March 29......

March 29 is the 88th (89th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 277 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Anger "Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry." — Henry Ward Beecher

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Corporate and Personal Greed "The corporation cannot be ethical, its only responsibility is to make a profit." — Milton Freidman

{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

● 502 - Bourgundy King Gundobar delegates royal power

● 537 - Vigilius is consecrated and enthroned as Pope, replacing Silverius.

● 1461 - Wars of the Roses: Battle of Towton - Edward of York defeats Queen Margaret to become King Edward IV of England. 33,000 die in the battle.

● 1523 - German reformer Martin Luther wrote in a letter: 'There has never been a great revelation of God's Word unless God has first prepared the way by the rise and the flourishing of languages and learning, as though these were forerunners, a sort of John the Baptist.'

● 1626 - First American forestry legislation enacted, Plymouth Colony.

● 1632 - Treaty of Saint-Germain signed, returning Quebec to French control after the English had seized it in 1629.

● 1638 - The first Swedish colonists in America established a Lutheran settlement at Fort Christiana in the Colony of Delaware, called New Sweden.

● 1673 - English King Charles II accepts Test Act: Roman Catholics excluded from public functions

● 1790 - John Tyler, the 10th president of the United States, was born in Charles City County, Va.

● 1792 - King Gustav III of Sweden dies after being shot in the back at a midnight masquerade at Stockholm's Royal Opera just 13 days earlier. He is succeeded by Gustav IV Adolf.

● 1798 - Republic of Switzerland forms

● 1799 - New York passes a law aimed at gradually abolishing slavery in the state.

● 1804 - Thousands of Whites massacred in Haiti

● 1806 - Construction authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway.

● 1807 - The planet Vesta is discovered.

● 1809 - King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden abdicates after a coup d'état. At the Diet of Porvoo, Finland's four Estates pledge allegiance to Alexander I of Russia, commencing the secession of the Grand Duchy of Finland from Sweden.

● 1826 - Birth of Wilhelm Liebinecht.

● 1827 - 20,000 attend Ludwig von Beethoven's burial in Vienna

● 1830 - Birth of French anarchist Claude Rougeot.

● 1831 - Great Bosnian uprising: Bosniak rebel against Turkey.

● 1832 - The Kentucky Baptist Convention was organized in Frankfort with delegates representing nine congregations within the state.

● 1847 - Mexican-American War: 12,000 United States forces led by General Winfield Scott take Veracruz after a siege.

● 1847 - Birth of Winfield Scott Weeden, American sacred chorister and hymnwriter. During his life he led music and singing schools for the YMCA and Christian Endeavor. Of his several musical compositions, Weeden is best remembered today for the hymn, "I Surrender All."

● 1848 - Niagara Falls stops flowing for 30 hours due to an ice jam

● 1849 - Britain formally annexs Punjab after defeat of Sikhs in India

● 1850 - Ireland's SS Royal Adelaide sinks in storm; 200 die

● 1852 - Ohio makes it illegal for children under 18 & women to work more than 10 hours a day

● 1853 - Eighty-six arrested in Berlin on charge of attempting to overthrow autocracy.

● 1857 - Sepoy Mangal Pandey of the 34th Regiment, Bengal Native Infantry revolts against the British rule in India and inspires a long-drawn War of Independence of 1857 also known as the Sepoy Mutiny.

● 1864 - Great Britain gives Isotope Islands back to Greece

● 1864 - Union General Steele's troops reach Arkadelphia AR

● 1865 - Appomattox campaign, Virginia, 7582 killed

● 1865 - Battle of Quaker Road, Virginia

● 1867 - Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act which establishes the Dominion of Canada on July 1.

● 1867 - Congress approves Lincoln Memorial

● 1867 - Cy Young, American professional baseball player, was born.

● 1879 - Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Kambula: British forces defeat 20,000 Zulus.

● 1882 - The Knights of Columbus, founded by Father Michael J. McGivney, was chartered by the General Assembly of Connecticut. Established as a lay fraternal society, the K of C encourages benevolence, patriotism and racial tolerance among its members.

