May 16......

May 16 is the 136th (137th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 229 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Free Speech "Unexpressed ideas, unpublished works, unpurchased books are lost forever." — American Library Association

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Homophobia "[The Tinky Winky Teletubby] is purple—the gay-pride color; and his antenna is shaped like a triangle—the gay-pride symbol." — Jerry Falwell, raising suspicions about a toy

Thought for the day: "America did not invent human rights, Human Rights invented America."

{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

● 955 - Alberich II, illegitimate son of Octavianus elected pope

● 1165 - Ramjbam & his family reach Acre Palestine

● 1204 - Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned first Emperor of the Latin Empire.

● 1527 - The Florentines drive out the Medici for a second time and Florence re-establishes a republic.

● 1532 - Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor of England.

● 1540 - German reformer Martin Luther remarked: 'In the worst temptations nothing can help us but faith that God's Son has put on flesh, is bone, sits at the right hand of the Father, and prays for us. There is no mightier comfort.'

● 1547 - Protestant German monarch surrenders to Karel in Wittenberg

● 1568 - Mary Queen of Scots flees to England.

● 1571 - Johannes Kepler, by his own calculations, is conceived at 4:37 AM

● 1584 - 7 Westfriese towns divide monasteries of Egmond/Blokker/St-Pietersdal

● 1605 - Camillo Borghese elected to succeed Pope Leo XI becomes Paul V

● 1606 - 2,000 foreigners murdered in Russia

● 1648 - Battle at Zólty Wody: Bohdan Chmielricki's cosacks beat John Casimir

● 1717 - Voltaire (François Marie Arouet), suspected of writing subversive satire, is imprisoned for the first time in the Bastille.

● 1747 - Prince Willem V sworn in as Admiral-General of Netherlands

● 1763 - Samuel Johnson meets his future biographer James Boswell in London

● 1770 - Marie Antoinette (14) marries future King Louis XVI (15) of France

● 1771 - The Battle of Alamance, a pre-American Revolutionary War battle between local militia and a group of rebels called "The Regulators" occurs in present-day Alamance County, North Carolina.

● 1777 - Lachlan McIntosh and Button Gwinnett shoot each other during a duel near Savannah, Georgia. Gwinnett, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, dies three days later.

● 1792 - Denmark becomes first Western country to outlaw slave trade.

● 1795 - Hedges Treaty: Bataafse Republic becomes French vassel state

● 1796 - Lombardije Republic forms

● 1803 - Peace of Amiens ends

● 1804 - Senate & Tribune declare Napolean leader of France

● 1811 - Peninsular War - Allies (Spain, Portugal & Britain) defeat French at the Battle of Albuera.

● 1817 - Mississippi River steamboat service begins

● 1821 - Engineers begin a five-month strike for the nine hour day.

● 1822 - Greek War of Independence: The Turks capture the Greek town of Souli.

● 1843 - The first major wagon train heading for the Northwest sets out with one thousand pioneers from Elm Grove, Missouri on the Oregon Trail.

● 1850 - Birth of Arthur H. Mann, English church organist. In addition to being an authority on Handel, Mann also composed a number of sacred hymn tunes, including ANGEL'S STORY, to which we sing today, "O Jesus, I Have Promised."

● 1860 - Republican convention (Chicago) selects Abraham Lincoln candidate

● 1861 - Confederate Government offers war volunteers $10 premium

● 1861 - Kentucky proclaims its neutrality

● 1862 - Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir builds 1st automobile

● 1863 - Battle of Champion's Hill MS-bloodiest action of Vicksburg Campaign

● 1864 - Atlanta Campaign-battle of Resaca, ends (since May 13)

● 1864 - Battle of Bermuda Hundred VA

● 1864 - Last battles at Drewry's Bluff VA (6,666 casualties)

● 1866 - The U.S. Congress eliminates the half dime coin and replaces it with the five cent piece, or nickel.

● 1866 - Charles Elmer Hires invents root beer.

