May 10......

May 10 is the 130th (131st in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 235 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Fascism "What distinguishes the New Right from other American reactionary movements, and what it shares with the early phase of German fascism, it its incorporation of conservative impulses into a system of representation consisting largely of media techniques and media images." — Philip Bishop

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Anti-Semitism "Please get me the names of the Jews. You know, the big Jewish contributors of the Democrats? Could we please investigate these cocksuckers?" — Richard M. Nixon, resigned the presidency because of the Watergate scandal

Thought for the day: "Ideals kill some men in politics, but politics kill more ideals in men."

{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

● 105 - Tsai Lun invents paper, China.

● 1267 - Vienna's church orders all Jews to wear a distinctive garb {Hitler later would think this is a good idea.}

● 1278 - Jews of England imprisoned on charges of coining

● 1291 - Scottish nobles recognize the authority of King Edward I of England.

● 1427 - Jews are expelled from Berne Switzerland

● 1497 - Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves Cádiz for his first voyage to the New World.

● 1503 - Christopher Columbus visits the Cayman Islands and names them Las Tortugas after the numerous sea turtles there.

● 1525 - Church reformer John Pistorius caught in the Hague

● 1534 - Jacques Cartier visits Newfoundland.

● 1559 - Scottish Protestants under John Knox uprise against queen-mother Mary

● 1570 - Czar Ivan IV becomes Protestant

● 1624 - Jacob Willekens & Piet Heyn conquer Salvador, Civil rights activist

● 1652 - John Johnson, a free black, is granted 550 acres in Northampton VA

● 1655 - Jamaica captured by English

● 1676 - Bacon's Rebellion, frontiersmen vs Virginia Government begins

● 1752 - Benjamin Franklins 1st tests the lightning rod

● 1768 - John Wilkes is imprisoned for writing an article for the North Briton severely criticizing King George III. This action provokes rioting in London. Wilkes was returned to parliament as a member for Middlesex.

● 1773 - The English Parliament passed the Tea Act, which taxed all tea in the U.S. colonies.

● 1774 - Louis XVI becomes King of France.

● 1775 - 2nd Continental Congress convened in Pennsylvania; issues paper currency for 1st time

● 1775 - American Revolutionary War: Fort Ticonderoga is taken by a small force led by Colonel Benedict Arnold and Ethan Allen.

● 1775 - American Revolutionary War: Representatives from the 13 colonies of the United States meet in Philadelphia and raise the Continental Army to defend the new republic. They place it under command of Cavalier George Washington of Virginia.

● 1787 - Parliament impeaches Warren Hastings

● 1794 - Elizabeth, the sister of King Louis XVI, was beheaded.

● 1796 - French Government arrest 10 utopists

● 1796 - Riot after disagreement of patriotic demand in Amsterdam

● 1796 - First Coalition: Napoleon I of France wins a decisive victory against Austrian forces at Lodi bridge over the River Adda in Italy. The Austrians lose some 2,000 men.

● 1797 - 1st Navy ship, the "United States" is launched

● 1801 - First Barbary War: The Barbary pirates of Tripoli declare war on the United States.

● 1812 - Birth of Frances Elizabeth Cox, English translator. She made 56 contributions to the 1841 publication, "Sacred Hymns from the German," including "Sing Praise to God Who Reigns Above."

● 1816 - English steamship "Defiance" arrives at Rotterdam harbor

● 1818 - American patriot Paul Revere died in Boston.

● 1823 - 1st steamboat to navigate the Mississippi River arrives at Fort Snelling

● 1828 - English church leader John Henry Newman wrote in a letter: 'I wish it were possible for words to put down those indefinite, vague and withal subtle feelings which quite pierce the soul and make it sick. What a veil and curtain this world of sense is. Beautiful, but still a veil.'

● 1837 - New York banks suspended all payments, initiating the Panic of 1837, and unemployment reaches record levels.

● 1840 - Mormon leader Joseph Smith moved his band of followers to Illinois to escape the hostilities they had experienced in Missouri.

