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| Monday, May 8, 2000 | Edited by Peter Y. Chou | ||
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May 8, 1945— The New York Times:
Read the May 8, 1945 issue of New York Times President Harry S Truman announced the end of war in Europe (V-E Day) over radio at 9 am, Tuesday, May 8, 1945. Truman was born in Lamar, Missouri, on May 8, 1884, so the good news came on his 61st birthday. Harry Truman was a 33-degree Mason and also the 33rd President of the United States. Here is my one page Bio-Sketch of Truman for students using the Internet. More links to Truman resources on the web.
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Gary Snyder, born May 8, 1930
Poetry Pulitzer Prize "Riprap" by Gary Snyder
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May 8: Events on this day— 1373 Julian of Norwich, British mystic, receives 16 revelations in a state of ecstasy 1429 British siege of Orléans broken by 17-year old French peasant Joan of Arc 1541 Hernando de Soto of Spain discovers Mississippi River 1790 Metric decimal system of measurement adopted by French National Assembly 1792 British Captain George Vancouver sights & names Mt. Rainier, Washington 1794 Antoine Lavoisier, father of chemistry, executed during French Reign of Terror 1840 Britain issues second postage stamp "Two-Penny Blue" showing Queen Victoria 1846 Zachary Taylor wins first battle of Mexican War fought at Palo Alto, Texas 1858 John Brown holds antislavery convention 1873 John Stuart Mill, British philosopher, dies at 66 1877 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show first held in New York 1886 Atlanta pharmacist John Styth Pemberton invents Coca Cola 1891 Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Russian Theosophist, dies at 60 1895 China cedes Taiwan to Japan under Treaty of Shimonoseki 1902 Mt Pelée erupts, wipes out Saint Pierre, Martinique 1907 Jeff Pfeffer of Boston Red Sox no-hits Cincinnati Reds (6-0) 1919 First transatlantic flight take-off by a navy seaplane 1926 First flight over North Pole by Bennett & Byrd (Video) 1929 Carl Hubbell of New York Giants no-hits Pittsburgh Pirates (11-0) 1935 Amelia Earhart makes solo non-stop flight from Mexico City to Newark, NJ 1937 War Admiral wins Kentucky Derby on his way to the Triple Crown 1939 James Joyce appears on cover of Time Magazine (May 8, 1939) 1942 Battle of Coral Sea ends 1944 First "eye bank" established in New York City by Dr. R. Townley Paton 1945 V-E Day, Germany signs unconditional surrender, WW II ends in Europe 1951 Dacron men's suits introduced 1956 The Platter's "You've Got the Magic Touch" tops music pop chart 1967 Muhammad Ali is indicted for refusing induction in US Army 1968 Jim Catfish Hunter of Oakland pitches perfect game vs Minnesota Twins (4-0) 1970 Beatles release album "Let It Be" 1970 New York Knicks beat LA Lakers 113-99 for their first NBA championship 1971 Joe Frazier beats Muhammad Ali for boxing championship in Madison Square Garden 1973 Wounded Knee Standoff Ends at Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota 1984 Soviets boycott Los Angeles Olympics 1988 Robert A. Heinlein, science fiction writer, dies at 80 of heart failure 1989 Paul McCartney releases "My Brave Face" & "Ferry Cross the Mersey" 2012 Maurice Sendak, writer & illustrator, dies at 83 (Where the Wild Things Are) |
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Quotes on this day: Like a bird that wants to build its nest, I searched for a cranny and perched myself on the branches of an orange tree in a mean, abandoned peasant's garden. It may sound a bit strange to speak of sitting on the branch of an orange tree, but it is quite natural if you know that, when an orange tree is left to itself, it starts putting out branches above its roots which in time become real boughs. There I was soon lost in fancy, thinking about a plot for my Nausicaa, a dramatic condensation of the Odyssey. I think this can be done, provided one never loses sight of the difference between a drama and an epic.
life is our inexhaustible treasure of language for thought... I learn immediately from any speaker
how much he has really learned, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. My garden
is my dictionary. There are three degrees of proficiency in this lesson of life. The one class live
to the utility of the symbol as the majority of men do, regarding health & wealth as the chief good.
Another class live above this mark, to the beauty of the symbol; as the poet & artist, and the Sensual
school in philosophy. A third class live above the beauty of the symbol, to the beauty of the thing
signified; and these are wise men. The first class have common sense; the second, taste; and the
third spiritual perfection... the perfect man— one to a millennium— if so many, traverses
the whole scale & sees & enjoys the symbol solidly; then also has a clear eye for its beauty; & lastly
wears it lightly as a robe which he can easily throw off, for he sees the reality & divine splendor of the
inmost nature bursting through each chink & cranny.
Man is capable of the most diverse things... La Bruyère says: "It is an excess
of confidence in parents to hope for everything from the good education of their
children, it is a great mistake to expect nothing from it and to neglect it."
I am completely of his opinion, and I add that education continues throughout
our lives. I define it as the cultivation of our spirit and of our mind as a result
of our own fostering and of outer circumstances. Intercourse with decent or bad people
is the good or bad education which goes on throughout one's life. The mind lifts up
upon contact with honest minds; it is the same with the spirit. We harden in the
society of hard and cold people, and if it were possible for a man of merely
ordinary virtue to live among scoundrels he must come finally to resemble them,
however little he did so at the beginning... I am constantly meditating a work
in the manner of Addison's Spectator; a short article, of three or four
pages or even less, on the first subject that comes to mind. I will take the
responsibility of thinking out as many as are demanded, for I have an inexhaustible
quarry of them.
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