Today in History

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Thursday, 4 November

1752 - Bro. George Washington, was made a Mason in Fredericksburg Lodge in Virginia

1862 - Birth of Eden Phillpotts, English novelist/poet/playwright (Red Madymaynes)

1879 - Birth of Will Rogers, Oologah Indian Territory (Oklahoma), humourist

1908 – Birth of Sir Józef Rotblat, Polish-born British physicist

1916 - Birth of Walter Cronkite, US news anchor (CBS)

1918 – Death of Wilfred Owen, English poet ('Anthem for Doomed Youth')

1922 - Howard Carter discovers tomb of Tutankhamen in Egypt

Joel Barlow, American poet, diplomat and politician
Wrote first treaty between USA & another nation (Libya)
(Signed this day, Triploli, 1796)



As the government of the United States of America
is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion,
– as it has in itself no character of enmity against
the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen,
– and as the said States never have entered into any
war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation,
it is declared by the parties that no pretext
arising from religious opinions shall ever
produce an interruption of the harmony
existing between the two countries

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Friday, 5 November
U.K.: Guy Fawkes Night

1605 - Gunpowder Plot; Guy Fawkes tries to blow up English Parliament.

1855 – Birth of Eugene V Debs, labor organizer, Socialist US presidential candidate (d. October 20, 1926),

1857 – Birth of Ida Tarbell, investigative journalist

1884 – Birth of James Elroy Flecker, English writer (The Old Ships)

1885 - Birth of Will Durant, writer/historian (Story of Civilization)

1911 - Birth of Roy Rogers, Cincinnati Ohio, cowboy (Happy Trails, Roy Rogers Show)

1943 – Birth of Sam Shepard, Pultzer Prize-winning American author and actor

Vandana ShivaIndian philosopher, environmental activist, eco feminist and author
(Born this day 1952)

I believe Gandhi is the only person who knew about real democracy
— not democracy as the right to go and buy what you want, but dem-
ocracy as the responsibility to be accountable to everyone around you.
Democracy begins with freedom from hunger, freedom from unemploy-
ment, freedom from fear, and freedom from hatred. To me, those are
the real freedoms on the basis of which good human societies are based

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Saturday, 6 November
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1836 - Birth of Francis Ellingwood Abbot, Boston, theologian (Scientific Theism)

1851 – Birth of Charles Dow, American journalist (Dow-Jones & Co., Wall Street Journal)

1854 - Birth of John Philip Sousa, Wash DC, march king (Stars & Stripes Forever)

1880 – Birth of Robert Musil, novelist (The Man Without Qualities)

1884 - British protectorate proclaimed over southeast New Guinea

1917 – Bolshevik revolution begins with the capture of the Winter Palace

1943 - Birth of Michael Schwerner, civil rights worker, murdered in 1964

Jack Micheline, American beat poet
(Born this day 1929)

Good work doesn't sell well they claim. I am a rare human spirit, the work is open, free and alive.
I'm sorry if I frighten them. Maybe they want stories with condoms on them, clean and safe.
My work is ALIVE! This animal is alive. Sad for this unbrave world. Sad state indeed. It makes one scream ...

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Sunday, 7 November

1687 - Birth of Rev. Dr William Stukeley, English antiquarian

1867 - Birth of Madame Marie Sklodowska Curie, discovered radium (Nobel 1903, 1911)

1903 - Birth of Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist/ethologist/writer (Nobel 1973)

1913 - Death of Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and biologist

1913 - Birth of Albert Camus, Algerian-born French existentialist philosopher and author

1926 - Birth of Dame Joan Sutherland, Australian opera singer (d. 10/10/10)

1944 - Hannah Senesh (Szenes), Jewish poet, executed by Nazis in Budapest

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(Murdered this day 1944)

Blessed is the match, consumed in kindling flame.
Blessed is the flame that burns in the heart's secret places.
Blessed is the heart that knows, for honors sake, to stop its beating.
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Monday, 8 November
Celtic: Gwynn ap Nudd's Underworld day

0392 - Emperor Theodosius banned all pagan worship in his realm and put an end to the Olympic games

1308 - Death of Duns Scotus, Scottish philosopher, theologian

1656 - Birth of Sir Edmond Halley, 1st to calculate comet's orbit (Halley's Comet)

1847 - Birth of Bram Stoker, Irish novelist (Dracula)

1897 - Birth of Dorothy Day, US activist and author (Stump the Authors)

1907 - In Australia, Judge HB Higgins introduced the world's first basic wage concept.

