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 Feast
day of Saints Maximian, Malchus, Martinian, Dionysius, John,
Serapion, and Constantine, the Seven Sleepers
of Ephesus
Their feast day is July 27 in the Roman Catholic church and
August 2/4 and
October 22/23 in the Greek Orthodox church.
Prototypes
of Washington
Irving's Rip Van Winkle
These Christian
saints
were Ephesians (ie, from Ephesus in Asia Minor, or
modern Turkey), walled up by
Roman Emperor
Decius
(249 - 251) in a cave
for their faith, in 250
CE. They were found by masons in 479, and were only
asleep, and thought that they had been asleep only one night,
instead of 229 years.
Rubbing from his eyes the
sleep of more than two centuries, Malchus made his way into town to
buy bread for the others, and was amazed to see crosses on
buildings, for when he fell asleep Decius's Roman gods were all
that could be worshipped. The bakers were amazed at the coins he
offered, and thought that the young man had found treasure.
When Malchus saw them talking together, he was
afraid that they might take him before the emperor, and asked to be
let go, saying they could keep the strange money – and the bread.
The bakers said if he would share the treasure they wouldn't tell
anyone, but Malchus was so afraid he couldn't speak. The bakers
tied a cord around his neck and dragged him through the city, where
all the citizens abused him, saying that he had found a treasure and
was keeping it secret.
The outraged townsfolk (no doubt brandishing
torches) brought him before St Martin and Antipater. Malchus
reaffirmed that it was his money and he'd got it from members of
his family, but, of course, his interrogators had not heard of these
relatives, and asked how he could have money hundreds of years old.
The bishop Martin took Malchus up to the cave of
which the youth spoke, and was amazed by the sight, six more young
men yawning over their Froot Loops*, "theyr visages lyke unto
roses flouryng", as a medieval chronicler wrote.
It wasn't
long before the emperor came from Constantinople and saw the young
saints, whose "vysages shone like to the sonne". He commanded
that there be built sepulchres of gold and silver for them, but they
came to him that night and asked that their bodies be allowed to lie
on the earth, which he did for them … and there they died like the
rest of us will. Or, so it is said.
This
Christianized version of an older legend was already current in the
6th century ...
Read on at the Seven
Sleepers page in the Scriptorium
Sleepers in Islam
The legend has an echo in the Koran. In the holy
book of Islam, the
seven men of Ephesus slept for 309 years and were accompanied by a dog,
Kratim
(aka Al Rakim, Katmir or Ketmir). This canine became a great
prophet and philosopher after its sleep ...
Read on at the Seven
Sleepers page in the Scriptorium
A German proverb says, "If it rains
on Siebenschlafer (Seven Sleepers Day), the rain will stay seven weeks more."
"What's another sign
that spring is coming? Seeing one of the 'Seven Sleepers' up and
about. There is an ancient legend of the Seven Sleepers, but,
according to Mary Blocksma's fine book Naming Nature, this is
a title also given to the seven mammals of North America that
hibernate for much of the winter. They are bats, bears, chipmunks,
jumping mice, raccoons, skunks, and woodchucks. Of these, raccoons
and chipmunks might only really sleep for a few weeks at a time —
you might see them out on a warm winter night or day. But at least
in the northern U.S. (where winters can be quite hard), chipmunks,
raccoons, and skunks are usually up for good by the end of February,
while the other four 'Sleepers' continue to hibernate into
March." Source:
Mother Earth News
Today
is a rain prognostication
day. Read more here
in the Scriptorium
Dog Days,
ancient Rome (Jul 3
- Aug 11)
Septinu Guletaju Diena, ancient Latvia
Seven Sleepers Day.
