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Feast day of St Winwallus
(Winwaloe; Winnal; Winnold), abbot in Armorica
St Winwallus is the Christian version of Aegir, a Teutonic god of the sea.
When it's stormy on this day, the month will grow milder. Cf the
old British saying, "When March comes in
like a lion, it will go out like a lamb".
Nigel
Pennick, The
Pagan Book of Days, Destiny Books, Rochester, Vermont,
USA, 1992, p. 48
First
comes David
Then comes Chad,
Then comes Winnold roaring like mad.
If it's not stormy and windy the first
three days in March, it's saving itself for the three borrowing
days at the month's end. The winds of March were considered to dry
out the fields and make the soil right for seeding.
Armorica or Aremorica, where the saint was
abbott, is the name given in
ancient times to the part of Gaul that includes the Brittany
peninsula
and the territory between the Seine and Loire
rivers inland to an indeterminate point.
Pliny the Elder
(23 CE - 79),
in his Natural
History (2.17.105), claims that Armorica was the older name
for Aquitaine, stating
Armorica's southern boundary extended to the Pyrenees.
Because continued resistance to Roman rule
in Armorica was supported by Celtic aristocrats in Britain,
Julius Caesar
led two invasions of Britain in 55 and 54 BCE
in response.
"Winwaloc: Abbot-founder, also called
Wonnow, Wynwallow, and Gwenno. Born at Ploufragen, in Brittany,
France, he was of Anglo-Saxon descent. At the age of fifteen he
entered the monastery on Lauren Island under Abbot Budoc.
Several years later he and eleven monks founded Landevenne
Monastery near Brest, in Brittany on land donated by Prince
Gallo. Winwabe died there. As there are several churches in
Cornwall, England, dedicated to him, it is possible that he had
some connection with that region or that some of his relics were
translated there in later years."
Source
Deities
of many cultures in the Book of Days
Festival of the god Mars, ancient Rome (Mar 1 -
19)
Awashima Jinja Grand Festival, Uto, Kumamoto Prefecture,
Japan (Mar 1 - 3)
Todai-ji
Shunie, Tōdai-ji
temple, Nara,
Japan, (Mar 1 -
14)
Day of Remembrance for Prince Igor (Slavic pagan)
"This pagan prince struck fear in the heart of Byzantine Christianity by attacking its
capitol [sic], Constantinople. During this time, Igor enlisted the help of many
Vikings who helped him rule his kingdom and fight against his enemies. Prince Igor was killed by the Drevlani when he attempted to secure fees for rent from them when they were on the lands of his kingdom."
Source
Homunculumdie
The birth of the homunculus Declanius. Source
Alchemy Gothic Almanac
Feast day of St Angela
Truszkowska
Feast day of St Anselm of
Nonantola
Feast day of St Arthelais
Feast day of St Basiliscus
Feast day of St Calupan
Feast day of St Camilla
Feast day of St Cele-Christ
Feast day of St Cheledonius
Feast day of St Cleonicus
Feast day of St Cunegundes
(Cunnegunda; Kinga;
Kunegunda), empress
(Golden fig marigold,
Mesembryanthemum aureum, is
today's plant, dedicated to this saint.)
Gossips accused her of adultery, but she proved her
innocence by walking over pieces of flaming irons and emerging
uninjured.Feast day of Ss
Emeterius and Chelidonius, martyrs in Spain
Two Spanish saints, famous against hailstorms. When hailstorms come
on, the clergy of old would make a procession to the church, put lighted
candles on the altar and sing a hymn to these saints (they would chant the
antiphona).
William Hone (The
Every-Day Book, or a Guide to the Year, Vol., 1, William Tegg and
Co., London, 1878, p. 163) says wryly, "By the time this chain
is linked, the storm finishes".
