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Saturday, April 28, 2007

April 28......

April 28 is the 118th (119th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 247 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Democrats "The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery." — Dave Barry

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Ineptitude "I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty." — Newt Gingrich, former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives

{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

● 357 - Constantius II visited Rome for the first time.

● 585 - War between Lydia & Media ended by solar eclipse

● 1192 - Assassination of Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I), King of Jerusalem, in Tyre, only days after his title to the throne is confirmed by election. The killing is carried out by Hashshashin.

● 1202 - King Philip II throws out John without Country, from France

● 1253 - Utrecht destroyed by fire

● 1253 - Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, propounds Nam Myoho Renge Kyo for the first time and declares it to be the essence of Buddhism, in effect founding Nichiren Buddhism.

● 1282 - Villagers in Palermo led a revolt against French rule in Sicily.

● 1376 - English parliament demands supervision on royal outlay

● 1503 - Battle at Cerignalo Spanish army under G Córdoba beats France

● 1521 - Treaty of Worms Emperor Charles names his brother Ferdinand Arch duke of Netherlands-Austria

● 1521 - German reformer Martin Luther wrote in a letter: 'The authority of Scripture is greater than the comprehension of the whole of man's reason.'

● 1550 - Powers of Dutch inquisition extended

● 1635 - Virginia Governor John Harvey accused of treason & removed from office

● 1655 - English Admiral Blake beats Tunen pirate fleet

● 1688 - Portugese Carta Regia re-establishes slavery and warfare against indigenous peoples.

● 1758 - James Monroe, the fifth president of the United States, was born in Virginia.

● 1770 - Captain James Cook in Endeavor lands at Botany Bay in Australia

● 1788 - Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the Constitution of the United States.

● 1789 - Mutiny on the HMS Bounty. Captain William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift and the rebel crew under Fletcher Christian returns to Tahiti briefly and then sets sail for Pitcairn Island.

● 1796 - The Armistice of Cherasco is signed by Napoleon Bonaparte and Vittorio Amedeo III, the King of Sardinia, expanding French territory along the Mediterranean coast.

● 1804 - 31 English ship sail Suriname river demand transition colony

● 1818 - Monroe proclaims naval disarmament on Great Lakes & Lake Champlain

● 1829 - Dutch parliament accepts new press laws

● 1839 - Birth of Vernon J. Charlesworth, English clergyman and headmaster at Charles Spurgeon's Stockwell Orphanage. Today, Charlesworth is remembered as author of the hymn, "A Shelter in the Time of Storm."

● 1847 - George B Vashon becomes 1st black to enter New York State Bar

● 1848 - Free last slaves in French colonies

● 1855 - 1st veterinary college in US incorporated in Boston

● 1862 - American Civil War: Admiral David Farragut captures New Orleans, Louisiana.

● 1872 - English devotional author Frances Ridley Havergal, 33, penned the words to the hymn, "Lord, Speak to Me That I May Speak."

● 1874 - Birth of Susan Strachan, missions pioneer. Working together with her husband Harry Strachan, in 1921 she helped found the Latin America Mission in Stony Point, NY.

● 1878 - Lionel Barrymore, who was one of the most important American character actors in the early 1900s, was born.

● 1896 - The Addressograph was patented by J.S. Duncan.

● 1902 - A revolution broke out in the Dominican Republic.

● 1910 - 1st night air flight (Claude Grahame-White, England)

● 1914 - 181 die in coal mine collapse at Eccles WV

● 1914 - W H Carrier patents air conditioner

● 1916 - The British declared martial law throughout Ireland.

● 1919 - Seattle mayor Hanson gets a bomb in the mail. He declares the government should "buck up and hand or incarcerate for life all the anarchists." One of 36 bombs which turn up in the mails across the nation.

● 1919 - The League of Nations was founded.

