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Post by Tamrin on Jul 12, 2010 6:44:35 GMT 10
12 July1450 - Jack Cade, slain in a revolt [peasants & artisans] against British King Henry VI 1799 - Britain passed the Combination Act, which prevented groups of workers trying to improve working conditions. 1817 - Birth of Henry David Thoreau, Concord Mass, naturalist/author/pacifist 1904 - Birth of Pablo Neruda, Chile, poet (Residence on Earth-Nobel 1971) 1917 - Bisbee Deportation: About 2,000 armed vigilantes kidnapped, deported and abandoned 1,186 peaceful protestors from Bisbee, Arizona 1937 - Birth of Bill Cosby, Phila, actor/comedian (I Spy, Cosby, Leonard Part 6) 1939 – Birth of Phillip Adams, Australian broadcaster and journalist  Phillip Adams(Born this day 1939) Advertising men and politicians are dangerous
if they are separated. Together they are diabolical
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 13, 2010 6:32:55 GMT 10
13 July0678 – Aisha bint Abu Bakr, favourite wife (child bride) of Muhammad, died 1105 - Death of Rashi, Rabbi Shelomoh ben Isaac (b.1040), medieval Jewish Bible scholar 1527 - Birth of John Dee, London, alchemist/astrologer/mathematician 1807 – Henry Benedict Stuart, Jacobite claimant to the throne of England, died 1859 – Birth of Sidney Webb (Baron Passfield), British Fabian, husband of Beatrice 1863 - Anti-draft mobs lynch blacks in NYC; about 1,000 die 1934 – Birth of Wole Soyinka, Nigerian writer, Nobel laureate  Sir Kenneth Clark, British art historian (Born this day 1903) Children who are treated as if they are uneducable
almost invariably become uneducable
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 14, 2010 7:01:05 GMT 10
14 JulyFrance, Guiana, Polynesia, Guadel, Martinique: Bastille Day (1789) Japan: Bon Festival/Feast of Lanterns/Black Ship Day (1853) 1789 - Bastille Day - citizens of Paris storm Bastille prison 1853 - US Commodore Perry and his “Black Ships” arrive in Japan, using “gunboat diplomacy” 1858 - Birth of Emmeline Pankhurst, British Fabian, advocate of women’s rights 1903 - Birth of Irving Stone, US, author (Love is Eternal, Lust for Life) 1904 - Birth of Isaac Bashevis Singer, Yiddish novelist (Enemies-Nobel 1978) 1912 - Birth of Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie, folk singer (This Land Is Your Land) 1961 - Bro. Eddie Charlton, Australian Snooker & Billiards legend, was made a Mason in Lodge Swansea  Gertrude Bell, archaeologist, writer, spy and administrator known as the 'Uncrowned Queen of Iraq' (Born this day 1868) The holy men sat in an atmosphere reeking of antiquity, so thick
with the dust of ages that you can't see through it — nor can they
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 15, 2010 6:31:06 GMT 10
15 JulyAncient Egypt: Birth of Seth, god of chaos and adversity
Ancient Greece: Synoika, peace ceremony honouring Athena and Hestia
Bohemian Grove: Cremation of Care ceremony (features an owl, a theophany of Athena)1099 - The citizens of Jerusalem were slaughtered by the First Crusaders 1410 - Poland & Lithuania defeat Teutonic Knights at Tannenberg 1573 - Birth of Inigo Jones, London, renaissance architect 1662 - Charles II grants charter to establish Royal Society in London 1796 - Birth of Thomas Bulfinch, mythologist (Bulfinch's Mythology) 1919 - Birth of Iris Murdoch, Ireland, novelist (Severed Head) 1930 - Birth of Jacques Derrida, philosopher  Thomas Bulfinch (Born this day 1796) In ages when there were no books, when noblemen and princes themselves
could not read, history or tradition was monopolized by the story-tellers
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 16, 2010 7:14:12 GMT 10
16 JulyAncient Egypt: Birth of Isis
Islam: Hijra (Hegira; Hejira)
Haiti: Voudon pilgrimage of Saut D'Eau0622 - Mohammed fled from Mecca to Medina. The Moslem calendar begins from this date 1054 - The ' Great Schism' between the Western and Eastern churches began 1821 - Birth of Mary Baker Eddy, founded Christian Science (Science & Health) 1862 – Birth of Ida B Wells, US Anti-lynching crusader 1872 - Birth of Roald Amundsen, Norway, explorer, discovered South Pole 1918 - Nicholas II, Russian tsar, his tsarina & their 5 kids executed 1969 - Apollo 11, carrying 1st men to land on the Moon, launched  Roald Amundsen(Born this day 1872) Adventure is just bad planning
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 17, 2010 8:52:58 GMT 10
17 July
Ancient Egypt: Birth Nepthys, goddess of death
Japan: Commemoration of Amaterasu-o-mi-kami, Shinto Sun goddess
