February 3......

February 3 is the 34th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 331 (332 in leap years) days remaining in the year on this date.

In the Northern hemisphere, there are 88 days in winter (in a non-leap year, 89 in a leap year). We are considered halfway through winter on February 3.

{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

● 3114 BC - Reciprocal date for Mayan Creation, the laying out of the ecliptic.

● 1112 - marriage of Ramon Berenguer III of Barcelona and Douce I of Provence, uniting the fortunes of those two states

● 1377 - Cardinal Robert of Geneva (anti-pope Clemens VII) starts term

● 1377 - more than 2,000 people of the Italian city of Cesena are slaughtered by Papal Troops (Cesena Bloodbath).

● 1451 - Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire.

● 1468 - Printing press innovator Johannes Gutenberg dies.

● 1488 - Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope at the tip of Africa, becoming the first known European to travel this far south.

● 1509 - The Battle of Diu, between Portugal and the Ottoman Empire takes place in Diu, India.

● 1518 - Pope Leo X imposed silence on the Augustinian monks.

● 1547 - Russian czar Ivan IV (17) marries Anastasia Romanova

● 1576 - Henry of Navarre (future Henry IV) escapes from Paris

● 1591 - German monarchy forms Protestant Union of Torgau

● 1653 - Cardinal Mazarin returns to Paris from exile

● 1660 - General Moncks army reaches London

● 1690 - First paper money issued in America by Anglo colonists in the colony of Massachusetts to pay soldiers in war against Quebec.

● 1740 - Charles de Bourbon, King of Naples, invites Jews to return to Sicily

● 1743 - Philadelphia establishes a "pesthouse" to quarantine immigrants.

● 1743 - Philadelphia establishes a "pesthouse" to quarantine immigrants

● 1744 - Colonial missionary to the American Indians David Brainerd explained in a tract: 'God designs that those whom He sanctifies...shall tarry awhile in this present evil world, that their own experience of temptations may teach them how great the deliverance is, which God has wrought for them.'

● 1752 - Dutch States-General forbid export of windmills

● 1781 - Dutch West Indies island of St Eustatia taken by the British

● 1783 - American Revolutionary War: Spain recognizes United States independence. {Probably just to piss off the British.}

● 1787 - Shays' Rebellion is crushed, ending an uprising that would prompt negotiations that would result in the drafting of the Constitution of the United States.

● 1807 - A British military force, under Brig-Gen. Sir Samuel Auchmuty captures the city of Montevideo, then part of the Spanish Empire now capital of Uruguay, following a siege.

● 1809 - Territory of Illinois organizes (including present-day Wisconsin)

● 1811 - Birth of American journalist Horace Greeley. {This is the man who said, "Go West young man," even though he never further west than Ohio.}

● 1815 - The first commercial cheese factory is founded (Switzerland).

● 1821 - Birth of Elizabeth Blackwell, first woman physician in America.

● 1825 - Dutch North Sea coast floods

● 1834 - The Baptist State Convention of North Carolina establishes the Wake Forest Manual Labor Institute, today known as Wake Forest University.

● 1836 - Whig Party holds its 1st national convention (Albany NY)

● 1855 - Wisconsin Supreme Court declares US Fugitive Slave Law unconstitutional

● 1860 - Thomas Clemson takes office as 1st US superintendent of agriculture

● 1864 - In Columbus, Ohio, a fellowship of independent Methodist, Presbyterian, Congregational and United Brethren churches organized itself into a separate Protestant denomination known as the Christian Union.

● 1864 - Sherman's march through Georgia

● 1865 - President Abraham Lincoln and Confederate Vice President Alexander H. Stephens held a peace conference aboard a ship off the Virginia coast. (The talks deadlocked over the issue of Southern autonomy.)

● 1867 - Prince Mutsuhito becomes Emperor Meiji of Japan.

● 1870 - The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ratified, grants voting rights regardless of race.

● 1874 - Birth of Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), writer, lesbian icon, and mentor to the 'Lost Generation' of writers in Paris after World War I. Allegheny, Pennsylvania.

● 1887 - To avoid disputed national elections, Congress creates Electoral Count Act

● 1892 - Russia closes down Yeshiva of Volozhin

● 1899 - -16º F (-27º C), Minden LA (state record)

● 1900 - Gubernatorial candidate William Goebel is assassinated in Frankfort, Kentucky. Former Secretary of State Caleb Powers was later found guilty in a conspiracy to kill Goebel.

