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63 BCE Roman consul Cicero delivered his first Oration against the conspiracy of Catiline, whereupon the conspirator left Rome.

Catiline's Conspiracy

Lucius Sergius Catiline conspired with some dissolute young nobles in 64 BCE to revolt and plunder the Roman treasury. Cicero heard of the plot and gave his first Oration against Catiline, who left Rome. On the next day, Cicero gave his second Oration, and several conspirators were arrested. The third Oration on December 4 was on the punishment Cicero demanded; in the fourth on the next day, the sentence of death on the conspirators was passed. Catiline was killed with his supporters at Pistoria in Etruria (62 BCE). 

392 CE  "On this day in 392 AD, the emperor Theodosius banned all pagan worship in the empire and put an end to the Olympic games. This state-sponsored intolerance of the Religion of Nature gave the Christians tacit approval to confiscate properties, destroy relics, and publicly attack and murder believers."   Source

911 Death of Louis the Child, last Carolingian ruler of the East Franks.

955 Death of Pope Agapetus II.

1226 Death of Louis VIII of France (b. 1187).

1308 Death of Duns Scotus, Scottish philosopher and theologian.  

1519 Hernán Cortés entered Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomed him with great pomp as would befit a returning god.

It was the year that Italy saw the death, on May 2, of Leonardo da Vinci, followed shortly by his countrywoman Lucrezia Borgia on June 24. 

In Rome, Germany's Martin Luther was gazing on new works by Michelangelo and Raphael adorning the palace of Pope Leo X, while answering charges that he had called the pontiff "fallible". Meanwhile, off the coast of Italy, Mediterranean traders sailed in fear of the corsairs of the notorious North African pirate, Khair ad Din (Barbarossa).

At the time, in England, the ink was scarcely dry on Thomas More's Utopia (1516), while elsewhere in Europe, King Charles of Spain was being elected Emperor Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire. Meanwhile, across the big pond, Pedro Arias de Ávila, the new Governor of Panama was no doubt explaining to his superiors in Spain why in January he had beheaded Vasco Núñez de Balboa, the explorer and conquistador. In Holland, Erasmus published his Colloquia.

To the east, Persia's great Safavid Dynasty empire now rivalled that of the Ottomans, and in Switzerland, Protestant reformer Ulrich Zwingli was busy banning the sale of Roman Catholic indulgences. On September 20, Portugal's intrepid navigator, Ferdinand Magellan embarked to circumnavigate the globe, while over in Venice, Italy, rich citizens enjoying the full flush of the Renaissance were revelling in the works of the likes of the recently deceased Giovanni Bellini and Giorgione, and the city was the glory of Europe ...

Tenochtitlán, Mexico's great city of the world

Across the Atlantic Ocean stood the great Aztec capital, Tenochtitlán, situated where Mexico City stands today. Criss-crossed with canals, and featuring many aqueducts and markets, and a grand lake with floating gardens, it was the Venice of the New World (or, rather, Venice was the mini-Tenochtitlán of Europe, for the Mexican city was much larger and grander than that Italian town). 

According to early Spanish accounts, it was unlike the European cities they knew, but more like the ones they had seen in romantic books, as it was not crowded and dirty. Tenochtitlán was larger, more beautiful and more complex than any European city at the time. The population of the lake city was some 200,000 - 300,000 people, at a time when London's numbered about 40,000 and only 65,000 people lived in Paris. Tenochtitlán's craftsmen, such as its fine goldsmiths, were a match for those in Europe, and the grandeur of the city's pyramids rivalled that of the Egyptian wonders ...

Read on at the Greed, gold and God, Part 1, page in the Scriptorium

1520 The Stockholm Bloodbath began: A successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces resulted in the execution of around 100 persons.

1576 Eighty Years' War: Pacification of Ghent – The States-General of the Netherlands met and united to oppose Spanish occupation.