● 1866 - Missouri Lutheran Synod founder C.F.W. Walther wrote in a letter: 'God carries on His work through men with whom it sometimes seems as if one would go to the right and the other to the left and the third one would hold back, and yet the work progresses.'

● 1868 - President Andrew Johnson is acquitted during his impeachment trial, by one vote in the United States Senate. {In those days it required a two-thirds majority to convict unlike the jeopardy that Bill Clinton faced of a simple majority.}

● 1874 - A flood on the Mill River in Massachusetts destroyed much of four villages and killed 139 people, first recorded dam disaster.

● 1875 - Quake in Venezuela & Colombia kills 16,000

● 1877 - May 16, 1877 political crisis in France.

● 1879 - Treaty of Gandamak to set up Afghan state between Russia & English

● 1881 - World's 1st electric tram goes into service in Lichterfelder (near Berlin)

● 1882 - Anne O'Hare McCormick, the American journalist who became the first woman on the editorial board of The New York Times, was born.

● 1888 - The first demonstration of recording on a flat disc was demonstrated by Emile Berliner.

● 1888 - The capitol of Texas was dedicated in Austin.

● 1891 - George A Hormel & Company introduce Spam

● 1894 - Fire in Boston destroys baseball stadium & 170 other buildings

● 1903 - 1st transcontinental motorcycle trip begins at San Fransisco (George Wymann)

● 1904 - U.S. Supreme Court, in Turner v. Williams, rules that Congress has unlimited power to exclude aliens and deport those who have entered in violation of the laws, including, in this case, philosophical anarchists.

● 1905 - Actor Henry Fonda was born in Grand Island, Neb.

● 1910 - The U.S. Congress authorizes the creation of the United States Bureau of Mines.

● 1911 - Remains of a Neanderthal man found in Jersey UK

● 1911 - Zeppelin "Deutscheland" wrecked at Dusseldorf

● 1912 - Working class author Studs Terkel born, New York City.

● 1912 - French anarchist and Bonnot Gang member Andre Rene Valet killed in a shootout with the police and army at Nogent-sur-Marne, France.

● 1918 - The Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government a jailable offense.

● 1919 - US Navy Naval Curtiss aircraft NC-4 commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight.

● 1920 - Popular Baptist pastor and denominational leader George Washington Truett, 53, preached his famous sermon, "Baptists and Religious Liberty," to 15,000 people from the Capitol steps in Washington, D.C.

● 1920 - In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc as a saint.

● 1920 - Spanish bullfighter Joselito is fatally gored fighting his last bull

● 1923 - Famed author Upton Sinclair arrested in Los Angeles for holding political meeting.

● 1924 - 108ºF (42ºC) in Blitzen OR

● 1927 - Supreme Court ruled bootleggers must pay income tax

● 1929 - The Shaffer Lectureship was established at the Yale Divinity School, in memory of Kent Shaffer, Ph.B., 1907. The lectures are concerned with some phase of the life, character and teachings of Jesus. Lecturers have included C.H. Dodd (1935); Ralph W. Sockman (1936); Martin Dibelius (1937); and James Moffatt (1940).

● 1934 - Minneapolis general strike backs teamsters.

● 1936 - 1st British air hostess (Daphne Kearley) flight to France

● 1938 - A fire at the Terminal Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia, kills 35 people.

● 1939 - Food stamps are 1st issued

● 1940 - Nazis forbid non-professional auto workers

● 1940 - Prime Minister Winston Churchill returns to London from Paris

● 1941 - Italian army under Aosta surrenders to Britain at Amba Alagi Ethiopia

● 1941 - Last great German air attack on Great Britain (Birmingham)

● 1941 - Nazis forbid Dutch Organization of Actors (NOT)

● 1942 - 1st transport of British/Dutch prisoners to South Burma

● 1943 - The Warsaw ghetto resistance is crushed by the Nazis. 56,000 die in the process.

● 1943 - World War II: The Dambuster Raids by No. 617 Squadron RAF on German dams.

