April 29......

April 29 is the 119th (120th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 246 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Disabilities "The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain – until it is secured for of us and incorporated into our common life." — Jane Addams

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Iraq War "Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised." — George W. Bush

{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

● 1091 - Battle at Monte Levunium Emperor Alexius I beats Petshegenes

● 1289 - Qala'un, the Sultan of Egypt, captured Tripoli.

● 1429 - Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orléans.

● 1522 - Emperor Charles V names Frans van Holly inquisitor-General of Netherlands

● 1540 - Emperor Charles V declares all privileges of Gent ended

● 1550 - Emperor Charles V gives inquisitors additional authority

● 1553 - Flemish woman introduces practice of starching linen into England

● 1607 - The first Anglican (Episcopal) church in the American colonies was established at Cape Henry, Virginia.

● 1623 - 11 Dutch ships depart for the conquest of Peru

● 1628 - Sweden & Denmark sign defense treaty against Duke of Wallenstein

● 1636 - Prince Frederik Henry occupies Schenkenschans

● 1644 - Farm leader Li Zicheng becomes emperor of China & flees Peking

● 1661 - Chinese Ming dynasty occupies Taiwan

● 1670 - Pope Clemens X elected

● 1672 - Franco-Dutch War: Louis XIV of France invades the Netherlands.

● 1701 - Drenthe Netherlands adopts Gregorian calendar, tomorrow is May 12, 1701

● 1706 - Emperor Jozef I becomes monarch of Cologne/Bavaria

● 1707 - English/Scottish parliament accept Act of Union, form Great Britain

● 1715 - John Flamsteed observes Uranus for 6th time

● 1770 - James Cook arrives at and names Botany Bay, Australia.

● 1781 - French fleet occupies Tobago

● 1781 - French fleet stops Britain from seizing the Cape of Good Hope

● 1813 - Rubber was patented by J. F. Hummel.

● 1834 - Charles Darwin's expedition sees top of Andes from Patagonia

● 1834 - Birth of Joseph H. Gilmore, American Baptist clergyman and Hebrew instructor. He is better remembered today, however, as author of the hymn: "He Leadeth Me, O Blessed Thought."

● 1845 - Macon B Allen & Robert Morris Jr, 1st blacks to open law practice

● 1852 - 1st edition of Peter Roget's Thesaurus published

● 1853 - Comet C/1853 G1 (Schweizer) approaches within 0.0839 astronomical units (AUs) of Earth

● 1854 - The Ashmun Institute is officially chartered, becoming the first college for African American students.

● 1856 - A peace treaty was signed between England and Russia. End of Crimean War

● 1857 - US Army, Pacific Division HQ is permanently established at Presidio (San Francisco)

● 1858 - Publication in France of P.J. Proudhon's "Justice," with the memorable line, "Property is theft!"

● 1858 - Austrian troops invaded Piedmont.

● 1861 - American Civil War: Maryland's House of Delegates votes not to secede from the Union.

● 1862 - American Civil War: New Orleans falls to Union forces under Admiral David Farragut.

● 1862 - 100,000 federal troops prepare to march into Corinth MS

● 1863 - Battle of Chancellorville VA (Fredericksburg, Wilderness Tavern)

● 1864 - Skirmish at Jenkins' Ferry AR begins

● 1879 - In Cleveland, OH, electric arc lights were used for the first time.

● 1882 - The "Elektromote" – forerunner of the trolleybus – trialed by Ernst Werner von Siemens in Berlin.

● 1885 - Women admitted to exams at Oxford University for the first time.

● 1886 - 1st public Dutch electricity opens

● 1894 - Jacob Coxey's protest Industrial Army of the Poor reaches Washington D.C. He led a group of 500 unemployed people from the Midwest, and was arrested for trespassing on Capitol grounds.

● 1895 - American warships sent to Nicaragua, to protect U.S. interests.

