April 18......

April 18 is the 108th (109th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 257 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Compassion "How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these." — George Washington Carver

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Arrogance "I will never apologize for the United States of America. I don't care what the facts are." — George H. W. Bush, after a U. S. Navy warship shot down an Iranian commercial airliner killing 290 civilians in 1988

{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

● 310 - St. Eusebius begins his reign as Catholic Pope

● 387 - Bishop Ambrosius of Milan baptizes Augustinus

● 1506 - The cornerstone of the current St. Peter's Basilica is laid.

● 1518 - Bona Sforza is crowned as queen consort of Poland.

● 1521 - Parliament of Worms Cardinal Alexander questions Martin Luther. Luther proclaimed that a biblical foundation supported the theological position of his "Ninety-Five Theses." Luther ended his defense with the famous words: 'Here I stand! I can do nothing else! God help me! Amen.'

● 1552 - Mauritius of Saksen occupies Linz

● 1599 - Valencia arch duke Albrecht of Austrian marries Isabella of Spain

● 1606 - In Rome, Julius II laid the foundation stone of the second building of St. Peter's Basilica. Completed 20 years later by Urban VIII, St. Peter's today is the largest church in Christendom, with an overall length of 619 feet.

● 1663 - Osman declares war on Austria

● 1666 - Peace of Kleef Netherlands & bishop Von Galen of Münster

● 1676 - Sudbury MA attacked by Indians

● 1775 - Two lanterns were hung in Boston, Massachusetts and Paul Revere, William Dawes and Samuel Prescott ride to warn that "the British are coming."

● 1791 - National Guardsmen prevented Louis XVI and his family from leaving Paris.

● 1792 - Vancouver "discovers" Vancouver Island.

● 1797 - Battle of Neuwied - French victory against the Austrians.

● 1818 - A regiment of Indians and blacks were defeated at the Battle of Suwann, in Florida, ending the first Seminole War.

● 1834 - Charles Darwin sails to Rio Santa Cruz up Patagonia

● 1835 - William Lamb Lord Melbourne forms British government

● 1838 - Wilkes' expedition to South Pole sails

● 1846 - The telegraph ticker was patented by R.E. House

● 1847 - U.S. forces defeated the Mexicans at Cerro Gordo.

● 1853 - 1st train in Asia (Bombay to Tanna, 36 km)

● 1856 - Russian Republic Chancellor Earl von Nesselrode resigns

● 1857 - Birth of Clarence Darrow, famed lawyer and crusader for social justice best known for defending the teaching of evolution in the 1925 Scopes monkey trial.

● 1861 - Colonel Robert E Lee turns down offer to command Union armies

● 1861 - Battle of Harpers Ferry WV

● 1862 - Battles of Fort Jackson, Fort St Philip & New Orleans LA

● 1864 - Battle of Poison Springs AR (Camden Expedition)

● 1865 - Confederate General Johnson surrendered to General Sherman in North Carolina

● 1868 - San Francisco Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals formed

● 1874 - In England, the remains of Scottish missionary David Livingstone (who had died the previous year in Africa at age 60) were interred in London's Westminster Abbey.

● 1877 - Charles Cros wrote a paper that described the process of recording and reproducing sound. In France, Cros is regarded as the inventor of the phonograph. In the U.S., Thomas Edison gets the credit. {Odds are very good Edison read the paper before implementing his design, the man was a first rate thieve.}

● 1879 - Trial starts in Standing Bear vs. Gen. Crook in front of Judge Dundy, arguing (in vain) that Indians citizens have the same rights to habeas corpus as other U.S. citizens. Indians would not get full U.S. citizenship for another 40 years.

● 1880 - A F4 tornado strikes Marshfield, Missouri, killing 99 people and injuring 100.

● 1881 - Natural History Museum of South Kensington England opens

● 1882 - Birth of George S. Schuler, American music educator. Affiliated with Moody Bible Institute for 40 years, Schuler is remembered today for composing the melody to the hymn, "Make Me a Blessing."

