April 22......

April 22 is the 112th (113th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 253 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Corporate Power "I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country...corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow." — Abraham Lincoln

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Environmental Abandonment "We don't have to protect the environment, the Second Coming is at hand." — James Watt, Ronald Reagan's Secretary of the Interior

{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

● 687 -BC- Chinese record a meteor shower in Lyra

● 296 - St Gaius ends his reign as Catholic Pope

● 536 - St Agapitus I ends his reign as Catholic Pope

● 1056 - Supernova Crab nebula last seen by the naked eye

● 1073 - Pope Alexander II buried/Ildebrando chosen as Pope Gregory VII

● 1145 - 19th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

● 1164 - Raynald of Dassel names Guido di Crema as anti-pope Paschalis III

● 1370 - Bastille begins being built in Paris France

● 1500 - Portuguese sailors find westward progress obstructed by Brazil.

● 1500 - Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral becomes the first European to sight Brazil.

● 1509 - Henry VIII ascends the throne of England after the death of his father.

● 1521 - French king François I declares war on Spain

● 1526 - 1st slave revolt occurs in South Carolina

● 1529 - Treaty of Saragossa divides the eastern hemisphere between Spain and Portugal along a line 297.5 leagues or 17° east of the Moluccas.

● 1648 - English army claims king Charles I responsible for bloodshed

● 1659 - Lord protector Cromwell disbands English parliament

● 1671 - King Charles II sits in on English parliament

● 1674 - Netherlands & Munster sign peace treaty

● 1676 - Battle of Etna - Netherlands/Spain vs. France, M de Ruyter fatally wounded

● 1677 - Battle at Catania between French & Dutch fleet

● 1692 - Edward Bishop is jailed for proposing flogging as cure for witchcraft

● 1722 - 19 VOC "komplotteurs" in Batavia executed

● 1724 - Birth of Immanuel Kant.

● 1745 - The Peace of Fussen was signed, restoring the status quo of Germany.

● 1776 - Pioneer American Methodist bishop Francis Asbury wrote in his journal: 'I found Christ in me the hope of glory; but felt a pleasing, painful sensation of spiritual hunger and thirst for more of God.'

● 1792 - U.S. President George Washington proclaimed American neutrality in the war in Europe.

● 1796 - Napoleon defeats Piedmontese at Battle of Mondovi

● 1809 - Battle at Eckmühl - Napoleon beats Austria arch duke Karl

● 1817 - Curaçao prohibits use of white paint due to fierce sunlight

● 1823 - R J Tyers patents roller skates

● 1836 - Texas Revolution: A day after the Battle of San Jacinto forces under Texas General Sam Houston capture Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.

● 1838 - English steamship "Sirius" docks in NYC after Atlantic crossing

● 1861 - Robert E Lee named commander of Virginia Confederate forces

● 1863 - American Civil War: Grierson's Raid begins – troops under Union Colonel Benjamin Grierson attack central Mississippi.

● 1864 - "In God We Trust" was approved as the national motto, near the end of the bloodiest war in U.S. history.

● 1864 - The motto "In God We Trust" first appeared on U.S. coinage, being struck on a bronze two-cent piece, issued during the American Civil War.

● 1870 - Communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin was born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov in Simbirsk, Russia.

● 1884 - US recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State

● 1889 - At high noon, thousands rush to claim land in the Land Run of 1889. Within hours the cities of Oklahoma City and Guthrie are formed with populations of at least 10,000. That was only the official start; as many as nine out of ten of these settlers had jumped the gun, earning themselves the name "Sooners"

● 1893 - Birth of anarchist martyr Nicola Sacco.

● 1893 - Francis Dhanis army occupies Kasongo

● 1893 - Paul Kruger elected President of Transvaal for 3rd time

● 1898 - Congress passes Volunteer Army Act calling for a Volunteer Cavalry

● 1897 - In New York City, the world's largest Jewish daily newspaper, "The Forward," was first published. Abraham Cahan, 43, one of its founders, became editor of the paper in 1903, remaining until his death in 1951. It continues to be published today.

● 1898 - Spanish-American War: The United States Navy begins a blockade of Cuban ports and the USS Nashville captures a Spanish merchant ship.

