08-30 TABLE of CONTENTS:
DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
QUOTE by
Hildegard von Bingen.
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08-30 DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
Event 08-30-0030 B.C.: Egyptian queen Cleopatra committed suicide.
Although romantic, mostly male writers try to blame the event on a lost
love, the truth was that Cleopatra had abetted a losing rebellion against
Rome and faced capture, and enslavement. She would have been paraded through
the streets of Rome as a trophy and publicly, grossly defiled. She chose
a dignified death instead.
Event 08-30-1637: Colonial housewife Anne Hutchinson, 46, was charged
with "traducing [i.e., degrading] the ministry"
and was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. She had the audacity
to speak to women about religious matters in Sunday evening discussions.
Anne and her family were killed by Indians in 1643 while in exile and the
male leaders of the Bay Colony praised the murders.
B. 08-30-1797, Mary Godwin Wollstonecraft Shelley, British author
of six novels, short stories, and plays, as well as biographical and travel
books.
Her writing supported both she and her child after
the death of poet Percy Shelley left them virtually penniless. Her innovative
mind produced not only Frankenstein (1818) but also one of the first
science fiction stories ever written, The Last Man (1820).
Her mother was Mary Wollstonecraft, author of a number
of women's rights books including one of the first mass published one that
called for women's human rights In the Vindication of Women.
Revisionist critics today - depending on people s
lack of knowledge - claim her ideas were only copies of stories Shelley
and HIS friends told, although the diaries of others disprove such theories.
Born 08-30-1876, Lilie Rosa Minoka-Hill, half-blood Mohawk-American
physician who was named outstanding American Indian in 1947 by the
Indian Council Fire.
She had given up her medical practice at marriage
at her husband's request but had fortunately decided to return to it shortly
before she was widowed in 1916, left the sole support of six children with
a heavily mortgaged farm. At first she ran a kitchen clinic from her home
and finally in 1934 with borrowed money she was able to take the Wisconsin
medical exam. She remained in Oneida having been adopted by the Oneida
Indians. She always adjusted her fees to a patient's ability to pay.
B. 08-30-1907, Shirley Booth, actor. Won the 1950 Tony award
for her work in Come Back Little Sheba and the 1953 Tony for Time
of the Cuckoo. Her later years were spent as Hazel on the TV sitcom
of the same name.
B. 08-30-1909(?? 07), Virginia Lee Burton, author and illustrator
of children's books. Winner Caldecott medal for best picture book in 1942
and won the Newbury award. Her books remained popular for 40 years.
B. 08-30-1922, Regina Resnik, American opera singer was given
only 24 hours notice for her 1944 debut at the Metropolitan in the difficult
role of Leonora in Il Trovatore. Only 22, she had never performed
the role on the stage before.
B. 08-30-1935, Sylvia A. Earle, American marine botanist, deep
sea explorer, and businesswoman. She went to 1250 feet in one of the deepest
dives made to that time. SAE was chief scientist of the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration, the first woman to hold that position.
She led a team of five women and 17 men aquanauts
in undersea research and headed the only all-woman team to live underwater
for two weeks in the Tektite Underwater Research Project.
B. 08-30-1959, Mbilia Bel, Zairean singer-composer, soloist with
the African International Chorus. In 1985 she was named Africa's best female
singer.
Event 08-30-1984, Judith A. Resnick, who will die in her second
trip in space, becomes the second U.S. woman in space as part of the 6-person
crew of Discovery's maiden flight.
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QUOTES DU JOUR
VON BINGEN, HILDEGARD:
"We cannot live in
a world that is not our own. In a world that is interpreted for us by others.
An interpreted world is not a HOME. Part of the terror is to take back
our own listening. To use our own voice. To see our own light."
-- Hildegard von Bingen,
12th century mystic, writer, and abbess
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