February 9......

February 9 is the 40th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 325 (326 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

● 474 - Zeno crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.

● 1267 - Synod of Breslau orders Jews of Silesia to wear special caps

● 1499 - France & Venice sign treaty against Milan

● 1537 - Pope Paul III routes Cardinal Pole to England

● 1554 - Battle at London Sir Thomas Wyatt defeated

● 1555 - Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake.

● 1574 - Louis of Nassau ends siege of Maastricht

● 1619 - Vanini burned at the stake as an atheist. {I have never understood the logic of this; burning at the stake was supposed to convert them at the moment of death?}

● 1621 - Gregory XV becomes Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation.

● 1667 - Treaty of Andrussovo Russia/Poland signs peace treaty

● 1674 - English re-conquer New York from Netherlands

● 1742 - British ex-premier Walpole becomes earl of Orford

● 1744 - Battle at Toulon (French/Spanish vs English fleet of Admiral Matthews)

● 1760 - Birth of Richard Allen, founder of the African Methodist Church.

● 1773 - William Henry Harrison, the ninth president of the United States, was born in Charles City County, Va.

● 1775 - American Revolutionary War: British Parliament declares Massachusetts in rebellion.

● 1788 - The Habsburg Empire joins the Russo-Turkish War in the Russian camp.

● 1799 - USS Constellation captures French frigate Insurgente off Nevis, West Indies

● 1801 - France & Austrian sign Peace of Lunéville

● 1807 - French Sanhedrin convened by Napoleon

● 1812 - Pioneer missionary Samuel Newell married fellow Congregationalist Harriet Atwood. They afterward sailed for India with Adoniram and Ann Hasseltine Judson. (Harriet Newell and Ann Judson thereby became the first American women commissioned for missionary work abroad.)

● 1819 - Birth of William True Sleeper, New England Congregational clergyman and author of the hymns "Jesus, I Come" and "Ye Must Be Born Again."

● 1822 - American Indian Society organizes

● 1822 - Haiti invades the Dominican Republic.

● 1825 - After no presidential candidate received a majority of electoral votes, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams the sixth President of the United States.

● 1839 - Scottish clergyman Robert Murray McCheyne wrote in a letter: 'In spiritual things, this world is all wintertime so long as the Savior is away.'

● 1849 - Birth of Laura Clay, suffragist and states' rights supporter from Kentucky.

● 1849 - Roman Republic declared

● 1861 - Former Mississippi Sen. Jefferson Davis is elected provisional President of the new Confederate States of America, at a constitutional convention at Montgomery, Alabama. War with the Union would begin two months later; in November, Davis would be elected to a presumably permanent six-year term.

● 1861 - Tennessee votes against secession

● 1861 - Confederate Provisional Congress declares all laws under the US Constitution were consistent with constitution of Confederate states

● 1863 - Fire extinguisher patented by Alanson Crane

● 1867 - Nebraska becomes 37th US state

● 1870 - The U.S. Weather Bureau was established.

● 1871 - Federal fish protection office authorized by Congress

● 1881 - Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky ("Crime & Punishment") dies.

● 1884 - Thomas Edison and Patrick Kenny executed a patent application for a chemical recording stock quotation telegraph (U.S. Pat. 314,115).

● 1885 - The first Japanese arrive in Hawaii.

● 1886 - Pres. Grover Cleveland declares a state of emergency in Seattle because of anti-Chinese violence.

● 1889 - The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is established as a Cabinet-level agency.

● 1891 - 1st shipment of asparagus arrives in San Francisco from Sacramento

● 1893 - Canal builder De Lesseps & others sentenced to prison for fraud

● 1895 - William G. Morgan invents volleyball.

● 1900 - Davis Cup competition is established.

● 1904 - Japan declares war on Russia

● 1904 - Battle of Port Arthur

● 1906 - Paul Laurence Dunbar, son of a slave, the first black writer in the U.S. to support himself by writing, dies in Dayton, Ohio.