● 1899 - Kate Chopin publishes The Awakening, early feminist novel.

● 1904 - J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American nuclear physicist who headed the country's atomic bomb development project, was born.

● 1912 - Pravda, the "voice" of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, begins publications in Saint Petersburg.

● 1913 - Montenegro troops march into Skoetari, North-Albania

● 1914 - México ends diplomatic relations with US

● 1915 - 1st military use of poison gas (chlorine, by Germany) in WWI

● 1915 - 2nd Battle of Ypres begins

● 1915 - The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres.

● 1916 - France battles at Fort Douaumont

● 1918 - British naval forces attempted to sink block-ships in the German U-boat bases at the Battle of Zeeburgge.

● 1922 - South Ossetian Autonomous Region is established in Georgian SSR

● 1926 - Persia, Turkey & Afghánistán sign treaties of security

● 1930 - The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding.

● 1931 - Egypt & Iraq sign peace treaty

● 1931 - James G. Ray landed an autogyro on the lawn of the White House.

● 1933 - Dutch government forbids leftwing radio address

● 1933 - American Bible teacher and author Kenneth E. Hagin traces his conversion to a saving Christian faith back to this date, at age 16.

● 1937 - NYC college students stage 4th annual peace strike

● 1940 - Rear Admiral Joseph Taussig testifies before US Senate Naval Affairs Committee that war with Japan is inevitable (He was right)

● 1943 - German counter attack in North-Tunisia

● 1943 - RAF shoots down 14 German transport planes over Mediterranean Sea

● 1944 - Sit-in by 200 blacks results in desegregation of restaurants in Washington, D.C.

● 1944 - Hitler & Mussolini meet at Salzburg

● 1944 - World War II: Operation Persecution initiated – Allied forces land in the Hollandia (currently known as Jayapura) area of New Guinea.

● 1945 - World War II: After learning that Soviet forces have taken Eberswalde without a fight, Adolf Hitler admits defeat in his underground bunker and states that suicide is his only recourse.

● 1945 - Concentration Camp at Sachsenhausen liberated

● 1946 - SED, Sozialistic Einheitspartei Deutschlands, party forms

● 1951 - Ticker-tape parade for General MacArthur in NYC

● 1952 - Two thousand workers strike against plan for German contribution to European Defence Community, Hagen-Hasper-Huette, West Germany.

● 1952 - 1st atomic explosion on network news, Nob, NV

● 1954 - Achiel van Acker forms Belgian government

● 1954 - USSR joins UNESCO

● 1954 - Red Scare: Army-McCarthy Hearings begin, they are televised live.

● 1955 - Congress orders all US coins bear motto "In God We Trust"

● 1959 - Dame Margot Fonteyn released from jail; The British ballerina arrives in New York after spending 24 hours in a Panamanian prison.

● 1960 - At a constitutional convention in Minneapolis, three major Lutheran bodies in the U.S. merged to form the American Lutheran Church, with a combined membership of about two million.

● 1961 - Uprising of French parachutist of General Salan/Challe in Algeria

● 1963 - Secretary of State Rusk stated that South Vietnam, under Diem, was "steadily moving toward a constitutional system resting upon popular consent." Six months later, South Vietnamese generals, charging that Diem had "trampled on the people's rights," seized power in a coup {killing Diem in the process} allegedly "encouraged" by the U.S.

● 1966 - USSR performs underground nuclear test

● 1967 - Martial Law goes into effect in Greece

● 1968 - Tlatelolco treaty for denuclearizing Latin America comes into force.

● 1969 - 1st human eye transplant performed

● 1970 - An estimated 20 million participate in anti-pollution demonstrations across the U.S. to mark the first Earth Day. Corporate sponsorships were notably absent.

● 1970 - U.S. sends war ships to Caribbean island of Trinidad to "protect American citizens" during unrest against the U.S.-backed government.

● 1970 - Flat Earth celebrated

● 1971 - John Kerry, dressed in combat fatigues, testifies on his views of the Vietnam War before the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee

● 1971 - U.S.-backed Haitian dictator "Papa Doc" Duvalier dies. He is succeeded by his son, "Baby Doc" Duvalier.

