Archive for March, 2009

Monday, March 30th, 2009

On This Day

0804 Liudger becomes 1st bishop of Münster 1135 Birth of Moses Maimonides, medieval Jewish scholar. Considered the foremost Talmudist of the Middle Ages, his most important writing was “Guide to the Perplexed” (1190), in which he tried to harmonize Rabbinic Judaism with the increasingly popular Aristotelianism of his day. 1422 Ketsugan, Zen teacher, performs exorcisms […]

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Blessed Amadeus IX - Duke of Savoy

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Tola of Clonard

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Saint John Climacus

St. John Climacus, the Scholastic, abbot of Mount Sinai, 605

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Commemoration of St Leonard Murialdo, Italian priest/educator

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1973 Ellsworth Bunker resigns as US ambassador to South Vietnam

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1972 North Vietnamese troops enter South Vietnam

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1961 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 169,600’ (51,690 meter)

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1932 Amelia Earhart is 1st woman to fly solo cross the Atlantic

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1867 US purchases Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000 (2¢ an acre-Seward’s Folly)

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