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Post by Tamrin on Aug 1, 2010 8:25:45 GMT 10
Sunday, 1 August
Wicca: Lammas Day
Southern Hemisphere: Horses’ Birthday
Australia: Schools’ Tree Day1555 - Birth of Edward Kelley, alchemist, spirit medium and necromancer 1744 - Birth of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French naturalist and pre-Darwinian evolutionist1819 - Birth of Herman Melville, US, author (Moby Dick, Billy Budd) 1834 - Death of Robert Morrison, 52, the first English Protestant missionary to reach China 1834 - Slavery abolished in British empire 1917 - Death of Frank Little, IWW organizer, lynched in Butte, Montana, USA 1944 - Anne Frank made the last entry in her diary Robert Morrison(Died this day 1834) To do what ought to be done but what would not have
been done unless I did it, I thought to be my duty
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 2, 2010 6:56:10 GMT 10
Monday, 2 August
Ancient Greece: Feast day of Aphrodite and Eros
Costa Rica: Feast day of the Virgin of Angels, “La Negrita” (the dark one) 1100 - William Rufus (William II of England) was killed ( perhaps sacrificed) 1776 - Formal signing of the [US] Declaration of Independence (16% of signatories were Freemasons) 1832 - Birth of Bro. Henry Steel Olcott, 1st president of Theosophical Society 1861 – The Grand Lodge of Colorado was instituted 1924 - Birth of James Baldwin, American writer and civil rights activist 1942 - Birth of Isabel Allende, Chilean American author 1972 - Death of Paul Goodman, US sociologist, anarchist, and public intellectual  Paul Goodman(Died this day 1972) The issue is not whether people are 'good enough' for a particular
type of society; rather it is a matter of developing the kind of social
institutions that are most conducive to expanding the potentialities
we have for intelligence, grace, sociability and freedom
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 3, 2010 6:35:55 GMT 10
Tuesday, 3 August1492 - Columbus sets sail from Palos, Spain for "Indies" 1823 – Birth of Thomas Meagher, Irish rebel, escaped Australian convict, US general & governor 1856 – Birth of Alfred Deakin, Australian lawyer, theosophist and 2nd Prime Minister 1900 - Birth of John T Scopes, Tennessee teacher convicted for teaching evolution 1916 - Sir Roger Casement was hanged for his part in the Easter Rising in Dublin 1929 - Jiddu Krishnamurti dissolved his Order of the Star of the East 1954 – Colette, France, novelist (Claudine), dies at 81  Sir Roger Casement(hung this day 1916) If there be no right of rebellion against a state of things that no savage tribe
would endure without resistance, then I am sure that it is better for men
to fight and die without right than to live in such a state of right as this
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 4, 2010 6:43:26 GMT 10
Wednesday, 4 August 1753 - George Washington becomes a Master Mason 1792 - Birth of Percy Bysshe Shelley, England, romantic poet (Adonais) 1875 - Death of Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer. 1901 - Birth of Louis Armstrong, New Orleans, Jazz musician & bandleader 1914 - Germany declares war on Belgium; Britain declares war on Germany 1961 - Birth of Barack Hussein Obama II, 44th President of the United States 1964 - Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman & James Chaney found buried inside an earthen dam in Mississippi  Hans Christian Andersen(Died this day 1875) To be of use to the world is the only way to be happy
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 5, 2010 6:13:35 GMT 10
Thursday, 5 August1876 - Birth of Mary R Beard, Indianapolis, historian ( Woman as a Force in History) 1884 - Cornerstone of pedestal for Statue of Liberty laid on Bedloe's Island (NYC) 1895 - Death of Friedrich Engels, socialist philosopher 1930 - Birth of Neil Armstrong, Ohio, X-15 pilot, 1st Moonwalker (Gemini 8, Apollo 11) 1934 – Birth of Wendell Berry, American author, 'the Prophet of Rural America' 1945 - Atom Bomb dropped on Hiroshima (Aug 6th in Japan) 1962 - Marilyn Monroe found dead of apparent self-inflicted drug overdose  Mary Ritter Beard(Born this day 1876) The volumes which record the history of the human race are filled
with the deeds and the words of great men ... The Twentieth