● 1971 - Soyuz 10 launched

● 1972 - Apollo astronauts John Young & Charles Duke ride on the Moon

● 1972 - Vietnam War: Increased American bombing in Vietnam prompts antiwar protests in New York City, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.

● 1977 - A well blowout in the Ekofisk oil field resulted in the release of 8,200,000 gallons of oil into Great Britain's North Sea.

● 1977 - Simon Peres becomes premier of Israel

● 1978 - One Love Peace Concert held at National Heroes Stadium in Kingston, Jamaica. Bob Marley united the two opposing political leaders at this concert bringing peace to the civil war ridden streets of Kingston, Jamaica. It was Marley's first public appearance in Jamaica since being wounded in an assassination attempt a year and a half earlier.

● 1980 - Deposed ministers executed in Liberia; Thirteen leading officials of the ousted government in Liberia have been publicly executed on the orders of the new military regime.

● 1981 - 10,000 copper workers in Chile strike

● 1981 - Almost 1 million West German metal workers on strike

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

● 1982 - Launch of STS-3-Lousma & Fullerton

● 1983 - Soyuz T-8 returns to Earth

● 1983 - Stern magazine announces major historical find-discovery of 60 volume personal diaries written by Adolf Hitler (turned out to be a hoax)

● 1983 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1985 - Hundreds arrested at White House demonstration against U.S. policy in Central America.

● 1986 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1987 - The American Physical Society said that the "Star Wars" missile system was "highly questionable" and would take ten years to research.

● 1987 - Sri Lanka Air Force bomb Tamil, 100s killed

● 1990 - The people of Guilford County, North Carolina have their priorities in order. They postpone the celebration of Earth Day 1990 from this date to April 28th so as not to interfere with the K-Mart Greater Greensboro Open Golf Tournament.

● 1990 - Pro-Iranian kidnappers in Lebanon freed American hostage Robert Polhill after nearly 39 months of captivity.

● 1991 - Intel releases the 486SX chip

● 1991 - Earthquake strikes Costa Rica & Panamá, kills 95

● 1992 - Sixty thousand attend anti-war rock concert, Belgrade, Serbia.

● 1992 - 6.0 earthquake in California

● 1992 - Gas explodes in sewer, kills 200 in Guadalajara México

● 1992 - Plane crash at Perris Valley Airport, California, kills 16 parachutists

● 1993 - The Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC is dedicated.

● 1994 - Richard M. Nixon, the 37th president of the United States, died at age 81 in New York City, four days after suffering a stroke. {This man never suffered enough for his crimes.}

● 1994 - 7,000 Tutsi's slaughtered in stadium of Kibuye Rwanda

● 1994 - Børge Ousland reaches North pole

● 1994 - Schelto Patijn appointed mayor of Amsterdam

● 1995 - Maggie Kuhn, co-founder of the Gray Panthers, dies at age 89.

● 1995 - San Francisco police, in an equitable swap, trade computers for handguns.

● 1996 - Nonviolent activists Tom and Donna Howard-Hastings cut down three of the poles supporting the U.S. Navy's nuclear submarine radio "trigger" at Clam Lake, Wisconsin, collapsing the antenna and leaving the Navy unable to launch a first strike for days.

● 1997 - Haouch Khemisti massacre in Algeria; 93 villagers killed.

● 1997 - A 126-day hostage crisis at the residence of the Japanese ambassador in Lima, Peru ends after Peruvian troops under U.S.-backed dictator Alberto Fujimori storm and capture the building, rescuing 71 hostages. One hostage dies of a heart attack, two soldiers are killed from rebel fire, and all 14 rebels are slain.

● 2000 - In a predawn raid, federal agents seize six-year-old Elián González from his relatives' home in Miami, Florida. He was then reunited with his father.

● 2000 - The Big Number Change takes place in the United Kingdom.

● 2002 - Philippino President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo ordered a state of emergency in the city of General Santos in response to a series of bombing attacks the day before. The attacks were blamed on Muslim extremists.

● 2004 - Pro football player Pat Tillman, who'd traded in a multimillion-dollar contract to serve as an Army Ranger in Afghanistan, was killed by friendly fire; he was 27.

● 2004 - Two fuel trains collide in Ryongchon, North Korea, killing up to 150 people.

