May 12......

May 12 is the 132nd (133rd in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 233 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Feminism "I suppose I could have stayed home, baked cookies, and had teas, but what I decided was to fulfill my profession." — Hillary Rodman Clinton

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Bigotry, Chauvinism, and Theocracy "The Roman [Catholic] Church is not another Christian denomination. It is a satanic counterfeit, an ecclesiastic tyranny over the souls of men, not to bring them to salvation, but to hold them bound in sin and to hurl them into eternal damnation." — Bob Jones, Jr., university president, Faith for the Family magazine.

Thought for the day: "No woman should imitate men; men are not worth it."

{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

● 254 - St. Stephen I began his reign as the Catholic Church's 23rd pope. According to the "Liber Pontificalis," it was Stephen who instituted the rule that clerics should wear special clothes at their ministrations.

● 919 - Duke Henry of Saxon becomes king Henry I of Oostfrankische rich

● 1082 - Battle at Mailberg: Vratislav II of Bohemia beats Leopold II of Austria

● 1215 - English barons serve ultimatum on king John without Country

● 1264 - The Battle of Lewes, between King Henry III of England and the rebel Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, begins.

● 1310 - Fifty-four Knights Templars were burned at the stake as heretics in France. Established during the Crusades to protect pilgrims traveling to the Holy Land, this military order came into increasing conflict with Rome until Clement V officially dissolved it in 1312 at the Council of Vienna.

● 1328 - Antipope Nicholas V, a claimant to the papacy, is consecrated in Rome by the Bishop of Venice.

● 1364 - Jagiellonian University, the oldest university in Poland, was founded in Kraków, Poland.

● 1459 - Sun City India founded by Rao Jodhpur

● 1525 - Battle at Böblingen: Zwabische Union beats rebel Württembergse farmers

● 1534 - Württemberg becomes Lutheran

● 1551 - National University of San Marcos, the oldest university in the Americas, was founded in Lima, Peru.

● 1588 - French Wars of Religion: Henry III of France flees Paris after Henry of Guise enters the city with the Catholic League.

● 1604 - Spanish garrison of Aardenburg surrenders to Mauritius

● 1640 - Uprising against Spanish king Philip IV

● 1689 - King William's War: William III of England joins the League of Augsburg starting a war with France.

● 1695 - English king Willem III departs to Netherlands

● 1701 - Drenthe adopts Gregorian calendar (yesterday is 4/29/1701)

● 1733 - Maria Theresa crowned queen of Bohemia in Prague

● 1776 - Turgot, French minister of Finance, resigns

● 1780 - American Revolutionary War: Charleston, South Carolina is taken by British forces.

● 1789 - Society of St Tammany is formed by Revolutionary War soldiers - It later becomes an infamous group of NYC political bosses

● 1792 - Toilet that flushes itself at regular intervals is patented

● 1797 - First Coalition: Napoleon I of France conquers Venice.

● 1820 - Florence Nightingale, the Englishwoman who established nursing as a trained profession for women, was born in Florence, Italy.

● 1821 - The first big battle of the Greek War of Independence against the Turks occurs in Valtetsi.

● 1831 - Edward Smith became the first indicted bank robber in the U.S.

● 1835 - Charles Darwin visits copper mines in North Chile

● 1847 - William Clayton invented the odometer.

● 1847 - Freedom fighter Tiburcio Vasquez fights Anglo invaders in California.

● 1849 - Willem Alexander PFL crowned king Willem III in Amsterdam

● 1862 - U.S. federal troops occupy Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

● 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Raymond: two divisions of James B. McPherson's XVII Corps (ACW) turn the left wing of Confederate General John C. Pemberton's defensive line on Fourteen Mile Creek, opening up the interior of Mississippi to the Union Army during the Vicksburg Campaign.

● 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Spotsylvania Court House: Thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers die in "the Bloody Angle".

● 1864 - Battle of Todd's Tavern VA (Sheridan's Raid)

● 1864 - Butler attacks Drewry's Bluff on James River (Fort Darling)

● 1864 - US Union colonel Emory Upton (24) promoted to Brigadier-General

● 1865 - American Civil War: Battle of Palmito Ranch: The first day of the last major land action to take place during the Civil War, resulting in a Conferderate victory.

