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All fires, including the sacred fire of the Temple of
the Sun, were extinguished for three days. A priest, using sunlight
through a glass and sanctified cotton, rekindled the temple flame,
from which all fires in the empire were relit. Animal sacrifices
were made, followed by eight days of feasting. Source
"Inti was considered the Sun god and the
ancestor of the Incas. Inca people were living in South America in
the ancient Peru. In the remains of the city of Machu Picchu [pictured
– PW], it
is possible to see a shadow clock which describes the course of
the Sun personified by Inti.
"Inti
and his wife Pachamama, the Earth goddess, were regarded as
benevolent deities. According to an ancient Inca myth, Inti taught
his son Manco Capac and his daughter Mama Ocollo the arts of
civilization and sent them to the Earth to instruct
mankind about what they had learned.
"Inti ordered his children to
build the Inca capital where a divine golden wedge, they carried
with them, would fall to the ground. Incas believed this happened
in the city of Cuzco, which has been founded by the Ayar.
Inti is celebrated even today in Peru during the
Festival of Inti Raimi in Cuzco."
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Entry
of Alexander into Babylon, by Charles Le Brun, c. 1664
356
BCE Alexander the Great (d. June 11, 323 BCE), King of Macedon and conqueror of most of the
world known then to Europeans, was born
to Philip and Olympias amidst great omens.
Alexander the Great was a real historical figure,
a general and emperor, whose life was imbued with
overtones of deification
 from Europe to parts of Western India.
He
"was the son of King Philip II of Macedon
and the infamous Epirote princess Olympias. According to several legends,
Olympias was impregnated not by Philip, who was afraid of her and
her affinity for sleeping in the company of snakes, but by the supreme god Zeus.
Aware of these legends and of their political usefulness, Alexander
was wont to refer to his father as Zeus, rather than as Philip." (Source)
Eratosthenes tells us that
Alexander's mother told him the secret of his divine
birth.
Visions and
omens were associated with his birth, and in
his life the great Macedonian general had various dreams of
note:
- At the age of 24, while laying siege to Tyre,
he dreamed he captured a satyr dancing on a shield. A sage said
he would capture the city, but the siege lasted seven months.
When he dreamed of Heracles, the siege ended the next day.
- When his friend Ptolemy was gravely ill from
a poisoned arrow, Alexander dreamed that a fish showed him where
to find plant roots to cure him. He awoke and found the roots
that healed Ptolemy.
- He dreamed of Pharos in Egypt, and went on to
found Alexandria there. When the surveyors marked out the ground
with barley meal, birds ate it, which Alexander took to be a bad
omen. However, a sage prophesied that it meant that the city
would go on to be a nurse and feeder of humanity. Alexandria
went on to be a great city (though destroyed several centuries
later by Arabs).
"Alexander did not win any war on the
Indian soil, he in fact lost to Porus, the king of Punjab, and
had to sign a treaty with Porus in order to save his diminishing
band of soldiers who were grief-stricken at the loss of their
compatriots at the hands of Porus's army, and expressed their
strong desire to surrender."
Alexander the
Ordinary (in India he
is not as revered as in Europe)
(Sources
differ as to date; also June 21
[qv], probably contrived to have him born at the Summer Solstice)
1486
Arthur,
Prince of Wales (d. 1502),
son of King Henry
VII of England1599
Christian
the Younger (d. 1623),
German protestant military leader
1744
Thomas Grosvenor (d.
1825),
American Revolutionary War hero 1758
Jean-Jacques Dessalines (d. October
17, 1806),
leader of the
Haitian
Revolution and an Emperor of Haiti (1804
- '06
under the name of Jacques I)
1842 Sir James
Dewar, chemist (d. 1923)
1853 Chulalongkorn
(Rama V) (d. 1910), king of Thailand
1861 Herbert
Putnam (d. 1955), Librarian of Congress
1873
Sidney Olcott (d. 1949), pioneer film director
1878
Upton Sinclair (d. 1968), American
author (The Jungle;
Oil!) and politician
1890
Jelly Roll Morton (d. 1941), early
American jazz musician, who first recorded in 1923
1896
Elliott Nugent, actor, director
1899
Leo Strauss
(d.
