Today in History

[Tamrin]

23 June

1683 - William Penn signs friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape indians in Pennsylvania; only treaty "not sworn to, nor broken"

1757 - Robert Clive [Clive of India] defeats Indians at Plassey, wins control of Bengal

1763 - Birth of Joséphine de Beauharnais (Les Trois-Ilets, Martinique), Empress of France

1848 - Bloody insurrection of workers in Paris

1876 – Birth of Irvin S Cobb, Ky, writer/humorist (Old Judge Priest)

1944 - Thomas Mann becomes a US citizen

1972 - Nixon & Haldeman agree to use CIA to cover up Watergate

Joséphine de Beauharnais
(Born this day 1763)

"Josephine de Beauharnais, Napoleon's first wife, served as
Grand Matraisse du Loge d'Adoption Sainte-Caroline.
Women were admitted by regular Masonic lodges and
participated in rituals that were often elaborate in the extreme"

Michael Johnstone, 2006, The Freemasons:
The illuminated book of an ancient brotherhood,
Arcturus, London, p.135

[Tamrin]

24 June
Feast Day of Saint John the Baptist
Europe: Midsummer Day

1314 - Battle of Bannockburn; Scotland regains independence from England

1535 - Anabaptists Protestants conquerered & disbanded

1717 - Establishment of the Premier Grand Lodge, London

1813 – Birth of Henry Ward Beecher, Litchfield Ct, clergyman/orator (The Independent)

1842 - Birth of Ambrose Bierce, US, satirist (Devil's Dictionary)

1912 – Birth of Norman Cousins, editor (Saturday Review)

1935 – Birth of Pete Hamill, journalist (NY Post)

Pete Hamill
(Born this day 1935)

I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of
the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful

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25 June

1115 - St. Bernard founded a monastery in Clairvaux, France

1212 - Simon de Montfort, a leader of the crusades, dies at 67 (good riddance)

1900 – Birth of Lord Louis Mountbatten, of Burma, royal relative

1903 - Birth of George Orwell, England, satirist/author (Animal Farm, 1984)

1938 - [US] Federal minimum wage law guarantees workers 40c per hour

1941 - FDR issues [US] Executive Order 8802 forbidding discrimination

1963 - Birth of Mike Myers, Canada, comedian (SNL-Wayne's World)

Bernard of Clairvaux
(Founded monastery this day 1115)

You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and
stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters

[Tamrin]

26 June

1725 - Grand Lodge of Ireland founded

1824 - Birth of William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, engineer/mathematician/physicist

1890 - The Grand Lodge of Tasmania formed in Hobart with 19 lodges and 864 members

1892 - Birth of Pearl S Buck, China, author (Good Earth-Nobel 1938)

1911 – Birth of Edward Levi, professor (Intro to Legal Reasoning)

1938 - James Weldon Johnson, anthologist of black culture, Poet and Diplomat, dies

1945 - UN Charter signed by 50 nations in SF

Edward Levi
(Born this day 1911)

Universities are the custodians not only of the many
cultures of man, but of the rational process itself

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27 June

1829 - James Smithson dies, his will established Smithsonian Institute

1833 - Prudence Crandall, a white woman, arrested for conducting an academy for black females

1844 - Joseph & Hyrum Smith Mormon leaders killed by a mob in Carthage Ill

1869 - Birth of Emma Goldman, anarchist/publisher (Mother Earth)

1872 - Birth of Paul Laurence Dunbar, Dayton Oh, short story writer (Majors & Minors)

1880 - Birth of Helen Keller, blind-deaf author/lecturer had more sense than many

1914 - US signs treaty of commerce with Ethiopia

Paul Laurence Dunbar
(Born this day 1872)

I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, when his wing is bruised and
his bosom sore; when he beats his bars and he would be free, it is not a
carol of joy or glee, but a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core

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28 June

1712 - Birth of Jean Jacques Rousseau, France, social contractor (Confessions)

1873 - Birth of Alexis Carrel, France, surgeon/sociologist/biologist (Nobel 1912)

1901 - Bro. Warren G. Harding, US President (1921 - 1923) was made a Mason in Marion Lodge #70, Ohio

1909 - Birth of Eric Ambler, suspense author (Epitaph for a Spy)

1926 - Birth of Mel Brooks, comedian/actor/director (Blazing Saddles, Spaceballs)

1914 - Archduke Ferdinand & wife Sofia of Austria assassinated (starts WW I)

1919 - Treaty of Versailles ending WW I signed

Eric Ambler
(Born this day 1909)

For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such
a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency

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29 June
Anniversary of The Quarry Masonic Forum

1613 - Shakespeare's Globe Theater burns down

1852 - Henry Clay, the great compromiser, dies at 75

1863 – Birth of James Harvey Robinson, Ill, historian (Ordeal of Civilization)

1900 – Birth of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, France, aviator/writer (The Little Prince)

1949 - South Africa begins implementing apartheid; no mixed marriages

1964 - [US] Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed after 83-day filibuster in Senate

2008 – Launch of The Quarry Masonic Forum

James Harvey Robinson
(Born this day 1863)

We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs,
but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them
when anyone proposed to rob us of their companionship

[lanoo]

"Anniversary of The Quarry Masonic Forum"

Happy Birthday

The index idea is great.

[Tamrin]

30 June
End of Fiscal Year

1685 – Birth of John Gay, author (Beggars' Opera)

1908 - Giant fireball impacts in Central Siberia (Tunguska Event)

1923 - New Zealand claims Ross Dependency in Antarctica

1934 - "Night of the Long Knives," Hitler stages bloody purge of Nazi party

1936 - "Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell, published

1936 - [US] 40 hour work week law approved (federal)

1974 - Mrs. (Alberta) Martin Luther King, Sr., murdered in church

Margaret Mitchell
(“Gone with the Wind" published this day 1936)

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect

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1 July
Start of Fiscal Year

1646 - Birth of G.W. Leibniz, German mathematician/philosopher; postulated monads

1804 – Birth of George Sand, France, novelist (Valentine, Le Figaro)

1912 – Birth of David Brower, environmentalist/president Sierra Club

1941 – Birth of Sally Quinn, Georgia, CBS newscaster (Morning Show)

1964 - Bro. Roscoe Pound, US Masonic scholar and Dean of the Harvard Law School, died

1983 - R. Buckminster Fuller, inventor/philosopher, dies in LA at 87

1989 - The Grand Lodge of Hawaii was instituted

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
(Born this day 1646)

I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity