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Festival of the Ludi Apollinares,
ancient Rome (Jul
6 - 13)
Dog Days,
ancient Rome (Jul 3
- Aug 11)
Feast day of St Andrew of
Rinn
Feast day of St Ansbald
Feast day of St Balay
Feast day of St Epiphania
Feast day of St Hermagorus
Feast day of St Hilarion
Feast day of St Ignatius
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Feast day of St Jason
Feast day of St John
Gualbert, abbot
(Great snapdragon, Antirrhinum
purpureum, is
today's plant, dedicated to this saint.)
Feast day of St John Jones
Feast day of St John Naisen
Feast day of St John Tanaca
Feast day of St John the
Georgian
Feast day of St Menulphus
Feast day of St Monica Naisen
Feast day of Ss Nabor and Felix, martyrs
Feast day of St Paternian
Feast day of St Paulinus of
Antioch
Feast day of St Susanna
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Hakata
Yamagasa, Japan (Jul 1 - 15)
Running of the
Bulls, Pamplona, Spain (Jul 6 - 14)
Gion
Matsuri,
Kyoto, Japan (all of July)
Kilburn Feast
"Take care of your money if you visit Kilburn, North Yorkshire,
today. At the end of Kilburn's feast and fair, there is a procession
with a 'mayor' and a 'mayoress' who is actually a man dressed in
women's clothes. The mayor and mayoress try to get money out of the
bystanders by fining them for the silliest reasons they can dream
up." Source
Battle of the Boyne Day, Northern Ireland (see Irish calendar).
The Twelfth
Annual Protestant
celebrations on the 12th of July,
originating in Ireland, commonly
known as The Twelfth but also as, Orangemen's Day
or
as the Boyne
celebrations, commemorating the Battle of
the Boyne in 1690 and the Glorious
Revolution. Commonly celebrated in Ulster, Scotland,
England
and Canada.
Independence
Day, Kiribati
Naadam,
Mongolia and
Inner Mongolia region of
China
(Jul 11
-13) Independence
Day,
São
Tomé and Príncipe Sunset and sunrise occur along Manhattan's
street grid centreline
Rainmaker Day, Salem, Oregon, USA Center
Pivot Irrigation Day, Colorado,
USA
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1730 Josiah Wedgwood, English potter
and industrialist
1807 Thomas Hawksley (d. 1893), civil engineer
1817 Henry David Thoreau (d. May 6, 1862),
American tax resister, anti-war activist, essayist and author, most famous
for Walden, his book about voluntary simplicity and living close to Nature,
and his influential
treatise on civil disobedience (Civil
Disobedience), which inspired Mahatma Gandhi
and Martin
Luther King among countless others around the world and down
through time to this day.
From Wikipedia:
Thoreau was a philosopher of nature and its relation to the human
condition. In his early years, he accepted the ideas of Transcendentalism, an eclectic
philosophy that included among its advocates Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Bronson Alcott.
He embarked on a two-year experiment in simple
living on July 4, 1845 when
he moved to a second-growth forest around the shores of beautiful Walden
Pond, not far from his friends and family in Concord. He left
Walden Pond on September 6, 1847 to
live with his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson and Emerson's
family in Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau refused to pay taxes in 1846,
based on his opposition to the Mexican
War, and was later jailed. He described this event in his
popular essay 'Civil Disobedience', which influenced Leo
Tolstoy, Mohandas Gandhi, and Martin Luther King.
Emerson walked by the jail one day and
found Thoreau inside for refusal to pay tax that would pay for war.
Emerson asked, "Henry, what are you doing in there?!" The author
of Walden looked at the great transcendental essayist and
asked, "No, Waldo, the question is, what are you doing out
there?"
"Writer, philosopher, and naturalist Henry David Thoreau was
born … in Concord, Massachusetts. Associated with the
Concord-based literary movement called New England
Transcendentalism, he embraced the Transcendentalist belief in the
universality of creation, and the primacy of personal insight and
experience. Thoreau's advocacy of simple, principled living
remains compelling, while his writings on the relationship between
people and the environment helped define the nature essay.
"After graduating from Harvard in
1837, Thoreau held a series of odd jobs. Encouraged by Concord
neighbor and friend Ralph Waldo
Emerson, he started publishing essays, poems, and reviews in
the transcendentalist magazine The Dial. 'A Natural
History of Massachusetts,' (1842) revealed his talent for
writing about nature.
