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Happy Birthday to Astronaut and U.S. Senator John Glenn, 33°. Born on this day in 1921.
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2022-07-18

June 20, 1881: Albert Mackey, Masonic scholar, died at the age of 74 in Fort Monroe, Virginia.
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2022-06-20

January 22, 1849: Josiah Hayden Drummond was raised a Master Mason in Waterville Lodge No. 33 in Waterville, Maine.
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2022-01-23

December 8, 1947: General Douglas MacArthur received the 33rd Degree at the American Embassy in Japan.
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2021-12-08

November 24, 1807: Sampson Simson was raised a Master Mason in Clinton Lodge No. 143 in New York.
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2021-11-25

November 12, 1808: J.J.J. Gourgas was appointed a Deputy Inspector General of the Rite of Perfection at New York by John Gabriel Tardy.
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2021-11-12

November 4, 1850: Albert Pike was raised a Master Mason in Western Star Lodge No. 2 in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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2021-11-04

October 29, 1808: Sampson Simson received the 17th and 18th degrees from Abraham Jacobs.
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2021-10-29

Happy Birthday to Henry L. Palmer, 33°. Past SGC of the Scottish Rite, NMJ and Past GM of the Grand Lodge of Wisconsin. Born on this day in 1819.
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2021-10-18

October 4, 1880: Albert Pike affiliated with Osiris-Pentalpha Lodge No. 23 in Washington, D.C.
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2021-10-04