● 1944 - 1st of 180,000+ Hungarian Jews reach Auschwitz

● 1944 - Military police attack gypsies

● 1945 - Violent battles around Sugar Loaf/Half Moon Okinawa

● 1946 - Jack Mullin showed the world the first magnetic tape recorder.

● 1948 - Chaim Weizmann is elected as the first President of Israel.

● 1948 - CBS news correspondent George Polk's body is found in Greece

● 1948 - Egyptians enter the Gaza

● 1948 - Israel issues its 1st postage stamps

● 1955 - King Baudouin of Belgium visits Congo

● 1956 - Egypt recognizes People's Republic of China

● 1956 - Great Britain performs nuclear Test at Monte Bello Is Australia

● 1957 - Major Irwin, USAF flies a Lockheed Starfighter to a record 1,404.18 MPH

● 1957 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Invicti Athletae

● 1957 - US launches its 3rd atomic submarine, USS Skate, at Groton CT

● 1958 - Eli Beeding experiences 83 g deceleration on a rocket sled, New Mexico

● 1958 - Walter Irwin flies 2,259 KPH in F-104A Starfighter

● 1960 - Nikita Khrushchev demands an apology from US President Dwight D. Eisenhower for U-2 spy plane flights over the Soviet Union thus ending a Big Four summit in Paris.

● 1960 - Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser, at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California.

● 1960 - A research study reported this day that TV commercials "in living color" were over three times more effective than black and white commercials.

● 1961 - Military coup deposes South Korean Prime Minister John Chang.

● 1962 - U.S. sends Marines to Thailand in response to gains by rebel Pathet Lao in neighboring Laos.

● 1963 - Gordon Cooper completes 22 orbits in Faith 7, ends US Project Mercury

● 1964 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

● 1965 - Bomb destroys USAF base Bien Hoa South Vietnam

● 1966 - Stokely Carmichael named chairman of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

● 1966 - The Communist Party of China issued the "May 16 Notice", marking the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.

● 1967 - Nhat Chi Mai immolates herself to protest the Vietnam War, Saigon.

● 1968 - Three die as tower block collapses; Two women and a man are killed after an entire corner of a new block of flats in London's East End collapses.

● 1968 - Earthquake kills 47 in Japan

● 1969 - Students occupies Magden House Amsterdam

● 1969 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

● 1969 - The U.S.S. Guitarro, a $50 million nuclear submarine undergoing final fitting in San Francisco Bay, sank to the bottom as water poured into a forward compartment. A House Armed Services subcommittee later found the Navy guilty of "inexcusable carelessness" in connection with the event.

● 1969 - Venera program: Venera 5, a Soviet spaceprobe, lands on Venus.

● 1971 - 1st class postage now costs 8¢ (was 6¢)

● 1971 - Bulgaria adopts it's constitution

● 1972 - Decimal currency introduced in Malta. The Pound sterling is henceforth divided into 100 cents.

● 1974 - Dozens die as Israel retaliates for Ma'a lot; Israeli planes bomb seven Palestinian refugee camps and villages in southern Lebanon.

● 1974 - Mohawk people reclaim part of homeland in upstate New York.

● 1974 - Helmut Schmidt becomes West German chancellor

● 1974 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

● 1975 - India annexes Sikkim after the mountain state held a referendum where popular vote was in favour of merging with India.

● 1975 - Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

● 1977 - 5 die as New York Airway helicopter topples on the Pan Am Building in NYC

● 1979 - Black labor leader and peace activist A. Philip Randolph dies.

● 1982 - Columbia moves to Vandenberg Air Force Base for mating in preparation for STS-4

● 1982 - Salvador Jorge Blanco wins presidential election in Dominican Republic

● 1983 - Lebanese parliament accept peace accord with Israel

● 1984 - Guinea-Bissau adopts constitution

● 1984 - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site

● 1984 - Andy Kaufman, comedian, dies at 35 of cancer.

● 1985 - Miners jailed for pit strike murder; Two South Wales miners are jailed for life for the murder of taxi driver David Wilkie during the miners' strike.

