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Post by Tamrin on Apr 23, 2010 9:41:55 GMT 10
23 AprilJewish: Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Memorial Day) (Nisan 27, 5758 AM) 0034 - Christ crucified, according to Isaac Newton 1348 - 1st English order of knighthood founded (Order of the Garter) 1616 - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spanish writer (Don Quixote), dies at on 69th birthday 1616 - William Shakespeare, English author, dies on his 52nd birthday 1850 - William Wordsworth, poet, dies at 80 1852 - Birth of Edwin Markham, US, poet (1st winner of Amer Academy of Poets Award 1937) 1867 - Queen Victoria & Napoleon III turn down plans for a channel tunnel Edwin Markham(Born this day 1852) To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 24, 2010 10:44:32 GMT 10
24 AprilArmenia: Armenian Martyrs' Day (1915) 1576 - Birth of San Vicente de Paúl 1731 - Daniel Defoe, English novelist (Robinson Crusoe), dies 1769 - Birth of Arthur Wellesley, General/Duke of Wellington 1815 - Birth of Anthony Trollope, England, novelist/poet (Barchester Towers) 1915 - Massacre of Armenians by Turks (Armenian Martyrs Day) 1989 - Tens of thousands of students strike in Beijing China 1990 - Hubble Telescope launched by NASA Vincent de Paúl(Born this day 1576) You will find out that Charity is a heavy burden to carry, heavier than the kettle of soup and the full basket. But you will keep your gentleness and your smile. It is not enough to give soup and bread. This the rich can do. You are the servant of the poor, always smiling and good- humored. They are your masters — terribly sensitive and exacting masters you will see. And the uglier and the dirtier they will be, the more unjust and insulting, the more love you must give them. It is only for your love alone that the poor will forgive you the bread you give to them
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 25, 2010 9:00:21 GMT 10
25 AprilAustralia, Nauru, New Zealand, Solomon Is, Tonga, W Samoa: ANZAC Day (1915) 1599 - Birth of Oliver Cromwell, Puritan lord protector of England (1653-58) 1898 - US declares war on Spain over Cuba 1900 - Birth of Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Austria, physicist (Pauli inhibition/Nobel 1945) 1915 - 78,000 ANZAC troops land at Gallipoli 1926 - Ellen K S Key, Swedish author/feminist (Century of the Child), dies at 76 1945 - Red army completely surrounds Berlin 1971 - About 200,000 anti-Vietnam War protesters march on Washington DC Ellen Key(Died this day 1926) The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 26, 2010 6:56:32 GMT 10
26 April0121 - Birth of Marcus Aurelius, 16th Roman emperor (161-80), philosopher 1711 - Birth of David Hume, England, empiricist/philosopher (Treatise of Human Nature) 1785 - Birth of John James Audubon, Haiti, bird watcher/artist 1819 - Odd Fellows Lodge is established 1889 - Birth of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austria, philosopher (Tractatus) 1916 - Birth of Morris L West, Australia, novelist (Shoes of the Fisherman) 1937 - German Luftwaffe destroys Basque town of Guernica in Spain John James Audubon(Born this day 1785) A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 27, 2010 8:30:03 GMT 10
27 April1521 - Ferdinand Magellan, world traveler, killed by Filipino natives at 50 1737 - Birth of Edward Gibbon, England, historian (Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire) 1759 - Birth of Mary Wollstonecraft [Godwin], England, writer/feminist (Female Reader) 1820 - Birth of Herbert Spencer, Derby England, Victorian philosopher (Social Statistics) 1882 - Ralph Waldo Emerson, US poet (Representive Men), dies 1927 - Birth of Coretta Scott King, Marion AL, civil rights leader 1937 - Antonio Gramsci, Italian philosopher/marxist theorist, dies at 46 Ferdinand Magellan(Died this day 1521) The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 28, 2010 10:33:43 GMT 10
28 April1770 - Captain James Cook in Endeavour lands at Botany Bay in Australia 1789 - Fletcher Christian leads Mutiny on HMS Bounty & Captain William Bligh 1795 - Birth of Charles Sturt, England, explorered Australia 1926 - Birth of Harper Lee, US author (To Kill a Mockingbird) 1945 - Benito Mussolini, Fascist leader (Italy), & mistress, captured, tried, & shot 1947 - Thor Heyerdahl & "Kon-Tiki" sail from Peru to Polynesia 1996 - Martin Bryant shoots & kills 35 in Port Arthur, Tasmania Charles Sturt(Born this day 1795) Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 29, 2010 7:25:46 GMT 10
29 April1429 - Joan of Arc leads Orleans France, to victory over English 1667 - Baptism of John Arbuthnot, Scottish writer (Alexander Pope) 1854 - Birth of Henri Poincaré, France, mathematician/astronomer/philosopher 1863 - Birth of William Randolph Hearst, publisher (San Francisco Examiner, Seattle P-I) 1951 - Ludwig J J Wittgenstein, Austria/English philosopher, (born 26 April 1889) dies at 62 1980 - Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, British director (Psycho, Birds), dies at 80 1990 - Wrecking cranes began tearing down Berlin Wall at Brandenburg Gate John Arbuthnot(Baptized this day 1667) Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 30, 2010 7:48:56 GMT 10
30 AprilWicca: Walpurgis Night or Bealtaine, sabbat 1328 - Meister Johann Eckhart, German theologist/mystic, dies 1784 - Franz K earl von Velbruck, German freemason, dies 1828 - Shaka, the great Zulu king, killed 1900 - John Luther [Casey] Jones dies in Cannonball Express train wreck 1933 - Birth of Willie Nelson, Abbott TX, country singer (On the Road Again) 1943 - Beatrice Potter Webb, British [Labour Historian] writer (My Apprenticeship), dies at 85 1945 - Adolf Hitler, German dictator (1936-45), [& Eva Braun] commit suicide Annie Dillard, American writer (An American Childhood) (Born this day 1945) Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?
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Post by Tamrin on May 1, 2010 11:02:23 GMT 10
1 MayMay Day 1471 - Thomas a Kempis, spiritual writer (Navolging of Christ), dies at 91 1493 - Birth of Phillippus Paracelsus, Switzerland, physician/alchemist 1672 - Birth of Joseph Addison, England, essayist (Spectator) 1830 - Birth of Mary Harris Jones [Mother Jones], hell-raiser 1881 - Birth of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, France, philosopher/paleontologist 1923 - Birth of Joseph Heller, Brooklyn NY, novelist (Catch-22, 1963 Arts & Letters Award) 1927 - Birth of Harry [Harold George Jr] Belafonte, New York NY, calypso singer Paracelsus(Born this day 1493) Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided
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Post by Tamrin on May 2, 2010 11:02:15 GMT 10
2 May1551 - Birth of William Camden, English historian (Brittania, Annales) 1859 - Birth of Jerome K. Jerome, English writer & humorist (Three Men in a Boat) 1892 - Birth of Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen [the Red Baron], German WWI ace 1903 - Birth of Benjamin Spock, New Haven CT, pediatrician/author 1957 - Joseph McCarthy, commie hunting senator (R-WI), dies at 47 [good riddance] 1964 - Nancy N Witcher Astor, US/Eng feminist/ex of Waldorf Astor, dies 1966 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Arthur M Schlesinger Jr (Thousand Days) William Camden(Born this day 1551) Agree, for the law is costly
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