February 5......

February 5 is the 36th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 329 (330 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

● 816 - Frankish emperor Louis grants archbishop Salzburg immunity

● 1428 - King Alfonso V, orders Sicily's Jews to attend conversion sermons

● 1488 - Roman catholic German emperor Maximilian I caught in Belgium

● 1512 - French troops under Gaston de Foix rescues Bologna

● 1556 - Kings Henri I & Philip II sign Treaty of Vaucelles

● 1572 - Beggars assault Oisterwijk Netherlands, drive nuns out

● 1576 - Henry of Navarre converts to Roman Catholicism in order to ensure his right to the throne of France.

● 1597 - A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society.

● 1631 - English clergyman Roger Williams first arrived in America. He soon began questioning Massachusetts' religious policies which fused church and state matters. Williams was banished to Rhode Island five years later, where at Providence he established the first Baptist church in America.

● 1644 - 1st US livestock branding law passed, by Connecticut

● 1649 - Prince of Wales becomes king Charles II

● 1663 - Earthquake in Canada

● 1679 - German emperor Leopold I signs peace with France

● 1736 - The English Wesley brothers, John (32) and Charles (28) first arrived in America at Savannah, GA. They had been invited by Georgia governor James Oglethorpe as missionaries to the American Indians.

● 1777 - Georgia becomes 1st US state to abolish both entail & primogeniture

● 1778 - South Carolina becomes the first state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.

● 1782 - Spanish defeat British forces and capture Minorca.

● 1783 - Sweden recognizes US independence

● 1783 - Earthquakes ravage Calabria, killing 30,000

● 1795 - Zealand Netherlands surrenders to French General Michaud

● 1812 - American missionary Adoniram Judson, 23, married schoolteacher Ann Hasseltine, 22. Two weeks later the couple set sail for India under sponsorship of the American [Congregational"> Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.

● 1817 - 1st US gas company incorporated, Baltimore (coal gas for street lights)

● 1818 - Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.

● 1825 - Hannah Lord Montague of New York creates 1st detachable shirt collar

● 1826 - New Harmony Community of Equality founded in Indiana.

● 1830 - First daily labor paper, "New York Daily Sentinel," begins publication.

● 1831 - Jan van Speijk blows up his gunboat in Antwerp, killing about 30

● 1833 - Montreal Mechanics Mutual Protective Society founded. Beginning of Canadian movement for the 10-hour work day.

● 1846 - Birth of Bavarian-born American anarchist Johann Most. Advocate of "propaganda by the deed."

● 1846 - The Oregon Spectator becomes the first newspaper on the Pacific coast of the United States.

● 1850 - Adding machine employing depressible keys patented, New Paltz NY

● 1855 - British government of Palmerston forms

● 1859 - Wallachia and Moldavia are united under Alexander John Cuza as the United Principalities.

● 1861 - Kinematoscope patented by Coleman Sellers, Philadelphia PA

● 1861 - Louisiana delegation except Mr Bouligny withdraws from Congress

● 1861 - 1st moving picture peep show machine is patented by Samuel Goodale of Cincinnati

● 1864 - Federals occupy Jackson MS

● 1865 - Battle of Hatcher's Run, VA (Armstrong's Mill, Dabney's Mill)

● 1870 - 1st motion picture shown to a theater audience, Philadelphia

● 1875 - Birth of Manuel Devaldes (aka Ernest-Edmond Lohy), Evreux, France. Libertarian, pacifist, and neo-Malthusian.

● 1879 - Joseph Swan demonstrates light bulb using carbon glow

● 1881 - Phoenix, Arizona is incorporated.

● 1885 - King Léopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession.

