A DAY IN HISTORY: OCT 11th & 14th

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

A day in history, 14th October...
1536 - Sir George Lawson and William Haryngton, Mayor of York, wrote to the King asking for aid because "the commons… have rebelliously assembled to take York". This was the Pilgrimage of Grace rebellion.
1559 - Death of John Williams, Baron Williams and Lord President of the Council in the Marches of Wales, at Ludlow Castle. He was buried in Thame Church.
1565 - Statesman and poet, Thomas Chaloner, died at his home in Clerkenwell, London.
1586 - Beginning of the trial of Mary, Queen of Scots at Fotheringhay Castle. See http://www.elizabethfiles.com/the-trial-of-mary-queen-of-scots/4373/
1593 - Death of Arthur Grey, 14th Baron Grey of Wilton, soldier and Lord Deputy of Ireland, at his home of Whaddon in Buckinghamshire. He was buried there. Grey had a reputation for radical Protestantism.
1596 - Death of John Coldwell, Bishop of Salisbury, at Salisbury. He was buried in the cathedral, in the grave of Bishop Wyvil due to his state of poverty.

A DAY IN HISTORY: 1776 > Benedict Arnold fights valiantly at Valcour Island. 1899 > The Boer War begins in South Africa. 1942 > The United States defeats the Japanese in the Battle of Cape Esperance. 1954 > The Viet Minh take control in the north. 1962 > The Pope opens Vatican II. 1968 > Apollo 7 launches. 1975 > Bill Clinton marries Hillary Rodham. 1975 > Saturday Night Live debuts. 1986 > Reagan and Gorbachev meet in Reykjavik. 2002 > Jimmy Carter wins the Nobel Prize. More from this day: http://histv.co/19kwTwg

On this day in 2002, former President Jimmy Carter wins the Nobel Peace Prize "for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development."

Carter, a peanut farmer from Georgia, served one term as U.S. president between 1977 and 1981. One of his key achievements as president was mediating the peace talks between Israel and Egypt in 1978. The Nobel Committee had wanted to give Carter (1924- ) the prize that year for his efforts, along with Anwar Sadat and Menachim Begin, but was prevented from doing so by a technicality--he had not been nominated by the official deadline.

After he left office, Carter and his wife Rosalynn created the Atlanta-based Carter Center in 1982 to advance human rights and alleviate human suffering. Since 1984, they have worked with Habitat for Humanity to build homes and raise awareness of homelessness. Among his many accomplishments, Carter has helped to fight disease and improve economic growth in developing nations and has served as an observer at numerous political elections around the world.

The first Nobel Prizes--awards established by Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel (1833-1896) in his will--were handed out in Sweden in 1901 in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace. The Nobel Prize in economics was first awarded in 1969. Carter was the third U.S. president to receive the award, worth $1 million, following Theodore Roosevelt (1906) and Woodrow Wilson (1919).