Feast day of St Eutropius
Feast day of St Felix
Feast day of St Fortunatus
Feast day of St Frederick
Feast day of St Gervinus
Feast day of St Hemiterius
Feast day of St Katharine
Drexel
Feast day of St Lamalisse,
of Scotland
Feast day of St Marcia
Feast day of St Marinus
and Asterius,
martyrs in Palestine
Feast day of St Non
Feast day of St Sacer
Feast day of St Teresa
Eustochio
Click for Eastern Orthodox liturgical days Shop saints
Morris dancing,
Britain, traditionally starts at this time
La Fête du Trône, (Throne Day),
Morocco
Time of the Old Woman, Morocco (Feb 25 - Mar 4)
Tara
Celebration, Tibet
Source: The Phoenix and
Arabeth 1992 Calendar
Thanks to the
Maple Festival,
Iroquois
Source: The Phoenix and
Arabeth 1992 Calendar
Sounkyo Ice
Festival, Sounkyo Onsen (spa), Hokkaido, Japan (Jan 29 - Mar 5)
Hadaka Oshiai
Matsuri, Bishamon-do Temple,
Minamiuonuma (formerly Yamato),
Niigata Prefecture, Japan
(date varies)
"Hadaka
Matsuri ('The Naked Festival') is a Shinto tradition celebrated
for more than 1200 years in Inazawa, Japan. The festival
kicks-off when one 'lucky' man is chosen as the Shin-Otoko ('The
Naked Man'). He shaves off all the hair on his body and then
sets off through town, bare-ass naked. Around 10,000 men crowd
the streets to await his arrival. When The Naked Man walks by,
the men are eager to touch him, in order to pass onto him all
the 'evils' of the community and to gain luck for the coming
year. By the end of the day, The Naked Man has been trampled
upon, jumped on, and pummeled. He is bruised and battered. He
pays his respects to the Kounomiya Shrine, puts on his clothes,
and is banished from the town. Gee, what a lucky guy!"
Source
Jindai-ji
Daruma-ichi, Jindai-ji Temple, Choufu, Tokyo, Japan (Mar 3 - 4)
Shimabara Hatsuichi,
Shimabara, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan (Mar 3 - 10)
Martyrs' Day, Malawi Liberation
Day, Bulgaria
International Omega-3 Awareness Day
Omega-3
fatty acid
The cult of omega-3
1455 King John II of
Portugal, (d. 1495)1606 Edmund Waller
(d. 1687),
English poet 1754
David
Collins (d. March
24, 1810),
inaugural Governor of the Colony of Van
Diemens Land, founded in 1804,
which in 1901
became the state of Tasmania
in the Commonwealth of Australia.
He also established
the first settlement in what later became the Colony of Victoria
at Sullivan
Bay, Victoria on Port
Phillip Bay in 1803.
1756
William Godwin
(d. April
7, 1836), born at Wisbech,
Isle of
Ely, England. His best known work is
Enquiry Concerning Political Justice.
Godwin is known as the first modern
anarchist writer, a friend of
William Blake and Thomas Paine.
He was the
husband of Mary Wollstonecraft
(author of A
Vindication of the Rights of Women) and
father of Mary Shelley
(author of Frankenstein
or the Modern Prometheus).
"Godwin's ideal
society is intensely equalitarian and a complete anarchy, although
he tolerated the idea of a loosely knit democratic transition that
would witness the withering of the State. Strongly antiviolence and
completely rationalistic he carried his doctrine to the point of
total alteration in human relations. Ignoring economics and starting
from a highly individualistic psychology, he argued for education
and social conditioning as the chief factors in character
formation."
Source:
The Daily Bleed
Chronology
of Godwin's Life
Godwin
archive
Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy: William Godwin
Works
by William Godwin at Project
Gutenberg
Godwin-Shelley family tree Early
progressives in the Book of Days
CounterCulture
Wiki
1793 William
Charles Macready (d. April 27, 1873), English
actor
(see Astor Place Riot, May 10, 1849)
1805 Jonas Furrer
(d. 1861),
Swiss politician and first President
of the Swiss Confederation 1831 George Pullman,
(d. 1897)
inventor, industrialist 1839 Jamshedji Tata,
(d. 1904)
industrialist, a founder of Indian modern industry, philanthropist 1845 Georg Cantor,
(d. 1918)
German mathematician
1847
Alexander
Graham Bell (d. 1922),
Scottish inventor of the telephone; less well known is that he was a
pioneer of flight and the
hydrofoil: he held the patent for the
fastest water vessel
"Many of
Bell's ideas were simply conceived before their time. His
photophone, for example, achieved optic transmission of sound.
