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Declaration
of Báb, Bahá'í holy
day, Bahá'í Faith
Commemorates Báb's
prophecy of the coming of a spiritual leader (Bahá'u'lláh)who
would usher in a new era in religious history.
The Báb
(a name meaning 'Gate'), Siyyid Mírzá
'Alí-Muhammad
(1819 - 1850), founded the Bábí
religion which would become, in the days of Bahá'u'lláh
and afterwards, the Bahá'í Faith.
The Bahá'í
Faith is a monotheistic religion.
Although it is not traditionally included among the Abrahamic religions, it recognises
the same prophets, plus its own.
Baha'i
holy site destroyed in Iran
Lag Ba'omer
(2008), Judaism
On the dating of items in the Almanac
Lag Ba'omer (Israeli
and Ashkenazi)
or Lag La'omer (Sephardi)
is a Jewish holiday celebrated on the 33rd day of the
counting
of the Omer which is on the 18th of Iyar. It is a
time of dancing and singing. Families go on picnics and outings.
Children go out to the fields with their teachers with bows and
(rubber-tipped) arrows, and bats and balls. Lag Ba'Omer in modern
Israel is a school holiday. In Israel, one knows that Lag Ba'Omer is
drawing near when children begin collecting wood boards, old doors,
and anything made from wood that can burn in
bonfires.
On the
Mediterranean island of
Djerba: "... women
ensure fertility by crawling into the grotto in the historic Ghriba
Synagogue and placing raw eggs with their names on them around the
temple stone. A scarf-bedecked menorah is paraded through the
streets, decorated with flowers and sprayed with perfume."
Source
Feast day of St Desiderius, Bishop of
Langres, martyr
Feast day of St Desiderius, Bishop of
Vienne, martyr
Feast day of St Euphrosyne
of Polotsk
Feast day of St Goban
Gobhnena
Feast day of St Guibertus
Feast day of St Yvo, or
Ivo, confessor of Chartres
(Yellow star of Bethlehem; Tragopogon
pratensis
today's plant, dedicated to this saint.)
Born in 1040 at Beauvais, France, Yvo was a fellow student with
St Anselm
of Canterbury. Patron saint of lawyers.
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Feast day of St Jane Antide
Thouret
Feast day of St John
Baptist Rossi
Feast day of St Maria
Angela Astorch
Feast day of St Martyrs of
Cappadocia
Feast day of St Martyrs of
Mesopotamia
Feast day of St Michael of Synnada
Feast day of St Quintian
Feast day of St William of
Rochester
"William led a wild and misspent youth, but as an adult he had a complete conversion, devoting himself to God,
caring especially for poor and neglected children. He worked as a baker, and gave every tenth loaf to
the poor. He attended Mass daily, and
one morning on his way to church he found an infant abandoned on the threshold.
He named the baby David, and adopted him, and taught him
his trade.
"Years later he and David set out on a pilgrimage to the Holy Lands.
During a stopover in Rochester, England the boy David turned on William, clubbed
him, cut his throat, robbed the body,
and fled. Because he was on a holy journey, and because of the
miraculous cures later reported at his tomb, he is considered a martyr.
"A local insane woman found William's body, and
plaited a garland of honeysuckle flowers for it; she placed the
garland on William, and then on herself whereupon her madness was cured. Local monks, seeing this as a sign from
God, interred William in the local cathedral
and began work on his shrine. His tomb and a chapel at
his murder scene, called Palmersdene, soon became sites of pilgimage and donation, even by
the crown. Remains of the chapel can
be seen near the present Saint William's Hospital." Source
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Holiday, Morocco
Jamaican Labour Day
Public holiday; tribute to
the Jamaican worker.
South Carolina, USA, Admission Day
SC became the 8th state of the union on May 23,
1788.
The Last Hours of Freedom of Joan of Arc, Compičgne,
France
"Compičgne celebrates Joan of Arc's last visit to
the town before she was captured on 23 May 1430. As well as a
reenactment of her visit, there is also a medieval procession and a
range of other activities.
