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Today in history

1533: Harried by Catholic authorities, John Calvin flees Paris by lowering himself out a window with a bedsheet rope and disguising himself as a farmer, complete with a hoe over his shoulder. He spent three years as a fugitive before settling in Geneva
 
4 November 1650 - Birth of King William III.

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1938: German fascists take to the streets across Germany, looting and vandalizing Jewish homes, hospitals, schools, and synagogues in an event referred to as “Kristalnacht” for the shards of broken glass that littered the streets. German authorities did not intervene. Over 1000 synagogues were burned and 7000 Jewish businesses were destroyed or damaged. The death toll is hard to calculate, but some historians estimate that hundreds of Jews were murdered in this single night of hatred and violence.
 
1770: French anti-Christian philosopher Francois Voltaire utters his famous remark, "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him."

1871: After seven months of searching, American journalist Henry Stanley finally finds Scottish missionary David Livingstone in Ujiji, Central Africa, and utters his famous introduction, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume." The relationship between the two men led to Stanley's conversion and decision to become a missionary.
 
1620: Forty-one Puritan separatists arrive in Plymouth, Massachusetts. They had hoped to settle further south, but as William Bradford wrote in his journal on December 19, "We could not now take much time for further search . . . our victuals being much spent, especially our beer".

I get a laugh at the idea that Puritans were worried about running out of beer!

1855: Danish Christian philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, regarded as the founder of existentialism, dies at age 42. Trying to "reintroduce Christianity to Christendom," he believed that Christianity was far more radical and difficult than did his Danish contemporaries.
 
^ Back then, water in England was not safe to drink. Beer was the only way to kill the bacteria in the water. Everybody drank beer, even children.
 
gsdx said:
^ Back then, water in England was not safe to drink. Beer was the only way to kill the bacteria in the water. Everybody drank beer, even children.
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I know -- but it's still a funny image.

When carrying along enough beer wasn't an option, there was another method: carry rum or whiskey or brandy and add it to your water. That would probably have been considered too tempting, though.
 
gsdx said:
^ Back then, water in England was not safe to drink. Beer was the only way to kill the bacteria in the water. Everybody drank beer, even children.
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Back then, beer was the primary breakfast beverage until the industrial revolution. Suddenly, workers were being injured in heavy machinery because they were inebriated :##: Employers began looking for a healthier substitute. . .hence, the introduction of coffee from the Arabias; and, now nobody sleeps :roll:
 
3 B.C.: According to early church father Clement of Alexandria (c.155-c.220), Jesus was born on this date

It's fascinating that Clement was aware of this as the year of Christ's birth even before "Anno Domini" became the standard system for counting years, indeed the dating system using "ab urbe condita", "from the founding of the city", wasn't even in widespread use -- people referred to years by who was emperor and who was consul.
I'd love to read Clement's reasoning for the specific date! At the very least this shows that there was no recognized date for Christmas.


1558: Elizabeth I's accession to the English throne leads to the re-establishment of the Church of England.
 
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