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Sunday, November 19, 2006

November 19......

November 19 is the 323rd day of the year (324th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 42 days remaining in the year on this date.

EVENTS

● 461 - St. Hilarius becomes Pope.

● 1493 - Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island he first saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed Puerto Rico).

● 1493 - "Christ-bearing Dove" Christopher Columbus "discovers" Puerto Rico.

● 1742 - English revivalist George Whitefield wrote in a letter: 'Plead His promises, be much in secret prayer, and never give God rest, till your soul is filled with all His fulness.'

● 1792 - French revolutionary convention offers aid to all those wishing to overthrow their government.

● 1794 - The United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign Jay's Treaty, which attempts to clear up some of the lingering problems left over from the American Revolutionary War. It didn’t quite do a complete job as the War of 1812 still occurred, somewhat because England maintained bases on American soil.

● 1797 - Birth of Isabella Baumfree, New York. Freed in 1827 by the New York State Emancipation Act. After a divine revelation in 1843, changed her name to Sojouner Truth and begins speaking for emancipation of African-Americans and woman's rights.

● 1812 - Third U.S. attempt to invade Canada during War of 1812 collapses. American troops refuse to leave New York State and force Gen. Henry Dearborn to return them to Pittsburgh.

● 1816 - Warsaw University is established.

● 1847 - The second Canadian railway line, the Montreal and Lachine Railway, is opened.

● 1850 - The first life insurance policy for a woman was issued. Carolyn Ingraham, 36 years old, bought the policy in Madison, NJ.

● 1850 - Alfred Lord Tennyson becomes Poet Laureate, a position he held until his death in 1892.

● 1862 - Birth of William (Billy) Sunday, American revivalist. Orphaned during the Civil War, Sunday became a major league baseball player 1883_91, then turned to evangelism in 1893, speaking to an estimated total audience of 100 million before his death in 1935.

● 1862 - Birth of Liard-Courtois (Auguste Courtois), Calais, France. Militant labor and anarchist speaker. Sentenced to two years prison and a strong fine, for a lecture tour in 1891 advocating the general strike. Formed the anarchist group "La Revanche Fourmisienne," forced into exile in Belgium and England. Returned to France, got five years in prison. In 1914 he aligns with Jean Grave and the pro-war "Proclamation of the Sixteen."

● 1863 - At the close of a dedication ceremony for a cemetery for Union army dead at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, President Abraham Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg Address, commonly considered one of the finest speeches ever uttered by an American politician due to its eloquence and brevity.

● 1863 - American Civil War: Union President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the military cemetery dedication ceremony in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Circled below is the only known photograph of Lincoln at the dedication.



● 1874 - William Marcy "Boss" Tweed, Grand Sachem of New York City's Tammany Hall, convicted of 204 counts of fraud. Estimates of sum Tweed swindled from City Treasury range up to $200 million.

● 1881 - A meteorite lands near the village of Großliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.

● 1885 - Birth of Haldor Lillenas, American hymnwriter. He penned nearly 4,000 Gospel texts and hymn tunes during his lifetime, including "It Is Glory Just to Walk With Him," Wonderful Grace of Jesus" and "Peace, Peace, Wonderful Peace."

● 1893 - The first newspaper color supplement was published in the Sunday New York World.

● 1895 - The "paper pencil" was patented by Frederick E. Blaisdell.

● 1900 - Birth of Anna Seghers, German novelist, essayist, short story writer, radical who gained international fame. Her major themes were social injustice and the political upheavals of modern age.

● 1903 - Carrie Nation attempts to address Senate.

● 1910 - Swedish Pentecostal missionaries Daniel Berg, 26, and Adolf Vingren, 31, arrived in Brazil. In 1918 they established the first Pentecostal church, from which grew Brazil's largest Protestant body, the Assemblies of God.

