April 9......

April 9 is the 99th (100th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 266 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Censorship "Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost." — A. Whitney Griswold

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Neo-Fascism "[Hitler] was ... an individual of great courage, a soldier's soldier in the Great War, a leader steeped in the history of Europe, who possessed oratorical powers that could awe even those who despised him. But Hitler's success was not based on his extraordinary gifts alone. His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws, the weakness masquerading as morality that was in the hearts of the statesmen who stood in his path." — Pat Buchanan

{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

● 193 - Septimius Severus is proclaimed Roman Emperor by the army in Illyricum (in the Balkans).

● 475 - Byzantine Emperor Basiliscus issues a circular letter (Enkyklikon) to the bishops of his empire, supporting the Monophysiste christological position.

● 715 - Constantine ends his reign as Catholic Pope

● 1241 - Battle of Liegnitz: Mongol forces defeats the Polish and German armies.

● 1388 - Battle of Näfels; Glarius Swiss defeat Habsburg (Austrian) army

● 1413 - Henry V is crowned King of England.

● 1440 - Christopher of Bavaria is appointed King of Denmark.

● 1454 - The city states of Venice, Milan and Florence signed a peace agreement at Lodi, Italy.

● 1474 - Breisach land guardian Peter von Hagenbach throws out Walloon/Italians

● 1483 - Edward I succeeds Edward IV as king of England

● 1538 - Danish king Christian III enters Schmalkaldische Union

● 1555 - Marcello Cervini elected Pope Marcellus II

● 1609 - Spain & Netherlands sign 12 Year Resistant Pact

● 1621 - Spain & Netherlands 12 Year Resistant Pact ends

● 1682 - Robert Cavelier de La Salle discovers the mouth of the Mississippi River, claims it for France and names it Louisiana.

● 1691 - French troops occupy Mons

● 1754 - Letter from Indian slave trader to South Carolina Gov. J. Glenn asking for permission to use one group of Indians to fight another - "We want no pay, only what we can take and plunder, and what slaves we take to be our own."

● 1770 - Capt James Cook discovers Botany Bay in Australia

● 1783 - Tippu Sahib drives out English from Bednore India

● 1808 - Mayor Wolters offers French king Louis Napoleon townhall as a palace

● 1813 - Birth of Jane Borthwick, Scottish writer. Together with her sister Sarah, Jane translated many foreign hymns into English, including "My Jesus, As Thou Wilt" and "Be Still, My Soul."

● 1814 - Elias Canneman (L) resigns as minister of Finance

● 1816 - The African Methodist Episcopal Church was organized at a general convention in Philadelphia. The following day, Richard Allen, 56, was elected the new denomination's first bishop.

● 1828 - Pioneer U.S. Baptist missionary George Dana Boardman, 27, first arrived in Tavoy, Burma, where he afterward established an extensive educational work among the Karen people.

● 1829 - Danzig (Gdansk) dike break flood kills 1,200

● 1831 - Robert Jenkins loses an ear, starts war between Britain & Spain

● 1833 - 1st tax-supported public library (Peterborough NH)

● 1834 - In Lyon, France, the insurrection of the Silk workers begins. After the failure of the February strikes, leaders put on trial, and new laws against the workers' associations, the workers have reached the exploding point. The army occupies the city and bridges, and now troops fire into an unarmed crowd. The streets are immediately filled with barricades, with workers storming and taking the barracks of Bon-Pasteur, while others barricade themselves in the districts, some, like Croix Rousse, making fortified camps. It is the beginning of the "Sanglante semaine" (Bloody Week).

● 1864 - Battle of Pleasant Hill LA, 2870 casualities

● 1865 - Federals capture Fort Blakely AL

● 1865 - At Appomattox Court House, Virginia, General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Confederate Army of Northern Virginia (26,765 troops) to Union General Ulysses S. Grant in the parlor of William McClean's home. Grant allowed Rebel officers to keep their sidearms and permitted soldiers to keep their horses and mules. Though there were still Confederate armies in the field, the war was officially over. The four years of fighting had killed 360,000 Union troops and 260,000 Confederate troops, even more crippled for life.

● 1866 - Congress passes “Civil Rights Bills” -- over the veto of Pres. Andrew Jackson -- guaranteeing the same civil rights to all persons born in the U.S. (except Indians, of course).

