May 11......

May 11 is the 131st (132nd in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 234 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Fear "The only thing we have to fear is fear mongering itself." — Maureen Dowd

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Arrogance "I believe God wants me to be president, but if that doesn't happen, it's OK." — George W. Bush

Thought for the day: "Ignorance is the mother of superstition."

{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

● 330 - Byzantium is renamed Nova Roma during a dedication ceremony, but is more popularly referred to as Constantinople.

● 1189 - Emperor Frederik I Barbarossa & 100,000 crusaders depart Regensburg

● 1310 - 54 members of the Knights Templar are burned at the stake in France for being heretics.

● 1330 - Constantinople (Istanbul) becomes new capital by Roman Emperor Constantine for Eastern Roman Empire

● 1421 - Jews are expelled from Styria Austria

● 1502 - Christopher Columbus leaves for his fourth and final voyage to the West Indies.

● 1548 - Great fire in Brielle

● 1573 - Henry of Anjou became the first elected king of Poland.

● 1621 - Death of Johann Arndt, 65, German Lutheran theologian. Called the precursor of Pietism, Arndt was the greatest name in the history of German mysticism after Thomas a Kempis.

● 1625 - Boers besiege Frankenburg estate in Upper-Austria

● 1647 - Peter Stuyvesant arrived in New Amsterdam to become governor.

● 1674 - Netherlands & Cologne sign peace treaty

● 1678 - French Admiral Jean d'Estrées' fleet runs aground on Aves-islands, Curaçao

● 1682 - The General Court of Massachusetts repealed two laws which had been passed two years earlier: one forbade the keeping of Christmas, and the second mandated capital punishment for Quakers who returned to the colony after being banished.

● 1689 - Battle of Bantry Bay, French & English naval battle

● 1690 - English troops of W Phips conquer Port Royal Nova Scotia

● 1745 - War of Austrian Succession: Battle of Fontenoy – At Fontenoy, French forces defeat an Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian army.

● 1749 - British parliament accept Consolidation Act: fleet reorganization

● 1751 - 1st US hospital founded (Pennsylvania Hospital)

● 1752 - 1st US fire insurance policy issued (Philadelphia)

● 1772 - Amsterdam theater destroyed by fire, 18 killed

● 1784 - England & Tippu Sahib van Mysore sign peace treaty

● 1792 - Captain Robert Gray becomes the first documented white person to visit the Columbia River.

● 1812 - Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the House of Commons, London.

● 1813 - In Australia, Lawson, Blaxland and Wentworth, lead an expedition westwards from Sydney. Their route opens up inland Australia for continued expansion throughout the 19th century.

● 1814 - Americans defeat British at Battle of Plattsburgh

● 1816 - American Bible Society forms (New York)

● 1818 - Charles XIV of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.

● 1820 - Launch of HMS Beagle the ship that took young Charles Darwin on his scientific voyage.

● 1824 - St. Regis Seminary was opened in Florissant, Missouri. It was the first Roman Catholic institution established in America for the higher education of American Indians.

● 1825 - The American Tract Society, the first national tract league in America, was formed in NY City by the merger of 50 smaller societies.

● 1833 - "Lady-of-the-Lake" strikes iceberg & sinks in N Atlantic; kills 215

● 1841 - Lt. Charles Wilkes lands at Fort Nisqually in Puget Sound.

● 1850 - Work starts on 1st brick building in San Fransisco

● 1857 - Indian Mutiny: Indian rebels seize Delhi from the British.

● 1858 - Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. state.

● 1860 - Giuseppe Garibaldi landed at Marsala, Sicily.

● 1862 - American Civil War: The ironclad CSS Virginia is scuttled in the James River northwest of Norfolk, Virginia.

● 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Yellow Tavern – Confederate General JEB Stuart is mortally wounded at Yellow Tavern, Virginia.

● 1867 - Luxembourg gains its independence.

