February 7......

February 7 is the 38th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 327 (328 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

● 457 - Leo I becomes emperor of the Byzantine Empire.

● 590 - Pelagius II ends his reign as Catholic Pope

● 1074 - Battle of Montesarchio wherein the prince of Benevento, Pandulf IV, is killed battling the encroaching Normans.

● 1301 - Edward of Caernarvon (later King Edward II of England) becomes the first English Prince of Wales.

● 1522 - Treaty of Brussels Habsburgers split into Spanish/Austrian Branches

● 1528 - Bern, the strongest canton (territorial division) in southern Switzerland in its day, officially embraced the Protestant faith of Swiss reformers Ulrich Zwingli and John Oecolampadius.

● 1546 - Eleven days before his death, German reformer Martin Luther wrote in a letter to his wife Kate: 'I have a better Caretaker than you and all the angels. He it is who lies in a manger ...but at the same time sits at the right hand of God, the almighty Father. Therefore be at rest.'

● 1550 - Giovanni Maria del Monte elected Pope Julius III

● 1569 - King Philip II forms inquisition in South America

● 1613 - Michail Romanov (16) becomes czar of Russia

● 1639 - Académie Française begins the Dictionary of the French Language

● 1653 - Nicolas Fouquet appointed superintendent of Finance of France

● 1668 - Dutch Prince William III dances in premiere of "Ballet of Peace"

● 1792 - Austria & Prussia sign anti-French covenant

● 1795 - 11th Amendment to US Constitution ratified, affirms power of states

● 1795 - Dutch Prince William V accepts British occupation of Dutch Indies

● 1807 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Eylau - Napoléon's French Empire begins fighting against Russian and Prussian forces of the Fourth Coalition at Eylau, Poland.

● 1812 - Author Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth, England.

● 1812 - The strongest in a series of earthquakes strikes New Madrid, Missouri.

● 1812 - Lord Byron makes his maiden speech in House of Lords

● 1817 - Frederick Douglass, the American abolitionist leader, was born.

● 1831 - Belgium adopts its Constitution

● 1832 - Birth of Hannah Whitall Smith, American Quaker evangelist and devotional author. Her best-known writing was "The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life" (1875). It's still in print!

● 1839 - Henry Clay declares in Senate "I had rather be right than president"

● 1842 - Battle of Debre Tabor: Ras Ali Alula, Regent of the Emperor of Ethiopia defeats warlord Wube Haile Maryam of Semien.

● 1848 - First anarchist journal appears, Proudhon's "Le Representant du Peuple." It affirms that the emancipation of the working class can only be achieved by the working class itself -- without the assistance of governments. Sells 40,000 copies.

● 1856 - The colonial Tasmanian Parliament passes the first piece of legislation (the Electoral Act 1856) anywhere in the world providing for elections by way of a secret ballot. [1]

● 1862 - Federal fleet attack on Roanoke Island NC

● 1863 - HMS Orpheus sinks off the coast of Auckland, New Zealand, killing 189.

● 1864 - Federal troops occupy Jacksonville FL

● 1869 - Connecticut Congregational clergyman Samuel Wolcott, 56, upon returning home from a YMCA evangelistic service, penned the words to the missionary hymn, "Christ for the World We Sing."

● 1876 - President Grant's private-secretary Orville acquitted in Whiskey Ring

● 1876 - War Dept. authorizes Gen. Sheridan to commence operations against "hostile" Lakota, including the bands of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse.

● 1881 - Battle at Ingogo, Transvaal Boers beat superior British forces

● 1882 - The last heavyweight boxing championship bare-knuckle fight takes place in Mississippi City, Mississippi.

● 1883 - Lieutenant-Colonel Borgnis-Desbordes founds Fort Bamako Niger

● 1884 - Canadian Rugby Football Union forms

● 1885 - Birth of novelist Sinclair Lewis.

● 1886 - Federal troops are called in to restore order after more than 400 ethnic Chinese are driven from their homes in Seattle, Washington Territory.

● 1891 - Great Blizzard of 1891 begins

● 1893 - Elisha Gray patented a machine called the telautograph. It automatically signed autographs to documents.