● 1906 - Natal proclaims state of siege in Zulu uprising

● 1909 - First federal legislation in the United States prohibiting narcotics (opium).

● 1909 - 1st forestry school is incorporated at Kent OH

● 1910 - Jacques Monod, the French Nobel Prize-winning biologist, was born.

● 1913 - 10 Day Tragedy of Mexico-City; 3,000 die

● 1915 - World Union of Women for International Concord founded, Geneva.

● 1916 - Britain's military service act enforced (conscription)

● 1917 - American labor agitator Tom Mooney falsely convicted of fatal bombing. He will be pardoned and released over 22 years later, in 1939.

● 1918 - Army chaplain school organized at Fort Monroe VA

● 1920 - By the terms of the Svalbard Treaty, international diplomacy recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over arctic archipelago Svalbard, and designates it as demilitarized.

● 1922 - Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.

● 1922 - Snow on Mauna Loa, Hawaii

● 1922 - Italian government of Bonomi falls

● 1923 - Soviet Aeroflot airlines established

● 1924 - Nakhichevan ASSR constituted within Azerbaijan SSR

● 1925 - German Minister Stresemann proposes security treaty with France

● 1926 - Teaching theory of evolution forbidden in Atlanta GA schools

● 1929 - USSR, Estonia, Latvia, Poland & Romania sign Litvinov Pact

● 1930 - American pioneer linguist and missionary Frank Laubach wrote in a letter: 'The sense of being led by an unseen hand which takes mine, while another hand reaches ahead and prepares the way, grows upon me daily.'

● 1932 - US airship Columbia crashes during storm (Flushing NY)

● 1932 - Harry Simms, youth organizer for National Miners Union, killed by company thugs, Kentucky.

● 1933 - -63ºF (-53ºC), Moran WY (state record)

● 1934 - -14.3ºF (-25.8ºC), coldest day in New York City NY

● 1934 - -51ºF (-46ºC), Vanderbilt MI (state record)

● 1934 - The Balkan Entente is formed.

● 1939 - Belgian Spaak government falls

● 1941 - British troops conquer El Agheila

● 1941 - Nazi collaborators destroy pro-Jewish café Alcazar Amsterdam (Alcazar refused to hang "No Entry for Jews" signs in front of cafe)

● 1942 - Japanese troops land near Makassar, South Celebes

● 1942 - World War II: Top United States military leaders hold their first formal meeting to discuss American military strategy in the war.

● 1942 - Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States.

● 1943 - World War II: Allied authorities declare Guadalcanal secure after Imperial Japan evacuates its remaining forces from the island, ending the Battle of Guadalcanal.

● 1943 - FDR orders minimal 48 hour work week in war industry

● 1943 - German riots at "plutocratenzoontjes", 1,200 in Vught Camp

● 1943 - Nazis arrest Dutch sons of rich parents

● 1944 - U-734/U-238 sunk off Ireland

● 1944 - Birth of novelist and activist Alice Walker.

● 1945 - Germany destroys Ruhrdammen

● 1945 - WAAF-corporal flies along the tail of a Spitfire

● 1946 - Dutch Labor Party (Dutch Social Democratic Party) forms

● 1947 - Bank robber Willie Sutton escapes jail in Philadelphia PA

● 1948 - U.S. Senate Chaplain Peter Marshall prayed: 'We are tempted to despair of our world. Remind us, O Lord, that Thou hast been facing the same thing in all the world since time began.'

● 1950 - Second Red Scare: Sen. Joseph McCarthy, in Wheeling, West Virginia, accuses State Department employees of Communist Party affiliation. "I have here in my hand," he states, "the names of 205 men that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department." Some years later, he confided the paper was actually an old laundry list. {The first Red Scare was when McCarthy accused the Armed Forces of being filled with Communists.}

● 1953 - General Walter Bedell Smith, USA, ends term as 4th director of CIA Allen W Dulles, becomes acting director of CIA

● 1954 - Mario Scelba forms new government in Italy

● 1955 - Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts crematory law

● 1955 - US federations of trade unions merge into AFL/CIO

● 1956 - -5ºF (15ºC) in Sicily

● 1956 - R Lacoste follows Catroux as premier of Algeria

● 1960 - Joanne Woodward receives the first star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

● 1961 - Joseph Ileo appointed premier of Congo

● 1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1962 - Jamaica becomes independent nation within the Commonwealth of Nations.

