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Date:         Sun, 22 Nov 1992 20:17:28 -0500
From:         BCJ@PSUVM.BITNET
Subject:      C18-L Kalendar: Reasons to Celebrate, November 23-29

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*             THE KALENDAR - REASONS TO CELEBRATE                   *
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*             Compiled for C18-L by Kevin Berland                   *
*                       BCJ@PSUVM.BITNET                            *
*                       BCJ@psuvm.psu.edu                           *
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                            NOVEMBER 23

     BIRTHDAYS:   John Wallis, English mathematician (1616);  Dr.
Thomas Birch, English historian & biographer (1705);  Andrew
Foulis, Scottish printer & publisher (1712-75);

     LATER BIRTHDAYS OF INTEREST:  Theodore Dwight
Weld, U.S. social reformer, the "Great Abolitionist" (1803-95);
Franklin Pierce, U.S. lawyer, 14th president (1804-69);
Johannes D. van der Waals, Dutch physicist (1837-1923);
William H. "Billy the Kid" Bonney, U.S. outlaw -- "Before his
young life had reached its sad end, / He'd a notch on his pistol
for 21 men" (1859-81);  Karl Hjalmar Branting, Swedisg
statesman, diplomat, 1921 Nobel Peace Prize (1860-1925);
Valdemar Poulsen, Danish scientist & inventor (1869-1942);
Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer (1876-1946);  Jose Clemente
Orozco, Mexican painter & muralist (1883-1949);  Guy Bolton,
U.S. playwright & collaborator with P.G. Wodehouse (1884);
Henry Gwyn-Jeffreys Mosely, British physicist (1887-1915);
William Henry Pratt, better known as Boris Karloff, English
actor (1887-1969);

     DEATHS:  William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland (1709);  Abbe
Antoine Francois Prevost (1763);

     ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

     MISCELLANEA:  Today is Kinro-Kansha-No-Hi (Labour
Thanksgiving Day) in Japan.  It's also the Feast of St. Clement,
patron of boatmen, hatters, tanners, stonecutters, and the Gild,
Fraternity, & Brotherhood House of the Most Glorious and
Undivided Trinity of London (aka Trinity House), and is
invoked to aid sick children.  On this day in 1874, Thomas
Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd was first published.

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                            NOVEMBER 24

     BIRTHDAYS:  Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher (1632-77);
Charles XI, King of Sweden 1660-97, established absolute
monarchy (1655-97);  Fra Junipero Serra, aka Miguel Jose
Serra, Spanish Franciscan missionary in Mexico, ascetic,
founder of 1st European settlement in Upper California,
Mission San Diego, and other missions throughout the region
(1713-84);  Laurence Sterne, English novelist, author of
_Tristram Shandy_ (1713-68);

     LATER BIRTHDAYS OF INTEREST:  Zachary Taylor, U.S.
general, 12th president (1784-1850);  Grace Darling, the
Northumbrian heroine (1815);  Carlo Lorenzini, aka Carlo
Collodi, Italian journalist, novelist, creator of Pinocchio (1826-
90);  Lilli Lehmann, German operatic soprano (1848-1929);
Frances Hodgson Burnett, English children's novelist (1849-
1924);  Cass Gilbert, U.S. architect, designer of NY's
Woolworth Bldg. & the Supreme Court in Washington D.C.
(1859-1934);  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (1864-
1901);  Scot Joplin, African-American pianist, composer, master
of ragtime (1868-1917);  Dale Carnegie, U.S. writer & teacher of
public speaking & behaviour (1888-1955);  Cathleen Nesbitt,
English actress (1888-1982);  Konstantin Aleksandrovich Fedin,
Russian novelist (1892);  Garson Kanin, U.S. plawright, director
(1912);  Geraldine Fitzgerald, Irish actress (1914);  John Vliet
Lindsay, U.S. politician, 1966-74 New York mayor (1921);
Tsung-Dao Lee, Chinese-born U.S. physicist, (1926);

     DEATHS:  Archbishop William Sancroft (1693);  Dr. Robert
Henry (1790);

     ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:  In 1642, Dutch explorer Abel
Tasman, discovered the island now called Tasmania -- he
named it Van Diemen's Land;  in 1759, Tobias Smollett was
convicted of libelling an Admiral in the Critical Review ;

     MISCELLANEA:  Zaire celebrates the Anniversary of the
New Regime (1964);  in 1950 Frank Loesser's musical Guys &
Dolls, based on Damon Runyon stories, premiered in New
York

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                            NOVEMBER 25

     BIRTHDAYS:  Lope de Vega, el Fenix de Espana, Spanish
poet, dramatist inventor of the gracioso, prolific playwright
(1572-1635);  Charles Kemble, English actor (1775);

     LATER BIRTHDAYS OF INTEREST:  Joseph Lancaster,
English educator (1778-1838);  Julius von Mayer, German
thermodynamic physicist (1814-78);  Leonard Woolf, English
author, publisher, husband of Virginia (Stephens) Woolf (1880);
Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-born U.S. industrialist, steel baron,
philanthropist, endower of countless libraries (1835-1919);  Karl
Friedrich Benz, German auto engineer, who named the car for
his daughter Mercedes (1844-1929);  Carrie Nation, hatchet-
wielding U.S. temperance activist (1846-1911);  Harley
Granville-Barker, English playwright, actor, director, critic
(1877-1946);  Georg Kaiser, German expressionist playwright
(1978-1945);  Pope John XXIII, pope 1958-63 (1881-1963);
Laurence Stallings, U.S. playwright (1894);  Virgil Thompson,
U.S. composer, music critic  (1896);  William Henry Bertholoff,
better known as Willie "The Lion" Smith, African-American
stride pianist (1897);  Helen Gahagan Douglas, U.S. actress,
politician (1900-80);  Lewis Thomas, U.S. physician & author of
Lives of a Cell & other works (1913);  "Jolting" Joe DiMaggio,
U.S. baseball player (1914);  Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, Chilean
general, president (1915);  Ricardo Montalban, Mexican-born
U.S. actor (1920);  Mauno Koivisto, Finnish statesman, president
(1923);  William F. Buckley, Jr., U.S. editor, writer, conservative
commentator (1925);

     DEATHS:  Archbishop John Tillotson (1694);  Dr. Isaac Watts
(1748);  Henry Baker (1774);  Richard Glover (1788);

     ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:  in 1758, British forces led by
Washington captured Fort Duquesne (in what is now
Pittsburgh) from the French;  in 1783, the last British troops left
New York City.

     MISCELLANEA:  Today Surinam celebrates Independence
Day (1975).  It's also the Feast of St. Catherine of Alexandria,
patron of students of philosophy and Christian philosophers.
On this day in 1882, Gilbert & Sullivan's Iolanthe opened
simultaneously in London & New York; in 1901, Gustav Mahler
conducted the world premiere in Munich of his 4th Symphony;
in 1912 Shaw's play Androcles and the Lion premiered in
Berlin; on the same day in 1912 U.S. novelist Nathanael West
flunked out of Tufts University, to which he had gained
admission by falsifying his high school transcripts;  in 1933, the
1st production of Shaw's On the Rocks; in 1970, Japanese poet
& novelist Yukio Mishima committed ritual suicide (seppuku),
only hours after completing the Sea of Fertility tetralogy, in
protest of the westernization of Japan.

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                            NOVEMBER 26

        BIRTHDAYS:  Sir James Ware, Irish antiquary (1594);  Dr.
William Derham, English natural philosopher (1657);  William
Cowper, English poet, hymnodist, manic depressive (1731-
1800);

     LATER BIRTHDAYS OF INTEREST:  Sarah Moore Grimke,
U.S. reformer, abolitionist, and women's rights activist (1792-
1873);  Mary Walker, U.S. physician, women's rights advocate,
Asst. Surgeon-General, in 1865 only women to receive U.S.
medal of honor (1832-1919);  Prince Peter Alexeivich
Kropotkin, Russian geographer, political philosopher, theorist
of Mutual Aid (1842-1921);  Norbert Wiener, U.S.
mathematician, inventor of cybernetics (1894-1964);  William
Griffith Wilson, U.S. reformer, founder of Alcoholics
Anonymous (1895-1971);  Melville Bell Grosvenor, U.S. editor,
director of the National Geographic Society (1901-82);  Arnold
Eric Sevareid, U.S. television journalist (1912);  Eugene
Ionesco, Romanian-born French absurdist playwright (1912);
Charles M. Schulz, U.S. cartoonist & creator of Peanuts (1922);
Gregorio Conrodo Alvarez Armelino, Uruguayan statesman,
president (1925);  Tina Turner, African-American rock singer
(1938);