October 18,
1973),
'Godfather of the new American Right'; German-born
American
political philosopher who specialized in
the study of
classical philosophy. He spent most of his
career as a Political Science Professor at the
University of Chicago, where he taught
several generations of devoted students including fellow
neocons
Allan Bloom
and Paul
Wolfowitz, and non-Straussian
Susan Sontag).
Since his death, he has come to be regarded as an
intellectual source of
neoconservatism in the United States.
Shadia Drury,
in Leo Strauss and the American Right (1999), argued that
Strauss inculcated an elitist strain in American political leaders
that is linked to imperialist militarism and Christian
fundamentalism.
The New Machiavelli: Leo Strauss and the Politics of Fear
Prof. Strauss and the neocon takeover
Strauss'
Philosophy of Deception
Strauss & American Right
Strauss
& the Rhetoric of the War on Terror
1914
Kenneth More, English
actor (Reach for the Sky)
1918
Peg Phillips
(d. November
7, 2002),
American actress who started acting professionally in her late 60s after retiring from a career as an
accountant
Late
starters and late achievers
1922 William
Kapell (d. 1953), pianist
1924 Gogi
Grant (Audrey Brown), singer
1925 James Galanos,
American fashion
designer
1927 Johnny Dankworth, musician, composer
1927
Rachel
Roberts (d. 1980), actress
1928 Dr Joyce Brothers, psychologist, advice
columnist
1928
Donald Hall, American
poet
and the US
Poet Laureate
1929 Anne
Meara, comic actress
1931 Peter Palmer, actor (Edward
Scissorhands)
 1934
Sophia Loren (born
Sofia Scicolone), Italian actress (The Fall of the Roman Empire
; Oscar:
Two Women,
La Ciociara;
The Millionairess)
"Sofia's first taste of glamour came at fourteen
when she was crowned one of twelve 'Princesses of the Sea' in a
beauty contest, an honor for which she won a railroad ticket to
Rome, several rolls of wallpaper, a tablecloth with matching
napkins, and 23,000 lira (about $35). Encouraged by this glimmer of
success, her mother relocated the family to Rome, where Sofia
snagged her first role as an extra in an American feature, Quo
Vadis." Source
Sophia Loren trivia from
IMDB*
As a child, she had the nickname
'Toothpick'.
September 17,
1999 – Filed a lawsuit against 76 websites for using
"fraudulaent photographs" of her on adult sites.
(1991) Chosen by People magazine as
one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the world.
She had her marriage annulled to save
husband Carlo
Ponti
from bigamy charges in Italy.
She served 18 days in
prison in Italy in
1982 for tax evasion.
(1995) Chosen by Empire magazine as one of
the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history.
*IMDB, Internet Movie
Database, which also provided this image of Sophia Loren (used in
fair use), is an
excellent and recommended online resource.
1938 Pia Lindström, journalist
1948 George RR Martin, science fiction writer
1956 Gary Cole,
actor
1975 Asia Argento, actress
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451 Atilla,
king of the Huns,
invaded Gaul, but
was defeated by Flavius Aetius
with the help of Roman Foederati in the Battle
of Chalons.
1187
Saladin began the
Siege of Jerusalem.
1378 Papal
Schism: Unhappy with the behaviour of Pope
Urban VI, a group of cardinals met at
Fondi and elected Pope
Clement VII, who became an
antipope in Avignon, France. As an
antipope he is not to be confused with Pope
Clement VII
(1478
-
1534).
1460 Death of Gilles
Binchois, composer.
1519
Ferdinand Magellan
(1480 - 1521) set sail from Seville,
Spain, with five small ships, in order to circumnavigate the world.
1565 Spaniards
captured French
Fort
Caroline, near present-day Jacksonville, Florida, USA.
1586 Chidiock Tichborne, English conspirator
and poet, was executed.
1596
Diego de Montemayor founded the city of Monterrey,
Mexico.