● 1888 - The Woman's Missionary Union, Auxiliary to the Southern Baptist Convention, had its inception in Richmond, Virginia, when delegates from 15 states met to form a general women's organization within the denomination.

● 1888 - Songwriter Irving Berlin was born Israel Baline in Temun, Russia.

● 1889 - Major Joseph Washington Wham takes charge of $28,000 in gold and silver to pay troops at various points in the Arizona Territory. The money was stolen in a train robbery.

● 1891 - National U.S. building trades strike.

● 1894 - Pullman Strike: Three thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike in Illinois.

● 1894 - Martha Graham, the American dancer and choreographer who was a pioneer of modern dance, was born.

● 1898 - The Discontent - Mother of Progress, anarchist paper of Home Colony, an early Washington state intentional community, first issued.

● 1904 - Andrew Carnegie donates $1.5 million to build a peace palace

● 1904 - Birth of Salvador Dali, surrealist painter.

● 1907 - A derailment outside Lompoc, California kills 32 Shriners when their chartered train jumps off the tracks at a switch near Surf Depot.

● 1910 - An act of the U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana.

● 1911 - The United States becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.

● 1916 - Einstein's Theory of General Relativity presented

● 1917 - Britain grants Royal Letters Patent to New Zealand

● 1918 - The Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus was officially established

● 1921 - Tel Aviv is 1st all Jewish municipality

● 1924 - Cartel des Gauches wins French parliamentary election

● 1925 - Communist Party of Holland splits

● 1925 - Kara-Kalpak Autonomous Region constituted in RSFSR

● 1926 - Airship Norge leaves Spitsbergen for 1st air crossing of Arctic Ocean

● 1931 - Credit-Anstalt, Austria's largest bank, fails beginning financial collapse of Central Europe

● 1934 - Dust Bowl: A strong two-day dust storm removes massive amounts of Great Plains topsoil in one of the worst dust storms of the Dust Bowl in North America.

● 1941 - 1st Messerschmidt 109F shot down above England

● 1942 - Japanese troops conquer Kalewa

● 1943 - Hermann Goering-division in Tunisia surrenders

● 1943 - World War II: American troops invade Attu in the Aleutian Islands in an attempt to expel occupying Japanese forces.

● 1944 - World War II: The Allies start a major offensive against the Axis Powers on the Gustav Line.

● 1944 - Opposition group surprise attack post office washer

● 1944 - Slomp Resistance fighter (Frits de Zwerver) freed from Arnhem prison

● 1945 - US marines conquer Awatsha Draw Okinawa

● 1946 - The first CARE packages for Europe arrived at Le Havre, France.

● 1947 - BF Goodrich manufactures 1st tubeless tire, Akron OH

● 1947 - Laos accepts constitution for parliamentary democracy

● 1948 - Haganah takes control of Safed & port of Haifa

● 1948 - Luigi Einaudi elected President of Italy

● 1949 - 1st Polaroid camera sold $89.95 (NYC)

● 1949 - By a vote of 37-12, Israel becomes 59th member of UN

● 1949 - Siam renames itself Thailand

● 1950 - Belgium mine disaster at Borinage, 39 die

● 1951 - Jay Forrester patents computer core memory

● 1952 - Thousands demonstrate against re-militarization, Bonn and Essen, West Germany.

● 1953 - The Waco Tornado: An F5 tornado hits downtown Waco, Texas, killing 114.

● 1953 - Winston Churchill criticizes John Foster Dulles domino theory

● 1955 - Israel attacks Gaza

● 1956 - Gold Coast to get independence; Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd announces the Gold Coast is to become the first black African nation to be granted independence from Britain.

● 1957 - Gabriel Paris forms Government of Colombia

● 1958 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island

● 1958 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak

● 1960 - French liner "France" launched

● 1960 - In Buenos Aires, Argentina, four Israeli Mossad agents capture fugitive Nazi Adolf Eichmann, living under the assumed name Ricardo Klement.