Labour History: Commemoration of the Tolpuddle Martyrs (3rd Sat. July)1591 – Birth of Anne Hutchinson , unauthorized Puritan preacher and pioneer 1674 - Birth of Isaac Watts, England, writer/preacher/hymnist (Horae Lyrican) 1751 - Antients' Grand Lodge proclaimed1917 – Birth of Phyllis Diller (born Phyllis Driver), American comedienne, actress and pianist 1955 - Disneyland opened in Anaheim, California, USA. 1964 - Donald Campbell set the world land speed record of 648.6 kph on Lake Eyre, South Australia 1976 – East Timor is annexed, and becomes the 27th province of Indonesia  Anne Hutchinson(Born this day 1591) As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for
those who have not the light which makes plain the pathway
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 18, 2010 10:08:00 GMT 10
18 July1635 - Birth of Robert Hooke, Isle of Wight, “England’s Leonardo” 1811 - Birth of William Makepeace Thackeray, England, Victorian novelist (Vanity Fair) 1902 - Birth of Jessamyn West, American Quaker and writer 1906 - Birth of S.I. Hayakawa, Canadian English professor and US Senator 1918 - Birth of Nelson Mandela, Qunu South Africa, political prisoner (ANC), [President] 1922 - Birth of Thomas Kuhn, US physicist and philosopher and historian of science 1937 - Birth of Hunter S Thompson, American 'gonzo' journalist and author  Robert Hooke, “England’s Leonardo,” (poorly acknowledged precusor to Newton) (Born this day 1635) "I will explain," says Hooke, in a communication to the Royal Society in 1666, "a system
of the world very different from any yet received. It is founded on the following positions.
1. That all the heavenly bodies have not only a gravitation of their parts to their own proper centre, but that they also mutually attract each other within their spheres of action.
2. That all bodies having a simple motion, will continue to move in a straight line, unless continually deflected from it by some extraneous force, causing them to describe a circle, an ellipse, or some other curve.
3. That this attraction is so much the greater as the bodies are nearer.”
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 19, 2010 6:24:25 GMT 10
19 JulyAncient Egypt: Opet Festival (marriage of Isis and Osiris)
Ancient Greece & Rome: Adonia Festival (marriage of Adonis and Aphrodite)1799 - The Rosetta Stone was found near Alexandria, Egypt 1834 - Birth of Edgar Degas, France, impressionist painter (Bouquet) 1849 - Siyyid `Alí Muhammad (Báb), founder of the Baha'i faith, was put to death by the Shah of Iran 1865 - Birth of Charles Horace Mayo, surgeon, cofounded Mayo Clinic 1873 - William Gosse, became the first European to discover Uluru (he named it Ayres Rock) 1898 - Birth of Herbert Marcuse, Berlin, philosopher, “Father of the ‘New Left’” 1969 - Mary Jo Kopechne dies at 28, in Ted Kennedy's car  Dr. Charles H. Mayo, founder of the Mayo Clinic (Born this day 1865) I abhor vivisection. It should at least be curbed. Better, it should be abolished.
I know of no achievement through vivisection, no scientific discovery that could
not have been obtained without such barbarism and cruelty. The whole thing is evil
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 20, 2010 6:31:08 GMT 10
20 July1304 – Birth of Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca), scholar, poet, and humanist, 1549 - The Norfolk Rising (or Commotion), aka Kett's Rebellion1915 - Bro. Arthur Fadden, Australian PM (1941), was made a Mason in Caledonia Lodge, SC, Qld. 1919 - Birth of Sir Edmund Hillary, NZ, one of 1st 2 men to scale Mt Everest (& return alive) 1924 – Birth of Thomas Berger, US, novelist (Vital Parts, Little Big Man) 1925 – Birth of Frantz Fanon, Martinique-born Algerian psychiatrist, author 1947 – Birth of Carlos Santana, guitarist, singer (Black Magic Woman; She's Not There)  Thomas Berger(Born this day 1924) No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always
find people on your side that you wish were on the other
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 21, 2010 6:31:40 GMT 10
21 JulyAncient Greece: Commemoration of Damo of Alexandria, daughter of Pythagoras and heir to his secrets1588 - English fleet defeats Spanish armada 1796 - Bro. Robert Burns, Scottish poet, dies 1875 - The Grand Lodge of South Dakota was formed 1899 - Birth of Ernest Hemingway, Oak Park, for whom the bell tolled... (Nobel 1954) 1911 – Birth of Marshall McLuhan, Canada, writer (The Medium is the Massage) 1947 - Birth of Cat Stevens aka Yusuf Islam, rocker (Peace Train, Father & Son) 1969 - Neil Armstrong and Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin step foot on the Moon (AEST)  Garry Trudeau, cartoonist (Doonesbury) (Born this day 1948) I try to take people one at a time, with all the
contradictions and compromises that most of us live with
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