● 1894 - The Cripple Creek miner's strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners, begins in Cripple Creek, Colorado.

● 1898 - Émile Zola is brought to trial for libel for publishing J'Accuse.

● 1899 - Birth of Louis Louvet (1899-1971), Paris. Anarchist, anarcho-trade unionist.

● 1900 - Labour Party forms in England

● 1900 - British troops vacate Vaal Krantz, Natal

● 1904 - Entire business section of Baltimore destroyed by the worst conflagration to strike an American city since the "Chicago Fire" of 1871. 2,600 buildings consumed by the flames; losses estimated at $125 million.

● 1905 - Dominican Republic signs treaty turning over customs collection to US

● 1905 - Oklahoma admitted to statehood

● 1905 - Dominican Republic signs treaty turning over customs collection to US

● 1905 - Oklahoma admitted to statehood

● 1914 - Charlie Chaplin first appears as "The Tramp", as his first film Kid Auto Races at Venice is released at Keystone Studios.

● 1915 - 1st wireless message sent from a moving train to a station received

● 1915 - 2nd Battle of Masurian Lakes German armies surrounded a Russian army

● 1922 - DeWitt and Lila Acheson Wallace offered 5,000 copies of "Reader's Digest" magazine for the first time.

● 1924 - Mussolini government exchanges diplomats with USSR

● 1928 - 1st solo England to Australia flight takes off (Bert Hinkler)

● 1932 - Disarmament petition by six million women presented to League of Nations, Geneva, Switzerland.

● 1933 - Colonial troops in Suriname kill 2 demonstrators

● 1933 - Social-Democrat meeting in Berlin "As thousands cheer" Marxism is dead

● 1934 - 1st contract for TVA power, Tupelo MS

● 1936 - The U.S. Vice President’s flag was established by executive order.

● 1940 - British railroads nationalized

● 1940 - Walt Disney's 2nd feature-length movie, "Pinocchio", premieres (New York NY)

● 1942 - In Drakulici, Banja Luka, Croatian Nazis kill 2,300 Serbian civilians, among them 551 children.

● 1943 - The U.S. government announced that shoe rationing would go into effect in two days.

● 1944 - World War II: In Anzio, Italy German forces launch a counteroffensive.

● 1944 - World War II: American Aircraft carrier strike on Truk.

● 1945 - Black Sea talks plan defeat of Germany; Plans are being drawn up by London, Washington and Moscow for the final phase of the war against Germany.

● 1945 - General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila

● 1945 - President Truman appoints Irwin C Mollison judge of US Customs Court

● 1945 - US 76th/5th Infantry divisions begin crossing Sauer

● 1946 - Filibuster in US Senate kills FEPC bill

● 1947 - Arabs & Jews reject British proposal to split Palestine

● 1947 - U.S. Senate Chaplain Peter Marshall prayed: 'We want to do right, and to be right; so start us in the right way, for Thou knowest that we are very hard to turn.'

● 1948 - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower resigned as Army chief of staff and was succeeded by Gen. Omar Bradley.

● 1950 - Georges Bidault forms French government

● 1950 - Senator Joe McCarthy finds "communists" in US Ministry of Foreign Affairs

● 1950 - US & Great-Britain recognize Bao Dai Vietnamese regime

● 1956 - Autherine Lucy, 1st black admitted to University of Alabama, is expelled

● 1958 - 1st showing of DAF 600 auto

● 1958 - Dutch auto-transmission car DAF 600 introduced

● 1959 - Cessna lands in Las Vegas after 65 d without landing (refuels in air)

● 1959 - Castro proclaims new Cuban constitution

● 1960 - Old handwriting found in at Qumran, near the Dead Sea

● 1962 - Gas explosion in Luisanthal coal mine Voelklingen Germany kills 298

● 1962 - The United States Government bans all Cuban imports and exports.

● 1964 - The Beatles arrive on their first visit to the United States.

● 1964 - Cassius Clay becomes a Muslim & adopts the name Muhammad Ali

● 1965 - U.S. Air Force begins saturation bombing of North Vietnam.

