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Subject: C18-L's KALENDAR: Reasons to Celebrate, November 8-15
Date: 8 Nov 92 22:03:47 GMT
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                            NOVEMBER 8

     BIRTHDAYS:  Edward Pocock, English traveler, Oriental scholar
(1604);  Edmund Halley, English astronomer, after whom one of our
best-known (and best-loved) comets is named (1656-1742);  Mikhail
Vasilievich Lomonosov, Russian poet, scholar, scientist (1711-65);
Captain John Byron, English navigator (1723);  John Dickinson, U.S.
lawyer, "the Penman of the Revolution" (1732-1808);

     LATER BIRTHDAYS OF INTEREST:  Marca Minghetti, Italian states-
man, premier (1818-86);  George Henry Bissell, U.S. entrepreneur, 1st
of the oil magnates (1821-84);  Oliver Otis Howard, U.S. general, in 1867
founder of Howard University (1830-1909);  Gottlob Frege, German
philosopher & mathematician (1848-1935);  Joseph Franklin Rutherford,
U.S. religious leader of Jehovah's Witnesses, pacifist (1869-42);
Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychiatrist, inventor in 1921 of the
eponymous ink blot test (1884-1922);  Dorothy Day, U.S. reformer,
founder of the Catholic Worker movement (1897-1980);  Margaret
Mitchell, U.S. novelist, author of Gone With the Wind (1900-49);
Katharine Hepburn, U.S. actress (1909);  Peter Weiss, German-born
Swedish writer, author (1964) of The Persecution and Assassination of
Jean Paul Marat (1916-82);  June Hovick, better known as June Havoc,
Canadian actress, sister of Gypsy Rose Lee (1916);  Florence
Chadwick, U.S. swimmer, 1st woman to swim English channel both ways
(1918);  Jerome Heinz, aka Jerome Hines, U.S. operatic bass (1921);
Gene Michael Saks, U.S. film director of Mame & The Odd Couple
(1921);  Christiaan Barnard, South African physician,in 1967 1st to
perform successful heart transplant (1922);  Clara Anne Fowler, better
known as Patti Page (the singing rage), U.S. singer (1927);  Morley
Safer, Canadian-born U.S. broadcaster (1931);  Alain Delon, French
actor (1935);  Bonnie Raitt, U.S. singer, guitarist, songwriter (1949);

     DEATHS:  John Milton (1674);  Madame Manon Philipon Roland
(1793);  Thomas Bewick (1828);

     ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:  in 1740, Samuel Richardson published
Pamela;

     MISCELLANEA:  The Soviet Union used to celebrate the
Anniversary of the October Socialist Revolution on this day -- but it's
not a big holiday any longer.  On this day in 1974, the 8 National
Guardsmen charged in the shooting deaths of four anti-war
demonstrators on the campus of Kent State University in 1970 were
acquitted.

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                            NOVEMBER 9

     BIRTHDAYS:  Mark Akenside, English poet, author of The Pleasures
of the Imagination (1721);  Benjamin Banneker, U.S. inventor,
mathematician, almanac maker (1731-1806);  William Sotheby, English
translator, poet (1757);

     LATER BIRTHDAYS OF INTEREST:  Robert Dale Owen, Scottish-
born U.S. social reformer, politician, a founder of the Smithsonian Inst.
(1801-77);  Gail Borden, U.S. inventor, opened 1st factory producing
evaporated milk (1801-74);  Elijah Parish Lovejoy, U.S. journalist,
abolitionist killed in slavery riots (1802-37);  Ivan Sergeyevich
Turgenev, Russian novelist (1818-83);  King Edward VII of Great
Britain, ruled 1901-11 (1841-1911);  Stanford White, U.S. architect (1853-
1906);  Leila von Koeber, better-known as Marie Dressler, Canadian
actress (1869-1934);  Isaiah Edwin Leopold, better known as Ed Wynn,
U.S. comic actor (1886-1966);  Jean Omer Marie Gabriel Monnet,
French economist, government official (1888-1979);  R. Sargent Shriver,
U.S. diplomats, 1st director of Peace Corps (1915);  Spiro K. Agnew,
U.S. politician, Maryland governor, VP, resigned in 1973 facing
charges of tax evasion (1918);  Dorothy Dandridge, U.S. actress (1922-
65);  Anne Sexton, U.S. poet (1928-66);  Carl Sagan, U.S. astronomer,
science writer (1934);