● 1890 - New York Commission of Emigration ends, closing Castle Clinton

● 1895 - New York State passed an act that established free public baths.

● 1899 - St. Andrew's Ambulance Association is granted a Royal Charter by Queen Victoria.

● 1902 - Denmark is 1st country to adopt fingerprinting to identify criminals

● 1906 - Calvinist Reformed Union in Netherlands Church forms in Utrecht

● 1906 - An earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 7.9, destroys about 75% of the buildings in San Francisco, California when there is no water pressure in fire hydrant system. The original death toll was cited at about 700. Later information indicated that the death toll is estimated to be more than 3,000.

● 1906 - The Los Angeles Times runs a front-page story on the Azusa Street Revival, launching Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement.

● 1909 - Joan of Arc declared a saint {This took so long because she burned at the stake by the English Inquisition for dressing like a man, the Church had to admit it was all motivated by politics and not any deep religious reasoning.}

● 1910 - Walter R. Brookins made the first airplane flight at night.

● 1912 - West Virginia coal miners strike, defend themselves against National Guard.

● 1915 - French pilot Roland Garros was shot down and glided to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.

● 1923 - Poland annexes Central Lithuania

● 1927 - Chiang Kai-shek forms anti-government in China

● 1930 - American pioneer linguist Frank C. Laubach, while serving as a missionary in the Philippines, wrote in a letter: 'After an hour of close friendship with God, my soul feels clean as new fallen snow.'

● 1934 - 1st "Washateria" (laundromat) opens (Fort Worth TX)

● 1934 - Hitler names Joachim von Ribbentrop, ambassador for disarmament

● 1935 - Netherlands election (Musserts NSB wins 8% of vote)

● 1936 - Pan-Am Clipper begins regular passenger flights from San Francisco CA to Honolulu HI

● 1937 - Leon Trotsky called for the overthrow of Soviet leader Josef Stalin.

● 1938 - Headless Mad Butcher victim found in Cleveland

● 1939 - Franz von Papen becomes German ambassador in Turkey

● 1939 - Hubert Pierlot forms Belgian government

● 1941 - Bus companies in New York City agree to hire black workers after a four-week boycott.

● 1942 - "Stars & Stripes" paper for US armed forces starts

● 1942 - World War II: The Doolittle Raid on Tokyo occurs.

● 1942 - The Vichy government capitulated to Adolf Hitler and invited Pierre Laval to form a new government in France.

● 1943 - Traveling in a bomber, Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, was shot down by American P-38 fighters.

● 1945 - American war correspondent Ernie Pyle was killed by Japanese gunfire on the Pacific island of Ie Shima, off Okinawa. He was 44 years old.

● 1945 - World War II: Over 1,000 bombers attack the small island of Heligoland, Germany, leaving nothing standing.

● 1945 - Clandestine Radio 1212, after broadcasting pro-Nazi propaganda for months used their influence to trap 350,000 German army group B troops

● 1946 - League of Nations dissolves (3 months after the UN starts)

● 1946 - US recognizes Tito's Yugoslavia government

● 1948 - International Court of Justice opens at Hague Netherlands

● 1949 - Republic of Ireland withdraws from British Commonwealth

● 1950 - 1st transatlantic jet passenger trip

● 1950 - Polish Catholic church & government sign accord over relations

● 1951 - Dutch Antilles government of Da Costa Gomez forms

● 1951 - France, West Germany & Benelux form European Steel & Coal Community

● 1954 - Gamal Abdal Nasser seizes power in Egypt.

● 1955 - Albert Einstein dies; Eminent scientist and pacifist Dr Albert Einstein, who developed the theory of relativity, dies in hospital aged 76 years, 1 month and 4 days.

● 1955 - 1st "Walk"/"Don't Walk" lighted street signals installed

● 1955 - 1st Bandoeng Conference - Afro-Asian conference opens

● 1956 - Egypt & Israel agree to a cease fire

● 1956 - Macmillan unveils premium bond scheme; The British Chancellor Harold Macmillan unveils plans for a new state saving scheme offering cash prizes instead of interest.