Procession
of the Witches, Belgium
Source: The Phoenix
and Arabeth
1992 Calendar
Feast day of St Alphonsus
Pacheco
Feast day of St Andrew the
Catechist
Feast day of St Anthusa
Feast day of St Arethas
Feast day of St Aurelius
Feast day of St Congail
Feast day of St Ecclesius
Feast day of St Felix of
Nicomedia
Feast day of St George
of Palestine
Feast day of St Hermippus
Feast day of St Hermocrates
Feast day of St Hermolaus
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Nicomedia
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Nicomedia
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Bufalari
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Magdelene Martinengo
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St Theobald
of Marly
Feast
day of St Titus Brandsma
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Matsuri,
Kyoto, Japan (all of July)
Yamaguchi Gion Matsuri, Japan (Jul 20 -
27)
Yasaka Jinja
Festival, Yasaka Shrine, Shimane Prefecture, Japan (Jul 20, 24, 27)
Esala Perahera
(Festival of Buddha's Tooth), Sri Lanka (Jul 22 - Aug 1) (2004)
Revolution Day, 2nd Day, Cuba
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551 BCE Kǒng
Fūzǐ (Confucius
or Kongfuzi, literal
meaning: 'Teacher/Master Kong'; d. August 27, 479 BCE, traditional
dates) Chinese
thinker and social philosopher,
whose teachings and philosophy
have deeply influenced East
Asian life and thought.
Today
is one traditional date of birth of the Chinese sage. Another is September
28 (qv).
Wikipedia
says: His philosophy emphasised personal and governmental
morality,
correctness of social
relationships, justice
and sincerity.
These values gained prominence in China
over other doctrines, such as Legalism
or Daoism
during the Han
Dynasty. Confucius' thoughts have been developed into a system
of philosophy known as Confucianism.
It was introduced to Europe by the Jesuit
Matteo
Ricci, who was the first to Latinise
the name as "Confucius".
His teachings are known primarily through
the Analects
of Confucius, a collection of "brief aphoristic
fragments", which was compiled many years after his death.
Modern historians do not believe that any specific documents can be
said to have been writen by Confucius, but for nearly 2,000 years he
was thought to be the editor or author of all the Five
Classics such as the Classic
of Rites, and the Spring
and Autumn Annals.
"Confucius (551-479 BC –
Wade-Giles K'ung-fu-tzu or Pinyin Kongfuzi), or 'Master K'ung,'
becomes, long after his death, the dominant Chinese philosopher
both morally and politically. Mencius (Meng Tzu) (c.
390-305 BC) extends and systematizes Confucius's ideas; but,
with Confucius's adoption in the Hàn Dynasty as
the official moral and political doctrine of the State, the
Confucian tradition became so broad that 'Scholar' or 'Literatus' became all but synonymous with
'Confucian,'
and so Confucianism could simply be called the Ju Chia [Ru
Jia], or School of the Literati. As one of the 'Three Ways,'
together with Taoism and Buddhism, Confucianism also grew into
one of the traditional religions of the Hàn Chinese …" Source
 "Before the birth of Confucius, a
'Ch'i
Lin' (unicorn), a mythical beast synonymous with auspicious
omens, is said to have appeared before Yen ChêTsai, the Mother-to-be
of Confucius. From the mouth of the Ch'I Lin slipped a jade
tablet inscribed with a prophecy, 'A child as pure as crystal
will be born for the continuations of the declining Chou (Dynasty)
to become a king without a kingdom'.
"The awed lady secured the unicorn with a silken
cord in an effort to keep the legendary beast in the family
courtyard. But in vain, for two nights later, the ch'I Lin had
vanished, as mysteriously as it had first appeared." Source
1740
Jeanne Baré
(d.
1803), member of
Louis Antoine de Bougainville's expedition
on the ships
La Boudeuse and
L'Étoile in
1766 - '69.
Baré was probably the first woman to have completed a voyage of
circumnavigation. Jeanne Baré joined the
expedition
disguised as a man, calling herself Jean
Baré or Bonnefoy.
Marie Louise
Victoire Girgarin, who sailed with d'Entrecasteaux, disguised as a
man
1824 Alexandre Dumas, fils (d. 1895), French
novelist and dramatist (La dame aux
camélias)
1833 Thomas George Bonney (d.
1923), geologist
1857
EAWallis
Budge
(Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge; d.