In many ways, it resembled the fibre-optic telecommunications we
use today. While working for the U.S. Census Bureau, Bell
designed a machine for the sorting of punch-coded cards. In
doing so, he used binary systems of computation that resembled
the principles behind our own computers."
Source
During his lifetime Bell developed or
technically contributed to:
telephony (of course)
'visible speech' – a language
to teach the deaf to speak
longevity and genetics – how traits
such as deafness and blindness can be hereditary
creation of the journal
Science
the Bell Helicopter
surgical medicine – detecting metallic
masses in human tissue
kites – tetrahedral wing construction
breeding sheep
– increasing birth rates
hydrofoils – higher speeds
seaplane – pontoons and surface speed
Bell
the Humanitarian
1869
Michael von
Faulhaber (d. 1952), cardinal and
archbishop
1873
William Green
(d. 1952),
labor union
leader, President of the American
Federation of Labor
1892 Fred A Busse (d. 1914),
mayor of Chicago, IL, USA1893 Beatrice Wood
(d. 1998),
artist, ceramicist 1895 Matthew Ridgway
(d. 1993),
Supreme
Allied Commander of NATO, United States
Army Chief of Staff 1911 Jean
Harlow, (d. 1937) actress
"My dear …"
Jean Harlow, meeting Lady Asquith,
addressed her by her first name, Margot, pronouncing the word as if
it rhymed with not. Lady
Asquith reproved her gently: "My dear, the
t is silent … as in 'Harlow'".
Espy, Willard R,
Another Almanac of Words at Play,
Andre Deutsch, London, 1981
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1914
Asger Jorn (d.
May 1,
1973),
Danish founding
member of
Situationist International, and a prolific artist and essayist
1915 Manning Clark
(d. 1991),
Australian historian, was the author of
the best-known general history of Australia, his six-volume
History of Australia, published between
1962 and
1987
1920 Ronald Searle,
illustrator1920 James Doohan,
actor 1921
Diana Barrymore, actress
Barrymore family of American actors
1926 James Merrill
(d. 1995),
Pulitzer
Prize winning poet1928 France Križanič
(d. 2002),
Slovenian
mathematician 1930 Heiner Geißler,
German politician
1933 Margaret Fink,
Australian film producer (The Removalists;
My
Brilliant Career; For Love Alone;
Edens
Lost). A
late achiever,
Margaret Fink was producing major feature films well into her 70s,
Candy
being an example.
"Film Producer and member of the Push, a seminal Sydney bohemian group of the 1950s and 1960s that boasted among its membership Germaine Greer, Clive James and Frank
Moorhouse." Source
1941 Jutta Hoffmann,
actress 1945
George Miller,
Australian
film
and
television
screenwriter,
director and
producer (Mad Max;
The Dismissal;
Babe: Pig in the City;
Happy Feet).
The Mad Max
director is not to be confused with the director of
The NeverEnding Story II: The
Next Chapter who also, confusingly, did work in
Australia at the same time.
Miller was a practising
physician until, after a film course at Melbourne University he
teamed up with Byron
Kennedy to make
Violence
In the Cinema, Part 1.
1949 Jüri
Allik, Estonian psychologist1949 Gloria Hendry,
actress 1953 Robyn Hitchcock,
musician 1958 Miranda
Richardson, actress 1959 Ira
Glass, radio host 1966 Tone-Loc, born Anthony Terrell Smith, American rap singer; '80s rap pioneer, the second rap act ever to reach #1 on Billboard's album
charts (The Beastie Boys were the first) 1974
David Faustino, actor 1977 Ronan Keating,
Irish
singer
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78
Origin of the Shalivahana
era, also known as the Saka era (India). It is used with Hindu
calendars, the Indian
national calendar, and the Cambodian
Buddhist
calendar—its year zero begins near the vernal equinox of 78.
See Wikipedia's Kushan
Empire article for more complex description of Kushan-Scythian dating.