1602 The Bodleian Library was opened at the University of Oxford, England. It was founded with a collection of 2,000 books assembled by Thomas Bodley (1545 - 1612) of Merton College, to replace the library that had been donated to the Divinity School by Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (and brother of Henry V of England), but dispersed in the 16^th Century. The library's ten sites now contain nine million items on 176 km of shelving, and have seats for 2,500 readers. On this day each year there is a speech given in Bodley's honour at the open day.

Bodleian Library (official website)

1674 Death of John Milton (b. 1608), English poet.

1699 In Biloxi, The Tohome Indians who live along the Gulf Coast in Alabama and Mississippi, formally established peaceful relations with the French.

1719 Death of Michel Rolle (b. 1652), mathematician.

1789 According to folklore, Bourbon whiskey was first distilled from corn, by Elijah Craig, Bourbon County, Kentucky, USA. This assertion would seem to be unverified, perhaps unverifiable.

1793 In Paris, the French Revolutionary government opened the Louvre to the public as a museum.

1827 The Canton Register, the first English-language newspaper in the Far East, commenced publication in Guanzhou, China.

1837 Formation of Mount Holyoke Seminary, the first US college founded for women.

1861 American Civil War: The 'Trent Affair' – The USS San Jacinto stopped the United Kingdom mailship Trent and arrested two Confederate envoys, sparking a diplomatic crisis between the UK and US.

1864 US presidential election, 1864: Abraham Lincoln was re-elected in an overwhelming victory over General George McClellan.

1887 Death of Doc Holliday (John Henry Holliday; b. 1851), dentist, gunfighter.

1889 Montana was admitted as the 41st US state.

1890 Death of César Franck (b. 1822), Belgian composer and organist.

1892 US presidential election, 1892: Grover Cleveland was elected over Benjamin Harrison and James B Weaver to win the second of his non-consecutive terms.

1895 While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X-rays.

1907 In Australia, Judge HB Higgins introduced the world's first basic wage concept.

1913 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi), Indian leader and proponent of civil disobedience, was arrested at Standerton; released on recognizance; 'Great March' continued (see November 6, 7).

1923 Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler led the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government.

1932 US presidential election, 1932: Franklin D Roosevelt defeated Herbert Hoover in a landslide victory.

1933 Great Depression: New Deal – US President Franklin D Roosevelt unveiled the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than 4 million of the unemployed.

1935 A dozen US labor leaders came together to announce the creation of the Congress for Industrial Organization (CIO), an organization charged with pushing the cause for industrial unionism.

1935 Fernand Bouisson became Prime Minister of France.

1939 Venlo Incident: Two British agents of SIS were captured by the Germans.

1939 In Munich, Adolf Hitler narrowly escaped an assassination attempt while celebrating the 16^th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch.

1942 World War II: Operation Torch – United States and United Kingdom forces landed in French North Africa.

1950 Korean War: United States Air Force Lt Russell J Brown shot down a North Korean MiG-15 in the first jet aircraft-to-jet aircraft dog fight in history.

1960 US presidential election, 1960: John F Kennedy was elected over Richard M Nixon, becoming the youngest man elected to that office.

1960 USA: Washington State voters refused to repeal the 'Alien Land Law' provision of the state constitution barring Asians from owning property.

1965 The British Indian Ocean Territory was created, consisting of Chagos Archipelago, Aldabra, Farquhar Group and Desroches Islands.

1965 The American soap opera Days of Our Lives debuted.

1967 Five hundred students at Seattle's University of Washington protested against a campus visit by recruiters for Dow Chemical, makers of bathroom detergent and napalm.

1970 Dr Thomas Eldon Alexander Stowell, CBE died just a week after publishing his theory on the 'Royal Conspiracy' about Jack the Ripper.

1974 USA: Lt William Calley was paroled after serving about three years in 'prison' (under house arrest in his apartment) for overseeing the murder of Vietnamese civilians (possibly as high as 500 or more) at My Lai, Vietnam on March 16, 1968.

Sixty or 70 US infantrymen had entered My Lai early one morning and destroyed its houses, its livestock and all the inhabitants that they could find in a brutal operation that took less than 20 minutes.

