March 7......

March 7 is the 66th (67th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 299 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

● 322 BC - Aristotle, the Greek philosopher, died.

● 161 - Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by co-Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, an unprecedented political arrangement in the Roman Empire.

● 321 - Roman Emperor Constantine I decrees that the dies Solis Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire

● 851 - Death of the King of Brittany Nominoë in Vendome

● 1138 - Conrad II von Hohenstaufen re-elected German king

● 1277 - Condemnation of 219 philosophical and theological theses by Stephen Tempier, Bishop of Paris

● 1530 - King Henry VIII's divorce request is denied by the Pope; Henry then declares that he, not the Pope, is supreme head of England's church.

● 1560 - Christian fleet under Gian Andrea lands at Djerba, N Africa

● 1573 - Turkey & Venice signs peace treaty

● 1621 - John Pieterszoon Coen's troops land on Lontor, East Indies

● 1633 - Prince Frederik Henry appoints himself viceroy of Limburg

● 1638 - Controversial colonial churchwoman Anne Hutchinson, 47, and nineteen other exiles from the Massachusetts Bay Colony settled in Rhode Island, at the site of modern Portsmouth.

● 1644 - Massachusetts establishes 1st 2-chamber legislature in colonies

● 1696 - English King Willem III departs Netherlands

● 1774 - British close port of Boston to all commerce

● 1778 - Captain James Cook 1st sights Oregon coast, at Yaquina Bay

● 1782 - Ohio Territory militiamen began a two-day massacre of the Moravian Indian town of Gnadenhutten (modern New Philadelphia, Ohio). In all, 96 Christian Indians of the Delaware tribe were slaughtered, in retaliation for Indian raids made elsewhere in the Ohio Territory.

● 1798 - The French army enters in Rome: the birth of the Roman Republic.

● 1799 - John Fries launches a rebellion in Pennsylvania against the imposition of the "direct tax" enacted by Congress the previous year on lands, houses, and slaves. Fries' mob was dispersed by the militia after a march on Bethlehem. Fries was arrested and sentenced to be hanged for treason, before being pardoned by the President.

● 1799 - Napoleon I of France captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.

● 1801 - Massachusetts enacts 1st state voter registration law

● 1802 - In Washington, D.C., the first Baptist church was organized with six charter members. Their first pastor Obadiah Brown was hired five years later, and Brown remained in that pulpit while involving himself in every important local Baptist program for the next 43 years!

● 1808 - Portugal's regent Dom Juan IV arrives in Rio De Janeiro

● 1814 - Napoleon wins the Battle of Craonne.

● 1815 - Napoleon I of France meets troops of the Fifth Regiment sent by Louise XVIII at Grenoble, and convinces them to join him on his march to Paris.

● 1825 - Birth of Alfred Edersheim, English biblical scholar. Converted to Christianity from Judaism before age 20, Edersheim later published "The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah" (1883-90), a Christian classic still in print!

● 1827 - Brazil marines sail up the Rio Negro (Argentina) and attack the temporary naval base of Carmen de Patagones, Argentina. They are defeated by the local citizens.

● 1827 - Shrigley Abduction: Ellen Turner, a wealthy heiress in Cheshire, England is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future politician in colonial New Zealand.

● 1835 - HMS Beagle returns from Concepción to Valparaiso

● 1843 - 1st Catholic Governor in US, Edward Kavanagh of Maine, takes office

● 1847 - US General Scott occupies Vera Cruz Mexico

● 1848 - In Hawaii, Great Mahele (division of lands) signed

● 1849 - The Austrian Reichstag was dissolved.

● 1850 - United States Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech in which he endorses the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war.

● 1851 - Poll tax levied on Russo-Polish Jews entering Austrian Galicia ends

● 1852 - Dutch telegraph traffic regulated by law

● 1854 - Charles Miller patents 1st US sewing machine to stitch buttonholes

● 1860 - Six thousand shoemakers joined by 20,000 other workers in strike in Lynn, Mass. About 1,000 women workers initially strike for a union and against wage cuts; in 10 days, a procession of 10,000 workers marches through Lynn in the largest labor protest prior to the Civil War. Within a month, shoe manufacturers offer higher wages to bring strikers back. But the companies refuse to recognize a union.

