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April 17, 1726: Voltaire was imprisoned in the Bastille.
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April 17, 1900: Aleister Crowley attempted to seize the Temple of Isis-Urania (Golden Dawn headquarters).
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April 17, 1790: Benjamin Franklin died at the age of 84 in Philadelphia.
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#BenjaminFranklin #Philadelphia #FoundingFathers #AmericanHistory #Inventor #Statesman #GrandLodgeOfPennsylvania #PennsylvaniaFreemasonry #Freemasons #otd
April 14, 1864: George Elbridge Boyden joined the Scottish Rite, receiving the Ineffable degrees in Worcester Lodge of Perfection in the Valley of Worcester, MA.
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April 14, 1920: Aleister Crowley and Leah, his Scarlet Woman, signed the lease to the Abbey of Thelema in Cefalu, Sicily.
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April 14, 1865: President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C.
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Happy Birthday to M.W. Henry Clay, American Statesman and Past Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Kentucky, born on this day in 1777.
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April 12, 1787: Richard Allen organized the Free African Society in Philadelphia, a beneficial and moral reform society among free blacks.
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#RichardAllen #PrinceHall #PrinceHallMason #PHA #Freemasons #Freemasonry #masonic
April 12, 1926: Paul Foster Case was passed to the degree of Fellowcraft in Fairport Lodge No. 476 in Fairport, New York.
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April 12, 1945: Harry S. Truman was sworn in as the 33rd President of the United States following the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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