May 14......

May 14 is the 134th (135th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 231 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Foreign Policy "Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood." — Jimmy Carter

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Gynephobia "Rail as they will against discrimination, women are simply not endowed by nature with the same measure of single-minded ambition and the will to succeed in the fiercely competitive world of Western capitalism.... The mama builds the nest." — Pat Buchanan

Thought for the day: "Most campaign literature is an insult to intelligence. Sad that many never realize 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

● 649 - Theodore I ends his reign as Catholic Pope

● 1004 - Henry II the Saint crowned as king of Italy

● 1027 - Robert II, the Vrome, names son Henry I, king of France

● 1264 - Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured in France making Simon de Montfort the de facto ruler of England.

● 1483 - Coronation of Charles VIII of France ("Charles l'Affable").

● 1509 - Battle of Agnadello: In northern Italy, French forces defeat the Venetians.

● 1576 - Dutch Council of State replaced by Council of Beroerten

● 1590 - Battle at Ivry: French king Henri IV beats Catholic League

● 1607 - In Virginia, on the first Sunday after the arrival of the Jamestown Expedition, Anglican priest Robert Hunt, 39, held the first Anglican service in the New World. Named chaplain of the expedition to Jamestown, Hunt was also the first Anglican priest to come to America.

● 1607 - Jamestown, Virginia is settled as an English colony.

● 1608 - Protestant Union founded in Auhausen.

● 1610 - Assassination of Henri IV of France, bringing Louis XIII to the throne.

● 1638 - Admiral Adam Westerwolt conquerors Batticaloa, Ceylon

● 1643 - Four-year-old Louis XIV becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Louis XIII.

● 1664 - Turkish great Köprülü attacks 120,000 Donau soldiers

● 1702 - England & Netherlands declare war on France & Spain

● 1702 - Swedish troops under King Charles XII occupy Warsaw

● 1727 - Thomas Gainsborough was born. He was an English painter.

● 1747 - A British fleet under Admiral George Anson defeats the French at first battle of Cape Finisterre.

● 1767 - British government disbands Americans import duty on tea

● 1771 - Birth of Robert Owen, social reformer against private property, religion, and marriage. Newtown, mid-Wales.

● 1787 - In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates begin to meet to write a new Constitution for the United States.

● 1796 - Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox vaccination.

● 1804 - The Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from Camp Dubois and begin their historic journey by traveling up the Missouri River.

● 1811 - Paraguay gains independence from Spain.

● 1812 - Luddites involved in Loughborough Market riot.

● 1835 - Charles Darwin reaches Coquimbo in Northern Chile

● 1845 - Utrecht-Arnhem Railway opens

● 1853 - Gail Borden patents his process for condensed milk

● 1856 - U.S. President Franklin Pierce unofficially "recognized" the government of American adventurer William Walker, who had set himself up as the pro- slavery dictator of Nicaragua. Walker was later deposed after he interfered with Cornelius Vanderbilt's transportation network.

● 1856 - The editor of the San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin was assassinated by a rival newspaper owner. A vigilante group seized the assassin from the sheriff, then tried, convicted, and executed him.

● 1861 - The Canellas meteorite, an 859-gram chondrite-type meteorite strikes the earth near Barcelona, Spain.

● 1862 - Adolphe Nicole of Switzerland patents the chronograph

● 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Jackson (MS).

● 1864 - Battle of Reseca GA -Atlanta- (2nd day)

● 1868 - Japanese Boshin War: End of the Battle of Utsunomiya Castle, former Shogunate forces withdraw northward to Aizu by way of Nikkō.

● 1878 - Vaseline is 1st sold (registered trademark for petroleum jelly)

● 1884 - Anti-Monopoly party forms in the US

● 1885 - Otto Klemperer, who was one of the foremost German conductors, was born.

● 1889 - The children's charity the NSPCC is launched in London.

● 1896 - Lowest US temperature in May recorded (-10ºF - Climax CO)

● 1897 - Guglielmo Marconi made the first communication by wireless telegraph.