● 1985 - Pope John Paul II arrives in Belgium

● 1986 - Joaquín Balaguers PRSC wins Dominican Republic parliamentary election

● 1986 - South African President P W Botha sends Coetsee to visit Mandela

● 1986 - The Seville Statement on Violence is adopted by an international meeting of scientists, convened by the Spanish National Commission for UNESCO, in Seville, Spain.

● 1987 - "Bobro 400," a huge barge, sets with 3,200 tons of garbage that nobody wanted. The floating trash heap began an eight-week, 6,000 mile Odyssey in search of a willing dumping site.

● 1988 - U.S. Surgeon General declares, in a report issued, that cigarettes and tobacco products are addictive. The report, the work of 50 scientists who studied 2,000 research articles, found the "processes that determine tobacco addiction are similar to those that determine addiction to... heroin and cocaine." The Tobacco Institute criticized the report's conclusion, noting that many smokers had been able to quit smoking. {and failing to note the number of people able to quit heroin and cocaine as well}

● 1988 - U.S. Supreme Court rules trash may be searched without a warrant.

● 1989 - Soviet President Mikhail S Gorbachev & Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping ended a 30-year rift when they formally met in Beijing

● 1990 - "Muppets" creator Jim Henson died at age 53.

● 1990 - Dominican Republic President Joaquín Ricardo Balaguer re-elected

● 1990 - Entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. died at age 64.

● 1991 - Queen Elizabeth becomes 1st British monarch to address US congress

● 1992 - Polls show Perot, Bush & Clinton could be in a deadlock

● 1992 - STS-49: Space Shuttle Endeavour lands safely after a successful maiden voyage.

● 1993 - Farmer Sugeng finds 1.2 million year old Pithecanthropus IX skull

● 1993 - Süleyman Demirel elected President of Turkey

● 1994 - Joaquín Balaguer (86) elected President of Dominican Republic

● 1995 - Japanese police arrest cult leader Shoko Asahara & charged him with Nerve-gas attack on Tokyo's subways two months earlier

● 1996 - Admiral Jeremy "Mike" Boorda, the nation's top Navy officer, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound after some of his military awards were called into question.

● 1997 - In Zaire, President Mobutu Sese Seko gave control of the country to rebel forces ending 32 years of autocratic rule.

● 2000 - U.S. First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton was nominated to run for U.S. Senator in New York. She was the first U.S. first lady to run for public office.

● 2001 - Prescott punches protester; Labour Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott punches a man who throws an egg at him during a visit to north Wales.

● 2001 - Former FBI agent Robert Hanssen was indicted on charges of spying for Moscow.

● 2003 - In Casablanca, Morocco, 33 civilians are killed and more than 100 people are injured in the Casablanca terrorist attacks.

● 2004 - The Day of Mourning at Bykivnia forest, just outside of Kiev, Ukraine. Here during 1930s and early 1940s communist Bolsheviks executed over 100,000 Ukrainian civilians.

● 2005 - Newsweek magazine retracted a story that claimed investigators had found evidence the Quran was desecrated by interrogators at the U.S. naval prison at Guantanamo Bay. The story had sparked deadly protests in Afghanistan.

● 2005 - Army Specialist Sabrina Harman was convicted at Fort Hood, Texas, of six of the seven charges she faced for her role in the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib. (She was later sentenced to six months in prison.) {Of course, no one at the command level that condoned and even encouraged this abuse has yet to face charges.}

● 2005 - Kuwait permits women's suffrage in a 35-23 National Assembly vote.

● 2006 - A large magnitude 7.4 earthquake occurs near New Zealand.

