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Post by Tamrin on May 13, 2010 6:17:21 GMT 10
13 MayBuddhist-Singapore: Buddha's Birthday 1110 - Crusaders march into Beirut causing a bloodbath 1559 - Excavated corpse of heretic David Jorisz burned in Basel 1923 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Willa Cather (One of Ours) 1940 - Churchill says I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears & sweat 1946 - US convicts 58 camp guards of Mauthausen concentration camp to death 1981 - Pope John Paul II shot, wounded by assailant in St Peter's Square 1989 - Approximately 2,000 students begin hunger strike in Tiananmen Square, China  Sir Winston ChurchillSaid this day 1940: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears & sweat
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Post by Tamrin on May 14, 2010 6:28:12 GMT 10
14 May1686 - Birth of Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, Germany, inventor (thermometer) 1771 - Birth of Robert Owen, England, factory owner/socialist 1925 - Henry Rider Haggard, English writer (Dawn, She), dies 1940 - Emma Goldman, US anarchists/feminist/author (Living My Life), dies 1948 - PM David Ben-Gurion establishes State of Israel 1991 - Jiang Qing, widow of Chinese leader Mao Tse Tung, commits suicide 1995 - Dalai Lama proclaims 6-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima 11th reincarnation of Panchen Lama _by_John_Cranch,_1845.jpg) Robert Owen(Born this day 1771) All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer
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Post by Tamrin on May 15, 2010 9:11:17 GMT 10
15 May1565 – Birth of Henrick de Keyser, architect/master builder of Amsterdam (died this day 1621) 1856 - Birth of Lyman Frank Baum, Chittenango NY, [Theosophist] children's book author (Wizard of Oz) 1886 - Emily Dickinson, US poet, dies at 55 1890 – Birth of Katherine Anne Porter, US, novelist (Ship of Fools) 1911 - Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Indiana University, incorporates 1948 - Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq & Saudi-Arabia troops attack Israel 1988 - Moscow begins withdrawing its 115,000 troops in Afghánistán  Katherine Anne Porter(Born this day 1890) Experience is what really happens to you
in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you
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Post by Tamrin on May 16, 2010 10:37:19 GMT 10
16 May1718 - Maria G Agnesi, Italy mathematician curves= x²y=a²(a-y) 1835 - Felicia Dorothea Hemans, poet/hymn writer, dies 1929 - Birth of Adrienne Cecile Rich, Baltimore MD, feminist writer (Diamond Cutters) 1942 - Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski, anthropologist, dies 1944 - George Ade, US novelist/playwright (Counsel Widow), dies at 78 1979 - Asa Philip Randolph, labor leader & civil rights pioneer, dies at 90 1990 - Sammy Davis Jr., entertainer (Golden Boy), dies from throat cancer at 64  Felicia Hemans(Died this day 1835) The boy stood on the burning deck,
Whence all but him had fled;
The flame that lit the battle's wreck
Shone round him o'er the dead
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Post by Tamrin on May 17, 2010 6:02:57 GMT 10
17 May1749 - Birth of Edward Jenner, England, physician, discovered vaccination 1872 - Bohemian Club incorporated 1883 - Buffalo Bill Cody's, 1st wild west show premieres in Omaha 1883 - Lydia Estes Pinkham [“Lily the Pink”], patent-medicine manufacturer, dies 1930 - Herbert David Croly, US founder (New Republic), dies at 61 1944 - General Eisenhower sets D-Day for June 5th 1970 - Thor Heyerdahl crosses the Atlantic on reed raft Ra  Buffalo Bill (William F. Cody)(1st Wild West Show this day 1883) Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted
from broken promises and broken treaties by the government
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Post by Tamrin on May 18, 2010 6:32:16 GMT 10
18 MayWorld Goodwill Day (1899) 1291 - Acre, the last territory in Palestine taken by the first Crusaders, fell to invading Moslem armies 1692 – Bro. Elias Ashmole, antiquary, dies 1872 - Birth of Bertrand Russell, England, mathematician/philosopher (Nobel 1950) 1899 - World Goodwill Day, 26 nations meet in 1st Hague Peace Conference 1909 - George Meredith, English poet/writer (Diana of Crossways), dies at 81 1955 - Mary McLeod Bethune, educator & civil rights leader, dies at 79 1973 - Jeannette Rankin, 1st US Congresswoman (1917-19, 41-43), dies at 92  Delegates at the Hague Peace Conference(Opened this day 1899) Today's date, the eighteenth of May, should sometime become
an occasion of great international celebration, for on this day
ten years ago the first Peace Conference opened at The HagueFredrik Bajer (1837 / 1922)
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Post by Tamrin on May 19, 2010 6:36:37 GMT 10
19 MayVietnam: Ho Chi Minh's Birthday (1890) 0804 - Alcuin of York, English scholar, dies in Tours France at 69 1536 - Anne Boleyn Queen of England/wife of Henry VIII, beheaded 1762 – Birth of Johann G Fichte, German philosopher (Wissenschaftslehre) 1864 - Nathaniel Hawthorne, US, writer (Scarlet Letter), dies 1925 - Birth of Malcolm X [Little] Omaha NE, assassinated leader of black muslims 1935 - Thomas E Lawrence (of Arabia) dies in a motorcycle crash 1943 - Churchill pledges England's full support to US against Japan  Alcuin of York(Died this day 804) Those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is
the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness
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Post by Tamrin on May 20, 2010 6:30:20 GMT 10
20 May1506 - Christopher Columbus, explorer, dies in poverty in Spain at 55 1743 – Birth of Bro. [François D] Toussaint L'Ouverture (à Breda), leader (Haiti) 1799 - Birth of Bro. Honoré de Balzac, France, novelist (Pere Goriot, Human Comedy) 1806 - Birth of John Stuart Mill, UK, philosopher/political economist/Utilitarian 1834 – Bro. Marquis de Lafayette, [U.S.] French general, dies 1910 - Funeral for Britain's King Edward VII [former GM UGLE] 1956 - Max Beerbohm, caricturist/writer (Yet Again), dies
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Post by Tamrin on May 21, 2010 6:45:29 GMT 10
21 May0427 – BC – Birth of Plato (Aristocles), Athens(?) 1688 – Birth of Bro. Alexander Pope, England, poet (Rape of the Lock) 1780 – Birth of Elizabeth Fry, Quaker minister/prison reformer/nurse 1808 – Birth of Gérard de Nerval [Labrunie], French poet/writer (Sylvia) 1810 – Bro. Charles Chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont, French spy, dies at 81 1840 - New Zealand became a British colony 1993 - Opposition leader Xanana Gusmao of East-Timor sentenced to life  Elizabeth Fry(Born this day 1780) Does Capital punishment tend to the security of the people?
By No means. It hardens the hearts of men, and makes the loss
of life appear light to them; it renders life insecure, inasmuch
as the law holds out that Property is of greater value than life
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Post by Tamrin on May 22, 2010 9:09:37 GMT 10
22 May0337 - Constantine the Great, emperor of Rome (306-37), dies 1176 - Murder attempt by "Assassins" on Saladin near Aleppo 1813 - Birth of Richard Wagner, Leipzig Germany, composer (Ring, Flying Dutchman) 1859 - Birth of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle UK, author-brought Sherlock Holmes to life twice 1885 - Victor(-Marie) Hugo French writer (Les Misérables), dies at 83 1906 - Wright Brothers patent an aeroplane 1936 - Birth of M. Scott Peck, American psychiatrist (The Road Less Travelled, People of the Lie)  Constantine the Great(Died this day 337) In hoc signo vinces
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