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Date:         Sun, 4 Oct 1992 17:04:11 EDT
From:         BCJ@PSUVM.BITNET
Subject:      KALENDAR, October 5-11 (Reasons to Celebrate!)

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*             THE KALENDAR - REASONS TO CELEBRATE                   *
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*             Compiled for C18-L by Kevin Berland                   *
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                           OCTOBER 5

     BIRTHDAYS:  Jonathan Edwards, North American colonial
theologian, philosopher (1703-58);  Denis Diderot, French
philosopher, encyclopaedist, pantophile (1713-84);  William Wilkie,
Welsh poet, author of The Epigoniad (1721-72);  Lloyd, Lord
Kenyon, English jurist (1732)

     LATER BIRTHDAYS OF INTEREST:  Antonio Garcia
Gutierrez, Spanish dramatist (1813-84);  Jon Thoroddsen, Icelandic
poet, novelist (1819-68);  Chester Alan Arthur, U.S. lawyer, 21st
president (1829-86);  Louis Lumiere, French inventor, coinventor
with his brother Auguste of colour photography process and
motion-picture camera (1864-1948);  John Addington Symonds,
English poet, essayist, literary biographer (1840);  Robert
Hutchings Goddard, U.S. rocket physicist, built in 1926 1st liquid
fuel rocket (1882-1945);  Rene Cassis, French jurist, president UN
Human Rights Commission, 1968 Nobel Peace Prize (1887-1976);
Ray Kroc. U.S. entrepreneur, developer of McDonald's fast food
system (1902-84);  Joshua Logan, U.S. playwright, director (1908);
Richard F. Gordon, U.S. astronaut (1929);

     DEATHS:  August III, King of Poland (1763);  Charles, Marquis
Cornwallis (1805);

     ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:  in 1735 the Treaty of Vienna was
signed, ending the War of the Polish Succession and establishing
Russo-Austrian domination of Poland;

     MISCELLANEA:  It's Republic Day in Portugal, commemorating
the Declaration of the Republic in 1910; in Vanuatu it's Constitution
Day (1979).  Today is the feast of St. Apollinaris, patron of Valence.
On this day in 1965 Pope Paul VI visited the UN in New York to
plead for world peace; in 1983, Polish Solidarity leader Lech
Walesa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

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                          OCTOBER 6

     BIRTHDAYS:  Dr. John Key, or Caius, founder of Caius College,
Cambridge (1519);  Dr. Nevil Maskelyne, English astronomer
(1732);  James McGill, Scottish-born Canadian businessman &
philanthropist, who left his estate to found Montreal's McGill
University (1744-1813);  Madame Campan, French author,
biographer of Marie Antoinette (1752);  Henri Christophe, Haitian
statesman, 1st president of the Republic (1767-1820);  Sir Isaac
Brock, British general, the Hero of Upper Canada (1769-1812);

     LATER BIRTHDAYS OF INTEREST:  Louis-Philippe, King of
France 1830-48, the Citizen King (1773-1850);  Joshua Reed
Giddings, U.S. politician, diplomat (1795-1864);  Frederick VII, King
of Denmark 1848-63, last of the Oldenburg linem adopted repre-
sentative government (1808-63);  Johanna Maria "Jenny" Lind,
Swedish operatic soprano, the Swedish Nightingale (1820-87);
Henry Chadwick, U.S. sportswriter, inventor of baseball scoring
system (1824-1908);  Richard Dedekind, German mathematician
(1831-1916);  Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer, German
anatomist (1836-1921);  George Westinghouse, U.S. engineer,
inventor of the air brake & founder of electrical company (1846-
1914);  Albert Jeremiah Beveridge, U.S. historian, politician (1862-
1927);  George Horace Lorimer, U.S. writer, for 40 years editor of
Saturday Evening Post (1867-1937);  Charles-Edouard Jenneret
Gris, better known as Le Corbusier, Swiss-born French architect,
painter, designer, urban planner, father of modern functional
architecture (1887-1965);  Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton, Irish
physicist (1903);  Helen Wills, U.S. tennis player (1905);  Laura
Gainer, better known as Janet Gaynor, U.S. actress (1906-84);
Jane Peters, better known as Carole Lombard, U.S. actress,
married to Clark Gable (1908-42);  Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian
anthropologist, explorer, author (1914);  Britt Ekland, Swedish
actress (1942);

     ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:  in 1769, Captain Cook reached
Poverty Bay, New Zealand;

     MISCELLANEA:   Today is Universal Children's Day, sponsored
by the United Nations.  In Egypt, it's Armed Forces Day.  On this
day in 1847 Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre was published in
London; in 1892 Alfred Austin succeded Alfred Lord Tennyson as
England's Poet Laureate; in 1921 PEN was founded;  in 1927, The
Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson, opened in New York; in 1938 the
film version of Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion opened in London.