November 23,
1934),
English
Egyptologist,
Orientalist
and philologist
1857
Augusta Stowe-Gullen
(d.
September 25, 1943),
feminist and
first woman
to take a medical degree in Canada
1870
Hilaire Belloc
(d. July 16,
1953), French-born English writer (The Bad Child's Book of Beasts)
Works by
Hilaire Belloc at Project
Gutenberg
1886
Ernst May (d. 1970), architect
1901 Rudy
Vallee (d. 1986), singer
1903
Nikolai Cherkasov (d. 1966), actor
1904 Isaac Bashevis Singer (d. 1991), writer,
recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1978
1912
Hilde Domin, writer
1915 Mario Del Monaco (d. 1982), tenor
1916
Elizabeth Hardwick, novelist
1916 Keenan Wynn (d. 1986),
American actor
1917 Bourvil
(André Raimbourg) (d. 1970), actor
1922 Norman
Lear, television producer
1931 Jerry Van Dyke, actor
1940
Pina Bausch, dancer
1944 Bobbie Gentry,
American country-folk singer (Ode to Billy Joe)
(See June 3
about the song)
1967 Juliana Hatfield, musician
1967 Kellie
Waymire (d. 2003), actress (Star Trek: Enterprise)
1977 Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, actor
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1061 Death of Pope
Nicholas II (or July 19).
1214 Battle of Bouvines: In France, Philip II of France defeated
King John
of England.
1276 Death of James
I of Aragon.
1656 Jewish religious
authorities in Amsterdam expelled 24-year-old student Benedictus de Spinoza
(1632 -
'77), from
their congregation for refusing to recant his unorthodox beliefs, for example,
the radical notion that angels do not exist.
1663 The British Parliament passed the
second Navigation Act requiring that all goods
bound for the American colonies had to be sent in English ships
from English ports.
1689 Glorious Revolution: the Battle of Killiecrankie ended.
1694 A Royal
Charter was granted to the Bank
of England. The financial genius behind the project was a Scottish
merchant (some call him a pirate) by the name of William Paterson.
He was also connected with the
failed attempt to establish the Scottish colony of Darien
on the Isthmus of Panama. In that failed utopia, a quarter of the settlers perished,
either from diseases or other misfortune; discouraged and unable to adjust to
the heat and humidity of the tropics, they set sail for Scotland via New York on
June 20, 1699.
Source
1778 American Revolution: First Battle of Ushant – British and French fleets
fought to a standoff.
1789 The
first US federal government agency, the
Department of Foreign Affairs, was established (later renamed Department of State). Thomas
Jefferson was made head of the department.
1793 Maximilien Robespierre became a member
of the Committee of Public Safety, set up to guard France against allied
European invasion after the execution of King Louis
XVI.
1836 The
first immigrant ship arrived at South Australia.
1841 Death of Mikhail
Lermontov (b. 1814), Russian poet and novelist, often called 'the poet of the Caucasus'
1844 Death of John Dalton, British chemist and physicist,
best known for investigations concerned with the Atomic Theory in
chemistry; he also gave the earliest account of the optical peculiarity known as
Daltonism or colour-blindness.
1865 Welsh settlers
arrived in Argentina
at Chubut
Valley.
1866 The
Atlantic
Cable was successfully completed, allowing transatlantic telegraph
communication for the first time.
 1893 Australia: Next door to William McNamara's first bookshop at 238 Castlereagh St,
Sydney, Larry
Petrie (Larry De Petrie; Laurence Petrie) ran a Labour Bureau to help
unemployed men find work.
After telling
Ernie Lane he was off to
blow up a non-union ship, the American anarchist booked a passage on the SS Aramac*.
On board at midnight on
Thursday, July 27 near the entrance to Moreton
Bay, Queensland, about seven nautical miles south of Point Lookout, there was a tremendous explosion in the forecabin.
"The funny thing was"
said Petrie some years later, "that the moment the bomb went off my first and
only thought was to save people's lives."