● 1885 - News of fall of Khartoum reaches London

● 1887 - Snow falls on San Francisco

● 1887 - The Chicago Evangelization Society was organized by evangelist D. L. Moody, 50. Two years later, the Society established the Bible Institute for Home and Foreign Missions. Moody died in 1899, and in 1900 the school was renamed Moody Bible Institute.
● 1894 - Female suffrage organization in Amsterdam forms

● 1894 - Auguste Vaillant is executed after having thrown a small bomb into the French Chamber of Deputies in Dec. 1893. A symbolic gesture, meant to wound rather than kill, the deputies use the event to suppress the anarchist press.

● 1897 - The Indiana House of Representatives unanimously passed a measure redefining the area of a circle and the value of pi. (The bill died in the state Senate.) {and these are the people we want to decide what to teach our children?}

● 1897 - Marcel Proust meets Jean Lorrain in a pistol duel

● 1900 - The U.S. and Britain signed the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty, which gave the U.S. the right to build a canal in Nicaragua but not the right fortify it.

● 1900 - Adlai Ewing Stevenson, the American politician and diplomat, was born.

● 1900 - British troops under General Buller occupy Vaal Krantz, Natal

● 1901 - Pierpont Morgan forms US Steel Corp

● 1904 - American occupation of Cuba ends

● 1911 - Mexico - Guadalupe is captured by the revolutionary anarchist forces of Ricardo Flores Magon's Liberal Party.

● 1914 - Birth of William Burroughs, St. Louis, Missouri.

● 1917 - The current constitution of Mexico is adopted, establishing a federal republic with powers separated into independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches.

● 1917 - The Congress of the United States passes a law, over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, banning most Asian immigration to the United States.

● 1917 - Present Mexican constitution adopted

● 1918 - Separation of church & state begins in USSR

● 1918 - First U.S. pilot to down an enemy airplane, Stephen W. Thompson.

● 1919 - Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists.

● 1922 - Fifty-seven thousand Berlin public utility workers strike, stopping light and water.

● 1922 - DeWitt and Lila Wallace publish the first issue of Reader's Digest. (Some sources say February 7.)

● 1923 - General mine strike against wage cuts in Saar

● 1923 - Mass arrests of socialists & communists in Italy

● 1924 - The Royal Greenwich Observatory begin broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the "BBC pips".

● 1930 - 5th Aliyah to Israel begins

● 1936 - Charlie Chaplin releases the last movie of the silent film era, Modern Times.

● 1937 - In an attempt to insure rulings favorable to his administration, Franklin D. Roosevelt requested authority to enlarge -- "pack" -- the U.S. Supreme Court.

● 1940 - General Winckelman replaces General Reijnders as Dutch supreme commander

● 1941 - Dutch Premier De Geer returns from Lisbon to Netherlands

● 1943 - Clandestine Radio Atlantiksender, Germany, 1st transmission

● 1943 - Amsterdam resistance group CS-6 shoots Nazi General Seyffardt

● 1944 - 358 RAF-bombers attack Stettin

● 1944 - German theologian and Nazi martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote in a letter from prison: 'Much that worries us beforehand can afterwards, quite unexpectedly, have a happy and simple solution... Things really are in a better hand than ours.'

● 1945 - British premier Churchill arrives in Yalta, the Krim

● 1945 - World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila.

● 1946 - The Chondoist Chongu Party is founded in North Korea.

● 1947 - Bolewet Beirut becomes President of Poland

● 1958 - Clifton R Wharton confirmed as 1st US black foreign minister (Romania)

● 1958 - Gamel Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic.

● 1958 - A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered.

● 1961 - The Sunday Telegraph publishes its first issue.

● 1962 - French President Charles De Gaulle calls for allowing Algeria to be an independent nation.

● 1962 - Suit to bar Englewood NJ from "racial segregated" schools is filed

● 1962 - Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter & Saturn within 16º

● 1963 - Maarten Schmidt discovers enormous red shifts in quasars

● 1963 - Soviet lunar probe failure

● 1967 - Anastasio Somoza elected President of Nicaragua

● 1968 - Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh begins.