Century Woman ... questions the completeness of the story
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 6, 2010 6:49:37 GMT 10
Friday, 6 August
Cherokee: Honouring the Earth Goddess, Elihino, and her sister, Igaehindvo
Egyptian/Kemetic: Festival of Thoth
Japan: Toro Nagashi (Hiroshima Day, 1945)1637 - Ben Jonson, 65, British comic genius and satirist, died in London 1651 - Birth of François Fénelon, French priest and scholar 1809 – Birth of Alfred Lord Tennyson, poet laureate of England 1868 - Birth of Paul Claudel, French poet & diplomat 1916 - Birth of Richard Hofstadter, US historian 1927 – Birth of Andy Warhol, pop artist (or 08081930) 1946 - US officially submits to jurisdiction of World Court  Paul Claudel(Born this day 1868) All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is
raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 7, 2010 9:02:24 GMT 10
Saturday, 7 August
Ancient Greece: Adonia, the mourning festival for the dying hero Adonis1813 - Birth of Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis, US abolitionist, suffragist & educator 1869 - Birth of Edwin Brady, radical Australian writer and editor 1877 – The Grand Lodge of New Mexico was instituted 1890 - Birth of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, aka the ‘Rebel Girl’, American activist 1928 – Birth of Amazing "James" Randi, Toronto Ontario, skeptic magician 1938 – Birth of Helen Caldicott, Melbourne Australia, physician/anti-war activist 1942 – Birth of Garrison Keillor, PBS radio personality (Prairie Home Companion)  Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis(Born this day 1813) I was not happy until, I outgrew my early religious faith,
and felt free to think and act from my own convictions
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 8, 2010 11:39:57 GMT 10
Sunday, 8 August
Ancient Greece: Start of nine day Panathenaea festival honouring Pallas Athena1471 - Death of Thomas à Kempis, 91, Dutch mystic and devotional author 1694 - Birth of Francis Hutcheson, Irish Utilitarian philosopher (died this day 1746) 1884 – Birth of Sara Teasdale, US, poet (1st Pulitzer Prize-1918-"Love Songs") 1902 - Birth of Paul Dirac, British theoretical physicist 1931 - Birth of Sir Roger Penrose, British mathematical physicist 1988 - Russian troops begin pull out of Afghanistan after 9 year war 1990 - Iraq annexes Kuwait, having been told US would not intervene Francis Hutcheson(Born this day 1694 / Died this day 1746) That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 9, 2010 6:14:24 GMT 10
Monday, 9 August
International Day of the World's Indigenous People
Ancient Rome: Festival of Sol Indiges1874 - Birth of Charles Hoy Fort, American chronicler of anomalies 1896 – Birth of Jean Piaget, Swiss, pioneer developmental psychologist/zoologist 1899 - Birth of Pamela Lyndon Travers, Australian author (Mary Poppins) & Gurdjieff biographer 1902 - [M.W. Bro.] Edward VII of England crowned after death of his mother Victoria 1922 - Birth of Philip Larkin, British poet (The Whitsun Weddings; High Windows) 1945 - US drops 2nd atomic bomb "Fat Man" on Japan, destroys part of Nagasaki 1974 - Richard Nixon became the first President of the United States to resign from office  Philip Larkin(Born this day 1922) You can't put off being young until you retire
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 10, 2010 7:48:02 GMT 10
Tuesday, 10 August1270 - Yekuno Amlak took the imperial throne of Ethiopia, restoring the Solomonic dynasty to power after a 100-year interregnum 1792 - Mobs in Paris attack the palace of Louis XVI 1831 - Former slave Nat Turner led violent insurrection against slavery 1869 – Birth of Laurence Binyon, British poet 1874 - Birth of Herbert Clark Hoover, West Branch, Iowa, (R) 31st [US] Pres (1929-1933) 1887 - Birth of Edward Leedskalnin, eccentric US sculptor (Coral Castle) 1945 - Japan agreed to unconditional surrender, ending WWII  Edward Leedskalnin(Born this day 1887) I have discovered the secrets of the pyramids, and have
found out how the Egyptians and the ancient builders in
Peru, Yucatan, and Asia, with only primitive tools, raised
and set in place blocks of stone weighing many tons!
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