● 1967 - A fire at a restaurant in Montgomery, Alabama kills 25 people.

● 1968 - After American and South Vietnamese air and artillery strikes level the city of Bentre, South Vietnam (pop. 50,000), a U.S. Army major explains that "it became necessary to destroy the town to save it."

● 1968 - Belgium government of Vanden Boeynants falls

● 1969 - Al-Fatah-leader Yasser Arafat becomes president of PLO

● 1969 - The original Hetch Hetchy Moccasin Powerhouse is removed from service.

● 1970 - In the first major action by the Los Angeles Gay Liberation Front, more than 100 activists descend on Barney's Beanery in West Hollywood. For 30 years the bar has posted a sign, "Faggots -- Stay Out." Management refused to remove the sign and even posted six additional warnings in the past few weeks. Tonight the gay contingent picket and leaflet, but the signs remain. In a few nights, when a gay group spreads out through the bar and restaurant, owner Irving Held calls the sheriff's office repeatedly. When the deputies arrive, they take Held into the kitchen for a conference. After about an hour, employees take down the signs and give them to the demonstrators.

● 1971 - Swiss men accept female suffrage

● 1971 - Women gain the right to vote in Switzerland.

● 1973 - Senate creates Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities

● 1974 - Radical group 'arrested' heiress; A little-known group calling itself the Symbionese Liberation Army says its members are responsible for kidnapping 19-year-old newspaper heiress Patty Hearst.

● 1974 - Heath calls snap election over miners; Prime Minister Edward Heath announces a general election and appeals to the miners to suspend their planned strike.

● 1974 - General strike in Grenada forces England to recognize its independence. Within 10 years, the U.S. would invade anyway.

● 1976 - World's largest telescope (600 cm) begins operation (USSR)

● 1976 - Future Hall of Famer Darryl Sittler of the Toronto Maple Leafs scores six goals and records four assists in an 11-4 victory over the Boston Bruins, setting a NHL record with 10 points in one game.

● 1977 - Soyuz programme: Soyuz 24 launched.

● 1978 - Ethiopian offensive in Ogaden desert

● 1979 - Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit for the first time since either was known to science.

● 1979 - The final session of Iranian National Consultative Assembly is held.

● 1979 - Colonel Benjedid Chadli succeeds President Boumédienne in Algeria

● 1982 - Luis A Monge elected President of Costa Rica

● 1983 - 1st female secretary of transportation sworn-in (Elizabeth Dole)

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

● 1984 - David (born without immunity system) at 12, touches mom for 1st time

● 1985 - "New York, New York" becomes the official city anthem of New York City.

● 1986 - After huge popular protests, "Baby Doc" Duvalier flees from Haiti, ending 35 years of U.S.-sponsored dictatorship.

● 1986 - Corazon Aquino, widow of assassinated opposition leader Benino Aquino, defeats U.S.-backed Filipino dictator Ferdinand Marcos. Marcos attempts to hold onto power, but three weeks of escalating protests eventually drive him into exile.

● 1986 - Haiti's President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier flees to France Henri Namphy becomes leader of Haiti

● 1987 - S Korea clashes over student death; South Korean police make hundreds of arrests in the country's biggest demonstrations for six years.

● 1990 - Karachi police kill 22 anti-nationalistic demonstrators

● 1990 - Lisa Leslie of Morningside High School in Inglewood CA scores 101 in 1st half, South Torrance High School decides not to play 2nd half & loses 102-24

● 1990 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: The Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party agrees to give up its monopoly of power.

● 1991 - Jean-Bertrand Aristide becomes first freely elected president of Haiti. He would shortly be deposed by a U.S.-backed military dictatorship.

● 1991 - The IRA launches a mortar attack on 10 Downing Street during a cabinet meeting.

● 1992 - Mike Tyson testifies in his rape trial

● 1992 - Maastricht treaties make EU official; Ministers from the 12 countries in the European Community take another step towards political and economic union.

● 1993 - Women's tribunal against rape in war, Zagreb, Croatia.

● 1995 - Ramzi Yousef, the alleged mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, was arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan.

