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Post by Tamrin on Oct 15, 2010 6:09:07 GMT 10
Friday, 15 October0070 - BCE - Birth of Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro), Mantua Italy, Roman poet ( d. 21/09/19 BCE) 1794 - The Grand Lodge of Vermont was instituted. 1844 – Birth of Friedrich Nietzsche, German philospher 1905 – Birth of CP Snow, English physicist and novelist (Strangers and Brothers series of novels) 1908 - Birth of John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian-American writer (Affluent Society-1958 Hillman Award) 1917 - Birth of Arthur Schlesinger Jr., US historian/author (1946 Pulitzer-Age of Jackson) 1969 - Vietnam Moratorium Day; millions nationwide protest the war  Baron C.P. SnowEnglish physicist and novelist (Strangers and Brothers series of novels) (Born this day 1905) A scientist has to be neutral in his search for the truth, but he cannot
be neutral as to the use of that truth when found. If you know more
than other people, you have more responsibility, rather than less
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 16, 2010 9:32:00 GMT 10
Saturday, 16 October
World Food Day1793 - Marie Antoinette, queen of France, beheaded in France 1800 - The Grand Lodge of Kentucky was instituted. 1854 - Birth of Oscar Wilde [Fingal O'Flahertie Wills], Dublin, (Pic of Dorian Gray) 1859 - John Brown leads 20 in raid on federal arsenal, Harper's Ferry, Va 1886 - Birth of David Ben-Gurion, Polish-born first Prime Minister of Israel 1888 - Birth of Eugene O'Neill, American playwright (Long Day's Journey Into Night) 1962 - Cuban missile crisis began as JFK becomes aware of missiles in Cuba  Daisy Bates, aka 'Kabbarli' (grandmother) Irish born Australian journalist, studied Aboriginal culture (Born this day 1859) The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does.
No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 17, 2010 10:14:11 GMT 10
Sunday, 17 October
International Day for the Eradication of Poverty1483 - Pope Sixtus IV launched the Spanish Inquisition 1586 - Death of Sir Philip Sidney, Elizabethan poet, courtier and soldier 1760 - Birth of Henri de Saint-Simon, French utopian theorist 1883 - Birth of A.S. Neill, British anti-authoritarian educator ([url=http://www.thebluecrane.com/agorabookclub/TheFreeChild/index.html ]The Free Child[/url]) 1903 - Birth of Nathanael West, American novelist (The Day of the Locust) 1915 - Birth of Arthur Miller, American playwright (The Crucible) 1957 - French author Albert Camus awarded Nobel Prize in Literature  A.S. Neill(Born this day 1883) No one is wise enough or good enough to mould the character of any child.
What is wrong with our sick, neurotic world is that we have been moulded,
and an adult generation that has seen two great wars and seems about to
launch a third should not be trusted to mould the character of a rat
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 18, 2010 12:38:06 GMT 10
Monday, 18 October1616 - Birth of Nicholas Culpeper, English author, botanist, herbalist, physician and astrologer 1685 - Louis XIV revoked the 1598 Edict of Nantes, which had permitted French Protestants limited religious tolerance. The Huguenot exodus which followed, drained France's industrial economy, and possibly hastened the French Revolution 1785 - Birth of Thomas Love Peacock, English author (Headlong Hall) 1859 - Birth of Henri Bergson, French philosopher (Creative Evolution-Nobel 1927) 1867 - US takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia ($7.2 million) 1895 - The Brotherhood of the Cooperative Commonwealth, a utopian socialist organisation, was founded, Blanchard, Idaho, USA 1931 - Thomas Alva Edison, inventor, dies in West Orange, NJ, at 84  Nicholas Culpeper(Born this day 1616) For God's sake build not your faith upon Tradition, 'tis as rotten as a rotten Post
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 19, 2010 17:00:57 GMT 10
Tuesday, 19 October
Ancient Rome: Armilustrium (in honour of Mars)1605 – Birth of Thomas Browne, English writer 1745 - Death of Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish author 1781 - Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown at 2 PM; Revolutionary War ends 1833 – Birth of Adam Lindsay Gordon, Australian poet 1872 - World's largest gold nugget (215 kg) found in New South Wales (Holtermann Nugget) 1895 - Birth of Lewis Mumford, cultural historian/city planner/writer 1931 – Birth of John Le Carré, British novelist (The Spy Who Came in from the Cold)  Adam Lindsay Gordon(Born this day 1833) Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone,
KINDNESS in another's trouble,
COURAGE in your own
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 20, 2010 6:07:26 GMT 10
Wednesday, 20 October
Sikh Religion: Birth of founder, Guru Nanak Dev ji
Bahá'í Faith: Birth of the Báb (1819)1632 - Birth of Bro. Sir Christopher Wren, England, astronomer/great architect 1854 - Birth of Arthur Rimbaud, France, poet/adventurer (Illuminations) 1859 - Birth of John Dewey, philosopher, educational theorist/writer (Learn by doing) 1890 – Death of Bro. Sir Richard Burton, English explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist 1891 – Birth of Sir James Chadwick, English physicist who discovered the neutron 1926 – Death of Eugene Debs, American labor activist and presidential candidate 1953 - The Grand Lodge of the State of Israel was instituted  Bro. Sir Christopher Wren(Born this day 1632) If you want to see my monument, look around you!