● 1960 - The first contraceptive pill is made available on the market.

● 1962 - Antonio Segni becomes President of Italy

● 1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island

● 1962 - US sends troops to Thailand

● 1963 - Moscow jails British 'spy'; A British businessman accused of spying for the West is sentenced to eight years' detention by a Moscow tribunal.

● 1963 - Racial bomb attacks in Birmingham AL

● 1964 - Terence Conran opened the first Habitat store on London's Fulham Road.

● 1965 - 1st of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 (India)

● 1965 - Ellis Island added to Statue of Liberty National monument

● 1965 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

● 1966 - Henry "Dickie" Marrow is murdered in a violent racially-motivated crime in Oxford, N.C..

● 1967 - Jackson State Riot Number One. One student killed and two wounded as cops fire into a crowd after rioters stormed a police barricade. The National Guard was called in to quell the violence.

● 1967 - The siege of Khe Sanh ended.

● 1967 - Andreas Papandreou is imprisoned in Athens by the Greek military junta.

● 1967 - 100,000,000th US phone connected

● 1967 - Great Britain, Ireland & Denmark apply for EG membership

● 1968 - Students & police battle in Paris, 100s injured

● 1968 - The three biggest French labor federations call a general strike to support students.

● 1969 - Vietnam War: Operation Apache Snow – Near the Laos border, American and South Vietnamese forces fight North Vietnamese troops for Ap Bia Mountain (aka Hill 937 or "Hamburger Hill").

● 1970 - Augusta, Georgia police kill six blacks in a riot provoked by the beating death of Charles Oatman in the Richmond County jail.

● 1970 - The Lubbock Tornado: An F5 tornado hits downtown Lubbock, Texas, killing 26.

● 1972 - England - Death of pacifist activist Gerald Bailey.

● 1972 - John Lennon says his phone is tapped by the FBI on Dick Cavett Show

● 1972 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1973 - Dutch Government of Uyl forms

● 1973 - Citing government misconduct, Daniel Ellsberg has his charges for his involvement in releasing the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times dismissed.

● 1975 - Eighty thousand turn out in New York's Central Park to celebrate the end of the Vietnam War.

● 1975 - Israel signs an agreement with European Economic Market

● 1978 - Margaret A Brewer is 1st female general in the US Marine Corps

● 1981 - Jamaican singer and revolutionary Bob Marley dies of brain cancer. Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, Miami.

● 1983 - Comet C/1983 H1 (IRAS-Araki-Alcock) approaches 0.0312 astronomical units (AUs) of Earth

● 1984 - A transit of Earth from Mars takes place; no one is there to observe it.

● 1985 - 56 spectators die when a flash fire strikes a football ground during a match in Bradford, England.

● 1985 - Booby trap bomb kills 86 people in India

● 1985 - Pope John Paul II arrives in Netherlands

● 1987 - Corazon Aquino is elected President in the Philippines

● 1987 - Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II.

● 1987 - The first heart-lung transplant takes place (Baltimore, Maryland). The surgery is performed by Dr. Bruce Reitz, of Stanford University School of Medicine

● 1988 - France performs nuclear test

● 1989 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island

● 1989 - Kenya announces worldwide ban on ivory to preserve its elephant herds

● 1989 - President Bush orders nearly 2,000 troops to Panamá

● 1989 - Puget Sound Grocery Workers strike and lockout.

● 1993 - Paramaribo Suriname TV studio destroyed by fire

● 1994 - 6 white racists sentenced to death in South Africa

● 1995 - In New York City, more than 170 countries decide to extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions.

● 1996 - March against black on black violence, Birmingham, England.

● 1996 - After taking-off from Miami, a fire started by improperly handled oxygen canisters in the cargo hold of Atlanta-bound ValuJet Flight 592 causes the Douglas DC-9 to crash in the Florida Everglades killing all 110 on board.

● 1997 - IBM's Deep Blue chess-playing supercomputer defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player.