● 1870 - The Manitoba Act was given the Royal Assent, paving the way for Manitoba to become a province of Canada on July 15.

● 1871 - Segregated street cars integrated in Louisville KY

● 1873 - Oscar II of Sweden-Norway is crowned King of Sweden.

● 1874 - US Assay Office in Helena MT authorized

● 1881 - In North Africa, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate.

● 1885 - North-West Rebellion: The four-day Battle of Batoche, pitting rebel Métis against the Canadian government, comes to an end with a decisive rebel defeat.

● 1891 - The Presbytery of New York voted to put the Rev. Dr. Charles A. Briggs, the new professor of biblical theology at Union Theological Seminary, on trial for heresy.

● 1891 - Riot against tax increase in Paramaribo Suriname

● 1897 - 1800-1900 year old fossil of "girl of Yde" found in Drente Netherlands

● 1897 - Battle at Thessalië: Turkish army beats Greece

● 1898 - Louisiana adopts new constitution with "grandfather clause" designed to eliminate black voters.

● 1898 - U.S. bombards San Juan, Puerto Rico in effort to prevent island’s independence from Spain. Would later annex the island as part of the settlement of the Spanish-American War.

● 1900 - Boer attack under Sarel Eloff, about 70 killed

● 1900 - Lord Roberts' troops occupies Crown city

● 1901 - President McKinley visits San Fransisco

● 1907 - Birth of Sidney N. Correll, founder and first General Director (1946-1971) of United World Mission, Inc. This evangelical missions organization is involved worldwide in evangelism, church planting and Christian education.

● 1908 - Wireless Radio Broadcasting is patented by Nathan B Stubblefield

● 1910 - 2nd NAACP conference (NYC)

● 1915 - Croatians plunder Armenia, killing 250

● 1916 - Execution of James Connolly, IWW organizer and Irish freedom fighter.

● 1922 - Large meteor strikes Earth near Blackstone, Virginia.

● 1925 - Uzbekistan & Kirgizistan become autonomous Soviet republics

● 1926 - Umberto Nobile flies Airship Norge is 1st vessel to fly over the North Pole

● 1926 - UK General Strike 1926: In the United Kingdom, a nine-day general strike by trade unions ends.

● 1928 - Mussolini ends woman's rights in Italy

● 1928 - Opium laws enforced

● 1932 - Ten weeks after his abduction, the infant son of Charles Lindbergh is found dead in Hopewell, New Jersey just a few miles from the Lindberghs' home.

● 1933 - Federal Emergency Relief Administration & Agricultural Adjustment Administration form to help the needy & farmers

● 1937 - Coronation of King George VI of Britain at Westminster Abbey.

● 1938 - In Holland, the four-day convention at Utrecht ended, at which the Provisional Constitution for the World Council of Churches was adopted.

● 1938 - Sandoz Labs manufactures LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide)

● 1940 - French mariners occupy St Maarten

● 1940 - German tanks conquer Moerdijkbrug

● 1940 - Nazi blitz conquest of France began by crossing Meuse River

● 1941 - Great British convoy marches into Alexandria

● 1941 - Konrad Zuse presented the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer in Berlin.

● 1942 - World War II: Second Battle of Kharkov – In the eastern Ukraine, the Soviet Army initiates a major offensive. During the battle the Soviets will capture the city of Kharkov from the German Army, only to be encircled and destroyed.

● 1942 - First recorded extermination of 1,500 Jews, Auschwitz/Oswiecim, Poland.

● 1942 - David Ben-Gurion leaves Jewish state in Palestine

● 1942 - Nazi U-boat sinks American cargo ship at mouth of Mississippi River

● 1943 - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in US

● 1943 - German troops in Tunisia North Africa surrender

● 1944 - 900+ 8th Air Force bombers attack Zwikau, Bohlen & Brüx

● 1944 - Krim purged of Nazi troops

● 1944 - Secret Police arrest Gerrit Van de Peat

● 1948 - The state of Israel and its provisional government was established.

● 1948 - Queen Wilhelmina resigns

● 1949 - 1st foreign woman ambassador received in US (S V L Pandit India)

● 1949 - Cold War: The Soviet Union lifts its Blockade of Berlin.

● 1950 - The American Bowling Congress abolishes its white males-only membership restriction after 34 years.