● 1997 - US & Russia announce summit set for Helsinki, March 20-21

● 1999 - Jordan's King Hussein died of cancer at age 63. His son was sworn in as king four hours after the announcement that his father had died.

● 2000 - California's legislature declared that February 13 would be "Charels M. Schulz Day."

● 2000 - Bahria University is established through the Presidential Ordinance No. V of 2000 of Government of Pakistan.

● 2001 - Robert Pickett, 47, fired several shots at the White House near the South Lawn. He was subdued after being shot in the knee. No one else was hurt in the incident.

● 2003 - Nootka Sound, Sandra Bohn was cited for petting a killer whale under the federal Fisheries Act. She was later fined $74.

● 2003 - Pioneer program: Last unsuccessful contact attempt with Pioneer 10.

● 2005 - MacArthur sails into record books; Britain's Ellen MacArthur becomes the fastest person to sail solo around the world.

● 2005 - Defrocked priest Paul Shanley, the most notorious figure in the sex scandal that rocked the Boston Archdiocese, was convicted of repeatedly raping and fondling a boy at his church during the 1980s.(Shanley was sentenced to 12 to 15 years in prison.)

BIRTHS

● 1102 - Empress Matilda, Princess of England and wife of Henry V of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1169)

● 1478(77? NYT) - Sir Thomas More, English statesman, humanist, and author (d. 1535)

● 1693 - Empress Anna of Russia (d. 1740)

● 1804 - John Deere, American manufacturer (Deere & Company) (d. 1886)

● 1812 - Charles Dickens, English novelist (d. 1870)

● 1814 - Gardner Quincy Colton, American anesthetist/inventor (d. 1898)

● 1817 - Frederick Douglass, American black abolitionist (d. 1895)

● 1837 - Sir James Murray, Scottish lexicographer/editor (d. 1915)

● 1842 - Alexandre Ribot, French statesman (d. 1923)

● 1867 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (d. 1957)

● 1870 - Alfred Adler, Austrian psychologist (d. 1937)

● 1877 - Godfrey Harold Hardy, English mathematician (d. 1947)

● 1883 - Eubie Blake, American musician and composer (d. 1983)

● 1885 - Sinclair Lewis, American writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1951)

● 1885 - Hugo Sperrle, German field marshal (d. 1953)

● 1889 - Harry Nyquist, important contributor to information theory (d. 1976)

● 1891 - Ann Little, American actress (d. 1984)

● 1895 - Anita Stewart, American film actress (d. 1961)

● 1898 - Dock Boggs, American musician (d. 1971)

● 1905 - Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1983)

● 1905 - Paul Nizan, French author (d. 1940)

● 1906 - Oleg Antonov, Soviet aircraft designer (d. 1984)

● 1906 - Puyi, Emperor of China (d. 1967)

● 1907 - Yevgeniy Abalakov, famous Soviet mountaineer (d. 1948)

● 1908(10? NYT) - Buster Crabbe, American swimmer and actor (d. 1983)

● 1909 - Hélder Câmara, Roman catholic archbishop (d. 1999)

● 1914 - Ramón Mercader, Spanish assassin of Leon Trotsky (d. 1978)

● 1915 - Eddie Bracken, American actor (d. 2002)

● 1918 - Ruth Sager, American geneticist (d. 1997)

● 1918 - Markey Robinson, Northern Irish painter (d. 1999)

● 1920 - An Wang, Chinese-born computer pioneer (d. 1990)

● 1921 - Wilma Lee Cooper, Country singer

● 1924 - Hattie Jacques, English actress (d. 1980)

● 1926 - Konstantin Feoktistov, cosmonaut

● 1927 - Juliette Greco, French singer and actor

● 1927 - Vladimir Kuts, Russian runner

● 1932 - Gay Talese, American author

● 1932 - Al Worden, American astronaut

● 1933 - John Anderton, English footballer

● 1934 - Earl King, American musician (d. 2003)

● 1934 - Eddie Fenech Adami, President of Malta

● 1934 - King Curtis, American saxophonist (d. 1971)

● 1935 - Herb Kohl, U.S. senator, D-Wis.