"On the Saturday evening a woman dressed as Joan of
Arc is welcomed to the city with a medieval procession, which is
followed by music and dancing until late into the night. A
reenactment of the mass on Sunday morning echoes the mass that
Joan attended at the church of Saint-Jacques in 1430. Finally,
on the Sunday afternoon, 'Joan' is escorted to the bridge where
she was finally captured." Source
 Full
Moon in Gemini,
World Invocation Day
(2005)
"Since 1952 the full moon of Gemini has also been observed as World Invocation Day — a world day of prayer when men and women of every spiritual path join in a universal appeal to divinity and use The Great Invocation. Together they focus the invocative demand of humanity for the light, the love and the spiritual direction needed to build a world of justice, unity and peace."
Source
'The Great Invocation'
From the point of Light within the mind of God
Let light stream forth into human minds
Let Light descend on Earth.
From the point of Love within the Heart of God
Let love stream forth into human hearts
May the Coming One return to Earth.
From the centre where the Will of God is known
Let purpose guide all little human wills
The purpose which the Masters know and serve.
From the centre which we call the human race
Let the Plan of Love and Light work out
And may it seal the door where evil dwells.
Let Light and Love and Power restore the Plan on Earth.
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1052
Philip
I of France (French:
Philippe Ier; d. July
29, 1108),
King of France
from 1060 to 1108
 1617
Elias
Ashmole (d. May
18, 1692),
antiquarian,
collector, politician and student of astrology,
and alchemy.
Throughout his life he was an avid collector of curiosities and
other artefacts.
Many of these he acquired from the traveller,
botanist, and collector John
Tradescant, and most he donated to Oxford
University to create the Ashmolean
Museum (opened
June 6, 1683, qv).
He also donated his library and priceless manuscript
collection to Oxford.
Pictured:
Frontispiece to Ashmole's translation of Fasciculus Chemicus
(click)
From Wikipedia: During the 1650s,
Ashmole devoted a great deal of energy to the study of alchemy. In
1650 he published Fasciculus
Chemicus under the anagrammatic
pseudonym
James Hasholle. This work was an English translation of two Latin
alchemical works, one by Arthur
Dee. In 1652,
he published his most important alchemical work, Theatrum
Chemicum Britannicum, an extensively annotated compilation of
alchemical poems in English. The book preserved and made available
many works that had previously existed only in privately-held
manuscripts. It was avidly studied by other alchemists.
In 1653, the alchemist William Backhouse,
who had made Ashmole his alchemical "son", confided the
secret of the Philosopher's
Stone to Ashmole when he believed himself to be close to
death. (The Philosopher's Stone was a substance or object that had
the power to convert base
metals to gold,
among other mystical virtues: its discovery was one of the key
goals of European alchemists.) Ashmole is said to have passed the
secret on to Robert
Plot, the first keeper of the Ashmolean Museum. Ashmole
published his final alchemical work, The Way to Bliss, in 1658.
There is no evidence of him personally carrying out any actual
experiments (or "operations", in the alchemical jargon
of the time).
Wikisource
has original works written by or about Elias
Ashmole
Alchemists in the
Almanac: Cornelius
Agrippa Roger
Bacon Count
Cagliostro John
Dee
Edward Kelley Robert
Fludd Isaac
Newton Paracelsus
James
Price Tycho
Brahe Raymond
Lulle
Alchemy
clock at the Scriptorium Works
by Elias Ashmole at Project
Gutenberg
 1707 Carolus
Linnaeus (born Carl Linné; d. 1778),
Swedish botanist.
Born at Rashalt, a hamlet in south of Sweden, his
father was a clergyman. Linnaeus's life was surrounded by a large
garden and the natural environment and he would say of himself, that
he went from the cradle into a garden. His father and uncle were
horticulturists and inspired the child. Though destined for the
church, he hated the thought of such a life, and was inclined to
botany.
Those of us who
seem not to excel academically can take heart from the story of Carl
Linné. At the University of Lund, where he studied medicine, he was
"less known for his knowledge of natural history than for his
ignorance of everything else", but Professor of Medicine, Dr
Stoboeus, took him under his wing. Soon he left Lund for University
of Uppsala, where he met with poverty, but he determined to be a
botanist no matter what.
He soon began
his famous system of classification, still used today. On May
12, 1732, he began his famed journey to Lapland alone, on horseback
and foot, travelling 4,000 miles in five months. Linnaeus brought
back nearly 100 previously unknown or undescribed plants. In 1735 he
went to Holland where he gained a medical degree; there he became
famous when he published his own botanical books. In 1740 he became
Professor of Medicine at Uppsala, then transferred to the chair of
Botany.