● 1969 - US population reaches 200 million

● 1970 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1970 - U.S. troops invade Laos.

● 1971 - Project Apollo: Apollo 14 Mission - Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell aboard LM, Antares land on the Moon at Fra Mauro formation.

● 1972 - Bob Douglas becomes the first African American elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.

● 1972 - US airlines begin mandatory inspection of passengers & baggage

● 1973 - Juan Corona sentenced to 25 consecutive life terms for 25 murders

● 1973 - Funeral for LC William Nolde, last U.S. soldier killed in Vietnam War.

● 1974 - John Murtha becomes the first Vietnam War veteran elected to the Congress of the United States.

● 1974 - US Mariner 10 returns 1st close-up photos of Venus' cloud structure

● 1974 - British mine strike

● 1978 - The Blizzard of 1978, one of the worst Nor'easters ever to hit New England, forms.

● 1979 - Costliest single periodical ad, $3.2 million, Gulf + Western in Time

● 1980 - Egyptian parliament votes to end boycott of Israel

● 1981 - Military jury in North Carolina convicts Robert Garwood of collaborating with enemy

● 1982 - DEA announces seizure of 3,192 tons of marijuana, 495 people

● 1982 - Laker Airways collapse owing £270 million ($351 million)

● 1982 - Suriname President Chin A Sen resigns & flees to Netherlands

● 1983 - Former Nazi Gestapo official Klaus Barbie brought to trial

● 1985 - Australian Prime Minister Robert Hawke refuses to allow U.S. use of bases to monitor an MX missile test.

● 1986 - Corazon Aquino & Ferdinand Marcos appear on "Nightline"

● 1987 - Dow Jones average closes above 2,200 for 1st time

● 1987 - Soyuz TM-2 launches

● 1988 - The Arizona House of Representatives impeached Gov. Evan Mecham, setting the stage for his conviction in the state Senate.

● 1988 - Panama's General Manuel Noriega, a CIA asset, is indicted by a grand jury in Miami, Florida on charges of receiving $4.5 million in payoffs from large-scale drug dealers.

● 1988 - Comic Relief holds the first "Red Nose Day", which raises £15 million in the United Kingdom for charity.

● 1991 - Forty-nine German troops conscientiously object to going to Turkey for Gulf War.

● 1991 - A Michigan court bars Dr Jack Kevorkian from assisting in suicides

● 1992 - Jury selection begins in the Los Angeles cops beating Rodney King case

● 1993 - Federal judge Kimba Wood, President Bill Clinton's expected choice for attorney general, withdrew from consideration, saying her baby sitter had been an illegal alien for seven years.

● 1993 - Grenade explodes in Sarajevo, killing 63 & injuring 160

● 1993 - R James Woolsey, becomes 16th director of CIA

● 1994 - Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. {Thirty-one years too late, justice delayed is justice denied. This bigot even used to flaunt his freedom to Evers' widow.}

● 1994 - Market massacre in Sarajevo; A mortar bomb explodes in the main market square in Sarajevo killing 68 and wounding 200 people.

● 1995 - Japan's Shinshinto Party win local elections

● 1996 - First GM food goes on sale in UK; Two British supermarket chains will be stocking genetically modified tomato puree from today - the first GM food to be sold in this country.

● 1997 - U.S. Ambassador Pamela Harriman died in Paris at age 76.

● 1997 - The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families.

● 1997 - Morgan Stanley and Dean Witter investment banks announce a $10 billion merger.

● 1999 - Mike Tyson was sentenced to a year in jail for assaulting two people after a car accident on August 31, 1998. Tyson was also fined $5,000, had to serve 2 years of probation, and had to perform 200 hours of community service upon release.

● 2001 - Four disciples of Osama bin Laden went on trial in New York in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa.

● 2001 - Fifty-four ancient statues of Buddha sledgehammered by Taliban, National Museum, Kabul, Afghanistan.