● 1901 - Dutch troops under General Van Heutsz conquer Batu Ilië on Sumatra

● 1902 - Birth of Helene Patou (1902-1975), Liovin (Pas-de-Calais). French writer, militant anarchist and neo-Malthusian.

● 1903 - Frederick Lugard occupies Kano West Africa

● 1906 - England - Acquisition of a house at London's 165 Jubilee Street, which becomes the "Workers' Friend Club and Institute," a place for meetings, a print shop, and an anarchist school.

● 1908 - U.S. Supreme Court rules a union boycott violates Sherman Antitrust Act.

● 1909 - Birth of French philosopher, syndicalist Simone Weil (1909-1943), Paris. Despite her rapturous love of Jesus Christ, she never ceased to study the truths of the religions of the East. She stayed outside of any church, but her passionate need to share the sufferings of others led her to fight with the anarchists in the Spanish Civil War, to work as a field hand and an unskilled laborer, and ultimately to die in England at the age of 34 from tuberculosis complicated by her refusing to eat more than Hitler's rations allotted to her countrymen in occupied France.

● 1913 - The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect a graduated income tax.

● 1913 - Opening of "Casa del Obrero Internacional," in Los Angeles. One of the founders is Juan Francisco Moncaleano. Anarchist activities housed here include a Ferrer school and the offices of the newspaper "Regeneracion."

● 1913 - France - Beginning of the trial of the surviving members of the Bonnot Gang, in Paris.

● 1915 - Turkish & German army reach Suez Canal

● 1916 - Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Canada burn down.

● 1916 - Tristan Tzar publishes Dada-manifest in Zurich Switzerland

● 1917 - US liner Housatonic sunk by German sub & diplomatic relations severed

● 1917 - World War I: The United States breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany a day after Germany announces a new policy of unrestricted submarine warfare.

● 1918 - The Twin Peaks Tunnel begins service as the longest streetcar tunnel in the world at 11,920 feet (3,633 meters) long).

● 1919 - Tube (subway) workers in London, England strike for shorter hours.

● 1919 - League of Nations 1st meeting (Paris)

● 1919 - Socialist conference convenes (Berne Switzerland)

● 1924 - Alexei Ryko elected as President of People's commission (succeeds Lenin)

● 1924 - Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president of the United States, died in Washington, D.C., at age 67.

● 1927 - The Federal Radio Commission was created when U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signed a bill.

● 1927 - Uprising against regime of General Carmona in Portugal

● 1929 - Revolutionary Socialist Party forms in Amsterdam

● 1930 - William Howard Taft, resigns as chief justice for health reasons

● 1930 - The Communist Party of Vietnam was born. {Only after the parties negotiating the Treaty of Versailles refuse to meet with Ho Chi Minh.}

● 1931 - The Arkansas state legislature passes a motion to pray for the soul of newspaper columnist H. L. Mencken after he calls the state "the apex of moronia."

● 1931 - Italy - Michael Schirru is arrested in Rome, with the two bombs discovered in his hotel room intended, by his own admission, for Mussolini. His one-day trial, on May 28th, was presided over by Cristini -- a fascist cutthroat raised to the highest ranks in the government as a reward for his bloody propensities. No jury. No defense. No lawyers and no witnesses are admitted before Mussolini's Special Tribunal. At 2:30 AM the next morning, he was awakened and told that his execution would take place at sunrise. He was taken to the Braschi fortress, where he was executed, eight and a half hours after sentence was passed. He had not killed anybody. The death penalty, as it existed in Italy at that time, could be applied legally only for the murder of the king, the crown prince, and Mussolini.

● 1931 - The Napier earthquake, New Zealand's worst natural disaster, kills 258.

● 1933 - 1st interstate legislative conference in US opens, Washington DC

● 1933 - German minister Göring bans social-democratic newspaper Vorwärts

● 1933 - Marinus van der Lubbe departs to Berlin

● 1941 - Supreme Court upheld Federal Wage & Hour law, sets minimum wages & maximum hours

● 1941 - World War II: The Nazis forcibly restore Pierre Laval to office in occupied Vichy, France.

● 1942 - 1st Japanese air raid on Java

● 1943 - The Allied troopship S.S. Dorchester was torpedoed by a German sub and went down with a loss of 600 lives. As it sank, four chaplains gave up their lifejackets to shipmates, thereby also perishing in the icy waters. The bravery of Rev. Clark Poling (Dutch Reformed), Rev. George Lansing Fox (Methodist), Father John Washington (a Catholic priest) and Alexander David Goode (a Jewish rabbi) led Congress afterward to mark February 3rd as "Four Chaplains Day."