"From 1845 to 1847, Thoreau moved to a
hut on the edge of Walden Pond, a small glacial lake near Concord.
Guided by the maxim 'Simplify, simplify,' he strictly limited
his expenditures, his possessions, and his contact with others
..." Source
"Climate change is devastating the
flowers of Walden Pond, picking off those species that cannot
react to rising temperatures.
"Comparing data meticulously gathered by Henry David Thoreau
more than a century and a half ago with more recent
observations, Harvard biologists report in the
Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences that more than a
quarter of Walden's plant species have already been lost. And an
additional 36 percent are in imminent danger, including lilacs,
roses and buttercups."
Source (Related:
Phenology in the Book of Days)
NPR: Thoreau's
Walden, Present at the Creation
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Thoreau
Kamo no Chōmei, Japanese
Thoreau
Hermitary: resources and
reflections on hermits and solitude
1849 Sir William Osler, physician, author,
professor of medicine (d. 1919)
1854 George Eastman (d. 1932),
American inventor (roll
film), developer of the cheap camera (Kodak) and
philanthropist. His
roll film was also the basis for the invention of the motion
picture film, used by early filmmakers Thomas Edison, the Lumière Brothers, and Georges Méliès.
During his lifetime, he gave away an estimated $US100
million, mostly to the University of Rochester and the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (under the name of 'Mr Smith').
1855
David
Mackenzie Angus
(d. February
21, 1901), Scottish-born Australian bookseller, partner with
George
Robertson in the prominent book publisher and bookseller,
Angus &
Robertson.
Lawson & Co: associations with Henry and Louisa Lawson
1864
George Washington Carver, African-American scientist,
humanitarian and educator.
Carver was born into a slave family and received
hardly any formal education, but he went on to gain renown for his
scientific work in the areas of agriculture and the manufacture of
synthetics from peanuts, soybeans and sweet potatoes. This inspiring
man worked for educational opportunities for other
African-Americans.
1868 Stefan George, (d. 1933) poet
1870 Louis II of Monaco (d. 1949)
1882 Tod Browning (d. 1962), film director
1884 Amedeo Modigliani, (d. 1920) Italian painter and sculptor
1886 Jean Hersholt (d. 1956), film director, actor
1892
Harry Piel
(d. 1963), actor, film director and producer
The things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.
R Buckminster Fuller
 1895
R Buckminster
Fuller ('Bucky'; d. July 1, 1983), American visionary, designer, architect, inventor, and writer
(I
Seem to be a Verb; Synergetics); popularizer of the geodesic dome.
Fuller
wrote 28 books, coining and popularizing terms such as 'spaceship
earth', 'ephemeralization',
and 'synergetics'.
"Bucky has gained renown as an inventor and designer (of the
Dymaxion house, car and map), the creator of the geodesic dome,
the man who coined the term 'Spaceship Earth' and organized the
World Game, the mathematician who discovered Synergetics, and as
a dogged individualist whose genius has been felt throughout the
world. He made his mark in areas of architecture, mathematics,
philosophy, religion, urban development and design, naturalism,
physics, numerology, art and literature, industry and
technology."
Source
"In 1927, at the age of 32, Buckminster Fuller
stood on the shores of Lake Michigan, prepared to throw himself
into the freezing waters. His first child had died. He was
bankrupt, discredited and jobless, and he had a wife and new-born
daughter. On the verge of suicide, it suddenly struck him that his
life belonged, not to himself, but to the universe. He chose at
that moment to embark on what he called 'an experiment to
discover what the little, penniless, unknown individual might be
able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity.' Over the next
fifty-four years, he proved, time and again, that his most
controversial ideas were practical and workable.
"During the course of his remarkable
experiment he:
•was awarded 25 U.S. patents
•authored 28 books
•received 47 honorary doctorates in the arts, science,
engineering and the humanities
•received dozens of major architectural and design awards
including, among many others, the Gold Medal of the American
Institute of Architects and the Gold Medal of the Royal Institute
of British Architects
•created work which found itself into the permanent collections
of museums around the world
•circled the globe 57 times, reaching millions through his public
lectures and interviews."