● 1919 - 1st jump with Army Air Corp (rip-cord type) parachute (Les Irvin)

● 1920 - Azerbaijan is added to the Soviet Union.

● 1924 - 119 die in Benwood WV coal mine disaster

● 1925 - Kurd rebels surrender to Turkish army

● 1925 - Netherlands & Great Britain return to gold standard

● 1932 - A vaccine for yellow fever is announced for use on humans.

● 1934 - FDR signs Home Owners Loan Act

● 1934 - Spanish government of Samper forms

● 1935 - Moscow underground opens (81 km long)

● 1937 - Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was born near the desert town of Tikrit.

● 1937 - 1st commercial flight across the Pacific, Pan Am

● 1939 - Hitler claims German-Polish non-attack treaty still in effect

● 1940 - Rudolf Hess becomes commandant of concentration camp Auschwitz

● 1941 - Last British troops in Greece surrenders

● 1942 - Twelve hundred Berkeley, Calif. residents of Japanese descent report for transport to internment camp.

● 1942 - "WWII" titled so, as result of Gallup Poll

● 1942 - Nightly "dim-out" begins along the East Coast

● 1943 - At Fort Douglas, Utah, a sentry is found "not guilty" for shooting and killing, 15 days earlier, James Hatsuki Wakasa, a 63-year-old Japanese-American chef, at Heart Mountain concentration camp. Wakasa was allegedly trying to escape through a fence. It is later determined that Wakasa had been inside the fence and facing the sentry when shot.

● 1943 - German-Italian counter offensive in North-Africa

● 1943 - US 34th Division occupies Djebel el Hara North Tunisia

● 1944 - Exercise "Tiger" ends with 750 US soldiers dead in D-Day rehearsal after their convoy ships were attacked by German torpedo boats

● 1944 - Stalin meets Polish/US priest S Orlemanski

● 1945 - Dachau concentration camp, near Munich, is liberated.

● 1945 - British commands attack Elbe & occupies Lauenburg

● 1945 - US 5th army reaches Swiss border

● 1945 - Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are executed by a firing squad consisting of members of the Italian resistance movement.

● 1946 - The Allies indicted Tojo with 55 counts of war crimes.

● 1947 - Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl and five others set out in a balsa wood craft known as Kon Tiki to prove that Peruvian Indians could have settled in Polynesia. The trip began in Peru and took 101 days to complete the crossing of the Pacific Ocean.

● 1952 - Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Commander of NATO.

● 1952 - The U.S. occupation of Japan officially ended when a treaty with the U.S. and 47 other countries went into effect.

● 1953 - After overthrow of democratically elected government, the CIA installs the Shah of Iran, beginning a 25-year dictatorship in that country.

● 1953 - French troops evacuated northern Laos.

● 1956 - Last French troops leave Vietnam

● 1958 - Vice President Richard Nixon begins goodwill tour of Latin America

● 1958 - Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island

● 1960 - The 100th General Assembly of the Southern Presbyterian Church (PCUS) passed a resolution declaring that sexual relations within marriage -- without the intention of procreation -- were not sinful.

● 1961 - Lieutenant Colonel Georgi Mossolov takes E-66A to 34,714 meter altitude

● 1961 - Over 2,000 defy mandatory civil defense drill, New York City.

● 1962 - In protest against nuclear tests, 70 sit down at Town Hall and 1,500 meet at Pier Head, Liverpool, Britain.

● 1964 - Japan joins OECO

● 1965 - United States troops land in the Dominican Republic to "forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship" (the ascension of democratically elected president Juan Bosch) and to evacuate U.S. citizens, stay until October 1966.

● 1965 - Richard Helms replaces Marshall S Carter as deputy director of CIA

● 1965 - William F Raborn Jr replaces John A McCone as 7th head of CIA

● 1966 - OCAM, Common Afro-Mauritian Organization forms

● 1967 - Heavyweight boxing champion Muhammed Ali is arrested for refusing military induction.

