Ruth Norman (1900–1993) was an American religious leader who co-
founded the Unarius Academy of Science with her husband Ernest Norman.
The couple discussed numerous details about their past lives and
spiritual visits to other planets, forming a mythology from these
accounts. Ernest died in 1971, prompting Ruth to serve as their group's
leader and primary channeler. In early 1974, she predicted that a space
fleet of benevolent extraterrestrials, the Space Brothers, would land on
Earth later that year. After the extraterrestrials' non-appearance,
Norman stated that trauma she had suffered in a past life had caused her
to make an inaccurate prediction. Undaunted, she rented a building for
Unarius' meetings and sought publicity for the movement, claiming to
have united the Earth with an interplanetary confederation. She revised
the Space Brothers' expected landing date several times, before finally
settling on 2001. Despite predicting that she would live to see the
extraterrestrials land, Norman died in 1993. Unarius continued to
operate and celebrate her leadership after her death.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Norman>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1799:
Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse became the first woman to make a
parachute jump (artwork pictured), when she descended 900 m (3,000 ft)
from a hot-air balloon.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Genevi%C3%A8ve_Labrosse>
1892:
The Pledge of Allegiance of the United States was first used in
public schools to coincide with the opening of the World's Columbian
Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_Allegiance>
1960:
Japan Socialist Party leader Inejiro Asanuma was assassinated
on live television by a man using a samurai sword.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inejiro_Asanuma>
1984:
The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a bomb at the
Grand Hotel in Brighton, England, in a failed attempt to assassinate
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and most of her cabinet.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton_hotel_bombing>
1992:
A 5.8 MB earthquake struck south of Cairo, Egypt, killing 545
people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Cairo_earthquake>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
jawan:
(India) An (Indian) infantryman; a soldier.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/jawan>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The true Christian is not obliged to renounce the things of this world
or to lessen his natural abilities. On the contrary, inasmuch as he
incorporates them into his normal life in a disciplined manner, he
develops and perfects them; he thereby ennobles the natural life itself,
supplying efficacious values to it not only of the spiritual and eternal
world but also of the material and earthly world.
--Edith Stein
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edith_Stein>