● 1899 - Their demand that only union men be employed refused, members of the Western Federation of Miners (WFM) dynamited the $250,000 mill of the Bunker Hill Company at Wardner, Idaho, destroying it completely. Pres. McKinley responded by sending in black soldiers from Brownsville, Texas with orders to round up thousands of miners and confine them in specially built "bullpens." 1899-1901 saw U.S. Army troops occupying the Coeur d'Alene mining region in northern Idaho.

● 1899 - Jazz musician Duke Ellington was born in Washington D.C.

● 1901 - Hirohito, ruler of Japan during World War II and Japan's longest-reigning monarch, was born.

● 1901 - Anti semitic riot in Budapest

● 1903 - A 30 million cubic-metre landslide kills 70 in Frank, Alberta, Canada.

● 1905 - 2" rain falls in 10 minutes in Taylor TX

● 1905 - Pierre de Brazza lands in Libreville Gabon

● 1910 - Ex-President Theodore Roosevelt visits Amsterdam

● 1910 - Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the second time.

● 1912 - 108º F (42º C), Tuguegarao Philippines (Oceania record)

● 1913 - Swedish engineer Gideon Sundback of Hoboken patents all-purpose zipper

● 1915 - Women's International League for Peace and Freedom founded, The Hague, Netherlands.

● 1916 - Irish nationalists set post office on fire in Dublin

● 1916 - Easter Rebellion: Martial law in Ireland is lifted and the rebellion is officially over with the surrender of Irish nationalists to British authorities in Dublin.

● 1918 - Germany's Western Front offensive ended in World War I.

● 1924 - An open revolt broke out in Santa Clara, Cuba.

● 1925 - Netherlands returns to gold standard

● 1926 - France & US reach accord on repayment of WWI

● 1927 - Construction of the Spirit of St. Louis was completed for Lindbergh.

● 1930 - North Sea floodgate at Ijmuiden (biggest in world) officially opens

● 1930 - Telephone connection England-Australia goes into service

● 1933 - The Navigators trace their origin to this date, when founder Dawson Trotman began the work in San Pedro, CA. In 1943, this evangelical mission was formally incorporated, and is headquartered today in Colorado Springs, CO.

● 1939 - Whitestone Bridge connecting Bronx & Queens opens

● 1940 - Norwegian King Haakon & government flees to England

● 1942 - Japanese troops march into Lashio, cut off Burma Road

● 1942 - Jews forced to wear a Jewish Star in Netherlands & Vichy-France

● 1943 - Dietrich Bonhöffer arrested by Nazi's

● 1943 - US 34th Division occupies Hill 609, North Tunisia

● 1944 - Surprise attack by Van de Peat on General Landsdrukkerij in the Hague

● 1945 - World War II: The German Army in Italy unconditionally surrenders to the Allies.

● 1945 - 1st food drop by RAF above Nazi-occupied Holland (operation Manna)

● 1945 - Adolf Hitler marries his long-time partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker and designates Admiral Karl Doenitz as his successor.

● 1945 - Japanese army evacuates Rangoon

● 1945 - U.S. troops liberated the oldest of the Nazi concentration camps -- Dachau -- in Bavaria, West Germany. It is estimated that nearly 32,000 prisoners (mostly Jews) perished at Dachau during its 12-year existence as a Nazi detention camp.

● 1945 - Venice & Mestre are captured by the Allies

● 1946 - Former Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo and 28 former Japanese leaders are indicted for war crimes.

● 1951 - A Tibetan delegation to the Chinese government was presented with a treaty draft regarding the Chinese occupation of Tibet.

● 1952 - Death of Samuel M. Zwemer, 85, American Dutch Reformed missionary. Serving in Egypt between 1890-1905, Zwemer helped found the Arabian Mission in 1888 and authored over 50 volumes during his life -- many in Arabic.

● 1952 - United States, Australia, and New Zealand sign ANZUS treaty for "collective security" and "regional defense." Treaty eventually collapses in 1980's over U.S. refusal to honor nuclear-free ports.