● 1998 - A French mint produced the first coins of Europe's single currency. The coin is known as the euro.

● 1998 - India conducted its first underground nuclear tests, three of them, in 24 years. The tests were in violation of a global ban on nuclear testing.

● 1998 - An election is held in the Philippines where actor Joseph Estrada emerged as winner for President.

● 2001 - U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft announced his decision to approve a 30-day delay of the execution of convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. McVeigh had been scheduled to be executed on May 16, 2001. The delay was because the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had failed to disclose thousands of documents to McVeigh's defense team.

● 2002 - Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet of the Netherlands unveiled the Man With Two Hats monument in Ottawa (May 11, 2002) and Apeldoorn (May 2, 2000, symbolically linking both Netherlands and Canada for their assistance throughout the Second World War.

● 2004 - A video on an al-Qaida-linked Web site showed the beheading of American hostage Nicholas Berg, who had been kidnapped in Iraq.

● 2004 - The Stockline Plastics factory explosion in Glasgow kills nine people.

● 2006 - A science team at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign successfully converted pig waste into crude oil.

BIRTHS

● 1571 - Niwa Nagashige, Japanese warlord (d. 1637)

● 1720 - Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, German adventurer (d. 1797)

● 1722 - Petrus Camper, Dutch anatomist (d. 1789)

● 1752 - Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (d. 1840)

● 1763 - János Bacsanyi, Hungarian poet (d. 1845)

● 1801 - Henri Labrouste, French architect (d. 1875)

● 1811 - Chang and Eng Bunker, famous conjoined twins

● 1811 - Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1893)

● 1817 - Fanny Cerrito, Russian-born American composer for stage and screen musicals (d. 1909)

● 1824 - Jean-Léon Gérôme, French painter and sculptor (d. 1904)

● 1827 - Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (d. 1875)

● 1838 - Walter Goodman, British painter, illustrator and author (d. 1912)

● 1852 - Charles Warren Fairbanks, American politician; vice-president under Theodore Roosevelt (1905-09) (d. 1918)

● 1854 - Jack Blackham, Australian cricketer (d. 1932)

● 1871 - Frank Schlesinger, American astronomer (d. 1943)

● 1871 - Stjepan Radic, Croatian politician (d. 1928)

● 1881 - Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian physicist (d. 1963)

● 1881 - Al Cabrera, Spanish-born Cuban baseball player (d. 1964)

● 1887 - Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian-born pianist (d. 1961)

● 1888 - Irving Berlin, American composer (d. 1989)

● 1888 - Willis A. Lee, World War II U.S. naval admiral

● 1890 - Woodall Rodgers, mayor of Dallas, Texas (d. 1961)

● 1891 - Henry Morgenthau, Jr., American secretary of the treasury (1934-45) (d. 1967)

● 1892 - Dame Margaret Rutherford, English actress (d. 1972)

● 1894 - Martha Graham, American dancer and choreographer (d. 1991)

● 1895 - William Grant Still, American composer and conductor (d. 1978)

● 1895 - Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher (d. 1986)

● 1896 - Josip Štolcer-Slavenski Croatian composer (d. 1955)

● 1897 - Kurt Gerron, German director (d. 1944)

● 1897 - Robert E. Gross, American businessman (d. 1961)

● 1903 - Charlie Gehringer, American baseball player (d. 1993)

● 1904 - Salvador Dalí, Catalan painter (d. 1989)

● 1907 - Rose Ausländer, German poet (d. 1988)

● 1907 - Rip Sewell, American baseball player (d. 1989)

● 1909 - Herbert Murrill, English composer (d. 1952)

● 1911 - Phil Silvers, American actor and comedian (d. 1985)

● 1912 - Foster Brooks, American actor and comedian (d. 2001)

● 1913 - Robert Jungk, Austrian publicist (d. 1994)

● 1915 - Herbert Philbrick, American counterintelligence agent for the F.B.I. (d. 1993)