● 1937 - Juan Pizarro, Major League Baseball pitcher

● 1938 - S. Ramachandran Pillai, Indian communist leader

● 1943 - Gareth Hunt, English actor

● 1945 - Gerald Davies, Welsh rugby player

● 1945 - Pete Postlethwaite, English actor

● 1949 - Joe English, American drummer

● 1949 - Paulo César Carpegiani, Brazilian footballer and coach

● 1951 - Benny Ayala, baseball player

● 1953 - Dan Quisenberry, baseball player (d. 1998)

● 1954 - Dieter Bohlen German composer

● 1955 - Rolf Benirschke, American football player

● 1955 - Mario Coutinho, Brazilian physician

● 1955 - Miguel Ferrer, American actor

● 1956 - Emo Philips, American comedian

● 1956 - Mark St. John, American musician, former member of Kiss

● 1957 - Carney Lansford, American baseball player

● 1959 - Brian Travers, Reggae musician (UB40)

● 1960 - James Spader, American actor (''Boston Legal'')

● 1962 - Garth Brooks, American singer

● 1962 - Eddie Izzard, British actor and comedian

● 1962 - David Bryan, American musician (Bon Jovi)

● 1965 - Jason Gedrick, American actor

● 1965 - Chris Rock, American comedian and actor

● 1968 - Peter Bondra, Ukrainian-born hockey player

● 1968 - Sully Erna, American singer (Godsmack)

● 1969 - Yves Racine, Canadian ice hockey player

● 1969- Craig Linnecor British Novelist

● 1972 - Alex Bassi, American race car driver

● 1972 - Robyn Lively, American actress

● 1974 - Steve Nash, Canadian basketball player

● 1974 - J Dilla, also known as Jay-Dee, American hip-hop producer (d. 2006)

● 1975 - Wes Borland, American guitarist (Limp Bizkit)

● 1975 - Alexandre Daigle, National Hockey League player

● 1977 - Paul Comrie, Canadian ice hockey player

● 1978 - Ashton Kutcher, American actor (''That '70s Show'')

● 1978 - Daniel Van Buyten, Belgian international footballer

● 1978 - Endy Chávez, baseball player

● 1978 - David Aebischer, National Hockey League goaltender

● 1979 - Cerina Vincent, American actress

● 1979 - Jon Leicester, American baseball player

● 1983 - Christian Klien, Austrian formula driver

● 1985 - Tina Majorino, American actress

● 1985 - Clara Bryant, American actress

● 1988 - Ai Kago, Japanese singer (W (Double You), Morning Musume, and MiniMoni)

● 1996 - David Beaudoin, Canadian child actor.

DEATHS

● 1045 - Emperor Go-Suzaku of Japan (b. 1009)

● 1317 - Robert, Count of Clermont, French founder of the House of Bourbon (b. 1256)

● 1560 - Bartolomeo Bandinelli, Italian sculptor (b. 1493)

● 1626 - William V, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1548)

● 1642 - William Bedell, English clergyman (b. 1571)

● 1652 - Gregorio Allegri, Italian composer (b. 1582)

● 1690 - William Morice, English royalist statesman

● 1693 - Paul Pellisson, French writer (b. 1624)

● 1736 - Stephen Gray, English astronomer and scientist (b. 1666)

● 1779 - William Boyce, English composer (b. 1711)

● 1799 - Qianlong, Emperor of China (b. 1711)

● 1801 - Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish painter (b. 1726)

● 1823 - Ann Radcliffe, English novelist (b. 1764)

● 1837 - King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (b. 1778)

● 1839 - Karl August Nicander, Swedish poet (b. 1799)

● 1871 - Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg, piano manufacturer (Steinway & Sons) (b. 1797)

● 1873 - Sheridan Le Fanu, Irish writer (b. 1814)

● 1878 - Pope Pius IX (b. 1792)

● 1897 - Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist (b. 1847)

● 1919 - William Halford, American naval officer and Medal of Honor recipient

● 1920 - Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak, Russian military commander (b. 1874)

● 1937 - Elihu Root, American statesman and diplomat, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1845)