     DEATHS:  English miser John Elwes (1789);  Dr. Joseph Black
(1799);  John Loudun MacAdam (1836);

     ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

     MISCELLANEA:  Sao Tome & Principe celebrate the
Anniversary of the Signing of the Argel Agreement.  It's the
Feast of St. John Berchmans, patron of altar boys.  On this day
in 1862, Abraham Lincoln met Harriet Beecher Stowe,
abolitionist & author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, whereupon he is
reputed to have said, "So this is the little lady who made the big
war"; in 1864, Lewis Carroll sent a handwritten ms. of Alice in
Wonderland to Alice Liddell (then 12) as an early Christmas
present;

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                            NOVEMBER 27:

     BIRTHDAYS:  Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon,
2nd consort of Louis XIV (1635); Francois d'Aguesseau,
chancellor of France (1668);  Anders Celsius, Swedish
astronomer & originator of the centigrade scale of measuring
temperature (1701-44);  Robert Lowth, Bishop of London,
biblical scholar (1710);  Robert R. Livingston, U.S. lawyer,
diplomat, one of the drafters of the Declaration of
Independence, administered Washington's oath of office (1746-
1813);  Johan George Adam Foster, German traveler
(accompanied Captain Cook on 1722 voyage around the
world), scientist, author, and revolutionary (1754-94);

     LATER BIRTHDAYS OF INTEREST:  Fanny Kemble,
English actress & writer (1809-93);  Sir Charles Scott
Sherrington, British neurologist (1857-1952);  Joseph Sanford
Mack, U.S. silk manufacturer & truck-maker (1870-1953);
Charles Austin Beard, U.S. historian & cofounder of New
School for Social Research (1874-1948);  Chaim Weizmann,
Russian-born Israeli biochemist, statesman, 1st president (1874-
1952);  James Agee, U.S. novelist, critic (1909-55);  David
Margulois, aka David Merrick, U.S. theatrical producer (1912);
Robert "Buffalo Bob" Smith, U.S. entertainer, colleague of
TV's Howdy Doody (1917);  Gail Sheehy, U.S. journalist &
author (1937);

     DEATHS: Horace (8 BCE); Louis, Chevalier de Rohan,
executed at Paris for Conspiracy (1674); Thomas, 2nd Lord
Lyttelton, after ghostly warnings (1779);

     ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:  In 1702, the Great Storm
caused wide-spread devastation in England;  in 1711, Jonathan
Swift's Conduct of the Allies was published;  in 1784, in defiance
of Pitt's tax on horses, English farmer Jonathan Thartcher rode
a cow to and from the market of Stockport.

     MISCELLANEA:  Today is the Feast of St. Maximus, patron of
Boulogne, in Picardy.  On this day in 1965, more than 30,000
people marched in Washington, D.C., for peace in Viet Nam;
in 1970, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote that he could not come
to Stockholm to accept the Nobel Prize for Literature because
he might not be allowed to return home to Russia.

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                            NOVEMBER 28

     BIRTHDAYS:  Jean-Baptiste Lully, Italian-born French
composer, founder of French National Opera (1632-87);
William Blake, English poet, mystic, engraver (1757-1827);
Captain George William Manby, inventor of life-saving
apparatus for shipwrecks (1765);

