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For observations which ourselves we make,
We grow more partial for th'observer's sake.
Alexander Pope

Nature, and Nature's laws lay hid in night;
God said, 'Let Newton be!' and all was light.
Alexander Pope, on Sir Isaac Newton

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
Alexander Pope

It is with our judgments as with our watches: no two go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Alexander Pope

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail,
Reason the card, but passion is the gale.
Alexander Pope

For fools rush in where Angels fear to tread.
Alexander Pope

A little learning is a dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
Alexander Pope

Hope springs eternal in the human breast.
Alexander Pope

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
Alexander Pope

I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I was living peaceably when people began to speak bad of me. Now I can eat well, sleep well and be glad. I can go everywhere with a good feeling.
Geronimo, Apache chief, born on June 16, 1829

The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians. We took an oath not to do any wrong to each other or to scheme against each other.
Geronimo

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Bloomsday is a secular holiday, celebrated annually on June 16 in all English-speaking countries and many others besides.

The day commemorates both the life of the Irish writer James Joyce and the fictitious events in his novel, Ulysses, all of which took place on a single day in Dublin – June 16, 1904. The first celebration took place in 1954. See below, On This Day in History, 1904.

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Night of the Teardrop, ancient Egypt   Source

Every four years, the second day of the Olympic Games, ancient Greece

First day after the Ides of June, Roman Empire
The first June day on which marriages could take place with an assurance of good fortune.

Feast day of St Actinea

Feast day of St Amandus of Beaumont

Feast day of St Aurelian, archbishop

Feast day of St Aureus

Feast day of St Benno

Feast day of St Berthaldus

Feast day of St Cettin

Feast day of St Colman McRhoi

Feast day of St Curig

Feast day of Ss Cyriacus of Iconium (Quirius; Cyr; Cyricus; Quiriac; Quiricus), infant, and Julitta, his mother, martyrs
(Moss province rose [Moss Rose; Provence Rose; Cabbage Rose; Holland Rose; Common Moss Rose], Rosa muscosa, is today's plant, dedicated to Cyriacus.)

Feast day of St Felix

Feast day of Ss Ferreolus, or Fargeau, and Ferruitius

Feast day of St Graecina

Feast day of St Guy Vignotelli

Feast day of St Ismael

Feast day of St John Regis (John Francis Regis)
St John Regis (January 31, 1597 - December 30, 1640) was a French preacher. He is the patron saint of lacemakers because he established several hostels for prostitutes, and set up the women and girls as lacemakers to give them an income. He is also patron of medical social workers.

Feast day of St Justina

Feast day of St Lutgardis

Feast day of St Maurus

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1313 Giovanni Boccaccio (d. December 21, 1375), Italian author and poet, the greatest of Petrarch's disciples, an important Renaissance humanist in his own right and author of a number of notable works including On Famous Women, and the Decameron.

1514 John Cheke (d. 1557), English classical scholar

1583 Axel Oxenstierna (d. 1654), Swedish statesman

1613 John Cleveland (d. 1658), English poet

1644 Henrietta Anne Stuart (d. 1670), Princess of Scotland, England and Ireland and later Duchess of Orléans

1738 Mary Katharine Goddard (d. 1816), early American printer and publisher

1792 John Linnell (d. 1882), English artist

1792 Sir Thomas Mitchell (d. 1855), Australian explorer

1801 Julius Plücker (d. 1868), German mathematician and physicist

1806 Edward Davy (d. 1885), English physician, chemist and inventor

1813 Otto Jahn (d. 1869), German archaeologist

1820 Athanase Coquerel (d. 1875), French protestant preacher

1826 Baron von Ettingshausen (d. 1897), Austrian geologist and botanist

1829 Geronimo (d. 1909), or Goyathlay ('one who yawns'), Apache warrior and leader

"Among the few human beings that were yet alive was a woman who had been blessed with many children, but these had always been destroyed by the beasts. If by any means she succeeded in eluding the others, the dragon, who was very wise and very evil, would come himself and eat her babes.

"After many years a son of the rainstorm was born to her and she dug for him a deep cave. The entrance to this cave she closed and over the spot built a camp fire. This concealed the babe's hiding place and kept him warm. Every day she would remove the fire and descend into the cave, where the child's bed was, to nurse him; then she would return and rebuild the camp fire.

"Frequently the dragon would come and question her, but she would say, I have no more children; you have eaten all of them.