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                         OCTOBER 7

     BIRTHDAYS:  William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (1573-
1645);  Caesar Rodney, American Revolutionary statesman,
member of Continental Congress, Declaration of Independence
signatory, president of Delaware (1728-84);  Sir Ralph
Abercromby, British general in Trinidad and Alexandria (1734-
1801);  William Billings, U.S. hymnodist, composer (1746-1800);
Charles XIII, King of Sweden & Norway (1748-1818);  Charles
Abbott, Lord Tenterden, English jurist (1752);

     LATER BIRTHDAYS OF INTEREST:  James Whitcomb Riley,
U.S. poet (1849-1916);  Christian Rudolph De Wet, Boer general
(1854-1922);  Niels Henrik David Bohr, Danish atomic physicist
(1885-1962);  Henry Agard Wallace, U.S. politician, VP (1888-1965);
Alfred Wallenstein, U.S. cellist, conductor (1898-1983);  Andy
Devine, strange-voiced U.S. character actor (1905-77);  Helen
Clark McInnes, Scottish-born U.S. espionage novelist (1907);
Vaughan Monroe, U.S. singer, bandleader (1911-73);  Fernando
Belaunde Terry, Peruvian politician, president (1912);  Alfred
Capurro, better known as Alfred Drake, U.S. singer, musical
comedy star (1914);  Ella Geisman, better known as June Allyson,
U.S. actress (1923);

     DEATHS:  Giovanni Battista Guarini (1612);  Nicholas Heinsius
(1681);  Nicholas Saccini (1786);  Dr. John Brown (1788);  Dr.
Johann Georg Zimmermann (1795);  Dr. Thomas Reid (1796);

     ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:  in 1719, part of Daniel Defoe's
Robinson Crusoe appeared in a pirated installment in the Original
London Post, the 1st serialized novel;  in 1730, more than two
thousand English settlers in Tasmania formed the "Black Line,"
driving the Aborigines into the Tasmanian Peninsula;  in 1763 King
George III's Proclamation of 1763 closed lands west and north of
the Alleghenies to white settlement;  in 1765 the so-called Stamp Act
Congress met in New York to protest the British Stamp Act, later
referred to as taxation without representation;  in 1780 Briitsh
forces were defeated by the Continental Army at the Battle of
King's Mountain in North Carolina.

     MISCELLANEA:  Today used to be celebrated as the Day of
Foundation of the German Democratic Republic;  Libya observes
Evacuation Day;  today used to be Constitution Day in the USSR,
commemorating the adoption of the 1977 Constitution.  Today is the
Feast of St. Justina, patron of Padua & Venice.  On this day in 1916,
Georgia Tech's football team beat Cumberland 222-0, a margin as
yet unrivalled.

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                              OCTOBER 8

     BIRTHDAYS:  Philipp von Zesen, German lyric poet, novelist,
linguistic reformer (1619-89);  Albrecht von Haller, Swiss scientist,
physician (established principle of irritability of living tissue), and
poet (1708-77);  Dr. John Hoadly, English playwright (1711);

     LATER BIRTHDAYS OF INTEREST:  James Wilson Marshall,
dicoverer of gold at Sutter's Creek, sparking the California Gold
Rush of 1849 (1810-85);  John Hay, U.S. statesman, diplomat, private
secretary to Lincoln (1838-1905);  Elbert Henry Gary, U.S. steel
magnate, after whom a very ugly steel city in Indiana is named
(1846-1927);  Henri Louis Le Chatelier, French chemist (1850-1936);
English novelist John Cowper Powys (1872);  Ejnar Hertzsprung,
Dutch astronomer (1873-1967);  Otto Heinrich Warburg, German
biochemist (1883-1970);  Edward Rickenbacker, U.S. aviator (1890-
1973);  Juan Domingo Peron, Argentinian politician, president
(1895-1974);  Bruce Catton, U.S. historian, editor (1899-1978);
Meyer Levin, U.S. novelist (1905);  Alvaro Alfredo Magana, El
Salvadorean statesman, president (1925);  Jesse Jackson, U.S.
politician, minister, civil rights leader (1941);  Cornelius Crane
"Chevy" Chase, U.S. comedian, actor, the best comic falling-down
expert in the business (1943);

     DEATHS:  Elizabeth Cromwell (1672);  Sir Richard Blackmore
(1729);  Dr, Andrew Kippis (1795);  Vittorio Alfieri (1803);  Henri
Christophe (1821);

     ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:  in 1754, Henry Fielding died in
Lisbon, where he had journeyed too late to save his declining
health; in 1755, the French-speaking residents of Acadie, refusing
to swear loyalty to the British king. were expelled from Nova
Scotia.