1111 Death of Bohemund I, prince of Antioch.1431 Eugenius IV became pope.
1703
Death of Robert Hooke,
scientist, (b. 1635).
On November 3, 1664, Hooke showed an advanced copy of his classic book
Micrographia, or some Physiological Descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses with observations and inquiries thereupon to the Royal Society in London.
1706 Death of Johann
Pachelbel (b. 1653),
composer. 1707 Death of Aurangzeb
(b. 1618),
Mughal emperor. 1791 The United States Mint
was created by the US Congress.
1792 Death of Robert
Adam (b. 1728), architect.
1802
Beethoven's
Moonlight Sonata was published.1820 US Congress passed the Missouri Compromise. 1837 Australia:
The City of Melbourne
was named after the British
prime minister William Lamb, 2nd
Viscount Melbourne.
Timeline of Melbourne history
1845
Florida was
admitted as the 27th USA state.1845 For the first time, the USA Congress passed
legislation overriding a presidential veto. 1848 Revolutions
of 1848: The
revolutionary turmoil sweeping Europe spread to Vienna and Hungary.
From Wikipedia:
The European Revolutions of 1848, known in some countries as the Spring of
Nations or the Year of Revolution, were a series of revolutions which erupted
in Sicily and then, further triggered by the Revolution
of 1848 in France, soon spread to the rest of Europe. These European
Revolutions were the violent consequences of a variety of changes that had
been taking place in Europe in the first half of the 18th
century. In politics,
both proletariat
reformers
and radical
politicians were seeking change in their nations' governments. In society,
technological change was creating new ways of life for the working classes, a
popular press extended political awareness, and new values and ideas such as fascism
and communism
began to spring up. The tinder that lit the fire was a series of economic
downturns and crop failures that left the peasants and the poor working
classes starving.
The result was a wave of revolution sweeping across
Europe and raising hopes of liberal reform as far away as India,
where the rhetoric surrounding the Sepoy
Rebellion took many cues from European events, as did its thorough
repression.
1849
Minnesota Territory
was organized as a political
division of the United States.1849 The United
States Department of the Interior was established. 1849 US Congress
passed the Gold Coinage Act,
allowing the minting of gold
coins. 1855
"Congress
appropriated $30,000 for the creation of the US Camel Corps. The camels were to
be used in the American Southwest, where the arid conditions and harsh terrain
made the use of horses impractical. Although the Camel Corps did have some
success, it was abandoned when the Civil War broke out in
1861.
"The Camel Corps had been suggested several years
before, by George
Perkins Marsh, an early environmentalist who realized that camels would be
well-suited to the desert environments of Texas, California, Nevada and Arizona,
and by George H. Crosman, an Army lieutenant …"
Source
1857
France and the United
Kingdom declared war on China.1863 Idaho
Territory was organized as a political division of the United States. 1863 Russian serfs were emancipated.
1863 The first military draft law was passed in the USA.
1865
USA Congress authorized formation of the Freedmen's Bureau.1871 USA Congress deemed all Native Americans wards of the state,
nullifying all treaties.
1873
Censorship:
USA Congress enacted the Comstock Law, making it
illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the
mail.1875 The opera
Carmen, by
Georges Bizet, premiered in Paris.
1876
"On Friday, March 3, 1876, flakes of meat fell
over an area 100 yards long and 50 yards wide near the Kentucky home of Mr. and
Mrs. Allen Crouch, not far from the Olympian springs in southern Bath county.
The sky was cloudless at the time and windless. The flakes were from 1 to 4
inches square and looked like fresh beef. However, according to the opinion of
the 'two gentlemen' the substance was either venison or mutton." Source
1877
Rutherford B Hayes was
privately inaugurated as the 19th President of
the United States (his public inauguration occurred on March 5).1878 Bulgaria regained its
independence from Ottoman Empire. 1879 The United
States Geological Survey was created. 1885 The American
Telephone and Telegraph Company was incorporated in New
York State as a subsidiary of American Bell Telephone. (American Bell would
later merge with its subsidiary.)1885 Australia: The New South Wales Contingent
(approximately 700 soldiers) left Sydney with artillery and support
units to the short-lived British campaign in
Sudan.