● 1849 - Astor Place Riot. So annoyed were partisans of American actor Edwin Forrest when his competitor, William Charles Macready, appeared at New York's Astor Place Theater, that they stoned the place. When militiamen were dispatched to the scene, the mob stoned them, too. The soldiers opened fire; before order was restored, 31 died and more than 100 were injured.

● 1857 - Indian Mutiny: In India, the first war of Independence begins. Sepoys revolt against the British Army.

● 1859 - Birth of Wilhelm Wrede, a German Bible scholar who contended that the gospels reflected the theology of the primitive Church rather than the true history of Jesus. Wrede thus contributed his name to the title of Albert Schweitzer's 1906 theological classic: "The Quest of the Historical Jesus: From Reimarus to Wrede."

● 1861 - Union troops march on state militia in St Louis MI

● 1862 - Battle of Plum Run Bend TN (Plum Point Bend)

● 1863 - Confederate General "Stonewall" Jackson died of wounds inflicted accidentally eight days before by his own troops.

● 1864 - American Civil War: Colonel Emory Upton leads a 10-regiment "Attack-in-depth" assault against the Confederate works at The Battle of Spotsylvania, which, though ultimately unsuccessful, would provide the idea for the massive assault against the Bloody Angle on May 12. Upton was wounded slightly but immediately is promoted to Brigadier general.

● 1864 - Skirmish at Ny River VA

● 1865 - American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is captured by Union troops near Irwinville, Georgia.

● 1865 - American Civil War: Union soldiers ambush and mortally wound Confederate raider William Quantrill in Kentucky, who lingers until his death on June 6.

● 1865 - Surrender of Sam Jones

● 1869 - The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah (not Promontory Point, Utah) with the golden spike.

● 1871 - Peace of Frankfurt-am-Main concluded between France & Germany; France cedes Elzas

● 1872 - Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for President of the United States.

● 1877 - Romania declares itself independent from Turkey, recognized on March 26, 1881 after the end of the Romanian War of Independence.

● 1879 - Meteor falls near Estherville IA

● 1880 - General Wolseley opens new legislative council in Pretoria

● 1881 - Lighthouse on Ameland begins operation

● 1894 - Pullman railroad strike begins, Chicago.

● 1898 - A vending machine law was enacted in Omaha, NE. It cost $5,000 for a permit.

● 1898 - U.S. and Canadian workers form Western Labor Union.

● 1899 - Actor-dancer Fred Astaire was born in Omaha, Neb.

● 1902 - David O. Selznick, who produced "Gone With the Wind" and other highly successful films, was born.

● 1906 - Russia's Duma (Parliament) meets for 1st time

● 1908 - Mother's Day is observed for the first time (Andrew's Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virginia, USA).

● 1910 - Halley's Comet closest approach to Earth in 1910 pass

● 1910 - British government jailed Tom Mann for six months for urging soldiers not to shoot striking workers.

● 1912 - The first Southern Sociological Congress closed, in Nashville. The four-day convocation met to address "social, civic and economic problems" of sixteen Southern states, and was an example of government, social agencies and the Church working together for social betterment.

● 1915 - Zeppelin drops hundred of bombs on Southend-on-Sea

● 1916 - Disastrous fire in Ellendale ND

● 1917 - Atlantic ships get destroyer escorts to stop German attacks

● 1918 - HMS Vindictive sunk to block entrance of Ostend Harbor

● 1919 - Race riot in Charleston SC, 2 blacks killed

● 1920 - English dockers refuse to load armaments onto the "Jolly George" for use against Russia in the war by U.S. and European-backed White Armies.

● 1922 - The USA annexes the Kingman Reef.

● 1922 - Dr Ivy Williams is 1st woman to be called to the English Bar

● 1924 - J. Edgar Hoover is appointed the Director of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, and remains so until his death in 1972.

● 1927 - The Hotel Statler in Boston, MA. became the first hotel to install radio headsets in each of its 1,300 rooms.

● 1932 - Carl von Ossietzky jailed 12 months for disclosing military secrets, Germany.

● 1932 - Government declares "Wilhelmus" Netherlands national anthem

● 1932 - Senate chairman Albert Lebrun becomes President of France

● 1933 - Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF) forms

● 1933 - Paraguay declares war on Bolivia

● 1933 - Suriname worker's union leader A de Come banish to Netherlands

● 1933 - Germany - Book Burning Day established.