     MISCELLANEA:  Peru celebrates the Combat of Angamos today.
It's also the Feast of Saints Sergius and Bacchus, patrons of
wanderers in the desert, the Feast of St. Demetrius, patron of
Salonika, and the Feast of St. Triduana (Trollhaena, Tradwell),
patron of Kintradwell, Caithness.  On this day in 1871, the Great
Chicago Fire began (according to legend, Mrs. O'Leary's cow
kicked over an oil lamp, setting fire to the straw, the barn, and most
of the city); in 1937, Lord Peter Wimsey at last married Harriet
Vane.

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                              OCTOBER 9

     BIRTHDAYS:  Jacob Augustus De Thou (Thuanus), French
historian (1553);  Pierre Louis Lacretelle, French lawyer, journalist,
revolutionary, communard (1751-1824);  George Tomline, English
bishop, author of Refutation of Calvinism (1753);  Charles Comte
d'Artois, later King Charles X of France (1757);

     LATER BIRTHDAYS OF INTEREST:  Charles X, King of
France (1757-1836);  Charles Camille Saint-Saens, French pianist,
composer (1835-1021);  Emil Hermann Fischer, German chemist
(1852-1919);  Myron Timothy Herrick, U.S. lawyer, banker,
politician, diplomat, Ohio governor, Ambassador to France,
organizer of ambulance brigades (1854-1929);  Leonard Wood,
U.S. soldier, physician (1860-1927);  Gamaliel Bradford, U.S.
historian, biographer (1863-1932);  Edward William Bok, Dutch-
born editor, author (1863-1930);  Max von Laue, German physicist
(1879-1960);  Helene Deutsch, Austrian-born U.S. psychoanalyst
(1884);  Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian Bolshevik leader
(1888-1938);  A. Elizabeth Kennedy, better known as Aimee
Semple McPherson, U.S. religious leader, founder of the Inter-
national Church of the Four-Square Gospel (1890-1944);  Leopold
Sedar Senghor, Senegalese poet, statesman, president (1906);
Jacques Tati, French film-maker, comic actor, M. Hulot (1908-82);
John Lennon, English rock singer, songwriter, philosopher ("Life
is what happens when you are making other plans"), poet, Beatle
(1940-80);

     DEATHS:  Claude Perrault (1688);  Barbara Villiers, Duchess of
Cleveland (1709);

     ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:  in 1547, Miguel de Cervantes was
baptized in Alcala de Heraves;

     MISCELLANEA:  Today is UN-sponsored Universal Postal Day;
Ecuador celebrates the Independence of Guayaquil (1820);  the
Republic of Korea celebrates Han'gu Day, celebrating the
promulgation of the Hangul alphabet;  it's Independence Day in
Uganda (1962);  some U.S. states celebrate Leif Ericsson Day -- he
landed in North America c. 1000.  On this day in 1967, Cuban
revolutionary Che Guevara was killed in Bolivia; in 1975, dissident
Russian physicist Andrei Sakhorov was awarded the Nobel Peace
Prize.

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                               OCTOBER 10

     BIRTHDAYS:  Jacob Arminius, Dutch theologian (1560-1609);
Pierre Nicole, French logician of Port Royal (1625);  John, Duke
of Argyll, English statesman & soldier (1680);  Jean Antoine
Watteau, French rococo painter (1684-1721);  Henry Cavendish,
English chemist, 1st to isolate hydrogen as a component of water,
1st to isolate argon, established specific gravity of hydrogen &
carbon dioxide (1731-1810);  Benjamin West, Pennsylvania-born
Quaker  painter claimed by Canada, England, and U.S., charter
member of London's Royal Academy, official painter to George
III, painter of an astonishingly pale, langorous General Wolfe
dying happily on the Plains of Abraham, now in the National
Gallery of Canada (1738-1820);

