February 17......

February 17 is the 48th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 317 (318 in leap years) days remaining in the year on this date.

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

EVENTS

● 1370 - Battle at Rudau Germany beats Lithuania

● 1495 - Miguel de Cueno, a member of Columbus' second expedition, ships 550 captured Carib Indians to be slaves in Europe. Two hundred die at sea.

● 1500 - Battle of Hemmingstedt.

● 1568 - Holy Roman Emperor agrees to pay annual tribute to Sultan for peace

● 1598 - Boris Godunov chosen tsar of Russia

● 1600 - Rome: Philosopher Giordano Bruno, advocate of Copernican theory and the plurality of worlds, burned at the stake by the Inquisition found guilty of heresy.

● 1621 - Miles Standish is appointed as first commander of Plymouth colony.

● 1634 - William Prynne tried in Star Chamber for publishing "Histriomastix"

● 1670 - France & Bavaria sign military assistance treaty

● 1676 - Kings Charles II & Louis XIV sign secret treaty

● 1714 - Parliament of Paris accepts Pope Clemens XI's "Unigenitus" degree

● 1741 - English revivalist George Whitefield advised in a letter: 'Be content with no degree of sanctification. Be always crying out, "Lord, let me know more of myself and of thee."'

● 1753 - February 17 is followed by March 1 as Sweden moves to the Gregorian from the Julian calendar.

● 1772 - 1st partition of Poland-Russia & Prussia, joined later by Austria

● 1776 - 1st volume of Gibbon's "Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire" published

● 1791 - Messier catalogs M83 (spiral galaxy in Hydra)

● 1793 - Alexander McGillivray, Cree Indian leader, dies.

● 1801 - US House of Representatives breaks a tie in the 1800 Presidential election between Aaron Burr and Thomas Jefferson, selecting the latter on the 35th ballot, when Alexander Hamilton wielded his influence against Burr. It is thought Hamilton and Burr may not have got on well. {Ha, the power of understatement.}

● 1814 - Battle of Mormans

● 1815 - In deciding the legal case "Terrett v. Taylor," the U.S. Supreme Court declared unconstitutional an act of the Virginia Legislature which denied property rights to Protestant Episcopal churches in the state. The Court ruled that religious corporations, like other corporations, have rights to their property.

● 1816 - Birth of Edward Hopper, American Presbyterian clergyman. He is remembered today as author of the hymn, "Jesus, Savior, Pilot Me."

● 1817 - Baltimore is first U.S. city to illuminate its streets with gas. And you thought it was Boston...

● 1819 - The United States House of Representatives passes the Missouri Compromise.

● 1836 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leaves Tasmania

● 1848 - Toscane gets liberal Constitution

● 1854 - British recognize independence of Orange Free State (South Africa)

● 1864 - American Civil War: H. L. Hunley becomes the first submarine to engage and sink a warship, the USS Housatonic.

● 1865 - American Civil War: Columbia, South Carolina burned as Confederate forces flee from advancing Union forces.

● 1865 - Battle of Charleston SC

● 1867 - The first ship passes through the Suez Canal.

● 1867 - Gyula Andressy becomes premier of Hungary

● 1870 - Mississippi becomes 9th state re-admitted to US after Civil War

● 1870 - Esther Morris appointed 1st female judge

● 1871 - The victorious Prussian Army parades though Paris after the end of the Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War.

● 1874 - Thomas J. Watson, Sr., the American industrialist who built I.B.M., was born.

● 1876 - Sardines 1st canned (Julius Wolff-Eastport ME)

● 1878 - 1st telephone exchange in San Francisco opens with 18 phones

● 1879 - Russian nihilists unsuccessfully attempt to assassinate Czar Alexander in St. Petersburg.

● 1883 - A Ashwell patents free-toilet in London

● 1885 - Bismarck gives Carl Peters' firm management of East-Africa

● 1889 - Billy Sunday, 27, baseball player-turned-preacher, made his first appearance as an evangelist in Chicago. A strong fundamentalist, Sunday preached temperance and opposed scientific evolution. Over 100 million are estimated to have heard Sunday preach before his death in 1935.