● 1936 - Manuel Azaña elected President of Spain

● 1936 - Nahas Pasja becomes premier of Egypt

● 1937 - Busmen strike in London

● 1938 - Banning speech on anti-fascism demonstration in Amsterdam

● 1939 - The Declaration of Union reunited the Methodist Episcopal Church in the U.S. after 109 years of division. (The Methodist Protestant Church had separated from the parent denomination in 1830, as had the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, later, in 1844.)

● 1940 - British Local Defense Volunteers (Home Guard) forms

● 1940 - Dutch torpedo boat Johan van Galen sinks

● 1940 - Dutch-Indies Governor Van Starkenborch proclaims end to state of siege

● 1940 - French marines stationed on Aruba

● 1940 - French troops arrive in Zealand/Brabant Netherlands

● 1940 - World War II: The first German bombs of the war fall on England at Chilham and Petham, in Kent.

● 1940 - World War II: Germany invades Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.

● 1940 - World War II: Winston Churchill is appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain resigned.

● 1940 - World War II: Iceland invaded by the United Kingdom.

● 1941 - World War II: The House of Commons in London is destroyed by the Luftwaffe in an air raid.

● 1941 - World War II: Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland in order to try and negotiate a peace deal between the United Kingdom and Nazi Germany.

● 1941 - Queen Wilhelmina on Radio Orange warns against treason

● 1942 - U.S. forces in the Philippines began to surrender to the Japanese.

● 1942 - Thai Phayap Army invaded the Shan States during the Burma Campaign of World War II.

● 1943 - U.S. troops invaded Attu in the Aleutian Islands to expel the Japanese.

● 1944 - Chinese offensive in West-Yunnan

● 1944 - Smith v Allwright (excluding Blacks from primary voting) is illegal

● 1945 - Allies capture Rangoon from the Japanese

● 1945 - Russian troops occupy Prague

● 1946 - Umberto II succeeds Victor Emmanuel III as king of Italy

● 1948 - 1st attack by Egyptian irregular forces at Kfar Darom Israel

● 1948 - Winston Churchill visits The Hague

● 1950 - 1st Netherlands-US telex sent

● 1951 - Z Alexander Looby elected to Nashville City Council

● 1956 - French Government sends 50,000 reservists to Algeria

● 1957 - 1st meeting of legislature of Cameroon

● 1959 - Soviet forces arrive in Afghánistán

● 1960 - John F Kennedy wins primary in West Virginia

● 1960 - The nuclear submarine USS Triton completes the first underwater circumnavigation of the earth.

● 1966 - 25ºF lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in May

● 1967 - Stockholm Vietnam-Tribunal declares US aggression in Vietnam/Cambodia

● 1967 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1967 - Capt. Howard Levy jailed three years for refusing to train U.S. soldiers for Vietnam.

● 1968 - Vietnam peace talks began in Paris between the US & North Vietnam

● 1969 - Apollo 10 transmit 1st color pictures of Earth from space

● 1969 - As many as 3,000 youth stage a "Zap-In" in Zap, North Dakota (pop.:300); local police are not amused, and call out the National Guard.

● 1969 - The Battle of Dong Ap Bia begins with an assault on Hill 937. It will ultimately become known as Hamburger Hill.

● 1971 - US special delivery rates go from 45¢ to 60¢

● 1972 - Overloaded South Korean bus plunges into reservoir, killing 77

● 1972 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1973 - Establishment of Frente Polisario in Mauritania

● 1978 - Italy mourns murdered statesman; The murdered Italian politician Aldo Moro is buried after a private funeral service, 55 days after he was kidnapped by the Red Brigade.

● 1979 - The Federated States of Micronesia becomes self-governing.

● 1981 - François Mitterrand takes office as the first Socialist President of France.

● 1984 - World Court orders U.S. to stop mining of Nicaraguan harbors. U.S. ignores the order.

● 1984 - Federal judge in Salt Lake City, Utah held that the U.S. government had been negligent in its above-ground testing of nuclear weapons in Nevada from 1951 to 1962.