● 1955 - Giovanni Gronchi elected President of Italy

● 1957 - 1st military nuclear power plant dedicated, Fort Belvoir VA

● 1961 - 826 arrested in nuclear disarmament demonstration, London, Britain.

● 1964 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1965 - An earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter Scale shakes Seattle, killing five and causing over $15 million in damage.

● 1965 - Australian government announces it will send troops to Vietnam

● 1965 - Malta is 18th member of Council of Europe

● 1965 - Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) successfully launches seventh rocket in their Rehber series.

● 1967 - After refusing induction into the United States Army the day before (citing religious reasons), Muhammad Ali is stripped of his boxing title.

● 1970 - U.S. invades and bombs Cambodia, widening the Vietnam War.

● 1971 - Boeing receives contract for Mariner 10, Mercury exploration

● 1971 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1974 - Watergate Scandal: President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings related to the scandal.

● 1975 - Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind – The last U.S. citizens begin evacuation from Saigon prior to an expected North Vietnamese takeover. United States involvement in the war comes to an end.

● 1976 - Minister Irene Vorrink begins fluoridating Dutch drinking water

● 1978 - Ten thousand demonstrate against nuclear power plant expansion, Windscale, Cumbria, Britain.

● 1978 - Afghan coup rebels claim victory; The new left-wing rulers of Afghanistan say almost all the leaders of the ousted Daoud regime are dead.

● 1980 - Film and TV thriller master Alfred Hitchcock dies, Los Angeles.

● 1981 - Truck driver Peter Sutcliffe admitted in a London court to being the "Yorkshire Ripper," the killer of 13 women in northern England over five years.

● 1982 - Alfredo Magana elected President of El Salvador

● 1983 - Harold Washington sworn in as Chicago's 1st black mayor

● 1984 - In California, the Diablo Canyon nuclear reactor went online after a long delay due to protests.

● 1985 - 17th space shuttle mission (51-B)-Challenger 7 launched

● 1986 - Simple funeral rites for Duchess; The Duchess of Windsor, Wallis Simpson, is laid to rest alongside her husband, the abdicated King Edward VIII, at Frogmore in Windsor.

● 1986 - Fire at the Central library of the City of Los Angeles Public Library, some 400,000 books and other items damaged or destroyed.

● 1987 - Japan's premier Nakasone visits the US

● 1988 - Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev promised more religious freedom.

● 1989 - 2nd government of Lubbers falls

● 1990 - STS-31 (Discovery 10) lands

● 1990 - Wrecking cranes began tearing down Berlin Wall at Brandenburg Gate

● 1991 - Croatia declares independence

● 1991 - Cyclone strikes Bangladesh, 139,000 die/10 million homeless

● 1991 - Earthquake in Georgia kills 100

● 1992 - An all-white jury acquits four Los Angeles policemen of charges resulting from the beating of Rodney King. Riots and civil disturbances break out in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Las Vegas, and numerous other U.S. cities. In L.A., 53 die, hundreds are injured over the following days.

● 1992 - Exxon executive Sidney Reso was kidnapped outside his Morris Township, NJ, home by Arthur Seale. Seale was a former Exxon security official. Reso died while in captivity.

● 1993 - Queen to open Palace doors; Buckingham Palace will open to the public for the first time in a bid to raise funds to repair Windsor Castle.

● 1994 - Pres. Clinton meets with 500 Native American leaders.

● 1994 - Ferry boat smashes into Mombasa Harbor Kenya, kills over 300

● 1994 - Israel and the PLO signed an agreement in Paris which granted Palestinians broad authority to set taxes, control trade and regulate banks under self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.

● 1995 - Longest sausage ever, at 2877 miles, made in Kitchener Ontario Canada

● 1996 - Three men are arrested for protesting a nuclear power plant under construction in southern South Korea, in violation of the country's Law Of Atomic Energy, which strictly limits the scope of permitted action in opposition to state nuclear policy.