● 1916 - Camilo José Cela, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002)

● 1918 - Richard Feynman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988)

● 1921 - Hildegard Hamm-Brücher, German politician

● 1924 - Antony Hewish, English radio astronomer, Nobel laureate

● 1924 - Eugene Dynkin, Russian mathematician

● 1927 - Mort Sahl, Canadian comedian and political commentator

● 1928 - Yaacov Agam, Israeli sculptor

● 1930 - Edsger Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist (d. 2002)

● 1933 - Louis Farrakhan, American Black Muslim leader

● 1934 - James Jeffords, U.S. senator, I-Vt.

● 1935 - Doug McClure, American actor (d. 1995)

● 1938 - Carla Bley, American musician and composer

● 1940 - Juan Downey, Chilean video artist (d. 1993)

● 1941 - Eric Burdon, British singer (The Animals)

● 1941 - Graham Miles, English snooker player

● 1943 - Juliet Harmer, English actress

● 1946 - Robert Jarvik, American physicist and inventor

● 1948 - Shigeru Izumiya, Japanese folk musician

● 1948 - Nirj Deva, Sri Lankan-British politician

● 1950 - Jeremy Paxman, British journalist and author

● 1950 - Dane Iorg, American baseball player

● 1952 - Renaud Séchan, French composer

● 1952 - Mike Lupica, American sports journalist

● 1952 - Shohreh Aghdashloo, Iranian actress ("House of Sand and Fog")

● 1952 - Frances Fisher, English-born actress

● 1953 - Boyd Gaines, Actor

● 1953 - David Gest, American television producer

● 1954 - Lubomir Stoykov, Bulgarian journalist and broadcaster

● 1955 - Mark Herndon, Country musician (Alabama)

● 1955 - John DeStefano, Jr., American politician

● 1956 - Theresa Burke, Canadian journalist

● 1956 - Alex Lester, British broadcaster

● 1957 - Peter North, Canadian porn star

● 1958 - Walt Terrell, American baseball player

● 1958 - Phil Smyth, Australian basketball player

● 1959 - Martha Quinn, American television personality

● 1963 - Tim Raybon, Country musician (The Raybon Brothers)

● 1963 - Natasha Richardson, English-born actress

● 1963 - Gunilla Carlsson, Swedish politician

● 1964 - John Parrott, English snooker player

● 1964 - Katie Wagner, American television reporter

● 1965 - Greg Dulli, American musician

● 1966 - Christoph Schneider, German drummer (Rammstein)

● 1968 - Keith West, Country musician (Heartland)

● 1972 - Anita Hegh, Australian actress

● 1973 - James Haven, American actor

● 1974 - Kevin Brown, English-born Canadian ice hockey player

● 1974 - Billy Kidman, American professional wrestler

● 1975 - Coby Bell, Actor ("Third Watch")

● 1977 - Janne Ahonen, Finnish ski jumper

● 1978 - Laetitia Casta, French supermodel and actress

● 1979 - Erin Lang, Canadian musician

● 1980 - Austin O'Brien, Actor

● 1981 - Lauren Jackson, Australian basketball player

● 1981 - Dan Ortmeier, American baseball player

● 1982 - Jonathan Jackson, American actor

● 1983 - Matt Leinart, American football player

● 1983 - Holly Valance, Australian-born actress and singer

● 1984 - Andres Iniesta, Spanish football player

● 1986 - Vassiriki Diaby, French footballer

● 1986 - Ronny, Brazilian footballer

● 1987 - Justin King, American football player

● 1987 - Monica Roşu, Romanian gymnast

● 1989 - Giovanni dos Santos, Mexican footballer

DEATHS

● 912 - Leo VI, Byzantine Emperor (b. 866)

● 1304 - Mahmud Ghazan, Mongol ruler (b. 1271)

● 1610 - Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit missionary (b. 1552)

