosopher (Scottish common sense) 1815 - Spaniards execute Mexican revolutionary priest José Maria Morelos 1880 - George Eliot [Mary Anne Evans], Victorian novelist (Adam Bede), dies on 61st birthday 1894 - French officer Alfred Dreyfus court-martialed for treason (later vindicated) 1989 - Samuel Beckett Irish/French writer (Waiting for Godot, Molloy, Nobel 1969), dies at 83 1990 - Lech Walesa sworn in as Poland's 1st popularly elected president  José Maria Morelos(Executed this day 1815) May slavery be banished forever together with the distinction between castes,
all remaining equal, so Americans may only be distinguished by vice or virtue
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 23, 2009 5:51:54 GMT 10
23 DecemberMontego Bay Jamaica: John Canoe [Jonkonnu] Day 1620 - French Huguenots declare war on King Louis XIII 1790 - Birth of Jean-François Champollion, deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphics 1805 - Birth of Joseph Smith Jr, Sharon VT, founder of Mormon church 1834 - Birth of Thomas R Malthus, English vicar/economist (moral restraint) 1896 - Birth of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Sicilian writer (Der Leopard) 1948 - Hideki Tojo, Japan PM & 6 other Japanese hanged for war crimes by US 1996 - 4 women ordained priests in Jamaica, 1st in 330-year Anglican history  Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa(Born this day 1896) If you want things to stay as they are, things will have to change
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 24, 2009 7:10:26 GMT 10
24 December / Christmas Eve 1524 - Vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer/viceroy of Cochin India, dies at about 55 1818 - Birth of James Prescott Joule, physicist (discovered conservation of energy) 1881 - Birth of Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spain, poet (Distant Gardens, Nobel 1956) 1905 - Birth of Howard Hughes, reclusive billionaire (Hughes Aircraft)/inventor 1907 - Birth of Isidore Feinstein Stone, US journalist (IF Stone's Weekly, Columbia Award 1971) 1972 - Charles Atlas [Angelo Siciliano], body builder, dies at 79 1993 - Norman Vincent Peale, Rev (Power of Positive Thinking), dies at 95  Juan Ramón Jiménez(Born this day 1881) If they give you ruled paper, write the other way
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 25, 2009 8:51:47 GMT 10
25 DecemberChristmas Day 0004 - BCE - Birth of Jesus of Nazareth, religious leader/philosopher (estimated date) 1624 - Birth of Angelus Silesius [Johann Scheffler] German mystic (St Seelenlust) 1642 - Birth of [Sir] Isaac Newton, Woolsthorpe Lincolnshire England, physicist/mathematician/astronomer1824 - Barbara Krudener, mystic visionary who renounced nobility, dies at 60 1876 - Birth of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah Karachi, founded Pakistan (1947)/Governor (1947-58) 1931 – Birth of Carlos Castaneda, US, writer/mystic [fraud] (Eagle's Gift, Fire From Within) 1938 - Karel Capek Czechoslovakian author/antifascist (Bílá Nemoc), dies at 48  Angelus Silesius(Born this day 1624) By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found,
by the will art thou free, captive, and bound
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 26, 2009 8:47:41 GMT 10
26 DecemberBoxing Day 1530 - Zahir al-Din Muhammed Babur, Shah founder Mogols-dynasty, dies at 47 1620 - Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth MA 1792 - Birth of Charles Babbage [‘father of the computer’], English inventor (calculating machine) 1890 - Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist (Trojan War), dies at 86 1891 - Birth of Henry Miller, author (Tropic of Capricorn, Tropic of Cancer, Sexus) 1893 - Birth of Mao Tse-tung, of little red book fame, PM of China People's Republic (1949-76) 1985 - Dian Fossey, zoologist (Gorillas in the Mist), murdered at 53  Dian Fossey(Murdered this day 1985) When you realize the value of all life,
you dwell less on what is past
and concentrate more on the preservation of the future
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Post by maximus on Dec 26, 2009 14:30:00 GMT 10
Dian Fossey(Murdered this day 1985) I remember this well. She actually had a semi-auto pistol to defend herself with, but it jammed. If she had only had a revolver instead, she may still have been with us. |
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 27, 2009 8:09:10 GMT 10
27 DecemberFeast Day St John the Evangelist 1555 - Birth of Johann Arndt, German Lutherian theologist 1571 - Birth of Johann Kepler, Württemberg Germany, astronomer (elliptical orbits) 1813 - Union of Moderns & Antients Grand Lodges (= UGLE)1822 - Birth of Louis Pasteur, Dole France, bacteriologist (pasteurization) 1945 - International Monetary Fund established - World Bank founded 1949 - Queen Juliana (Netherlands) grants sovereignty to Indonesia 1979 - Soviet troops invade Afghánistán, President Hafizullah Amin overthrown  Johann Arndt(Born this day 1555) This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely,
that none should account himself better before God than others,
though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments
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