● 2005 - Zacarias Moussaoui plead guilty to conspiring with hijackers in the September 11, 2001, plot to attack American buildings and citizens.

● 2006 - The Iraqi parliament elected Jalal Talabani to another term as president.

● 2006 - 243 people were injured in pro-democracy protest in Nepal after Nepali security forces opened fire on protesters against King Gyanendra.

● 2006 - Four Canadian soldiers are killed 75 kilometers north of Kandahar, Afghanistan by a roadside bomb planted by Taliban militants, the worst single day combat loss for the Canadian army since the Korean War.

BIRTHS

● 1451 - Queen Isabella of Castile and Leon (d. 1504)

● 1550 - Edward de Vere, Lord Great Chamberlain of England (d. 1604)

● 1610 - Pope Alexander VIII (d. 1691)

● 1658 - Giuseppe Torelli, Italian composer (d. 1709)

● 1690 - John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, English statesman (d. 1763)

● 1692 - James Stirling, Scottish mathematician (d. 1770)

● 1707 - Henry Fielding, English author (d. 1754)

● 1711 - Eleazar Wheelock, American founder of Dartmouth College (d. 1779)

● 1724 - Immanuel Kant, German philosopher (d. 1804)

● 1766 - Madame de Staël, French author (d. 1817)

● 1812 - Solomon Caesar Malan, British orientalist (d. 1894)

● 1816 - Charles Denis Bourbaki, French general

● 1830 - Emily Davies, English pioneer in securing university education for women (d. 1921)

● 1832 - Julius Sterling Morton, Arbor Day founder (d. 1902

● 1840 - Odilon Redon, French painter (d. 1916)

● 1844 - Lewis Thornton Powell, would-be assassin of Secretary of State William H. Seward (d. 1865)

● 1852 - Guillaume IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (d. 1912)

● 1854 - Henri La Fontaine, Belgian lawyer, Nobel laureate (d. 1943)

● 1860 - Ada Rehan, American stage actress (d. 1916)

● 1870 (N.S.) - Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary (d. 1924)

● 1873 - Ellen Glasgow, American author (d. 1945)

● 1876 - Robert Bárány, American physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1936)

● 1876 - Georg Lurich, Estonian wrestler (d. 1920)

● 1881 - Alexander Kerensky, Russian politician (d. 1970)

● 1884 - Otto Rank, Austrian psychologist (d. 1939)

● 1889 - Richard Glücks, German SS officer (d. 1945)

● 1891 - Harold Jeffreys, English astronomer (d. 1989)

● 1891 - Nicola Sacco, American anarchist (d. 1927)

● 1899 – Martyn Green, English singer and actor; Gilbert and Sullivan star (d. 1975)

● 1899 - Vladimir Nabokov, Russian writer (d. 1977)

● 1904 - Dorothy Alexander, American ballet dancer, choreographer and founder of the Atlanta Ballet (d. 1986)

● 1904 - Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist (d. 1967)

● 1905 - Robert Choquette, French Canadian novelist, poet and diplomat (d. 1991)

● 1906 - Eddie Albert, American actor (d. 2005)

● 1906 - Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Westrobothnia, second in line to the Swedish throne (d. 1946)

● 1907 - Ivan Efremov, Russian paleontologist and author (d. 1972)

● 1909 - Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian neurologist, Nobel laureate

● 1910 - Norman Steenrod, American mathematician (d. 1971)

● 1912 - Kathleen Ferrier, British singer (d. 1953)

● 1914 - Jan de Hartog, Dutch writer (d. 2002)

● 1916 - Yehudi Menuhin, American-born violinist (d. 1999)

● 1918 - Mickey Vernon, baseball player

● 1919 - Donald J. Cram, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2001)

● 1922 - Charles Mingus, American musician (d. 1979)

● 1922 - Wolf V. Vishniac, American microbiologist (d. 1973)

● 1923 - Bettie Page, American model

● 1923 - Aaron Spelling, American television producer (d. 2006)

● 1925 - George Cole, British actor

● 1926 - Charlotte Rae, American actress ("Facts of Life")

● 1926 - James Stirling, British architect (d. 1992)