Luckily, no one was killed, but
two women nearby were slightly injured as a
bolt of flame rose through the roof of the cabin. Petrie's presence on deck immediately afterwards, especially since
the companionway was blocked with debris, aroused suspicion, his 'fake' name
did also, and he was arrested as soon as the ship berthed and charged with
attempted murder, but the case never went to court.
The reason for this appears to be that Petrie's barrister, Marshall Lyle, a
radical himself who was engaged by
Arthur Rae,
Ernest Lane and
others to defend the American, uncovered an attempt by the police to persuade a witness to
perjure himself and claim that Petrie bought explosives from him. The
Attorney-General seemed to be more concerned about how it would look if all that
came out, than if a crazy anarchist like Petrie was on the loose, so Petrie was
released after months of half-starvation and half-torture in prison.
Some of the significance of this explosion can be seen
from the uses to which it was put. The Sydney Morning Herald
editorialized on August
4, 1893 that:
"… The Aramac explosion makes the eighth
trouble on board ship within almost as many days. The Burrumbeet and the
Sydney dynamite incidents … then came an extra-ordinary accident between the Ellingamite
and the Guiding Star, the latter vessel foundering … Next the wreck
… of the steamer Hilda … and the blow up of the barque Argo in
Sydney Harbour are occurrences the origin of which continue to be regarded by
many persons with grave misgivings; and latterly the sinking of the steamer Franklin
at Townsville, and the accident to the Corea. Such a chapter of maritime
disasters is probably unparalleled in Australian shipping history within the
same short period."
Petrie and Knights
of Labor
Scottish-born Larry Petrie (1859
- March, 1901) was a good-looking man with a big
moustache who worked as a casual labourer. A co-founder of the Melbourne Anarchist Club
in 1886 and the Social Democratic League in 1889. He also tried to get a
Six-Hours Movement going to demand a six-hour working day, and formed a small branch of
the American organisation, Knights of Labor, a
Freemason-like radical sect which had been brought to Australia by WW Lyght. Henry Lawson joined, as
did William Lane, George Black, WHT McNamara and others
¶. An
anarchist by temperament and persuasion, although he didn't use the term of
himself, Petrie became
Australian Workers' Union (AWU)
Secretary-Organiser in Sydney.
At some time before the Aramac incident, Petrie lost
his arm. Verity Burgmann (In Our Time: Socialism and the Rise of Labor, 1885 -
1905, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1985, p. 30) says it was so badly broken in
a confrontation with a non-unionist in a shearing shed at Wagga Wagga, NSW, that
it had to be amputated. Another
version has it that Petrie was injured while shunting metal trucks for W
Loud of Albert Park, Melbourne, and very nearly had his mangled leg amputated as
well.
"(He) used to sing in a good, baritone voice 'The
Marseillaise' to gather a good crowd around him … Raising his only arm when
he sang 'to arms, my citizens' was always good for a laugh ... "
One day in March, 1901, while he was working as a
general watchman at the railway station at Villarrica, Paraguay following his
extreme disillusionment with William Lane and his New
Australia disaster, Petrie jumped onto the line to
push a child out of the path of an oncoming train and was himself killed.
His body was claimed by another refugee from New Australia, Rose Cadogan (Rose Summerfield).
Petrie's bombing attempt at
Sydney's main docks
 In
her old age, poet Dame Mary
Gilmore told the National
Times, May 6 - 11, 1974 of an earlier unsuccessful attempt
of Petrie's to blow up Circular Quay, the main
dock area of Sydney. No date is given, but it's probably 1892.
Petrie had left a bomb in a drain at the Quay, and some
of his associates decided to remove it. While Mary Cameron (as she was before
marrying William Gilmore) watched out for police, with great trepidation the
diminutive Member of NSW Parliament Arthur
Rae (1860 - 1943)
crawled up the drain and removed the bomb, having volunteered to do so because
at 5 feet tall he was the smallest person in the clandestine operation. Rae was
Vice President of the
AWU and one of the founders of the
Australian Labor Party.