The great botanist spent the remainder of his life
there at Uppsala and the Swedish king raised him to nobility. He
laboured incessantly, continuing to revise his Systema Naturae,
which grew from a slim pamphlet to a multi-volume work, as his
concepts were modified and as more and more plant and animal
specimens were sent to him from all over the world. He died on
January 10, 1778, aged 70, leaving a legacy of changes to the
nomenclature of living things that were profound and remain with us.
"The Linné
Herbarium, at the Swedish Museum
of Natural History, preserves some of Linnaeus's original
plant specimens. The Museum also has an excellent, detailed biography
of Linnaeus. You can also view Linnaeus's botanical garden
and Linnaeus's manor home and
garden at Hamarby, courtesy of Uppsala
University, Linnaeus's alma mater. Uppsala University also
maintains Linné On
Line, a rich source of information on Linnaeus and his times
...
"Founded a few years after Linnaeus's
death, the Linnaean Society of
London is still going strong as an international society for
the study of natural history. The Society preserves the bulk of
Linnaeus's
surviving collections, manuscripts, and library. The Strandell
Collection of Linneana, at Carnegie-Mellon
University, and the Mackenzie
Linneana collection at Kansas
State University, are major American collections of writings
by and about Linnaeus and his associates. The
Linnaeus Link at the
British Natural History Museum,
aims to make available electronic versions of Linnaeus's
writings and documents." Source
1718 William Hunter
(d.1783),
anatomist
1734 Franz
Mesmer, Austrian hypnotist, from whose name we get the word
'mesmerise'
The roots
of the New Age movement
1790 Jules Dumont d'Urville
(d. 1842), explorer
1795 Sir
Charles Barry, English architect; designer of the
British Houses of
Parliament
1799
Thomas
Hood (d. May
3, 1845),
British
humorist
and poet
 1810 Margaret Fuller,
Marchioness Ossoli (d. July 19, 1850), American
journalist,
critic,
women's rights
activist, revolutionist; the first female foreign correspondent and book review editor in the USA, and the first female journalist to
work on the staff of a major American newspaper (Horace Greeley's
New York
Tribune).
In Europe she
interviewed many prominent writers including George Sand
and Thomas Carlyle,
also meeting the Italian revolutionary Giovanni Ossoli by whom she had a
son. In 1849, the Ossolis supported Giuseppe
Mazzini's revolution for the establishment of a Roman Republic,
Giovanni fighting in the struggle and Margaret doing voluntary
hospital work.
Fuller was a
friend of the
Alcotts and Ralph Waldo
Emerson and became part of the Concord transcendentalist
circle with which they were associated. In 1850, when she
disappeared with her
husband and infant son in a shipwreck near Fire Island off
the coast of New York, fellow transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau was one
of those who searched for
the victims.
"In 1846, Greeley named her a foreign
correspondent for the Tribune. Fuller traveled to Europe
and sent back articles about life in the European cities. Those
articles were published in 1856 as At Home and Abroad. Her
literary renown had reached the continent and helped her meet many
European writers and artists.
"While visiting Rome in 1847 she fell in
love with Marchese Giovanni Angelo d'Ossoli, a nobleman involved
in revolutionary activities. They had a child a year later, a
son named Angelo, and married the following year. During the
Revolution of 1848 and during the siege of Rome by the French
forces, Fuller assumed charge of one of the hospitals of the
city, while her husband took part in the fighting. The city fell
in 1850 and the Ossolis were forced to flee. In May 1850, they
sailed to America. They were almost there, when off the coast of
New York, near Fire Island, their ship ran aground in a storm
and was wrecked on July 19, 1850. Her friends, among them
Thoreau, initiated searches, but only the body of their
two-year-old son was recovered." Source
The Margaret Fuller
Society Early
progressives in the Book of Days
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Transcendentalism
1824 Ambrose Burnside (d. 1881), American Civil War general
1844 Abdu'l-Bahá (d. 1921),
Bahá'í central figure
1848 Otto Lilienthal (d. 1896), engineer
1883
Douglas
Fairbanks, Sr (d. December 12, 1939), swashbuckling
American actor
and film producer, co-founder of the
United Artists Corporation (1919), husband of
Mary Pickford, father
of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. During a Liberty Bond tour with
Charles Chaplin he
fell in love with Mary
Pickford with whom he, Chaplin and
DW Griffith
had formed
United Artists in 1919. Fairbanks was an excellent athlete and
used his physical abilities to advantage.