● 1897 - Great-Britain signs treaty with emperor Menelik II of Abyssinia

● 1903 - President Theodore Roosevelt visits San Francisco

● 1908 - 1st passenger flight in an airplane

● 1910 - Canada authorizes issuing of silver dollar coins

● 1912 - German Parliament authorizes new armaments program in competition with British naval strength.

● 1913 - New York Governor William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $100 million donation from John D. Rockefeller.

● 1919 - Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical In hac tanta

● 1921 - Mussolini's fascists obtains 29 parliament seats

● 1927 - Cap Arcona is launched at the Blohm + Voss shipyard in Hamburg

● 1931 - Ådalen shootings, five people are killed in Ådalen, Sweden, as soldiers open fire on an unarmed trade union manifestation.

● 1932 - Death of John Hughes, 59, Welsh rail official and church worker. During his life, Hughes composed a number of hymns, including CWM RHONDDA, to which the Church today still sings "Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah."

● 1935 - The Filipinos ratify an independence agreement.

● 1939 - Lina Medina becomes the world's youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of five.

● 1940 - Death of radical feminist anarchist Emma Goldman, Toronto, Canada. Goldman had been barred from living in the U.S. since 1931 due to her political beliefs; in her last months she focused on raising money for anti-Franco forces in Spain.

● 1940 - World War II: Rotterdam is bombed by the German Luftwaffe.

● 1940 - World War II: The Netherlands surrender to Germany.

● 1940 - Admiral Furstner departs to England

● 1940 - German breakthrough at Sedan

● 1940 - Lord Beaverbrook appointed British minister of aircraft production

● 1941 - 3,600 Parisian Jews arrested

● 1942 - The British, while retreating from Burma, reached India.

● 1942 - US Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) is founded

● 1943 - Sinking of the Australian Hospital Ship Centaur off the coast of Queensland, by a Japanese submarine.

● 1944 - 91 German bombers harass Bristol

● 1944 - British troops occupy Kohima

● 1945 - Kamikaze-Zero strikes US aircraft carrier Enterprise

● 1945 - US offensive on Okinawa, Sugar Loaf conquered

● 1945 - Plutonium is injected intravenously into a human subject in an experiment carried out by the Los Alamos scientific laboratory. In all, 18 people were similarly tested between 1945 and 1946.

● 1948 - After nineteen centuries of enforced exile, the Jewish people regained their homeland when the State of Israel was formally proclaimed in Tel Aviv. On this same date, the U.S. became the first world nation to recognize the newly-refounded state of Israel.

● 1948 - Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion establishes State of Israel and Israel declared to be an independent state and a provisional government is established. Immediately after the declaration, Israel was attacked by the neighboring Arab states.

● 1948 - Israeli Radio Station Kol Yisrael's 1st broadcast

● 1948 - Jordan's Arab League captures Atarot, north of Jerusalem

● 1948 - US grants Israel de facto recognition

● 1948 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak

● 1949 - Truman signs bill establishing a rocket test range at Cape Canaveral

● 1950 - American missionary and martyr Jim Elliot wrote in his journal: 'To believe is to act as though a thing were so. Merely saying a thing is so is no proof of my believing it.'

● 1954 - Belgium shortens military conscription from 20 to 18 months

● 1955 - US performs nuclear test in Pacific Ocean

● 1955 - Warsaw Pact is signed by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland & Romania

● 1957 - Cheers as petrol rationing ended; Relief across the country as the paymaster general announces restrictions on fuel consumption imposed during the Suez crisis are to be lifted.

● 1960 - USSR launch 1st (unmanned) space capsule

● 1961 - American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders bus is fire-bombed near Anniston, Alabama, and the civil rights protestors are beaten by an angry mob.

● 1962 - Ex-President Milovan Djilas sentenced to 5 years

● 1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island

● 1963 - Kuwait is 111th member of the United Nations

● 1964 - Nasser and Khrushchev divert the Nile; The Egyptian and Russian leaders end phase one of the construction of the Aswan High Dam by blowing up a huge sand barrage to divert the course of the Nile.