"When the child was larger he would not always stay in the cave, for he sometimes wanted to run and play. Once the dragon saw his tracks. Now this perplexed and enraged the old dragon, for he could not find the hiding place of the boy; but he said that he would destroy the mother if she did not reveal the child's hiding place. The poor mother was very much troubled; she could not give up her child, but she knew the power and cunning of the dragon, therefore she lived in constant fear.

Soon after this the boy said that he wished to go hunting. The mother would not give her consent. She told him of the dragon, the wolves, and serpents; but he said, To-morrow I go." 
From Geronimo: His own story, 'Origins of the Apache Indians'   Source

1836 Wesley Merritt (d. 1910), soldier

1837 Ernst Laas (d. 1885), German philosopher

1838 Cushman Davis (d. 1900), politician

1840 Ernst Otto Schlick (d. 1913), engineer

1858 King Gustav V of Sweden (d. 1950), reigned for 43 years

1874 Arthur Meighen (d. 1960), 9^th Prime Minister of Canada

1880 Otto Eisenschiml (d. 1963), Austrian -American chemist and historian

1890  Stan Laurel (Arthur Stanley Jefferson;(d. 1965), English-born American film comedian, who partnered Oliver Hardy in such movies as Way Out West (1937) and Sons of the Desert. He always thought that his whining face was humiliating, but the producers forced him to do it in most of his movies since the public loved it. Suffered a nervous breakdown on the death of his long time film partner and friend, Oliver Hardy, and according to his friends, never fully recovered.

Some sources say Laurel was a Rhodes scholar, though I haven't been able to confirm whether the co-star of A Chump at Oxford (1940) had ever in fact studied there. Let me know.

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1897 Georg Wittig (d. 1987), German chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1979

1902 Barbara McClintock (d. 1992), geneticist

1902 George Gaylord Simpson (d. 1984), paleontologist

1907 Jack Albertson (d. 1981), actor

1909 Archie Fairley Carr (d. 1987), biologist and expert on turtles

1910 Juan Velasco (d. 1977), President of Peru from 1968 to 1975

1912 Enoch Powell (d. 1998), British politician

1917 Katharine Graham (d. 2001), Washington Post publisher

1917 Irving Penn, photographer

1920 José López Portillo (d. 2004), President of Mexico from 1976 to 1982

1927 Herbert Lichtenfeld (d. 2001), author and playwright

1930 Vilmos Zsigmond, cinematographer

1934 Dame Eileen Atkins, English actress

1935 Jim Dine, artist

1936 Charles Perkins (d. October 19, 2000), Australian Aboriginal activist and public servant, leader of the 1965 Freedom Ride; former head of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, the first Aborigine to become a permanent head of a federal government department.

"In February 1965, after a little over six months detailed organising, he led a busload of 29 students into the outback of New South Wales …

"A series of arguments broke out, and then a young Aboriginal woman addressed the crowd. She had been quiet earlier in the day, but now she was ready to speak her mind:

"I'm black and I'm proud of it and I uphold it too ... You've been walking past them all day criticising your own colour. That's how good the whites are in Walgett – criticising your own colour ... Trouble is it's hurting the whites to see other whites fighting for the blacks. You've only got to get out of Walgett to find better white people. Walgett are about the worst class of white people this side of the black stump.It's only because they've got white skin that they hold their head up in the air and get around like they own everything."    Source

Charles Perkins - An Obituary by John Pilger

1937 Erich Segal, author

1938 James Bolam, English actor

1938 Joyce Carol Oates, American teacher, critic, and prolific short story writer and novelist (Them; Bellefleur) whose work depicts violence and evil in modern society

1940 Neil Goldschmidt, governor of Oregon

1941 Lamont Dozier, record company executive

1952 Michel Blanc, French actor

1952 George Papandreou, junior, Greek politician

1952 Gino Vannelli, vocalist, songwriter

1955 Laurie Metcalf, actress

1971 Tupac Shakur (d. 1996), American musician

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1980 Joey Yung, Hong Kong singer

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1750 BCE Death of King Hammurabi of Babylon.

632 CE The first day of the 'era of the Yezdegird' (Persian Era), according to 19^th-Century scholars.

1216 Death of Pope Innocent III.

1464 Death of Roger van der Weyden (b. 1399), Flemish painter.

1468 Death of Jean Le Fevre (b. c. 1395), Burgundian chronicler.

 

1487 The Battle of Stoke Field, the last battle between the rival houses of York and Lancaster. The army of Henry VII of England, marching towards Newark, met the rebels as soon as they crossed the river Trent, and the battle lasted longer than might have been expected, simply because the rebels outnumbered the royal army and the Burgundian contingent were experienced fighters.