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1886 The Peace of Bucharest, between
Serbia and
Bulgaria.
1904
Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany
became the first person to make a sound recording of a
political document, using Thomas Edison's
cylinder.1905 Tsar Nicholas II of Russia
agreed to create an elected assembly (the Duma). 1910 Rockefeller
Foundation: JD Rockefeller, Jr
announced his retirement from managing his businesses so that he could devote
full time to being a philanthropist. 1911 Australia: The Northern Territory town of Palmerston was
renamed Darwin.
In 1839, the captain of HMS Beagle, John Clements Wickham, had named the port on which the city
is built, after Charles Darwin, the
British Naturalist, who had sailed with him on an earlier expedition of the Beagle.
1913
A large women's suffrage
parade was held in Washington, DC, USA. Twenty-six floats, 10 bands, 6
golden chariots, and divisions of between 6,000 and 10,000 women marched by
country, state, profession and occupation, the day
before Woodrow Wilson took
office.
It is said that when Wilson arrived in town, he
found the streets empty of welcoming crowds and was told that everyone was on
Pennsylvania Avenue watching the
women's parade.
More
Images A world
chronology of women's electoral rights
1915
NACA,
the predecessor of NASA,
was founded.1918 Germany, Austria and Russia signed the Treaty of
Brest-Litovsk, ending Russia's involvement in World War I, and leading to
the independence of Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. 1919 Lenin set up the Comintern (Communist International) to help
spread Communism globally, and to dictate policies to Communist parties outside
the Soviet Union.
1923
TIME
magazine was published for the first time; Henry R Luce, publisher
and editor.1924 President
Kemal
Ataturk abolished the Caliphate and
disestablished the Islamic religion in Turkey.
1931
The United
States officially adopted 'The Star-Spangled Banner'
as its national anthem.1931 The world's first million-selling jazz record was recorded:
'Minnie the Moocher' by
Cab Calloway.
1931 Ben Chifley became Australia's Minister of Defence in a cabinet
shake-up of the James Scullin government.
1933
USA: Mount
Rushmore National Memorial was dedicated.1933 A national cancer conference in Australia recommended that
people keep out of the sun or wear protection while in it. It was
another four or five decades before Australians began to accept that
they had the
highest skin cancer rate in the world.
1934 American criminal
John Dillinger escaped from prison with a
fake pistol. The fake pistol was never recaptured, and it is rumoured it lived
in freedom until at least 1976.
1939
In Mumbai (then
called Bombay) Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
(Mahatma Gandhi), Indian leader and proponent of civil disobedience, started a fast at Rajkot to
secure adherence to promises of Government reform. On settlement of the issue he
ended his fast on March
7, 1939.
Gandhi Timeline1939
John Ford's movie,
Stagecoach, starring
John Wayne, opened in New York City.
1942 On the west coast of the USA, 110,000 Japanese-Americans were interned as a war measure. The whole area was declared a war zone and 100,000 people were evacuated.
1942 The Japanese air force
bombed Broome and
Wyndham,
Western Australia.
1943
World
War II: In London,
173 people were killed in a crush while trying to enter an air-raid shelter at Bethnal
Green tube station.1945 World War II:
Previously neutral Finland declared war on the Axis powers. 1945 World War II: Hundreds
of people died in The Hague after the Royal
Air Force mistakenly bombed a civilian area in the city. 1949 The Tucker
Automobile Corporation folded. 1950
Alaska became the
49th state of the USA Union.
1957 The head of the
Catholic
Archdiocese of Chicago (the largest in
the world), Samuel Cardinal Strich, banned
rock and roll from Catholic schools
and their "recreations" in his district. He cited the "tribal
rhythms" and "encouragement to behave in a hedonistic manner."
Chicago record sellers reported no drop in sales of hedonism-encouraging
records.
1958
Nuri
as-Said became the prime
minister of Iraq
for the 14th time.1959 Lou
Costello, American comedian, died at 52.
1961
Hassan II became
King of Morocco.1965 Owsley (Augustus Owsley Stanley III, aka
'Bear'), 'travel
co-ordinator' for the Grateful Dead, started making LSD: large quantities of
lysergic acid were available for the first time. The word 'owsley' became a
synonym for LSD.