● 1958 - First march against nuclear arms, West Germany.

● 1958 - Government troops reconquer Padang, Middle-Sumatra Indonesia

● 1958 - A U.S. federal court rules that poet Ezra Pound be released from an insane asylum.

● 1960 - Thousands protest against H-bomb; At least 60,000 demonstrators gather in Trafalgar Square to mark the end of the Aldermaston to London "ban the bomb" march

● 1961 - CONCP is founded in Casablanca as a united front of African movements opposing Portuguese colonial rule.

● 1963 - Dr James Campbell performed the 1st human nerve transplant

● 1964 - Artisans strike in Belgium ends

● 1964 - Geraldine Mock of US becomes 1st woman to fly solo round the world

● 1968 - 178,000 employees of US Bell Telephone System go on strike

● 1968 - Dutch Department of Amnesty International forms

● 1968 - London Bridge is sold to US oil company (to be erected in Arizona)

● 1968 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1969 - Melina Mercouri establishes Greek Aid Fund

● 1970 - Four thousand march in Seattle for peace in Southeast Asia, escorted by Seattle police officers with daffodils tied to their night sticks.

● 1970 - Native Americans start five-day sit-ins at several Bureau of Indian Affairs offices across the country.

● 1974 - Prime Minister of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto inaugurates Lahore Dry port.

● 1974 - Italian prosecutor Mario Sossi is kidnapped by the Red Brigades.

● 1977 - Native American activist Leonard Peltier found guilty of murdering two FBI agents, despite government testimony that he was not present at the scene of the killings.

● 1978 - Senate votes to turn Panamá Canal over to Panamá on Dec 31, 1999

● 1979 - Major Haddad declares South-Lebanon independent

● 1980 - The Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) comes into being, with Canaan Banana as the country's first President.

● 1982 - Canada Constitution Act replaces British North America Act

● 1982 - Zimbabwe capital Salisbury renamed Harare

● 1983 - A lone suicide bomber destroys the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 63 people including 17 Americans.

● 1984 - Challenger flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB

● 1985 - Tulane University abolished its 72-year-old basketball program. The reason was charges of fixed games, drug abuse, and payments to players.

● 1986 - Robert M Gates, becomes deputy director of CIA

● 1986 - Titan rocket explodes seconds after liftoff from Vandenberg AFB

● 1987 - An unconscious skydiver is rescued by another diver in mid-air

● 1987 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Maralinga Australia

● 1988 - 'Ivan the Terrible' guilty of war crimes; A retired US car worker has been found guilty of Nazi war crimes.

● 1988 - U.S. launches Operation Praying Mantis against Iranian naval forces in retaliation for damage to the USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG-58). The one-day action is the world's largest naval battle since World War II.

● 1989 - Thousands of Chinese students demanding democracy tried to storm Communist Party headquarters in Beijing.

● 1990 - Supreme Court rules that states could make it a crime to possess or look at child pornography, even in one's home

● 1991 - Congress ends railroad workers' 1 day strike

● 1991 - Census Bureau says it failed to count up to 63 million in 1990 census

● 1992 - General Abdul Rashid Dostum revolted against President Mohammad Najibullah of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and allied with Ahmed Shah Massoud to capture Kabul.

● 1993 - President of Pakistan, Ghulam Ishaq Khan dissolves the National Assembly and dismisses Cabinet.

● 1994 - Killing spreads in Rwanda; The ethnic violence in Rwandan capital Kigali is spreading throughout the country, aid officials say.

● 1994 - Former President Richard Nixon suffers a stroke & dies 4 days later

● 1994 - Lebanon drops relations with Iran

● 1994 - STS-59 (Endeavour) lands

● 1996 - Greek tourists killed by Egyptian gunmen; Seventeen Greek tourists and an Egyptian tour guide have been killed by gunmen in Cairo.