● 1968 - 11 year-old Mary Bell strangles 4 year-old Martin Brown

● 1969 - Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France.

● 1970 - Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) enacted.

● 1970 - Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to fight communist sanctuaries in Cambodia.

● 1971 - Samuel Lee Gravely Jr becomes 1st black Admiral in US Navy

● 1971 - Dutch social Democratic party/D'66/DS'70 win parliamentary election

● 1975 - Last Americans evacuated from Saigon

● 1975 - South-Vietnam General Duong Van Minh sworn in as president till April 30

● 1977 - Christopher Boyce convicted for selling US secrets to the Russians

● 1977 - The Red Army Faction trial ends, with Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe found guilty of four counts of murder and more than 30 counts of attempted murder.

● 1977 - The Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure is signed.

● 1978 - At Rocky Flats nuclear weapons facility, near Denver, over 5,000 protest and 284 arrested for blocking railroad tracks entering the plant.

● 1978 - President of Afghanistan Mohammed Daoud Khan is overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by pro-communist rebels.

● 1980 - President Jimmy Carter accepted the resignation of Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, who had opposed the failed rescue mission aimed at freeing American hostages in Iran.

● 1981 - Galician current Statute of Autonomy.

● 1983 - NASA launches Goes-F

● 1983 - Argentine government declares all 15-30,000 missing persons dead

● 1986 - Soviets admit nuclear accident; The Soviet Union acknowledges there has been an accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine.

● 1986 - United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise becomes the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to transit the Suez Canal, navigating from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea to relieve USS Coral Sea, on station across the "Line of Death" in the Gulf of Sidra off the coast of Libya. The transit began at 0300 and lasted 12 hours.

● 1987 - Benjamin Linder, a volunteer engineer from Seattle, is murdered by U.S.-sponsored Contras (characterized by then-Pres. Reagan as "the moral equivalent of our founding fathers") while working on a hydroelectric project in rural Nicaragua.

● 1988 - Near Maui, Hawaii, flight attendant Clarabelle "C.B." Lansing is sucked out of Aloha Flight 243, a Boeing 737, and falls to her death when part of the plane's fuselage rips open in mid-flight.

● 1989 - Mobil announced that they were divesting from South Africa because congressional restrictions were too costly.

● 1989 - Argentina, hit by rocketing inflation, runs out of money

● 1989 - Iran protests sale of "Satanic Verses" by Salman Rushdie

● 1990 - Last issue of Dutch communist daily De Waarheid (The Truth)

● 1991 - Death of Igal Roodenko, World War II conscientious objector and pacifist activist, New York City.

● 1991 - Space Shuttle STS 39 (Discovery 12) is launched

● 1992 - The U.S. Agriculture Department unveiled a pyramid-shaped recommended-diet chart.

● 1992 - Italian President Francesco Cossiga formally resigns

● 1993 - Carlo Ciampi forms Italian government with ex-communists

● 1993 - Zambian plane crashes at Libreville Gabon, 30 soccer players die

● 1994 - 1st multi-racial election in South Africa ends [3 days]

● 1994 - Former CIA official Aldrich Ames, who had given U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and then Russia, plead guilty to espionage and tax evasion. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

● 1994 - Freddy Thielemans sworn in as mayor of Brussels Belgium

● 1995 - Gas explosion in South Korean metro, 103 die

● 1995 - Sri Lankaan BAE748 crashes at Palaly, 52 die

● 1996 - Sixty-one arrested for dismantling railroad tracks leading out of Gundremmingen nuclear power station, Bavaria, Germany.

● 1996 - Whitewater scandal: President Bill Clinton gives 4½ hour videotaped testimony for the defense.

● 1996 - In Tasmania, Australia, Martin Bryant goes on a shooting spree, killing 35 people and seriously injuring 37 more.

● 1997 - Police beat and pepper-spray affirmative action protesters at Univ. of California-Berkeley.