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1969 Apollo
program: NASA
launched Apollo
9 to test the lunar module.
1969 In a Los Angeles, California court,
Sirhan
Sirhan admitted that he killed presidential candidate
Robert
F Kennedy.
1971 The beginning of the Indo-Pakistani
War of 1971 and India's official entry to the Bangladesh
Liberation War in support of Mukti Bahini. 1972 The space probe Pioneer X
was launched by NASA. 1974 It was reported that a famine in the
Sahel of western Africa had
resulted in the deaths of 100,000 people and millions more were starving.
1974 Roman
Catholic and Lutheran officials reached an
agreement for eventual reconciliation into one communion, marking the first
agreement between the two churches since the Reformation.
1976
Fleetwood
Mac recorded Rumours, which was a
blockbuster album in 1977.
 1983
Arthur Koestler (b. 1905), the
author of many best-selling books, including The Challenge of Chance
and Darkness
at Noon, and his wife Cynthia committed suicide as his health declined.
Best
known for his novel Darkness at Noon, which reflected his break
with the Communist Party, Hungarian-born British novelist/journalist/critic,
Koestler worked as a correspondent in the 1920s and 1930s, and was imprisoned by
the fascists during Spanish Revolution of 1936. He was a lifelong advocate of
euthanasia.
His co-authored book, Challenge
of Chance, looks at coincidences and investigates their role in human
affairs.
A letter to Arthur
Koestler from ... guess who (no scrolling to peek)
April 25, 1961
Mr. Arthur
Koestler
8 Montpelier
London SW 7
England
Dear Arthur:
Glad to get your note and the clipping on the mushrooms. It's a good article
and a fine description of your reactions. My own reactions are somewhat
different and I hope to be sending you some of my write-ups soon.
The Lotus and the Robot attracted much comment and is making quite a stir. I
enjoyed it tremendously and learned a lot from it.
Big doings with Rhine. He came to Harvard for a panel discussion. Bruner,
Boring, Neisser and I spoke on the same program. Overflow audience. Much
excitement and a very favorable reaction. Rhine was delighted. I spent a day
with him and tried to get him out of the laboratory routine. Not much luck.
I'm going to Duke next month to give them mushrooms and we'll run some ESP
trials.
Today (after a mushroom session yesterday) I had an extraordinary ESP
experience. On the way upstairs saw mailman and began sequence of ideas which
led to thoughts about a girl I hadn't thought of in six months, etc. and of
course a most unexpected letter had come from her. Then an hour later at the
prison an inmate reported six ESP experiences over the weekend. We are going
to run ESP sessions in the Jail next month.
Bruner spoke very favorably of you the other night--very impressed by your
knowledge of psychology and your work.
Lot's of visitors recently--Huxley, Watts, Glaser, Gillespie. The prison work
is going well. We are training prisoners to act as assistants in group
sessions; they are writing poetry and claiming their lives are changed, etc,
etc. Time will tell.
I'll send you a supply of mushrooms in a couple of days. I envy you your
Austrian retreat. The pressure of work here is too intense and I look forward
to the summer to relax on the Continent. I'd like to drop by to see you if you
aren't too occupied, lots to discuss.
Have you been in touch with Bruner? Is there anything I can do to push Walters
along? You have left many affectionate admirers here who join me in warmest
wishes.
Sincerely yours,
Timothy Leary
More letters
by Tim Leary
Challenge
of Chance by Arthur Koestler
1985 Britain's year-long coal strike ended.
1985 Censorship: Women Against
Pornography awarded their 'Pig Award' to Huggies Diapers, claiming that the television
ads had "crossed the line between eye-catching and porn".
1991
An amateur video captured the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles
police officers.
Police tape:
'You just had a big-time use of force.'
1:12
a.m. From Powell and Wind to the foot patrol officer: "... ooops."
1:12 a.m. From
the foot patrol to Powell and Wind: "oops, what?"
1:13 a.m. From
Powell and Wind to the foot patrol: "I haven't beaten anyone this bad in a
long time.
