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Post by Tamrin on Mar 8, 2010 8:47:00 GMT 10
8 March1702 - William III, Dutch King of England (1689-1702), dies at 51 1859 - Birth of Kenneth Grahame, author (The Wind in the Willows) 1879 - Birth of Otto Hahn, German physicist/chemist (Nobel 44, co-discoverer nuclear fission) 1887 - Death of Henry Ward Beecher, 73, American clergyman and social reformer. 1913 - [US] Internal Revenue Service begins to levy & collect income taxes 1930 - Mahatma Gandhi starts civil disobedience in India 1934 - Edwin Hubble photo shows as many galaxies as Milky Way has stars  William III "King Billy"(Died this day 1702) The liberties of England and the Protestant religion I will maintain
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 9, 2010 9:18:52 GMT 10
9 March1454 - Birth of Amerigo Vespucci, explorer, This [America] could be Vespucciland 1497 - Nicolaus Copernicus 1st recorded astronomical observation 1841 - US Supreme Court rules Negroes are free (Amistad Incident) 1892 - Birth of Vita Sackville-West, England, novelist/poet (The Land) 1931 - Ida B Wells-Barnett, famous black, dies in Chicago at 78 1974 - Last Japanese soldier, operating in Philippines, surrenders, 29 years after World War II ended 1994 - Charles Bukowski, author/poet, dies of leukemia at 73  Vita Sackville-West(Born this day 1892) Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic,
for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 10, 2010 7:47:12 GMT 10
10 March0037 - Tiberius Claudius Nero, Roman emperor (14-37), dies at 78 1748 - Slave-ship Captain John Newton, [“Amazing Grace”] was converted 1771 - Birth of Georg F Creuzer, German philological/historian (Idea und Probe) 1772 - Birth of Friedrich von Schlegel, Germany, romantic writer/critic (Lucinde) 1913 - Harriet Tubman, abolitionist, conductor on Underground RR, dies in New York 1940 - Birth of Wayne Dyer, psychologist (Universe Within You) 1959 - Uprising against Chinese occupation force in Lhasa Tibet  Georg Friedrich Creuzer(Born this day 1771) A myth does not describe what happened in
some obscure period before human reckoning,
but what happens always and repeatedly, it
does not explain the causal origins of our world,
but rehearses its permanent spiritual significance
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 11, 2010 10:43:49 GMT 10
11 MarchUS: Johnny Appleseed Day (anniversary of his death-1845) 1726 - Birth of Madame Louise-Florence d'Épinay, France, writer/salon hostess 1845 - John Chapman [Johnny Appleseed] dies in Allen County Indiana 1907 - Birth of Eleni Gatzoyiannis, heroine (saved her kids) 1931 - Birth of Rupert Murdoch, Australia, publisher (New York Post), CEO FOX-TV Network 1955 - Alexander Fleming, English bacteriologist (penicillin), dies at 73 1957 - Richard E Byrd, US, explorer (Antarctica), dies at 68 1965 - James Reeb, US vicar/civil rights activist, murdered
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 12, 2010 7:58:53 GMT 10
12 MarchWorld: Girl Scouts Day (1912) British Commonwealth: Commonwealth Day 1628 - John Bull, thought to have composed British national anthem (God Save The King), dies 1642 - Abel Tasman is 1st European in New Zealand 1685 - Birth of George Berkeley, Ireland, philosopher/bishop of Cloyne 1891 - Birth of Michael Polanyi, Hungarian/English chemist/economist/sociologist 1912 - Girl Guides (Girl Scouts) founded in Savannah, by Juliette Gordon Low 1913 - Foundation stone of the Australian capitol in Canberra laid 1994 - Church of England ordains 1st 33 women priests  Juliette Gordon Low(Founded Girl Guides this day 1912) Right is right, even if no one else does it
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 13, 2010 9:53:01 GMT 10
13 March1733 - Birth of Joseph Priestly, England, clergyman/scientist (discovered oxygen*) 1906 - Susan B[rownell] Anthony American suffragist, dies at 85 1911 - Birth of L[aFayette] Ron Hubbard, sci-fi writer/Scientologist (Dianetics) [*oxygen thief] 1925 - Tennessee makes it unlawful to teach evolution** 1938 - **Clarence S Darrow, Scopes Monkey Trial attorney, dies in Chicago at 80 1951 - James I Wedgwood, British theosophist/[Co-mason/Liberal-]Catholic bishop, dies at 67 1977 - Fannie Lou Hamer, freedom fighter, dies  Percy Lowell(Born this day 1855) Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as