● 1915 - Singer and IWW labor organizer Joe Hill executed by firing squad by state of Utah. Hill was convicted of killing a grocer and his son, even though the bullets were not from Hill's revolver and no one identified him as the murderer. Hill became a martyr upon his execution. Efforts by Pres. Woodrow Wilson, the government of Sweden, and many prominent Americans to get him a new trial had failed.

● 1916 - Samuel Goldfish (later renamed Samuel Goldwyn) and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Company (the company later became one of the most successful independent filmmakers.)

● 1919 - The Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles.

● 1924 - In Los Angeles, California, famous silent film director Thomas Ince ("The Father of the Western") dies of a heart attack in his bed (rumors soon surface that he was shot dead by publishing tycoon William Randolph Hearst.)

● 1928 - "Time" magazine presented its cover portrait for the first time. Japanese Emperor Hirohito was the magazine's first cover subject.

● 1936 - Anarchist leader Durruti is mortally wounded under uncertain circumstances while helping to defend Madrid against Franco's fascist army in the Spanish Civil War.

● 1941 - World War II: Battle between HMAS Sydney and HSK Kormoran. The two ships sink each other off the coast of Western Australia, with the loss of 645 Australians and about 77 German seamen.

● 1942 - World War II: Battle of Stalingrad - Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counterattacks at Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle in the USSR's favor.

● 1944 - World War II: US President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling US$14 billion in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.

● 1946 - Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations.

● 1953 - U.S. Vice President Nixon visits Hanoi, earning the nickname "Hanoi Dick."

● 1954 - Sammy Davis, Jr., loses his left eye in an automobile accident in San Bernardino, California.

● 1954 - Two automatic toll collectors were placed in service on the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey.

● 1959 - Ford Motor Company announces the discontinuation of the unpopular Edsel, named after one Henry Ford’s sons.

● 1959 - Ford, following the advice of consumers, cancels the Edsel.

● 1961 - In a primitive form of capitalist accumulation, Michael Rockefeller eaten by cannibals.

● 1961 - Michael Rockefeller, son of New York governor Nelson Rockefeller, disappears in the jungles near Atsj, Papua New Guinea.

● 1961 - The Third Assembly of the World Council of Churches convened at New Delhi, India, during which the International Missionary Council and its work was integrated into the larger ecumenical group.

● 1965 - Pop Tarts pastries created.

● 1966 - Sandy Koufax (Los Angeles Dodgers) announced his retirement from major league baseball. A Proud Liberal found this to be very tragic and sad.

● 1967 - The Establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong.

● 1967 - Wilson defends 'pound in your pocket'; The Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, stands by his decision to devalue the pound saying it will tackle the "root cause" of Britain's economic problems.

● 1969 - Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum ("Ocean of Storms") and become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.

● 1969 - Mohawk Airlines Flight 411 crashes into Pilot Knob Mountain, killing all 14 on-board.

● 1969 - In an effort to undercut growing opposition to the Vietnam War, Congress passes random selection of draftees thru lottery, and permits first calling of 19-year-olds and expired college deferments, and call-up by birthday.

● 1970 - The IBM 1620 is withdrawn from the market.

● 1970 - Hafiz al-Assad seized power in Syria.

● 1971 - Northern States Power Company's reactor in Monticello, Minn. dumps about 50,000 gallons of radioactive waste water into the Mississippi River. Some taken into St. Paul city water system.

● 1973 - Unanimous U.S. Supreme Court decision supports Puyallup tribal fishing rights vs. state of Washington.

● 1973 - American football player Lance Rentzel is arrested for exposing himself to a 10-year-old girl; he is later sentenced to five years' probation.

● 1977 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel, when he meets with Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and speaks before the Knesset in Jerusalem, seeking a permanent peace settlement.

● 1977 - Transportes Aereos Portugueses Boeing 727 crashes in Madeira islands killing 130

● 1978 - Jim Jones leads members of his Peoples Temple cult in mass murder-suicide. The bodies of 914 people, including 276 children, were found in Jonestown,Guyana in South America.

