April 8......

April 8 is the 98th (99th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 267 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On George W. Bush "Bush wasn't elected, he was selected! Selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines." — Alec Baldwin

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Meanness "The long-term goal [is] the execution of abortionists and parents who hire them. If we argue that abortion is murder, then we must call for the death penalty." — Gary DeMar, from his book Ruler of Nations

{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

● 563 BC - Birth of Gautama Siddhartha, Buddha; Kapalivastu, India.

● 217 - Roman Emperor Caracalla is assassinated (and succeeded) by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus.

● 1093 - The new Winchester Cathedral is dedicated by Walkelin.

● 1139 - Roger II of Sicily is excommunicated.

● 1149 - Pope Eugene III takes refuge in the castle of Ptolemy II of Tusculum.

● 1195 - Alexius III Angelus drives out brother Isaäk II as Byzantine emperor

● 1271 - In Syria, sultan Baybars conquers the Krak of Chevaliers.

● 1341 - Francesco Petrarca crowned in Rome

● 1378 - Bartolomeo Prignano elected as Pope Urban VI

● 1455 - Alfonso de Borgia elected as Pope Callistus III

● 1492 - Death of Lorenzo de' Medici, dubbed "The Magnificent", ruler of Florence and patron of arts.

● 1500 - Battle at Novara King Louis XII beats duke Ludovico Sforza

● 1513 - Explorer Juan Ponce de Leon claimed Florida for Spain.

● 1525 - Albert von Brandenburg, the leader of the Teutonic Order, assumes the title "Duke of Prussia" and passed the first laws of the Protestant church, making Prussia a Protestant state.

● 1546 - At its fourth session, the Council of Trent adopted Jerome's "Latin Vulgate" as the official Bible of the Roman Catholic Church. (Included in the Vulgate O.T. were the 15 apocryphal books which Protestants reject in their biblical canon.)

● 1712 - New York City slave revolt suppressed; 21 are executed.

● 1716 - Duke Karel Leopold of Mecklenburg-Schwerin signs covenant with Russia & marries Czar Peter the Great's niece

● 1730 - Shearith Israel, the first synagogue in New York City, is dedicated.

● 1759 - British troops chase French out of Masulipatam India

● 1766 - 1st fire escape patented, wicker basket on a pulley & chain

● 1767 - Ayutthaya kingdom falls to Burmese invaders.

● 1783 - Catharina II of Russia annexes the Krim

● 1789 - House of Representatives 1st meeting

● 1801 - Soldiers riot in Bucharest, kill 128 Jews

● 1802 - French Protestant church becomes state-supported & -controlled

● 1820 - The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Melos.

● 1826 - Secretary of State Henry Clay (the "Great Compromiser") and Sen. John Randolph, who accused Clay of striking a "corrupt bargain" to steal the 1824 Presidential election from Andrew Jackson, fight a duel in Virginia. Like most politicians, they both missed.

● 1832 - Black Hawk War: Around 300 United States 6th Infantry troops leave St. Louis, Missouri to fight the Sauk Native Americans.

● 1832 - Charles Darwin begins trip through Rio de Janeiro

● 1834 - In New York City, Cornelius Lawrence became the first mayor to be elected by popular vote in a city election.

● 1838 - Steamship "Great Western" maiden voyage (Bristol England to New York NY)

● 1848 - Battle at Xaquixaguana, Peru Pedro de la Gasca beats Gonzalo Pizarro

● 1848 - Battle of Goito, part of the Italian Wars of Independence

● 1861 - US mint at Dahlonega GA seized by confederacy

● 1862 - John D Lynde patents aerosol dispenser

● 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Mansfield - Union forces are thwarted by a Confederate army at Mansfield, Louisiana.

● 1865 - General Robert E Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House in Virginia

● 1866 - Italy and Prussia ally against Austria-Hungary.

● 1867 - The first World's Fair is inaugurated in Paris.

● 1869 - American Museum of Natural History opens (New York NY)

● 1872 - Colville reservation created east of Columbia River; after white farmers pressure the government, a second reservation, on less arable land, is designated instead.

● 1873 - Alfred Paraf patented the first successful oleomargarine.