● 1932 - Estelle Harris, Actress ("Seinfeld")

● 1935 - Paul Chambers, American jazz bassist (d. 1969)

● 1936 - Glen Campbell, American musician

● 1936 - Pierre Hétu, French Canadian conductor and pianist (d. 1998)

● 1937 - Jack Nicholson, American actor

● 1937 - Jack Nitzsche, American composer (d. 2000)

● 1939 - Jason Miller, American playwright (d. 2001)

● 1943 - Mel Carter, R&B singer

● 1943 - Louise Glück, American poet and 12th US Poet Laureate

● 1944 - Steve Fossett, American adventurer

● 1945 - Cleve Francis, Country singer

● 1946 - John Waters, American film writer

● 1946 - Louise Harel, Quebec politician

● 1946 - Nicole Garcia, French actress and director

● 1950 - Peter Frampton, British musician

● 1950 - Zygi Wilf, owner of the Minnesota Vikings

● 1951 - Paul Carrack, British musician (Squeeze)

● 1952 - Marilyn Chambers, American actress

● 1952 - François Berléand, French actor

● 1953 - Juhani Komulainen, Finnish composer

● 1955 - Johnnie To, Hong Kong film director and producer

● 1958 - Ken Olandt, American actor

● 1959 - Catherine Mary Stewart, Canadian actress

● 1959 - Ryan Stiles, Canadian-born actor ("Whose Line is It Anyway?")

● 1960 - Gary Rhodes, English chef

● 1961 - Byron Allen, TV host, comedian ("Real People")

● 1962 - Jeff Minter, British video game programmer

● 1964 - Chris Makepeace, Actor

● 1965 - Lauri Hendler, actress

● 1965 - Peter Zezel, Canadian ice hockey player

● 1966 - Mariana Levy, Mexican actress (d. 2005)

● 1966 - Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Actor ("Grey's Anatomy")

● 1967 - Sherri Shepherd, Actress

● 1967 - Heath Wright, Country musician (Ricochet)

● 1967 - Sheryl Lee, American actress

● 1967 - Harvey Williams, American football player

● 1968 - Zarley Zalapski, Canadian ice hockey player

● 1969 - Dion Dublin, English footballer

● 1970 - Andrea Giani, Italian volleyball player

● 1970 - Regine Velasquez, Filipino singer and actress

● 1971 - Kellie Coffey, Country singer

● 1971 - Eric Mabius, Actor ("Ugly Betty")

● 1971 - Ingo Rademacher, Actor ("General Hospital")

● 1971 - Daisuke Enomoto, first Japanese space tourist

● 1972 - Owen Finegan, Australian rugby player

● 1973 - Ofer Talker, Israeli footballer

● 1974 - Shavo Odadjian, Armenian-born bassist (System of a Down)

● 1975 - Greg Moore, Canadian race car driver (d. 1999)

● 1976 - Michał Żewłakow, Polish footballer

● 1976 - Paul Henderson, Australian footballer

● 1976 - Dan Cloutier, French Canadian ice hockey goaltender

● 1977 - Mark van Bommel, Dutch football player

● 1977 - Aaron Fink, Guitarist for Breaking Benjamin

● 1978 - Jason Stollsteimer, American singer and lead guitarist (The Von Bondies)

● 1978 - Esteban Tuero, Argentinian race car driver

● 1979 - Daniel Johns, Australian musician (Silverchair)

● 1980 - Nicolas Douchez, French footballer

● 1980 - Courtney Friel, presenter of World Poker Tour

● 1981 - Ken Dorsey, American football player

● 1982 - Kaká, Brazilian footballer

● 1982 - Tim Hamilton, Slovak adult movie actor

● 1983 - Matt Jones, American football player

● 1984 - Michelle Ryan, English actress

● 1984 - Amelle Berrabah, British singer (of Sugababes)

● 1986 - Dusan Sakota, Serbian-Greek basketball player

DEATHS

● 296 - Pope Caius

● 455 - Petronius Maximus, Roman Emperor

● 536 - Pope Agapetus I

● 1592 - Bartolomeo Ammanati, Italian architect (b. 1511)

● 1672 - Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish poet (b. 1598)

● 1699 - Hans Erasmus Aßmann, Freiherr von Abschatz, German statesman (b. 1646)