When it was over, the Vietnamese dead totalled at least 100 men, women and children, and perhaps many more. Only 25 or so escaped, because they lay hidden under the fallen bodies of relatives and neighbours.

The information above is almost verbatim from Time magazine of November 28, 1969, one of many American media organizations that sat on the story for a year. European media had reported the My Lai Massacre a year earlier. The more things change, the more they remain the same. 

Source: The Daily Bleed    The court martial of Lt William Calley

1974 In Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, Carol DaRonch narrowly escaped abduction by serial killer Ted Bundy.

1974 Covent Garden, London, ceased to be the site of the city's famous flower and vegetable market.

1982 In Wethersfield, a small town in Connecticut, USA, a 2.7 kg (approx. 6 pounds) meteorite burst through the roof of the home of Wanda and Bob Donahue while the occupants were watching M*A*S*H on TV. It hit the floor, then bounced up to the ceiling of the adjoining room, hit a chair and came to rest on the floor. Since it's believed that fewer than a dozen houses in all history have been struck by meteorites, it is astonishing to note that in April 1971 another house in Wethersfield was struck by one. The odds against this happening are incalculable.

1984 Long-running Australian midday TV program, The Mike Walsh Show, made its final appearance.

1987 Enniskillen massacre: In Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, an Irish Republican Army bomb exploded at a ceremony honouring Britain's war dead, killing 11 people and injuring 63.

1988 US presidential election, 1988: George HW Bush was elected over Michael Dukakis.

1994 For the first time in 40 years, the United States Republican Party took control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate in midterm congressional elections.

2002 Iraq disarmament crisis: UN Security Council Resolution 1441 – The United Nations Security Council unanimously approved a resolution on Iraq, forcing Saddam Hussein to disarm or face "serious consequences". Iraq's accurate protestations that it had just a basic self-defence armoury were denied by the George W Bush administration.

2003 According to some, a day of immense cosmic significance for Planet Earth. The day has been dubbed the Harmonic Concordance.

However,

"A concordance is an alphabetical list of the principal words used in a book or body of work, with their immediate contexts."  Source

Certainly, it can also mean (rather archaically) 'agreement' or 'harmony between things', but the first thing that comes to mind (the usual usage) is a big, fat, boring book – probably the originators mean 'concord', which better conveys the meaning. (And a 'Harmonic Harmony' is a strange tautology anyway.)

"Peruvian shamans of the Q'ero line (a lineage shared by both the Inca and the Apaches), descendants of those who fled into the high Andes to escape the Spanish conquistadors, have told shaman-psychologist Dr. Alberto Villoldo about the occurrence of an important event in the late fall of 2003. At that time, which they say will mark the end of the current, and final, Pachakuti (a period of cleansing, when everything is turned upside down), it is said that a tear, or hole in the fabric of time will appear, and that those who have prepared for it will be able to walk through it and into their luminous bodies."
Source: Crystalinks

2003 "Many of the worst abuses that have come to light from the Abu Ghraib prison happened on a single November day amid a flare-up of insurgent violence in Iraq, the deaths of many US soldiers and a breakdown of the American guards' command structure.

"November 8 was the day US guards took most of the infamous photographs: soldiers mugging in front of a pile of naked, hooded Iraqis, prisoners forced to perform or simulate sex acts, a hooded prisoner in a scarecrow-like pose with wires attached to him."   Source  

Myths of the 'War on Terrorism' and Iraq

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Sydney Peace Prize: Arundhati Roy's acceptance speech, Nov 3, 2004

Arundhati Roy on equity

The personal wealth of the top 587 richest people exceeds the national wealth of the poorest 135 nations combined.
Indian novelist Arundhati Roy (paraphrase), Sydney Peace Prize Lecture, November 3, 2004

Read more at Indymedia    And more

[Roy's speech was a stinging indictment of the invasion of Iraq and the role of TNCs (transnational corporations) in profiting from the war and occupation.]