● 1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Pea Ridge - Union forces led by General Samuel Curtis defeat Confederate troops under General Earl Van Dorn at Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas.

● 1862 - Battle of Elkhorn Tavern, Day 2, Generals McCulloch & McIntosh killed

● 1865 - Battles round Kinston NC

● 1867 - Birth of Peter Cameron Scott, founder of the Africa Inland Mission. In 1895, Scott led the first band of missionaries to reach Kenya. He died in Africa the following year, at 29, of black water fever. Over 700 AIM missionaries have since followed in Scott's footsteps.

● 1872 - -8º F in Boston MA

● 1875 - Maurice Ravel, the noted French composer, was born.

● 1876 - Battle at Gura: Ethiopian emperor Yohannes beats Egyptians

● 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone (patent # 174,464).

● 1887 - First school in Albanian language opens in the city of Korca, Albania.

● 1900 - Battle at Poplar Grove South Africa, President Kruger flees

● 1901 - It was announced that blacks had been found enslaved in parts of South Carolina.

● 1902 - Boers beat British troop in Tweebosch Transvaal

● 1904 - The Japanese bombed the Russian town of Vladivostok.

● 1904 - In Springfield, OH, a mob broke into a jail and shot a black man accused of murder.

● 1905 - Beginning of the Russian peasant rebellion, during which the peasants burn many castles of the nobility.

● 1906 - Finnish Senate accepts universal suffrage, except for poor

● 1908 - Cincinnati Mayor Mark Breith stood before city council & announced that, "women are not physically fit to operate automobiles"

● 1911 - In the wake of the Mexican Revolution, the U.S. sent 20,000 troops to the border of Mexico.

● 1911 - Willis Farnsworth, Petaluma CA, patents coin-operated locker

● 1912 - Roald Amundsen first announces to the world that his expedition has reached the South Pole, though they had arrived on December 14, 1911.

● 1914 - Prince Wilhelm von Wied becomes King of Albania

● 1918 - President Wilson authorizes US Army's Distinguished Service Medal

● 1918 - World War I: Finland forms an alliance with Germany.

● 1921 - Red Army under Trotsky attack sailors of Kronstadt

● 1925 - Twelve thousand coal miners strike in Nova Scotia, Canada.

● 1925 - The Soviet Red Army occupied Outer Mongolia.

● 1925 - American Negro Congress organizes

● 1926 - The first successful trans-Atlantic radio-telephone conversation took place, between New York City and London.

● 1927 - A Texas law that banned Negroes from voting was ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court.

● 1927 - Earthquake measuring 8 on Richter scale strikes Tango, Japan

● 1932 - Detroit police fire on Ford hunger marchers, killing four. Beginning of Ford Hunger Strike.

● 1935 - Saar incorporated into Germany

● 1936 - World War II: In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.

● 1937 - Bucharin, Jagoda & Rykov pushed out of CPSU in USSR

● 1941 - 3rd largest snowfall in New York NY history (18.1")

● 1941 - 50,000 British soldiers lands in Greece

● 1941 - British troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia)

● 1942 - IWW founder, anarchist labor organizer Lucy Parsons dies, Chicago, Illinois.

● 1942 - Japanese troops landed on New Guinea.

● 1942 - 15 Mk-VB Spitfires reach Malta

● 1942 - 1st cadets graduated from flying school at Tuskegee

● 1943 - General-Major Patton arrives in Djebel Kouif Tunisia

● 1944 - Japans begins offensive in Burma

● 1945 - Cologne taken by allied armies

● 1945 - Yugoslavia government of Tito forms

● 1945 - World War II: American troops seize the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine River at Remagen, Germany and begin to cross.