● 1867 - Alaska purchase: Passing by a single vote, the United States Senate ratifies a treaty with Russia for the purchase of Alaska.

● 1868 - At Islamgee in Abyssinia, Emperor Theodore massacres at least 197 of his own people.

● 1869 - Hudson Bay Company cedes its territory to Canada

● 1870 - American Anti-Slavery Society dissolves

● 1872 - Samuel R Percy patents dried milk

● 1874 - Muckleshoot Indian Reservation established. (The casino and amphitheatre came much later.)

● 1877 - Birth of Louis Rimbault, French anarchist and vegetarian.

● 1878 - 1st Lady Lucy Hayes begins egg rolling contest on White House lawn

● 1894 - Hunger revolt in Lyons, France.

● 1898 - Birth of Paul Robeson, actor, singer, and black liberation fighter. Princeton, New Jersey.

● 1900 - British forces routed the Boers at Kroonstadt, South Africa.

● 1903 - Gregory Pincus, the American scientist whose discoveries led to the development of the first birth-control pills , was born.

● 1905 - The first aerial ferry bridge went into operation in Duluth, MN.

● 1909 - In Pentecostal history, the first group outbreak of the charismatic gift of tongues occurred in Los Angeles under the leadership of black evangelist William J. Seymour, 38. It marked the beginning of the three-year-long "Azusa Street Revival."

● 1909 - The U.S. Congress passes the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act.

● 1912 - Titanic leaves Queenstown Ireland for New York

● 1914 - Admiral Henry T. Mayo, acting on his own, provokes an international incident by demanding a special 21-gun salute from Mexicans at Tampico. To save face, Pres. Woodrow Wilson sent an American fleet to Veracruz, and occupied the city in retaliation for the arrest of U.S. sailors in Tampico.

● 1916 - World War I: Battle of Verdun - German forces launch their third offensive of the battle.

● 1917 - World War I: Battle of Arras - The battle begins with Canadian forces executing a massive assault on Vimy Ridge.

● 1918 - Latvia proclaims independence from Russia

● 1921 - The Russo-Polish conflict ended with signing of Riga Treaty.

● 1927 - Massachusetts - Death sentences for anarchists Nicolas Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are upheld.

● 1928 - Birth of the 20th century's greatest living American classical composer, arranger, musician, singer - Tom Lehrer.

● 1928 - Turkey passes separation of church & state

● 1937 - The Kamikaze arrives at Croydon Airport in London - it is the first Japanese-built aircraft to fly to Europe.

● 1939 - Black singer Marian Anderson performed at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., after she was denied the use of Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution because of her race.

● 1940 - German cruiser Blücher torpedoed/capsizes in Oslofjord, 1,000 die

● 1940 - Germany invades Norway & Denmark during WWII (Denmark surrenders)

● 1942 - Norwegian teachers returning from strike publicly reject Nazification.

● 1942 - World War II: Battle of Bataan/Bataan Death March - United States forces surrender on the Bataan Peninsula. Japanese Navy launches air raid on Trincomalee in Ceylon (Sri Lanka); Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Hermes and Royal Australian Navy Destroyer HMAS Vampire are sunk off the island's east coast.

● 1944 - Pius XII issued the encyclical "Orientalis ecclesiae decus," which sought to foster closer relations between Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Uniat churches.

● 1945 - Liberty ship at Bari Italy carrying aerial bombs explodes, kills 360

● 1945 - Battleship Admiral Scheer sinks British aircraft carrier

● 1945 - World War II: The German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer is sunk.

● 1945 - World War II: Battle of Königsberg, in East Prussia, ends.

● 1947 - The United States Atomic Energy Commission formed

● 1947 - The Glazier-Higgins-Woodward Tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.

● 1947 - The Journey of Reconciliation, the first interracial Freedom Ride begins through the upper South in violation of Jim Crow laws. The riders wanted enforcement of the United States Supreme Court's 1946 Irene Morgan decision that banned racial segregation in interstate travel.

● 1948 - Two hundred fifty men, women and children are killed by Jewish terrorists -- specifically, Menachem Begin's Irgun -- in the Palestinian village of Deir Yassin. Israel's "founding fathers" then boasted of the massacre from loudspeakers in cities across Palestine, in a (largely successful) effort to terrorize Palestinians into fleeing.

● 1948 - Jorge Eliécer Gaitán's assassination provokes a violent riot in Bogotá (the Bogotazo), and a further ten years of violence in all of Colombia (La violencia).