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 21, 2010 12:20:07 GMT 10
Thursday, 21 October2137 - BCE - 1st recorded total eclipse of the sun, China 1772 - Birth of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet (Rime of the Ancient Mariner) 1790 - Birth of Alphonse de Lamartine, French writer, poet 1805 - Battle of Trafalgar (death of Admiral Horatio Nelson) 1833 - Birth of Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Stockholm, created dynamite & Peace Prizes 1914 - Birth of Martin Gardner, Scientific American math & puzzles columnist 1969 - Death of Jack Kerouac, US Beat poet  Martin Gardner(Born this day 1914) Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads:
ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant generals
- the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history,
the great scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned, if at all
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 22, 2010 5:13:12 GMT 10
Friday, 22 October0741 - Death of French leader Charles Martel, vanquisher of the Saracens 1806 - Death of 'Lord' Timothy Dexter, American eccentric 1834 - Creation in London of the South Australian Lodge of Friendship No. 613 (first in S.A.) 1844 – Birth of Sarah Bernhardt, French stage actress 1919 - Birth of Doris Lessing, novelist (Golden Notebook) 1920 - Birth of Timothy Leary, Harvard prof, LSD taker 1936 – Birth of Bobby Seale, US civil rights activist  Timothy Dexter(Born this day 1806) An ungrateful man is like a hog under a tree eating acorns,
but never looking up to see where they come from
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 23, 2010 6:00:24 GMT 10
Saturday, 23 October4004 - BCE - According to the sacred timeline worked out by Archbishop James Ussher, "the heavens and the earth" were created on this date at 9:00 a.m. (GMT) 1641 - Thousands of Scottish and English settlers around Dublin [url=http://www.irelandseye.com/aarticles/history/events/dates/cromwell.shtm
]massacred by Irish nationalists[/url][/b] 1844 - Birth of [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Riel
]Louis Riel[/url][/b], Manitoba, leader of insurrection of Métis 1903 - [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Ellingwood_Abbot
]Francis Ellingwood Abbot[/url][/b], theologian (Scientific Theism), dies at 66 1942 - Birth of Michael Crichton, US novelist (Andromeda Strain, Congo, Looker) 1942 – Birth of Dame Anita Roddick, British businesswoman and human rights activist 1958 - Boris Pasternak, Soviet novelist, wins Nobel Prize for Literature  Felix Bloch, US physicist (Nobel 1952) (Born this day 1905) It is inevitable that many ideas of the young mind
will later have to give way to the hard realities of life
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 24, 2010 11:41:04 GMT 10
Sunday, 24 October
Mesopotamia: Commemoration of Lilith
United Nations Day1260 - Chartres Cathedral in France was consecrated 1601 - Death of Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer, alchemist 1868 - Birth of Bro. Alexandra David-Néel, first foreign woman explorer of Tibet 1929 - 'Black Thursday' crash of the New York Stock Exchange 1945 - United Nations Charter becomes effective 1970 - Salvador Allende Gossens elected president of Chile 1991 - Death of Gene Roddenberry, US Star Trek creator  Tycho Brahe(Died this day 1601) With a firm and steadfast mind one should hold under all
conditions, that everywhere the earth is below and the sky
above, and to the energetic man, every region is his fatherlandSimilar to the following statement by Bro. Alexandra David-Néel (born this day 1868): If "heaven is the Lord's," the earth is the inheritance of
man, and that consequently any honest traveller has the
right to walk as he chooses, all over that globe which is his
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