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Post by Tamrin on Aug 21, 2010 11:47:43 GMT 10
Saturday, 21 August
Australia: Federal Election, 20101762 – Death of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English author, traveller and medical pioneer 1831 - Nat Turner slave revolt kills 55 (Southampton County, Virginia) 1904 – Birth of William "Count" Basie, jazz pianist 1923 – Birth of Shimon Peres, Israeli Prime Minister 1935 – Birth of Don Chipp, founder of the Australian Democrats 1982 - Benigno S Aquino Jr, Philippines opposition leader, assassinated in Manila 1993 – The Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania and thousands of Freemasons dedicated the Friend to Friend Masonic Monument in the cemetery in Gettysburg, commemorating acts of kindness between Freemasons who fought on opposite sides in the American Civil War  Don Chipp(Born this day 1935 Keep the bastards honest!
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 22, 2010 11:11:08 GMT 10
Sunday, 22 August
Catholic: Feast day of Mary’s Queenship of Heaven1846 - US annexes New Mexico 1851 - Gold fields discovered in Australia 1864 - Geneva Convention signed, by 12 nations 1893 – Birth of Dorothy Parker, American writer 1910 - Japan annexes Korea 1915 – Birth of David Dellinger, US nonviolence advocate 1920 – Birth of Ray Bradbury, Ill, sci-fi author (Fahrenheit 451, Illustrated Man)  Annie Proulx, Pulitzer Prize winning US author (Born this day 1935) There are four women in every man’s heart. The Maid in the Meadow,
the Demon Lover, the Stouthearted Woman, the Tall and Quiet Woman
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 23, 2010 6:33:46 GMT 10
Monday, 23 August
Ancient Greece: Festival of Nemesia, (for the goddess Nemesis)
Ancient Rome: Festival of Vulcanalia, (for Vulcan and the Nymphs)
International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition0634 - The death of Abu Bakr, first Sunni successor of Muhammad 1305 - Sir William Wallace, Scottish nationalist, was hung, drawn and quartered 1572 - Charles IX approves the massacre of French Protestants (Huguenots) 1833 - Britain abolishes slavery in its colonies; 700,000 slaves freed 1852 - Birth of Arnold Toynbee, British historian, economist, social reformer 1869 - Birth of Edgar Lee Masters, US poet & author 1932 - Birth of Mark Russell, Buffalo NY, political satirist/pianist (Real People)  Nelson DeMille, American author of thriller novels (Born this day 1943) If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of
unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 24, 2010 7:05:23 GMT 10
Tuesday, 24 August
Ancient Egypt: Nativity of Osiris (deified royal ancestor)
Ancient Rome: Feast day of Mania (the Manes were deified ancestors)
RC, Ang, Luth: Feast of St Bartholomew, apostle
Catholic: Celebration of Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre
Protestant: Remembrance of Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre1759 - Birth of Wilbur Wilberforce, England, crusaded against slavery 1872 - Birth of Sir Max Beerbohm, England, caricaturist/writer/wit (Saturday Review) 1899 – Birth of Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian author (The Book of Imaginary Beings) 1922 - Birth of Howard Zinn, American Professor, historian, author, anarchist, socialist 1943 - Death of Simone Weil, French author, Christian mystic and social activist 1947 – Birth of Paulo Coelho, Brazilian lyricist and novelist (The Alchemist) 2004 – Death of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, psychiatrist and author (Five Stages of Grief)  Stephen Fry, British comedian, author, and actor (Born this day 1957) It only takes a room of Americans for the English and
Australians to realise how much we have in common
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 25, 2010 6:36:58 GMT 10
Wednesday, 25 August
Ancient Egypt: Nativity of Horus
Ancient Rome: Opiconsivia (Harvest festival of the fertility goddess Ops)1560 - Protestantism was formally adopted at the First General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. 1609 - Galileo demonstrates his 1st telescope to Venetian lawmakers 1900 - Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher, dies in Weimar, Germany 1925 - Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters organizes (Harlem NY) 1930 – Birth of Sean Connery, actor (James Bond, Man Who Would Be King) 1938 – Birth of Frederick Forsyth, English author and political commentator 1944 - Paris liberated from Nazi occupation  Frederick Forsyth(Born this day 1938) The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 26, 2010 6:35:11 GMT 10
Wednesday, 26 August
Finland: Feast Day of Ilmatar, the water goddess who created the world