learning and precision are essential for starting points
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 14, 2010 9:49:34 GMT 10
14 March1590 - Battle at Ivry: French King Henri IV beats Catholic League 1864 - Birth of [John] Casey Jones, RR engineer (Ballad of Casey Jones) 1879 - Birth of Albert Einstein, Ulm Germany, (E=mc²/Theory of Relativity, Nobel 1921) 1883 - Karl Marx, German philosopher (Communist Manifesto), dies at 64 1900 - Hugo de Vries rediscovers Mendel's laws of genetics 1968 - POM performs atmospheric nuclear test at Maralinga Australia 1991 - British Court of Appeal frees "Birmingham 6" (unjustly sentenced in 1975)  Henri IV, King of France(Victory at Ivry this day) I want there to be no peasant in my realm so poor
that he will not have a chicken in his pot every Sunday
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 15, 2010 7:52:08 GMT 10
15 March0044 - BCE - Julius Cæsar assassinated [Beware the Ides of March] 1580 - Spanish king Philip II puts 25,000 gold coins on head of prince Willem of Orange 1666 - Birth of Georg Baehr, German master builder (Frauenkirche, Dresden) 1767 - Birth of Andrew Jackson, Waxhaw SC, General/(D) 7th President (1829-37) 1905 - Birth of Berthold Schenck von Stauffenberg, attempted to assassinate Hitler 1960 - Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve established (1st underwater park) 1971 - Chatrooms make their debut on the Internet  Alice Cunningham Fletcher, ethnologist/author/Indian music (Born this day 1838) The [Native American] woman owns her horses, dogs,
and all the lodge equipments; children own their own
articles; and parents do not control the possessions
of their children … A wife is as independent as the most
independent man in our midst. Combined with the fact
that among many tribes, female elders chose, advised,
and could depose the male chief and signed treaties
with the U.S. government along with male leaders —
and that women could divorce and controlled their own
fertility though a knowledge of herbs and timing —
this caused indigenous women to be seen as immoral and
tribal systems to be ridiculed as “petticoat government”
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 16, 2010 7:09:26 GMT 10
16 March0597 - BCE - (estimate) First conquest of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar 1190 - Jews of York England commit mass suicide rather than submit to baptism 1774 - Birth of Matthew Flinders, English navigator/cartographer (coast Australia [with George Bass & cat named Trim]) 1882 - Charles R Darwin, English naturalist (Origin of species), dies at 73 1900 - Sir Arthur Evans finds old city of Knossus 1968 - My Lai massacre occurs (Vietnam War); 450 die 1988 - Federal grand jury indicts Marine Lt. Col. Oliver L. North & Navy Vice Adm. John M. Poindexter in Iran-Contra affair  Aubrey Beardsley(Died this day 1898)  Salomé - The Climax
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 17, 2010 10:32:15 GMT 10
17 MarchSt Patrick's Day0180 - Antonius Marcus Aurelius [Marcus Verus], Emperor of Rome, dies at 58 0455 - Roman senator Petronius Maximus becomes Emperor 0461 - St Patrick, patron St of Ireland, dies in Saul (according to legend) 1680 - François Duc de La Rochefoucauld, writer, dies 1873 - Birth of Margaret Bondfield, British Labour leader/1st woman cabinet member 1942 - General Doug MacArthur arrives in Australia to become supreme commander 1959 - Australia & USSR restore diplomatic relations  Margaret Bondfield(Born this day 1873) Broadly speaking, I learned to recognize sin as the
refusal to live up to the enlightenment we possess:
to know the right order of values and deliberately to
choose the lower ones: to know that, however much
these values may differ with different people at different
stages of spiritual growth, for one's self there must be no
compromise with that which one knows to be the lower value
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