Today in History

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3 April

1593 - Birth of George Herbert, English metaphysical poet (5 Mystical Songs)

1657 - English Lord Protector Cromwell refuses crown

1783 - Birth of Washington Irving, New York NY, American writer (Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle)

1837 - Birth of John Burroughs, writer/nature enthusiast (Burroughs Medal namesake)

1930 - Ras Tafari becomes Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia (Ethiopia)

1948 - Harry Truman signs [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan
]Marshall Plan[/url][/b] ($5B aid to 16 European countries)

1950 - Carter G Woodson, "father of black history", dies in Washington DC at 74

His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I, King of Kings, Lord of Lords,
Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah, and Elect of God
(Enthroned as Emperor this day 1930)

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who
could have acted; the indifference of those who should have
known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it
mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph

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4 April

1507 - Future German reformer Martin Luther was ordained a priest in the Roman Catholic church

1541 - Ignatius of Loyola becomes 1st Superior-General of the Jesuits

1581 - Francis Drake completes circumnavigation of the world and is knighted

1687 - James II issued a Declaration of Indulgence allowing full liberty of worship in England

1774 - Oliver Goldsmith, Irish poet (She Stoops to Conquer), dies at 45

1802 - Birth of Dorothea Dix, US, aroused interest in treatment of mental inmates

1968 - Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights leader, assassinated in Memphis at 39

Ignatius of Loyola
(Appointed as 1st Jesuit Superior General this day 1541)

We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears
white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides

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5 April

1588 - Birth of Thomas Hobbes, England, philosopher (Leviathan)

1684 - William Brouncker, 2nd viscount/1st president of Royal Society, dies

1753 - British Museum forms (opens in 1759)

1794 - Georges-Jacques Danton, French revolutionary leader, guillotined at 34

1896 - 1st modern Olympic Games officially open in Athens

1964 - Douglas MacArthur, US General (Pacific theater-WWII), dies at 84

1997 - Allen Ginsberg, beat poet, dies at 80

Bro. Georges-Jacques Danton
(Died this day 1794)

In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels

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6 April
Ethiopia: Victory Day

1199 - Richard I the Lion-hearted, King of England (1189-99), dies at 41

1483 - Birth of Raphael [Raffaello Sanzio], Urbino Italy, painter/master builder (Madonna Sistina)

1735 - The first Moravians from Europe arrived in America

1806 - Birth of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet (Sonnets from the Portuguese)/Mrs Robert Browning

1941 - Italian-held Addis Ababa capitulates to British & Ethiopian forces

1945 - Birth of Bob Marley, Reggae musician/singer (Whalers-No Woman)

1992 - Isaac Asimov, science fiction writer (I Robot), dies from kidney failure at 72

Raphael
(Born this day 1483 / Died this day 1520)



The School of Athens

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7 April

1770 - Birth of William Wordsworth, England, poet laureate (The Prelude)

1772 - Birth of F M Charles Fourier, French socialist

1803 - Bro. [François Dominique] Toussaint L'Ouverture, Haitian revolutionary, dies

1891 - P[hineas] T Barnum, US circus promoter (Barnum & Bailey), dies at 80

1920 - Birth of Ravi Shankar, Benares India, sitar player (Sounds of India)

1953 - Dag Hammarskjöld of Sweden elected 2nd UN General-Secretary

1994 - Vatican acknowledges Holocaust (Nazi's killing Jews) for 1st time

F M Charles Fourier
(Born this day 1772)

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress

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8 April
Buddhist: Kambutsue, Buddha's birthday (Japan, Taiwan, Hawaii, Korea)

0563 - BCE - Birth of Gautama Buddha (as celebrated in Japan-Kambutsue)

1865 - General Robert E Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House in Virginia

1946 - League of Nations assembles for last time

1973 - Pablo (Ruiz y) Picasso, Spanish/French painter (Guernica), dies near Mougins France at 91

1981 - Omar Bradley, last US 5-star General, (Normandy) dies in New York at 88

1985 - India files suit against Union Carbide over Bhopal disaster

1992 - After 151 years Britain's "Punch Magazine" final issue

Pablo Picasso
(Died this day 1973)

Disciples be damned. It's not interesting.
It's only the masters that matter. Those who create

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9 April
Lutheran: Commemoration of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, teacher
US, England: Churchill Day (1963)

1553 - François Rabelais, French author (Gargantua/Pantagruel), dies at 49

1747 - Simon Fraser (Lord Lovat), 12th baron Lovat, Jacobite, last man beheaded in England

1866 - US Civil Rights Bill passes over President Andrew Johnson's veto

1898 - Birth of Paul Robeson, Philadelphia PA, singer (Old Man River)/actor/football player

1909 - Birth of Robert Helpmann, Mount Gambier Australia, actor (Second Time Lucky)

1945 - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologist/antifascist, hanged

1963 - Sir Winston Churchill proclaimed honorary U.S. citizen in White House ceremony

Sir Robert Helpmann
(Born this day 1909)

The trouble with nude dancing is that
not everything stops when the music stops

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10 April

1778 - Birth of William Hazlitt, Maidstone Kent England, essayist/critic

1794 - Birth of Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, opened Japan [arguably leading to Pearl Harbor]

1829 - Birth of William Booth, founder, (Salvation Army)

1872 - 1st National black convention meets in New Orleans

1909 - Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet, [born 5 April 1837] dies at 72

1919 - Emiliano Zapata, Mexican leader, murdered at 39

1966 - Evelyn Waugh, British writer (Black Mischief), dies at 62

Emiliano Zapata
(Died on his feet this day 1919)

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees

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11 April

1875 - Heinrich Schwabe, German discoverer of 11-year sunspot cycle, dies

1876 - Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks is organized

1906 - Einstein introduces his Theory of Relativity

1908 - Birth of Leo Rosten, Polish/US writer/humourist

1945 - Allies liberate 1st Nazi concentration camp, Buchenwald, Germany

1968 - President Lyndon Johnson signs 1968 Civil Rights Act

1987 - Primo Levi, Italy, chemist/writer (Survival in Auschwitz), dies at 67

Primo Levi
(Died this day 1987)

Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The
memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do
they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they
change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features

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12 April

1204 - 4th Crusade occupies & plunders Constantinople

1545 - French king François I orders protestants of Vaudois to be killed

1861 - Fort Sumter SC is shelled by Confederacy, starting the US Civil War

1910 - William G Sumner, US sociologist/politicologist (Folkways), dies at 69

1947 - Birth of David Letterman, Indianapolis IN, comedian (Late Night)

1988 - Alan Stewart Paton, South African writer and educator, dies

1989 - Abbie Hoffman, yippie peace activist of the 60's, dies at 52

William Graham Sumner
(Died this day 1910)

Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as
at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and
know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves
(i.e., [url=http://tamrin.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=psychology&action=display&thread=813
]Cognitive dissonance

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