● 1951 - 1st H Bomb test, on Enewetak Atoll

● 1952 - Gaj Singh crowned Maharaja of Jodhpur.

● 1955 - The last portion of the IRT Third Avenue Elevated in Manhattan closes.

● 1956 - East Pakistan struck by cyclone & tidal waves

● 1958 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak

● 1958 - A formal North American Aerospace Defense Command agreement is signed between the United States and Canada.

● 1962 - Douglas MacArthur delivers his famous "Duty, Honor, Country" valedictory speech at West Point.

● 1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island

● 1963 - Bob Dylan walks off Ed Sullivan Show

● 1963 - Race riot in Birmingham AL

● 1964 - Manlio Brosio chosen as secretary-general of NATO

● 1965 - Israel & West Germany exchange letters beginning diplomatic relations

● 1965 - The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashes on the Moon.

● 1967 - Stansted to become London's third airport; The British Government gives the go-ahead to proposals to convert Stansted into an international airport.

● 1967 - H Rap Brown replaces Stokely Carmichael as chairman of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

● 1968 - "March of Poor" under Rev Abernathy reach Washington DC

● 1970 - The Senate voted unanimously to confirm Harry A. Blackmun as a Supreme Court justice

● 1970 - Race riots in Augusta GA; 6 blacks killed (5 by cops)

● 1970 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1972 - Police clash with 3,000 anti-war protesters in San Francisco.

● 1975 - Gonzalo Arias chains himself to Spanish gate in protest of closure of Spain/Gilbraltor frontier.

● 1975 - Mayagüez incident: The Cambodian navy seizes the American merchant ship SS Mayaguez in international waters.

● 1976 - The Urquiola runs aground at La Coruna, Spain, releasing 100,000 tons of oil.

● 1978 - In Zaïre, rebels occupy the city of Kolwezi, the mining center of the province of Shaba. The government of Zaïre asks the U.S., France and Belgium to restore order.

● 1978 - Commerce Department announces that hurricane names will no longer be exclusively female

● 1980 - 1st nonstop crossing of US via balloon (Maxie Anderson & son Chris)

● 1981 - Second IRA protester dies in jail; Francis Hughes starves to death in the Maze Prison in a republican campaign for political status to be granted to IRA prisoners.

● 1982 - During a procession outside the shrine of the Virgin Mary in Fátima, Portugal, security guards overpower Juan Fernandez Krohn before he can attack Pope John Paul II with a bayonet. Krohn, an ultraconservative Spanish priest opposed to the Vatican II reforms, decided that the Pope must be killed for being an "agent of Moscow."

● 1984 - Discovery (OV-103) from Orbiter Processing Facility to Vehicle Assembly Building at KSC, for mating for 41-D (STS-14)" for the first use of this Shuttle (OV-103)

● 1984 - France performs nuclear test

● 1984 - South Africa prisoner Nelson Mandela sees his wife for 1st time in 22 years

● 1985 - Amy Eilberg is ordained in New York as 1st woman Conservative rabbi

● 1986 - President Reagan appoints Dr James C Fletcher NASA Administrator

● 1989 - Last graffiti covered NYC subway car retired

● 1989 - Retired British pilot Jack Mann is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists

● 1989 - A Southern Pacific Railroad freight train derails on the very steep Cajon Pass in San Bernardino, California, killing four people.

● 1991 - A new cancer drug is announced, which can only be found in bark of a rare tree in the Pacific Northwest

● 1992 - Four suspects were arrested in the beating of trucker Reginald Denny at the start of the Los Angeles riots.

● 1992 - 1st Belgian woman (Ingrid Baeyens) to ascend Mount Everest

● 1994 - Labour leader John Smith dies at 55; The Labour leader John Smith dies in a London hospital after two serious heart attacks.

● 1997 - 14 North Koreans defect to South Korea

● 1997 - Russia & Chechnya sign peace deal after 400 years of conflict

● 1997 - Tornado narrowly misses downtown Miami

● 1999 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin dismissed Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov and named Interior Minister Sergei Stepashin as his successor.

● 1999 - David Steel becomes the first Presiding Officer (speaker) of the modern Scottish Parliament.

● 2000 - Ford quits Dagenham after 70 years; Ford workers at its Dagenham plant react with shock and anger at the news that car production is to be transferred to Germany and Spain, with the loss of 3,000 jobs.

