Jubilee Saint, Holidays and Notables for July 1, 2004 e.v.
July 2, 2004 e.v. (era vulgaris) Year XII of the Grand Jubilee
St. Patrice Lumumba, presiding
Pan-African liberationist, martyr
http://www.africawithin.com/lumumba/patrice_lumumba.htm Other Potential Jubilee Saints:
St. Franz Kafka (dystopian author and prophet)
St. St. Jean-Jaques Rousseau (French philosopher and social theorist)
St. Amelia Earhart (American aviation pioneer)
St. Ernest Hemingway (American author of supreme machismo)
St. Vladimir Nabokov (multicultural author/bad boy, butterfly freak and chess whiz)
St Herman Hesse (The original Magister Ludi)
Holidays: National Literacy Day
Visitation of the Virgin Mary
Corso del Palio (Race for the Palio; Siena, Italy)
National Anisette Day
Besse-en-Chandesse (Black Virgin Festival; France)
Madonna di Provenzano Festival (Italy)
Distressed Elves' Creditors' Day (Fairy)
Royal International Agricultural Show (UK)
St. Processus and Martinian's Day (patron of prison guards; against demonic possession, perjury)
Notables:
1776 - The Continental Congress adopts a resolution severing ties with Great Britain, though a formal Declaration of Independence is not adopted until July 4.
1777 - Vermont becomes the first state to abolish slavery.
1778 - French philosopher and social theorist, Jean-Jaques Rousseau, dies, Ermenonville, France.
1819 - The Factory Act is passed in Britain, creating restrictions on child labor.
1839 - Twenty miles off the coast of Cuba, 53 rebelling African slaves led by Joseph Cinqué take over the slave ship Amistad.
1850 - The self-contained gas mask is patented by Benjamin J. Lane.
1865 - The Salvation Army is founded in London, England.
1877 - Hermann Hesse, writer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature 1946 for the Magister Ludi: Glass Bead Game born today.
1881 - Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James Garfield, who eventually dies from infection on September 19, 1881.
1890 - The United States Congress passes the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
1900 - First zeppelin flight on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.
1908 - Thurgood Marshall, first African-American justice of the Supreme Court born.
1914 - Chief Alfred Sam, leader of the "Back to Africa" movement, sails with 500 black Americans from Oklahoma to West Africa.
1917 - 48 die in rioting in East St. Louis, Illinois, as lower-paid black laborers clash with whites.
1925 - Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of Congo (Leopoldville) born, Katako Kombe, Belgian Congo.
1925 - Medgar Evers, civil rights activist (d. 1963) also born.
1937 - Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappear over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first round-the-world flight at the equator.
1947 - An object speculated to be a UFO crashes near Roswell, New Mexico, though the United States Air Force claims it is a weather balloon.
1961 - Ernest Hemingway, author, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature believes the CIA was after him and blows his head off in Ketchum, Idaho.
1964 - United States President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act into law.
1976 - North and South Vietnam, divided since 1954, reunite to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
1977 - Author, chess player and lepidopterist, Vladimir Nabokov, dies in Montreux, Switzerland.
1978 - Charon, a satellite of the planet Pluto, is discovered.
1979 - The first U.S. coin to honor a woman, the Susan B. Anthony dollar, is introduced.
1981 - Alex Koroknay-Palicz, youth rights activist, born today, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
1982 - Larry Walters uses 45 helium balloons and a lawnchair to propel himself to 16,000 feet.
1992 - Canadian Government closes CDN $700M northern cod fishery for two years to conserve stocks.
2002 - Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.
Conceivable moves for GBP utilization:
The Black Virgin as UFO-driven Pan-African Messiah!
Celebration of St. Hesse's
Glass Bead Game!
Power to the Pupil