All we know about it comes from the meagre source of Blind Bernard Andre, the battle's only chronicler. Both sides were armed with 'swerdys, speres, marespikes, bowes, gonnes, harneys, Brigardynes, hawberks, axes, and many other weapons'. Probably about 6,000 men were killed; so much blood flowed that a red-soiled gully on Stoke Field named Red Gutter is stained with the blood of the battle. Or, so it is said.

You have a new warrior.
Who was called by the name of Martin Swart.
What did you say of him? Did he come too late
To threaten to do great marvels?
I say no. For he received his share
For his troubles with his works.
He threatened to kill all
Who were on the noble King's side
But, thanks be to God and to the Chaste Virgin,
What he threatened was quite averted.
He and his people were cut to pieces
In the middle of the field, and there is no doubt
His accomplices were deserted,
And all received their penalty due.
Also, it is said, whoever reckons without his host
He has to reckon twice. And it is true;
For they expected to make others dance to the tune
To which they danced (themselves) in very pitiful array.
From a contemporary ballad

 

1567 Mary, Queen of Scots was thrown into Lochleven Castle prison.

1622 Death of Alexander Seton, 1^st Earl of Dunfermline (b. c. 1555), chancellor of Scotland.

1626 Death of Christian the Younger (b. 1599), Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel, Protestant military commander.

1666 Death of Richard Fanshawe (b. 1608), English poet, translator and diplomat.

1671 Death of Stenka Razin (b. c. 1630), Cossack rebel leader (tortured and executed).

1692 Salem, Massachusetts, American colonies: Roger Toothaker died in jail, convicted in the Salem witch trials on charges of witchcraft.

1707 Death of the Duchess de Nemours (b. 1625), sovereign princess of Neuchâtel, best known for her Mémoires.

1716 The first volume of Alexander Pope's translation of The Iliad appeared. Classical scholar Richard Bentley: "It is a pretty poem, Mr Pope, but you must not call it Homer".

"Alexander Pope was born in 1688, the year in which a 'revolution' saw the British thrones being taken, for political and confessional reasons, from King James II and being bestowed on James' daughter Mary and her husband William. He was born into a Roman Catholic family and this meant that he was likely to be faced with institutional disabilities in the protestant Britain that was facilitated by the revolution of 1688.

"He also had other things to contend with – he suffered from Athsma, Tuberculosis and a curvature of the spine and, as a result, was of a diminutive stature. He won much success however both as a poet, and as a translator, prior to his demise of 1744."   Source

1722 Death of John Churchill, 1^st Duke of Marlborough (b. 1650), English general.

1784 Holland forbade orange clothes.

1815 Napoleon's French troops resoundingly defeated the Prussians at Ligny, Belgium.

1824 UK: The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) was founded. Since its founding as the SPCA in 1824 it has inspired the creation of similar, but independent organisations in other countries including the RSPCA Australia and the ASPCA in the USA.

1846 Pius IX was elected pope.

1858 Abraham Lincoln's 'House Divided' speech in Springfield, Illinois.

1858 Battle of Morar, during the Indian Mutiny.

1869 France: In the small mining town of Ricamarie, troops were called in to suppress a workers' strike. They opened fire on demonstrators protesting the arrest of 40 workers, killing 14 (including a 17-month-old girl in her mothers arms) and wounded about 60 (including ten children).

1871 UK: University Tests Act allowed students to enter the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests, except for courses in theology.

1873 American suffragist Susan B Anthony was arrested for voting.

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1880 Women of the Salvation Army wore their bonnets for the first time as they marched through Hackney in London.

1882 "The foreman of the Novelty Iron Works at Dubuque, Iowa, observed two hailstones from a storm in 1882, which melted to reveal 'small living frogs'. On this day two years later, stones fell around George and Albert Sanford as they hoed a field near Trenton, New Jersey. When stones fell again the next day, the men fetched over 40 people from Trenton who saw more falling from a point overhead."   Source

1884 The first roller coaster in the United States began operation at Coney Island, New York.

1891 John Abbott became Canada's third prime minister.

1902 Australia: Female British subjects (with the glaring exception of Asians, Aborigines and Africans) won the vote with the Uniform Franchise Act. Louisa Lawson (1848 - 1920; mother of poet Henry Lawson) was hailed by her political sisters as 'The Mother of Womanhood Suffrage".