● 1985 - Challenger transported back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly Air Force Base

● 1986 - Navy Lt. Commander Donnie Cochran became the first black pilot to fly with the Blue Angels team.

● 1988 - Michel Rocard becomes Prime Minister of France.

● 1989 - Cree of northern Quebec file suit to stop construction of $7.5 billion Great Whale Project, Phase II, James Bay, a dam project so massive that if completed it would have altered weather patterns in North America. After seven years of massive grass roots opposition, Quebec government agreed in early 1996 to postpone James Bay II indefinitely, but still remains, in theory, committed to building it.

● 1989 - General Manuel Noriega's Government nullifies country's elections, which the opposition had won by a 3-1 margin

● 1992 - Women resist mobilization of kinsmen, Tresnjevac, Serbia.

● 1993 - 188 die, 469 injured in fire at Kader toy factory in Thailand, used by Hasbro and other U.S. companies. Deaths were blamed on doors and windows locked to keep sweatshop workers on the job.

● 1994 - The state of Illinois executed convicted serial killer John Wayne Gacy for the murders of 33 young men and boys.

● 1994 - Nelson Mandela inaugurated as President of South Africa, ending 300 years of white colonial rule.

● 1994 - Silvio Berlusconi forms Italian Government with 5 neo-fascists

● 1995 - Britain lifts a 23-year ban on ministerial talks with Sinn Fein

● 1995 - In South Africa, 104 miners killed in an elevator accident

● 1996 - 2 US Marine helicopters collided during joint US & British war games

● 1996 - A "rogue storm" near the summit of Mount Everest kills eight climbers, making this the deadliest day in the mountain's history. Among the dead are experienced climbers Rob Hall and Scott Fischer, both of whom were leading paid expeditions to the summit.

● 1997 - An earthquake near Ardekul in northeastern Iran kills at least 2,400 people.

● 1998 - Sinn Fein backs peace deal; The political wing of the republican IRA back the Good Friday peace agreement heralding a major shift in modern republicanism.

● 1999 - China broke off talks on human rights with the U.S. in response to NATO's accidental bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Yugoslavia.

● 2000 - 11,000 residents were evacuated in Los Alamos, NM, due to a fire that was blown into a canyon. The fire had been deliberately set to clear brush.

● 2001 - In Ghana, a stampede at a football game kills over 120 spectators.

● 2002 - FBI agent Robert Hanssen is given a life sentence without the possibility of parole for selling United States secrets to Moscow for $1.4 million in cash and diamonds.

● 2002 - Taiwan test fired a locally made Sky Bow II surface-to-air missile for the first time. They also fired three U.S.-made Hawk missiles.

● 2003 - The New York Times announced that one of its reporters, Jayson Blair, had "committed frequent acts of journalistic fraud."

● 2003 - Record shattering tornado activity during the May 2003 Tornado Outbreak Sequence.

● 2005 - A federal bankruptcy judge approved United Airlines' plan to terminate its employees' pension plans.

● 2005 - Germany dedicated its new national Holocaust memorial.

● 2005 - A hand grenade allegedly thrown by Vladimir Arutinian lands about 65 feet(20 meters) from United States President George W. Bush while he is giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia, but malfunctions and does not detonate.

BIRTHS

● 1265 - Emperor Fushimi of Japan (d. 1317)

● 1604 - Jean Mairet, French dramatist (d. 1686)

● 1641 - Dudley North, English economist (d. 1691)

● 1727 - Anne Robert Turgot, French statesman (d. 1781)

● 1746 - Gaspard Monge, French mathematician (d. 1818)

● 1760 - Johann Peter Hebel, German poet (d. 1826)

● 1770 - Louis Nicolas Davout, French marshal (d. 1823)

● 1775 - Antoine Charles Louis Lasalle, French cavalry general (d. 1809)

● 1788 - Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist (d. 1827)

● 1813 - Montgomery Blair, American politician (d. 1883)

● 1832 - William Grace, Irish-born American shipowner; founder of W. R. Grace & Company (d. 1904)

● 1838 - John Wilkes Booth, American actor and assassin of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1865)

● 1840 - Hadzhi Dimitar, Bulgarian revolutionist (1868)