● 1895 - Swan Lake, with music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, is first performed at full length in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

● 1896 - London Country Councils' Muzzling Order becomes effective

● 1897 - The National Congress of Mothers was organized in Washington, DC, by Alice McLellan Birney and Phoebe Apperson Hearst. It was the forerunner of the National PTA.

● 1899 - Anti-Imperialist League is founded.

● 1905 - Frances Willard becomes 1st woman honored in National Statuary Hall

● 1906 - Western Federation Mineworker (WFM) leaders Haywood, Moyer, and Pettibone framed on murder charges in Idaho.

● 1909 - Geronimo, Apache leader, dies at about age 80.

● 1911 - 1st amphibian flight to & from a ship, by Glenn Curtiss, San Diego

● 1913 - The Armory Show opens in New York City, displaying works of artists (such as Picasso, Matisse and Duchamp) who are to become some of the most influential painters of the early 20th century.

● 1913 - 1st minimum wage law in US takes effect (Oregon)

● 1915 - Edward Stone, 1st US combatant to die in WWI, is mortally wounded

● 1925 - Harold Ross and Jane Grant found The New Yorker magazine; the debut issue is dated February 21, 1925.

● 1926 - Avalanche buries 75 in Sap Gulch Bingham UT, 40 die

● 1930 - French government of Tardieu, falls

● 1932 - "Baby Face" Nelson escapes from prison.

● 1933 - Hermann Goering endorses Nazi terrorism after two weeks of violence against labor unions and leaders. Coverage of Nazi concentration camps appeared in magazines such as AIZ in 1933. This publicly available information did nothing to dampen the enthusiasm of Hitler's financial supporters (such as Henry Ford) or press agents (or supporters like Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh) in Europe and the U.S. Meanwhile, U.S. journalists like George Seldes, who documented the ties between American companies and the Nazis, were suppressed. Seldes' stories were censored by the U.S. press, and his 170,000-subscriber newsletter was driven out of business by J. Edgar Hoover's FBI.

● 1933 - The magazine Newsweek is published for the first time.

● 1933 - The Blaine Act ends Prohibition in the United States.

● 1934 - 1st high school auto driving course offered (State College PA)

● 1936 - The world's first superhero, The Phantom, makes his first appearance in comics

● 1936 - Goodyear sit-down strike begins. Akron, Ohio.

● 1936 - -58º F (-50º C), McIntosh SD (state record)

● 1938 - 1st public experimental demonstration of Baird color TV (London)

● 1940 - Canada - Emma Goldman suffers a severe stroke. After growing up in the U.S., and then being deported by the government during the Red Scare years, she had been banned from the country since 1931, except for a brief visit in 1934. Goldman died three months later in Toronto; she was finally allowed back into the U.S., after her death, for burial in the Waldheim Cemetery, next to the Haymarket Martyrs in Chicago.

● 1940 - British destroyers board German Altmark off Norway

● 1942 - Silent indoor commemoration of martyred compatriots leaves public places deserted, Oslo, Norway.

● 1942 - Birth of Huey Newton, co-founder of Black Panther Party. New Orleans, Louisiana.

● 1942 - African Americans moving into the Sojourner Truth low-cost housing project in Detroit are attacked by armed whites.

● 1943 - Dutch churches protest at Seyss-Inquart against persecution of Jews

● 1943 - General-Major Bradley flies to Washington DC

● 1943 - Hitler visits field marshal von Mansteins headquarters in Zaporozje

● 1944 - World War II: Battle of Eniwetok Atoll begins. The battle ends in an American victory on February 22.

● 1944 - World War II: Operation Hailstone begins. U.S. naval air, surface, and submarine attack against Truk (Chuuk), Japan's main base in the central Pacific, in support of the Eniwetok invasion.

● 1944 - Italy - Pietro Bruzzi captured and shot by the fascists, in Melegnano. Young anarchist who spent several years in France and in 1936 fought in Spain. Extradited to Italy and sent to the island of Ponza during WWII. He escaped and joined the anarchist resistance in Lombardy.

● 1946 - Humanistic Covenant forms in Amsterdam

● 1947 - Dutch Roman Catholic bishops publish manifest against "godless communism"

● 1947 - The Voice of America begins to transmit radio broadcasts into the Soviet Union.