1:15 a.m. From
the foot patrol to Powell and Winds: "Oh not again ... Why for you do that
... I thought you agreed to chill out for awhile ... What did he do ..."
1991 Queen Elizabeth II
of the United Kingdom was bitten by one of her corgis, the wound
requiring stitches.
1991 The Gulf War ended:
Iraq agreed to the
United Nations terms.
1994 Leader of the
Seattle, USA-based rock band, Nirvana, Kurt Cobain (b. 1967), lapsed
into a coma in Italy after taking a combination of valium and champagne. He
recovered, but an alleged suicide attempt was successful on April 5, 1994.
1995
In Somalia,
the United
Nations peacekeeping mission ended.1999 LaGrand
case: Despite attempts by Germany
in the legal action in the International Court of Justice, the
State of Arizona, USA, executed Walter LaGrand, a German national involved in an
armed robbery that led to a death. Walter's brother Karl had been executed a
week earlier.
1999 Bertrand Piccard and
Brian Jones began their successful attempt to circumnavigate the world non-stop
in a hot air balloon. Their journey ended in success on
March 20.2001
A US
Air Force Materials Command
C-23 Sherpa transport crashed during stormy
weather in the US state of Georgia,
killing 21. 2002
Citizens of Switzerland
narrowly voted in favour of their country becoming a member of the United
Nations.
2004
British broadcaster
Alistair Cooke (b. 1908) announced that, due to the frailty of age, he would no longer be
able to 'send' his 'Letter from America' after 2,869 broadcasts – the
longest-running such program in history. From Wilson's
Blogmanac of March 3, 2004:
In Wilson's Blogmanac
on November 20, on his 95th birthday,
we looked at the career of an extraordinary broadcaster, Alistair Cooke. Cooke's Letter from America,
we noted, has been broadcast on BBC (British Broadcasting Commission) Radio
every week since March 24, 1946, making it the longest-running speech broadcast
program in the world. His job, as he saw it, was to explain America to the
world, and he did it with great insight and empathy.
In his November 9, 2003 broadcast, Cooke revealed that
in 57 years of Letter from America he has recorded the program 16 times
while in hospital, but only ever missed one edition due to ill health. As
reported in the Sydney Morning Herald on October 20, 2003:
"Veteran 94-year-old British-born presenter Alistair Cooke was unable to
broadcast his Letter from America show this week after suffering a fall, the BBC
said yesterday."
Ever the trouper, Cooke's only reference to his injuries in his next broadcast
(October 27), lay in his opening sentence: "Where were we when I was so
smashingly interrupted?"
Sadly, the great man couldn't make it to the mike again last week. Missing a
second weekly broadcast after 2,869 editions must have been heartbreaking for Mr
Cooke, and it's with great sadness that we learn that Letter from America
has ceased due to the correspondent's frail health.
Alistair Cooke was recorded as saying that he tried hard to make every sentence
"good radio". This he achieved for nearly six decades, and his Letters
are classics of the genre. All 2,869 of them, I have no doubt.
I'm a newcomer to the Letter. I suppose most people under 60 are.
Seriously, though, surprising as it might seem, I discovered its delights less
than two years ago. However, I've tried not to miss an edition, and I will
sorely miss it.
All good wishes, Alistair Cooke, for a healthy and happy retirement, and
"thank you", to a man whose journalistic excellence lay not only in
his longevity but in every other aspect one can think of.
2004 Belgian brewer Interbrew
and Brazilian rival AmBev
agreed to merge in a $11.2 billion deal that formed InBev,
the world's largest brewer.2005
Mayerthorpe Incident: Four members of the Royal
Canadian Mounted Police were gunned down during a drug bust near Mayerthorpe,
Alberta in the worst attack on the RCMP since 1885
and the North-West
Rebellion. 2005 Steve
Fossett became the first person to fly an airplane around the world solo
without any stops for refuelling – a journey of 40,234 km (25,000
mi) completed in 67 hours and 2 minutes. 2005 The freighter
M/V
Karen Danielsen crashed into part of the Great
Belt Bridge of Denmark,
800 metres from Funen.
All traffic across the bridge stopped, effectively cutting Denmark in two.
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