● 2000 - The Tate Modern art gallery opens in London.

● 2002 - Former President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro becoming first President of the United States, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro's 1959 revolution.

● 2003 - The Riyadh compound bombings, carried out by Al Qaeda, kill 26.

● 2003 - In Texas, fifty-nine Democratic lawmakers went into hiding over a dispute with Republican's over a congressional redistricting plan.

● 2005 - Kaspars Petrovs is convicted of the strangulation murder and robberies of thirteen elderly women in Riga, Latvia.

BIRTHS

● 1401 - Emperor Shoko of Japan (d. 1428)

● 1496 - Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1560)

● 1590 - Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1621)

● 1622 - Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor General of New France (d. 1698)

● 1626 - Louis Hennepin, Flemish missionary (d. 1705)

● 1670 - Frederick Augustus I of Poland (d. 1733)

● 1700 - Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian architect (d. 1773)

● 1725 - Louis Philip I, Duke of Orléans, (d. 1785)

● 1767 - Manuel de Godoy, Spanish statesman (d. 1851)

● 1803 - Justus von Liebig, German chemist (d. 1873)

● 1806 - Johan Vilhelm Snellman, Finnish statesman (d. 1881)

● 1812 - Edward Lear, English author and poet (d. 1888)

● 1820 - Florence Nightingale, English nurse (d. 1910)

● 1828 - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English poet (d. 1882)

● 1829 - Pavlos Carrer, Greek composer (d. 1896)

● 1842 - Jules Massenet, French composer (d. 1912)

● 1845 - Gabriel Fauré, French composer (d. 1924)

● 1850 - Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. statesman (d. 1924)

● 1867 - Hugh Trumble, Australian cricketer (d. 1938)

● 1874 - Clemens von Pirquet, Austrian physician (d. 1928)

● 1880 - Lincoln Ellsworth, American scientist (d. 1951)

● 1889 - Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank (d. 1980)

● 1892 - Fritz Kortner, Austrian-born director (d. 1970)

● 1895 - William Giauque, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1982)

● 1899 - Indra Devi, yogi (d. 2002)

● 1900 - Helene Weigel, German actress (d. 1971)

● 1907 - Leslie Charteris, English novelist (d. 1993)

● 1907 - Katharine Hepburn, American actress (d. 2003)

● 1910 - Charles B. Fulton, American jurist (d. 1996)

● 1910 - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, British biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1994)

● 1912 - Archibald Cox, U.S. Solicitor General (d. 2004)

● 1914 - Bertus Aafjes, Dutch poet (d. 1993)

● 1914 - Howard K. Smith, American journalist (d. 2002)

● 1917 - Frank Clair, Canadian football coach (d. 2005)

● 1918 - Julius Rosenberg, American spy (d. 1953)

● 1921 - Joseph Beuys, German artist (d. 1986)

● 1921 - Farley Mowat, Canadian writer and naturalist

● 1924 - Tony Hancock, English comedian (d. 1968)

● 1924 - Alexander Esenin-Volpin, Russian mathematician

● 1925 - John Simon, Critic

● 1925 - Yogi Berra, American baseball player

● 1928 - Burt Bacharach, American composer

● 1930 - Jesús Franco, Spanish film director

● 1933 - Andrey Voznesensky, Russian poet

● 1935 - Felipe Alou, Dominican baseball player and manager

● 1936 - Frank Stella, American painter

● 1936 - Tom Snyder, American television personality

● 1937 - George Carlin, American comedian

● 1937 - Beryl Burton, English cyclist (d. 1996)

● 1938 - Millie Perkins, American film actress

● 1939 - Ron Ziegler, White House Press Secretary (d. 2003)

● 1941 - Jayotis Washington, R&B singer (The Persuasions)

● 1942 - Billy Swan, Country singer

● 1942 - Ian Dury, English musician (d. 2000)

● 1943 - Linda Dano, Actress

● 1945 - Ian McLagan, Rock musician (Small Faces, The Faces)

● 1945 - Alan Ball, English footballer

● 1947 - Michael Ignatieff, Canadian politician

● 1948 - Lindsay Crouse, Actress

● 1948 - Dave Heineman, Governor of Nebraska

● 1948 - Steve Winwood, English musician (Traffic)