● 1949 - Chaim Weizman elected 1st President of Israel

● 1950 - 31 die in a train crash in Rockville Center, New York

● 1957 - Suez Canal reopens

● 1957 - A fire at a home for the elderly in Warrenton, Missouri kills 72 people.

● 1958 - First meeting of Britain's Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND).

● 1958 - Pope Pius XII declares Saint Clare of Assisi (1193~1253) the patron saint of television.

● 1959 - Turkish leader involved in fatal crash; Turkish Prime Minister Adnan Menderes survives an air crash near London that killed 12 people.

● 1959 - Project Vanguard: Vanguard 2 - The first weather satellite launched to measure cloud-cover distribution.

● 1962 - A storm kills more than 300 people in Hamburg, West Germany.

● 1964 - In Wesberry v. Sanders the Supreme Court of the United States rules that congressional districts have to be approximately equal in population.

● 1964 - US House of Reps accept Law on the civil rights

● 1965 - US Ranger 8 launched, will transmit 7,137 lunar pictures

● 1966 - French satellite Diapason D-1A launch into Earth orbit

● 1967 - Kosmos 140 (Soyuz test) launches into Earth orbit

● 1968 - In Springfield, Massachusetts the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame opens.

● 1969 - Russian-born, Milwaukee-raised Golda Meir (nee Mabovitch [Myerson]), 70, was sworn in as Israel's first female prime minister. (She would hold the office for five embattled years.)

● 1970 - Jeffrey McDonald slices up his wife & daughters

● 1970 - Seventy-six are arrested and 20 injured in a downtown confrontation between Seattle police and an anti-war demonstration organized by the Seattle Liberation Front.

● 1972 - Sales of the Volkswagen Beetle model exceed those of Ford Model-T.

● 1972 - President Nixon leaves Washington DC for China

● 1972 - British Parliament votes to join European Common Market

● 1974 - 49 die in stampede for seats at soccer match, Cairo, Egypt

● 1974 - Robert K. Preston, a disgruntled U.S. Army private, buzzes the White House with a stolen helicopter.

● 1975 - Several hundred residents of Wyhl, Germany, occupy the construction site of a nuclear power plant. Police responded with water cannons and arrests; by the following week, 28,000 had joined the occupation, and police withdrew for over a year. This is believed to have been the first such plant occupation in the world.

● 1976 - Organic statute makes Macao autonomous

● 1976 - Macau adopts constitution (Organic Law of Macau)

● 1979 - China invades Vietnam; China sends hundreds of troops into Vietnam after weeks of tension and a military build-up along the border.

● 1981 - Chrysler Corp reports largest corporate losses in US history

● 1982 - Polish troops arrest 3,500 in martial law raids.

● 1983 - Netherlands adopts constitution

● 1983 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1984 - Workers at a Coca-Cola plant in Guatemala seize it for collective operation.

● 1985 - 1st class postage rises from 20¢ to 22¢

● 1985 - 3rd person to receive an artificial heart (Murray Haydon)

● 1986 - Libyan bombers attack N'djamena Airport in Chad

● 1987 - Tamils strip off at Heathrow; A group of Tamils seeking asylum in Britain protest at Heathrow airport by removing their clothes as they are about to be deported.

● 1988 - US Lieutenant Colonel William Higgins kidnapped by Lebanese terrorists & later killed

● 1989 - 6-week study of Arctic atmosphere shows no ozone "hole"

● 1989 - Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia & Libya form common market

● 1989 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

● 1992 - In Milwaukee, serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was sentenced to life in prison. In November of 1994, he was beaten to death in prison.

● 1993 - Wang Dan and Guo Haifeng, leaders of 1989 Chinese student protests, released from prison.

● 1993 - Haitian ferry boat capsize in storm, 800-2,000 die

● 1995 - Federal judge allows lawsuit claiming US tobacco makers knew nicotine was addictive & manipulated its levels to keep customers hooked

● 1995 - Colin Ferguson is convicted of six counts of murder for the December 1993 Long Island Rail Road shootings and later receives a 200+ year sentence.

● 1995 - The Cenepa War between Peru and Ecuador ends on a cease-fire brokered by the UN.

● 1996 - In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, world champion Garry Kasparov beats the IBM Deep Blue supercomputer in a chess match.