     LATER BIRTHDAYS OF INTEREST:  Rev. Theobald Mathew,
Irish temperance preacher (1790);   Giuseppe Verdi, Italian opera
composer (1813-1901);  Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, South
African statesman, founder & president of Transvaal (1825-1904);
Isabella II, Queen of Spain from age 3 until deposed by 1868
revolution (1830-1904);  Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian arctic
explorer, 1922 Nobel Peace Prize (1861-1930);  Ivan Alekseyevich
Bunin, Russian poet, novelist, short-story writer, 1933 Nobel
Laureate;  Ivo Andric, Yugoslavian novelist, 1961 Nobel Laureate
(1892-1975);  Helen Brown, better known as Helen Hayes, U.S.
actress -- "The hardest years in life are those netween 10 and 70."
(1900);  Albert Giacometti, Swiss sculptor (1901-66);  Dorothy
Kaumeyer, better known as Dorothy Lamour, U.S. actress (1914);
Yigal Allen, Israeli statesman (1918-80);  Thelonious Sphere Monk,
U.S. jazz pianist, composer (1918-82);  James Dumaresq Clavell,
English-born U.S. novelist (1924);  Harold Pinter, English
playwright (1930);  Martina Navratilova, Czech-born U.S. tennis
player (1956);

     DEATHS:  Dr. John Blow (1708);  Archbishop John Potter (1747);
Dr. William Wilkie (1772);  Henry Brooke (1783);  Jeremiah James
Oberlin (1706);

     ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:  in 1688 William of Orange
officially declared his intention to make an expedition to England;

     MISCELLANEA:  Today is National Day in Taiwan (1912);  Cuba
celebrates the Beginning of Independence Wars;  it's Physical
Education Day in Japan.  Today is the Feast of St. Cerbonius,
patron of Massa Marittima.  On this day in 1925, Janet Flanner's 1st
New Yorke "Letter from Paris" appeared above the signature
"Genet" -- she later wrote that Ross expected something "precisely
accurate, highly personal, and ocularly descriptive; and that for
sentence style, Givvon was as good a model as I could bring to
mind";  in 1970, separatists kidnapped Pierre Laporte, Quebec
Labour Minister, who died in captivity; in 1972 Sir John Betjeman
became England's Poet Laureate; in 1973 U.S. vice-president Spiro
K. Agnew resigned & pleaded nolo contendere to income tax
evasion charges.

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                             OCTOBER 11

     BIRTHDAYS:  Frederick IV, King of Denmark & Norway 1699-
1730 (1671-1730);  Samuel Clarke, English theologian, Boyle
lecturer, metaphysician, student of Newton (1675-1729);  James
Barry, Irish history painter (1741);  Philip Astley, English producer,
founder of Astley's Amphitheatre (1742);  Mason Locke, better
known as Parson Weems, U.S. biographer of Washington,
originator of the cherry tree myth (1759);

     LATER BIRTHDAYS OF INTEREST:  John Baptist Lamy,
French-born U.S. Roman Catholic missionary, model for Willa
Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop (1814-88);  Sir George
Williams, English philanthropist, in 1844 founder of YMCA (1821-
1905);  Henry John Heinz, U.S. food-products manufacturer (1844-
1919);  Harlan Fiske Stone, U.S. jurist, Chief Justice (1872-1946);
Friedrich Karl Rudolf Bergius, German chemist (1884-1949);  Anna
Eleanor Roosevelt, journalist, diplomat, philanthropist, wife of
president Franklin D. (1884-1962);  Francois Mauriac, French
novelist, playwright, essayist, 1952 Nobel Laureate (1885-1970);
Willie Hoppe, U.S. champion billiards player (1887-1959);  Frances
Lillian Ilg, U.S. pediatrician, educator, cofounder of Gesell
Institute for Human Development (1902-81);  Charles Hesketh
Revson, U.S. cosmetics manufacturer (1906-75);  Joseph Wright
Alsop, Sr., U.S. journalist (1910);  Jerome Robbins, U.S. ballet
dancer, choreographer (1918);  Maria Bueno, Brazilian tennis
player (1929);

     DEATHS:  Thomas Stackhouse (1752);  Anne, Countess of
Macclesfield (1753);  General Casimir Pulaski (1779);  Samuel
Wesley, 1837;

     ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:  in 1614, the New Netherlands
Company was chartered;  in 1698, the First Partition Treaty divided
Spanish possessions between Bavaria & other German states;  in
1786, Arthur Phillip was appointed Governor of New South Wales;

     MISCELLANEA:  Today is celebrated in Panama as Revolution
Anniversary Day (1968);  On this day in 1962 Pope John Paul
XXIII opened the 2nd Vatican Council.
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