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1903 The Ford motor company incorporated.

1904 Bloomsday, celebrated annually on June 16.

All of the main narrative events in James Joyce's novel, Ulysses, took place on this day. Bloomsday is celebrated all over the world wherever people read and love Joyce.

In 1904, disgusted with the contemporary literary scene of Ireland, Joyce (1882 - 1941)  left Dublin and lived in Trieste, Italy. On his final visit to Dublin in 1912 his publisher, George Roberts destroyed the entire first edition of Joyce's book of short stories, Dubliners, and the next day Joyce left the country for ever, residing in Zurich, where he wrote Ulysses. Later he lived in Paris, where he spent 17 years writing Finnegan's Wake.

Ulysses, published by Sylvia Beach (of Shakespeare and Co. bookshop, Paris) on Joyce's 40^th birthday, February 2, 1922, takes its title from the Roman form of Odysseus. It is sometimes cited as the greatest novel of the 20^th Century and has been the subject of much scrutiny, criticism and confusion. Ulysses was written over an eight-year period from 1914 to 1922 and chronicles the adventures throughout Dublin of Leopold Bloom during an otherwise unremarkable day, June 16, 1904. The title alludes to the hero of Homer's Odyssey, and there are many parallels, both implicit and explicit, between the two works (eg, the correlations between Leopold Bloom as Odysseus and Stephen Dedalus as Telemachus).

Bloomsday is commemorated by activities such as academic symposia, re-enactments and readings from Ulysses, pub-crawling and general merriment. Joyce chose June 16 because he met his wife Nora on that day.

The first celebration of this secular holiday took place in 1954 and major festivals took place in 2004 on the centenary of the first Bloomsday.

Sources: Wikipedia et al

"Traditional Dublin celebrations originated in 1954 when a small band of Dublin writers set out in horse-drawn cabs from the Tower in Sandycove with the intention of visiting all the locations of the novel. Their Odyssey met shipwreck in a series of city pubs long before its completion, but it set a pattern for future celebrations. Today wandering Joyceans go to the places where Ulysses is set, to reconstruct the events of the novel through readings, dramatisations and chance encounters."   Source

"Unfortunately, Joyce turned out to be a high-maintenance perfectionist, and made many changes on proof, which is a very costly proposition. Publishing the "great Mr. Joyce," as Beach liked to call him, virtually bankrupted Shakespeare & Company, even though the fledgling operation gained immortality in the process. The saddest part of all is that although Sylvia Beach ostensibly owned the worldwide rights to Ulysses, once the book was published, Joyce did an about-face and sold the manuscript to Random House for $45,000 – a rather tidy sum in those days. What's even more astonishing is that to her last hour, Beach vigorously defended Joyce's reputation and never alluded to this episode, leaving it to subsequent literary scholars to unearth the painful truth."   Source

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1904 Eugen Schauman assassinated Nikolai Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.

1915 The foundation of the British Women's Institute.

1918 Eugene V Debs (1855 - 1926), prominent American socialist politician, presidential candidate and peace activist, delivered a speech at a Socialist Party convention in Canton, Ohio, USA, resulting in his being sentenced to ten years in prison on September 12 of that year

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1922 General election in Irish Free State: large majority went to pro-Treaty Sinn Fein.

1924 Whampoa Military Academy was founded.

1939 There was a rain of tiny frogs in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, UK.

1940 World War II: Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain became Premier of Vichy France.

1940 A Communist government was installed in Lithuania.

1948 The first skyjack: Chinese bandits took over a Cathay Airways Catalina flying boat.

1955 Pope Pius XII excommunicated Juan Perón.

1956 British poet Ted Hughes married fellow writer Sylvia Plath.

1958 The former prime minister of Hungary, Imre Nagy, was hanged following his unsuccessful anti-Communist rebellion in 1956.

1959 Death of George Reeves, actor, played Superman (b. 1914).

1961 Ballet dancer, Rudolf Nureyev, defected from the Soviet Union at Le Bourget airport in Paris.

1963 Valentina Tereshkova (b. 1937), left the planet in Vostok 6 and became the first woman in space.

Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova
"Status: Inactive. Trained as: Cosmonaut. Profession: Pilot. Sex: Female. Marital Status: Divorced. Children: One. Birth Date: 06 March 1937. Birth City: Maslennikovo. Birth State: Yaroslavl. Birth Country: Russia. Nationality: Russian. Affiliation: Civilian Parachutist. Group: 1962 Female Group. Detachment: TsPK-Fc. Date Selected: 12 March 1962. Departed: 1969. Number of Flights: 1. Total Time: 2.95 days.