BIRTHS

● 1490 - Duke Albert of Prussia (d. 1568)

● 1578 - Everard Digby, English conspirator (d. 1606)

● 1611 - Pope Innocent XI (d. 1689)

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

● 1710 - William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician (d. 1782)

● 1718 - Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician (d. 1799)

● 1763 - Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, French pharmacist (d. 1829)

● 1788 - Friedrich Rückert, German Poet, Translator and Orientalist (d. 1866)

● 1801 - William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State, bought Alaska at 2 ¢/acre (d. 1872)

● 1804 - Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, American educator; opened the first kindergarten in the United States (d. 1894)

● 1821 - Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician (d. 1894)

● 1827 - Pierre Cuypers, Dutch architect (d. 1921)

● 1832 - Philip Armour, American entrepreneur; headed the Armour meatpacking enterprises (d. 1901)

● 1845 - Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Russian microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1916)

● 1882 - Anne O'Hare McCormick, English-born American journalist; member of the New York Times editorial board (d. 1954)

● 1891 - Richard Tauber, Austrian tenor (d. 1948)

● 1894 - Walter Yust, American editor in chief of the Encyclopedia Britannica (1938-1960) (d. 1960)

● 1898 - Tamara de Lempicka, Polish-born painter (d. 1980)

● 1905 - H. E. Bates, English novelist and short-story writer (d. 1974)

● 1905 - Henry Fonda, American actor (d. 1982)

● 1906 - Alfred Pellan, French Canadian painter (d. 1988)

● 1906 - Margret Rey, author and illustrator (d. 1996)

● 1910 - Olga Berggolts, Russian poet (d. 1975)

● 1910 - Aleksandr Ivanovich Laktionov, Russian painter (d. 1972)

● 1912 - Studs Terkel, American writer

● 1913 - Woody Herman, American musician and band leader (d. 1987)

● 1914 - Edward T. Hall, American anthropologist and author

● 1917 - Juan Rulfo, Mexican novelist (d. 1986)

● 1917 - James C. Murray, American politician (d. 1999)

● 1917 - George Gaynes, American actor

● 1919 - Liberace, American pianist (d. 1987)

● 1920 - Martine Carol, French actress (d. 1967)

● 1921 - Harry Carey Jr., Actor

● 1923 - Merton Miller, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate

● 1925 - Bobbejaan Schoepen, Belgian entertainer

● 1927 - Nílton Santos, Brazilian football player

● 1928 - Billy Martin, baseball player and coach (d. 1989)

● 1929 - John Conyers, U.S. representative, D-Mich.

● 1929 - Adrienne Rich, American writer

● 1930 - Betty Carter, American jazz singer (d. 1998)

● 1930 - Friedrich Gulda, Austrian pianist (d. 2000)

● 1931 - Lowell Weicker, Former Connecticut governor and U.S. senator

● 1931 - Natwar Singh, Indian politician

● 1936 - Roy Hudd, British radio and television actor

● 1936 - Karl Lehmann, German Catholic cardinal

● 1943 - Dan Coats, Former U.S. senator, R-Ind.

● 1944 - Billy Cobham, American virtuoso drummer

● 1945 - Nicky Chinn, songwriter (The Sweet, Suzi Quatro)

● 1946 - Robert Fripp, English guitarist (King Crimson)

● 1946 - Roger Earl, British rock drummer (Savoy Brown, Foghat)

● 1947 - Bill Smitrovich, Actor

● 1948 - Judy Finnegan, British TV presenter, Richard & Judy

● 1950 - J. Georg Bednorz, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

● 1950 - Ray Condo, Canadian rockabilly musician

● 1952 - James Herndon, American media psychologist

● 1953 - Pierce Brosnan, Irish actor

● 1955 - Olga Korbut, Russian gymnast

● 1955 - Jack Morris, baseball player

● 1955 - Hazel O'Connor, British singer

● 1955 - Debra Winger, American actress

● 1959 - Mare Winningham, Actress

● 1961 - Charles Wright, American professional wrestler known as "The Godfather"

● 1963 - Mercedes Echerer, Austrian actress and politician

● 1964 - Boyd Tinsley, American violinist (Dave Matthews Band)

● 1965 - Krist Novoselic, American bassist (Nirvana)

● 1966 - Janet Jackson, American singer

● 1966 - Scott Reeves, American actor and singer

● 1966 - Thurman Thomas, American football player

● 1967 - Brian F. O'Byrne, Actor

● 1968 - Ralph Tresvant, Singer (New Edition)