● 1979 - Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the US Embassy in Tehran.

● 1979 - Nolan Ryan (Houston Astros) signed a four-year contract for $4.5 million. At the time, Ryan was the highest paid player in major league baseball.

● 1984 - Dwight Gooden, 20-year-old, of the New York Mets, became the youngest major-league pitcher to be named Rookie of the Year in the National League.

● 1984 - A series of explosions at the PEMEX petroleum storage facility at San Juan Ixhuatepec in Mexico City ignites a major fire and kills about 500 people.

● 1985 - Cold War: In Geneva, US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time. The first summit between the superpowers in six years.

● 1985 - Pennzoil wins a US$10.53 billion verdict against Texaco, in the largest civil verdict in U.S. history, stemming from Texaco's establishing a signed contract to buy Getty Oil after Pennzoil had entered into an unsigned, yet still binding, buyout contract with Getty.

● 1987 - Prince Edward III rescues 47 Africans from their abusive village in Congo, and presents them to his kingdom as free workers for the villages.

● 1990 - Pop duo Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because they did not sing at all on the Girl You Know It’s True album. Session musicians had provided all the vocals.

● 1990 - NATO and the Warsaw Pact signed a treaty of nonaggression.

● 1992 - Hillsborough victim allowed to die; Doctors treating Hillsborough victim Tony Bland can disconnect feeding tubes keeping him alive, a judge at the High Court in London rules.

● 1993 - The U.S. Senate approved a sweeping $22.3 billion anti-crime measure.

● 1994 - The U.N. Security Council authorized NATO to bomb rebel Serb forces striking from neighboring Croatia.

● 1994 - In Britain, the first National Lottery draw was held. A £1 ticket gives a one-in-14-million chance of correctly guessing the winning six out of 49 numbers.

● 1996 - Lt. Gen. Maurice Baril of Canada arrives in Africa to lead the multi national force in Zaire.

● 1997 - In Des Moines, Iowa, Bobbi McCaughey gives birth to septuplets in the second known case where all seven babies were born alive.

● 1997 - Weeks of protest of up to 250,000 against electoral fraud by Slobodan Milosevic's government. Belgrade, Yugoslavia.

● 1998 - The first stage of a troop withdrawal from the West Bank approved by Israel. It won't last.

● 1998 - Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against US President Bill Clinton. Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr laid out his evidence against President Bill Clinton during a daylong appearance before the House Judiciary Committee.

● 1998 - Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of the Artist Without Beard sells at auction for US $71.5 million.

● 1998 - Michelle Lee received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

● 1999 - Shenzhou 1: The People's Republic of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft.

● 1999 - In Istanbul, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe ends a two-day summit by calling for a political settlement in Chechnya and adopting a Charter for European Security.

● 1999 - John Carpenter became the first contestant to win $1,000,000 U.S.D. on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.

● 2001 - U.S. President George W. Bush signed the most comprehensive air security bill in U.S. history, putting airport baggage screeners on the federal payroll.

● 2001 - Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants became the first baseball player to win four Most Valuable Player Awards.

● 2002 - The oil tanker Prestige broke into two pieces and sank off northwest Spain. The tanker lost about 2 million gallons of fuel oil when it ruptured November 13th and was towed about 150 miles out to sea.

● 2002 - The U.S. government completed its takeover of security at 424 airports nationwide.

● 2003 - Eight competing designs for a memorial to the victims of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center were unveiled. One design would be built at the site of the World Trade Center.

● 2004 - Ron Artest and Stephen Jackson of the Indiana Pacers charged into the stands and fought with fans during an NBA game in Detroit. Officials ended the Pacers' 97-82 win with 45.9 seconds left. The brawl spreads between Detroit Pistons and Indiana Pacers players at The Palace of Auburn Hills becoming larger fight between Pacers players and Pistons players.