● 1886 - Chemist John Pemberton begins to advertise for Coca-Cola (with cocaine). World conquest follows.

● 1897 - Japan adopts Gold Standard

● 1901 - The first federal elections were held in Australia.

● 1903 - A regular news service began between New York and London on Marconi's wireless.

● 1906 - In the U.S., 500,000 coal miners walked off the job seeking higher wages.

● 1908 - Birth of Antonio Pereira (real name Tomaso Ranieri), Naples. Italian anarchist, member of the Ortiz column in the Spanish revolution and the underground movement after the fascist Franco became dictator.

● 1912 - Captain Robert Scott, blizzard-bound in a tent 18 km from the South Pole, makes last entry in his diary "the end cannot be far"

● 1913 - The Reichstag announced a raise in taxes in order to finance the new military budget.

● 1916 - The Italians call off the fifth attack on Isonzo.

● 1917 - Martial law declared in Spain to smash general strike.

● 1923 - War Resisters League founded, New York City.

● 1924 - Bayern & Vatican reach accord

● 1928 - Yeshiva College (now University) chartered (New York NY)

● 1930 - Heinrich Brüning is appointed German Reichskanzler.

● 1934 - Bank of Travail in Belgium, socialist worker's movement bankrupt

● 1935 - Clement Duval dies. Anarchist illegalist, sentenced to death by a French court for burglary (in which a policeman was wounded trying to apprehend him). Following anarchist protests his sentence was commuted to life. Duval spent 14 years in Guyana where he attempted over 20 escapes. Finally, in April 1901, he made good his escape and after a two year sojourn slipped into New York City, where he lived until age 85, supported and surrounded by Italian and French anarchist comrades.

● 1935 - French liner Normandie begins its maiden voyage

● 1936 - 10,000 watch the 200" mirror blank passing through Indianapolis

● 1936 - In Germany, dictator Hitler receives 99% of the votes (According to Nazi propaganda claims 99% of Germans voted for Nazi candidates.) in a referendum to ratify Germany's illegal reoccupation of the Rhineland, receiving 44.5 million votes out of 45.5 million registered voters. In 1933 all political parties and political liberty had been abolished.

● 1936 - Italy firebombed the Ethiopian city of Harar.

● 1941 - World War II: British Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy forces intercept those of the Italian Regia Marina off the Peloponnesus coast of Greece in the Battle of Cape Matapan.

● 1941 - 80% of American AM radio stations change frequencies under the terms of NARBA.

● 1942 - Policy of forced internment of all persons of Japanese ancestry on the West Coast of the United States (but not Alaska or Hawaii).

● 1942 - British cruiser Trinidad torpedoes itself in the Barents Sea

● 1942 - British destroyer Campbeltown explodes in St-Nazaire; 400 Germans die

● 1942 - German submarine U-585 sinks

● 1943 - Spain - Nine members of the "Juventudes libertarias" (anarchist youths) an underground group opposing the fascist military takeover, are arrested and garroted at the "Modelo" prison. They are just a few of the tens of thousands who met, or will meet, a similar fate in the first years of the Franco dictatorship.

● 1943 - Meat, butter & cheese rationed in US during WWII (784 gram/week, 2 kilogram for GI's)

● 1945 - World War II: Last day of V-1 flying bomb attacks on England.

● 1946 - Fiorella LaGuardia became the director general of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Organization.

● 1946 - Gold Coast became the first British colony to hold an African parliamentary majority.

● 1949 - Turkey recognizes Israel

● 1951 - The Chinese reject MacArthur's offer for a truce in Korea.

● 1951 - Julius and Ethel Rosenberg convicted of conspiracy to sell U.S. atomic secrets to the U.S.S.R. The case was pockmarked with glaring inconsistencies (and the chief evidence against them was the testimony of Ethel's brother, David Greenglass, a convicted co-conspirator) -- but it was their fate to be tried during the height of McCarthyism. While most critics now concede Ethel was probably innocent, they were both executed June 19, 1953.

● 1961 - The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, allowing residents of Washington, DC to vote in presidential elections.