● 1996 - Former CIA Director William Colby was missing and presumed drowned after an apparent boating accident in Maryland. What appeared to be Colby's body was later recovered.

● 1997 - Staff Sgt. Delmar Simpson, a drill instructor at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, was convicted of raping six female trainees. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison and was dishonorably discharged.

● 1997 - Astronaut Jerry Linenger and cosmonaut Vasily Tsibliyev went on the first U.S.-Russian space walk.

● 1997 - The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, outlaws the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons among its signatories.

● 1998 - The U.S., Canada and Mexico end tariffs on $1 billion in NAFTA trade.

● 1998 - Brazil announced a plan to protect a large area of Amazon forest. The area was about the size of Colorado.

● 1999 - Avala TV Tower near Belgrade destroyed in NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.

● 2002 - The United States is re-elected to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, one year after losing the seat it had held for 50 years.

● 2003 - The Palestinian parliament approved Mahmoud Abbas as prime minister.

● 2004 - A national monument to the 16 million U.S. men and women who served during World War II opened to the public in Washington D.C.

● 2004 - Dick Cheney and George W. Bush testify before the 9/11 Commission in a closed, unrecorded hearing in the Oval Office.

● 2005 - Syria completes withdrawal from Lebanon, ending 29 years of occupation.

● 2006 - Economist John Kenneth Galbraith died at age 97.

BIRTHS

● 534 - Taliesin, Welsh poet, according to legend in Mabinogion

● 1665 - James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, Irish statesman and soldier (d. 1745)

● 1667 - John Arbuthnot, English physician and satirist (d. 1735)

● 1686 - Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (d. 1742)

● 1727 - Jean-Georges Noverre, French dancer (d. 1810)

● 1745 - Oliver Ellsworth, 3rd Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1807)

● 1762 - Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, French marshal (d. 1833)

● 1780 - Charles Nodier, French writer (d. 1844)

● 1818 - Alexander II, Russian emperor (1855-81); emancipated the serfs in 1861 (d. 1881)

● 1837 - Georges Boulanger, French general and politician (d. 1891)

● 1842 - Karl Millöcker, Dutch composer (d. 1899)

● 1854 - Henri Poincaré, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1912)

● 1863 - William Randolph Hearst, American publisher (d. 1951)

● 1863 - Constantine P. Cavafy, Greek poet (d. 1933)

● 1863 - Maria Theresa Ledochowska, Polish-Austrian Catholic nun (d. 1922)

● 1872 - Harry Payne Whitney, American businessman (d. 1930)

● 1875 - Rafael Sabatini, Italian/British writer (d. 1950)

● 1876 - Zauditu of Ethiopia (d. 1930)

● 1879 - Sir Thomas Beecham, English conductor (d. 1961)

● 1882 - Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman, Dutch artist and printer (d. 1945)

● 1885 - Egon Erwin Kisch, Czech journalist and author (d. 1948)

● 1893 - Harold Urey, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)

● 1895 - Sir Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (d. 1967)

● 1899 - Duke Ellington, American jazz pianist and bandleader (d. 1974)

● 1901 - Hirohito, Emperor of Japan (1926-89) (d. 1989)

● 1907 - Fred Zinnemann, Austrian-born American film director (d. 1997)

● 1909 - Tom Ewell, American actor (d. 1994)

● 1916 - Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician (b. 1850)

● 1917 - Celeste Holm, American actress

● 1918 - George Allen, American football player and coach (d. 1990)

● 1919 - Gérard Oury, French film actor and director (d. 2006)

● 1920 - Harold Shapero, American composer

● 1922 - Prof. Dr. Dkfm. Helmut Krackowizer, journalist and motorcycle racer (d. 2001)

● 1924 - Al Balding, Canadian golfer (d. 2006)

● 1925 - Ned Austin, American character actor (d. 2007)

● 1928 - Carl Gardner, R&B singer (The Coasters)

