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Post by Tamrin on Apr 13, 2010 8:55:44 GMT 10
13 AprilUS: Huguenot Day (1598) 1059 - Pope Nicholas II decreed that future popes could be elected by cardinals only 1598 - Edict of Nantes grants political rights to French Huguenots [later revoked] 1648 - Birth of Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de la Mothe-Guyon, French mystic (quiétisme) 1668 - John Dryden, (36) becomes 1st English poet laureate 1695 - Jean de La Fontaine, French poet, dies 1829 - English Emancipation Act grants freedom of religion to Catholics 1919 - Amritsar Massacre - British Army fires on hundreds of Indian Nationalist rioters in India Madame Guyon(Born this day 1648) Let him love his Lord in his own way and not in your way
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 14, 2010 9:46:33 GMT 10
14 April1629 - Birth of Christiaan Huygens, Holland, astronomer (discovered Saturn's rings) 1865 - President Abraham Lincoln shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth 1889 - Birth of Arnold Toynbee, England, historian (A Study of History) 1902 - Marie & Pierre Curie isolate the radioactive element radium 1964 - Rachel L Carson, US biologist/author (Silent spring), dies at 56 1971 - Supreme Court upheld busing as means of achieving racial desegregation 1986 - Simone de Beauvoir French author (Deuxième Sexe), dies at 86 Christiaan Huygens, FRS(Born this day 1629) The world is my country, science is my religion
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 15, 2010 10:53:06 GMT 10
15 April1452 - Birth of Leonardo da Vinci, Italy, painter/sculptor/scientist/visionary 1469 - Birth of Nanak, 1st guru of Sikhs 1472 - Birth of Leon B Alberti, Italian humanist/architect (Philodoxis), dies at 68 1800 - Birth of Sir James Clark Ross, explorer (British Antarctic) 1888 - Matthew Arnold, English poet, dies at 65 1912 - RMS Titanic sinks on its maiden voyage, after striking an iceberg 1989 - Students in Beijing pro-democracy protests Leon B Alberti(Died this day 1472) When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 16, 2010 10:08:22 GMT 10
16 April1660 - Birth of Hans Sloane, England, physician/naturalist; founded British Museum 1844 - Birth of Anatole France, writer (Thaïs, The Wickerwork Woman)/Nobel 1921 1867 - Birth of Wilbur Wright, of aeronautical fame (Wright Brothers) 1889 - Birth of Charlie Chaplin [The Little Tramp], Lambeth London England, comedian/actor/director 1921 - Birth of Peter Ustinov, London England, actor (Death on Nile, Logan's Run, Billy Budd) 1948 - Organization for European Economic Cooperation (EEC) forms in Paris France 1994 - Ralph Waldo Ellison, US writer (Invisible Man), dies at 80 Ralph Ellison(Died this day 1994) I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 17, 2010 7:54:59 GMT 10
17 April1421 - Dikes at Dort Holland breaks, 100,000 drown 1521 - Martin Luther is excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church 1790 - Benjamin Franklin US, (Poor Richard's Almanac), dies at 84 1885 - Birth of Isak Dinesen, Danish writer (Out of Africa, 7 Gothic Tales) 1897 - Birth of Thornton N Wilder, US, novelist/playwright (Our Town) 1928 - Birth of Cynthia Ozick, US, author (Pagan Rabbi & Other Stories) 1983 - India entered space age launching SLV-3 rocket Isak Dinesen (aka Karen Blixen)(Born this day 1885) I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open to them
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 18, 2010 10:48:32 GMT 10
18 April1775 - Paul Revere & William Dawes warn "the British are coming!" 1817 - Birth of George Henry Lewes, English philosophical writer (Life of Goethe) 1857 - Birth of Clarence S Darrow, defense attorney at the Scopes monkey trial 1889 - Birth of Jessie Street, Australian pro women's/aborigine rights fighter 1927 - Chiang Kai-shek forms anti-government in China 1955 - Albert Einstein, German/US physicist (E=MC²), dies 1964 - Geraldine Mock of US becomes 1st woman to fly solo round the world Paul Revere(Famous ride this night 1775) The British are coming!
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 19, 2010 7:38:40 GMT 10
19 April1770 - Captain James Cook 1st sees Australia 1824 - [George Gorden Noel] "Lord" Byron, poet, dies at 36 1881 - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl (Beaconsfield)/British PM/novelist, dies 1882 - Charles Robert Darwin, evolutionist (Origin of Species), dies 1903 - Birth of Eliot Ness, untouchable (Prohibition Agent for Department of Treasury-Chicago) 1980 - Alfred [Joseph] Hitchcock, dies in Los Angeles CA from renal failure at 80 1989 - Daphne Du Maurier, English writer (Rebecca, Jamaica Inn), dies at 82 Charles Darwin(Died this day 1882) If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 20, 2010 10:11:17 GMT 10
20 April1745 - Birth of Philippe Pinel, physician, founder of psychiatry 1871 - Birth of William Henry Davies, Wales, poet (Autobiography of a Super Tramp) 1879 - Birth of Robert Lynd, Irish writer/critic (Pleasures of Ignorance) 1884 - Pope Leo XIII encyclical "On Freemasonry" 1889 - Birth of Adolf Hitler, Braunau Austria, dictator of Nazi Germany (1936-45) 1982 - Archibald MacLeish, US, lawyer/writer (Conquistador), dies at 89 1992 - Benny [Alfred Hawthorn] Hill, comedian (Benny Hill Show), dies of a heart attack at 67 Phillippe Pinel(Born this day 1745) People of great warmth of imagination, acuteness of sensibility and violence of passions, are the most predisposed to insanity… I cannot here avoid giving my most decided suffrage in favour of the moral qualities of maniacs. I have no where met, excepting in romances, with fonder husbands, more affectionate parents, more impassioned lovers, more pure and exulted patriots, than in the lunatic asylum, during their intervals of calmness and reason
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 21, 2010 7:43:46 GMT 10
21 April1729 - Birth of Catharina II the Great, writer/emperess of Russia (1762-96) 1816 - Birth of Charlotte Brontë, Tornton England, novelist (Jane Eyre) 1837 - Birth of Fredrik Bajer, Denmark, politican/feminist/pacifist (Nobel 1908) 1864 - Birth of Max Weber, German sociologist/economist/historian (Ancient Judaism) 1910 - Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens], author (Huckleberry Finn), dies at 74 1926 - Birth of Elizabeth II [Alexandra Mary Windsor], queen of England (1952- ) 1946 - John M Keynes, English economist (How to pay for the war?), dies at 62 Max Weber(Born this day 1864) The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the ''disenchantment of the world.'' Precisely the ultimate and most sublime values have retreated from public life either into the transcendental realm of mystic life or into the brotherliness of direct and personal human relations. It is not accidental that our greatest art is intimate and not monumental
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 22, 2010 9:11:54 GMT 10
22 AprilEarth Day 1662 - Royal Society incorporates1707 - Birth of Henry Fielding, England, novelist (Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones) 1724 - Birth of Immanuel Kant, Konigsberg Germany, philosopher (Critique of Pure Reason) 1766 - Birth of Madame de Stael, Swiss-French belle-lettrist (An Extraordinary Woman) 1870 - Birth of Nikolai Lenin [Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov], Bolshevik/USSR revolutionist 1904 - Birth of J[ulius] Robert Oppenheimer, New York NY, head of Manhattan (A-bomb) Project 1984 - Ansel Adams, US photographer, dies at 82 Ellen Anderson Glasgow, US, novelist (Ancient Law, Pulitzer-1942) (Born this day 1873) Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity
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