● 1758 - Antoine de Jussieu, French naturalist (b. 1686)

● 1778 - James Hargreaves, English inventor (b. 1720)

● 1806 - Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, French admiral (stabbed) (b. 1763)

● 1833 - Richard Trevithick, English inventor (b. 1771)

● 1839 - Denis Davydov, Russian general and poet (b. 1784)

● 1854 - Nicolás Bravo, Mexican politician and soldier (b. 1786)

● 1892 - Edouard Lalo, French composer (b. 1823)

● 1896 - Thomas Meik, British civil engineer (b. 1812)

● 1908 - Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1836)

● 1925 - André Caplet, French composer (b. 1878)

● 1930 - Jeppe Aakjaer, Danish poet (b. 1866)

● 1933 - Henry Royce, British automobile manufacturer (b. 1863)

● 1945 - Käthe Kollwitz, German artist (b. 1867)

● 1945 - Wilhelm Cauer, German mathematician (b. 1900)

● 1946 - Harlan F. Stone, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (b. 1872)

● 1951 - Horace Donisthorpe, British entomologist (b. 1870)

● 1968 - Stephen H. Sholes, American recording executive (b. 1911)

● 1978 - Will Geer, American actor (b. 1902)

● 1980 - Jane Froman, American actor (b. 1907)

● 1980 - Fritz Strassmann, German physicist (b. 1902)

● 1983 - Earl "Fatha" Hines, American jazz pianist (b. 1903)

● 1983 - John Louis Evans, convicted murderer (executed) (b. 1950)

● 1984 - Ansel Adams, American photographer (b. 1902)

● 1985 - Paul H. Emmett, American chemical engineer (b. 1900)

● 1985 - Jacques Ferron, French Canadian physician, author and politician (b. 1921)

● 1986 - Mircea Eliade, Romanian writer (b. 1907)

● 1988 - Irene Rich, American actress (b. 1891)

● 1994 - Richard Nixon, President of the United States (b. 1913)

● 1995 - Maggie Kuhn, American activist (b. 1905)

● 1996 - Erma Bombeck, American humorist (b. 1927)

● 1998 - Kitch Christie, South African rugby coach (b. 1940)

● 1999 - Apostolos Nikolaidis, Greek singer (b. 1938)

● 2002 - Linda Lovelace, American adult actress (b. 1949)

● 2003 - Martha Griffiths, U.S. Congresswoman (b. 1912)

● 2003 - Michael Larrabee, American athlete (b. 1933)

● 2003 - Felice Bryant, American songwriter (b. 1925)

● 2004 - Pat Tillman, American football player and U.S. Army Ranger (killed in action) (b. 1976)

● 2004 - Jason L. Dunham, American Medal of Honor winner (b. 1981)

● 2005 - Philip Morrison, American physicist (b. 1915)

● 2005 - Erika Fuchs, German translator (b. 1906)

● 2005 - Norman Bird, UK character actor (b. 1920)

● 2006 - Alida Valli, Italian actress (b. 1921)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Abdiesus
● St. Acepsimas
● St. Apelles
● St. Arwald
● St. Authaire
● St. Bicor
● St. Caius, Pope (283-96), martyr
● Sts. Epiphanius and Alexander
● St. Joseph of Persia
● St. Leo of Sens
● St. Leonides of Alexandria
● St. Mareas
● St. Milles
● St. Opportuna
● Sts. Parmenius, Chrysoteins, and Helimenas
● St. Senorina
● St. Soter, Pope (166-75), martyr
● St. Tarbula
● St. Theodore of Sykeon

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for April 9 (Civil Date: April 22)
● Martyr Eupsychius of Caesarea in Cappadocia.
● Martyr Bademus (Vadim) of Persia.
● Martyrs Desan bishop, Mariabus presbyter, Abdiesus, and 270 other Martyrs in Persia.

● Greek Calendar:
● Martyr Patience

● Earth Day.

● Brazil : Discovery Day (1500)

● Nebraska : Arbor Day, where they created it (1872)

● Oklahoma : Oklahoma Day (1889)

● Spain, US : Queen Isabella Day

● USSR : Lenin's Birthday (1870)


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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