1978 - Death of Norman Rockwell, US artist

Christiaan Barnard
South African surgeon (performed 1st heart transplant)

It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms

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Tuesday, 9 November
Craft: Feast day of Quatuor Coronati, the Four Crowned Martyrs
London Guilds: Lord Mayor’s Day

1802 - Birth of Elijah P Lovejoy, American newspaper publisher/abolitionist

1818 - Birth of Ivan Turgenev, Russia, novelist/poet/playwright (Fathers & Sons)

1841 - Birth of M.W. Bro. Edward VII, king of England (1901-10)

1877 - Birth of Allama Iqbal, Indian philosopher-poet

1934 - Birth of Carl Sagan, NYC, astronomer/author/professor (Cosmos, Broca's Brain)

1938 - "Kristallnacht" (Crystal Night), Nazi stormtroopers attacked Jews

1953 – Death of Dylan Thomas, Welsh author-poet (b. 27/10/1914)

Jean Monnet, French-European, internationalist
(Born this day 1889)

Nothing is possible without men; nothing is lasting without institutions

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Wednesday, 10 November
France: Feast day of Reason

1483 - Birth of Martin Luther, Eisleben, Germany, founded Protestantism

1697 - Birth of William Hogarth England, satiric painter/engraver (Rake's Progress)

1728 – Birth of Oliver Goldsmith, Irish born British playwright

1759 - Birth of Friedrich von Schiller, Germany, poet/lyricist (Ode to Joy)

1835 – Birth of Lakshmibai (Rani), the Boudicca of India

1938 - Kemal Atatürk, 1st President of Turkey, dies

1960 – [US] Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill

In Women of the French Revolution (pp.128/9), Linda Kelly tells us of this day, the Feast Day of Reason, in France following the revolution:

At the same time that women on grounds of morals or expediency, were being forced back into private life, a chosen few were offered a symbolic public role. As goddesses of Reason, in the newly instituted state religion of that name, they presided over festivals all over France. The Jacobin government, while denying women the right of political expression, had no objection to placing them on an official pedestal…

Notre Dame was taken over as a Temple of Reason, and a festival to inaugurate the new cult was planned for 20 Brumaire (November 10). The Temple required its tutelary deity, a living figure—since a statue might recall the Virgin Mary—who could be changed from festival to festival. The chosen goddesses, it was decreed, were to be chosen among persons "whose character renders beauty respectable and whose severity of morals and manners repulses license". It was an ideal not always realised; festivals of Reason, more often than not, degenerated into saturnalia.

The opening festival took place as planned in Notre Dame. The cathedral had been stripped of its religious ornaments, and a Temple of Philosophy erected in the aisle. The goddess of Reason, a well known actress, Mademoiselle Maillard, dressed in white with a long blue cloak and scarlet cap of liberty, was carried in procession to the Temple and enthroned to the strains of the "Ça ira" and "Marseillaise". "Chaste ceremony, sad, dry and boring," commented Michelet in his Femmes de la Révolution.

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Thursday, 11 November
Armistice Day

1620 - 41 pilgrims land in Massachusetts, sign Mayflower Compact (just & equal laws)

1831 – Death of Nat Turner, former US slave, led a violent insurrection, hanged

1887 – Execution of Haymarket anarchists, Chicago

1917 - Death of Lydia Kamekeha Liliuokalani, queen and last monarch of Hawaii

1918 - Armistice Day-WW I ends (at 11 AM on Western Front)

1975 - The Dismissal: Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam removed by crown

1992 - General Synod of the Church of England voted for the Ordination of women

Ned Kelly, Australian bush ranger
(Hanged this day 1880)

Such is Life
(last words)

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Friday, 12 November
Ancient Rome: Festival of Jupiter
World: Elizabeth Cady Stanton Day (1815)

0764 - Tibetan troops occupied Chang'an, the capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, for fifteen days.

1035 - Canute "The Great", King of the Danes (1016-1035), dies at 41

1651 - Birth of Juana Ines de La Cruz, Mexico, poet/nun/feminist (Primer Sueno)

1729 - Birth of Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French navigator and military commander

1815 - Birth of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Johnstown NY, suffragist (80 Years & More)

1817 - Birth of Bahá'u'lláh (Mirza Husayn Ali), founded Bahá'ís faith

1840 - Birth of Auguste Rodin, France, sculptor (Kiss, Thinker)

Bahá'u'lláh
(Born this day 1817)

So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth

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Saturday, 13 November
Ancient Egypt: Lamentations of Isis

0354 - Birth of St Augustine of Hippo, Numidia, Algeria, former Manichean, Christian Father

1460 – Death of Henry the Navigator, prince of Portugal, [G.M. of Knights of Christ (succeeded K.T.)]

1714 - Birth of William Shenstone, English poet

1850 - Birth of Robert Louis Stevenson, Scotland, author (Treasure Island)

1869 - Birth of Helene Stöcker, German feminist, pacifist and publicist

1924 - Birth of Motoo Kimura, Japanese population geneticist

1955 - Birth of Whoopi Goldberg, American actress

James C. Maxwell, Scottish physicist (Treatise on Electricity)
(Born this day 1831)

At quite uncertain times and places, the atoms left their heavenly path,
and by fortuitous embraces, engendered all that being hath. and though
they seem to cling together, and form 'associations' here, yet, soon or
late, they burst their tether, and through the depths of space career