● 2002 - A federal grand jury indicted John Walker Lindh, the so-called ''American Taliban,'' on 10 charges, alleging that he was trained by Osama bin Laden's network and that he conspired with the Taliban to kill Americans.

● 2003 - Secretary of State Colin Powell urged the U.N. Security Council to move against Iraq, saying that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and was harboring terrorists - claims that later turned out to be false.

● 2004 - Twenty-three Chinese people drown when a group of 35 cockle-pickers are trapped by rising tides in Morecambe Bay, England. Twenty-one bodies are recovered.

● 2004 - Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of Gonaïves, starting the 2004 Haiti rebellion.

● 2006 - Iran ended all voluntary cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency.

● 2006 - The Pittsburgh Steelers win Super Bowl XL, defeating the Seattle Seahawks 21-10.

BIRTHS

● 976 - Sanjo, Emperor of Japan (d. 1017)

● 1505 - Aegidius Tschudi, Swiss historian (d. 1572)

● 1519 - René of Châlon, (d. 1544)

● 1534 - Giovanni de' Bardi, Italian writer (d. 1612)

● 1589 - Esteban Manuel de Villegas, Spanish poet (d. 1669)

● 1608 - Gaspar Schott, German mathematician (d. 1666)

● 1626 - Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, French author (d. 1696)

● 1650 - Anne-Jules, French general (d. 1708)

● 1703 - Gilbert Tennent, Irish-born religious leader (d. 1764)

● 1725 - James Otis, American lawyer and patriot (d. 1783)

● 1788 - Robert Peel, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1850)

● 1795 - Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist (d. 1871)

● 1804 - Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finnish poet (d. 1877)

● 1808 - Carl Spitzweg, German painter (d. 1885)

● 1810 - Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist (d. 1880)

● 1837 - Dwight L. Moody, American evangelist (d. 1899)

● 1840 - John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish inventor (d. 1921)

● 1840 - Hiram Stevens Maxim, American inventor (Maxim gun) (d. 1916)

● 1848 - Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author (d. 1907)

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

● 1878 - André Citroën, French automobile pioneer (d. 1935)

● 1880 - Gabriel Voisin, French aviation pioneer (d. 1973)

● 1889 - Ernest Tyldesley, British cricketer (d. 1962)

● 1898 - Ralph E. McGill, American journalist (d. 1969)

● 1900 - Adlai Ewing Stevenson, American politician (d. 1965)

● 1903 - Joan Whitney Payson, American heiress (d. 1975)

● 1906 - John Carradine, American actor (d. 1988)

● 1908 - Daisy and Violet Hilton, British conjoined twins (d. 1969)

● 1910 - Francisco Varallo, Argentine footballer

● 1911 - Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (d. 1960)

● 1914 - William S. Burroughs, American author (d. 1997)

● 1914 - Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1998)

● 1915 - Robert Hofstadter, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1990)

● 1919 - Red Buttons, American actor (d. 2006)

● 1919 - Andreas Papandreou, Greek politician (d. 1996)

● 1919 - Tim Holt, American actor (d. 1973)

● 1920 - Frank Muir, British comedian (d. 1998)

● 1921 - John Pritchard, British conductor (d. 1989)

● 1923 - Claude King, American musician

● 1927 - Ruth Fertel, American entrepreneur (d. 2002)

● 1928 - Andrew Greeley, American priest and novelist

● 1929 - Luc Ferrari, French composer (d. 2005)

● 1929 - Fred Sinowatz, Austrian politician

● 1929 - Al Worthington, baseball player

● 1930 - John A. Gambling, American radio show host (d. 2004)

● 1933 - Jörn Donner, Finnish writer/director

● 1934 - Don Cherry, hockey commentator

● 1934 - Hank Aaron, baseball player

● 1937 - Stuart Damon, American actor (''General Hospital'')