● 1996 - One hundred refugees in a U.N. compound killed by intentionally targeted Israeli artillery, Quana, Lebanon.

● 1997 - "Choose Life" Plowshares action at Bofors weapons factory in Karlskoga, Sweden, exporter of arms to Indonesia.

● 1998 - Labor organizations from across Latin America converge on Santiago, Chile, in a mass protest of Bill Clinton's free trade visit and Free Trade Area of the Americas negotiations there.

● 2000 - The NASDAQ had the biggest one-day point gain in its history.

● 2002 - Actor Robert Blake and his bodyguard were arrested in connection with the shooting death of Blake's wife about a year before.

● 2002 - The city legislature of Berlin decided to make Marlene Dietrich an honorary citizen. Dietrich had gone to the United States in 1930. She refused to return to Germany after Adolf Hitler came to power.

● 2002 - Four Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan were killed when they were mistakenly bombed by an American F-16.

● 2003 - Scott Peterson was arrested in San Diego in the death of his wife, Laci, who was eight months pregnant when she vanished on Christmas Eve. (He was later convicted and sentenced to death.)

● 2004 - Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero ordered a withdrawal of Spanish troops from Iraq.

BIRTHS

● 1480 - Lucrezia Borgia, Florentine ruler and daughter of Pope Alexander VI (d. 1519)

● 1580 - Thomas Middleton, English dramatist (d. 1627)

● 1590 - Ahmed I, Ottoman Emperor (d. 1617)

● 1605 - Giacomo Carissimi, Italian composer (d. 1674)

● 1729 - Gaetano Vestris, French ballet dancer (d. 1808)

● 1771 - Karl Philipp Fürst zu Schwarzenberg, Austrian field marshal (d. 1820)

● 1772 - David Ricardo, English economist (d. 1823)

● 1797 - Adolphe Thiers, French statesman (d. 1877)

● 1817 - George Henry Lewes, English philosopher, critic, actor, scientist and editor (d. 1878)

● 1819 - Carlos Cespedes, Cuban revolutionary; early fighter for independence from Spain (d. 1874)

● 1819 - Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer (d. 1895)

● 1838 - Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, French scientist (d. 1912)

● 1857 - Clarence Darrow, American attorney (d. 1938)

● 1858 - Dhondo Keshav Karve, Indian social reformer; supported the education of women (d. 1962)

● 1863 - Leopold Graf Berchtold, Austro-Hungarian foreign minister (d. 1942)

● 1864 - Richard Harding Davis, American author (d. 1916)

● 1874 - Oskar Ernst Bernhardt, German author (d. 1941)

● 1875 - Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic, Croatian writer (d. 1938)

● 1880 - Sam Crawford, baseball player (d. 1968)

● 1881 - Max Weber, Russian-born American painter, printmaker and sculptor (d. 1961)

● 1882 - Leopold Stokowski, Polish conductor (d. 1977)

● 1888 - Duffy Lewis, baseball player (d. 1979)

● 1893 - Violette Morris, French athlete (d. 1944)

● 1897 - Ardito Desio, Italian topographer (d. 2001)

● 1902 - Giuseppe Pella, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1981)

● 1902 - Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Hasidic Judaism leader (d. 1994)

● 1904 - Pigmeat Markham, American comedian (d. 1981)

● 1905 - George H. Hitchings, American scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1998)

● 1906 - Little Brother Montgomery, American jazz pianist and vocalist (d. 1985)

● 1907 - Miklós Rózsa, Hungarian-born composer (d. 1995)

● 1915 - Joy Gresham, American writer (d. 1960)

● 1917 - Ty LaForest, Canadian baseball player (d. 1947)

● 1918 - Cliff Hillegass, American publisher (d. 2001)

● 1921 - Jean Richard, French actor (d. 2001)

● 1921 - Barbara Hale, Actress

● 1924 - Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, American musician (d. 2005)

● 1924 - Henry Hyde, American politician

● 1927 - Samuel P. Huntington, American political scientist

● 1930 - Clive Revill, New Zealand born actor

● 1934 - James Drury, Actor ("The Virginian")