● 1948 - Massacre at Deir Yassin.

● 1949 - UN International Court of Justice held Albania responsible for incidents in Corfu Channel & awards Britain damages

● 1952 - Popular uprising in Bolivia

● 1953 - Jomo Kenyatta sentenced to 7 years in Kenya

● 1955 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1957 - The Suez Canal in Egypt is cleared and opens to shipping

● 1959 - Mercury program: NASA announces the selection of the United States' first seven astronauts: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Donald Slayton, which the news media quickly dub the "Mercury Seven".

● 1960 - South African premier Verwoerd wounded in battle

● 1963 - Sir Winston Churchill proclaimed honorary U.S. citizen in White House ceremony

● 1965 - India & Pakistan engage in border fight

● 1967 - Shortwave broadcaster Radio New York Worldwide's transmitter burns down

● 1967 - The first Boeing 737 (a 100 series) takes its maiden flight.

● 1968 - Ralph Abernathy elected to head Southern Christian Leadership Conference

● 1968 - German Democratic Republic adopts constitution

● 1968 - Martin Luther King Jr, buried in Atlanta GA

● 1969 - Harvard students take over the campus administration building, ousting the deans.

● 1969 - Sikh busmen win turban fight; Sikh busmen in Wolverhampton have won the right to wear turbans on duty after a long-running campaign.

● 1969 - 1st flight of Concorde 002 (Filton-Bristol)

● 1969 - The "Chicago Eight" plead not guilty on federal charges of conspiracy to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.

● 1972 - USSR & Iraq sign friendship treaty

● 1973 - Otto Kerner, former Governor of Illinois, convicted for his role in an illegal racetrack scheme

● 1973 - Netherlands recognizes North Vietnam

● 1976 - Folk singer Phil Ochs hangs himself in Queens, New York.

● 1976 - Young Liberal leader cleared of robbery; The president of the Young Liberals, Peter Hain, has been acquitted of robbing a branch of Barclays bank.

● 1976 - US & Russia agree on the size of nuclear tests for peaceful use

● 1977 - Communist party legally allowed in Spain after 40 years

● 1980 - Soyuz 35 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6

● 1980 - Belgium's Marten's government resigns

● 1980 - Israeli troops move into Lebanon

● 1981 - Members of Big Stone Cree end a 250 mile march to Edmonton, Alberta, to highlight economic plight of Big Stone Cree in northern Alberta.

● 1981 - US sub George Washington rams Japanese freighter Nisso Maru

● 1983 - 6th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 1 returns to Earth

● 1984 - Dozens arrested in picket line violence; About 100 pickets are arrested during violent clashes with police outside two working coal pits in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.

● 1984 - Nicaragua asked the World Court to declare U.S. support for guerilla raids illegal.

● 1985 - Japanese Premier Nakasone urged Japanese people to buy foreign products.

● 1986 - The government of France rules against the privatization of French automaker Renault.

● 1987 - Dikye Baggett became the first person to undergo corrective surgery for Parkinson’s disease.

● 1988 - US imposes economic sanctions on Panamá

● 1989 - Washington DC march supporting 1973 Roe vs Wade decision (allow abortions)

● 1989 - April 9 tragedy in Tbilisi, Georgia: An anti-Soviet demonstration was quashed by the Soviet army.

● 1991 - Georgia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.

● 1992 - US Federal Court finds former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega guilty on drug and racketeering charges. He is sentenced to 30 years in prison.

● 1992 - John Major's Conservative Party wins an unprecedented fourth general election victory in the United Kingdom.

● 1992 - Noriega convicted on 8 of 10 drug & racketeering charges

● 1992 - William O Studeman, becomes deputy director of CIA

● 1994 - STS-59 (Endeavour) launches into orbit

● 1995 - Over 100,000 at Rally for Women's Lives, Washington D.C.

● 1995 - Former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara acknowledges that "we were terribly wrong" to prosecute war in Vietnam.

● 1996 - Former Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, D-Ill., the once-powerful House Ways and Means chairman, pleaded guilty to two mail fraud charges. (He served 15 months in prison.)

● 1996 - President Bill Clinton signed a line-item veto bill into law.

● 1997 - Lockheed Martin unveils the F-22 Raptor Stealth air superiority fighter.