In 1891 he was one of the first 36 Labor members elected to Parliament;
he was later a Senator in the Australian Parliament (1910
- '14, 1918
- '35). Alongside Artie Rae and
Mary at this extraordinary occurrence was Chris
Watson (1867 - 1941),
third Prime
Minister of Australia and the first Labor PM (1904).
Mary Gilmore Henry
Lawson and Larry Petrie
Dame Mary
Gilmore tells (in the Adelaide Register, August 30, 1924) that
she wrote, in a style that was her own but very
similar to Lawson's, a poem about an incident that occurred to Petrie before
this. This
poem begins "The crows kep' flyin' up, boys!" and is the poem, according
to Gilmore that so affected Lawson that he came to her house (on September 3, 1893) in City Road,
Newtown, "with a trembling lip".
In his hand, he held the cutting he had torn from William Lane's The Worker
(September 9, 1893
edition according to the
account written by eminent labour historian Dr
Bob James; September
2 according to Colin Roderick, Henry Lawson: a life, Angus and Robertson. Sydney,
1991).
'The crows kep' flyin' up, boys'
By
Mary
Gilmore
"I have to thank the crows for the
saving of my life."
L De Petrie
The crows kep' flyin' up, boys, the crows kep' flyin' up;
Rome, he seen, and whimpered, boys, though he was but a pup—
Rome, he seen, and whimpered, as he follered close as wax,
Hung his head an' dropped his tail, acreepin' in my tracks.
We seen 'em as we touched the plain, seen 'em as we crost,
Seen 'em as we hit the Bend where Simpson's boy was lost;
We cuts out by the crick, boys, an' what was it we found
Lyin' in the scrub, boys, where the crows was fly'n' round?
What was it we found, boys, that was lyin' there so still?
(The blasted crows could gather an' wait to gorge their fill).
A man an' mate we found, boys, alyin' like the dead—
Crows aflyin' up, boys, a goanner at his head!
We didn't go too near him, we didn't go too near—
We stood a bit an' waited, but not because of fear:
We thought he might be high, boys, with lyin' in the sun,
An' didn't care to start a job that couldn't well be done.
So we stopped about a minute, boys, an' then we went acrost—
And found that Larry Petrie was the man and mate was lost.
Me and Rome we got him round, and took him from the place
Where he laid all stunned an' stupid while the crows was sayin'
grace.
Lawson said: "You have beaten me on my own ground … there
isn't room for both of us. One of us must give up; there is only one Bulletin, and it
will not take from both."
Dr James writes:
"Although Lawson wished to give up for her, after a protracted
argument, complicated by their emotional regard for each other, she finally
convinced him that she would give up the style and content for him, but she also
prevailed on him at this time to 'cease writing revolution, and write Australia'."
Gilmore wrote: "I was terrified lest I should
check him and in any way hinder his early beginnings, so I insisted that I would
give up ... From then on I forced myself to write in other modes and forms; and,
in subject, kept off his ground almost without a break in all the years till
now." (Woman's World, Sydney, June 1, 1924)
("Writing in London in 1901 from memory, [Lawson] had Doc Wilde in 'A Hero
in Dingo Scrubs' hum 'fragments of an old bush song', which was none other than
[Mary Cameron's] 'The crows kept flyin' up'." Roderick, 1991)
Again from Dr Bob James: "Whatever else may be said
about the reminiscence, Dame Mary had the wrong ship (she says The Warrego)
and the wrong year (1890). Professor Roderick in his The Formative Years of
Henry Lawson, where he says Lawson met Petrie at Leigh House**, repeats the
above story, but elsewhere in the same article refers to the boat as the 'Aramac'
and provides the correct date of July 1893. Sylvia Lawson repeats the story in
her biography of Mary Gilmore and provides many of the words."
According to Roderick (1991,
p 106), in Personal History: Henry Lawson and I, Gilmore says that Petrie
told her while in Paraguay on the New Australia communal venture, that Petrie
told her that he had placed the bomb in the Aramac.
