Sir Alexander Fleming He was born on this day in 1881. He was a Scottish biologist, pharmacologist and botanist. He wrote many articles on bacteriology, immunology, and chemotherapy. His best-known discoveries are the enzyme lysozyme in 1923 and the antibiotic substance penicillin from the mould Penicillium notatum in 1928, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain.
Alfred A. Taylor served as Governor of Tennessee, from 1921 until 1923; U.S. Congressman to 51st-53rd Congresses. He was born on August 06, 1848 in Happy Valley, in Carter County, Tennessee. He was admitted to the bar in 1870. He was a member of Dashiell Lodge No. 238, Elizabethton, Tennessee. He was the brother of Robert L. Taylor, who was also a governor and U.S. Senator. Alfred entered the Celestial Lodge on November 24, 1931.
The Atomic Bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on this day in 1945. Mason and President Harry S. Truman never knew that Mason and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had been working on such a bomb as it was of the most vital top secret works of the war. This bomb saved the lives of many a young American boy if we would have had to make a ground invasion of the mainland of Japan. When Vice President Truman discovered that there were some secret war time works going on, he inquired about it but was told it was of the utmost Top Secret and he never inquired about it again. After the death of Brother FDR, Brother Truman was informed of the Top Secret Works being carried out at different sites in the United States and yes, Oak Ridge, TN was one of those sites.
He was a member of Sancta Maria Lodge #2682 in London, England.