● 1841 - James Gordon Bennett Jr., American publisher (d. 1918)

● 1847 - Wilhelm Killing, German mathematician (d. 1923)

● 1850 - Sir Thomas Lipton, Scottish-born English merchant; built Lipton tea empire (d. 1931)

● 1866 - Léon Bakst, Russian artist (d. 1924)

● 1872 - Marcel Mauss, French sociologist (d. 1950)

● 1874 - Moses Schorr, Polish rabbi, senator, historian and orientalist (d. 1941)

● 1876 - Ivan Cankar, Slovenian writer (d. 1918)

● 1878 - Gustav Stresemann, Chancellor of Germany, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1929)

● 1879 - Symon Petlura, Ukrainian statesman (d. 1926)

● 1886 - Karl Barth, Swiss Protestant theologian (d. 1968)

● 1886 - Olaf Stapledon, British author and philosopher (d. 1950)

● 1886 - Felix Manalo, 1st Executive Minister of the Iglesia ni Cristo (d. 1963)

● 1887 - Mir Ghotbeddin Mohammad Angha, 40th Sufi master of the Oveyssi order (d. 1962)

● 1888 - Max Steiner, Austrian composer (d. 1971)

● 1889 - Mae Murray, American actress (d. 1965)

● 1890 - Alfred Jodl, German general (d. 1946)

● 1897 - Einar Gerhardsen, Prime minister of Norway (d. 1987)

● 1898 - Ariel Durant, Russian-born American writer; co-wrote "The Story of Civilization" (d. 1981)

● 1899 - Fred Astaire, American dancer and actor (d. 1987)

● 1899 - Dimitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian-born composer (d. 1979)

● 1902 - Anatole Litvak, Ukrainian-born film director (d. 1974)

● 1902 - David O. Selznick, American film producer (d. 1965)

● 1903 - Otto Bradfisch, Nazi leader (d. 1994)

● 1905 - Markos Vamvakaris, Greek rebetiko musician and songwriter (d. 1972)

● 1909 - Maybelle Carter, American musician (d. 1978)

● 1915 - Denis Thatcher, British businessman and husband of Margaret Thatcher

● 1916 - Milton Babbitt, American composer

● 1919 - Ella Grasso, American politician; governor of Connecticut (1975-80) (d. 1981)

● 1922 - Nancy Walker, American movie and television actress (d. 1992)

● 1927 - Nayantara Sahgal, Indian author

● 1928 - Arnold Rüütel, Estonian president

● 1930 - Pat Summerall, American football player and broadcaster

● 1930 - Scott Muni, American radio DJ (d. 2004)

● 1933 - Barbara Taylor Bradford, English writer

● 1934 - Cliff Wilson, Welsh snooker player (d. 1994)

● 1934 - Jeanine Basinger, American film scholar

● 1936 - Gary Owens, American actor and announcer

● 1937 - Tamara Press, Soviet athlete

● 1937 - Jim Hickman, American baseball player

● 1938 - Henry Fambrough, R&B singer (The Spinners)

● 1939 - Gary Owens, Announcer ("Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In")

● 1940 - Wayne A. Downing, retired United States Army general

● 1943 - David Clennon, Actor

● 1943 - Richard Darman, American economist

● 1944 - Jim Abrahams, American film director ("Airplane!")

● 1946 - Donovan, Scottish musician

● 1946 - Dave Mason, English musician (Traffic)

● 1947 - Caroline Cooney, American author

● 1947 - Andrew Card, Former White House chief of staff

● 1951 - Ron Banks, R&B singer (The Dramatics)

● 1952 - Kikki Danielsson, Swedish singer

● 1953 - John Diamond, English journalist (d. 2001)

● 1955 - Chris Berman, American sportscaster

● 1955 - Mark David Chapman, American assassin of John Lennon

● 1956 - Vladislav Listyev, Russian television anchor and journalist

● 1957 - Sid Vicious, English bassist (The Sex Pistols) (d. 1979)

● 1958 - Rick Santorum, former U.S. Senator R-PA

● 1958 - Yu Suzuki, Japanese creator of Virtua Fighter series

● 1959 - Victoria Rowell, Actress

● 1959 - Danny Schayes, American basketball player

● 1960 - Bono, Irish singer (U2)