Source: Buckminster Fuller Institute
Cool online puzzle
based on Bucky's world map
Bucky at Wikipedia
USA
releases Bucky postage stamp, July 12, 2004
The
Buckminster Alternative Fuller's
life as a lesson in living
1895 Oscar Hammerstein II (d. 1960), American
lyricist known for his work with Richard Rodgers on various musicals
1902
Günther Anders
(d. 1992), philosopher and writer
1904 Pablo Neruda (d. September 23,
1973), Chilean
poet and Communist politician, winner of the Nobel
Prize for literature in 1971
1908 Milton Berle (d. 2002), American comedian
1909
Joe DeRita ('Curly Joe'; d. 1993), former member
of the Three Stooges
1917 Andrew Wyeth, artist
1920
Beah Richards (d. 2000), actress
1922 Mark Hatfield, former US Senator from Oregon
1930
Gordon Pinsent, actor, director, writer
1933
Donald E Westlake, author
1934 Van
Cliburn, pianist
1937 Bill
Cosby, American comedian, actor
1937 Lionel
Jospin, Prime Minister of France
1948
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
(d. 1997), musician
1951
Cheryl Ladd, American actress
1965 Mauro Gandini, economist
1976 Matthew R. Prosser, composer,
conductor and music historian
1984 Gareth Gates, British singer
1991 Erik Per Sullivan, actor, Malcolm in the Middle
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1536 Death of Erasmus of Rotterdam, Dutch writer and
philosopher.
1543
King Henry VIII of
England married his sixth and last wife, Catherine
Parr at Hampton
Court Palace.
1573
Spanish forces under the Duke
of Alva captured Haarlem
after a seven month siege.
1580
The Ostrog
Bible, the first printed Bible
in a Slavic
language, was published.
1690
Williamite
war in Ireland: Battle
of the Boyne (Gregorian
calendar) - The army of William
III of England defeats that of the deposed King James
VII of Scotland and II of England.
1691 Williamite
war in Ireland: Battle
of Aughrim (Julian
calendar) – The decisive victory of William's
forces in Ireland.
1712
Death
of Richard Cromwell
(b.
1626), Protector of
the British realms from September 3, 1658 till May 25, 1659, following
the death of his father, Oliver
Cromwell.
1738
"In 1738 a strange creature was fished from the water round Exeter. It resembled
a man about four foot tall, 'with a Genital Member of considerable size - with
Fins at his thighs, and larger ones like Wings - at his shoulders - and two
spout holes behind his eyes.' In1978 a garage in Galax, Virginia, was bombarded
by nails of various sizes for the third day running. Many were observed flying
from the front and back doors, sometimes from both at once. Mechanics collected
almost 400. The police were completely baffled." Source
1759 British cannon
started firing on French
at Quebec, from
Lévis,
Quebec.
1789 Fire engulfed Paris following two days of rioting.
1799 Britain passed the
Combination Act, which prevented groups of
workers trying to improve working conditions.
1812 War
of 1812: The United
States invaded Canada
at Windsor,
Ontario.
1826 The British Government ruled that English sterling currency was
to be used in Australia.
1862 The Medal
of Honor was authorised by the US
Congress.
1873 USA: Rain of frogs over
Kansas City,
Missouri.
1878
Turkey
ceded Cyprus to Britain.
1906 France: Alfred Dreyfus, French
army officer falsely
accused of treason, was vindicated (pardoned on July 21).
"On 12 July 1906 ... the Supreme Court of Appeal, with all three Chambers of France's highest court sitting jointly, annulled the Rennes verdict. It pronounced the total rehabilitation of Dreyfus. It proclaimed his innocence. A week later in the same courtyard of the Ecole Militaire in Paris, Dreyfus was decorated a Knight of the Legion of Honour. When the crowd shouted "Long live Dreyfus!", he replied in the words he had used in that place twelve years earlier: 'Vive la
France!' ...
"The fact that national security was repeatedly asserted as the reason for the secrecy of the Dreyfus trial should make us cautious about that claim. But for the gradual emergence of the truth, the army and many other powerful interests in France, would have closed the Dreyfus case. Gradually, most people would have forgotten him. He would have rotted away on Devil's Island. Politicians of all persuasions, and the demonstrators on the streets, would have continued to denounce Dreyfus as a traitor. It was only a band of supporters, and the gradual emergence of the truth, that saved this innocent man from that fate. That was not the outcome of the closed and secret trial which officialdom wanted ...