Source: The Daily Bleed
(originally in Larry Petrie
(1859 - 1901) - Australian Revolutionist?) with amendments
"Larry
Petrie is the only anarchist who in the history of Australian anarchism has been
charged with a terrorist act. Even in this case, the authorities didn¹t have the
evidence to take him to court. Considering the media hysteria that equates
anarchism with terrorism, it's ironical that no Australian anarchist has ever
been convicted of a terrorist act." Source
* "MORRO (2) was built in 1881 by Scott & Co. at Greenock with a tonnage of 170grt, a length of 125ft 9in, a beam of 23ft and a service speed of 11 knots. She was built to replace the first
Morro for service as the tender at Panama. In 1902 she was sold to J. J. McAuliffe of Valparaiso and was renamed
Araucancita in 1906. Three years later her name was changed to Aramac. In 1911 she was sold to Sociedad Lobitos Oilfield Ltda of Callao, a C.T. Bowring subsidiary, without a change of name. She was broken up in 1922."
Source
¶ The Knights of Labor was a labor union
founded in secrecy in December 1869, by a group of Philadelphia
tailors led by Uriah S Stephens.
Originally called 'The Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor', it was
designed to protect all who worked for a living. Labor Day can be traced to two
Knights' parades in New York City in 1882 and 1884. People who wonder why
Australians spell 'labour' and 'Labor' as in 'Labor Party' differently, need
look no further than the two-way street of Australia-American radical and
reformist political influences of the 19th century. The Freedom Assembly, which
operated secretly in Sydney during the tumultuous
period of 1891-93, had as members well known Australian labour
movement people such as William Lane, Ernie
Lane, WG Spence, Arthur Rae and George Black. A similar
assembly operated in Melbourne.
"How long the Wagga and/or the Sydney
Assembly, or any network of Assemblies in Australia lasted is doubtful but the
membership of the Freedom Assembly, Sydney, from 1891-93, included many
well-known labour-movement figures - William Lane, Ernie Lane, Arthur Rae,
George Black, Frank Cotton, JC Fitzpatrick, WG Spence, WH McNamara, Henry Lawson
and Donald Cameron. That it operated as a secret society is clear, but how much
of the US-derived ritual set out in documents was used is not."
Source: The Knights of
Labor and Their Context
** Leigh House, 223
Castlereagh Street (near Belmore Park, the Central Station end of the street), where the Australian Socialist League
held its meetings; "the temple, the meeting house, the forum where the
advance guard of te Labor movement, the stalwarts of socialism and of the single
tax, forgathered on Sunday nights" – William Morris Hughes, Australian Prime Minister and former ASL stalwart. Next door
was a lane, up which was 221½, the Active Service Brigade HQ, and on the other
side of the lane was 221, the second home of Bill McNamara's radical
bookshop.
More Australian
'terrorism'-related items in Wilson's Almanac
Lies,
spies and the Sydney Hilton bombing
Republican Riot, 1887,
Sydney
The
burning of Dagworth Station and the origins of 'Waltzing Matilda'
William 'Machine
Gun' McMillan Circular
Quay Riot, 1890, Sydney
Eureka
Stockade Active
Service Brigade Maritime
Strike of 1890
Shearers' Strike of
1891 Wobblies
outlawed Billy
McLean shooting
Paddlesteamer
Rodney burned Pictures
of SS Aramac
Early
progressives in the Book of Days
Louisa and
Henry Lawson – they drove each other crazy! More on Knights of
Labor
Lawson & Co:
associations with Henry and Louisa Lawson Some
activists and thinkers
1921 Researchers
at the University of Toronto, Canada, biochemist Sir
Frederick
Banting and his student, Charles Best, announced the discovery of the hormone insulin. Dr
Banting would share his 1923 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Dr Best.
1924
Holland: 20th anniversary of the creation of the AIA.
(Association Internationale Antimilitariste). In the Hague an international
meeting was held at the 'House of the People'. Many well-known militants
attended, such as Rudolf
Rocker, Emma
Goldman, Ferdinand
Domela Nieuwenhuis, Barthélemy
de Ligt, and Pierre
Ramus.