● 2005 - For the first time in 58 years, Indians legally walked into Pakistan after a landmark decision to temporarily open divided Kashmir's heavily militarized border.

● 2005 - US Marines allegedly commit a massacre on 24 citizens in the town of Haditha in Iraq.


BIRTHS

● 1464 - Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (d. 1526)

● 1563 - Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, English statesman (d. 1626)

● 1600 - Charles I, King of England (1625-49) (d. 1649)

● 1600 - Leo Aitzema, Dutch historian and statesman (d. 1669)

● 1617 - Eustache Le Sueur, French painter (d. 1655)

● 1700 - Jean-Antoine Nollet, French abbot and physicist (d. 1770)

● 1711 - Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian writer and polymath (d. 1765)

● 1722 - Leopold Auenbrugger, Austrian physician (d. 1809)

● 1722 - Benjamin Chew, Chief Justice of colonial Pennsylvania (d. 1810)

● 1752 - George Rogers Clark, American military leader (d. 1818)

● 1805 - Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat and Suez Canal engineer (d. 1894)

● 1831 - James A. Garfield in Orange, Ohio, 20th President of the United States (1881) (d. 1881)

● 1833 - Wilhelm Dilthey, German philosopher (d. 1911)

● 1835 - Rani Lakshmi Bai, Indian Queen (d. 1858)

● 1843 - Richard Avenarius, German philosopher (d. 1896)

● 1859 - Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian composer (d. 1935)

● 1862 - Billy Sunday, American evangelist (d. 1935)

● 1875 - Mikhail I. Kalinin, President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (d. 1946)

● 1876 - Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva, Russian mathematician (d. 1964)

● 1883 - Ned Sparks, Canadian actor (d. 1957)

● 1887 - James B. Sumner, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)

● 1888 - José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess player (d. 1942)

● 1889 - Clifton Webb, American actor (d. 1966)

● 1893 - René Voisin, French classical trumpet player (d. 1952)

● 1895 - Louise Dahl-Wolfe, American photographer (d. 1989)

● 1896 - Georgy Zhukov, Russian general (d. 1974)

● 1897 - Quentin Roosevelt, son of United States President Theodore Roosevelt (d. 1918)

● 1898 - Arthur R. von Hippel, German-born physicist (d. 2003)

● 1899 - Allen Tate, American poet and literary critic (d. 1979)

● 1900 - Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian scientist (d. 1980)

● 1900 - Anna Seghers, German writer (d. 1983)

● 1900 - Bunny Ahearne, Irish ice hockey promoter (d. 1985)

● 1904 - Nathan Leopold, American murderer (d. 1971)

● 1905 - Tommy Dorsey, American bandleader (d. 1956)

● 1907 - Jack Schaefer, American author (d. 1991)

● 1909 - Peter Drucker, American management theorist (d. 2005)

● 1912 - George Emil Palade, Romanian cell biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

● 1915 - Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)

● 1917 - Indira Gandhi, former prime minister of India who served four terms over 15 years (1966-77; 1980-4) (d. 1984)

● 1919 - Alan Young, British-born American actor (Mister Ed)

● 1920 - Gene Tierney, American actress (d. 1991)

● 1921 - Roy Campanella, baseball player (d. 1993)

● 1921 - Peter Ruckman, American Baptist minister

● 1922 - Yuri Knorosov, Russian epigrapher (d. 1999)

● 1924 - William Russell, British actor

● 1926 - Jeane Kirkpatrick, Former U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations

● 1929 - Slavko Avsenik, Slovenian musician

● 1929 - Norman Cantor, Canadian medieval scholar (d. 2004)

● 1933 - Larry King, American television interviewer

● 1935 - Bob Gibson, baseball player

● 1935 - Rashad Khalifa, Egyptian imam (d. 1990)

● 1935 - Jack Welch, American businessman

● 1936 - Dick Cavett, American talk show host

● 1936 - Yuan T. Lee, Taiwanese-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