● 1936 - Tommy Ivo, American race car driver

● 1937 - Robert Hooks, Actor

● 1937 - Jan Kaplický, British architect of Czech origin

● 1939 - Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran

● 1939 - Thomas J. Moyer, American judge

● 1940 - Joseph L. Goldstein, American scientist, Nobel laureate

● 1945 - Margaret Hassan, Irish-born aid worker (d. 2004)

● 1946 - Hayley Mills, English actress

● 1947 - Kathy Acker, American author (d. 1997)

● 1947 - Dorothy Lyman, American actress

● 1947 - Cindy Pickett, American actress

● 1947 - James Woods, American actor ("Shark")

● 1947 - Herbert Mullin, American serial killer

● 1947 - Walt Richmond, Country musician (The Tractors)

● 1949 - Geoff Bodine, American race car driver

● 1951 - Ricardo Fortaleza, Australian-Filipino retired boxer

● 1952 - Jim Scholten, Country musician (Sawyer Brown)

● 1954 - Rick Moranis, Canadian comedian

● 1956 - Anna Kathryn Holbrook, American actress

● 1956 - Eric Roberts, American actor

● 1956 - Melody Thomas Scott, American actress ("The Young and the Restless")

● 1956 - John James, Actor

● 1958 - Malcolm Marshall, West Indian cricketer (d. 1999)

● 1958 - Les Pattinson, Rock musician (Echo and the Bunnymen)

● 1961 - Jane Leeves, British actress ("Fraiser")

● 1961 - Steve Lombardi, American professional wrestler

● 1963 - Eric McCormack, Canadian actor ("Will and Grace")

● 1963 - Conan O'Brien, American comedian

● 1963 - Terry Eldredge, Bluegrass musician (The Grascals)

● 1964 - Niall Ferguson, British historian

● 1964 - Rithy Panh, Cambodian film director

● 1965 - Rob Stenders, Dutch radio discjockey

● 1966 - Trine Hattestad, Norwegian athlete

● 1967 - Maria Bello, American actress

● 1968 - David Hewlett, Canadian actor

● 1969 - Princess Sayako of Japan

● 1969 - Keith R.A. DeCandido, American author

● 1970 - Greg Eklund, American musician (Everclear)

● 1971 - Tamara Braun, American actress

● 1971 - David Tennant, Scottish actor

● 1971 - Oleg Petrov, Russian ice hockey player

● 1972 - Eli Roth, American film director

● 1973 - Derrick Brooks, American football player

● 1973 - Haile Gebrselassie, Ethiopian athlete

● 1974 - Mark Tremonti, American musician

● 1974 - Edgar Wright, British director

● 1974 - Trina, R&B singer (Trina and Tamara)

● 1976 - Melissa Joan Hart, American actress ("Sabrina the Teenage Witch")

● 1976 - Fayray, Japanese singer

● 1976 - Justin Ross, American politician

● 1976 - Sean Maguire, Actor

● 1979 - Vahid Rahbani, Iranian actor and director

● 1979 - Michael Bradley, American basketball player

● 1979 - Matthew Upson, English footballer

● 1979 - Kourtney Kardashian, American reality series star

● 1979 - Anthony Davidson, British formula 1 driver

● 1980 - Robyn Regehr, Canadian hockey player

● 1981 - Audrey Tang, Taiwanese software programmer

● 1983 - Miguel Cabrera, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player

● 1984 - America Ferrera, American actress ("Ugly Betty')

● 1985 - Łukasz Fabiański, Polish football player

● 1986 - Denice Klarskov, Danish porn star

● 1989 - Alia Shawkat, American actress ("Arrested Development')

DEATHS

● 1161 - Theobald of Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury

● 1552 - John Leland, English antiquarian (b. 1502)

● 1556 - Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet (b. 1495)

● 1567 - Wilhelm von Grumbach, German adventurer (b. 1503)

