We have catalogued significant historical events, with special emphasis on weddings and anniversaries. Today’s events special events are:
- Anniversary
- 2001 J.K. Rowling marries Neil Murray at her home Killiechassie House in Scotland
- Birthdays
- 1791 Charles Babbage was born.
- 1891 Henry Miller was born.
- 1893 Mao Tse-tung was born.
- 1914 Richard Widmark was born.
- 1921 Steve Allen was born.
- 1927 Alan King was born.
- 1947 Carlton Fisk was born.
- Name Days
- 1000 Stephen, from the Greek, 'crowned'.
- 2000 Feast Day of Stephen, from the Greek, 'crowned'.. St Stephen is of course, in the words of 'Good King Wenceslas'. The story of his death is written in Acts 6-7, and it tells of how Stephen, who had been chosen by the apostles to be the head of the band of seven deacons, 'did great wonders and miracles' and became a powerful preacher. The angry Jews who were affronted by the claims of the disciples accused him of blasphemy and, according to Jewish law, stoned Stephen to death. Before he died, he apparently addressed the crowd with the sermon recorded in Acts (which is, indeed, stirring stuff!); as he finished, he exclaimed in wonder at the vision he had: 'I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.' Like his Lord, Stephen gave his soul to God as he died, and prayed that his executioners would not be found guilty of their sin.
Tomorrow’s notable events
Below are the events we have shown for tomorrow:
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 27-12-1000 | Evan, from the Hebrew, 'Jehovah has favoured' |
| 27-12-1000 | Ewan, from the Hebrew, 'Jehovah has favoured' |
| 27-12-1000 | Ian, from the Hebrew, 'Jehovah has favoured' |
| 27-12-1000 | Jack, from the Hebrew, 'Jehovah has favoured' |
| 27-12-1000 | Jan, from the Hebrew, 'Jehovah has favoured' |
| 27-12-1000 | Jevan, from the Hebrew, 'Jehovah has favoured' |
| 27-12-1000 | Jock, from the Hebrew, 'Jehovah has favoured' |
| 27-12-1000 | John, from the Hebrew, 'Jehovah has favoured' |
| 27-12-1000 | Johnny, from the Hebrew, 'Jehovah has favoured' |
| 27-12-1000 | lain, from the Hebrew, 'Jehovah has favoured' |
| 27-12-1000 | Owen, from the Hebrew, 'Jehovah has favoured' |
| 27-12-1000 | Sean, from the Hebrew, 'Jehovah has favoured' |
| 27-12-1000 | Shaun, from the Hebrew, 'Jehovah has favoured' |
| 27-12-1000 | Zane, from the Hebrew, 'Jehovah has favoured' |
| 27-12-1822 | Louis Pasteur was born. |
| 27-12-1879 | Sydney Greenstreet was born. |
| 27-12-1901 | Marlene Dietrich was born. |
| 27-12-1906 | Oscar Levant was born. |
| 27-12-1939 | John Amos was born. |
| 27-12-1948 | Gerard Depardieu was born. |
| 27-12-2000 | Feast Day of John, from the Hebrew, 'Jehovah has favoured'. There are at least 64 Johns in Roman martyrology, as well as many other fascinating characters like the Cure d' Ars, and St John of the Cross; the number of different forms of the name show how popular it was and still is. But it was from St John the Apostle and Evangelist and, to a lesser extent, St John the Baptist, that all Johns take their inspiration. St John the Evangelist was the brother of James, son of Zebedee and Salome, and perhaps even the cousin of Jesus. He was certainly one of the three disciples who were called to be with Jesus during his Transfiguration and the agony in the Garden of Gethsemane, and tradition has it that he was 'the disciple whom Jesus loved', mentioned in his Gospel. It was he who received Jesus' charge to look after Mary, his mother, and he who, as tradition has it, gave us the majestic fourth Gospel, as well as other letters in the New Testa- . ment. It is said that he lived for many years on Patmos, Greece, and later at Ephesus, Turkey, where.he died John the Baptist has a rather different reputation from that of the gentle old man of Ephesus. Luke's Gospel account certainly portrays him as the cousin of Jesus, but he seems to have been a rough and ready man. As a baby in the womb, he greeted Jesus, and became the voice crying in the wilderness: 'prepare ye the way of the Lord', as foretold in Malachi 3: 1. His life baptizing people in the Jordan was as dramatic in its ending as it was at the beginning when an angel appeared to his father. He was imprisoned, and beheaded during Herod's birthday feast at the whim of Herod's illegal wife and her daughter, a dancing girl. |