● 1938 - Ted Turner, American businessman and philanthropist

● 1939 - Tom Harkin, U.S. Senator (D-IA)

● 1939 - Pete Moore, Singer (The Miracles)

● 1941 - Garrick Utley, Broadcast journalist

● 1941 - Dan Haggerty, American actor

● 1941 - Tommy Thompson, Former cabinet member and Wisconsin governor

● 1942 - Calvin Klein, American clothing designer

● 1942 - Sharon Olds, American poet

● 1943 - Aurelio Monteagudo, Cuban-born Major League Baseball player (d. 1990)

● 1947 - Bob Boone, baseball player and manager

● 1947 - Lamar S. Smith, American politician

● 1949 - Ahmad Rashad, American football player and sportscaster

● 1951 - Zeenat Aman, Miss Asia Pacific in 1970 & Famous Muslim Indian Actress

● 1951 - Lord Falconer of Thoroton, British lawyer and politician

● 1953 - Robert Beltran, American actor (“Star Trek Voyager”)

● 1953 - Tom Villard, American actor (d. 1994)

● 1954 - Kathleen Quinlan, Actress

● 1956 - Ann Curry, American journalist (''Today'')

● 1956 - Glynnis O'Connor, Actress

● 1957 - Ofra Haza, Israeli singer (d. 2000)

● 1958 - Michael Wilbon, Sports Analyst

● 1959(60? NYT) - Allison Janney, American actress (''The West Wing'')

● 1960 - Elizabeth Hulette, American professional wrestling manager and valet (d. 2003)

● 1960 - Matt Sorum, American Musician, drummer with the band Velvet Revolver and The Cult

● 1961 - Meg Ryan, American actress

● 1962 - Jodie Foster, American actress

● 1963 - Terry Farrell, American actress

● 1963 - Jon Potter, British field hockey player

● 1965 - Laurent Blanc, French footballer

● 1966 - Gail Devers, American athlete

● 1966 - Rocco DiSpirito, American chef

● 1966 - Jason Scott Lee, American actor

● 1969 - Terrence Carson, American actor

● 1969 - Travis McNabb, Rock musician (Better Than Ezra)

● 1970 - Justin Chancellor, English bassist (Tool)

● 1971 - Tony Rich, R&B singer

● 1972 - Sandrine Holt, Canadian actress

● 1973 - Savion Glover, American choreographer, actor, and dancer

● 1973 - Billy Currington, Country singer

● 1975 - Sushmita Sen, Indian beauty queen and actress

● 1975 - Chad Jeffers, Country musician

● 1975 - Tamika Scott, R&B singer (Xscape)

● 1976 - Jun Shibata, Japanese singer and songwriter

● 1977 - Lil' Mo, R&B singer

● 1978 - Věra Pospíšilová-Cechlová, Czech athlete

● 1979 - Ryan Howard, American baseball player

● 1979 - Larry Johnson, American football player

● 1979 - Leam Richardson, English footballer

● 1985 - Chris Eagles, British footballer

● 1997 - McCaughey septuplets, American septuplets


DEATHS

● 498 - Pope Anastasius II

● 1478 - Emperor Baeda Maryam of Ethiopia (b. 1448)

● 1492 - Jami, Persian poet (b. 1414)

● 1557 - Bona Sforza, Queen of Sigismund I of Poland (b. 1494)

● 1577 - Matsunaga Hisahide, Japanese warlord (b. 1510)

● 1630 - Johann Schein, German composer (b. 1586)

● 1649 - Caspar Schoppe, German scholar (b. 1576)

● 1665 - Nicolas Poussin, French painter (b. 1594)

● 1672 - John Wilkins, English Bishop of Chester (b. 1614)

● 1682 - Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Royalist commander in the English Civil War (b. 1619)