"What changed the outcome of the Dreyfus case was the gradual adherence of intellectuals and civil libertarians to the Dreyfus side."
The Hon Justice Michael Kirby AC CMG Source:
The Dreyfus Case a century on: Ten lessons for Australia (PDF)
The
Dreyfus Affair Emile
Zola
1910
Charles Stewart Rolls becomes the first British person to be
killed in an air crash.
1917
The Bisbee Deportation
Final day of vigilante
deportation of miners at Bisbee, Arizona, USA. Several thousand armed vigilantes
rounded up 1,186 members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) yesterday and herded them
into boxcars to be shipped off and dumped in the New Mexico desert.
1918 Death of Dragutin
Lerman (b. 1864), Croatian
Africa explorer.
1932 Lambeth
Bridge, London,
was opened by King George V of the United Kingdom.
1944 UK: The
RAF became the first air force to use
jets.
1950 René
Pleven became Prime Minister of France.
1951
Governor of Illinois
Adlai Stevenson called the
National Guard to stop rioting in
Cicero, Illinois when a mob of more than 3,000 tried to prevent an African-American family from moving into the city.
1952 Dwight D Eisenhower resigned from the US Army in order to
campaign for the presidency.
1958
The Quarry Men
(later called The
Beatles) recorded 'In
Spite of All the Danger' (written by
Paul
McCartney and
George
Harrison, and the only track ever to be attributed to them) at
the Liverpool home studio of one Percy Phillips. It is claimed to be
the earliest extant recording made by
John Lennon,
Paul, George and some friends. The song was not released to the
public until it appeared on
1995's
Anthology 1 collection.
1961 A rain of peaches fell over
Shreveport, Louisiana, USA.
1962 A garbage dump in Pennsylvania, USA erupted
beneath the ground, burning into extensive coal mine tunnels. As late as 1984,
the fire was still burning.
1969 About half of
America's Top 40 AM radio stations banned the Beatles' 'The Ballad of John and Yoko' because of the lyrics,
"Christ, you know it
ain't easy ...". [In Australia, many stations played the song with
'Christ' beeped out.]
Wilson's
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1975 São Tomé and Príncipe declared
independence.
1979 The
island nation of Kiribati declared independence.
1982 The official end to the war between Britain and Argentina over
the Falkland Islands.
1987 In London,
The Sunday
Times was in the dock over the
Spycatcher
case. (Malcolm Turnbull, later [2008] Australian Opposition Leader, was the
lawyer who overcame the British Government's suppression orders against former
MI5 agent,
Peter Wright's exposé
book,
Spycatcher.)
1993 A magnitude
7.8 earthquake
off the shore of Hokkaido, Japan launched a
devastating tsunami,
killing 202 on the small island of Okushiri.
1993 Chief Superintendent of Police, Michael Benning, of Southend,
England, narrowly escaped injury when a huge lump of green ice, believed to be
from an aircraft's leaky chemical toilet, smashed through the roof of his
house.
1995
Chicago heat wave: In one of the greatest natural calamities of
North American history, an estimated 739 people died in a heatwave
that peaked between July 12 and
16. The
tragedy was under-reported in the American and international media.
Eric Klinenberg, associate professor
of sociology at New York University, wrote in
Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago (2002)
that that "a city, in its decision to operate like a corporation,
experienced the breakdown of massive social services" and the
resulting "widening cracks in the social foundations of America's
cities". According to Klinenberg, the large number of deaths was due
to "a blend of extreme weather, political mismanagement, and
abandonment of vulnerable city residents".
'When
Chicago Baked: Unheeded lessons from another great urban catastrophe',
By Eric Klinenberg
1998 KDE 1.0 was released.
2002 USA: A lighting strike set off the
Sour Biscuit Fire in Oregon and
northern California,
which had burned 499,570 acres (2,020 km²) when finally contained on
December 31.
2002 Gay
rights: The
Superior Court of Ontario ordered Ontario to
recognise same-sex marriages.2004
Pedro
Santana Lopes was officially appointed Prime
Minister of Portugal. 2005
Prince Albert
II was enthroned as ruler of the Principality
of Monaco. 2005
Thunder
Horse, the largest semi-submersible
oil
platform in the world, was found listing badly after
Hurricane
Dennis.
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