● 1961 - After a 4½ year trial Nelson Mandela is acquitted on treason charge

● 1962 - European Development Organization founded.

● 1962 - Military coup topples civilian government in Argentina.

● 1962 - Cuba opened the trial of the Bay of Pigs invaders.

● 1966 - Leonid Brezhnev became the First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party. He denounced the American policy in Vietnam and called it one of aggression.

● 1967 - Bombs rain down on Torrey Canyon; The stricken oil supertanker, the Torrey Canyon, refuses to sink despite more than a day of heavy bombing by the RAF and the Royal Navy.

● 1967 - France launched its first nuclear submarine.

● 1968 - Students seize building at Bowie State College

● 1969 - Communist New People's Army found in Philippines

● 1970 - Death of Vera Brittain, author/pacifist/feminist/poet.

● 1971 - Lt. William Calley Jr., of the U.S. Army, was found guilty of the premeditated murder of at least 22 Vietnamese civilians. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. (He spent three years under house arrest after the sentence was reduced by various levels in the command chain, with the final reduction by Nixon.) The trial was the result of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam on March 16, 1968. He is the fall guy for the Army's preferred tale that the massacre was an aberration rather than a result of U.S. policy and attitudes in Vietnam.

● 1971 - A jury in Los Angeles recommended the death penalty for Charles Manson and three female followers for the 1969 Tate-La Bianca murders. The death sentences were later commuted to live in prison.

● 1971 - Chile President Allende nationalizes banks/copper mines

● 1971 - Conrad Van Emde Boas becomes West Europe's 1st sexology professor

● 1971 - Development of a serum hepatitis vaccine for children announced

● 1973 - Beginning of wildcat strike and occupation of Fiat plants at Mirafiori, Italy. Defied union control.

● 1973 - H. Rapp Brown convicted for 1971 New York City robbery.

● 1973 - Vietnam War: The last United States soldiers leave South Vietnam, nine years after Gulf of Tonkin resolution.

● 1974 - NASA's Mariner 10 becomes the first space probe to fly by Mercury. It was launched on November 3, 1973.

● 1974 - Eight Ohio National Guardsmen were indicted on charges stemming from the shooting deaths of four students at Kent State University on May 4, 1970. All the guardsmen were later acquitted.

● 1975 - Egyptian president Anwar Sadat declared that he would reopen the Suez Canal on June 5, 1975.

● 1976 - Mass protests against deportation of two leftist Arab mayoral candidates from the West Bank.

● 1979 - The Committee on Assassinations Report issued by U.S. House of Representatives stated the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was the result of a conspiracy.

● 1981 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

● 1982 - The Canada Act 1982 (U.K.) receives the Royal Assent by Queen Elizabeth II, setting the stage for the Queen of Canada to proclaim the Constitution Act, 1982

● 1984 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

● 1985 - Christos Sartzetakis elected President of Greece

● 1986 - A court in Rome acquitted six men in a plot to kill the Pope.

● 1987 - Vietnam Veterans For Peace marching from Jinotega reach Wicuili, Nicaragua.

● 1987 - Yitzhak Shamir re-elected chairman of right wing Herut Party

● 1988 - US Congress discontinues aid to Nicaraguan contras

● 1989 - 1st US private commercial rocket takes suborbital test flight (New Mexico)

● 1989 - Michael Milken, junk bond king, indicted in New York for racketeering

● 1990 - NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 2nd victim, Germaine Montenesdro

● 1992 - Democratic presidential front-runner Bill Clinton acknowledged experimenting with marijuana ''a time or two'' while attending Oxford University, adding, ''I didn't inhale and I didn't try it again.''

● 1993 - The South Korean government agreed to pay financial support to women who had been forced to have sex with Japanese troops during World War II.

● 1993 - Catherine Callbeck becomes premier of Prince Edward Island and Canada's first female premier.

● 1993 - Edouard Balladur becomes Prime Minister of France.

● 1994 - Serbs & Croats signed a cease-fire to end the war in Croatia

● 1995 - The U.S. House of Representatives rejected a constitutional amendment that would have limited terms to 12 years in the U.S. House and Senate.