Movies include
The
Three Musketeers (1921);
Robin Hood
(1922);
The Thief
of Bagdad (1924); The Private Life of Don
Juan (1934).
While passing a cinema in Hollywood one
day, Charlie Chaplin stopped to examine the posters advertising the
new Douglas Fairbanks comedy appearing there. "Have you seen
this show?" Chaplin asked a young man standing nearby.
"Sure," he replied. "Any good?" Chaplin asked.
"Why, he's the best in the business," the man exclaimed.
"He's a scream! Never laughed so much at anyone in all my
life." "Is he as good as Chaplin?" "As good as
Chaplin!" the man exclaimed. "Why, this Fairbanks person
has got that Chaplin person looking like a gloom. They're not in the
same class. Fairbanks is funny. I'm sorry you asked me, I feel so
strongly about it." Hearing this Chaplin coolly revealed his
identity: "I'm Chaplin." "I know you are," the
other man laughed. "I'm Fairbanks!"
[The two soon
became great friends.]
Source
1908 John Bardeen (d. 1991), physicist
1910 Scatman Crothers (d. 1986), actor, musician
1910 Artie
Shaw, clarinetist, bandleader
1910 Sir Hugh
Casson (d. 1999), architect, painter
1920 Helen O'Connell, singer
1921 Humphrey Lyttelton ('Humph'),
British
jazz musician,
cartoonist and
broadcaster, chairman of the
BBC
radio program,
I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, "the
antidote to panel games" (your
almanackist's favourite radio comedy, for its wit and brilliance)
Audio clips from
I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue
1921 James
Blish (d. 1975), science fiction author
1926
Joe Slovo (Yossel Mashel Slovo; d. January
6, 1995),
South
African Communist
politician and long time leader of the South
African Communist Party (SACP) and leading member of the African
National Congress
1928
Nigel Davenport, actor
1928 Rosemary Clooney (d. 2002), US singer, actress
1933 Joan Collins, British actress
1934 Dr Robert
Moog (d.
August 21, 2005),
pioneer of
electronic music, best known as the
inventor of the
Moog synthesizer
1951 Anatoly Karpov, Russian chess
master
1958 Drew
Carey comedian, actor (The Drew Carey Show, Whose Line is it Anyway?)
1975 Jewel, singer
2003 Dewey, the first cloned deer
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1125 Death of Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor
(b. 1081).
1430 Joan of Arc
was captured by Burgundians
at Compiegne
and was later sold to the English.
1498
Girolamo Savonarola
(b. 1452),
Italian religious fanatic, was burnt at the stake for heresy. He was hanged and
cooked, in the same place and in the same manner in which he had had others,
pagan and Christian, executed for their 'heresies' in Savonarola's notorious
'Bonfire of the
Vanities'.
1533 The marriage of
King Henry VIII of England to
Catherine of Aragon was declared null and void.
1541 Jacques
Cartier departed St-Malo France on his third voyage.
1555 Paul IV
became Pope.
1609 Official
ratification of the Second Charter of Virginia.
1618 The
Second Defenstration of Prague
precipitated the Thirty Years' War.
1701 After being convicted of murdering William Moore and for piracy, Captain William
Kidd was hanged in London.
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1785 Benjamin
Franklin invented bifocal spectacles.
1788 South
Carolina became the eighth US state to ratify the United States Constitution.
1795 Troops in Paris put down an uprising caused by bread shortages.
1805 That aggressive little
Corsican, Napoleon Bonaparte,
having already named himself Emperor Napoleon I, placed the gold and iron crown of Lombardy upon
his own head, thus proclaiming himself King of Italy. The iron in the crown was
beaten from one of the crucifixion nails from the legendary True Cross,
discovered by the Roman
Empress Helena in
occupied Palestine and
presented by her to her son, Emperor Constantine the Great. Or,
so it is said. There was never a speck of rust on the iron, said by the clergy
to be a "permanent miracle". How ironic, then, that the island to
which Napoleon was later sent in exile was one named after that Empress – the
South Atlantic island of Saint Helena.
 1838
Trail of Tears: Under
the provisions of the Treaty of New Echota
made under US President Andrew
Jackson's administration, this was the deadline for the Cherokee American
Indian tribe to leave its ancestral lands, and soon the roundup began as
enforced by the US
federal government.