● 1960 - Victoria Rowell, American actress

● 1961 - Danny Carey, American drummer (Tool, Pigmy Love Circus)

● 1963 - Suzan-Lori Parks, Playwright

● 1965 - Krist Novoselic, Rock musician (Nirvana)

● 1965 - Linda Evangelista, Canadian supermodel

● 1965 - Darren Matthews, English professional wrestler

● 1966 - Jonathan Edwards, English athlete

● 1967 - Scott Brison, Canadian politician

● 1967 - Young MC, American rapper

● 1968 - Erik Palladino, Actor

● 1969 - Dennis Bergkamp, Dutch footballer

● 1969 - John Scalzi, American writer

● 1970 - David Weir, Scottish footballer

● 1971 - Ådne Søndrål, Norwegian speed skater

● 1972 - Radosław Majdan, Polish footballer

● 1973 - Craig Mack, American rapper

● 1973 - Joshua Eagle, Australian tennis player

● 1974 - Sylvain Wiltord, French footballer

● 1975 - Hélio Castroneves, Brazilian race car driver

● 1976 - Rob Malda, American internet writer/editor (Slashdot)

● 1976 - Aggeliki Tsiolakoudi, Greek javelin thrower

● 1977 - Jesse Vest, Rock musician

● 1977 - Henri Camara, Senegalese footballer

● 1977 - Nick Heidfeld, German Formula 1 driver

● 1977 - Denise Ho, Hong Kong singer

● 1978 - Kenan Thompson, American actor ("Saturday Night Live")

● 1979 - Lee Hyori, South Korean singer

● 1980 - Jason Dalyrimple, R&B singer (Soul for Real)

● 1981 - Humberto Suazo, Chilean footballer

● 1982 - Adebayo Akinfenwa, English footballer

● 1982 - Katherine Bates, Australian cyclist

● 1982 - Jeremy Gable, American playwright

● 1982 - Daniel Harris, Australian rules footballer

● 1983 - Joey Zehr, Rock musician (The Click Five)

● 1983 - Gustav Fridolin, Swedish politician

● 1989 - Lindsey Shaw, American actress

● 1991 - Miss Nana, American rapper

● 1993 - Mirai Shida, Japanese actress

● 1995 - Ashley Poole, Singer (Dream)

DEATHS

● 1034 - Mieszko II of Poland (b. 990)

● 1290 - Duke Rudolph II of Austria (b. 1271)

● 1424 - Go-Kameyama, Emperor of Japan

● 1482 - Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli, Italian mathematician and astronomer (b. 1397)

● 1493 - Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll, Scottish politician

● 1521 - Sebastian Brant, Alsatian humanist (b. 1457)

● 1566 - Leonhart Fuchs, German botanist (b. 1501)

● 1641 - Johan Banér, Swedish soldier (b. 1596)

● 1657 - Gustaf Horn, Swedish soldier and politician (b. 1592)

● 1691 - Colonel John Birch, English soldier (b. 1615)

● 1696 - Jean de La Bruyère, French writer (b. 1645)

● 1717 - John Hathorne, American magistrate (b. 1641)

● 1726 - Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, English soldier (b. 1670)

● 1733 - Barton Booth, English actor (b. 1681)

● 1737 - Nakamikado Emperor of Japan (b. 1702)

● 1774 - King Louis XV of France (b. 1710)

● 1787 - William Watson, English physician and scientist (b. 1715)

● 1792 - John Stevens, American delegate to the Continental Congress

● 1807 - Comte de Rochambeau, French soldier (b. 1725)

● 1818 - Paul Revere, American patriot (b. 1735)

● 1829 - Thomas Young, English physician and linguist (b. 1773)

● 1850 - Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French chemist and physicist (b. 1778)

● 1863 - Stonewall Jackson, American Confederate general (b. 1824)

● 1868 - Henry Bennett, American politican (b. 1808)

● 1889 - Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian satirist (b. 1826)

● 1897 - Andrés Bonifacio, Filipino revolutionary leader (b. 1863)