● 1997 - Pepperdine University announced that Kenneth Starr was leaving the Whitewater probe to take a full-time job at the school. Starr reversed the announcement four days later.

● 1997 - Carl Sagan Public Memorial at Pasadena CA

● 1998 - Diane Zamora, 20, Naval Academy cadet convicted of capital murder

● 1998 - Larry Wayne Harris & Bill Levitt arrested for possession of anthrax

● 2000 - Microsoft released Windows 2000.

● 2002 - The new Transportation Security Administration took over supervision of aviation security from the airline industry and the Federal Aviation Administration.

● 2003 - Twenty-one people were killed in a stampede at a crowded nightclub in Chicago.

● 2004 - Cingular Wireless agreed to pay nearly $41 billion in cash to buy AT&T Wireless Services.

● 2005 - U.S. President George W. Bush named John Negroponte as the first national intelligence {something that Negroponte or Shrub has ever possessed} director.

● 2005 - Iraq's electoral commission certified the results of the Jan. 30 elections and allocated 140 of 275 National Assembly seats to the United Iraqi Alliance, giving the Shiite-dominated party a majority in the new parliament.

● 2006 - Over 1,000 people perished and buried alive in the town of St. Bernard in Southern Leyte, Philippines mudslide

BIRTHS

● 1490 - Charles III, Duke of Bourbon, Constable of France (d. 1527)

● 1519 - Francis, Duke of Guise, French soldier and politician (d. 1563)

● 1524 - Charles of Guise, French cardinal (d. 1574)

● 1581 - Fausto Poli, Italian Catholic priest (d. 1653)

● 1646 - Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, French economist (d. 1714)

● 1653 - Arcangelo Corelli, Italian composer (d. 1713)

● 1718 - Matthew Tilghman, American Continental Congressman (d. 1790)

● 1723 - Tobias Mayer, German astronomer (d. 1762)

● 1752 - Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, German writer (d. 1831)

● 1754 - Nicolas Baudin, French explorer (d. 1803)

● 1766 - Thomas Malthus, English demographer and political economist (d. 1834)

● 1781 - René Laënnec, French physician (d. 1826)

● 1792 - Karl Ernst von Baer, German biologist (d. 1876)

● 1796 - Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician (d. 1866)

● 1817 - King William III of the Netherlands (d, 1890)

● 1820 - Henri Vieuxtemps, Belgian composer (d. 1881)

● 1821 - Lola Montez, Mexican dancer, actress, friend of monarchs (d. 1861)

● 1836 - Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Spanish poet (b. 1870)

● 1844(43? NYT) - Aaron Montgomery Ward, American department store founder (d. 1913)

● 1848 - Louisa Lawson, Australian feminist, suffragist, and writer (d. 1920)

● 1854 - Friedrich Alfred Krupp, German industrialist (d. 1902)

● 1864 - Andrew Banjo Paterson, Australian poet (d. 1941)

● 1874 - Thomas J. Watson, American computer manufacturer (d. 1956)

● 1877 - Isabelle Eberhardt, explorer and writer who spent a lot of time in North Africa (d. 1904)

● 1877 - André Maginot, French politician (d. 1932)

● 1885 - Steve Evans, baseball player (d. 1943)

● 1887 - Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer (d. 1947)

● 1888 - Otto Stern, German physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1969)

● 1889 - H. L. Hunt, American oil tycoon (d. 1974)

● 1904 - Hans J. Morgenthau, German-born American political scientist and historian

● 1908 - Red Barber, baseball announcer (d. 1992)

● 1910 - Marc Lawrence, American actor (d. 2005)

● 1911 - Oskar Seidlin, Silesian-born Jewish-American literary scholar (d. 1984)

● 1912 - Andre Norton, American author (d. 2005)

● 1914 - Arthur Kennedy, American actor (d. 1990)

● 1917 - Abdur Rahman Badawi, Egyptian existentialist philosopher(d. 2002)

● 1919 - Kathleen Freeman, American actress (d. 2001)

● 1920 - Ivo Caprino, Norwegian animated film director

● 1922 - Marshall Teague, American race car driver (d. 1959)

● 1924 - Margaret Truman, American novelist and Daughter of President Truman

● 1925 - Ron Goodwin, English composer and conductor (d. 2003)

● 1925 - Hal Holbrook, American actor

● 1929 - Chaim Potok, American author (d. 2002)

● 1929 - Patricia Routledge, English actress

● 1930 - Ruth Rendell, English writer

● 1930 - Roger Craig, baseball player

● 1932 - Buck Trent, American banjo player

● 1933 - Bobby Lewis, Rock singer

● 1933 - Craig Thomas, U.S. senator, R-WY.