General Winfield Scott, who
Jackson's successor President Martin Van Buren
had assigned to head the forcible removal operation, arrived at New Echota
in command of 7,000 soldiers. The troops began rounding up Cherokees in Georgia
on May 26; ten days
later operations began in Tennessee, North Carolina, and Alabama. Led by Chief John Ross, about 17,000
Cherokees — along with their approximately 2,000 black slaves — were removed
at gunpoint from their homes over three weeks and gathered together in camps.
There was considerable white opposition to the plan: for example, poet and
author Ralph Waldo Emerson
on April 23, 1838 wrote a letter to
Van Buren, urging him not to inflict "so vast an outrage upon the Cherokee
Nation".
The Treaty of New Echota was a removal
treaty signed in New
Echota, Georgia by officials of the United States government
and several members of a faction within the Cherokee nation on December
29, 1835. In
the treaty, the United States agreed to pay the Cherokee people $5 million,
cover the costs of relocation, and give them land in Indian Territory
(modern Oklahoma)
in exchange for the Cherokee reservation land in Georgia and Alabama. While
the treaty was ratified by the United States Senate
and enforced upon the Cherokee people, it was never signed by any official
representative of the Cherokee nation, and the Cherokee nation refused to
recognize the validity of the treaty.
Four thousand Cherokees died
on the Trail of Tears. In the Cherokee language, the
event is called Nunna daul Tsuny — "the trail where they cried".
The Cherokees were not the only Native Americans
forcibly removed to the American West, and so the
phrase "Trail of Tears" is sometimes used to refer to similar events
endured by other Indian peoples, especially among the "Five Civilized Tribes":
Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek
and Seminole.
"Under the provisions of the New Echota Treaty of December 29,
1835, this the deadline for Cherokees to emigrate to the Indian Territory
(present day Oklahoma). Any Cherokees still east of the Mississippi River, after
today, are forced to leave. Only an estimated 2,000 Cherokees have emigrated to
the Indian Territory by today's date, according to government estimates. General
Winfield Scott is charged with removing the recalcitrant Cherokees. Many are
forced from their homes at bayonet point. The illegal treaty is publicly
proclaimed by President Jackson, two years ago, on this date." Source
"Removal
of the Indians" by Lewis Cass, January 1830
Cherokee Indian
Removal Debate U.S. Senate, April 15-17, 1830
Elias
Boudinot's editorials in The Cherokee Phoenix, 1829-31
Text
of the Treaty of New Echota, 1835
Winfield Scott's
Address to the Cherokee Nation, May 10, 1838
Winfield Scott's
Order to U.S. Troops assigned to the Cherokee Removal, May 17, 1838
Andrew Jackson
and the Indian Removal Act "Cherokee
Removal" from The New Georgia Encylcopedia
"Gold
Rush in North Georgia" from The New Georgia Encyclopedia
Trail Of Tears National Historic
Trail New Echota Historic Site
Choctaw
tribe gave $710 donation to Irish potato famine relief, April 3, 1847
in the Book of Days
1841 Death of Franz Xaver von Baader, philosopher,
theologian.
1844 Shiraz, Persia: "A young man known as the
Báb announced the imminent appearance of the Messenger of God awaited by
all the peoples of the world. The title Báb means 'the Gate'. Although
himself the bearer of an independent revelation from God, the Báb declared that
his purpose was to prepare mankind for this advent.
"Swift and
savage persecution at the hands of the dominant Muslim clergy followed this
announcement. The Báb was arrested, beaten, imprisoned, and finally on July
9, 1850 was executed in the public square of the city of Tabriz. Some 20,000
of His followers perished in a series of massacres throughout Persia. Today,
the majestic building with the golden dome, overlooking the Bay of Haifa,
Israel, and set amidst beautiful gardens, is the Shrine where the Báb's
earthly remains are entombed." Source
1855 Death of Charles Robert Malden, explorer.
1865 USA: People paraded down
Pennsylvania Ave in Washington, DC to celebrate the ending of the American Civil War.
1868 Death of Kit Carson, American trapper, scout, Indian agent,
soldier, legend.
1873 The
Canadian
Parliament established the North West Mounted Police (which was
renamed the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 1920).
1883
Adelaide Zoo, South Australia, was established.
1887 The French crown jewels went on sale and raise six million
francs.
