From: nagual@xochicalco.edu (Neil Peart)
Subject: Tonalamatl/Mon. Oct 12, 1992
Reply-To: Multiple recipients of list MEXICO-L <MEXICO-L@TECMTYVM.BITNET>
Organization: Xochicalco University, Tijuana, BCN
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 12:05:52 GMT

    Today is the 286th day of 1992 with 80 remaining.
    The moon is waning and gibbous, moving towards its last quarter.
    The morning stars are Mars and Jupiter.
    The evening stars are Mercury, Venus, Mars and Saturn.

Maya Long Count: 12. 18. 19. 9. 5.  OX-LAHUN-Chicchan UAXAC Yax
Mexica: CHICOME-Calli. MACTLACTLIYEI-Coatl Izcalli OME
Otomi  Quenza: 6-Aneyaxi. Mapa: 13-Ancqueya. Cana: Anthudoeni 7
Purepecha: CUIMU-Tzhinapu. TEMBENTANIMU-Akuitze. Nemonscuaro YUNTZIMAN
Zapotec Yza: 5-Quij. Chij: 13-Zee. Cocijo: 1-Chilla. Cocij: 1-Quij.
Lunes 12 de Octubre de 1992
Sukkot

Day of the Race

 720
    [9.14.9.0.0] Tun period ending observances at Yaxchilan and Tikal.

 752
    [9.16.1.8.8] Lord Bird-Jaguar of Yaxchilan captures Jeweled-Skull.

1492
    Native Americans discover Cristoforo Colombo lost on their shores.
    Christopher Columbus (1436?-1506) arrives to the Island of Guanhani which
    he called San Salvador and possibly corresponding to the present-day
    island Watling of the Bahamas, believing he had reached East Indies.

1519
    [Day 6-Ocelotl Year 1-Acatl] Hernan Cortes and his troops leave Tlaxcala 
    and arrive in Cholula where they will massacre its inhabitants with the
    excuse of suspecting a conspiracy against the invaders.

1524
    Hernan Cortes departs from Mexico City to subdue the region of the
    Hibueras (Honduras).

1709
    Cap. Antonio Deza y Ulloa founds the town Real de San Francisco de Cuellar
    (now Chihuahua) in the territory of New Biscay.

1777
    A band of Gila Apaches from the region attacks Janos, Chihuahua, where
    they are forced to settle after being defeated.

1794
    Jose Maria Luis Mora, pillar of the laws of Reform, is baptized in
    San Francisco Chamacuero, Guanajuato.

1811
    Paraguay declares its independence from Spain and Argentina.

1812
    The Cadiz Constitution is established in New Spain.

1821
    The province of Leon, Nicaragua, declares the independence of that
    country from Spain, adopting the Plan of Iguala of the Mexican empire.

1822
    Brazil declares its independence from Portugal.

1824
    President Guadalupe Victoria issues the first colonization law in
    Mexico.

1837
    Texas withdraws its request to be annexed to the US.

1864
    President Juarez establishes the Presidency in the city of Chihuahua
    in his escape from the Conservatives.

1871
    Congress appoints Benito Juarez as President after the elections
    did not show a clear winner from the three candidates (Porfirio
    Diaz, Sebastian Lerdo and Benito Juarez).

1878
    An exhibition of inventions by Thomas A. Edison opens in Mexico City.

1895
    Climatic recognition of the shrine of Tepeyac with the coronation of the
    Virgin of Guadalupe in a splendid ceremony, at which a poem written by
    Pope Leo XIII, was set to music and sing at the offertory.

1921
    Jose Vasconcelos is appointed first Minister of Public Education.

1945
    Amid a big celebration, the Church crowns the Virgin of Guadalupe as
    the Queen of Wisdom and of the Americas.
    Pope Pius XII sends a radio message to the international convocation,
    "Hail! O Virgin of Guadalupe" that celebrates the tradition.

1968
    The XIX Olympic Games begin in Mexico City.

1976
    The new Guadalupe basilica receives the garb with the image of the
    Madonna. This shrine was designed by Pedro Ramirez Vazquez and built at
    a cost of US $ 28 millions.

1982
    Alfonso Garcia Robles, main architect of the 1967 non-nuclear proliferation
    treaties for Latin America, shares the Peace Nobel Prize with the Swedish
    Alva Myrdal. Garcia Robles is cited for "patient and meticulous" efforts
    to negotiate international nuclear disarmament and "central role in
    disarmament negotiations" and for making known "the threat mankind faces in
    continued nuclear armament." The prize carries a cash value of $157,000.

1988
    Indigenes protest before the monument to Columbus in Mexico City for the
    celebration of the holiday.
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"When they turn the pages of history,
 When these days have passed long ago,
 Will they read of us with sadness
 For the seeds that we let grow?"     -- Neil Peart
 
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