Today's Notable Birthdays

U. S. Birthday

Anne Hutchinson - Religious dissident banned from the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Colonial Cycle - Elizabethan Renaissance Era - First Turning, High (1589-1620)
Puritan Generation - Prophet (Idealist) (1584-1614)

Anne Hutchinson (baptized July 20, 1591 – August 20, 1643) was a pioneer settler in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Netherlands and the unauthorized minister of a dissident church discussion group. Hutchinson held Bible meetings for women that soon appealed to men as well. Eventually, she went beyond Bible study to proclaim her own theological interpretations of sermons, some, such as antinomianism, offended the colony leadership. A major controversy ensued, and after a trial before a jury of officials and clergy, she was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Foreign Birthday

Gregor Mendel - The father of genetics.
U. S. Contemporaries: Civil War Cycle - Gilded Generation - Nomad (Reactive) (1822-1842)

Gregor Johann Mendel (July 20, 1822 – January 6, 1884) was an Augustinian priest and scientist, and is often called the father of genetics for his study of the inheritance of certain traits in pea plants. Mendel showed that the inheritance of these traits follows particular laws, which were later named after him. The significance of Mendel's work was not recognized until the turn of the 20th century. Its rediscovery formed the foundation of the modern science of genetics.

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