● 1944 - World War II: United States troops capture the Marshall Islands.

● 1945 - World War II: Soviet Union agrees to enter the Pacific Theatre conflict against Japan.

● 1945 - World War II: As part of Operation Thunderclap, 1,000 B-17's of the Eighth Air Force bomb Berlin.

● 1947 - Percival Prattis becomes the first African American news correspondent allowed in the United States House and Senate press gallery.

● 1947 - Coldest ever temperature recorded in North America at Snag, Yukon, -63 degrees Celsius

● 1950 - Nuclear physicist Klaus Fuchs arrested on spy charges

● 1952 - The earliest known tropical storm makes landfall in South Florida.

● 1956 - Autherine J Lucy admitted to University of Alabama, suspended 2/7 after a riot

● 1957 - Senegalese political party Democratic Rally merges into the Senegalese Party of Socialist Action (PSAS).

● 1959 - The Day The Music Died: A plane crash kills rock-and-roll performers Buddy Holly, 22; The Big Bopper (aka J.P. Richardson, 29); and Richie Valens, 17, near Mason City, Iowa.

● 1959 - American Airlines Electra crashes in New York's East River, killing 65

● 1960 - Macmillan speaks of 'wind of change' in Africa; Harold Macmillan outrages South African politicians with a speech warning of the "wind of change" in Africa.

● 1961 - 6th largest snowfall in NYC history (17.4" (44.2cm))

● 1962 - President Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food & drugs

● 1964 - Black & Puerto Rican students boycott NYC public schools

● 1965 - Orbiting Solar Observatory 2 launches into Earth orbit (552/636 km)

● 1965 - Over 2,600 arrests, many of them schoolchildren, in week-long voter registration demonstrations in Selma, Alabama.

● 1965 - Interstate 5 opens from Everett to downtown Seattle. Massive traffic jams soon develop.

● 1965 - One hundred five cadets resign from the Air Force Academy after being caught cheating.

● 1966 - Soviets land probe on Moon; The Soviet Union makes the first controlled landing of a space probe on the Moon, but refuses to release the pictures it sends back.

● 1966 - 1st operational weather satellite, ESSA-1 launched (US)

● 1967 - Ronald Ryan, who shot and killed a prison guard while trying to escape from a Melbourne prison, the last person to be executed in Australia, is hanged in Pentridge Prison, Melbourne.

● 1969 - In Cairo, Yasser Arafat is appointed Palestinian Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress.

● 1972 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1973 - President Nixon signs Endangered Species Act, now itself endangered. {but not quite as much as Nixon}

● 1977 - After legal secretary Iris Rivera loses job for refusing to make coffee, secretaries across Chicago join in protest.

● 1978 - Sadat in US for Mid East talks; Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat arrives in Washington DC to discuss the Middle East peace process with US President Jimmy Carter.

● 1980 - Muhammed Ali tours Africa as President Carter's envoy

● 1981 - Gro Harlem Brundtland elected premier of Norway

● 1981 - Striking Telecommunications Workers Union occupy offices of telephone company in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada.

● 1982 - Columbia Shuttle moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating for STS-3 mission

● 1982 - Greatest helicopter lift, 56,888 kg, Podmoscovnoe, USSR

● 1984 - Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B Mission - Astronauts, Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make first untethered spacewalks using the Manned Maneuvering Unit.

● 1984 - 1st baby conceived by embryo transplant born in Long Beach CA

● 1985 - In South Africa, Desmond Tutu, 53, became Johannesburg's first black Anglican bishop.

● 1986 - Pope and Mother Teresa feed the sick; The Pope meets Mother Teresa in Calcutta and visits her home for the sick and dying.

● 1986 - President Reagan announces formation of Committee on Challenger Accident

● 1988 - Nurses protest for better pay; Nurses across the UK take part in a day of industrial action to secure more money for themselves and the NHS.

● 1988 - Iran-Contra Affair: The United States House of Representatives rejects President Ronald Reagan's request for $36.25 million to aid Nicaraguan Contras.

● 1989 - After a stroke, P.W. Botha resigns party leadership and the presidency of South Africa.

● 1989 - Salvadorans protest U.S. intervention and arrival of Vice President Dan "Las Papaes" Quayle.