● 1934 - Dame Edna, Comedian

● 1934 - Alan Bates, English actor (d. 2003)

● 1934 - Barry Humphries, Australian actor and comedian

● 1935 - Christina Pickles, British actress

● 1935 - Johnny Bush, Country singer

● 1936 - Jim Brown, American football player and Hall of Fame member.

● 1939 - Mary Ann Mobley, American actress and beauty queen

● 1941 - Gene Pitney, American singer (d. 2006)

● 1942 - Huey P. Newton, American political activist (d. 1989)

● 1944 - Karl Jenkins, Welsh composer

● 1945 - Zina Bethune, American actress

● 1945 - Brenda Fricker, Irish actress

● 1948 - Rick Majerus, American basketball coach

● 1949 - Fred Frith, British musician

● 1952 - Karin Janz, East German gymnast

● 1953 - Janice Dickinson, American model

● 1953 - Norman Pace, British actor and comic

● 1954 - Rene Russo, American actress

● 1956 - Richard Karn, American actor

● 1957 - Loreena McKennitt, Canadian musician

● 1959 - Aryeh Deri, Israeli rabbi and politician

● 1959 - Neil Lomax, American football player

● 1962 - Alison Hargreaves, British mountaineer (d. 1995)

● 1962 - Lou Diamond Phillips, American actor

● 1963 - Michael Jordan, American basketball player

● 1963 - Daniel Whitney, aka Larry the Cable Guy, American comedian

● 1964 - Buster Olney, American sports columnist

● 1965 - Michael Bay, Director

● 1966 - Luc Robitaille, Canadian ice hockey player

● 1966 - Quorthon, Swedish musician (Bathory) (d. 2004)

● 1967 - Chanté Moore, American singer

● 1969 - Tuesday Knight, American actress

● 1970 - Dominic Purcell, English-born actor ("Prison Break")

● 1970 - Tim Mahoney, American musician (311)

● 1971 - Martyn Bennett, Canadian composer (d. 2005)

● 1971 - Denise Richards, American actress

● 1972 - Billie Joe Armstrong, American musician (Green Day)

● 1972 - Taylor Hawkins, American musician (Foo Fighters)

● 1972 - Philippe Candeloro, French figure skater

● 1974 - Kaoru, Japanese musician

● 1974 - Jerry O'Connell, American actor

● 1974 - Bryan White, American singer

● 1975 - Wish Bone, American rapper

● 1975 - Harisu, South Korean singer, model and actress

● 1975 - Todd Harvey, Canadian ice hockey player

● 1975 - Vaclav Prospal, Czech ice hockey player

● 1976 - Kelly Carlson, American actress

● 1978 - Jacob Wetterling, American kidnapping victim

● 1979 - Josh Willingham, outfielder/catcher for the Florida Marlins

● 1980 - Jason Ritter, American actor (''Joan of Arcadia'', "The Class")

● 1980 - Al Harrington, American basketball player

● 1981 - Joseph Gordon-Levitt, American actor (''3rd Rock From the Sun'')

● 1981 - Paris Hilton, American actress and heiress {what a waste of human flesh}

● 1982 - Adriano Leite Ribeiro, Brazilian footballer

● 1982 - Brian Bruney, professional baseball player

● 1984 - AB de Villiers, South African Cricketer

● 1996 - Sasha Pieterse, South African child actress

DEATHS

● 197 - Clodius Albinus, Roman usurper (killed in battle)

● 364 - Jovian, Roman Emperor

● 1339 - Duke Otto of Austria (b. 1301)

● 1371 - Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria.