● 1998 - The National Prisoner of War Museum is located in Andersonville, Georgia, on the site of an old American Civil War POW camp.

● 1998 - More than 150 Muslims died in stampede in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on last day of the haj pilgrimage.

● 1999 - In Djibouti, Ismail Omar Guelleh of the ruling Popular Rally for Progress and the Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy was elected president.

● 1999 - In Niger, President Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara was assassinated. Daouda Malam Wanke was designated president two days later.

● 2000 - Jubilee 2000 rallies in Washington D.C., demanding cancellation of third world debt.

● 2000 - PASOK wins the national election in Greece.

● 2003 - 2003 invasion of Iraq: Baghdad, Iraq falls to American forces.

BIRTHS

● 1336 - Tamerlane (Timur), Central Asian, Turkic conqueror (d. 1405)

● 1498 - John, Cardinal of Lorraine, French churchman (d. 1550)

● 1597 - John Davenport, Connecticut pioneer (d. 1670)

● 1648 - Henri de Massue, Marquis de Ruvigny, 1st Viscount Galway, French soldier and diplomat (d. 1720)

● 1649 - James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, illegitimate son of Charles II of Great Britain (d. 1685)

● 1680 - Philippe Néricault Destouches, French dramatist (d. 1754)

● 1686 - James Craggs the Younger, British politician (d. 1721)

● 1691 - Johann Matthias Gesner, German classical scholar (d. 1761)

● 1738 - John Bacon, American clergyman, legislator and judge; advocate of civil and religious liberty (d. 1820)

● 1757 - Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, British admiral (d. 1833)

● 1770 - Thomas Johann Seebeck, German physicist (d. 1831)

● 1773 - Étienne Aignan, French writer (d. 1824)

● 1794 - Theobald Boehm, German inventor of the modern flute (d. 1881)

● 1806 - Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer (d. 1859)

● 1821 - Charles Baudelaire, French poet (d. 1867)

● 1830 - Eadweard Muybridge, English-born photographer and motion picture pioneer (d. 1904)

● 1835 - King Léopold II of Belgium (d. 1909)

● 1860 - Emily Hobhouse, English reformer and social worker (d. 1926)

● 1865 - Erich Ludendorff, German general in World War I (d. 1937)

● 1867 - Chris Watson, third Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1941)

● 1872 - Léon Blum, French prime minister (d. 1950)

● 1883 - Frank King, American comic-strip artist; created "Gasoline Alley" (d. 1969)

● 1888 - Sol Hurok, Russian-born impresario (d. 1974)

● 1889 - Efrem Zimbalist, Russian violinist (d. 1985)

● 1895 - Michel Simon, French actor (d. 1975)

● 1897 - John B. Gambling, American radio talk-show host (d. 1974)

● 1898 - Curly Lambeau, American football coach, executive (d. 1965)

● 1898 - Paul Robeson, American singer and activist (d. 1976)

● 1899 - P.L. Travers, Australian author (d. 1996)

● 1903 - Gregory Pincus, American endocrinologist; helped develop the birth control bill (d. 1967)

● 1903 - Ward Bond, American actor (Wagon Train) (d. 1960)

● 1904 - Sharkey Bonano, American musician (d. 1972)

● 1905 - J. William Fulbright, U.S. Senator from Arkansas (d. 1995)

● 1906 - Antal Dorati, Hungarian conductor (d. 1988)

● 1908 - Victor Vasarely, Hungarian-born painter (d. 1997)

● 1910 - Abraham Ribicoff, American politician (d. 1998)

● 1912 - Lew Kopelew, Russian author (d. 1997)

● 1915 - Daniel Johnson, Sr, Quebec politician (d. 1968)

● 1917 - Johannes Bobrowski, German lyricist and writer (d. 1965)

● 1917 - Brad Dexter, American actor (d. 2002)

● 1918 - Jørn Utzon, Danish architect

● 1919 - J. Presper Eckert, American computer pioneer (d. 1995)

● 1921 - Frankie Thomas, American actor (d. 2006)

● 1926 - Hugh Hefner, American editor and publisher

● 1928 - Tom Lehrer, American musician and mathematician

● 1928 - Paul Arizin, Ameican basketball player (d. 2006)

● 1930 - F. Albert Cotton, American chemist (d. 2007)

● 1931 - Richard Hatfield, Canadian politician (d. 1991)