● 1964 - Underground America Day is 1st observed

● 1965 - 2nd Chinese atom bomb explodes

● 1965 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1968 - Czechoslovakian Government announces liberalizing reforms under Alexander Dubcek

● 1968 - RAF-leader Andreas Baader sentenced to 3 years in West Berlin

● 1968 - French workplace occupations start. A significant aspect of the May Upheaval. By the end of this month over 10,000,000 workers are involved in occupations.

● 1969 - Abortion & contraception legalized in Canada

● 1970 - Harry A Blackmun appointed to the Supreme Court

● 1970 - RAF-leader Andreas Baader freed after serving 2 years in West Berlin

● 1970 - Jackson, Miss. - Two students watching from a nearby dormitory tower are shot and killed by state police, and 30 others are wounded at anti-war demonstration at the primarily African-American Jackson State University. Ensuing two days of riots in Jackson result in curfews and sealing off of the city.

● 1970 - Seminole tribes of Florida and Oklahoma are awarded $12.2 million for lands taken "under duress."

● 1970 - The Red Army Faction is established in Germany.

● 1973 - Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched. It is the last launch of the Saturn V rocket.

● 1973 - US Supreme court approves equal rights to females in military

● 1974 - In the Anglican Church in England, the Rev. F. Donald Coggan, 64, was named the 101st Archbishop of Canterbury by Queen Elizabeth II, succeeding former Archbishop Michael Ramsey.

● 1974 - Symbionese Liberation Army destroyed in shoot-out, 6 killed

● 1975 - French press reports massive deportation from Cambodia

● 1975 - U.S. forces raided the Cambodian island of Koh Tang and recaptured the American merchant ship Mayaguez. All 40 crew members were released safely by Cambodia. About 40 U.S. servicemen were killed in the military operation.

● 1975 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1976 - Oil tanker Urqui Ola explodes off Spanish coast

● 1977 - In Milan, Italy, during a demonstration of the far-left, a hooded extremist shoots at police, killing a policeman, Antonino Custrà. The scene is photographed and the picture of the hooded man shooting in the middle of the street will appear in many magazines around the world.

● 1978 - First round of the presidential elections in Upper Volta.

● 1980 - Some 600 Salvadoran refugees are killed attempting to cross the Sumpul River from El Salvador to Honduras by government troops from both countries.

● 1980 - U.S. President Carter inaugurated the Department of Health and Human Services.

● 1981 - NASA launches space vehicle S-192

● 1982 - Guinea adopts constitution

● 1984 - U.S. returns Waadah and Tatoosh Islands, off the Olympic Peninsula, to the Makah Nation.

● 1986 - Institute for War documents publishes Anne Franks complete diary

● 1988 - Carrollton bus disaster: A drunk driver going the wrong way on Interstate 71 near Carrollton, Kentucky, USA hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group. The crash and ensuing fire kill 27.

● 1989 - Demonstration for democratic reforms in Beijing's Tiananmen square

● 1991 - 42 die in a train collision is Japan

● 1991 - Robert M Gates becomes head of CIA

● 1991 - Winnie Mandela sentenced to 6 years for complicity in kidnapping & beating of four youths, one of whom died, She is freed pending appeal

● 1992 - Former Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev addressed members of the U.S. Congress, appealing to them to pass a bill to aid the people of the former Soviet Union.

● 1994 - Georgia and Abkhazia agree to a cease-fire.

● 1995 - First Reclaim the Streets party, London.

● 1995 - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, proclaims six-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima as the eleventh reincarnation of the Panchen Lama.

● 1996 - A tornado hit 80 villages in nothern Bangladesh. More than 440 people were killed.

● 1997 - A chemical storage tank at Hanford Nuclear Reservation explodes, exposing workers to a radioactive plume; eight are hospitalized.

● 1998 - Singer Frank Sinatra died at age 82.

● 1999 - North Korea returned the remains of six U.S. soldiers that had been killed during the Korean War.

● 2001 - Scientists warn of more CJD cases; Variant CJD - the human form of BSE or "mad cow disease" - has been found in 99 people so far - but scientists warn a "second wave" in several years could be much larger.