● 1596 - Friedrich Sylburg, German classical scholar (b. 1536)

● 1600 - Giordano Bruno, Italian philosopher (burned at the stake) (b. 1548)

● 1609 - Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1549)

● 1624 - Juan de Mariana, Spanish historian (b. 1536)

● 1659 - Abel Servien, French diplomat (b. 1593)

● 1673 - Molière, French playwright (b. 1622)

● 1680 - Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles, English statesman and writer (b. 1599)

● 1680 - Jan Swammerdam, Dutch scientist (b. 1637)

● 1715 - Antoine Galland, French archaeologist (b. 1646)

● 1732 - Louis Marchand, French organist and harpsichordist (b. 1669)

● 1768 - Arthur Onslow, English politician (b. 1691)

● 1780 - Andreas Felix von Oefele, German historian and librarian (b. 1706)

● 1841 - Ferdinando Carulli, Italian guitarist

● 1854 - John Martin, English painter (b. 1789)

● 1856 - Heinrich Heine, German writer (b. 1797)

● 1874 - Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Belgian mathematician (b. 1796)

● 1883 - Napoleon Coste, French guitarist and composer (b. 1806)

● 1883 - Vasudeo Balwant Phadke, Indian revolutionary (b. 1845)

● 1909 - Geronimo, Apache leader (b. 1829)

● 1919 - Wilfrid Laurier, 7th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1841)

● 1934 - King Albert I of Belgium (b. 1875)

● 1934 - Siegbert Tarrasch, German chess player (b. 1862)

● 1939 - Willy Hess, German violinist (b. 1859)

● 1943 - Armand J. Piron, American jazz violinist and composer (b. 1888)

● 1943 - Konstantin Bogaevsky, Russian painter (b. 1872)

● 1961 - Nita Naldi, American actress (b. 1897)

● 1962 - Bruno Walter, German conductor (b. 1876)

● 1970 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Israeli writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1888)

● 1970 - Alfred Newman, American film composer (b. 1901)

● 1977 - Janani Luwum, Ugandan Archbishop (shot) (b. 1922)

● 1982 - Thelonious Monk, American jazz pianist (b. 1917)

● 1982 - Lee Strasberg, Austrian-born actor (b. 1901)

● 1990 - Erik Rhodes, American actor (b. 1906)

● 1994 - Randy Shilts, American author and activist (AIDS) (b. 1951)

● 1998 - Ernst Jünger, German author (b. 1895)

● 2001 - Khalid Abdul Muhammed, American Nation of Islam spokesman (brain aneurysm) (b. 1948)

● 2004 - José López Portillo, President of Mexico (b. 1920)

● 2005 - Dan O'Herlihy, Irish actor (b. 1919)

● 2005 - Omar Sivori, Argentine football player (b. 1935)

● 2006 - Ray Barretto, Puerto Rican musician (congas) (b. 1929)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Alexis Falconieri (d. 1310)
● St. Benedict of Cagliari
● St. Constabilis
● St. Donatus
● St. Evermodus
● St. Fintan
● St. Fortchern
● St. Faustinus & Companions
● St. Habet Deus
● St. Hugh dei Lippi Uggucioni
● St. Julian of Caesarea
● St. Loman
● St. Manettus
● St. Polychronius
● The Seven Founders of the Servites
● St. Silvinus
● St. Theodulus

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for February 4 (Civil Date: February 17)
● St. Isidore of Pelusium, monk.
● St. George, prince of Vladimir.
● St. Cyril, abbot, wonderworker of Novoezersk (Novgorod).
● St. Nicholas the Confessor, abbot of the Studion.
● Martyr Jadorus.
● Hieromartyr Abramius, Bishop of Arbela in Assyria.
● St. John, Bishop of Hirenopolis.
● St. Abraham & St. Coprius, monks of Pechenga (Vologda).
● New-Martyr Joseph of Aleppo.

● Greek Calendar:
● Martyr Theoctistus.
● St. Jasim the Wonderworker.
● Repose of Royal Recluse Dosithea of Moscow (1810).

● Christian:
● St. Silvinus
● Commemoration of Flight into Egypt

● Roman Empire - Quirinalia in honor of Quirinus.

● Ancient Latvia - Tanis Diena observed.

● Random Acts of Kindness Day.

● Sri Lanka : Maha Shivaratree

● This Holiday is only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● US : Presidents' Day (formerly Washington's Birthday)-legal holiday - ( 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.

Scope Systems Any Day Website

Roman Catholic Saint of the Day

Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar

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