     DEATHS:  William Camden (1623);  Archbishop Gilbert Sheldon (1677);
Paul Sandby (1809);  Dylan Thomas (1953);

     ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:  Today is the traditional day of
London's Lord Mayor's Show, inaugural processions of ancient
precedent, which were reinstated at the Restoration in 1660, and for
which Elkanah Settle, the City-Laureate, contributed verse from 1691-
1708.  The last great Show was in 1702, and was supplanted by the Lord
Mayor's Feast, held a little before Christmas.  A coach was laid on in
1712 (previously the Mayor went on horseback), and a gorgeous fabric
long in use was constructed in 1757 at a cost of 1065 pounds & 3
shillings, with panels painted by Cipriani.  The last plate of Hogarth's
"Industry and Idleness" is said to feature a vignette of the pageant.

     MISCELLANEA:  Today is Remembrance Day in the Caribbean
Turks and Caicos Islands.  Today is the feast of St. Theodore Tiro,
patron of warriors.

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                          NOVEMBER 10

     BIRTHDAYS:  Martin Luther, German religious reformer (1433-1546);
Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, better
known as Paracelsus, Swiss physician & alchemist (1493-1541);  Jacob
Cats, Dutch poet, statesman, emblematist (1577-1660);  Francois
Couperin, French composer, harpsichordist (1668-1773);  George II,
from 1727-60 King of Great Britain (1683-1760);  William Hogarth,
English painter, engraver, satirist, legislator -- Hogarth's Act of 1735
protected artists from piracy (1697-1764);  Oliver Goldsmith, Irish-born
English poet, playwright, essayist, novelist (1728-74);  Granville Sharp,
English writer & abolitionist (1734);  Johann Christoph Friedrich
Schiller, German poet, dramatist, historian, philosopher (1759-1805);

     LATER BIRTHDAYS OF INTEREST:  Samuel Gridley Howe, U.S.
physician, educator, humanitarian (1801-76);  Miguel Antonio Caro,
Colombian statesman, president (1843-1909);  Donald Baxter Macmillan,
U.S. arctic explorer (1874-1970);  Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, U.S. poet
(1879-1931);  Arnold Zweig, German novelist (1887-1968);  Claude
Rains, English actor (1889-1967);  J.P. Marquand, U.S. novelist (1893-
1960);  John Knudsen Northrup, U.S. aircraft magnate (1895);  Bernard
Haring, German theologian (1912);  Karl Shapiro, U.S. poet, critic
(1913);  Moise Kapenda Tshombe, Congolese statesman, president,
exile (1919-69);  Richard Jenkins, better known as Richard Burton,
golden-voiced Welsh actor, convivialist: "I have to think hard to name
an interesting person who does not drink" (1925-84);  Roy Scheider,
U.S. actor (1935);  Russell Means, Native American leader, founder of
American Indian Movement).

     DEATHS:

     ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:  in 1739, Samuel Richardson started to
write Pamela (it took him 363 days to get it into print);

     MISCELLANEA:  Today is the Feast of St. Leo the Great, and of St.
Aedh MacBrice, who is invoked to cure headaches.  On this day in
1920, the 1st production of Shaw's Heartbreak House took place in
New York; in 1980 the Supreme Court of Poland ruled that
independent trade unions such as Solidarity were legal.