● 1997 - The 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention goes into effect, with Russia, Iraq and North Korea notable nations who had not ratified the treaty.

● 1999 - The U.S. House of Representatives rejected (on a tie vote of 213-213) a measure expressing supprot for NATO's five-week-old air campaign in Yugoslavia. The House also voted to limit the president's authority to use ground forces in Yugoslavia.

● 2001 - A Russian rocket launched from Central Asia with the first space tourist aboard. The crew consisted of California businessman Dennis Tito and two cosmonauts. The destination was the international space station.

● 2004 - The first photos of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal were shown on CBS' "60 Minutes II."

● 2005 - More than 100 volunteers joined police in Duluth, Ga., in searching for Jennifer Wilbanks, a bride-to-be who had vanished two days earlier. (Wilbanks turned up in Albuquerque, N.M., having run away on her own.) {These fools who voluntarily went searching when there wasn't the slightest evidence of foul play, then sued her for their own stupidity.}

● 2005 - The Patent Law Treaty goes into effect.


BIRTHS

● 1442 - King Edward IV of England (d. 1483)

● 1545 - Yi Sun-sin, Korean admiral (d. 1598)

● 1630 - Charles Cotton, English poet (d. 1687)

● 1686 - Michael Brokoff, Czech sculptor (d. 1721)

● 1715 - Franz Sparry, composer (d. 1767)

● 1758 - James Monroe, 5th President of the United States (1817-25) (d. 1831)

● 1764 - Marie-Joseph Chenier, French poet, dramatist, politician and revolutionary (d. 1811)

● 1765 - Sylvestre François Lacroix, French mathematician (b. 1834)

● 1819 - Ezra Abbot, American Bible scholar (d. 1884)

● 1838 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser, Dutch jurist, Nobel laureate (d. 1913)

● 1868 - Lucy Booth, the fifth daughter of William and Catherine Booth (d. 1953)

● 1868 - Georgy Voronoy, Russian mathematician (d. 1908)

● 1874 - Karl Kraus, Austrian journalist and author (d. 1936)

● 1878 - Lionel Barrymore, American actor (d. 1954)

● 1886 - Erich Salomon, German photographer; a founder of photojournalism (d. 1944)

● 1886 - Ğabdulla Tuqay, Russian poet (d. 1913)

● 1889 - António de Oliveira Salazar, dictator of Portugal (d. 1970)

● 1900 - Jan Oort, Dutch astronomer (d. 1992)

● 1903(02? NYT) - Johan Borgen, Norwegian author (d. 1979)

● 1906 - Bart Jan Bok, Dutch-born American astronomer; expert on the Milky Way (d. 1983)

● 1906 - Kurt Gödel, Austrian mathematician (d. 1978)

● 1906 - Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor (d. 1999)

● 1908 - Oskar Schindler, Austrian businessman (d. 1974)

● 1912 - Odette Sansom, French resistance worker (d. 1995)

● 1914 - Philip E. High, Science fiction author (d. 2006)

● 1916 - Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian automobile manufacturer (d. 1993)

● 1921 - Rowland Evans, American journalist (d. 2001)

● 1922 - William Guarnere, WWII Veteran

● 1924 - Kenneth Kaunda, President of Zambia

● 1925 - T. John Lesinski, Lieutenant Governor of Michigan

● 1926 - Harper Lee, American author ("To Kill a Mockingbird")

● 1928 - Yves Klein, French painter (d. 1962)

● 1928 - Eugene M. Shoemaker, American planetary scientist (d. 1997)

● 1930 - James Baker III, American politician

● 1930 - Carolyn Jones, American actress (d. 1983)

● 1937 - Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq (d. 2006)

● 1938 - Madge Sinclair, Jamaican actress (d. 1995)