1633
Galileo Galilei was tried before
the Inquisition for teaching that the Earth orbits the Sun.
1643 English Civil War:
First Battle of Newbury – Parliamentarian Robert
Devereux, the Earl of Essex, defeated a Royalist army commanded by Charles I of England at Newbury, Berkshire.
1644 Shunzhi Emperor of China moved the capital
city from Shenyang
to Beijing.
1697 The Treaty of Ryswick was signed, ending the War of the Grand Alliance.
1792 The Battle of Valmy: France
defeated
the army of the Prussian Duke of Brunswick at Walmy.
1797 The USS
Constitution was launched in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
1803 Death of
Robert
Emmet (b. 1778), Irish patriot.
1808
Covent Garden Theatre was
burned to the ground (reopened September 17, 1809).
1822 Eight convicts escaped
from Macquarie Harbour, Australia; only one survived.
1839
India:
Showers
of live fish were reported at Calcutta, and shortly after, at a village near
Allahabad.1850 Slave trading
was abolished in the District of Columbia, USA.
1854 The Battle of Alma: British
and French
troops defeated the Russians
in the Crimea.
1860 The Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII of the United Kingdom)
visited the USA.
1863 The Battle of Chickamauga ended.
1863 Death of Jacob Grimm (b.
1785), German
folklorist.
1870 The Bersaglieri corps entered Rome at Porta Pia and
completed the unification of Italy. The temporal power of the Pope ceased.
1881 Chester
Arthur was inaugurated as the 21st President of the United States.1928 In
Rome, the Chamber of Deputies (the main legislative chamber) was taken over by
Fascists.
1931 Britain abandoned the
gold standard to stop foreign speculation in sterling and prevent further
withdrawal of gold.
1932 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
(Mahatma Gandhi), Indian leader and
proponent of civil
disobedience, began a "fast unto death" while in prison in protest at
the British government's action giving separate electorates to 'Untouchables'
whom Gandhi called 'Harijans'
– 'God's children'. Gandhi's campaign of civil disobedience
had brought rioting and landed him in prison, but he persisted in his demands
for social reform, urged a new boycott
of British goods, and after six days of fasting obtained a pact that improved the
status of the 'untouchables'.
1937 Spanish Civil War: Peña Blanca was taken; the end
of the
Battle of El Mazuco.
1946 The first Cannes Film Festival commenced.
1954 The first FORTRAN program ran.
1958
USA: In
a Harlem department store, autographing copies of his book Stride
Toward Freedom, Dr Martin Luther King, Jr
(1929 -
'68)
was stabbed in the chest with a letter opener wielded by a deranged woman.
"On a Saturday afternoon in 1958, I sat in a Harlem
department store, surrounded by hundreds of people. I was autographing copies
of Stride Toward Freedom, my book about the Montgomery bus boycott. And
while sitting there, a demented black woman came up. The only question I heard
from her was, 'Are you Martin Luther King?' I was looking down writing,
and I said 'Yes.' And the next minute, I felt something sharp plunge
forcefully into my chest. Before I knew it, I had been stabbed with a letter
opener by a woman who would later be judged insane, Mrs. Izola Ware Curry.
"Rushed by ambulance to Harlem Hospital, I lay in a
bed for hours while preparations were made to remove the keen-edged knife from
my body. Days later, when I was well enough to talk with Dr. Aubrey Maynard,
the chief of the surgeons who performed the delicate, dangerous operation, I
learned the reason for the long delay that preceded surgery. He told me that
the razor tip of the instrument had been touching my aorta and that my whole
chest had to be opened to extract it.
"'If you had sneezed during all those hours of
waiting,' Dr. Maynard said, 'your aorta would have been punctured and you
would have drowned in your own blood.'
"It came out in the New York Times the next
morning that, if I had sneezed, I would have died.
"About four days later, after the operation, after my
chest had been opened, and the blade had been taken out, they allowed me to
move around in the wheelchair in the hospital and read some of the kind
letters that came from all over the States, and the world. I read a few, but
one of them I will never forget. There was a letter from a young girl who
was a student at the White Plains High School. It said simply, 'Dear Dr.
