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Post by Tamrin on Jun 2, 2010 6:47:31 GMT 10
2 June1835 - P.T. Barnum & his circus begin 1st tour of US 1840 – Birth of Thomas Hardy, England, poet/novelist (Mayor of Casterbridge) 1882 - Guiseppi Garibaldi, Italian rebel leader, dies at 74 1899 - Black Americans observed day of fasting to protest lynchings 1904 – Birth of John Weissmuller, actor (Tarzan)/100m swimmer (Olympic-gold-1924, 28) 1924 - US citizenship granted to all American Indians 1969 - Australian aircraft carrier "Melbourne" slices US destroyer "Frank E Evans" in half, killing 74  John Weissmuller(born this day 1904) How can a guy climb trees, say, "Me Tarzan, You Jane," and make a million?
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Post by maximus on Jun 2, 2010 16:59:57 GMT 10
1924 - US citizenship granted to all American Indians How magnanimous.  |
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Post by Tamrin on Jun 2, 2010 19:30:50 GMT 10
1924 - US citizenship granted to all American Indians It wasn't until 1967 that Australia grated citizenship to our original inhabitants. |
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Post by Tamrin on Jun 3, 2010 6:37:44 GMT 10
3 June1098 - Christian Crusaders seize Antioch, Turkey 1539 - Hernando De Soto claims Florida for Spain 1761 - Birth of Henry Scrapnel, English inventor (shrapnel shell) 1808 – Birth of Jefferson Davis, Ky, Pres of Confederate States of America (1861-5) 1918 - [US] Supreme Court rules child labor laws unconstitutional 1926 - Birth of Allen Ginsberg, beat poet (Howl) 1989 - Troops in China shoot & kill 100s of students demonstrating for democracy in Tiananmen Square  Jefferson Davis(Born this day 1808) Never be haughty to the humble or humble to the haughty
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Post by Tamrin on Jun 4, 2010 7:00:58 GMT 10
4 June1647 - British army seizes King Charles I as a prisoner 1694 – Birth of François Quesnay, France, economist, leader of the Physiocrats 1896 - Henry takes his 1st Ford through streets of Detroit 1912 - Massachusetts passes 1st US minimum wage law 1919 - [US] Senate passes Women's Suffrage bill 1940 - German forces enter Paris 1989 - Ayatalloh Ruhullah Khomeini, of Iran, dies at 86 of internal bleeding  François Quesnay(Born this day 1694) Without that sense of security which property gives,
the land would still be uncultivated
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Post by Tamrin on Jun 5, 2010 7:59:43 GMT 10
5 June1718 - Baptism of Thomas Chippendale, England, furniture maker 1723 - Baptism of Adam Smith, Kirkcaldy Scot, economist (Wealth of Nations) 1878 - Birth of Francisco (Pancho) Villa, Mexico, revolutionary/guerrilla leader 1883 - Birth of John Maynard Keynes, Cambridge England, economist/math/journalist 1887 – Birth of Ruth Benedict, US, anthropologist (Patterns of Culture) 1900 - Birth of Dennis Gabor, inventor (holography (3D laser photography)) 1916 - Horatio H Kitchener, British General (Sudan), dies at 65  Lord Kitchener(Died this day 1916) Don't talk to me about atrocities in war; all war is an atrocity
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Post by Tamrin on Jun 6, 2010 9:55:52 GMT 10
6 June1606 – Birth of Pierre Corneille, France, dramatist (Le Cid, Horace) 1799 – Birth of Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, Russia, poet, founder of modern Russian Lit 1813 - US invasion of Canada halted at Stoney Creek (Ont) 1875 – Birth of Thomas Mann, Germany, novelist (Magic Mountain-Nobel 1929) 1935 - Birth of Dalai Lama, Tibet, spiritual leader of Tibet's Lamaistic Buddhists 1961 - Dr Carl Gustav Jung, Swiss psychatrist, dies at 85 1968 - Robert F Kennedy (Sen-D-NY), assassinated in LA by Sirhan Sirhan  Aleksandr Pushkin(Born this day 1799) The heavy hanging chains shall fall, the walls shall crumble at the word,
And freedom greet you with the light and brothers give you back the sword
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Post by Tamrin on Jun 7, 2010 7:18:49 GMT 10
7 June1329 - Robert Bruce, leader of the Scots, dies at 53 1769 - Daniel Boone begins exploring the Bluegrass State of Kentucky 1843 - Birth of Susan Elizabeth Blow, US, pioneered kindergarten education 1848 - Birth of Paul Gaugin [Eugene Henri], French post-impressionist painter 1899 - Birth of Elizabeth Bowen, Dublin, novelist (The Death of the Heart) 1917 - Birth of Gwendolyn Brooks, US poet (The Bean Eaters) 1943 - Birth of Nikki Giovanni, poet (LHJ Woman of the Year 1973)  Susan Blow(Born this day 1843) To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do
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Post by Tamrin on Jun 8, 2010 7:18:42 GMT 10
8 June0452 - Italy invaded by Attila the Hun 0632 - Mohammed, prophet of Islam (Koran), dies (according to tradition) 1809 - Thomas Paine, writer (Age of Reason, Common Sense), dies at 72 1867 - Birth of Frank Lloyd Wright, Richland Center, Wisc, master builder 1916 - Birth of Francis Crick, co-discovered DNA's structure (Nobel 1962) 1928 - 1st US-to-Australia flight lands (Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith) 1967 - Israel attacks USS Liberty in Mediterranean, killing 34 US crewmen  Mohammed(Abu al-Qasim Muhammad Ibn Abd Allah Ibn Abd al-Muttalib Ibn Hashim) (Died this day 632) Even as the fingers of the two hands are equal, so are human beings equal to
one another. No one has any right, nor any preference to claim over another
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Post by Tamrin on Jun 9, 2010 6:51:42 GMT 10
9 JuneAncient Rome: Vestalia (honors goddess Vesta):0068 - Nero, Roman Emperor commits suicide 1781 - Birth of George Stephenson, inventor (principal RR locomotive) 1843 – Birth of Bertha von Suttner, Austria, novelist/pacifist (Nobel 1905) 1870 - Charles Dickens, author, dies in England 1898 - China leases Hong Kong's new territories to Britain for 99 years 1934 - 1st Donald Duck cartoon, The Wise Little Hen, released 1978 - Gutenberg Bible (1 of 21) sells for $2.4 million, London  Bertha von Suttner(Born this day 1843) Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it
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