● 1989 - Military coup overthrows long-time U.S.-backed Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner, who had been in power since 1954.

● 1992 - Defense opens calling Noriega "our ally in the war on drugs"

● 1992 - Maximum New York State unemployment benefits raised to $300 per week

● 1992 - Labor strike at Royal Canadian Mint ends

● 1993 - Federal trial of 4 police officers charged with civil rights violations in videotaped beating of Rodney King begins in Los Angeles CA

● 1994 - STS-60 (Discovery) launches into orbit with a woman, Air Force Lt. Col. Eileen Collins, in the pilot's seat for the first time.

● 1994 - Nearly two decades after the fall of Saigon, Pres. Clinton announces the lifting of a 19-year-old trade embargo against Vietnam. Amazingly, this is considered controversial.

● 1995 - STS 63 (Discovery 19), launches into orbit

● 1997 - Sixth general elections held in Pakistan under 1973 constitution.

● 1998 - Karla Faye Tucker is executed in Texas becoming the first woman executed in the United States since 1984. {George W Bush, then governor of Texas mocked her pleas for clemency because she had found Jesus.}

● 1998 - Cavalese cable-car disaster: a United States Military pilot causes the death of 20 people when his low-flying plane cuts the cable of a cable-car near Trento, Italy.

● 1999 - In Jammu and Kashmir the political party Democratic Janata Dal (Jammu and Kashmir) is revived.

● 2000 - The Senate voted 89-4 to confirm Alan Greenspan for a fourth term as chairman of the Federal Reserve.

● 2002 - Super Bowl XXXVI: In the first Super Bowl to be held in February, the New England Patriots defeat the St. Louis Rams 20-17.

● 2003 - Abandoning a two-month-long general strike that failed to oust President Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's workers returned to work in all sectors but the vital oil industry.

● 2004 - Jóannes Eidesgaard becomes Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands.

● 2005 - Alberto Gonzales won Senate confirmation as attorney general.

● 2006 - An Egyptian passenger ferry sank in the Red Sea during bad weather, killing more than 1,000 passengers.

● 2007 - The Baghdad market bombing kills at least 130 people and injures a further 305.

BIRTHS

● 1338 - Jeanne de Bourbon, wife of Charles V of France (d. 1378)

● 1677 - Jan Santini Aichel, Czech architect (d. 1723)

● 1690 - Richard Rawlinson, English minister (d. 1755)

● 1721 - Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Prussian general (d. 1773)

● 1747 - Samuel Osgood American patriot

● 1754 - George Crabbe, English naturalist (d. 1832)

● 1795 - Antonio José de Sucre, South American independence leader (d. 1830)

● 1807 - Joseph E. Johnston, Confederate general (d. 1891)

● 1809 - Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (d. 1847)

● 1811 - Horace Greeley, American journalist, editor, and publisher (d. 1872)

● 1817 - Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist (d. 1881)

● 1821 - Elizabeth Blackwell, American physician (d. 1910)

● 1830 - Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1903)

● 1842 - Sidney Lanier, American writer (d. 1881)

● 1843 - William Cornelius Van Horne, American-born railway pioneer and executive (d. 1915)

● 1859 - Hugo Junkers, German aircraft designer (d. 1935)

● 1862 - James Clark McReynolds, American Supreme Court Justice (d. 1946)

● 1872 - Lou Criger, American baseball player (d. 1934)

● 1874 - Gertrude Stein, American writer (d. 1946)

● 1887 - Juan Negrín, Spanish Prime Minister (d. 1956)

● 1887 - Georg Trakl, Austrian poet (d. 1914)

● 1887 - Naruhiko Higashikuni, Japanese imperial prince/prime minister (d. 1990)

● 1893 - Gaston Julia, French mathematician (d. 1978)

● 1894 - Juan Negrin, Spanish Republican prime minister during Spanish Civil War (d. 1956)

● 1894 - Norman Rockwell, American illustrator (d. 1978)

● 1898 - Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect (d. 1976)

● 1899 - Lao She, Chinese writer (d. 1966)

● 1904 - Luigi Dallapiccola, Italian composer (d. 1975)

● 1904 - Pretty Boy Floyd, American gangster (d. 1934)

● 1907 - James Michener, American author (d. 1997)

● 1909 - Simone Weil, French philosopher (d. 1943)

● 1909 - André Cayatte, French filmmaker (d. 1989)