● 1877 - In the township of Letino (Matese), Italy, the "Gang of Matese" had the city clerk an official notice before giving a speech, burning land deeds, as well as the files of monarchy and state, and heading off to liberate another town - "We the undersigned declare to have occupied, arms in hand, the municipal building of Letino in the name of the social revolution." -- Carlo Cafiero, Errico Malatesta, Pietro Cesaro Ceccarelli. Matese, unfortunately, is soon besieged by 12,000 infantrymen, who capture almost all the internationalists. The 26 accused, are tried in 1878, and will be acquitted.

● 1879 - Khedive Ismael of Egypt fires French/British ministers

● 1879 - Milk is sold in glass bottles for 1st time

● 1885 - Troops invade Panama to "protect US interests."

● 1886 - William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Home Rule bill into the British House of Commons.

● 1893 - The Critic reports that the ice cream soda is our national drink

● 1898 - Battle of Atbara River, Anglo-Egyptian forces crush 6,000 Sudanese

● 1899 - Martha Place becomes the first woman to be executed in an electric chair.

● 1902 - Eruption of Guatemalan volcano Santa Maria leaves 1,000 dead.

● 1904 - The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente cordiale.

● 1904 - British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the first chapter of the Book of the Law.

● 1904 - Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.

● 1908 - Lord Herbert Henry Asquith succeeds Henry Campbell-Bannerman as British Prime Minister

● 1912 - The American Theological Society was organized at Union Theological Seminary, in New York, for the purpose of discussing religious, theological and philosophical problems.

● 1912 - Steamers collide in the Nile, drowning 200

● 1912 - Sonja Henie, the Norwegian figure skater who was the women's world champion for 10 years and a three-time gold medalist in the Olympics , was born.

● 1913 - Woodrow Wilson becomes the first US President since George Washington to appear before Congress. Unfortunately, it was before the invention of the laugh track, so another new tradition could not be established.

● 1913 - 17th amendment, requiring direct election of senators, ratified

● 1913 - Opening of China's 1st parliament takes place in Peking (now Beijing)

● 1914 - US & Colombia sign a treaty concerning the Panamá Canal Zone

● 1916 - Norway approves active & passive female suffrage

● 1916 - In Corona, California, car racer Bob Burman crashes, killing three and badly injuring five spectators.

● 1918 - World War I: Actors Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin sell war bonds on the streets of New York, New York's financial district.

● 1929 - Ironic French folksinger Jacques Brel lives.

● 1929 - Indian Independence Movement: At Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt throw handouts, and bombs to court arrest.

● 1933 - Manchester Guardian warns of unknown Nazi terror

● 1935 - The Works Progress Administration is formed when the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 becomes law.

● 1937 - United Auto Workers (UAW) strike at General Motors plant in Oshawa, Ontario, for recognition.

● 1939 - King Zog I of Albania, flees

● 1940 - Germany battle cruisers sink British aircraft carrier Glorious

● 1942 - Andre Girard (known as Max Buhr) (1860-1942) dies. Anarchist militant and trade unionist.

● 1942 - World War II: Siege of Leningrad - Soviet Union forces open a much-needed railway link to Leningrad.

● 1943 - Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya convicted of involvement with Mau Mau

● 1945 - German theologian and martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the night before he was hanged by the Nazis, said: 'This is the end - - for me the beginning' -- his last recorded words.

● 1945 - Nazi occupiers executed, Nazi General Christiansen flees Netherlands

● 1946 - League of Nations assembles for last time, passing a motion declaring themselves to be out of their league.

● 1950 - Spain - Jose Lluis Facerias, anti-fascist, anarchist guerilla, blows up the Lonja police station in Barcelona.

● 1950 - India and Pakistan sign the Pact of Delhi

● 1952 - Pres. Truman orders U.S. Army to seize the nation's steel mills to avert a strike. The act was ruled to be illegal by the Supreme Court two months later.

● 1953 - Seven years' hard labour for Kenyatta; Jomo Kenyatta is sentenced to seven years hard labour accused of playing a leading role in the Mau Mau movement.

● 1953 - The bones of Sitting Bull were moved from North Dakota to South Dakota.

● 1956 - Six recruits at Paris Island Marine Base (South Carolina) drown when their drill instructor, Staff Sergeant Matthew McKeon, disciplined them for "minor disorderliness" by marching them into a tidal swamp. The few, the proud.