● 2001 - The Supreme Court ruled that there is no exception in federal law for people to use marijuana to ease their pain from cancer, AIDS or other illnesses.

● 2002 - Ten members of the Darwin-based Network Against Prohibition invade the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory of Australia.

● 2004 - The Constitutional Court of South Korea overturns the impeachment of President Roh Moo-hyun.

● 2005 - Pope Benedict XVI observes his first beatification, elevating Blessed Marianne of Molokai on the road to canonization into sainthood.

● 2005 - Ex-America (CV-66), a decommissioned supercarrier of the United States Navy, is deliberately sunk in the Atlantic Ocean after four weeks of live-fire exercises. She is the largest ship ever to be disposed of as a target in a military exercise.

● 2006 - Much of New England is hit with a massive flood, forcing people out of their homes and causing millions of dollars worth of damage.

BIRTHS

● 1316 - Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1378)

● 1553 - Margaret of Valois, wife of Henry IV (d. 1615)

● 1645 - Francois de Callieres, French author and diplomat (d. 1717)

● 1666 - Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia (d. 1732)

● 1679 - Peder Horrebow, Danish astronomer (d. 1764)

● 1699 - Hans Joachim von Zieten, Prussian field marshal (d. 1786)

● 1701 - William Emerson, English mathematician (d. 1782)

● 1703 - David Brearly, delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention (d. 1785)

● 1710 - King Adolf Frederick of Sweden (d. 1771)

● 1727 - Thomas Gainsborough, English artist (d. 1788)

● 1771 - Robert Owen, Welsh social reformer (d. 1858)

● 1832 - Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician (d. 1903)

● 1847 - Sir Frederick Borden, Canadian statesman; helped create Canadian navy (d. 1917)

● 1852 - Alton Parker, American politician; opposed Theodore Roosevelt in 1904 (d. 1926)

● 1867 - Kurt Eisner, German politician (d. 1919)

● 1880 - Wilhelm List, German field marshal (d. 1971)

● 1881 - G. Murray Hulbert, American politician (d. 1950)

● 1883 - Julian Eltinge, American vaudeville star and famous female impersonator (d. 1941)

● 1885 - Otto Klemperer, German-born conductor (d. 1973)

● 1895 - Al White, American diver and Olympic gold medalist (1924) (d. 1982)

● 1897 - Sidney Bechet, American musician (d. 1959)

● 1899 - Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist (d. 1993)

● 1904 - Hans Albert Einstein, American professor (d. 1973)

● 1904 - Marcel Junod, Swiss physician (d. 1961)

● 1907 - Mohammad Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan (1958-1969) (d. 1974)

● 1907 - Johnny Moss, American poker player (d. 1995)

● 1916 - Del Moore, American comedian (d. 1970)

● 1917 - Lou Harrison, American composer (d. 2003)

● 1919 - John Hope, American meteorologist (d. 2002)

● 1921 - Richard Deacon, American actor (d. 1984)

● 1922 - Franjo Tuđman, President of Croatia (d. 1999)

● 1925 - Patrice Munsel, Opera singer

● 1926 - Eric Morecambe, British comedian (d. 1984)

● 1929 - Gump Worsley, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)

● 1931 - Alvin Lucier, American composer

● 1934 - Siân Phillips, Welsh actress

● 1936 - Bobby Darin, American singer (d. 1973)

● 1936 - Charlie Gracie, American singer

● 1940 - Troy Shondell, American singer

● 1942 - Byron Dorgan, U.S. Senator, D-ND

● 1942 - Tony Pérez, Cuban baseball player and Hall of Fame member

● 1942 - Valeriy Brumel, Soviet athlete (d. 2003)

● 1943 - Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, President of Iceland

● 1943 - Jack Bruce, Scottish bassist (Cream)

● 1943 - Derek Leckenby, British musician (Herman's Hermits) (d. 1994)

● 1943 - Elizabeth Ray, American sex scandal figure

● 1944 - George Lucas, American film director ("Star Wars" movies)

● 1945 - Yochanan Vollach, former Israeli football player and current president of the Maccabi Haifa association