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                          NOVEMBER 11

     BIRTHDAYS:  Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French navigator,
commander of the 1st French voyage around the world (two Pacific
straits, an island, and a flowering vine are named for him) (1729-1811);
Abigail Adams, wife of U.S. president John Adams & mother of
president John Quincy Adams (1744-1818);  Charles IV, King (1788-
1808) of Spain (1748-1819);  Marie Francois Xavier Bichat, French
physician, founder of histology (1771-1802);  Ephraim McDowell, U.S.
physician, in 1809 performed 1st successful removal of an ovarian
tumor, previously thought impossible (1771-1830);

     LATER BIRTHDAYS OF INTEREST:  Fyodr Mikhailovich
Dostoevsky, Russian novelist (1821);  Thomas Bailey Aldrich, U.S.
poet, editor of Atlantic Monthly (1836-1907);  Jean Edouard Vuillard,
French painter (1868-1940);  Victor Emmanuel III, king (1900-46) of
Italy, exile (1869-1947);  Maude Kiskadden, aka Maude Adams, U.S.
actress (1872-1953);  Gustav VI Adolf, King (1950-73) of Sweden (1882-
1973);  Ernest Alexandre Ansermet, Swiss conductor, composer (1883-
1969);  George S. Patton, U.S. general (1885-1945);  Sir Alexander
Fleck, Scottish industrialist, developer of dacron & polyethylene (1889-
1968);  Rene Clair, French filmmaker (1891-1981);  Salvatore Luciana,
aka Charles "Lucky" Luciano, Italian-born U.S. gangster (1896-1962);
Hoagie Carmichael, U.S. songwriter, pianist (1899);  Pat O'Brien, U.S.
actor (1899-1983);  Alger Hiss, U.S. public official accused of espionage
(recent KGB files show no grounds ) (1904);  Sun Yun-suan, Chinese
leader, PM of Republic of China, Taiwan (1913);  William Proxmire,
U.S. senator (1915);  Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., U.S. novelist, philosopher:
"We are what we pretend to be"(1922);  Jonathan Winters, U.S.
comedian (1925);  Carlos Fuentes, Mexican novelist, diplomat, critic
(1928);  Bibi Andersson, Swedish actress (1935); Demi Moore, U.S.
actress (1962);

     DEATHS:  Thomas, Lord Fairfax (1671);  Jean Sylvain Bailly (1793);

     ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:  in 1630, Cardinal Richelieu overcame
the conspiracy of Maria de' Medici, on the Day of Dupes;  in 1685,
William Prince of Orange landed at Torbray.  Today is Martinmas, a
Quarter Day in Scotland.

     MISCELLANEA:  Angola celebrates Independence Day (1975);
Belgium, France, Guiana, and Tahiti all observe Armistice Day,
commemorating the end of World War I in 1918;  Bhutan celebrates the
Birthday of His Majesty King Jigme Singye Wangchuk;  Canada and
Belgium observe Remembrance Day, commemorating participants in
the two world wars;  France, the U.S., Guam, Puerto Rico, and the
Virgin Islands observe Veterans Day;  it's Republic Day in the
Maldives.  Today is the feast of St. Martin, patron of reformed
drunkards.  On this day in 1887, the "Haymarket Martyrs" were
executed in Chicago; in 1922, the BBC began transmission of musical
programmes; in 1948, James Baldwin sailed into exile in Europe.

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                         NOVEMBER 12

     BIRTHDAYS:  Sor Juan Ines de la Cruz, Mexican poet, nun (1651-95);
Jacques Alexandre Cesar Charles, French physicist, chemist, inventor,
1st to use hydrogen for inflating balloons (1746-1823);

     LATER BIRTHDAYS OF INTEREST:  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, U.S.
reformer, suffragist (1815-1902);  Aleksandr Profiryevich Borodin
(1833-87);  Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (1840-1917);  John William
Struut, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist, discoveror of Argon
(1842-1919);  Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary, statesman (1866-
1925);  Dewitt Wallace, U.S. publisher, cofounder of Reader's Digest
(1889-1981);  Harry Andrew Blackmun, U.S. jurist (1908);  Roland
Barthes, French critic, semiotician (1915-80);  Jo Stafford, U.S. singer
(1918);  Grace Kelly, Princess Grace of Monaco (1929-82);  Neil Young,
Canadian rock singer, songwriter, grunge guitarist (1945);  Andre
LaPlante, Canadian pianist, 1978 winner of International Tchiakovsky
Competition (1949);  Nadia Comaneci, Romanian Olympic gymnast
(1961);