● 1950 - Bruce Boxleitner, American actor (Babylon 5)

● 1950 - Billy Squier, American singer

● 1950 - Gabriel Byrne, Irish actor

● 1955 - Kix Brooks, American musician (Brooks and Dunn)

● 1956 - Bernie Federko, Canadian ice hockey player

● 1957 - Bruce Buffer, American Mixed Martial Arts Announcer

● 1958 - Kim Greist, Actress

● 1958 - Eric Singer, American drummer

● 1959(61? NYT) - Ving Rhames, American actor

● 1961 - Bruce McCulloch, Canadian actor

● 1961 - Lar Park Lincoln, American actress

● 1961 - Billy Duffy, British rock guitarist (The Cult)

● 1962 - April Grace, Actress

● 1962 - Emilio Estevez, American actor

● 1963 - Vanessa A. Williams, American actress

● 1963 - Deborah Kara Unger, Canadian actress

● 1963 - Jerry Trimble, American actor

● 1963 - Stefano Modena, Italian racing driver

● 1963 - Panagiotis Fasoulas, Greek basketball player, Mayor of Piraeus

● 1964 - Brett Gurewitz, American record producer

● 1965 - Eddie Kilgallon, Country musician

● 1966 - Stephen Baldwin, American actor

● 1966 - Bebel Gilberto, Brazilian singer

● 1967 - Paul D'Amour, American bass guitarist (ex-Tool)

● 1968 - Tony Hawk, American skateboarder

● 1968 - Scott Schwartz, Actor

● 1968 - Mark Clark, American baseball player

● 1968 - Catherine Tate, English comedienne

● 1969 - Kim Fields, American actress ("The Facts of Life")

● 1970 - Mike Weir, Canadian golfer

● 1970 - Jim Furyk, American golfer

● 1970 - Samantha Mathis, American actress

● 1971 - Jamie Luner, Actress

● 1972 - Christian Campbell, Actor

● 1973 - Kendra Kassebaum, American stage actress

● 1973 - Travis Lutter, Mixed Martial Arts Fighter

● 1973 - Mackenzie Astin, Actor

● 1975 - Jonah Lomu, New Zealand rugby union footballer

● 1977 - Graeme Dott, Scottish snooker player

● 1977 - Doug Basham, American professional wrestler

● 1977 - Rebecca Herbst, American actress

● 1978 - Hossein Reza Zadeh, Iranian weightlifter

● 1978 - Jason Biggs, American actor ("American Pie" movies)

● 1979 - Steve Smith, Football player

● 1979 - Erdinç Saçan, Turkish-Dutch politician

● 1981 - Kentaro Sato, Japanese composer

● 1983 - Charilaos Pappas, Greek footballer

● 1984 - Cheryl Burke, Filipino-American ballroom dancer

● 1986 - Emily VanCamp, Canadian actress ("Everwood")

● 1988 - Marcelo, Brazilian footballer

● 1991 - Bradford N. Smith, American actor

● 1992 - Malcolm David Kelley, American actor ("Lost")

● 1995 - Sullivan and Sawyer Sweeten, American actors ("Everybody Loves Raymond")

DEATHS

● 1003 - Pope Silvester II

● 1012 - Pope Sergius IV

● 1382 - Queen Joan I of Naples (b. 1327)

● 1399 - Demetrius I Starshiy (killed in battle) (b. 1327)

● 1465 - Thomas Palaeologus, Despot of the Despotate of Morea

● 1634 - George Chapman, English writer

● 1641 - Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, English statesman (b. 1593)

● 1684 - Edme Mariotte, French physicist and priest

● 1699 - Lucas Achtschellinck, Flemish painter (b. 1626)

● 1700 - John Dryden, English writer (b. 1631)

● 1708 - Adolf Friedrich II of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1658)

● 1748 - Thomas Lowndes, English astronomer (b. 1692)

● 1759 - Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (b. 1700)

● 1784 - Abraham Trembley, Swiss naturalist (b. 1710)

● 1792 - Charles Simon Favart, French dramatist (b. 1710)

● 1796 - Johann Peter Uz, German poet (b. 1720)

● 1801 - Nicholas Repnin, Russian statesman (b. 1734)

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

● 1856 - Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, French mathematician (b. 1786)