● 1946 - Eric Peterson, Canadian actor

● 1947 - Tamara Dobson, American actress (d. 2006)

● 1948 - Meg Foster, Actress

● 1948 - Bob Woolmer, English cricket coach (d. 2007)

● 1952 - David Byrne, Scottish-American musician (Talking Heads)

● 1952 - Scott Irwin, American professional wrestler

● 1952 - Robert Zemeckis, American film director

● 1953 - Tom Cochrane, Canadian musician (Red Rider)

● 1953 - Norodom Sihamoni, King of Cambodia

● 1955 - Dennis Martinez, Nicaraguan baseball player

● 1957 - Leon White, American professional wrestler

● 1959 - Patrick Bruel, French singer

● 1959 - Steve Hogarth, British singer (Marillion)

● 1959 - Rick Vaive, Canadian ice hockey player

● 1960 - Steve Williams, American wrestler

● 1961 - Tim Roth, English actor

● 1962 - Danny Huston, Actor

● 1962 - C.C. DeVille, American musician (Poison)

● 1962 - Ian Astbury, English singer (The Cult)

● 1963 - Pat Borders, American baseball player

● 1965 - Eoin Colfer, Irish writer

● 1966 - Mike Inez, American bassist (Alice In Chains)

● 1966 - Fabrice Morvan, French music artist

● 1966 - Raphael Saadiq, American music artist (Tony Toni Tone)

● 1967 - Tony Siragusa, American football player

● 1969 - Danny Wood, Singer (New Kids on the Block)

● 1969 - Cate Blanchett, Australian actress

● 1971 - Sofia Coppola, American director ("Lost in Translation")

● 1972 - Mark Ruskell, England-born Scottish politician

● 1973 - Natalie Appleton, Singer (All Saints)

● 1973 - Shanice, R&B singer

● 1973 - Anais Granofsky, Canadian actress and director

● 1974 - Jennifer Allan, American model

● 1976 - Martine McCutcheon, British actress

● 1976 - Hunter Burgan, American musician (AFI)

● 1976 - Brian Lawrence, American baseball player

● 1977 - Ada Nicodemou, Australian actress

● 1977 - Roy Halladay, American Baseball Player

● 1978 - Henry Garza, Rock musician (Los Lonely Boys)

● 1978 - Andre Macanga, Angolan footballer

● 1979 - Clinton Morrison, England-born Irish footballer

● 1979 - Carlos Tenorio, Ecuadorian footballer

● 1981 - Sarbel, Greek-born singer

● 1983 - Amber Tamblyn, American actress ("Joan of Arcadia")

● 1983 - Tom Welham, British musician (Thirteen Senses)

● 1983 - Uroš Slokar, Slovenian basketball player

● 1990 - Emily Samuelson, American ice dancer

● 1993 - Miranda Cosgrove, American actress ("iCarly," "Drake and Josh")

DEATHS

● 964 - Pope John XII

● 1470 - Charles VIII of Sweden (b. 1409

● 1574 - Guru Amar Das, third Sikh Guru (b. 1479)

● 1608 - Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1543)

● 1610 - Henry IV of France (b. 1553)

● 1643 - Louis XIII of France (b. 1601)

● 1649 - Friedrich Spanheim, Dutch theologian (b. 1600)

● 1669 - Georges de Scudéry, French writer (b. 1601)

● 1688 - Antoine Furetière, French writer (b. 1619)

● 1754 - Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée, French writer (b. 1692)

● 1761 - Thomas Simpson, British mathematician (b. 1710)

● 1818 - Matthew Gregory Lewis, English novelist (b. 1775)

● 1847 - Fanny Mendelssohn, German composer and pianist (b. 1805)

● 1860 - Ludwig Bechstein, German writer (b. 1801)

● 1873 - Gideon Brecher, Austrian physician and writer (b. 1797)

● 1887 - Lysander Spooner, American philosopher (b. 1808)

● 1889 - Volney E. Howard, American politician (b. 1809)

● 1893 - Ernst Kummer, German mathematician (b. 1810)