● 1558 - Roxelana, wife of Suleiman the Magnificent

● 1636 - Julius Caesar, English judge

● 1650 - Simonds d'Ewes, English antiquarian (b. 1602)

● 1674 - John Graunt, English statistician (b. 1620)

● 1689 - George Jeffreys, British Chief Justice (b. 1648)

● 1794 - Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1714)

● 1796 - Johan Wilcke, Swedish physicist (b. 1732)

● 1802 - Erasmus Darwin, English physician and botanist (b. 1731)

● 1873 - Justus von Liebig, German chemist (b. 1803)

● 1898 - Gustave Moreau, French painter (b. 1826)

● 1906 - Luis Martín, Spanish Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1846)

● 1917 - Vladimir Serbsky, Russian psychiatrist (b. 1858)

● 1935 - Panait Istrati, Romanian writer (b. 1884)

● 1936 - Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer (b. 1879)

● 1942 - Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American socalite (b. 1875)

● 1943 - Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese admiral. (b. 1884)

● 1945 - John Ambrose Fleming, English physicist and engineer (b. 1849)

● 1945 - Ernie Pyle, American journalist (b. 1900)

● 1947 - Josef Tiso, Slovakian leader (b. 1887)

● 1955 - Albert Einstein, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)

● 1964 - Ben Hecht, American writer (b. 1894)

● 1965 - Guillermo González Camarena, Mexican inventor (b. 1917)

● 1967 - Karl Miller, German footballer (b. 1913)

● 1990 - Gory Guerrero, wrestler (b. 1921)

● 1993 - Masahiko Kimura, Famous Judoka (b. 1917)

● 1995 - Arturo Frondizi, President of Argentina (b. 1908)

● 1996 - Piet Hein, Danish mathematician (b. 1905)

● 1996 - Brook Berringer, American football player (b. 1973)

● 1996 - Bernard Edwards, American record producer (b. 1952)

● 1998 - Terry Sanford, American politician (b. 1917)

● 2002 - Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer (b. 1914)

● 2002 - Wahoo McDaniel, American football player and wrestler (b. 1938)

● 2003 - Edgar F. Codd, English computer scientist (b. 1923)

● 2003 - Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1976)

● 2004 - Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, first Prime Minister of Fiji and President of Fiji (b. 1920)

● 2005 - Sam Mills, American football linebacker (b. 1959)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Agia (Aya) (d. 707)
● St. Apollonius the Apologist (d. 185/6)
● St. Calocerus
● St. Cogitosus
● St. Corebus
● Sts. Eleutherius & Anthia
● St. Emma
● St. Eusebius (d. 526)
● St. Galdino (d. 1176)
● St. Gebuinus
● St. Laserian
● St. Perfecto (d. 850)
● St. Timon
● St. Ursmarus (d. 713)
● St. Werner (d. 1287)
● St. Wicterp
● Bl. Idesbald van der Gracht (d. 1167), patron St. of fishermen and Flemish nobility

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for April 5 (Civil Date: April 18)
● Martyrs Theodulus, reader, and Agathapodes, deacon, and those with them at Thessalonica.
● St. Publius of Egypt, monk.
● Saints Theonas, Symeon, and Phorbinus, of Egypt.
● St. Theodora, nun of Thessalonica.
● St. Mark the Anchorite of Athens.
● St. Plato, abbot of the Studion.
● New-Martyr George of New Ephesus.

● Greek Calendar:
● Martyrs Claudius, Diodorus, Victor, Victorinus, Pappias, Serapion, and Nicephorus.
● Five girl martyrs of Nenidor of Lesbos.
● Repose of Blessed Theodore of Svir (1822)
● Repose of Righteous Symeon Klimych (1837)
● Repose of Elder Philemon of Valaam and Jordanville (1953).

● Iran - Army Day

● Oklahoma : 89'ers Day rodeos commemorate opening of Oklahoma in 1889

● Zimbabwe : Independence Day (1989)

● This Holiday is only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Massachusetts, Maine: Patriots Day-Boston Marathon run (1775) - (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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