     LATER BIRTHDAYS OF INTEREST:  Victor Cousin, French
moral philosopher, educator (1792-1867);  Friedrich Engels,
German businessman, political philosopher, cofounder of
modern Communism (1820-95);  Anton Grigorievich
Rubenstein, Russian somposer, pianist (1829-94);  Sir Leslie
Stephen, English critic, author, 1st editor of Dictionary of
National Biography, father of Virginia Woolf (1832-1904);
Prince Taro Katsura, Japanese general, statesman, premier
(1847-1913);  Albert Henry George Grey, 4th Earl Grey,
English diplomat, 1904-11 Governor General of Canada (1851-
1917);  Alfonso XII, King of Spain 1875-85 (1857-85);  Sir Robert
Abbott Hatfield, English metallurgist (1858-1940);  Henry Bacon,
U.S. architect, designer of Lincoln Memorial (1866-1924);
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok, Russian symbolist poet (1880-
1920);  Jose Iturbi, Spanish-born U.S. pianist (1895-190);  Nancy
Mitford, English novelist, biographer (1904-73);  Claude Levi-
Strauss, French anthropologist. writer, founder of structural
anthropology (1908);  Randy Newman, U.S. singer, songwriter,
ironist, pianist (1943);  Paul Shaffer, Canadian pianist,
bandleader, obnoxious TV personality (1949);

     DEATHS:  the famous robber Cartouche executed in Paris
(1721);

     ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:  in 1582, a bond of 40 pounds
was entered to secure the marriage of William Shakespeare &
Anne Hathaway;

     MISCELLANEA:  Today is Albania's Independence Day
(1912);  Chad celebrates the Proclamation of the Republic
(1960);  it's Independence Day in Mauretania (1960) and
Panama (1821).  On this day in 1909, George Bernard Shaw's
Major Barbara premiered at London's Court Theatre; in 1919,
Lady Nancy Witcher Astor became the 1st woman elected to
the British Parliament.

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                         NOVEMBER 29

     BIRTHDAYS:  Dr. Peter Heylin, English theologian, historian
(1600);  John Harvard (baptized on this date), colonial
clergyman & founder of the eponymous Massachusetts college
(1607-38);  John Ray, English divine, author of the
Physiotheology (1628); Anthony a Wood, English antiquarian &
Oxford historian (1695);

     LATER BIRTHDAYS OF INTEREST:  Andres Bello, Chilean
poet, statesman, jurist (1781-1865);  Gaetano Donizetti, Italian
opera composer (1797-1848);  Amos Bronson Alcott, U.S.
philosopher, transcendentalist, educator (1799-1888);  Christian
Johann Doppler, Austrian physicist, mathematician (1803-53);
Wendell Phillips, U.S. abolitionist, orator (1811-84);  Jean-Martin
Charcot, French neurologist (1825-93); Louisa May Alcott, U.S.
novelist, daughter of A.B.A. who shared the same birthday
(1832-88);  George Holmes Howison, U.S. philosopher &
mathematician (1834-1916);  John Ambrose Fleming, English
engineer & inventor of the radio tube (1849-1945);  Theobald
von Bethmann-Hollweg, German politician, chancellor (1856-
1921);  Antonio Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz,
Portuguese statesman, surgeon, Nobel-Prize-winning
lobotomist (1874-1955);  Dard Hunter, printer, publisher,
historian of papermaking (1883);  Clive Hamilton Staples "C.S.".
Lewis, English novelist, critic, scholar (1898-1963);  Adam
Clayton Powell, Jr., African-American clergyman, politician
(1908-72);  Sir Sydney Douglas Gun-Munro, Governor-
General of St. Vincent & the Grenadines (1916);  Merle Travis,
U.S. guitarist (1917);  Madeleine L'Engle, U.S. children's
novelist (1918);  David Robert Reuben, U.S. psychiatrist &
author (1933);  Willie Morris, U.S. novelist, editor (1934);

     DEATHS:  Bishop Brian Walton of Chester (1661);  Prince
Rupert of Bavaria (1682);  Marcello Malpighi (1694);  Anthony a
Wood (1695);  Queen Maria Theresa of Hungary (1780);

     ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:  in 1814, the London Times
became the 1st newspaper to be printed by steam.

     MISCELLANEA:  Liberia celebrates the Birthday of President
Tubman ;  it's Unity Day in Vanuatu.  Until recently, Yugoslavia
celebrated November 29 as the Day of the Republic.  On this
day in 1922, the tomb of Tutankhamen was discovered by
Howard Carter & Lord Carnarvon.

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