● 1947 - John L. Lewis declared that only a totalitarian regime could prevent strikes.

● 1947 - The Kuomintang and Communist Party of China resume full-fledged Civil War.

● 1950 - Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy.

● 1951 - Korean War: Operation Ripper - In Korea, United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgeway begin an assault against Chinese forces.

● 1959 - African activist flees to UK; An independence movement leader wanted in the British territory of Nyasaland in central Africa has fled to London and gone into hiding.

● 1962 - Women Against the Bomb declare Women's Day for Peace, Britain.

● 1962 - Launch of OSO 1, 1st astronomy satellite (solar flare data)

● 1965 - Christian-democrats win parliament in Chile

● 1965 - Civil rights demonstrators begin a march from Selma to Montgomery to protest the murder of Jimmie Lee Jackson and to demand voting rights for blacks. They are brutally beaten by police officers while crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma. 67 are injured. The attack becomes known as "Bloody Sunday."

● 1966 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1967 - Teamster president Jimmy Hoffa begins 8-year jail sentence at Lewisburg Federal Prison for defrauding the union & jury tampering (commuted Dec 23, 1971)

● 1968 - Vietnam War: The First Battle of Saigon begins.

● 1969 - Golda Meir elected as the first female Prime Minister of Israel.

● 1969 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

● 1971 - A thousand U.S. planes bombed Cambodia and Laos.

● 1971 - Egypt refuses to renew the Suez ceasefire

● 1972 - Urban Indians form the National American Indians Council. Omaha, Nebraska.

● 1973 - Sheik Mujib ur-Rahman's Awami League wins election in Bangladesh

● 1973 - The ultimately disappointing Comet Kohoutek is discovered by Luboš Kohoutek.

● 1974 - Commenting on the SLA's Patricia Hearst ransom demand of free food for the poor, California's Gov. Ronald Reagan says, "It's just too bad we can't have an epidemic of botulism."

● 1974 - "Monitor" (US Civil War Ship) restored at Cape Hatteras NC

● 1974 - 1st general striking in Ethiopia

● 1975 - The U.S. Senate revised the filibuster rule. The new rule allowed 60 senators to limit debate instead of the previous two-thirds.

● 1975 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1975 - Kidnapped heiress found strangled; The body of Lesley Whittle, the 17-year-old heiress kidnapped from her Shropshire home 52 days ago, is found at the bottom of a drain shaft.

● 1976 - Morocco & Mauretania break diplomatic relations with Algeria

● 1977 - Ali Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party wins elections

● 1977 - Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin meets President Carter

● 1978 - Dutch 2nd Chamber votes against neutron bomb

● 1981 - Anti-government guerrillas in Colombia executed the kidnapped American Bible translator Chester Allen Bitterman. The guerrillas accused Bitterman of being a CIA agent.

● 1981 - After 27 years in business, Disneyland's first homicide - an 18-year-old is stabbed to death in Tomorrowland.

● 1983 - Four hundred thousand people rally against war in Lebanon, in Peace Now action. It is the largest peace demonstration, in percentage of population, in world history. Tel Aviv, Israel.

● 1983 - After a fire in a coal mine in northern Turkey, miners are ordered back in before the flames are completely extinguished; two subsequent explosions kill 98 workers.

● 1984 - The United States attacks San Juan del Sur in Nicaragua.

● 1985 - The first AIDS antibody test, an ELISA-type test, was released.

● 1985 - Ben Gilbert the great [Adelaide] hope was born

● 1986 - South-Africa emergency crisis in Brabant & Limburg ends

● 1988 - A Federal Court rules that a peace group must have the same access to students at high school career days as military recruiters. Atlanta, Georgia.

● 1988 - Activists sit in to protest refusal of the Albany (New York) City Council to pass legislation prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

● 1988 - IRA gang shot dead in Gibraltar; The IRA confirms the three people shot dead by security forces in Gibraltar yesterday were members of an active service unit.

● 1988 - Colombia becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.

● 1989 - Poland accused the Soviet Union of a World War II massacre in Katyn.