● 1932 - Jim Fowler, American zoologist

● 1932 - Armin Jordan, Swiss conductor (d. 2006)

● 1932 - Carl Perkins, American musician (d. 1998)

● 1932 - Cheeta, animal actor chimpanzee

● 1933 - Jean-Paul Belmondo, French actor

● 1934 - Bill Birch, New Zealand politician

● 1935 - Avery Schreiber, American actor (d. 2002)

● 1937 - Marty Krofft, children's television producer

● 1938 - Viktor Chernomyrdin, Russian politician

● 1939 - Michael Learned, American actress ("The Waltons")

● 1940 - Jim Roberts, Canadian ice hockey player

● 1941 - Chu Song-woong, Korean stage actor (d. 1985)

● 1942 - Margo Smith, Country singer

● 1942 - Brandon De Wilde, American actor (d. 1972)

● 1943 - Terry Knight, American music promoter (Grand Funk Railroad) (d. 2004)

● 1945 - Peter Gammons, baseball journalist

● 1945 - Steve Gadd, American session drummer

● 1946 - David Webb, English football player and coach

● 1948 - Jaya Bachchan, Indian actress

● 1953 - Hal Ketchum, Country singer

● 1954 - Dennis Quaid, American actor

● 1954 - Iain Duncan Smith, British politician

● 1955 - Jimmy Tingle, Comedian

● 1957 - Seve Ballesteros, Spanish golfer

● 1959 - Dave Innis, Country musician (Restless Heart)

● 1961 - Mark Kelly, British keyboard player (Marillion)

● 1962 - Imran Sherwani, British field hockey player

● 1964 - Rick Tocchet, Canadian ice hockey player

● 1964 - Rob Awalt, German football player

● 1965 - Jeff Zucker, American television executive

● 1965 - Paulina Porizkova, Czechoslovakian-born actress and supermodel

● 1965 - Jay Wesley Neill, American convicted murderer (d. 2002)

● 1966 - Cynthia Nixon, American actress ("Sex and the City")

● 1967 - Rajendra Yadav, Indian doctor

● 1969 - Kevin Martin, Rock singer (Candlebox)

● 1971 - Jacques Villeneuve, Canadian race car driver

● 1974 - Jenna Jameson, American porn star

● 1975 - Robbie Fowler, English footballer

● 1977 - Gerard Way, American singer (My Chemical Romance)

● 1978 - Jorge Andrade, Portuguese footballer

● 1978 - Rachel Stevens, English singer (S Club)

● 1978 - Vesna Pisarović, Croatian singer

● 1979 - Keshia Knight Pulliam, American actress ("The Cosby Show")

● 1979(80? NYT) - Albert Hammond, Jr., American guitarist (The Strokes)

● 1980 - Yoanna House, American model

● 1980 - Ryan Northcott, Actor

● 1981 - Milan Bartovič, Slovak ice hockey player

● 1981 - Eric Harris, Columbine High School shooter (d. 1999)

● 1981 - Ireneusz Jeleń, Polish footballer

● 1982 - Carlos Hernández, Costa Rican footballer

● 1984 - Linda Chung, Hong Kong actress and singer

● 1985 - Yamashita Tomohisa, Japanese singer

● 1986 - Brian Larsen, American musician and record producer

● 1986 - Alison Angel, American amateur pornography actress

● 1987 - Jesse McCartney, American actor and singer

● 1990 - Kristen Stewart, American actress ("Panic Room")

● 1998 - Elle Fanning, American child actress ("Because of Winn-Dixie")

DEATHS

● 93 - Yuan An, Minister over the Masses of the Han dynasty

● 491 - Zeno, Byzantine Emperor

● 715 - Pope Constantine

● 1024 - Pope Benedict VIII

● 1137 - William X, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1099)

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

● 1484 - Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales (b. 1473)

● 1492 - Lorenzo de' Medici, Italian statesmen (b. 1449)

● 1553 - François Rabelais, French writer

● 1557 - Mikael Agricola, Finnish scholar (b. 1510)

● 1626 - Sir Francis Bacon, English philosopher, statesman, and essayist (b. 1561)

● 1654 - Matei Basarab, Prince of Wallachia (b. 1588)

● 1693 - Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, French writer (b. 1618)

● 1747 - Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, Scottish clan chief

● 1754 - Christian Wolff, German philosopher (b. 1679)