King: I am a ninth-grade student at the White Plains High School.' She said,
'While it should not matter, I would like to mention that I am a white girl.
I read in the paper of your misfortune, and of your suffering. And I read
that if you had sneezed, you would have died. And I'm simply writing you to
say that I'm so happy that you didn't sneeze.'"
King, Martin Luther, Jr, Autobiography, Ch. 12: Brush
with Death
Martin Luther King, Jr
timeline
1959
Disneyland refused to allow Nikita Khrushchev to visit, stating
'security
reasons' as the excuse.
"Instead,
the disgruntled Premier and his family attended a luncheon at Twentieth-Century
Fox studios and were taken on a cavalcade tour of Los Angeles housing. While at
the studio luncheon, Khrushchev made an indignant speech criticizing the
decision to exclude a trip to Disneyland from his day's activities:
"'We have come to this town where lives the cream
of American art. And just imagine, I a Premier, a Soviet representative, when I
came here to this city, I was given a plan – a program of what I was to be
shown and whom I was to meet here.
"'But just now I was told that I could not go to
Disneyland. I asked: "Why not?" What is it, do you have rocket-launching pads
there? I do not know.'"
One authority claims that this is an
urban myth, and that US security forces disallowed Khrushchev's visit on
personal safety grounds.
1961 In
Rhodesia, Prime Minister Ian Smith banned the black opposition party.
1961 Argentinian Antonio
Albertondo began the first non-stop swim across the English Channel.
1962 USA: James Meredith, an African-American,
was barred from entering the University of Mississippi.
1967 The British ocean liner
RMS
Queen Elizabeth
2 was launched in Scotland.
1973 American
singer-songwriter, Jim Croce (b. 1943), along with his friend
and lead guitar player, Maury Muehleisen, and four others, died when their
chartered Beechcraft D-18 snagged the top of a pecan tree during take-off
and crashed after a concert at Northwestern State University in
Natchitoches,
Louisiana.
1979 A coup
in the Central African Republic overthrew Emperor
Bokasa I (Jean-Bédel Bokassa). The coup was led by the emperor's cousin,
David Dacko, whom Bokasa had
overthrown on January 1,
1966.
1979 USA: Lee Iacocca was elected president of the Chrysler
Corporation.
1981 A coup in the Central African Republic overthrew President David Dacko.
Dacko made unsuccessful bids for the presidency in the elections of 1992 and
1999. He died at the age of 73 on November 20, 2003 in Yaoundé, Cameroon,
where he had gone for medical treatment.
1984 A suicide bomber in a car attacked the United
States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing twelve people.
2001
"On September 20, 2001 the Taliban offered to hand Osama bin Laden to a
neutral Islamic country for trial if the US presented them with evidence that he
was responsible for the attacks on New York and Washington. The US rejected the
offer." Source:
The Guardian
"Meanwhile, President Bush rejected Sunday the
latest Taliban offer to discuss turning over Osama bin Laden to a third
country if the United States stops its bombing campaign and provides
evidence of bin Laden's complicity in the September 11 attacks." CNN,
October 14, 2001
"A secret meeting takes place between Taliban and
US government representatives in the city of Quetta, Pakistan.
Afghan-American businessman Kabir Mohabbat serves as a middleman. US
officials deny the meeting takes place, but later in the month Mohabbat
explains that the US demands the Taliban hand over bin Laden, extradite
foreign members of al-Qaeda who are wanted in their home countries, and shut
down bin Laden's bases and camps. Mohabbat claims that the Taliban agrees to
meet all the demands. However, some days later he is told the US position
has changed and the Taliban must surrender or be killed. Later in the month,
the Taliban again agrees to hand over bin Laden unconditionally, but the US
replies that 'the train had moved.'" [Counterpunch,
11/1/04; CBS,
9/25/01]
Myths of the 'War on
Terrorism' and Iraq
2003
A referendum was held in Latvia about
joining the European Union, with the people voting to join.
2004 Wikipedia, the free online
encyclopedia, passed 1 million articles in more than 100 languages.
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