Showing posts with label Georgia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Georgia. Show all posts

Saturday, March 25, 2017

Georgian Orthodox Church declares its resumed autocephaly.



 Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia Kyrion II, who was elevated to that role upon the Georgian Orthodox Church declaring autocephaly in 1917.  He'd returned from monastic exile to assume that role.  He was murdered by an unknown assailant on June 27, 1918, and his murder remains a mystery to this day.

On this day in 1917, the Georgian Orthodox Church restored its autocephalous (self-governing) status within the Orthodox family of Apostolic churches.

This is likely a somewhat complicated story, and I'm not familiar with it, but it seems that it had been autocephalous since 1010, however, in 1811 it was put under the jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Church, with there being a great deal of protest about that in the Georgian community. 

Following the overthrow of Czar Nicholas II, the Georgian Bishops unilaterally restored autocephaly on this date. In spite of the obvious stress the Russian Empire was under, the Russian Orthodox Church did not accept this.  Oddly enough, in spite of enduring two decades of Stalinist repression of the most severe varieties, it was Stalin who ordered the Russian Orthodox Church to recognize its independence in 1943, at which time Stalin was easing up on the churches in an effort to gain the support of every element of Soviet society in the face of the German invasion.

 

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Thursday, August 12, 1909. The father of a mass murderer dies.

Briggs & Stratton started manufacturing engines.

Georgian Besarion Ivanes dze Jughashvili, father of  Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili, know to history as Joseph Stalin, died of cirrhosis of the liver.

He was a cobbler by trade, and had hoped his son would be as well.

Last edition:

Tuesday, August 10, 1909. Drilling bit.

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Wednesday, March 31, 1909. Common Cup.

The Kansas State Board of Health banned the "common drinking cup" on trains and in public schools.

1919 Red Cross poster instructing parents to teach their children to never use a common drinking cup.

Common drinking cups were very common and it would take years to really fully prohibit their use.  Their elimination gave rise to the water fountain, which had no cup, and to disposable cups.

Georgian ended its "convict lease system" with 1,200 convicted felons thereby returned from private stockades to county jails.

The Serbian ambassador to Austro Hungaria presented his government's formal acceptance of the Austrian annexation of Bosnia.

Hull No. 401, the keel of the RMS Titanic, was laid at the Harland and Wolff shipyards in Belfast.

The company still exists and still has a shipyard in Belfast.  Founded in 1861, it was nationalized in 1977, and then privatized again in 1989.

Last prior edition:

Tuesday, March 30, 1909. The Army abandons Ft. Washakie.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Thursday, March 18, 1909. Tragedies.

Today In Wyoming's History: March 18:  1909.  Guernsey hotel keeper John "Posey" Ryan murdered his estranged wife, and her daughter, in the Palmer Restaurant in Cheyenne.  From WyoHistory.org. 

In other horrifying Cheyenne news:



In Denmark, Einar Dessau spoke over the radio to a government post six miles distant, becoming the first person to speak over the radio.

I can, on good days, speak well over three times that distance on my GMRS radio, or on bad ones, about half that.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr., the fourth child of Franklin and Elanor Roosevelt, was born.  He died eight months later on November 8, 1909.  Five years later the Roosevelt's would name their fifth child the same name.  He would live until 1988.  His son also named Franklin remains with us to this day.

Tampa waterfront, March 18, 1909.
Tampa, March 18, 1909.




Savanah, Georgia, March 18, 1909.

Friday, June 23, 2000

Saturday, June 23, 1900. Rescued Hoover.

Foreigners at Tianjin were rescued by invading Western armies.  Included in those who were saved was 26 year old Herbert Hoover.

Chinese troops set fire to the Hanlin Academy in Beijing, but its important library was not affected.

The worst rail disaster in Georgia's history occurred when the Southern Railway’s No. 7 train came across a washed-out bridge at the Camp Creek trestle, just south of Atlanta and plummeted xisty feet into a flooded creek and burst into flames.  Thirty-five of the forty-five people on board were killed.

Old Number 7 Train Wreck: Information Gathered 1998 From 1900 Train Wreck: "The last accident at Camp Creek on June 22 , 1900." The railroad bridge over Camp Creek washed out as the train was crossing. T...

Last edition:

Thursday, June 21, 1900. McKinley and Roosevelt nominated, China declares war.