The feast of St. Jerome, who translated the Bible to Latin.
Incidentally, Caravaggio, whose Saint Jerome Writing is shown above, was born yesterday, September 29, in 1572.
In 1889, Hull House, a settlement house in Chicago’s Near West Side, was co-founded by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. Hull House opened its doors to recently arrived European immigrants.
1963. The bombing of 16th St. Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. The four girls killed: Carole Robertson, Denise McNair, Addie Mae Collins, and Cynthia Wesley.
The stained glass window donated to the church by the people of Wales after the bombing.
1839. John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.
Herschel, in an 1867 photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron.
Previously: Lev Tolstoy
Born this day in 1952. Buddy Miller, American guitarist, singer-songwriter, and producer.
Listen to Buddy and Julie: Does My Ring Burn Your Finger
1698. In an effort to Westernize Russian society, Tsar Peter I, known as Peter the Great, imposed a tax on beards for all men except the clergy and peasantry.
Ivan Illich. Born in 1926.
The pupil is “schooled” to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new. His imagination is “schooled” to accept service in place of value. Medical treatment is mistaken for health care, social work for the improvement of community life, police protection for safety, military poise for national security, the rat race for productive work. Health, learning, dignity, independence, and creative endeavor are defined as little more than the performance of the institutions which claim to serve these ends. (Deschooling Society)
In 1838, Frederick Douglass escaped from slavery.
“I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.”
Born in 1929, American film director and editor, Hal Ashby.
Image from Ashby’s film, Being There.
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