● 1989 - Partial eclipse of the Sun (Hawaii, NW North America, Greenland)

● 1989 - Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a row over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel.

● 1989 - The State Council of the People's Republic of China declares martial law in Lhasa, Tibet.

● 1990 - 3 passengers killed & 162 injured as subway train derails (Philadelphia)

● 1991 - Iraq continues to explode oil fields in Kuwait

● 1994 - ANC chief Nelson Mandela rejects demand by white right-wingers for separate homeland in South Africa

● 1994 - Charles Taylor resigns as President of Liberia

● 1994 - US Navy issues 1st permanent order assigning women on combat ship

● 1994 - In Moldova, a referendum was rejected by 90% of voters to form a union with Rumania.

● 1994 - The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc. that parodies that poke fun at an original work can be considered "fair use" that does not require permission from the copyright holder.

● 1994 - A gunman takes 8 people hostage in the Salt Lake City Public Library Hostage Incident.

● 1995 - After decades of opposition, state of New York instates the death penalty.

● 1996 - Five hundred women march on the National Palace in a commemoration of state violence against women. Guatemala City, Guatemala.

● 1996 - Three U.S. servicemen were convicted in the rape of a 12-year-old Okinawa girl and sentenced by a Japanese court to up to seven years in prison.

● 1996 - 1st surface photos of Pluto (photographed by Hubble Space Telescope)

● 1996 - British Steel in Workington wins Lithuanian multi-million £ order

● 1996 - The first democratically elected Palestinian parliament is formed.

● 1997 - Chile - Five hundred people detained around the country in protests as former Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader dictator General Augusto Pinochet is made "Senator-for-Life." Pinochet also given immunity from prosecution for the thousands of people butchered under his regime.

● 1997 - 5 sue Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, because his smoking has violated the country's constitution guaranteeing a wholesome life

● 1999 - In El Salvador, Francisco Flores Pérez of the ruling Nationalist Republican Alliance (Arena) was elected president.

● 1999 - Movie director Stanley Kubrick died at age 70.

● 2002 - Opening of The IX Paralympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City, Utah.

● 2002 - The Network Against Prohibition forms in Darwin, Australia.

● 2003 - Scientists at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center announced that they had transferred 6.7 gigabytes of uncompressed data from Sunnyvale, CA, to Amsterdam, Netherlands, in 58 seconds. The data was sent via fiber-optic cables and traveled 6,800 miles.

● 2003 - A four-day walkout by Broadway musicians began, forcing nearly every Broadway musical to cancel performances.

● 2004 - An investiture ceremony was held in Concord, NH, for V. Gene Robinson, the Episcopal Church's first openly gay bishop.

● 2005 - Mass protest outside the National Assembly of Kuwait building for women's voting rights in Kuwait.

BIRTHS

● 189 - Publius Septimius Geta, Roman Emperor (d. 211)

● 1481 - Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter (d. 1537)

● 1556 - Guillaume du Vair, French writer (d. 1621)

● 1671 - Robert Roy MacGregor, Scottish folk hero (d. 1734)

● 1678 - Filippo Juvara, Italian architect (d. 1736)

● 1687 - Jean Lebeuf, French historian (d. 1760)

● 1693 - Pope Clement XIII (d. 1769)

● 1715 - Ewald Christian von Kleist, German poet (d. 1759)

● 1715 - Ephraim Williams, American philanthropist (d. 1755)

● 1730 - Baron de Breteuil, French statesman (d. 1807)

● 1765 - Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor (d. 1833)

● 1785 - Alessandro Manzoni, Italian poet and novelist (d. 1873)

● 1788 - Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist (d. 1878)

● 1792 - John Herschel, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1871)

● 1811 - Giuseppe Ferrari, Italian historian and political philosopher (d. 1876)

● 1837 - Henry Draper, American physician and astronomer (d. 1882)

● 1841 - William Rockhill Nelson, founder of Kansas City Star and patron of Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (d. 1915)

