Today in history

[Araucaria]

^At the time your previous incarnation decided to go out for lunch?

 

[belamyi]

^ Incarnation as what, was that; and for what sort of lunch?
I don't seem to remember...

 

[Kulindahr]

What time?

LOL

I don't recall Ussher being that specific. I had professor in grad school, though, who insisted it started at 7 a.m., because he hates 7 a.m.

 

[pornoboy]

Born 80 years ago today


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[smokeshadow]

1901 - the United States War College was established in Washington, D. C.
1924 - Macy's first Thanksgiving Day parade - billed as a "Christmas Parade" - took place in New York City
1962 - the first Boeing 727 was rolled out at the company's Renton Plant near Seattle
1978 - San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, a gay-rights activist, were shot to death inside City Hall by former supervisor Dan White. White served 5 years for manslaughter; he took his own life in October 1985

 

[Kulindahr]

1095: After nine days of sessions among clerics, Pope Urban II addresses the public to proclaim the First Crusade. The goals were to defend Eastern Christians from Muslim aggression, make pilgrimages to Jerusalem safer, and recapture the Holy Sepulcher. In response the crowd shouted "Deus vult! Deus vult!" -- "God wills it! God wills it!".

 

[Kulindahr]

1901 - the United States War College was established in Washington, D. C.
1924 - Macy's first Thanksgiving Day parade - billed as a "Christmas Parade" - took place in New York City
1962 - the first Boeing 727 was rolled out at the company's Renton Plant near Seattle
1978 - San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, a gay-rights activist, were shot to death inside City Hall by former supervisor Dan White. White served 5 years for manslaughter; he took his own life in October 1985

Those first three are some heavy-duty events for a single day of the year!

 

[smokeshadow]

^^wonder how many of those Boeing 727's introduced to the skys in 1962/1963 are still flying? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_727

 

[unloadonme]

28 November 1489 - Birth of Margaret Tudor

Margaret Tudor - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Kulindahr]

1223: The Franciscan Order is officially organized by Pope Honorius III as he formally confirms the "Regula bullata". The Franciscans, with a membership over five thousand, are marked by complete poverty and a mission of itinerant preaching. The Franciscans had been preaching and aiding the poor for more than a decade without recognition as an Order of priests and monks.

 

[unloadonme]

3 December 1668 - Death of William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury.

William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Kulindahr]

1674: French Jesuit missionary Jacques Marquette erects a mission on Lake Michigan—the first building in what would become the city of Chicago.

 

[Kulindahr]

1933: Prohibition comes to an end as the twenty- first amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified. The ban on the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages had been fervently sought by fundamentalist Christians in the social reform movement of the late 1800s and early 1900s.


We should have learned not to trust fundamentalist Christians with power.

 

[pornoboy]

John Lennon killed in NY


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[Kulindahr]

1189: King Richard I "the Lion Hearted" leaves England on the Third Crusade to retake Jerusalem, which had fallen to Muslim general Saladin in 1187.

1712: The colony of South Carolina requires "all persons whatsoever" to attend church each Sunday and refrain from skilled labor and travel. Violators of the "Sunday Law" could be fined 10 shillings or locked in the stocks for two hours.

 

[Kulindahr]

1223: Francis of Assisi stages history's first living nativity scene, complete with live animals, in a cave near Greccio, Italy

 

[belamyi]

Christmas 1962 Great Badass Snowfall in BCN.

Nevada a Catalunya del 1962 - Viquipèdia, l'enciclopèdia lliure

ca.wikipedia.org

They even had to ask for help to an exile in Andorra, who could face jail in Spain, because there were no snowplows nor protocol to face a situation like that.

 

[Kulindahr]

496: King Clovis, who united Gaul and founded France, is baptized in the Cathedral of Rheims, followed by 3,000 of his soldiers. "Worship what you once burned, and burn what you worshipped," the priest instructed him. However, Clovis and his troops showed little change after their "conversion" and apparently believed Christ was merely a war god who would grant them victory if they prayed for it.

800: Pope Leo III is crowns Charlemagne, the first ruler of the Holy Roman Empire.

1066: William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy, was crowned king of England at Westminster Abbey, officially recognizing his rule and the success of the Norman Conquest of England.

1814: First Protestant sermon on New Zealand soil preached by Rev. Samuel Marsden, colonial chaplain of New South Wales. Spearhead of the CMS mission to the Maoris, who were baptised in droves in the 1830's.

2022: Knox's present to Kuli was escaping the yard and leading Kuli on a half-hour chase around a rather empty town.

 

[Kulindahr]

1521: Pope Leo X creates a bull of excommunication for Martin Luther that would have deprived him of civil rights and protection, but before its execution, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V allows Luther the opportunity to recant his beliefs at the Diet of Worms. When Luther instead affirms his beliefs, the bull is carried out.

 

[Kulindahr]

548: The Jerusalem church observes Christmas on this date for the last time as the Western church moves to celebrating the birth of Jesus on December 25.