● 1999 - At least 87 people died in an earthquake in India's Himalayan foothills.

● 1999 - Hanratty family wins right to appeal; The case of James Hanratty is sent back to the Court of Appeal - 37 years after he was hanged for the notorious A6 murder in Bedfordshire.

● 1999 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at 10006.78 – above the 10,000 mark for the first time ever.

● 2002 - Israel declared Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat an enemy and sent tanks and armored personnel carriers to fully isolate him in his headquarters in the West Bank town of Ramallah.

● 2004 - Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia join NATO as full members.

● 2004 - The Republic of Ireland becomes the first country in the world to ban smoking in all work places, including bars and restaurants.

● 2005 - Attorney Johnnie Cochran died at age 67.

● 2006 - Hamas formally took over the Palestinian government, with Ismail Haniyeh sworn in as the new prime minister.

BIRTHS

● 1561 - Santorio Santorio, Italian physician; introduced use of precision instruments in medicine (d. 1636)

● 1584 - Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English general (d. 1648)

● 1602 - John Lightfoot, English churchman (d. 1675)

● 1713 - John Ponsonby, Irish politician (d. 1789)

● 1769 - Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult, French marshal (d. 1851)

● 1790 - John Tyler, 10th President of the United States (d. 1862)

● 1799 - Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1869)

● 1819 - Isaac Mayer Wise, Bohemian-born American rabbi; organized Reform Jewish institutions in U.S. (d. 1900)

● 1824 - Ludwig Büchner, German philosopher and physician (d. 1899)

● 1826 - Wilhelm Liebknecht, German journalist and politician (d. 1900)

● 1853 - Elihu Thomson, American engineer and inventor; founder of U.S. electrical industry (d. 1937)

● 1867 - Cy Young, baseball player (d. 1955)

● 1870 - Pavlos Melas, Greek officer who organized and participated in the Greek Struggle for Macedonia (d. 1904)

● 1873 - Tullio Levi-Civita, Italian mathematician (d. 1941)

● 1874 - Lou Hoover, First Lady of the United States (d. 1944)

● 1889 - Howard Lindsay, American playwright, producer and partner of Russel Crouse (d. 1968)

● 1889 - Warner Baxter, American actor (d. 1951)

● 1891 - Yvan Goll, French-German writer (d. 1950)

● 1892 - József Cardinal Mindszenty, Hungarian Catholic cardinal (d. 1975)

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

● 1899 - Lavrenty Beria, Soviet Communist leader (d. 1953)

● 1900 - John McEwen, eighteenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1980)

● 1901 - Andrija Maurovic, Croatian illustrator (d. 1981)

● 1902 - Marcel Aymé, French writer (d. 1967)

● 1902 - Sir William Walton, English composer (d. 1983)

● 1905 - Philip Ahn, American actor (d. 1978)

● 1906 - E. Power Biggs, English-born American organist (d. 1977)

● 1907 - "Braguinha", Brazilian songwriter (d. 2006)

● 1908 - Arthur O'Connell, American actor (d. 1981)

● 1908 - Dennis O'Keefe, American actor (d. 1968)

● 1909 - E. Power Biggs American concert organist (d. 1977)

● 1911 - Brigitte Horney, German actress (d. 1988)

● 1912 - Hanna Reitsch, German pilot (d. 1979)

● 1913 - Tony Zale, American boxer (d. 1997)

● 1913 - R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (d. 2000)

● 1916 - Eugene McCarthy, American politician (d. 2005)

● 1918 - Pearl Bailey, American singer and actress (d. 1990)

● 1918 - Sam Walton, American businessman (d. 1992)

● 1919 - Eileen Heckart, American actress (d. 2001)

● 1927 - John McLaughlin, American political commentator (''The McLaughlin Group'')

● 1927 - John Robert Vane, English pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2004)

● 1929 - Lennart Meri, President of Estonia (d. 2006)

● 1931 - Aleksei Gubarev, cosmonaut

● 1936 - Judith Guest, American author

● 1936 - Mogens Camre, Danish politician

● 1937 - Billy Carter, Presidential brother (d. 1988)