● 1904 - Andrei Ryabushkin, Russian painter (b. 1861)

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

● 1950 - Belle da Costa Greene, librarian, bibliographer, archivist (b. 1883)

● 1955 - Tommy Burns, Canadian boxer (b. 1881)

● 1955 - John Radecki, Australian stained glass artist (b. 1865)

● 1960 - Yury Olesha, Russian novelist (b. 1899)

● 1963 - Gene "Big Daddy" Lipscomb, American football player (b. 1931)

● 1964 - Mikhail Larionov, Russian painter (b. 1881)

● 1976 - Elias Aslaksen, Leader of Smith's Friends (b. 1888)

● 1977 - Joan Crawford, American actress (b. 1905)

● 1982 - Peter Weiss, German writer and artist (b. 1916)

● 1988 - Shen Congwen, Chinese writer (b. 1902)

● 1989 - Woody Shaw, American jazz musician (b. 1944)

● 1990 - Walker Percy, American author (b. 1916)

● 1994 - John Wayne Gacy, American serial killer (executed) (b. 1942)

● 1999 - Shel Silverstein, American poet and composer (b. 1930)

● 2001 - Deborah Walley, American actress (b. 1943)

● 2002 - Lynda Lyon Block, convicted murderer (b. 1948)

● 2003 - Milan Vukcevich, Yugoslavian chemist and chess problem composer (b. 1937)

● 2005 - David Wayne, American singer (Metal Church) (b. 1958)

● 2006 - Raizo Matsuno, Japanese politician (b. 1917)

● 2006 - A.M. Rosenthal, American newspaper editor (b. 1922)

● 2006 - Soraya, Colombian-American singer (b. 1969)

● 2006 - Val Guest, British film director (b. 1911)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Alphius
● St. Antoninus of Florence (died 1459)
● St. Aurelian
● St. Calepodius
● St. Cataldus
● St. Comgall
● St. Dioscorides
● St. Epimachus
● St. Gordianus
● St. Isidore the Laborer
● St. Job
● St. John of Avila
● St. Peter Van
● Sts. Quaratus and Quintus
● St. Solange
● St. William of Pontoise
● Bl. Father Damien of Molokai

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for April 28 (Civil Date: May 10)
● Apostles Jason and Sosipater of the Seventy, and their companions: Martyrs Saturninus, Jakischolus (Inischolus), Faustianus, Januarius, Marsalius, Euphrasius, Mammius, the Virgin Cercyra, and Christodulus the Ethiopian, at Corfu.
● Martyrs Dada, Maximus and Quinctilian at Dorostolum.
● Martyrs Zeno, Eusebius, Neon and Vitalis who were converted by Apostles Jason and Sosipater.
● St. Cyril, Bishop of Turov.
● St. Auxibius, Bishop of Soli in Cyprus.
● St. Cyriacus, abbot of Kargopol (Vologda).

● Greek Calendar:
● Martyr John of Rumania.
● Repose of Blessed Elder Basil Kishkin (1831).

● Mania (mythology) in Ancient Rome.

● Tritopatores in Ancient Greece.

● The marriage of Shiva to Meenakshi in Madurai, India

● Akshaya Tritya in Hinduism.

● Astronomy Day in the United States.

● Birds' and Trees' Day in Hungary

● Buddha's Birthday in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, and South Korea.

● Celebration of the Clandestine Retreat of Ma'at and Ra in Ancient Egypt.

● Confederate Memorial Day in North Carolina and South Carolina.

● Constitution Day in the Federated States of Micronesia.

● Inauguration Day in South Africa.

● Mother's Day in much of South America, El Salvador, India, Mexico, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, and Singapore.

● National Holiday of Israel

● Parent's Day in South Korea.

● The first possible day on which Pentecost may fall, forty days (exclusive of Sundays) after Easter.

● The Ploughing Ceremony in Thailand.

● Tin Hau's Day in China.

● Start of Tori no Mawari/Bird Week in Japan.

● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● US : Mother's Day, give her a call today - ( Sunday )
● Ireland : Feis Ceoil music festival (1897) - ( Monday )
● US : Native American/Indian Day - ( Saturday )


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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