● 1850 - Tomáš Masaryk, first President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1937)

● 1857 - Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1940)

● 1872 - Piet Mondrian, Dutch painter (d. 1944)

● 1873 - Madame Sul-Te-Wan, American actress (d. 1959)

● 1875 - Maurice Ravel, French composer (d. 1937)

● 1878 - Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter (d. 1927)

● 1887 - Helen Parkhurst, American educator, author, and lecturer (d. 1973)

● 1887 - Heino Eller, Estonian composer (d. 1970)

● 1902 - Heinz Rühmann, German actor (d. 1994)

● 1904 - Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian speed skater (d. 1969)

● 1904 - Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi official (d. 1942)

● 1908 - Anna Magnani, Italian actress (d. 1973)

● 1922 - Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya, Russian mathematician (d. 2004)

● 1925 - Rene Gagnon, US Marine shown in photograph of the raising of the US flag on Iwo Jima

● 1926 - Alan Sues, American comedian and actor

● 1930 - Antony Armstrong-Jones, Lord Snowdon

● 1933 - Jackie Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1998)

● 1934 - Willard Scott, American television broadcaster (''Today'')

● 1938 - David Baltimore, American biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

● 1938 - Janet Guthrie, American race car driver

● 1940 - Rudi Dutschke, German student leader (d. 1979)

● 1940 - Daniel J. Travanti, American actor (''Hill Street Blues'')

● 1942 - Tammy Faye Bakker, American evangelist

● 1942 - Michael Eisner, American film studio executive

● 1943 - Chris White, Rock musician (The Zombies)

● 1944 - Stanley Schmidt, American editor

● 1944 - Townes Van Zandt, American musician and songwriter (1997)

● 1945 - John Heard, American actor

● 1945 - Arthur Lee, American musician (Love) (d. 2006)

● 1946 - Peter Wolf, American musician (J Geils Band)

● 1946 - Matthew Fisher, Rock musician (Procol Harum)

● 1946 - John Heard, Actor

● 1947 - Richard Lawson, American actor

● 1947 - Walter Röhrl, German race car driver

● 1949 - Ghulam Nabi Azad, Indian politician

● 1950 - Iris Chacon, Puerto Rican singer and dancer

● 1950 - Franco Harris, American football player and Hall of Fame member

● 1951 - Francis Rocco Prestia, American musician (Tower of Power)

● 1952 - Ernie Isley, American guitarist (The Isley Brothers)

● 1952 - Viv Richards, Antiguan West Indies cricketer

● 1952 - Lynn Swann, American football player and Hall of Fame member

● 1955 - Tommy Kramer, American football player

● 1956 - Bryan Cranston, American actor (''Malcolm in the Middle'')

● 1958 - Alan Hale, American astronomer

● 1958 - Rik Mayall, British actor

● 1959 - Donna Murphy, Actress

● 1960 - Joe Carter, American baseball player

● 1960 - Ivan Lendl, Czech tennis player and Hall of Fame member

● 1963 - Bill Brochtrup, American actor

● 1963(64? NYT) - Denyce Graves, American singer

● 1964 - Bret Easton Ellis, American writer

● 1964 - Wanda Sykes, American actress and comedian

● 1965 - Jack Armstrong, American baseball player

● 1965 - Steve Beuerlein, American football player

● 1965 - Jesper Parnevik, Swedish golfer

● 1965 - Taylor Dayne, Singer-actress

● 1967 - Randy Guss, Rock musician (Toad the Wet Sprocket)

● 1968 - Jeff Kent, American baseball player

● 1969 - Shin Ae Ra, Korean actress and radio DJ

● 1971 - Rachel Weisz, British actress

● 1971 - Peter Sarsgaard, American actor

● 1972 - Jang Dong-gun, South Korean actor and musician

● 1973 - Ray Parlour, English footballer

● 1973 - Bartłomiej Świderski, Polish actor

● 1974 - Jenna Fischer, American actress ("The Office")