● 1940 - Ray Davis, American musician (P-Funk) (d. 2005)

● 1940 - Astrud Gilberto, Brazilian singer

● 1941 - Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr., American astrophysicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate

● 1943 - Eric Idle, English actor, writer, and composer ("Monty Python")

● 1943 - John Major, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

● 1943 - Vangelis, Greek musician and composer (''Chariots of Fire'')

● 1944 - Terry Jacks, Canadian musician, songwriter, and activist

● 1944 - Denny McLain, baseball player

● 1945 - Walt Frazier, American basketball player and Hall of Fame member

● 1947 - Bobby Kimball, American singer (Toto)

● 1948 - Bud Cort, American actor

● 1949 - Keith Simpson, British Conservative Member of Parliament for Mid Norfolk

● 1949 - Michael Brecker, American jazz saxophonist (d. 2007)

● 1949 - John Arthur Spenkelink, American murderer (d. 1979)

● 1952 - Teófilo Stevenson, Cuban boxer

● 1954 - Karen Ann Quinlan, American right-to-die cause célèbre (d. 1985)

● 1955 - Christopher Lawford, Irish actor

● 1955 - Earl Campbell, American football star and Hall of Fame member

● 1955 - Brendan Gleeson, Irish actor

● 1956 - Patty Donahue, lead singer of The Waitresses (d. 1996)

● 1956 - Stephen Cole, English journalist

● 1956 - Kurt Thomas, American gymnast

● 1957 - Christopher Lambert, French actor

● 1958 - Victor Salva, American film director

● 1959 - Barry Blanchard, Canadian mountaineer

● 1959 - Perry Farrell, American musician (Jane's Addiction and Porno for Pyros)

● 1960 - Marina Sirtis, English actress

● 1961 - Mike Kingery, baseball player

● 1961 - Amy Sedaris, American actress and comedienne

● 1963 - Elle Macpherson, Australian model

● 1965 - Voula Patoulidou, Greek athlete

● 1965 - Emilios T. Harlaftis, Greek astrophysicist (d. 2005)

● 1967 - Brian Jordan, baseball player

● 1967 - John Popper, American musician (Blues Traveler)

● 1968 - Lucy Lawless, New Zealand actress and singer (''Xena: Warrior Princess'')

● 1968 - Regina Leigh, Country singer (Regina Regina)

● 1969 - Brady Seals, Country singer

● 1971 - Aaron Lawrence, American pornographic actor

● 1972 - Rui Costa, Portugal football player

● 1972 - Junichi Suwabe, Japanese voice actor

● 1973 - Marc Overmars, former Dutch football player

● 1974 - Marc Gené, Spanish racing car driver

● 1976 - Jennifer Capriati, American tennis player

● 1980 - Kim Tae Hee, South Korean actress

● 1981 - Jlloyd Samuel, West Indian-born footballer

● 1983 - Justin Tuck, American football player

● 1988 - Kelly Sweet, singer

DEATHS

● 1058 - Pope Stephen IX

● 1368 - Emperor Go-Murakami, Emperor of Japan (b. 1328)

● 1461 - Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (b. 1421)

● 1578 - Arthur Champernowne, English admiral (b. 1524)

● 1578 - Louis I, Cardinal of Guise, French cardinal (b. 1527)

● 1625 - Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, Spanish historian (b. 1549)

● 1628 - Tobias Matthew, Archbishop of York (b. 1546)

● 1629 - Jacob de Gheyn II, Dutch artist (b. 1565)

● 1751 - Thomas Coram, English sea captain and philanthropist

● 1772 - Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish philosopher and mathematician (b. 1688)

● 1788 - Charles Wesley, English Methodist hymnist (b. 1707)

● 1792 - King Gustav III of Sweden (shot) (b. 1746)

● 1800 - Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, French military engineer and writer (b. 1714)

● 1803 - Gottfried van Swieten, Dutch composer (b. 1733)

● 1826 - Johann Heinrich Voß, German poet (b. 1751)

● 1855 - Henri Druey, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1799)

● 1873 - Francesco Zantedeschi, Italian physicist (b. 1797)