● 1938 - Harvey Firestone, American manufacturer (b. 1868)

● 1939 - Boris Grigoriev, Russian painter (b. 1886)

● 1942 - Ivan Bilibin, Russian illustrator (b. 1876)

● 1959 - Guitar Slim, American blues guitarist (b. 1926)

● 1960 - Igor Kurchatov, Russian physicist (b. 1903)

● 1962 - Clara Nordström, German writer and translator (b. 1886)

● 1963 - Learco Guerra, Italian cyclist (b. 1902)

● 1968 - Nick Adams, American actor (b. 1931)

● 1973 - Ferdinand Schörner, German field marshal (b. 1892)

● 1979 - Josef Mengele, Nazi war criminal (b. 1911)

● 1980 - Secondo Campini, Italian jet pioneer (b. 1904)

● 1985 - Matt Monro, English singer (b. 1932)

● 1986 - Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegalese historian (b. 1923)

● 1990 - Jimmy Van Heusen, American songwriter (b. 1913)

● 1991 - Amos Yarkoni, legendary Israeli soldier (b. 1920)

● 1991 - Jean-Paul Mousseau, Quebec painter, member of Les Automatistes (b. 1927)

● 1992 - Buzz Sawyer, wrestler

● 1994 - Witold Lutosławski, Polish composer (b. 1913)

● 1994 - Stephen Milligan, British journalist and politician (b. 1948)

● 1996 - Phillip Davidson, US Army general (b. 1915)

● 1998 - Lawrence Sanders, American author (b. 1920)

● 1999 - King Hussein of Jordan (b. 1935)

● 1999 - José Silva, author of Silva Method and the Silva UltraMind ESP System (b. 1914)

● 1999 - Bobby Troup, American musician and actor (b. 1918)

● 2000 - Big Pun, Puerto Rican rapper (b. 1971)

● 2000 - Doug Henning, Canadian magician (b. 1947)

● 2001 - Dale Evans, American actress and singer (b. 1912)

● 2001 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author and aviator (b. 1906)

● 2002 - Elisa Bridges, American model (b. 1973)

● 2003 - Augusto Monterroso, Guatemalan author (b. 1921)

● 2003 - John Reading, Mayor of Oakland, California (b. 1917)

● 2004 - John Hench, American animator (b. 1908)

● 2006 - Princess Hadice Hayriye Ayshe Dürrühsehvar (b. 1914)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Adaucus
● St. Amulwinus
● St. Anatolius
● St. Augulus
● St. Chrysolius
● St. Fidelis
● St. Julian of Bologna
● St. Lawrence of Siponto
● St. Luke the Younger
● St. Meldon
● St. Moses
● Sts. Paul Miki and his 25 companions (d. Nagasaki, 1597)
● St. Richard
● St. Theodore Stratelates
● St. Tressan
● Bl. William Richardson
● Bl. Rizzerio
● Bl. Eugenia Smet (d. 1871)

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for January 25 (Civil Date: February 7)
● St. Gregory the Theologian, Archbishop of Constantinople.
● St. Publius, ascetic of Syria.
● St. Mares the Singer of Syria.
● Martyrs Felicitas of Rome and seven sons: Januarius, Felix, Philip, Silvanus, Alexander, Vitalis, and Martial.
● St. Moses, Archbishop of Novgorod.
● St. Castinus, Bishop of Byzantium.
● St. Demetrius Skevophylax of Constantinople.
● New-Martyr Vladimir, Metropolitan of Kiev (1918), protohieromartyr of the Communist Yoke.

● Greek Calendar:
● Martyr Medula and her companions.
● St. Apollo of Thebes, monk.
● Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Assuage My Sorrow"
● Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Unexpected Joy".
● Repose of Starets Anatole the Elder of Optina (1894).

● Old Roman Catholic:
● St. Romuald, abbot

● Christian:
● St. Theodore

● Independence Day in Grenada (1974).

● Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Mulk (Dominion) - First day of the 18th month of the Bahá'í Calendar.

● Sapporo Snow Festival in Sapporo, Japan (2005).

● 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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