● 1963 - 1st flight of Boeing 727 jet

● 1963 - 7th largest snowfall in NYC history (42.4 cm, 16.7")

● 1964 - Olympic Games: Winter Olympic Games - The IX Olympic Winter Games close in Innsbruck, Austria.

● 1964 - The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a "record-busting" audience of 73 million viewers.

● 1965 - Vietnam War: The first United States combat troops are sent to South Vietnam.

● 1966 - New nuclear reactor for Dounreay; A Protype Fast Reactor will be built at the Dounreay power station in a remote part of Scotland, the government announces.

● 1966 - Dow-Jones Index hits record 995 points

● 1968 - Rotterdam metro opened by princess Beatrix

● 1969 - First test flight of the Boeing 747.

● 1970 - Underground `Rat' publishes Robin Morgan's "Goodbye to All That" feminist statement in New York.

● 1971 - Protests led by the Oriental Student Union briefly close Seattle Central Community College.

● 1971 - The 6.4 on the Richter Scale Sylmar earthquake hits the San Fernando Valley area of California.

● 1971 - Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro League player to become voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

● 1971 - Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned moon landing.

● 1971 - Probably 1st gay theme TV episode - All in the Family

● 1972 - British government declares state of emergency after month-long miners' strike

● 1973 - Biju Patnaik of the Pragati Legislature Party elected leader of opposition in the state assembly in Orissa, India.

● 1975 - The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth.

● 1978 - Ted Bundy kills Kimberly Leach, 12, Lake City FL; later executed

● 1979 - Nigeria amends constitution

● 1981 - Army general takes over as Prime Minister, Poland.

● 1982 - Reagan Vice President George H. W. Bush (aka "Poppy") denies he ever used the phrase "voodoo economics" to describe Reagan's supply side economic prescriptions, and challenges "anybody to find it." NBC's Ken Bode promptly broadcasts the 1980 tape with the phrase.

● 1983 - Belgium buys 44 F-16s

● 1983 - Police hunt Shergar's kidnappers; A nationwide hunt for 1981 Derby winner and prize stallion Shergar begins in Ireland.

● 1984 - Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov died at age 69, less than 15 months after succeeding Leonid Brezhnev.

● 1986 - Haydar Bakr al-Attas appointed President of South Yemen

● 1986 - Comet Halley reaches perihelion, its closest approach to the sun, during its second visit to the solar system in the 20th century.

● 1987 - Former Reagan national security adviser Robert McFarlane attempts suicide.

● 1987 - Former national security adviser Robert McFarlane attempts suicide

● 1987 - New York Stock Exchange installs ladies restroom in the Exchange Luncheon Club

● 1988 - Panel of international historians issues a report finding Austrian President Kurt Waldheim knew of war crimes committed by his WWII units, and that he concealed and misrepresented his service during the war. He also served as Secretary General of the United Nations.

● 1988 - Thousands demonstrate against Sandanista conscription, Masaya, Nicaragua.

● 1989 - Jamaica - Michael Manley, democratic socialist, re-elected Prime Minister.

● 1989 - Michael Manley's Socialist Party wins Jamaica parliamentary election

● 1990 - Galileo flies by Venus

● 1990 - Namibia's constitution ratified

● 1991 - US Supreme Court agrees to hear Joseph Doherty case

● 1991 - Voters in Lithuania vote for independence

● 1991 - In San Salvador, fire destroys the offices of "Diaro Latino," the only newspaper in El Salvador willing to print opposing views.

● 1991 - Voters in Lithuania vote for independence.