● 1692 - Thomas Shadwell, English poet and playwright

● 1723 - Antoine Nompar de Caumont, French courtier and soldier (b. 1632)

● 1772 - William Nelson, American colonial governor of Virginia (b. 1711)

● 1773 - James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, Irish politician (b. 1722)

● 1785 - Bernard de Bury, French composer (b. 1720)

● 1798 - Wolfe Tone, Irish republican (b. 1763)

● 1804 - Pietro Guglielmi, Italian composer (b. 1728)

● 1810 - Jean-Georges Noverre, French dancer and ballet master (b. 1725)

● 1822 - Johann Georg Tralles, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1763)

● 1828 - Franz Schubert, Austrian composer (b. 1797)

● 1850 - Richard Mentor Johnson, American politician (b. 1780)

● 1868 - Ivane Andronikashvili, Georgian general (b. 1798)

● 1883 - William Siemens, German engineer (b. 1823)

● 1887 - Emma Lazarus, American poet (b. 1859)

● 1897 - William Seymour Tyler, American educator and historian (b. 1810).

● 1915 - Joe Hill, American labor activist (executed) (b. 1879)

● 1924 - Thomas Ince, American film director (b. 1882)

● 1938 - Lev Shestov, Russian philosopher (b. 1866)

● 1942 - Bruno Schulz, Polish writer and painter (shot) (b. 1892)

● 1960 - Phyllis Haver, American actress (b. 1899)

● 1967 - Charles J. Watters, US Army chaplain, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1927)

● 1974 - George Brunies, American musician (b. 1902)

● 1975 - Roger D. Branigin, American politician (b. 1902)

● 1976 - Sir Basil Spence, British architect (b. 1907)

● 1985 - Stepin Fetchit, American actor and dancer (b. 1907)

● 1988 - Christina Onassis, daughter of billionaire Aristotle Onassis (b. 1950)

● 1998 - Alan J. Pakula, American film director (b. 1928)

● 2004 - Piet Esser, Dutch sculptor (b. 1914)

● 2004 - John Robert Vane, British pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1927)

● 2005 - Erik Balling, Danish TV and film director (b. 1924)


HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic Saints:
● St. Atto
● St. Azas and Companions
● St. Barlaam
● Sts. Severinus, Exuperius, & Felician
● St. Crispin
● St. Faustus
● St. James of Sasseau
● St. Nerses the Great
● St. Maximus
● St. Medana
● St. Mechtildis of Helfta

● Old Roman Catholic and Anglican:
● Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary/widow

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for November 6 (Civil Date: November 19)
● St. Paul the Confessor, Archbishop of Constantinople St. Barlaam, abbot of Chutin (Novgorod).
● St. Luke, monk of Sicily.
● Martyrs Tecusa, Alexandra, Claudia, Matrona, Polactia, Euphrosyne, and Athanasia of Ancyra.
● St. Luke, steward of the Kiev Caves.
● Repose of St. Herman (Germanus), Archbishop of Kazan.
● St. Barlaam of Keret Lake.
● Synaxis of New Martyr of Sarov: Anatole, Basil, Hierotheus, Isaac and Rufinus.
● New Martyr Gregory the Cross bearer (1936).

● Greek Calendar
● Monk martyr Nicander.
● St. Paul, fool for Christ.
● Commemoration of the Sarov Monastery Elders: Pachomius, Pitirim, Matthew, Joseph, and Joachim.

● Brazil - Flag Day

● Mali - Liberation Day

● Oman - Birthday of Sultan Qaboos bin Said

● Puerto Rico - Discovery of Puerto Rico (1493)

● United States - Equal Opportunity Day

● United Arab Emirates - Pilgrimage

● Trinidad and Tobago - International Men's Day

● Monaco : Monegasque National Day

● This Holiday is only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● US : National Children's Book Week Begins( Monday )



Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.

Additional facts taken from:


On this day in the New York Times

The BBC’s Take on the day

On This Day Website

Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.

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