● 1859 - Sergei Aksakov, Russian writer (b. 1791)

● 1860 - Charles Barry, English architect (b. 1795)

● 1864 - J. E. B. Stuart, American soldier from Virginia and a Confederate Army general (b. 1833)

● 1867 - Friedrich William Eduard Gerhard, German archaeologist (b. 1795)

● 1871 - Anselme Payen, French physicist (b. 1795)

● 1876 - Georgi Benkovski, Bulgarian revolutionary, brutally killed by the Turks (b. 1843)

● 1884 - Bedřich Smetana, Czech composer (b. 1824)

● 1889 - John Cadbury, English chocolate entrepreneur (b. 1801)

● 1907 - Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author (b. 1848)

● 1925 - Amy Lowell, American poet (b. 1874)

● 1931 - Eugène Ysaÿe, Belgian violinist (b. 1858)

● 1935 - Józef Piłsudski, Polish statesman (b. 1867)

● 1944 - Max Brand, American author (b. 1892)

● 1944 - Q, English writer (b. 1863)

● 1956 - Louis Calhern, American actor (b. 1895)

● 1957 - Erich von Stroheim, film director and actor (b. 1885)

● 1963 - Bobby Kerr, Canadian runner (b. 1882)

● 1967 - John Masefield, British writer (b. 1878)

● 1970 - Nelly Sachs, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)

● 1971 - Heinie Manush, American baseball player (b. 1901)

● 1973 - Art Pollard, American racecar driver.

● 1985 - Jean Dubuffet, French painter (b. 1901)

● 1986 - Elisabeth Bergner, Austrian actress (b. 1897)

● 1990 - Chen Kenmin, Japanese chef (b. 1912)

● 1992 - Robert Reed, American actor (b. 1932)

● 1992 - Nikos Gatsos, Greek poet and lyricist (b. 1911)

● 1994 - Erik Erikson, German psychoanalyst (b. 1902)

● 1994 - John Smith, British politician (b. 1938)

● 1995 - Mia Martini, Italian singer (b. 1947)

● 1999 - Abd-al-Aziz ibn Abd-Allah ibn Baaz, Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia 1993-1999 (b. 1910)

● 1999 - Saul Steinberg, Romanian-American cartoonist (b. 1914)

● 2000 - Adam Petty, American race car driver (b. 1980)

● 2001 - Perry Como, American singer (b. 1912)

● 2002 - Erich Kulas, ECW Wrestler (Mass Transit)

● 2003 - Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, French UN High Commissioner for Refugees (b. 1933)

● 2005 - Martin Lings, English Islamic scholar (b. 1909)

● 2005 - Monica Zetterlund, Swedish actress and singer (b. 1937)

● 2006 - Gillespie V. Montgomery, former U.S. representative from Mississippi (b. 1920)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Diomma
● St. Dionysius
● St. Dominic de la Calzada
● St. Epiphanius of Salamis
● St. Etheihard
● St. Flavia Domitilla
● St. Joan of Portugal
● St. Modoaldus
● Sts. Nereus and Achilleus
● St. Pancras (died 304), second of the Ice Saints
● St. Philip of Agirone
● St. Richrudis
● Bl. Francis Patrizzi
● Bl. Imelda

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for April 30 (Civil Date: May 12)
● Holy Apostle James, the brother of St. John the Theologian.
● St. Donatus, Bishop of Euroea in Epirus.
● Martyr Maximus of Ephesus.
● Opening of the Relics of St. Nicetas, Bishop of Novgorod.
● Translation of the Relics of St. Sabbas, abbot of Zvenigorod Monastery.
● St. Clement the Hymnographer, abbot of the Studion.
● New-Martyr Argyra of Prussa.

● Greek Calendar:
● Sts. Quintian and Atticus.
● Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Of the Passion".
● Repose of Schema-abbess Martha (Protasieva), disciple of St. Paisius Velichkovsky (1813)
● Repose of Holy Bishop Ignatius (Brianchaninov) (1867).

● Christian:
● Solemnity of the Ascension

● Bhuddist-Burma : Buddha's Birthday

● International Nurses Day

● Abbotsbury Dorsetshire England : Garland Day

● Finland : Snellman Day (1806)

● Khmer Republic : Constitution Day (1972)

● US : National Hospital Day (1921)

● 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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