     DEATHS:  William Hayley (1820);

     ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

     MISCELLANEA:  Today Taiwan celebrates the Birthday of Dr, Sun
Yat-sen.  It is also the feast of St. Emilian Cucullatus, one of the patrons
of Spain.  On this day in 1935, U.S. poet Theodore Roethke was
hospitalized after a night in the Michigan woods where he shared a
mystical experience with a tree and learned the secret of Nijinsky.

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                       NOVEMBER 13

     BIRTHDAYS:  Aleksandr Vasilievich Suvorov, Count Suvorov
Rimniksy, Prince Itolksy, Russian field marshall (1729-1800);

     LATER BIRTHDAYS OF INTEREST:  Esaias Tegner, Swedish poet,
scholar, bishop (1782-1846);  James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish
mathematician, physicist (1831-1879);  Edwin Booth, U.S. actor (1833-93);
George Whitefield Chadwick, U.S. composer (1854-1931);  Louis
Demitz Brandeis, U.S. jurist, namesake of Brandeis University (1856-
1941);  Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson, Scottish poet, novelist, essayist,
critic (1859-94);  Edward A. Doisy, U.S. biochemist, codiscoverer of
Vitamin K (1893);  Nathaniel Benchley, U.S. novelist, editor, journalist
(1915);  Charles Buchinksy, better known as Charles Bronson, U.S.
actor (1922);  Oskar Werner, Austrian-born U.S. actor (1922);
Whoopi Goldberg, U.S. comedian, actress (1949);

     DEATHS:  Emperor Justinian (565)

     ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:  in 1789, the mayor of Stamford,
Lincolnshire, attempted to halt the village's traditional Bull-Running by
summoning a troop of dragons, whose captain refused the mayor's
command to disperse the crowd, saying they were walking peacably on
the road, to which the mayor said the dragoons were of no use to him,
to which the captain answered, "Very well. I will dismiss them," and
they happily joined the festivities;  in 1797, Coleridge & Wordsworth
started the Rime of the Ancient Mariner (collaboratively) while walking
through the Valley of Stones;

     MISCELLANEA:  Today is the feast of St. Brice, invoked against
stomach diseases, and of St. Nicholas I, patron of Russia, of Aberdeen,
pf mariners, thieves, and parish clerks; and of St. Homobonus, patron of
Cremona, Italy, and of tailors & clothmakers; and of St, Stanislaus
Kostka, one of the patrons of Poland.  On this day in 1862, Lewis
Carroll started working on Alice in Wonderland; in 1915, D.H.
Lawrence's novel The Rainbow was ruled obscene by a Bow Street
court; in 1940, Walt Disney's Fantasia premiered in New York.

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                           NOVEMBER 14:

     BIRTHDAYS:  Benjamin Hoadley, controversial Bishop of Bangor &
eminent Whig prelate (1676);  William III, King (1688-1702) of Great
Britain (1650-1702);  Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt, Austrian baroque
architect (1668-1745);  Robert Fulton, U.S. inventor, in 1807 developer
of 1st practical steam-ship (1765-1815);