● 1956 - M Bandaranaike's People's front wins election in Ceylon

● 1957 - Egypt: the Suez Canal is reopened.

● 1960 - Netherlands & Germany sign accord concerning war casualties

● 1961 - British liner "Dara" explodes in Persian Gulf, kills 236

● 1962 - Bay of Pigs invaders got thirty years imprisonment in Cuba.

● 1962 - Accords of Evian (Algeria) accepted by referendum in France

● 1964 - Unmanned Gemini 1 launched

● 1966 - Last poll tax outlawed by U.S. Federal courts.

● 1966 - Leonid Brezhnev elected Secretary-General of communist party

● 1967 - Nashville black uprising, April 8-10th, following Stokely Carmichael's speech at Fisk University.

● 1968 - New socialist constitution of East Germany takes effect

● 1968 - Czechoslovakia Cernik government forms

● 1970 - Senate rejects Nixon's nomination of Carswell to Supreme Court

● 1973 - 32 terrorist bombings in Cyprus

● 1973 - Spanish painter and communist Pablo Picasso dies, Mougins, Alpes-Maritimes, France, at age 91. Never called an asshole.

● 1973 - A Harris Poll reports 51% in U.S. support the American Indian Movement protesters occupying Wounded Knee; 21% support the federal government. {The other 28% are just too ignorant or apathetic to have an opinion.}

● 1974 - Hank Aaron hits 715th home run, beats Babe Ruth's all-time baseball record. His run at the record got him much hate mail and numerous death threats by whites.

● 1977 - Israel premier Yitzhak Rabin resigns

● 1978 - Gaston Leval (pseudonym for Robert Pillar) dies. Son of a French Communard, anarchist syndicalist, combatant, and historian of the Spanish Revolution of 1936.

● 1979 - People's Republic of China joins IOC

● 1981 - Omar N. Bradley, a World War II general and the first chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, died at age 88.

● 1985 - Amdahl releases UTS/V, 1st mainframe Unix

● 1985 - Bhopal disaster: India files suit against Union Carbide for the disaster which killed an estimated 2,000 and injured another 200,000.

● 1986 - The Motion Picture Association of America rules that all movies that refer to illegal drugs will be given nothing below a PG-13 rating.

● 1986 - Clint Eastwood elected mayor of Carmel CA

● 1988 - Former U.S. President Reagan aid Lyn Nofzinger was sentenced to prison for illegal lobbying for Wedtech Corp.

● 1988 - Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, 52, was defrocked by the Assemblies of God following the disclosure of his involvement with a prostitute. (Swaggart was ordered to stay off TV for a year, but had returned after only three months.)

● 1989 - South Africa: the Democratic Party is formed from the merger of four parties.

● 1989 - The two Greek Communist Parties, along with smaller left-wing parties, merge to form the Coalition of the Left, of Social Movements and Ecology in Greece.

● 1990 - Ryan White, the teen-age AIDS patient whose battle for acceptance gained national attention, died at age 18.

● 1990 - New Democracy wins the national election in Greece.

● 1990 - King Birendra of Nepal lifts 30-year ban on political parties

● 1990 - Norwegian Scandinavian Star catches fire; about 170 die

● 1991 - Michael Landon announces he has inoperable cancer of the pancreas

● 1993 - Women in Black demonstrate in solidarity with their Serbian sisters, Lund, Sweden.

● 1993 - World Court orders Serbs to cease genocide in Bosnia.

● 1993 - STS-56 (Discovery) launches into orbit

● 1994 - Nirvana singer and international "grunge" icon Kurt Cobain, 27, commits suicide in his Seattle home.

● 1994 - Japan's premier Morihiro Hosokawa resigns

● 1994 - Smoking banned in Pentagon & all US military bases

● 1995 - One thousand Washington State Jobs With Justice activists in Bellingham, Tacoma, Olympia, Seattle and Yakima rally against the Republican "Contract With America."

● 1995 - Death Row Briton is executed; British-born Nicholas Ingram has been executed in the electric chair in the US after two appeals to the US Supreme Court were turned down.

● 1997 - BBC TV newsman turns politician; Veteran war reporter Martin Bell vows to defeat disgraced Conservative MP Neil Hamilton in the battle for Tatton.

