Hermetic LibraryI note, in passing, on this day, in history … Saladin becomes vizier, William Caxton (eponym of Caxton Hall where The Rites of Eleusis were performed) publishes Aesop's Fables, The Book of Mormon (eponym of the musical) published, …
… Elections at the Paris Commune, and thirty-nine bodies of the Heaven's Gate mass suicide are found.
And, the anniversary of the Lesser Feast of Mary Beale, Alexandre Saint-Yves d'Alveydre, Joseph Campbell, Leonard Nimoy (original Spock and source of the rabbinical gesture for Shin (ש) becoming the Vulcan Salute), and Erica Jong.
Also, the anniversary of the Greater Feast of Walt Whitman, and Diana Wynne Jones.