● 1993 - Army of opium king Khun Sa kills 60 in mountainous, rural northestern Burma.

● 1994 - Israeli minister Shimon Perez signs accord with PLO's Arafat

● 1994 - Vance-Owen peace plan for Bosnia and Herzegovina is announced.

● 1995 - Space pioneers take first small steps; British-born Michael Foale and the first African-American astronaut, Bernard Harris, walk in space as part of a NASA experiment.

● 1995 - Mexican government cancels Zapatista peace process and claims to know the identity of leader Marcos; troops invade Chiapas strongholds of Zapatista rebels.

● 1996 - The Irish Republican Army declares the end of its 18 month ceasefire shortly followed by a large bomb in London's Canary Wharf.

● 1998 - Failed assassination attempt on Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze

● 1999 - The Senate began closed-door deliberations in President Bill Clinton's impeachment trial.

● 2001 - The American submarine USS Greeneville accidentally strikes and sinks the Ehime-Maru, a Japanese training vessel operated by the Uwajima Fishery High School, killing nine people aboard the boat.

● 2002 - Britain's Princess Margaret, the sister of Queen Elizabeth II, died at age 71.

● 2002 - Ten thousand march in Tel Aviv, Israel, against the Sharon government's increasingly brutal attacks on Palestinian civilians.

● 2006 - Kidnapped American journalist Jill Carroll appeared in a video aired on a private Kuwaiti TV station, appealing for her supporters to do whatever it took to win her release "as quickly as possible." (She was freed on March 30, 2006.)

BIRTHS

● 1533 - Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese samurai (d. 1611)

● 1666 - George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, British soldier (d. 1737)

● 1731 - Gasparo Angiolini, Italian choreographer/composer (d. 1803)

● 1748 - Luther Martin, American patriot (d. 1826)

● 1773 - William Henry Harrison, Ninth President of the United States (d. 1841)

● 1775 - Farkas Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1856)

● 1783 - Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet (d. 1852)

● 1800 - Hyrum Smith, American religious leader (d. 1844)

● 1814 - Samuel Tilden, American lawyer and governor of New York (d. 1886)

● 1830 - Abd-ul-Aziz, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1876)

● 1834 - Felix Dahn, German author (d. 1912)

● 1846 - Wilhelm Maybach, German automotive designer (d. 1929)

● 1846 - Whitaker Wright, English mining tycoon (d. 1904)

● 1865 - Mrs. Patrick Campbell, British actress (d. 1940)

● 1874 - Amy Lowell, American poet (d. 1925)

● 1880 - Lipót Fejér, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1959)

● 1885 - Alban Berg, Austrian composer (d. 1935)

● 1891 - Ronald Colman, English actor (d. 1958)

● 1892 - Peggy Wood, American actress (d. 1978)

● 1895 - Hermann Brill, German politician (d. 1959)

● 1897 - Charles Kingsford Smith, Australian pilot (d. 1935)

● 1901 - Brian Donlevy, Irish actor (d. 1972)

● 1901 - James Murray, American actor (d. 1936)

● 1902 - Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, German women's leader (d. 1999)

● 1909 - Heather Angel, British actress (d. 1986)

● 1909 - Carmen Miranda, Brazilian actress (d. 1955)

● 1909 - Dean Rusk, United States Secretary of State (d. 1994)

● 1910 - Jacques Monod, French biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1976)

● 1914 - Gypsy Rose Lee, American dancer (d. 1970)

● 1914 - Ernest Tubb, American singer (d. 1984)

● 1914 - Bill Veeck, American baseball executive (d. 1986)

● 1916 - Tex Hughson, American baseball player (d. 1993)

● 1922 - Kathryn Grayson, American actress

● 1923 - Brendan Behan, Irish author (d. 1964)

● 1925 - Burkhard Heim, German physicist (d. 2001)

● 1926 - Garret FitzGerald, 7th Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland

● 1928 - Frank Frazetta, American illustrator

● 1928 - Roger Mudd, American journalist

● 1930 - Garner Ted Armstrong, American evangelist (d. 2003)

● 1931 - Thomas Bernhard, Austrian playwright and novelist (d. 1989)

● 1932 - Gerhard Richter, German painter

● 1933 - Loris Azzaro, French fashion designer (d. 2003)

● 1934 - John Ziegler, former president of the NHL

● 1936 - Clive Swift, British actor

● 1936 - Stompin' Tom Connors, Canadian country/folk singer

● 1939 - Barry Mann, American singer

● 1939 - Janet Suzman, South African actress

● 1940 - J. M. Coetzee, South African author, Nobel laureate

● 1940 - Brian Bennett, British musician (The Shadows)

● 1941 - Sheila Kuehl, American actress

● 1942 - Carole King, American singer

● 1943 - Joe Pesci, American actor

● 1943 - Joseph E. Stiglitz, American economist, Nobel laureate

● 1943 - Barbara Lewis, American singer and songwriter

● 1944 - Alice Walker, American writer

● 1944 - Derryn Hinch, Australian media personality

● 1945 - Mia Farrow, American actress

● 1945 - Gérard Lenorman, French singer

● 1946 - Jim Webb, Sen. D-VA

● 1946 - Séan Neeson, Northern Irish politician

● 1947 - Joe Ely, Singer

● 1947 - Carla Del Ponte, Swiss UN prosecutor

● 1949 - Judith Light, American actress (''Who's the Boss?'')

● 1951 - Dennis ''DT''' Thomas, R&B musician (Kool & the Gang)

● 1952 - Danny White, American football player

● 1952 - Mookie Wilson, American baseball player

● 1953 - Ciarán Hinds, Northern Irish actor

● 1954 - Christopher Gardner, American Entrepreneur

● 1955 - JM J. Bullock, American actor

● 1955 - Charles Shaughnessy, British actor

● 1957 - Gordon Strachan, Scottish football player and manager

● 1958 - Chris Nilan, National Hockey League player

● 1960 - Holly Johnson, British singer (Frankie Goes to Hollywood)

● 1961 - John Kruk, American baseball player

● 1962 - Anik Bissonnette, Quebec ballet dancer (Les Grands Ballets Canadiens)

● 1963 - Brian Greene, American physicist

● 1963 - Travis Tritt, American singer

● 1965 - Julie Warner, Actress

● 1966 - Ellen van Langen, Dutch athlete

● 1967 - Todd Pratt, American baseball player

● 1969 - Jimmy Smith, American football player

● 1970 - Danni Leigh, Country singer

● 1970 - Glenn McGrath, Australian cricketer

● 1971 - Sharon Case, American actress

● 1971 - Johan Mjällby, Swedish footballer

● 1972 - Jason George, Actor

● 1972 - Crispin Freeman, American voice actor

● 1973 - Svetlana Boginskaya, Soviet gymnast

● 1974 - Amber Valletta, American model

● 1976 - Charlie Day, American actor

● 1976 - Vladimir Guerrero, Dominican baseball player

● 1979 - David Gray, English snooker player

● 1979 - Irina Slutskaya, Russian figure skater

● 1979 - Zhang Ziyi, Chinese actress

● 1980 - Shelly Martinez, American wrestler

● 1981 - John Walker Lindh, American Taliban fighter

● 1982 - Ami Suzuki, Japanese singer ("Memoirs of a Geisha")

● 1983 - Mikel Arruabarrena, Spanish footballer

● 1984 - Han Kyung, member of Korean boyband Super Junior

● 1985 - David Gallagher, American actor (''7th Heaven'')

● 1987 - Marina Malota, Actress

● 1989 - Gia Farrell, American singer

● 1990 - Camille Winbush, Actress (''The Bernie Mac Show'')

● 1996 - Jimmy Bennett, American actor

DEATHS

● 1199 - Minamoto no Yoritomo, Japanese shogun (b. 1147)