● 1997 - STS 83 (Columbia 22), lands

● 1998 - The widow of Martin Luther King Jr. presented new evidence in an appeal for new federal investigation of the assassination of her husband.

● 1999 - Three thousand unarmed Zapatistas retake San Andres from Mexican Army.

● 1999 - Haryana Gana Parishad, a political party in the Indian state of Haryana, merges with the Indian National Congress.

● 2000 - 19 U.S. troops were killed when a Marine V22 Osprey crashed during a training mission in Arizona.

● 2004 - Darfur conflict: The Humanitarian Ceasefire Agreement is signed by the Sudanese government and two rebel groups.

● 2005 - World leaders joined pilgrims and prelates in St. Peter's Square for the funeral of Pope John Paul II.

● 2006 - Shedden massacre: the bodies of eight men, all shot to death, are found in a field in Ontario, Canada. The murders are soon linked to the Bandidos motorcycle gang.

BIRTHS

● 1320 - King Peter I of Portugal (d. 1367)

● 1533 - Claudio Merulo, Italian composer (d. 1604)

● 1541 - Michele Mercati, Italian physician (d. 1593)

● 1605 - King Philip IV of Spain, (d. 1665)

● 1641 - Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney, English statesman (d. 1704)

● 1692 - Giuseppe Tartini, Italian composer (d. 1770)

● 1732 - David Rittenhouse, American astronomer and inventor (d. 1796)

● 1783 - John Loudon, Scottish landscape architect and horticultural journalist (d. 1843)

● 1842 - Elizabeth Bacon Custer, wife of George Armstrong Custer (d. 1933)

● 1850 - William Welch, American pathologist; modernized medical practices in the United States (d. 1934)

● 1859 - Edmund Husserl, Austrian philosopher (d. 1938)

● 1865 - Charles W. Woodworth, American entomologist (d. 1940)

● 1868 - King Christian IX of Denmark (d. 1906)

● 1869 - Harvey Cushing, American neuorosurgeon (d. 1939)

● 1874 - Stanisław Taczak, Polish general (d. 1960)

● 1875 - King Albert I of Belgium (d. 1934)

● 1889 - Sir Adrian Boult, British conductor (d. 1983)

● 1892 - Mary Pickford, Canadian actress (d. 1979)

● 1896 - Yip Harburg, American lyricist (d. 1981)

● 1904 - Sir John Hicks, British economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner (d. 1989)

● 1905 - Helen Joseph, South African anti-apartheid activist (d. 1992)

● 1905 - Erwin Keller, German field hockey player (d. 1971)

● 1906 - Raoul Jobin, French Canadian tenor (d. 1974)

● 1908 - Hugo Fregonese, Argentine film director (d. 1987)

● 1911 - Melvin Calvin, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)

● 1911 - Emil Cioran, Romanian philosopher and essayist (d. 1995)

● 1912 - Alois Brunner, Austrian Nazi

● 1912 - Sonja Henie, Norwegian figure skater (d. 1969)

● 1914 - María Félix, Mexican actress (d. 2002)

● 1918 - Betty Ford, First Lady of the United States

● 1918 - Glendon Swarthout, Award-winning American author (d. 1992)

● 1919 - Ian Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia

● 1920 - Carmen McRae, American jazz singer (d. 1994)

● 1921 - Franco Corelli, Italian tenor (d. 2003)

● 1923 - George Fisher, American cartoonist (d. 2003)

● 1923 - Edward Mulhare, Irish actor (d. 1997)

● 1924 - Frédéric Back, Canadian short film director and screenwriter

● 1926 - Shecky Greene, Comedian

● 1926 - Jürgen Moltmann, German theologian

● 1928 - Leah Rabin, wife of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (d. 2000)

● 1929 - Walter Berry, Austrian bass-baritone (d. 2000)

● 1929 - Jacques Brel, Belgian singer/composer (d. 1978)

● 1930 - Carlos Hugo of Bourbon-Parma, Duke of Parma

● 1931 - John Gavin, American actor and politician

● 1933 - Fred Ebb, American composer (d. 2004)

● 1934 - Kisho Kurokawa, Japanese architect

● 1937 - Seymour Hersh, American journalist

● 1938 - Kofi Annan, Ghanian United Nations Secretary General

● 1940 - John Havlicek, American basketball player and Hall of Fame member

● 1941 - J. J. Jackson, R&B singer

● 1941 - Vivienne Westwood, British fashion designer

● 1941 - Peggy Lennon, American singer (The Lennon Sisters)