● 1911 - Robert Earl Jones, American actor (d. 2006)

● 1918 - Joey Bishop, American comedian

● 1918 - Helen Stephens, American runner

● 1920 - Henry Heimlich, American physician

● 1923 - Alys Robi, Quebec singer

● 1924 - Martial Asselin, French Canadian politician and lieutenant governor of Quebec

● 1925 - John Fiedler, American voice actor (d. 2005)

● 1925 - Keith Dunstan, Australian author and journalist

● 1925 - Leon Schlumpf, member of the Swiss Federal Council

● 1926 - Shelley Berman, American comedian

● 1926 - Hans-Jochen Vogel, German politician

● 1927 - Val Doonican, Irish singer and entertainer

● 1927 - Joan Lowery Nixon, American writer (d. 2003)

● 1927 - Kenneth Anger, American Underground Filmmaker

● 1930 - Gillian Ayres, English painter

● 1932 - Peggy Ann Garner, American actress (d. 1984)

● 1933 - Paul Sarbanes, American politician

● 1938 - Victor Buono, American actor (d. 1982)

● 1938 - Emile Griffith, US Virgin Islands professional boxer

● 1939 - Michael Cimino, American film director

● 1940 - Fran Tarkenton, American football player and Hall of Fame member.

● 1941 - Bridget Hanley, Actress

● 1941 - Neil Bogart, American record executive (d. 1982)

● 1943 - Blythe Danner, American actress

● 1943 - Dennis Edwards, American singer (The Temptations)

● 1943 - Shawn Phillips, American singer, guitarist and songwriter

● 1945 - Bob Griese, American football player and Hall of Fame member

● 1945 - Johnny Cymbal, American singer and songwriter (d. 1993)

● 1947 - Paul Auster, American novelist

● 1947 - Dave Davies, British musician (The Kinks)

● 1947 - Melanie Safka, American singer-songwriter

● 1948 - Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo, East Timor politician, Nobel Peace laureate

● 1948 - Henning Mankell, Swedish author

● 1949 - Hennie Kuiper, Dutch cyclist

● 1950 - Morgan Fairchild, American actress

● 1951 - Eugenijus Riabovas, Lithuanian football manager

● 1952 - Fred Lynn, American baseball player

● 1954 - Tiger Williams, Canadian ice hockey players

● 1955 - Stephen Euin Cobb, American novelist

● 1955 - Kirsty Wark, British broadcast journalist

● 1956 - John Jefferson, American football player

● 1956 - Nathan Lane, American actor

● 1956 - Lee Ranaldo, American musician (Sonic Youth)

● 1958 - N. Gregory Mankiw, American economist

● 1958 - Cecily Adams, American actress and casting director (d. 2004)

● 1959 - Thomas Calabro, American actor (''Melrose Place'')

● 1959 - Laurence Tolhurst, British musician (The Cure)

● 1959 - Yasuharu Konishi, Japanese musician (Pizzicato Five)

● 1960 - Kerry Von Erich, American wrestler (d. 1993)

● 1961 - Keith Gordon, American actor

● 1962 - Michele Greene, American actress (''L.A. Law'')

● 1964 - Matraca Berg, Country singer

● 1965 - Maura Tierney, American actress (''ER,'' ''Newsradio'')

● 1967 - Bob Taylor, English footballer

● 1968 - Vlade Divac, Basketball player

● 1970 - Warwick Davis, British actor

● 1970 - Oscar Cordoba, Colombian footballer

● 1971 - Sarah Kane, English playwright (d. 1999)

● 1971 - Hong Seok-cheon, South Korean actor

● 1972 - Mart Poom, Estonian football player

● 1974 - Miriam Yeung, Hong Kong actress

● 1974 - Elisa Donovan, American actress

● 1976 - Mathieu Dandenault, Canadian hockey player

● 1976 - Isla Fisher, Australian actress

● 1976 - Dwayne Rudd, American football player

● 1977(76? NYT) - Daddy Yankee, Puerto Rican musician

● 1977 - Grant Barry, Musician (Reel Big Fish)

● 1978 - Adrian R'Mante, American actor

● 1980 - Sarah Lewitinn, American writer

● 1981 - Maurice Ross, English footballer

● 1982 - Jessica Harp, American singer (The Wreckers)

● 1989 - Ryne Sanborn, American actor

DEATHS

● 619 - Laurence of Canterbury, 2nd Archbishop of Canterbury

● 699 - Saint Werburgh

● 1014 - King Sweyn I of Denmark

● 1116 - King Coloman of Hungary (b. 1070)