1889 Australian feminist Louisa Lawson founded
the Dawn Club at a meeting at Forresters Hall, Sydney. One of the earliest clubs
for women to discuss such subjects as votes for women, the Dawn Club was a follow-on to her journal, Dawn, which she
first published on her own press just a year earlier.
Meetings were held in
various places, including Quong Tart's tea rooms at
137 King St and 777 George St, one at the Queen
Victoria Markets (called the Queen Victoria Building,
or QVB, from 1898), and possibly in the George St markets (aka
Paddy's Markets, near
Chinatown).
One of Louisa's meeting places was 43 Royal Arcade (possibly another Quong Tart
establishment).
In 1891, the club merged with the Womanhood Suffrage
League which was established by Lawson and Dora Montefiore, Maybanke Anderson and Rose Scott (Louisa
Lawson was at the foundation meeting of the merged societies).
This is from her
speech at the inauguration of The Dawn Club:
"Now as we have no time to be elaborate or diffuse, we must be methodical, and we will take first the reasons why women claim the right to vote; and then we will pick up the objections one by one and turn them inside out to show their entire vacuity, and finally review briefly what women are doing now in other countries (in order to show how woefully we in New South Wales are behind the times). For the thoughts we entertain on this and other sections of the woman's question are merely scattered unshaped blocks lying rough in the quarry, while in America and England they are already squared and set together in the foundations of that new social edifice which the nineteenth century is building.
"The whole principle of the Justice of the woman's vote agitation may be compressed into a question: Who ordained that men only should make the laws to which both men and women have to conform?
"Men tell us we are responsible for the home and education of children, that the morals of society are in our keeping; they have bound our hands and placed us in the front rank of the battle … It is the large-hearted woman who realizes the universal brotherhood of man, and is willing to set self and self-interest aside, and work and pray for the time when she may go to the poll with husband, father or son and cast a vote for
"God and home and native land, for truth, temperance and morality" – , to cast the vote that will protect son or brother from the public-house and gambling-den and sister and daughter from infamy and disgrace. When women really understand the relation of home to equal suffrage work, then will they unite in a body and demand the ballot as a means of protection to that which every woman holds clearer than life, her home and her family … But I see a new heaven and a new earth … brother and sister standing shoulder to shoulder and heart to heart in the great fight for right, truth and justice, for better laws, for better protection to our sons and daughters, for better and purer homes."
Lawson & Co:
associations with Henry and Louisa Lawson
1892
Melbourne, Australia: Frederick
Deeming – wife-murderer, bigamist, thief and con-man – was hanged. 'The Demon Murderer' had been arrested in the small
Western Australian town of
Southern Cross on March
11. Deeming then became a suspect
in the Jack the Ripper
case; there were unsubstantiated reports that samples of handwriting from 'Jack'
and from Deeming were written by the same person. The trial
began as scheduled on April
28, 1892. Deeming's lawyers were Alfred
Deakin, later Prime Minister of Australia, and William Forlonge. Although Deeming claimed that his dead mother had ordered him to commit the murders and was probably mentally ill, (as Deakin believed), the jury needed very little time to reject Deeming's plea of insanity and declare him
guilty. Twelve thousand people cheered outside Melbourne Gaorl when they heard that his execution was done.
" ... the press, in search of a scapegoat for
the murders, hastily threw suspicion on Deeming, neglecting the fact that he
was in South Africa at the time of the murders." Source
From Wikipedia's
list of proposed Jack the Ripper suspects: Frederick Bailey Deeming (July
30?, 1842 - May
23, 1892),
sailor. Living in Sydney,
Australia,
with his wife Marie and their four children, on December
15, 1887, he
was brought to court on charges of bankruptcy. Sentenced to fourteen days of
imprisonment, he was apparently released on December
29, 1887. To
avoid those seeking payment for his debts, he escaped with his family to Cape
Town, South
Africa. Soon upon arrival he was brought to the attention of the local
police on charges of fraud. He sent his family to England and headed to
recently founded Johannesburg.
From there he seems to disappear. There is no reliable account of his
activities or his whereabouts between March
1888 and October
1889 covering the
period of the murders. He resurfaces in Kingston
upon Hull, England,
at the end of this period under the alias of Harry Lawson, one of many he
would use till the end of his life. Well into a career as a professional con
man, he apparently attempted to reconcile with his estranged wife. They moved
together with their children to a rented house in Rainhill
in July 1891.