● 1974 - Hugo Ferreira, Rock singer (Tantric)

● 1977 - Mitja Zastrow, German-born swimmer

● 1980 - Laura Prepon, American actress (''That 70s Show'')

● 1980 - Anthony Ocana, Dominican composer & guitarist

● 1982 - Erika Yamakawa, Japanese talent

● 1984 - Mathieu Flamini, French footballer

● 1985 - Thomas Erak, American guitarist

● 1988 - Olesya Rulin, American actress

DEATHS

● 322 BC - Aristotle, philosopher (b. 384 BC)

● 161 - Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor (b. 86)

● 308 - Saint Eubulus, Christian martyr

● 851 - Nominoe, Duke of Brittany

● 1226 - William de Longespee, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader

● 1274 - Thomas Aquinas, Philosopher (b. 1225)

● 1578 - Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox (b. 1515)

● 1625 - Johann Bayer, German astronomer (b. 1572)

● 1724 - Pope Innocent XIII (b. 1655)

● 1767 - Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, French colonizer (b. 1680)

● 1778 - Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist (b. 1720)

● 1810 - Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, British admiral (b. 1750)

● 1904 - Ferdinand André Fouqué, French geologist (b. 1828)

● 1913 - Emily Pauline Johnson, Native Canadian poet

● 1928 - Robert Abbe, American surgeon (b. 1851)

● 1932 - Aristide Briand, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1862)

● 1949 - Francis Dodd, English artist (b. 1874)

● 1952 - Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru (b. 1893)

● 1954 - Otto Diels, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)

● 1957 - Wyndham Lewis, British author (b. 1882)

● 1967 - Alice B. Toklas, American companion to Gertrude Stein (b. 1877)

● 1974 - Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer and actor (b. 1906)

● 1975 - Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher (b. 1895)

● 1975 - Ben Blue, Canadian actor (b. 1901)

● 1976 - Wright Patman, American politician (b. 1893)

● 1978 - Steve Bilko, Baseball player (b. 1928)

● 1981 - Kiril Kondrashin, Russian conductor (b. 1914)

● 1984 - Paul Rotha, English director (b. 1907)

● 1986 - Jacob Javits, American politician (b. 1904)

● 1988 - Divine, American actor (b. 1945)

● 1991 - Cool Papa Bell, baseball player, (b. 1903)

● 1995 - Paul-Émile Victor, French explorer (b. 1907)

● 1997 - E. H. Bronner, German-American soap magnate (b. 1908)

● 1997 - Edward Mills Purcell, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)

● 1999 - Sidney Gottlieb, American CIA official (b. 1918)

● 1999 - Stanley Kubrick, American film director (b. 1928)

● 2000 - Charles Gray, British actor (b. 1928)

● 2002 - Doris Allen, American psychologist (b. 1901)

● 2004 - Paul Winfield, American actor (b. 1941)

● 2005 - John Box, British film production designer and art director (b. 1920)

● 2006 - Ali Farka Touré Malian musician (b. 1939)

● 2006 - Gordon Parks, photographer (b. 1912)

● 2006 - John Junkin, British performer (b. 1930)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Ardo
● St. Deifer
● St. Drausinus
● St. Enodoch
● St. Paul of Prusa
● St. Paul the Simple
● Sts. Perpetua and Felicitas, patron saints of married women
● St. Theophylact
● Bl. John Ireland
● Bl. John Larke

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for February 24 (Civil Date: March 7)
● First and Second Finding of the Precious Head of St. John the Baptist
● St. Erasmus of the Kiev Caves.
● Opening of the Relics of St. Romanus, prince of Uglich.

● Anglican and Lutheran:
● St. Perpetua & her companions, martyrs

● Old Roman Catholic and Lutheran:
● St Thomas Aquinas, confessor/doctor

● California : Burbank Day/Bird & Arbor Day (1849)

● Laos : Veteran's Day

● Albania - Teacher's Day

● Official "Metallica Day" in San Francisco, CA (enacted by Mayor Willie Brown in 1999).


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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