"Call sign: Chayka (Seagull)."    

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1967 The Monterey International Pop Festival began in the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey, California, USA. The rock festival was planned by producer Lou Adler, John Phillips of The Mamas & the Papas, producer Alan Pariser, and Beatles publicist Derek Taylor; the festival board included members of The Beatles and The Beach Boys.

In three days, 50,000 fans witnessed the first major appearances of Jimi Hendrix ( who was booked on the insistence of board member Paul McCartney), The Who and Janis Joplin. Also appearing were The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Buffalo Springfield, Otis Redding, The Animals, Mamas and Papas, Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones, Country Joe and the Fish, Canned Heat, Steve Miller Band, Simon and Garfunkel, The Byrds, The Butterfield Blues Band, Al Kooper, Scott McKenzie and Ravi Shankar.

Monterey was the first major rock festival in the world and became the model for future festivals, notably Woodstock – although unlike Woodstock it was not a profit-making venture and Monterey's various audio and visual products still earn income for the non-profit Monterey Festival foundation.

"The idea for the Monterey International Pop Festival came out of the mid-60's belief that what had been pop music was now a much more serious art form, and could take its place alongside jazz. The idea for the festival is originally credited to Alan Pariser, heir to the Sweetheart paper fortune, who conceptualized the concert while attending the 1966 Monterey Jazz festival. Funds were raised for the concert, the site was established, and the idea that the proceeds were to go to charity was born. Artists agreed to perform for free, and the Summer of Love was born. The first major music festival was held on June 16, 17 and 18, 1967 at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey, California."   Source

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1972 Burglars were caught breaking into the United States Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate building.

1972 Ulrike Meinhof (1934 - 1976), the last at-large member of the Red Army Faction (Baader-Meinhof Gang) of leftist terrorists, was captured by police in Langenhagen, Germany. She ended her days in prison where she died by hanging on May 9, 1976. Officially her death was suicide, but there has been speculation that she was murdered by authorities.

1972 Opening of the New York Jazz Museum.

1972 The largest single-site hydro-electric power project started at Churchill Falls Newfoundland.

1974 Homer Simpson and Marge Bouvier wed.

1975 Randy Farland found a 14-leaf clover near Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA.  Source

1976 Apartheid: Student riots in Soweto, South Africa.

1977 Leonid Brezhnev became president of the USSR.

 

1980 The Diamond v. Chakrabarty case 447 US 303 (dealing with whether genetically modified micro-organisms can be patented) was decided by the United States Supreme Court.

U.S. Supreme Court 
DIAMOND v. CHAKRABARTY, 447 U.S. 303 (1980) 
447 U.S. 303 
DIAMOND, COMMISSIONER OF PATENTS AND TRADEMARKS v. CHAKRABARTY. 
CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF CUSTOMS AND PATENT APPEALS.

No. 79-136. 

Argued March 17, 1980. 
Decided June 16, 1980.

Almost Human -- And Patentable, Too    Animal Patenting and the Politics of Biotechnology

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1982 Australia: The Tasmanian Government passed an act for the construction of a dam on the Franklin below Gordon River.

1983 Yuri Andropov became president of the USSR.

1989 Four golfers (Weaver, Wiebe, Pate and Price) shot a hole-in-one on the same hole at the US Open – all on the 6^th hole. Only 17 hole-in-ones had been recorded since the US Open began; today there were more.

1990 Belgian police captured IRA members suspected of killing two Australian tourists in Holland.

1999 Thabo Mbeki was elected President of South Africa.

1999 Death of Screaming Lord Sutch, founder of Britain's Official Monster Raving Loony Party (b. 1940).

2000 Death of Dowager Empress Nagako of Japan, consort of Emperor Hirohito (b. 1903).

2001 George W Bush and Vladimir Putin met in Brdo pri Kranju, Slovenia.

2002 USA: Politically Incorrect was cancelled (due to sponsors dropping the show) after host Bill Maher made controversial comments on air regarding the integrity of President George W Bush.

2003 USA: The Hatfields and McCoys signed a formal truce.

 

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