● 1761 - William Law, British minister (b. 1686)

● 1804 - Jacques Necker, French statesman (b. 1732)

● 1806 - William V of Orange, Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic

● 1889 - Michel Eugène Chevreul, French chemist (b. 1786)

● 1909 - Helena Modrzejewska, Polish-American actress (b. 1840)

● 1917 - James Hope Moulton, British scholar of Classical Greek (b. 1863)

● 1936 - Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist (b. 1855)

● 1940 - Mrs. Patrick Campbell, British actress (b. 1865)

● 1944 - Evgeniya Rudneva, Russian World War II heroine (b. 1920)

● 1945 - Wilhelm Canaris, German Nazi leader (b. 1887)

● 1945 - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologian (b. 1906)

● 1948 - George Carpenter, Australian Salvation Army general (b. 1872)

● 1948 - Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombian politician (b. 1903)

● 1951 - Vilhelm Bjerknes, Norwegian physicist (b. 1862)

● 1959 - Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect (b. 1867)

● 1961 - King Zog of Albania (b. 1895)

● 1963 - Eddie Edwards, American jazz trombonist (b. 1891)

● 1970 - Gustaf Tenggren, Swedish illustrator (b. 1896)

● 1976 - Dagmar Nordstrom, American composer, pianist (b. 1903)

● 1976 - Phil Ochs, American singer (b. 1940)

● 1982 - Wilfrid Pelletier, French Canadian conductor (b. 1896)

● 1988 - Brook Benton, American singer (b. 1931)

● 1988 - David Prater, American singer (Sam & Dave) (b. 1937)

● 1991 - Martin Hannett, record producer (b. 1948)

● 1996 - Richard Condon, American novelist (b. 1915)

● 1996 - James W. Rouse, American real estate developer, activist, and philanthropist (b. 1914)

● 1997 - Helene Hanff, American writer (b. 1916)

● 1997 - Mae Boren Axton, American singer and songwriter (b. 1914)

● 1999 - Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, Niger politician and general (b. 1949)

● 1999 - Emiko Kado, wrestler (b. 1976)

● 2001 - Willie Stargell, baseball player (b. 1940)

● 2002 - Leopold Vietoris, Austrian mathematician (b. 1891)

● 2002 - Pat Flaherty, American racecar driver (b. 1926)

● 2005 - Andrea Dworkin, American feminist and writer (b. 1946)

● 2005 - Scott Mason, Australian cricketer (b. 1976)

● 2006 - Billy Hitchcock, baseball player, coach, and official (b. 1916)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Acacius
● St. Casilda
● Martyrs of Croyland
● St. Demetrius
● St. Dotto
● St. Eupsychius
● St. Gautier
● St. Hedda
● St. Hugh of Rouen
● St. Ingofried
● St. Madrun
● St. Mary Cleophas
● Martyrs of Pannonia
● Martyrs of Sirmium
● St. Waldetrudis
● Bl. Thomas of Tolentino

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for March 27 (Civil Date: April 9)
● St. Matrona of Thessalonica.
● Martyrs Manuel and Theodosius.
● St. John the Clairvoyant, anchorite of Egypt.
● St. Cyricus (Quiricus), monk of Thrace.
● Prophet Hanani (Ananias)
● St. Paul, Bishop of Corinth.

● Greek Calendar:
● Martyrs John and Baruch.
● St. Eutyches, monk.
● Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos on Mt. Athos "Glykophylousa". ("Sweet-Kissing")
● Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos on Mt. Athos "Of the Akathist"

● Rememberance of the Dead - Armenian Apostolic Church

● Christian:
● St. Gaucherius
● St. Hugh of Rouen
● St. Mary Cleophas
● St. Uramar
● St. Waldetrudis of Waudru

● Anglican:
● William Law, priest

● Lutheran:
● Dietrich Bonhoeffer, teacher

● Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Jalál (Glory) - First day of the second month of the Bahá'í Calendar.

● Araw ng Kagitingan (Day of Valor, celebrated as Bataan Day in Bataan) in the Philippines.

● Day of National Unity- (ეროვნული ერთიანობის დღე), an annual public holiday in Georgia.

● Bolivia : National Day (1952)

● Latvia : Independence Day (1918)

● Tunisia : Martyrs' Day

● US, England : Churchill Day (1963)

● Philippines : Bataan Day (1942)

● Feast for Three Days - Second 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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