     LATER BIRTHDAYS OF INTEREST:  Adam Gottlob
Oehlenschlager, Danish national poet, dramatist (1779-1850);  Sir
Charles Lyell, Scottish geologist (1797-1875);  Anson Burlingame, U.S.
diplomat (1820-70);  Charles Louis de Saulces de Freycinet, French
statesman, premier (1828-1923);  Claude Monet, French Impressionist
painter (1840-1926);  Frederick Jackson Turner, U.S. historian (1861-
1932);  Count Johann-Heinrich von Bernstroff, German diplomat (1862-
1939);  Leo Hendrik Baekeland, Belgian-born U.S. chemist, inventor of
early plastic Bakelite (1863-1944);  Sonia Delaunay, Russian-born
French painter & designer (1885);  Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian statesman,
1st PM (1889-1964);  Sir Frederick Grant Banting, Canadian
physiologist, codiscoverer of insulin production technique (1891-1941);
Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis, U.S. scholar, Walpolian, collector and
founder of the Lewis-Walpole Library (1895-1979);  Mamie Doud
Eisenhower, wife of U.S. president Dwight David Eisenhower (1896-
1979);  Aaron Copland, U.S. composer (1900);  Dick Powell, U.S. actor
(1904-63);  Joseph McCarthy, U.S. politician, leader of anticommunist
witch-hunts in 1950s (1908-57);  Harrison Salisbury, U.S. journalist
(1908);  Barbara Hutton, U.S. heiress (1912-79);  Constance Ockleman,
better known as Veronica Lake, U.S. actress with *way* good hair
[actually, I thought she was great in Sullivan's Travels] (1919-73);
Edward White, U.S. astronaut, 1st spacewalker, killed in Apollo I fire
(1930-67);  Hussein ibn Talal, King of Jordan (1935);  Charles, Prince of
Wales, who once said, when, on an official tour, he tasted snake meat,
"Boy, the things I do for England!" (1948);

     DEATHS:  Gottfried Wilhelm Liebnitz (1716);  Georg Wilhelm
Friedrich Hegel (1831);

     ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:  in 1532 King Henry VIII married Anne
Boleyn;  in 1714,  William Congreve was made searcher of customs;

     MISCELLANEA:  Today Jordan celebrates King Hussein's Birthday;
St. Kitts celebrates the Prince of Wales's birthday.  On this day in 1851
Herman Melville's Moby Dick was published.

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                            NOVEMBER 15

     BIRTHDAYS:  Andrew Marvell, English poet & politician (1620);
William Pitt, the Elder, English politician, Secretary of State, "the Great
Commoner" (1708-78);  William Cowper, English poet (1731);  Sir
Friedrich Wilhelm "William" Herschel, German-born English
astronomer, discoverer of Uranus (1738-1822);  Johann Kaspar Lavater,
Swiss philosopher, mystic, physiognomist (1741-1801);

     LATER BIRTHDAYS OF INTEREST:  Rev. James Scholefield,
English classical scholar, editor (1789);  Isidore Kalish, U.S. rabbi,
leader of Reform Judaism (1816-86);  James O'Neill, Irish-born U.S.
actor, father of playwright Eugene (1849-1920);  Gerhart Hauptmann,
German poet, 1912 Nobel Laureate (1862-1946);  Schack August
Steenburgh Krogh, Danish physiologist (1874-1949);  Felix Frankfurter,
U.S. jurist (1882-1965);  Marianne Moore, U.S. poet (1887);  Georgia
O'Keeffe, U.S. painter (1887);  Averell Harriman, U.S. statesman,
diplomat, banker (1891);  Aneurin Bevan, British politician (1897-1960);
Ed Asner, U.S. actor (1929);

     DEATHS:  Albertus Magnus (1280);  Christopher Gluck (1787);

     ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:  in 1635, the University of Budapest
opened;  in 1712, James, Duke of Hamilton, was killed in a duel in Hyde
Park;  in 1715 Austria obtained the Spanish Netherlands in the Barrier
Treaty with Holland;  in 1777, the Continental Congress adopted the
Articles of Confederation linking the American colonies.

     MISCELLANEA:  Today Brazil celebrates the Proclamation of the
Republic (1889), and in Japan it's Shi-chi-gosan.  It's also the Feast of St.
Albert the Great, patron of Prussia and of students of natural
philosophy; and it's the feast of St. Leopold, patron of Austria; and it's
also the feast of Saints Gurius, Samonas and Abibus, avengers of
unfulfilled contracts.
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