● 1929 - Walter Kempowski, German author

● 1929 - Peter Sculthorpe, Australian composer

● 1929 - Mickey McDermott, American baseball player (d. 2003)

● 1930 - Jean Rochefort, French actor

● 1931 - Frank Auerbach, German-born British painter

● 1931 - Lonnie Donegan, Scottish musician (d. 2002)

● 1933 - Keith Baxter, Actor

● 1933 - Mark Eyskens, Prime Minister of Belgium

● 1933 - Rod McKuen, American poet and composer

● 1934 - Luis Aparicio, Venezuelan baseball player and Hall of Fame member

● 1934 - Otis Rush, American musician

● 1936 - Zubin Mehta, Indian-born conductor

● 1936 - April Stevens, American singer

● 1936 - Lane Smith, American actor (d. 2005)

● 1937 - Jill Paton Walsh, English writer

● 1938 - Fred Dibnah, English television personality (d. 2004)

● 1942 - Klaus Voormann, German illustrator and musician

● 1942 - Galina Kulakova, Soviet cross country skier

● 1943 - Duane Allen, Country singer (The Oak Ridge Boys)

● 1944 - Richard Kline, American actor and director

● 1944 - Princess Benedikte of Denmark

● 1945 - Tammi Terrell, American singer (d. 1970)

● 1946 - John Waters, American film director and writer

● 1947 - Olavo de Carvalho, Brazilian philosopher

● 1947 - Tommy James, American musician (The Shondells)

● 1947 - Jim Ryun, American athlete and politician

● 1950 - Wayne Secrest, Country musician (Confederate Railroad)

● 1950 - Phillip Noyce, Director

● 1950 - Debbie Stabenow, United States Senator, D-MI

● 1951 - Dale Earnhardt, American race car driver (d. 2001)

● 1952 - Nora Dunn, American actress

● 1952 - David Icke, British writer

● 1952 - Bob McClure, American baseball player

● 1954 - Jerry Seinfeld, American comedian

● 1955 - Kate Mulgrew, American actress

● 1956 - Ketil Stokkan, Norwegian singer

● 1957 - Daniel Day-Lewis, Irish actor

● 1957 - Timothy Treadwell, American bear enthusiast (d. 2003)

● 1958 - Michelle Pfeiffer, American actress

● 1958 - Eve Plumb, American actress ("The Brady Bunch")

● 1960 - Robert J. Sawyer, Canadian writer

● 1960 - Phil King, English bassist

● 1963 - Stephanie Bentley, Country singer

● 1964 - Federico Castelluccio, Italian-American actor

● 1966 - Phil Tufnell, English cricketer

● 1967 - Curtis Joseph, Canadian ice hockey player

● 1967 - Master P, American rapper

● 1968 - Carnie Wilson, American singer (Wilson Phillips)

● 1970 - Andre Agassi, American tennis player

● 1970 - Master P, Rapper

● 1970 - Uma Thurman, American actress

● 1972 - James Bonamy, Country singer

● 1973 - Mike Hogan, Rock musician (The Cranberries)

● 1973 - David Belle, French creator of parkour

● 1974 - Anggun, Indonesian singer

● 1974 - Pascal Cygan, French footballer

● 1974 - Julian Knowle, Austrian tennis player

● 1975 - Zane Carney, Actor

● 1975 - Eric Koston, Thai-born skateboarder

● 1976 - Jay Orpin, Swedish composer and producer

● 1977 - Rocío Carrasco, Spanish actress/singer

● 1977 - Claus Jensen, Danish footballer

● 1978 - Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan, American tennis players

● 1978 - Tony Armas, Jr., Venezuelan baseball player

● 1979 - Ryan Sharp, British racing driver

● 1980 - Kian Egan, Irish musician (Westlife)

● 1981 - George McCartney, Northern Irish footballer

● 1982 - Kamran Jawaid, Pakistani film critic and producer

● 1983 - Jay Cutler, American football player

● 1983 - Yuriko Shiratori, Japanese gravure idol and actress.