● 1941 - Ann-Margret, Swedish-born actress

● 1941 - K. Barry Sharpless, American chemist, Nobel laureate

● 1941 - Lucien Aimar, French cyclist

● 1941 - Iryna Zhylenko, Ukrainian poet

● 1943 - Jacques Dutronc, French singer and actor

● 1944 - Jean-Claude Van Cauwenberghe, Belgian politician

● 1944 - Alice Waters, American chef

● 1948 - Terry Pratchett, English author

● 1948 - Marcia Strassman, American actress ("Welcome Back, Kotter")

● 1949 - Paul Guilfoyle, Actor ("CSI")

● 1949 - Indian Larry, American stuntsman

● 1949 - Bruno Kirby, American actor (d. 2006)

● 1950 - Jay Leno, American comedian and television host ("The Tonight Show")

● 1952 - Chuck Leavell, Rock musician

● 1952(53? NYT) - Mary McDonnell, American actress

● 1953 - Kim Gordon, American musician (Sonic Youth)

● 1955 - Paul Guilfoyle, American actor

● 1955 - Nicky Gumbel, British author and priest

● 1956 - Jimmy Barnes, Scottish-born singer

● 1957 - Wilma Landkroon, Dutch singer

● 1958 - Hal Sutton, American golfer

● 1960 - Jón Páll Sigmarsson, Icelandic strength athlete (d. 1993)

● 1960 - John Cerutti, baseball player and announcer (d. 2004)

● 1960 - Walter Zenga, Italian footballer

● 1964 - Barry Larkin, American baseball player

● 1965 - Steve Blum, American voice actor

● 1966 - John Daly, American golfer

● 1966 - Too $hort, American rapper

● 1967 - Kari Wührer, American actress

● 1968 - Daisy Berkowitz, American musician (Marilyn Manson)

● 1970 - Nicklas Lidström, Swedish hockey player

● 1970 - Diego Simeone, Argentine footballer

● 1971 - Simbi Khali, Actress ("3rd Rock from the Sun")

● 1971 - Chris Young, Actor

● 1971 - Bridget Moynahan, Actress

● 1972 - Violent J, Insane Clown Posse

● 1973 - Elisabeth Röhm, American actress ("Law and Order")

● 1973 - Jorge Garcia, American actor ("Lost")

● 1973 - Big Gipp, Rapper

● 1974 - Penélope Cruz, Spanish actress

● 1974 - Richel Hersisia, Dutch boxer

● 1974 - Vernon Kay, British TV/radio presenter

● 1978 - Nate Richert, American actor ("Sabrina the Teenage Witch")

● 1979 - Mike Fonseca, Mexican astronaut, cousin of Francisco Fonseca. Born on the International Year of the Child

● 1980 - Josh Howard, basketball player (Dallas Mavericks)

● 1981 - Jessica Alba, American actress ("Dark Angel")

● 1982 - Jason Neave, British Folk Hero

● 1987 - Jonathan Green Jarred Miller, Birthday Buddies

● 1991 - Aleisha Allen, Actress

● 1994 - Terrell Paige American Famous Cheif

● 1996 - Zanger Bob, Dutch singer

● 1990 - Kristóf Somlyai (kRIS), Hungarian Yamakasi


DEATHS

● 1192 - Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I), King of Jerusalem (b. mid 1140s)

● 1498 - Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland, English politician

● 1533 - Nicholas West, English bishop and diplomat (b. 1461)

● 1695 - Henry Vaughan, Welsh poet (b. 1621)

● 1710 - Thomas Betterton, English actor

● 1726 - Thomas Pitt, British Governor of Madras (b. 1653)

● 1741 - Magnus Julius De la Gardie, Swedish General and statesman (b. 1668)

● 1772 - Johann Friedrich Struensee, physician of Christian VII of Denmark (b. 1737)

● 1781 - Cornelius Harnett, American delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1723)

● 1813 - Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov, Russian field marshal (b. 1745)

● 1816 - Johann Heinrich Abicht, German philosopher (b. 1862)