● 1450 - Agnès Sorel, mistress of King Charles VII of France (b. 1421)

● 1555 - Rowland Taylor, English pastor (executed) (b. 1510)

● 1619 - Lucilio Vanini, Italian philosopher (b. 1585)

● 1640 - Murad IV, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1612)

● 1675 - Gerhard Douw, Dutch painter (b. 1613)

● 1709 - François Louis, Prince of Conti, French general (b. 1664)

● 1751 - Henri François d'Aguesseau, Chancellor of France (b. 1668)

● 1752 - Fredric Hasselquist, Swedish naturalist (b. 1722)

● 1777 - Seth Pomeroy, American gunsmith and soldier (b. 1706)

● 1782 - Joseph Aloysius Assemani, Syrian orientalist (b. 1710)

● 1803 - Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French poet (b. 1716)

● 1874 - Jules Michelet, French historian (b. 1798)

● 1881 - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist (b. 1821)

● 1891 - Johan Jongkind, Dutch painter (b. 1819)

● 1906 - Paul Laurence Dunbar, American poet (b. 1872)

● 1940 - Eugene Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist (b. 1857)

● 1951 - Eddy Duchin, American musician (b. 1910)

● 1957 - Miklós Horthy, Hungarian admiral (b. 1868)

● 1960 - Alexandre Benois, Russian artist (b. 1870)

● 1960 - Ernö Dohnányi, Hungarian pianist, conductor and composer (b. 1877)

● 1966 - Sophie Tucker, Russian-born actress (b. 1884)

● 1969 - Gabby Hayes, American actor (b. 1885)

● 1973 - Max Yasgur, American farmer (Woodstock Festival) (b. 1919)

● 1976 - Percy Faith, Canadian musician (b. 1908)

● 1977 - Sergey Ilyushin, Russian aircraft designer (b. 1894)

● 1978 - Costante Girardengo, Italian cyclist (b. 1893)

● 1979 - Dennis Gabor, Hungarian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1900)

● 1981 - Bill Haley, American musician (Bill Haley and the Comets) (b. 1925)

● 1984 - Yuri Andropov, Soviet politician (b. 1914)

● 1989 - Osamu Tezuka, Japanese manga artist (b. 1928)

● 1991 - James Cleveland, American gospel singer (b. 1931)

● 1994 - Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (b. 1934)

● 1995 - J. William Fulbright, American politician (b. 1905)

● 1995 - David Wayne, American actor (b. 1914)

● 1997 - Brian Connolly, English singer (Sweet) (b. 1945)

● 1999 - Bryan Mosley, British actor (b. 1931)

● 2001 - Herbert Simon, American economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1916)

● 2002 - Princess Margaret of the United Kingdom (b. 1930)

● 2004 - Claude Ryan, newspaper director (Le Devoir) and politician (Parti libéral du Québec) (b. 1925)

● 2006 - Freddie Laker, British airline entrepreneur (b. 1922)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Alexander
● St. Alto
● St. Ammon
● St. Ansbert of Rouen
● St. Apollonia, patron saint of dentists and dental technicians
● St. Cronan the Wise
● St. Cuaran
● St. Eingan
● St. Michael Febres Cordero
● St. Nebridius
● St. Nicephorus
● St. Raynald of Nocera
● St. Teilo
● Bl. Alvarez of Córdoba

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for January 27 (Civil Date: February 9)
● Translation of the relics of St. John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople.
● St. Peter of Egypt.
● New-Martyr Demetrius at Constantinople.
● St. Titus the Soldier, monk of the Kiev Caves.
● New Hieromartyr Peter Zverev (1929).

● Greek Calendar:
● Translation of the Relics of St. Marciana the Queen to the Church of the Holy Apostles.
● St. Claudinus, monk.
● Repose of Nun Neonilla of the Farther Davidov Convent (1875).

● Old Roman Catholic:
● St. Cyril of Alexandria, bishop/confessor/doctor

● Lebanon - St. Maroon's Day

● This Holiday is only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● 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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