● 1984 - Pham Van Quyen, Vietnamese footballer

● 1987 - Matthew Doherty, Northern Irish football player

● 1988 - Younha, Korean pop singer

● 2003 - Maud Behn, granddaughter of the King of Norway

DEATHS

● 1380 - Catherine of Siena, Italian saint (b. 1347)

● 1594 - Thomas Cooper, English bishop, lexicographer, and writer

● 1630 - Agrippa d'Aubigné, French poet (b. 1552)

● 1658 - John Cleveland, English poet (b. 1613)

● 1676 - Michiel de Ruyter, Dutch admiral (b. 1607)

● 1688 - Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1620)

● 1698 - Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty (b. 1655)

● 1707 - George Farquhar, Irish dramatist (b. 1678)

● 1743 - Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, French writer (b. 1658)

● 1768 - Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and minerologist (b. 1694)

● 1776 - Edward Wortley Montagu, English traveler and writer (b. 1713)

● 1782 - Richard Kempenfelt, Royal Navy Admiral (b. 1718)

● 1793 - Yechezkel Landau, Polish rabbi (b. 1713)

● 1793 - John Michell, English scientist (b. 1724)

● 1798 - Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist (b. 1723)

● 1854 - Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, English general (b. 1768)

● 1920 - William Henry Seward, Jr., Union Brigadier General in the American Civil War (b. 1839)

● 1933 - Constantine P. Cavafy, Greek poet (b. 1863)

● 1937 - William Gillette, American actor (b. 1853)

● 1944 - Bernardino Machado, President of Portugal (b. 1851)

● 1951 - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-born philosopher (b. 1889)

● 1956 - Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, German field marshal (b. 1876)

● 1966 - William Eccles, English physicist and radio pioneer (b. 1875)

● 1979 - Hardie Gramatky, American author and animator (b. 1907)

● 1980 - Alfred Hitchcock, English film director (b. 1899)

● 1988 - James McCracken, American tenor (b. 1926)

● 1993 - Mick Ronson, British musician (b. 1946)

● 1997 - Mike Royko, American columnist (b. 1932)

● 2002 - Lor Tok, Thai comedian and actor (b. 1914)

● 2005 - William J. Bell, American television writer and producer (b. 1927)

● 2005 - Mariana Levy, Mexican actress, singer, and television show host (b. 1966)

● 2006 - John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian economist (b. 1908)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Ava
● St. Agapius
● St. Catherine of Siena
● Martyrs of Corfu
● St. Daniel
● St. Dichu
● St. Endellion
● St. Fiachan
● St. Hugh the Great
● St. Paulinus of Brescia
● St. Peter of Verona
● St. Robert Blessed Robrecht Gruuthuuse (d. 1157)
● St. Robert of Molesmes
● St. Senan
● St. Torpes
● St. Tychicus
● St. Wilfrid the Younger
● Bl. Robert Bruges

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for April 16 (Civil Date: April 29)
● Virgin Martyrs Agape, Irene and Chionia in Illyria.
● Martyrs Leonidas, Chariessa, Nice, Galina, Callista (Calisa), Nunechia, Basilissa, Theodora and Irene of Corinth.
● St. Theodore-Bassa, princess of Novgorod.
● New-Martyr Michael of Smyrna.
● The Weeping Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Ilyin Chernigov".

● Anglican:
● St. Catherine of Siena, patron of Italy/virgin/doctor

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

● Bahá'í Faith - The ninth day of the Festival of Ridván.

● Japan (public holiday since 1927, traditionally the start of the Golden Week holiday period.)

● The Emperor's Birthday (1927-1988. Holiday of Emperor Hirohito's birthday until his death in 1989).

● Shōwa Day (2007 - Day of Showa period, which is reigned by Emperor Hirohito)

● Greenery Day (1989-2006).

● International Dance Day.

● 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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