● 1942 - Roger Chapman, British rock singer (Family, Streetwalkers)

● 1943 - Tony Banks, British politician (d. 2006)

● 1943 - Michael Bennett, American dancer/choreographer (d. 1987)

● 1943 - Miller Farr, American football player

● 1944 - Hywel Bennett, Actor

● 1945 - Derrick Walker, British racing team owner

● 1946 - Catfish Hunter, Hall of Fame player (d. 1999)

● 1946 - Tim Thomerson, American actor

● 1946 - Stuart Pankin, Actor

● 1947 - Tom DeLay, American politician

● 1947 - Steve Howe, British rock guitarist (Yes, Asia, GTR)

● 1947 - Robert Kiyosaki, American investor

● 1947 - Larry Norman, American singer/songwriter

● 1948 - Michael Leshner, Canadian lawyer and gay rights advocate

● 1949 - John Madden, British director

● 1949 - Brenda Russell, American singer/songwriter

● 1950 - Grzegorz Lato, Polish footballer

● 1951 - Mel Schacher, Rock musician (Grand Funk Railroad)

● 1954 - Gary Carter, baseball player and Hall of Fame member

● 1955 - Joolz Denby, English poet and novelist

● 1955 - Barbara Kingsolver, American novelist

● 1955 - Kane Hodder, American actor and stuntman

● 1957 - Fred Smerlas, American football player

● 1960 - John Schneider, American actor ("The Dukes of Hazzard")

● 1962 - Izzy Stradlin, American musician (Guns N' Roses)

● 1963 - Donita Sparks, Rock musician (L7)

● 1963 - Julian Lennon, British musician and singer

● 1963 - Alec Stewart, British cricketer

● 1964 - Biz Markie, American rapper/disc jockey

● 1966 - Robin Wright Penn, American actress

● 1966 - Mazinho, Brazilian football player

● 1966 - Mark Blundell, British racing driver

● 1966 - Bobby Ologun, Nigerian television personality

● 1968 - Patricia Arquette, American actress ("Medium")

● 1970 - Craig Honeycutt, Rock singer (Everything)

● 1971 - Darren Jessee, Rock musician (Ben Folds Five)

● 1971 - Chino XL, American rapper

● 1972 - Paul Gray, American bassist (Slipknot)

● 1973 - Emma Caulfield, American actress

● 1973 - Alex S. Gonzalez, American Major League Baseball player

● 1974 - Holger Hott Johansen, Norwegian orienteerist

● 1975 - Timo Pérez, Dominican baseball player

● 1977 - Ana de la Reguera, Mexican actress

● 1977 - Mark Spencer, computer programmer

● 1979 - Alexi Laiho, Finnish guitarist and singer (Children of Bodom)

● 1980 - Manuel Ortega, Austrian singer

● 1980 - Grace Park, American actress

● 1980 - Katee Sackhoff, American actress ("Battlestar Galactica")

● 1981 - Taylor Kitsch, Canadian actor and model ("Friday Night Lights")

● 1982 - Judy Star, Canadian porn star

● 1983 - Adrian Bellani, American actor

● 1983 - Allu Arjun, Indian film actor

● 1984 - Júlia Liptáková, Slovakian model

● 1984 - Taran Noah Smith, Actor ("Home Improvement")

● 1984 - Kirsten Storms, American actress

● 1986 - Igor Akinfeev, Russian football player

● 1986 - Felix Hernandez, Venezuelan baseball player

● 1986 - Erika Sawajiri, Japanese actress and model

● 1987 - Tony Black, American actor

● 1989 - Hitomi Takahashi, Japanese singer

● 2005 - Leah Isadora Behn, member of Norway's Royal Family

DEATHS

● 217 - Caracalla, Roman Emperor (b. 186)

● 956 - Gilbert of Chalon, Duke of Burgundy

● 1143 - John II Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1087)

● 1364 - King John II of France (b. 1319)

● 1461 - Georg Purbach, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1423)

● 1492 - Lorenzo de Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1449)

● 1586 - Martin Chemnitz, Lutheran reformer and theologian (b. 1522)