● 1906 - Carl Schurz, German revolutionary and statesman (b. 1829)

● 1912 - Frederick VIII of Denmark (b. 1843)

● 1912 - August Strindberg, Swedish author (b. 1849)

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

● 1919 - Henry John Heinz, founder of the H. J. Heinz Company (b. 1844)

● 1923 - Charles de Freycinet, French prime minister (b. 1828)

● 1925 - H. Rider Haggard, English author (b. 1856)

● 1931 - David Belasco, American theatrical producer (b. 1853)

● 1931 - Denys Finch Hatton, English big-game hunter (b. 1887)

● 1934 - Lou Criger, American baseball player (b. 1872)

● 1936 - Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, British general (b. 1861)

● 1940 - Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-born anarchist (b. 1869)

● 1943 - Henri La Fontaine, Belgian Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1854)

● 1945 - Heber J. Grant, seventh president of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1856)

● 1954 - Heinz Guderian, German General (b. 1888)

● 1957 - Marie Vassilieff, Russian artist (b. 1884)

● 1959 - Sidney Bechet, American musician (b. 1897)

● 1968 - Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral (b. 1882)

● 1969 - Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer (b. 1888)

● 1970 - Billie Burke, American actress (b. 1884)

● 1973 - Jean Gebser, German-born author, linguist, and poet (b. 1905)

● 1976 - Keith Relf, British singer and musician (The Yardbirds) (b. 1943)

● 1978 - Robert Menzies, twelfth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894)

● 1982 - Hugh Beaumont, American actor (b. 1909)

● 1983 - Roger J. Traynor, American judge (b. 1900)

● 1987 - Rita Hayworth, American actress (b. 1918)

● 1988 - Willem Drees, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1886)

● 1991 - Jiang Qing, wife of Mao Zedong (b. 1914)

● 1992 - Lyle Alzado, American football player (b. 1949)

● 1992 - Nie Rongzhen, Chinese Communist military leader (b. 1899)

● 1993 - Patrick Haemers, Belgian criminal (b. 1953)

● 1993 - William Randolph Hearst Jr., American newspaper magnate (b. 1908)

● 1995 - Christian B. Anfinsen, American Nobel laureate (b. 1916)

● 1997 - Harry Blackstone Jr., American magician (b. 1934)

● 1998 - Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor (b. 1915)

● 1998 - Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American conservationist (b. 1890)

● 2000 - Obuchi Keizo, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1937)

● 2003 - Dave DeBusschere, American basketball player (b. 1940)

● 2003 - Wendy Hiller, British actress (b. 1912)

● 2003 - Robert Stack, American actor (b. 1919)

● 2004 - Anna Lee, British actress (b. 1913)

● 2006 - Lew Anderson, American actor and bandleader (b. 1922)

● 2006 - Stanley Kunitz, American poet (b. 1905)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Boniface of Tarsus
● St. Carthach the Younger
● St. Engelmer
● St. Engelmund
● St. Erembert
● St. Just
● St. Maria Dominic Mazzarello
● St. Matthias (Apostle)
● St. Michael Garicoits
● Sts. Victor and Corona
● St. Vincent of Lerins

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for May 1 (Civil Date: May 14)
● Prophet Jeremiah.
● St. Paphnutius, abbot of Borovsk.
● Martyr Batas of Nisibis.
● Hieromartyr Macarius, Metropolitan of Kiev.
● New-Martyrs Euthymius, Ignatius and Acacius of Mt. Athos.
● St. Gerasimus, abbot of Boldinsk.
● St. Tamara the Queen of Georgia.

● Greek Calendar:
● St. Isidora.
● St. Panaretus of Cyprus, Archbishop Martyr Sabbas.
● St. Nicephorus of Chios, monk.
● Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Unexpected Joy".
● Repose of Schemamonk Luke of Clinsk Hermitage (1898).

● Guinea : Guinea Democratic Party Anniversary

● Liberia : Unification Day/Integration Day

● Malawi : Kamuzu Day

● Paraguay : Independence Day (1811)

● Philippines : Carabao Festival/Constitution Day/Feast of St Isidro/Election 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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