● 1399 - John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (b. 1340)

● 1428 - Ashikaga Yoshimochi, Japanese shogun (b. 1386)

● 1451 - Murad II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1404)

● 1468 - Johannes Gutenberg, German publisher

● 1566 - George Cassander, Flemish theologian (b. 1513)

● 1619 - Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English conspirator (b. 1564)

● 1737 - Tommaso Ceva, Italian Mathematician (b. 1648)

● 1802 - Pedro Rodríguez, Conde de Campomanes, Spanish statesman (b. 1723)

● 1862 - Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist (b. 1774)

● 1866 - François-Xavier Garneau, French Canadian poet and historian (b. 1809)

● 1889 - Belle Starr, American outlaw (b. 1848)

● 1922 - John Butler Yeats, Northern Irish artist (b. 1839)

● 1924 - Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States, Nobel laureate (b. 1856)

● 1929 - Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish scientist (b. 1878

● 1935 - Hugo Junkers, German engineer (b. 1859)

● 1945 - Roland Freisler, Nazi leader (b. 1893)

● 1956 - Émile Borel, French mathematician (b. 1871)

● 1959 - Also known as The Day the Music Died because of the deaths of:
● Buddy Holly, American singer (b. 1936)
● Ritchie Valens, American singer (b. 1941)
● J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, American singer (b. 1930)

● 1960 - Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor (b. 1921)

● 1964 - Sir Albert Richardson, English architect (b. 1880)

● 1967 - Joe Meek, English record producer (b. 1929)

● 1975 - Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer (b. 1904)

● 1985 - Frank Oppenheimer, American physicist (b. 1912)

● 1989 - John Cassavetes, American actor (b. 1929)

● 1989 - Lionel Newman, American movie music orchestra leader, composer and arranger (b. 1916)

● 1991 - Nancy Kulp, American actress (b. 1921)

● 1996 - Audrey Meadows, American actress (b. 1926)

● 1998 - Karla Faye Tucker, American murderer (b. 1959)

● 2000 - Richard Kleindienst, American politician (b. 1923)

● 2003 - Lana Clarkson, American actress (b. 1962)

● 2004 - Jason Raize, American musical theatre actor (b. 1975)

● 2005 - Corrado Cardinal Bafile, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1903)

● 2005 - Ernst Mayr, German-born biologist (b. 1904)

● 2005 - Zurab Zhvania, Prime Minister of Georgia (b. 1963)

● 2006 - Al Lewis, American actor (b. 1923)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Blaise, Catholics visit churches to have their throats blessed.
● St. Anatolius
● St. Ansgar, patron saint of Denmark
● St. Berlinda
● St. Blase, bishop of Sebaste, Armenia, martyr
● St. Caellainn
● St. Celerinus
● St. Celsa
● St. Deodatus
● St. Hadelin
● St. Laurentinus
● St. Lawrence of Spoleto
● St. Liafdag
● St. Lupicinus & Felix
● St. Margaret of England
● St. Nona
● St. Oliver
● St. Philip of Vienne
● St. Remedius
● St. Tigides & Remedius
● St. Werburg
● Bl. John Nelson
● Bl. Rabanus Maurus
● Bl. Odoric of Pordenone

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for January 21 (Civil Date: February 3)
● St. Maximus the Confessor
● Martyr Neophytus of Nicaea.
● Martyrs Eugene, Candidus, Valerian and Aquila at Trebizond.
● Martyr Anastasius, disciple of St. Maximus the Confessor.
● Virgin Martyr Agnes of Rome.
● St. Neophytus of Vatopedi (Mt. Athos. .
● St. Maximus the Greek.
● Synaxis of the Church of the Holy Peace by the Sea in Constantinople.
● Repose of desert-dweller Timon of Nadeyev (1840).
● Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Land

● Christian:
● St. Laurentius, 2nd archbishop of Canterbury (604-619)

● Anglican and Lutheran:
● Anskar, Hamburg archbishop, Denmark/Sweden

● Japan - the festival of Setsubun before spring.

● Mozambique - Heroes' Day.

● Paraguay : Patron's Day/San Blas, patrón

● Puerto Rico : Fiesta de San Blas, protector of harvest (316)

● US : 4 Chaplains Memorial Day

● This Holiday is only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Switzerland : Homstrom-celebrates end of winter - ( Sunday )


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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