● 1841 - Peter Chanel, French saint (b. 1803)

● 1853 - Ludwig Tieck, German writer (b. 1773)

● 1858 - Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist (b. 1801)

● 1905 - Fitzhugh Lee, American Confederate general (b. 1835)

● 1926 - Zip the Pinhead, American freak show performer (b. 1857)

● 1936 - King Fuad I of Egypt (b. 1868)

● 1944 - Frank Knox, U.S. Vice-Presidential candidate (b. 1874)

● 1945 - Benito Mussolini, Italian fascist dictator (b. 1882)

● 1945 - Clara Petacci, Italian mistress of Benito Mussolini (shot) (b. 1912)

● 1945 - Roberto Farinacci, Italian fascist (b. 1892)

● 1946 - Louis Bachelier, French mathematician (b. 1870)

● 1954 - Léon Jouhaux, French labor leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1879)

● 1964 - Rolf de Maré, Swedish art collector (b. 1888)

● 1970 - Ed Begley, American actor (b. 1901)

● 1973 - Clas Thunberg, Finnish speed skater (b. 1893)

● 1975 - Tom Donahue, American FM radio DJ (pioneer, freeform radio) (b. 1928)

● 1978 - Sardar Mohammed Daoud, President of Afghanistan (b. 1909)

● 1991 - Steve Broidy, American motion picture executive (b. 1905)

● 1992 - Francis Bacon, Anglo-Irish painter (b. 1909)

● 1992 - Iceberg Slim, American writer (b. 1918)

● 1993 - Jim Valvano, American basketball coach (b. 1946)

● 1999 - Rory Calhoun, American actor (b. 1922)

● 1999 - Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1921)

● 1999 - Alf Ramsey, English football manager (b. 1920)

● 2000 - Penelope Fitzgerald, English writer (b. 1916)

● 2002 - Alexander Lebed, Russian general (b. 1950)

● 2002 - Lou Thesz, American wrestler (b. 1916)

● 2005 - Chris Candido, American wrestler (b. 1972)


HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Aphrodisius
● St. Artemius
● St. Cronan of Roscrea
● St. John Baptist Thanh
● St. Louis Marie Grignon of Montfort
● St. Luchesio
● St. Mark of Galilee
● St. Pamphilus
● St. Patrick of Prusa
● St. Peter Chanel
● St. Peter Hieu
● St. Pollio
● Sts. Theodora & Didymus
● St. Valerie
● Sts. Vitalis and Valeria

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for April 15 (Civil Date: April 28)
● Apostles Aristarchus, Pudens and Trophimus of the Seventy.
● Martyr Sabbas the Goth of Walachia.
● Martyrs Basilissa and Anastasia of rome, disciples of Apostles Peter and Paul.
● St. Mstislav-Theodore, prince of Kiev.
● Martyr Suchias and his company in Armenia.

● Greek Calendar:
● St. Leonidas, Bishop of Athens.
● Martyrs Theodore, presbyter, and Pausilippus.
● Repose of Blessed Daniel of Siberia (1843)
● Repose of Schema-hieromonk Michael, the last Elder of Valaam (1962).

● Traditional Catholic:
● St. Paul of the Cross

● Roman Empire - first day of the Floralia in honor of Flora.

● Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Jamál (Beauty) - First day of the third month of the Bahá'í Calendar.

● National Day of Mourning in Canada to commemorate workers killed, injured, or suffering illness due to occupational hazards and accidents.

● World Day for Safety and Health at Work, which developed from the Canadian observance.

● Arbor Day - legal state holiday in Nebraska, USA.

● National Heroes Day - Barbados.

● Workers Memorial Day - International Workers Memorial Day

● Maryland (7th State): Ratification Day (1788)

● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Alabama, Florida, Mississippi: Confederate Memorial Day (1868) - (Monday)
● US-Utah: Arbor Day-plant a tree (1872) - (Friday)



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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