Source:
The Daily Bleed Emma
Goldman in the Book of Days
 1929
Adoption of the
International
Red Cross Third Geneva Convention on the treatment of prisoners
of war. Read the full text.
How Camp Delta
Allowed US to Avoid Geneva Convention
'One rule
for them', by George Monbiot
USA Drops Out Of Geneva
Convention
Geneva Convention
links
1940 Bugs Bunny made his official debut in the animated cartoon
A Wild Hare.
1941 Japan invaded Indo-China.
1943 World War
II: USSR
leader Joseph Stalin issued Order No
227 in response to alarming German advances into Russia. Under the
order all those who retreated or otherwise left their positions without orders
to do so would be immediately killed.
1946 When Gertrude
Stein's last words to Alice B
Toklas – "What is the answer?" – received no reply, Stein asked: "In that
case, what is the question?"
1953 Korean War
ended: After the loss of five million lives, the United
States, People's Republic of China, North Korea,
and South
Korea signed an armistice agreement at Panmunjom. The building in which the armistice was signed
still stands, straddling the Military Demarcation Line, which
runs through the middle of the Demilitarized Zone.
1955 The
Allied
occupation of Austria
stemming from World War II, ended (started on May 9, 1945).
1964 Vietnam War:
A further 5,000 American military advisers were sent to South
Vietnam, bringing the total number of United
States forces in Vietnam to 21,000.
1968 Pink Floyd
released the album
A Saucerful of Secrets in
the USA.
Due to Syd
Barrett's declining mental state, this would be the last Pink Floyd album
that he would work on.
1972 Australia: The Tasmanian Attorney-General resigned
over the state's hydro-electricity scheme.
1974 In Greece,
military leaders passed power to civilian government.
1974 Watergate Scandal, USA: The House of Representatives
Judiciary Committee voted 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment
against President Richard Nixon: obstruction of justice.
1976 John Lennon received his
Green Card, enabling him to work in the USA.
1980 The exiled Shah
of Iran died in Cairo, Egypt, of lymphatic cancer.
1985 President
Milton Obote of Uganda was overthrown again by a coup. He had regained power in
1980 after being deposed in 1971 by General Idi Amin.
1995 In
Washington,
DC, USA, the Korean War Veterans Memorial was
dedicated.
1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing: In Atlanta,
Georgia, USA, a pipe bomb exploded at Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics, killing one and injuring
111.
1996 USA: Four women arrested for a Plowshares action, pouring their
own blood on weaponry at the Naval Submarine Base at
Groton, Conn. the morning
of the launch of the last new Trident submarine, the USS
Louisiana.
Source:
The Daily Bleed
2002 Ukraine
airshow disaster:: A Sukhoi
Su-27 fighter crashed during an air show at Lviv, Ukraine killing
85 and injuring more than 100 others, the largest air show disaster in history.
2005 STS-114:
NASA grounded the Space
shuttle, pending an investigation of the external
tank's continued foam-shedding problem. During ascent, the external tank of
the Space
Shuttle Discovery shed a piece of foam slightly smaller than the piece that
caused the Space
Shuttle Columbia disaster; this foam did not strike the spacecraft.
Tomorrow: Albert Namatjira, Australian artist
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July 27, 2004
*Ø* BOB, LOL
 You gotta hand it to Dubya, he
really has got some people scared. It's really quite sad. But this
is just too funny:
Bomb Threat Forces United Flight to Return to Australia
"A suspected bomb threat forced a United Airlines flight from
Sydney to Los Angeles to make an emergency return to Australia.
Officials say the written threat appears to have been a hoax."
Source: Voice of America
And what was this "written threat" that had the UA crew scared
out of their brains and caused Sydney's airport to be closed?
Someone went into the plane's dunny and found a barf bag with 'BOB'
written on it.
This, naturally, was interpreted by the crew as "bomb on
board".
The idea now is to write BOB on every chunder bag in the world and
the bad guys will lose for sure! Write it in DUCT TAPE to be
certain.
Me, Dubya and JR 'Bob' Dobbs got this whole e-vil game sewn up,
yessirree.
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