● 1937 - Wang Xuan, Chinese scientist

● 1940 - H.R. Giger, Swiss artist

● 1941 - Stephen J. Cannell, TV writer-producer

● 1941 - Barrett Strong, Singer-songwriter

● 1941 - Jane Bryant Quinn, American journalist

● 1941 - David Selby, American actor

● 1941 - Kaspar Villiger, Swiss Federal Councilor

● 1942 - Roger Staubach, American football player

● 1942 - Cory Wells, American singer (Three Dog Night)

● 1943 - Nolan Bushnell, American video game pioneer

● 1943 - Michael Mann, American film director

● 1943 - Craig Morton, American football player

● 1944 - Al Kooper, American musician

● 1946 - Charlotte Rampling, British actress

● 1947 - Darrell Waltrip, American race car driver

● 1948 - Sven-Göran Eriksson, Swedish Football Manager

● 1948 - Christopher Guest, American actor

● 1948 - Barbara Hershey, American actress

● 1948 - Errol Morris, American film director

● 1949 - Nigel Olsson, drummer

● 1952 - Daniel Balavoine, French singer and songwriter (d. 1986)

● 1953 - John Beilein, American basketball coach

● 1954 - Cliff Martinez, American musician

● 1955 - Mike Heath, baseball player

● 1956 - Hector Rebaque, Mexican racing driver

● 1959 - Jennifer Granholm, Governor of Michigan

● 1961 - Tim Meadows, Actor-comedian (''Saturday Night Live'')

● 1962 - Jennifer Jason Leigh, American actress

● 1964 - Laura Linney, American actress

● 1964 - Duff McKagen, American musician (Guns N' Roses)

● 1965 - Gheorghe Hagi, Romanian footballer

● 1966 - Rok Petrovič, Slovenian skier (d. 1993)

● 1968 - Chris Barron, Rock singer (Spin Doctors)

● 1968 - Roberto Alomar, baseball player

● 1969 - Bobby Brown, American singer

● 1971 - Sara Evans, American singer

● 1972 - Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark

● 1972 - Koriki Chōshū, Japanese comedian

● 1975 - Giovanni van Bronckhorst, Dutch footballer

● 1975 - Adam Carson, American musician

● 1976 - Tony Jaa, Thai actor

● 1976 - Abhishek Bachchan, Indian actor

● 1976 - John Aloisi, Australian footballer

● 1977 - Ben Ainslie, British sailor

● 1977 - Adam Everett, American baseball player

● 1977 - Ahmad Merritt, American football player

● 1978 - Shawn Reaves, American actor

● 1980 - Brad Fitzpatrick, American programmer

● 1980 - Prince Peter, American-born Yugoslav royalty

● 1980 - Jo Swinson, British politician

● 1980 - Robin Vik, Czech tennis player

● 1981 - Nora Zehetner, American actress

● 1982 - Rodrigo Palacio, Argentine footballer

● 1984 - Carlos Tévez, Argentinine footballer

● 1985 - Cristiano Ronaldo, Portuguese footballer

● 1985 - Crystal Hunt, American actress

● 1986 - Reed Sorenson, American racecar driver

● 1986 - Billy Sharp, English footballer

● 1989 - Jeremy Sumpter, American actor (''Peter Pan'')

DEATHS

● 995 - William IV, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 937)

● 1520 - Sten Sture the Younger, regent of Sweden (b. 1493)

● 1578 - Giambattista Moroni, Italian painter

● 1705 - Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (b. 1635)

● 1766 - Leopold Josef Graf Daun, Austrian field marshal (b. 1705)

● 1775 - Eusebius Amort, German Catholic theologian (b. 1692)

● 1790 - William Cullen, Scottish physician and chemist (b. 1710)

● 1807 - Pasquale Paoli, Corsican patriot and military leader (b. 1725)

● 1881 - Thomas Carlyle, Scottish writer and historian (b. 1795)

● 1915 - Ross Barnes, baseball player (b. 1850)

● 1917 - Jaber II Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1860 )