US: Women's Equality Day (1973) / Susan B Anthony Day (1920)1743 – Birth of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, Paris, father of modern chemistry 1795 - Death of Bro. Count Alessandro di Cagliostro, occultist 1875 - Birth of Sir John Buchan, Scottish author & Canadian GG 1883 - Krakatoa erupts with increasingly large explosions kills 36,000 1904 - Birth of Christopher Isherwood, British-born American author 1910 – Birth of Mother Teresa of Calcutta (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu) 1920 – 19th [US] amendment passes-women's suffrage granted  Christopher Isherwood(Born this day 1904) Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck,
a good physique and not too much imagination
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 27, 2010 7:21:14 GMT 10
Friday, 27 August
Ancient Greece: Feast Day of Pan1770 - Birth of Georg Wilhelm F Hegel, German philosopher/inventor (dialectic) 1865 – Birth of James Henry Breasted, US Egyptologist 1871 – Birth of Theodore Dreiser, US author 1932 – Birth of Antonia Fraser, Anglo-Irish author and historian 1963 - Death of W.E.B. Du Bois, US civil rights activist, sociologist and historian 1969 - Death of Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett, British 1975 - Death of H.I.M. Haile Selassie, deposed Ethiopian emperor  James Henry Breasted, US Egyptologist (Born this day 1865) Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress.
There has really never been any progress without it
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 28, 2010 10:55:25 GMT 10
Saturday, 28 August
Ancient Egypt: Feast day of Nepthys
Hong Kong: Festival of Hungry Ghosts0430 - Death of St Augustine of Hippo, lapsed Manichean, misogynistic Church Father 1749 – Birth of Bro. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Frankfurt, social philosopher 1913 – Birth of Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist, playwright and journalist 1916 – Birth of C Wright Mills, US sociologist, writer (The Power Elite) 1917 - 10 suffragists arrested as they picket the White House 1952 – Birth of Rita Dove, US Poet Laureate poet and Pulitzer Prize winning author 1955 - Emmett Till, 14 year old tortured to death for having whistled at a white woman  I wanted the world to see what they did to my babyMamie Carthan Till, explaining why she wanted her son’s casket left open at his funeral (his murderers were acquitted by a white jury and later bragged of the killing)
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 29, 2010 8:16:01 GMT 10
Sunday, 29 August
Ancient Egypt: Nativity of Hathor
Christian: Feast day of the Decollation of St John the Baptist1526 - Hungary conquered by Turks in Battle of Mohács 1533 - Atahualpa, last Incan Emperor of Peru, murdered by Spanish conquistadors 1632 – Birth of John Locke, England, empiricist philosopher; disproved substance 1809 – Birth of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Cambridge, MA, physician/author (Old Ironsides) 1862 – Birth of Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgium, Symbolist poet, Nobel 1911 (The Great Secret) 1916 - Birth of Ingrid Bergman, Swedish-born Hollywood actress 1949 - Birth of Richard Gere, American actor  Atahualpa, last Inca Emperor of Peru (Murdered this day 1533) Your emperor may be a great prince; I do not doubt it, seeing that he
has sent his subjects so far across the waters; and I am willing to treat
him as a brother. As for your pope of whom you speak, he must be mad
to speak of giving away countries that do not belong to him. As for my
faith, I will not change it. Your own God, as you tell me, was put to death
by the very men He created. But my God still looks down on His children(On hearing Pope Alexander VI had declared Peru to be a possession of Spain)
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 30, 2010 6:38:00 GMT 10
Monday, 30 August
International Day of the Disappeared0030 - BC- Death of Cleopatra VII, most famous queen and last pharaoh of Egypt 1797 - Birth of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, London England, author (Frankenstein) 1871 - Birth of Ernest Lord Rutherford, British / New Zealand, physicist; discovered atomic nucleus 1912 - Birth of Nancy Wake, New Zealand-born Australian World War II heroine 1941 - Siege of Leningrad by Nazi troops began during WW II 1944 - Birth of Molly Ivins, American author, newspaper columnist and political commentator 2005 - New Orleans' canal breached by Hurricane Katrina, resulting in flooding and destruction  Ernest Lord Rutherford, physicist; discovered atomic nucleus (Born this day 1871) The only possible interpretation of any research
whatever in the 'social sciences' is: some do, some don't
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