● 1672 - Charles Seton, 2nd Earl of Dunfermline, English royalist (b. 1615)

● 1708 - Jules Hardouin Mansart, French architect (b. 1646)

● 1723 - Jean Galbert de Campistron, French dramatist (b. 1656)

● 1777 - George Pigot, Baron Pigot, British governor of Madras (b. 1719)

● 1778 - William Pitt, the Elder, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1708)

● 1812 - Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (assassinated) (b. 1762)

● 1871 - John Herschel, British mathematician and astronomer (b. 1792)

● 1848 - Tom Cribb, English boxer (b. 1781)

● 1849 - Jeanne Françoise Julie Adélaïde Récamier, French socialite (b. 1777)

● 1887 - Jean Baptiste Boussingault, French chemist (b. 1802)

● 1891 - A. E. Becquerel, French physicist (b. 1820)

● 1916 - Max Reger, German composer (b. 1873)

● 1916 - Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer and physicist (b. 1873)

● 1920 - William Dean Howells, American writer (b. 1837)

● 1934 - Orest Khvolson, Russian physicist (b. 1852)

● 1938 - Evgenii Miller, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1867)

● 1955 - Gilbert Jessop, English cricketer (b. 1874)

● 1960 - John D. Rockefeller, Jr., American philanthropist (b. 1874)

● 1963 - Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)

● 1970 - Johnny Hodges, American musician (b. 1906)

● 1973 - Lex Barker, American actor (b. 1919)

● 1976 - Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect (b. 1898)

● 1981 - Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)

● 1981 - Bob Marley, Jamaican singer and musician (b. 1945)

● 1985 - Chester Gould, American cartoonist (b. 1900)

● 1986 - Henry P. McIlhenny, American philanthropist (b. 1910)

● 1986 -Fritz Pollard, American football player (b. 1894)

● 1988 - Kim Philby, British spy (b. 1912)

● 1996 - Ademir Marques de Menezes, Brazilian football player (b. 1922)

● 2000 - Paula Wessely, Austrian actress (b. 1907)

● 2001 - Douglas Adams, English author (b. 1952)

● 2002 - Joseph Bonanno, Italian-born gangster (b. 1905)

● 2003 - Noel Redding, English bassist (The Jimi Hendrix Experience) (b. 1945)

● 2004 - John Whitehead, American singer (McFadden & Whitehead) (b. 1949)

● 2005 - Michalis Genitsaris, Greek rebetiko singer and composer (b. 1917)

● 2006 - Floyd Patterson, American boxer (b. 1935)

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

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Anastasius VI
● St. Anastasius VII
● St. Anthimus of Rome
● St. Bertilla
● St. Estella
● St. Evellius
● St. Francis of Girolamo
● St. Gauthier of Esterp
● St. Gengou Gangulphus
● St. James Walworth
● St. Jutte Von Trotta, Duchess of Maio Naise
● St. Majolus of Cluny
● St. Mamertus, first of the Ice Sts.
● St. Maximus
● St. Odilo of Cluny
● Sts. Philip & James the Less, apostles
● St. Tudy
● St. Walbert
● St. Walter
● Bl. Albert of Bergamo
● Bl. John of Rochester
● Bl. Matthew Gam
● Bl. Peter the Venerable

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for April 29 (Civil Date: May 11)
● Nine Martyrs at Cyzicus: Theognes, Rufus, Antipater, Theostichus, Artemas, Magnus, Theodotus, Thaumasius, and Philemon.
● St. Memnon the Wonderworker.
● Martyrs Diodorus and Rhodopianus, deacon, at Aphrodisia in Anatolia.
● St. Basil, Bishop of Ostrog in Montenegro.
● New-Martyr Nectarius of Optina (1928).

● Roman Empire - Feast of the Lemures.

● Holiday of the City of Miskolc (since 1992).

● Laos : Constitution Day (1947)

● Minnesota : Admission Day (32nd – 1858)

● World : International Mother's Day

● 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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