● 1922 - Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, Croatian inventor (b. 1871)

● 1922 - Christiaan De Wet, South African general

● 1937 - Lou Andreas-Salome, Russian-born writer (b. 1861)

● 1941 - Banjo Paterson, Australian poet, author of "Walzing Matilda" (b. 1864)

● 1946 - George Arliss, English actor (b. 1868))

● 1948 - Johannes Blaskowitz, German general (b. 1883)

● 1962 - Jacques Ibert, French composer (b. 1890)

● 1967 - Leon Leonwood Bean, American department store founder (b. 1872)

● 1970 - Rudy York, baseball player (b. 1913)

● 1972 - Marianne Moore, American poet (b. 1887)

● 1976 - Rudy Pompilli, American musician (Bill Haley and His Comets) (b. 1926)

● 1977 - Oskar Klein, Swedish physicist (b. 1894)

● 1981 - Ella Grasso, Governor of Connecticut (b. 1919)

● 1984 - Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta "Santo", Mexican wrestler and film actor (b. 1917)

● 1985 - Georges-Émile Lapalme, Quebec politician (b. 1907)

● 1987 - William Collier, American film and stage actor (b. 1902)

● 1991 - Dean Jagger, American actor (b. 1903)

● 1992 - Miguel Rolando Covian, Brazilian physiologist (b. 1913)

● 1993 - Joseph L. Mankiewicz, American writer, producer, and director (b. 1909)

● 1995 - Doug McClure, American actor (b. 1935)

● 1997 - Pamela Harriman, English-born American diplomat (b. 1920)

● 1998 - Tim Kelly, American musician; Lead guitar player for Slaughter from 1988-1998 (b. 1963)

● 1999 - Wassily Leontief, Russian economist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1906)

● 2000 - Claude Autant-Lara, French film director (b. 1901)

● 2003 - Helge Boes, American Central Intelligence Agency officer

● 2005 - Gnassingbe Eyadema, President of Togo (b. 1937)

● 2006 - Norma Candal, Puerto Rican actress and comedian (b. 1930)

● 2006 - Franklin Cover, American actor (b. 1928)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Abraham
● St. Adelaide of Bellich
● St. Agatha of Sicily, patron saint of firework makers and glass blowers.
● St. Avitus of Vienne
● St. Bertolf
● St. Jeanne de Valois, French foundress
● St. Leo Karasuma
● St. Louis Ibachi
● St. Modestus
● St. Vodoaldus

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for January 23 (Civil Date: February 5)
● Hieromartyr Clement, Bishop of Ancyra, and Martyr Agathangelus
● St. Paulinus the Merciful, Bishop of Nola.
● St. Mausimas the Syrian, monk.
● St. Salamanes the Silent of the Euprates, monk.
● St. Gennadius of Kostroma, monk.
● Commemoration of the Sixth Ecumenical Council.
● St. Eusubius, recluse of Mt.
● Coryphe near Antioch.
● Translation of the Relics of St. Theoctistus, Bishop of Novgorod.
● St. Lupicinus of Lipidiaco (Gaul).
● Repose of Abbot Damascene of Valaam (1881).

● Anglican and Lutheran:
● 26 martyrs of Japan killed by Tagosama

● Old Roman Catholic:
● St. Philip of Jesus, 1st Christian martyr in Japan

● Baptist:
● Roger Williams Day

● Kashmir Day observed as public holiday in Pakistan.

● Finland celebrates the birth of its national poet, Johan Ludvig Runeberg. (1804)

● Japan : Japanese Martyrs Day (26 martyrs-1597)

● México : Constitution Day (1857 & 1917)

● Roman calendar : Nonae Februarius

● San Marino : Liberation Day

● Tanzania : Birth of the Afro Shirazi Party

● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Switzerland : Homstrom-celebrates end of winter - ( Sunday )
● World : Boy Scouts Day (1910) - ( 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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