HUMANIST CALENDAR
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8 January 1642
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Galileo Galilei dies at Arcetri, Italy
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18 January 1908
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Jacob Bronowski born
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29 January 1737
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Tom Paine born at Thetford, Norfolk - became Revenue Officer in Grampound, Cornwall.
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1 February 1865
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Slavery abolished in the USA
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12 February 1809
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Charles Darwin born
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14 February 1989
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Khomeni issues fatwa against Salman Rushdie
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15 February 1564
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Galileo Galilei born at Pisa, Italy
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17 February 1600
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Giordano Bruno burned alive in the campo de’ Fiori, Rome after six years imprisonment
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14 March 1879
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Albert Einstein born
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19 April 1882
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Charles Darwin died
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26 April 1711
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David Hume born
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18 May 1872
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Bertrand Russell born
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9 May 1983
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Pope John Paul II reversed the 1633 Catholic condemnation of Galileo
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20 May 1806
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John Stuart Mill born
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27 May 1529
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Thirty Jews of Posing, Hungary burned at the stake, charged with performing blood rituals
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8 June 1809
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Death of Tom Paine in New York
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13 August 1851
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Felix Adler born - Society for Ethical Culture
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25 August 1776
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David Hume died
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10 September 1941
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Steven Jay Gould born
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22 September 1692
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Seven witches hanged in Salem, USA
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26 September 1833
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Charles Bradlaugh born
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1 October 1847
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Annie Besant born
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2 October 2001
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Human Rights Act, Britain
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7 November 1867
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Birth of Maria Sklodowska-Curie Polish-French physicist and chemist.
She was a pioneer in the field of radioactivity, the first twice-honored Nobel laureate
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14 November 1889
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Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru born
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22 November 1819
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George Eliot born
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24 November 1859
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Origin of species first published.
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27 December 1813
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Darwin set sail on the Beagle
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23 October 4004 BC
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God created the world at 9 am.
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24 November 1859. Origin of species first published.
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