● 1888 - Charles-Valentin Alkan, French composer (b. 1813)

● 1906 - Slava Raskaj, Croatian painter (b. 1878)

● 1912 - Members of the Scott Expedition to the South Pole:

● Henry Robinson Bowers (b. 1883)

● Edgar Evans, Welsh naval officer (b. 1876)

● Lawrence Oates, English army officer (b. 1880)

● Sir Robert Falcon Scott, English explorer (b. 1868)

● Edward Adrian Wilson, English physician and naturalist (b. 1872)

● 1934 - Otto Hermann Kahn, German millionaire and benefactor (b. 1867)

● 1937 - Karol Szymanowski, Polish composer (b. 1882)

● 1957 - Joyce Cary, Irish author (b. 1888)

● 1959 - Barthelemy Boganda, first President of the Central African Republic (b. 1910)

● 1970 - Anna Louise Strong, American communist journalist

● 1971 - Dhirendranath Datta, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1886)

● 1972 - Lord J. Arthur Rank, movie theater owner (b. 1888)

● 1980 - Mantovani, Italian-born conductor and arranger (b. 1905)

● 1982 - Carl Orff, German composer (b. 1895)

● 1982 - Nathan Twining, USAF general (b. 1897)

● 1991 - Lee Atwater, American politicial consultant (b. 1951)

● 1992 - Paul Henreid, Austrian actor (b. 1908)

● 1994 - Eugène Ionesco, Romanian-born playwright (b. 1912)

● 1994 - Bill Travers, British actor (b. 1922)

● 1995 - Terry Moore, baseball player (b. 1912)

● 1995 - Baltimora, British singer (b. 1957)

● 1996 - Frank Daniel, Czech-born writer, director, producer and teacher (b. 1926)

● 1999 - Joe Williams, American singer (b. 1918)

● 2001 - Helge Ingstad, Norwegian explorer (b. 1899)

● 2001 - John Lewis, American jazz pianist (b. 1920)

● 2003 - Carlo Urbani, Italian physician (SARS) (b. 1956)

● 2005 - Johnnie Cochran, American lawyer (b. 1937)

● 2005 - Grant Johannesen, American pianist (b. 1921)

● 2005 - Mitch Hedberg, American comedian (b. 1968)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Armogastes and Companions
● St. Bertold (d. 1179)
● St. Eustace
● St. Firminus
● St. Gladys
● St. Gwynllyw
● St. Jonas (d. 327)
● St. Lasar
● St. Ludolf of Ratzeburg (d. 1250)
● St. Mark
● St. Pastor
● St. Secundus
● Bl. Hugo (d. 1239)

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for March 16 (Civil Date: March 29)
● Martyr Sabinas of Egypt.
● Martyr Papas of Lyconia.
● Martyr Julian of Anazarbus.
● Martyrs Trophimus and Thalus of Laodicea.
● Apostle Aristobulus of the Seventy, Bishop of Britain.
● Hieromartyr Alexander, pope of Rome.
● St. Serapion, Archbishop of Novgorod.
● St. Christodulus, monk and wonderworker of Patmos.
● Martyr Romanus at Parium on the Hellespont.

● Greek Calendar:
● Ten Martyrs of Phoenicia.

● Lutheran:
● Hans Hauge, renewer of the Church

● Anglican:
● John Keble, priest

● Festival of Ishtar.

● Youth Day in Taiwan

● Memorial day and commemoration of the 1947 revolt against French colonization in Madagascar

● Central African Republic : Death of President Boganda Day (1959)

● Delaware : Delaware Swedish Colonial Day (1638)

● Vietnam : Veterans' Day (1973)

● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Alaska: Seward Day (1867) - (Monday)
● US Virgin Island: Transfer Day (1917) - (Monday)


Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.

Additional facts taken from:

On this day in the New York Times

The BBC’s Take on the day

On This Day Website

Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.

Scope Systems Any Day Website

Roman Catholic Saint of the Day

Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar

Quotes of the Day taken from "The Best Liberal Quotes Ever: Why the Left Is Right" Compiled by William P. Martin 2004

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