The reconciliation ended with the murder of his wife and children on August
11, 1891, by
cutting their throats while they slept. Having introduced himself to the
locals as a bachelor and his family as his visiting sister and nephews, it
proved easy to explain their absence. He wooed Emily Mathers, the daughter of
the house's owner, and they married on September
22, 1891. The
newlyweds left by ship
from Southampton,
England, on
November
2, 1891, and
arrived in Victoria
(Australia) on December
15, 1891. He
murdered Emily on December
24, 1891,
buried her under their rented house and left. Her body was soon found,
resulting in an investigation and the finding of the other bodies in England.
This led to his arrest on March
11, 1892, and
his trial and execution by hanging. The public of Australia was convinced he
was the Ripper. He is said to have been an acquaintance of victim Catherine
Eddowes and to have maintained correspondence with her, but this
allegation remains unproven.
Deeming's
death mask More
1900 Sergeant William Harvey Carney became the first African
American to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor (awarded
for heroism in the
Battle of Fort Wagner during the American Civil War).
1906
Death of Hendrik Ibsen
(b. 1828).
1911 Dedication
ceremony for the New York Public Library.
1915 World War I:
Italy joined the Allies after they
declared war on Austria-Hungary.
1934 Near
their hide-out in Black Lake, Louisiana, bank robbers Bonnie
Parker and Clyde Barrow were ambushed and shot dead by Texas
Rangers in a hail of bullets. Before
police brought their rampage to an end, the notorious young couple had killed
twelve people.
Bonnie was something of a
poet, it seems, and shortly before she died, she sent the following ballad to
the Dallas, Texas Dispatch.
'Saga of Bonnie and Clyde'
By
Bonnie Parker
You've read the story of Jesse James
of how he lived and died.
If you're still in need;
of something to read,
here's the story of Bonnie and Clyde.
Now Bonnie and Clyde are the Barrow gang
I'm sure you all have read.
how they rob and steal;
and those who squeal,
are usually found dying or dead.
There's lots of untruths to these write-ups;
they're not as ruthless as that.
their nature is raw;
they hate all the law,
the stool pigeons, spotters and rats.
They call them cold-blooded killers
they say they are heartless and mean.
But I say this with pride
that I once knew Clyde,
when he was honest and upright and clean ...
Poem continues
here
Genealogy of Bonnie and Clyde Contemporary
NY Times report More
1934 "In the Battle of Toledo, 10,000 strikers at Ohio's Auto-Lite plant drive away police. The company hired its own guards and today's battle began when one of them beat an old man. The next day, National Guard machine gun units will open fire on the demonstrators, killing two strikers and wounding 15."
Source: Geov Parrish's This Day in Radical History
1945 World War
II: Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Gestapo,
committed suicide while in Allied custody.
1949 The
Federal Republic of Germany was
established.
1958 Explorer I
ceased transmission.
1960 Prime Minister of Israel David
Ben-Gurion announced that Nazi war criminal Adolf
Eichmann had been captured.
1962 Drilling
for new Montreal,
Quebec, subway commenced.
1965
Greece: Three hundred thousand marched in the Third Marathon March for peace and
justice.
1977 Armed
South
Moluccan terrorists in Holland held hostage the occupants of a passenger train
and a school, demanding independence for their homeland, situated within
Indonesia.
1982 Japan: Four
hundred thousand demonstrated for peace and disarmament, Tokyo.
1985 Thomas Patrick Cavanagh was sentenced to
life in prison for attempting to sell
stealth bomber secrets to the Soviet
Union.
1995 Official
announcement of the Java programming language.
1995 Oklahoma City bombing: In Oklahoma City the remains of the Alfred P Murrah Federal Building
were imploded.
1997
Mohammad
Khatami was elected as President
of Iran.
1998
The Good
Friday Agreement was accepted in a referendum, with a high margin of
three-quarters 'yes' votes to Northern
Ireland.
2002
The '55 parties' clause of the Kyoto
protocol was reached after its ratification by Iceland.
2003
The euro exceeded
its initial trading value as it hit US $1.18
for the first time since its introduction in 1999.
2003 Twenty-five-year-old Nepalese
Sherpa,
Pemba
Dorjie Sherpa, made the fastest-ever ascent of Mount
Everest, in 12 hours 45 minutes. This was broken by his rival Sherpa
Lakpa Gelu only three days later.
2004
Part of Paris's Charles
De Gaulle International Airport Terminal 2E collapsed, killing five people
and injuring three others.
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