● 1587 - John Foxe, English writer (b. 1516)

● 1691 - Carlo Rainaldi, Italian architect (b. 1611)

● 1697 - Niels Juel, Danish admiral (b. 1629)

● 1704 - Hiob Ludolf, German orientalist (b. 1624)

● 1704 - Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney, English statesman (b. 1641)

● 1725 - John Wise, English clergyman (b. 1652)

● 1735 - Francis II Rákóczi, leader of the Hungarian uprising against the Habsburg (b. March 27, 1676)

● 1848 - Gaetano Donizetti, Italian composer (b. 1797)

● 1857 - Mangal Pandey, Indian soldier

● 1861 - Elisha Otis, US elevator builder (b. 1811)

● 1870 - Charles de Bériot, Belgian composer (b. 1802)

● 1919 - Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist (b. 1848)

● 1920 - Charles Tomlinson Griffes, American composer (b. 1884)

● 1931 - Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)

● 1936 - Robert Bárány, Austrian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1876)

● 1938 - Joe "King" Oliver, American musician (b. 1885)

● 1942 - Kostas Skarvelis, Greek songwriter (b. 1880)

● 1950 - Vaslav Nijinsky, Polish-born ballet dancer (b. 1890)

● 1965 - Lars Hanson, Swedish actor (b. 1886)

● 1973 - Pablo Picasso, Spanish artist (b. 1881)

● 1974 - James Charles McGuigan, Catholic archbishop of Toronto (b. 1894)

● 1978 - Ford Frick, baseball commissioner (b. 1894)

● 1981 - Omar Bradley, U.S. general (b. 1893)

● 1984 - Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1894)

● 1985 - J. Fred Coots, American songwriter (b. 1897)

● 1986 - Yukiko Okada, Japanese idol singer (b. 1967)

● 1990 - Ryan White, American activist (AIDS) (b. 1971)

● 1991 - Per Yngve "Dead" Ohlin, Norwegian musician (black metal) (b. 1969)

● 1992 - Daniel Bovet, Swiss-born pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1907)

● 1993 - Marian Anderson, American contralto (b. 1897)

● 1994 - François Rozet, French Canadian actor (b. 1899)

● 1996 - Ben Johnson, American actor (b. 1918)

● 1997 - Laura Nyro, American singer and composer (b. 1947)

● 2000 - Claire Trevor, American actress (b. 1910)

● 2002 - María Félix, Mexican actress (b. 1914)

● 2004 - Bruce Edwards, golf caddy (b. 1954)

● 2005 - Eddie Miksis, baseball player (b. 1926)

● 2005 - Onna White, Canadian choreographer (b. 1924)

● 2006 - Gerard Reve, Dutch writer (b. 1923)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● Our Lady of Good Counsel
● St. Aedesius
● St. Amantius
● St. Concessa
● St. Dionysius of Corinth
● St. Januarius, Maxima, and Macaria
● St. Julie Billiart of Namur (d. 1816).
● St. Redemptus
● St. Perpetuus
● St. Walter of Pontoise (d. 1099)

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for March 26 (Civil Date: April 8)
● Synaxis of the Archangel Gabriel.
● Hieromartyr Irenaeus, Bishop of Sirmium in Hungary.
● Hieromartyr Eusebius, Bishop of Kival, and Martyr Pullius the reader.
● St. Malchus of Chalcis in Syria.
● St. Basil the Younger, anchorite near Constantinople.
● Martyrs Bathusius and Bercus presbyters, Arpilus monk, laymen Abibus, Agnus, Reasus, Igathrax, Isoecus (Iskous), Silas, Signicus, Sonerilas, Suimbalus, Thermus, Phillus (Philgas), and the women Anna, Alla, Larissa, Monco (Manca), Mamica, Uirko (Virko), Animais (Animaida), Gaatha, and Duklida, in Crimea.
● Martyr Codratus (Quadratus) and with him 40 Martyrs who suffered under Diocletian.

● Christian:
● St. Dionysius of Corinth
● St. Perpetuus of Tours
● St. Walter of Pontoise

● Anglican:
● William Augustus Muhlenberg, priest

● Buddhist : Kambutsue, Buddha's birthday (Japan, Taiwan, Hawaii, Korea)

● Feast for Three Days - First Day (Thelema)


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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