● 1969 - David Boreanaz, American actor ("Bones," "Angel")

● 1969 - Tucker Carlson, American television commentator

● 1969 - Tracey Gold, American actress ("Growing Pains")

● 1969 - Steve Lewis, American athlete

● 1970 - Gabriela Sabatini, Argentine tennis player and Hall of Fame member

● 1970 - Danielle Spencer, Australian singer and actress

● 1971 - Simon Katz, Musician (Jamiroquai)

● 1971 - Rick Trevino, Country singer

● 1973 - Special Ed, American rapper

● 1973 - Tori Spelling, American actress ("Beverly Hills 90210")

● 1974 - Laura Pausini, Italian pop singer

● 1974 - Sonny Sandoval, American singer (P.O.D.)

● 1975 - Tony Kakko, Finnish singer (Sonata Arctica)

● 1977 - Melanie Lynskey, Actress ("Two and a Half Men")

● 1977 - Dolcenera, Italian singer

● 1977 - Jean-Sebastien Giguere, Canadian hockey player

● 1978 - Lionel Scaloni, Argentine footballer

● 1979 - McKenzie Lee, British pornographic actress

● 1980 - Michael Ryan, American hockey player

● 1982 - Joo Ji Hoon, Korean actor and model

● 1982 - Łukasz Kubot, Polish tennis player

● 1983 - Kyle Wellwood, Canadian hockey player

● 1983 - Nancy Ajram, Lebanese singer

● 1985 - Anja Mittag, German footballer

● 1985 - Corey Perry, Canadian hockey player

● 1986 - Megan Fox, American actress ("Hope and Faith")

● 1990 - Marc John Jefferies, Actor ("The Tracy Morgan Show")

● 1990 - Thomas Sangster, British actor

● 1998 - Ariel Waller, Canadian actress

DEATHS

● 583 - Saint Brendan, Irish navigator (b. 484)

● 1265 - Saint Simon Stock, English saint (b. 1165)

● 1620 - William Adams, English navigator (b. 1564)

● 1657 - Andrzej Bobola, Polish Jesuit missionary (b. 1591)

● 1667 - Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, English statesman (b. 1607)

● 1669 - Pietro da Cortona, Italian architect (b. 1598)

● 1691 - Jacob Leisler, American colonist (b. 1640)

● 1703 - Charles Perrault, French author (b. 1628)

● 1778 - Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness, English diplomat (b. 1718)

● 1782 - Daniel Solander, Swedish botanist (b. 1736)

● 1790 - Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, English politician (b. 1720)

● 1830 - Joseph Fourier, French scientist (b. 1768)

● 1891 - Ion C. Brătianu, Romanian statesman (b. 1821)

● 1913 - Louis Perrier, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1849)

● 1926 - Mehmed VI, last Ottoman Sultan (b. 1861)

● 1944 - George Ade, American author (b. 1866)

● 1947 - Frederick Hopkins, English biochemist and Nobel laureate (b. 1861)

● 1953 - Django Reinhardt, Belgian musician (b. 1910)

● 1954 - Clemens Krauss, Austrian conductor (b. 1893)

● 1955 - James Agee, American writer (b. 1909)

● 1956 - H. B. Reese, American founder of Reese's (b. 1876)

● 1957 - Eliot Ness, American federal agent (b. 1903)

● 1959 - Elisha Scott, footballer (b. 1894)

● 1969 - Robert R., first confirmed death from AIDS in North America (b. 1954)

● 1979 - A. Philip Randolph, American activist (b. 1889)

● 1984 - Andy Kaufman, American comedian (b. 1949)

● 1984 - Irwin Shaw, American author (b. 1913)

● 1985 - Margaret Hamilton, American actress (b. 1902)

● 1988 - Charles Keeping, British illustrator (b. 1924)

● 1990 - Sammy Davis, Jr., American entertainer (b. 1925)

● 1990 - Jim Henson, American puppeteer (b. 1936)

● 2001 - Brian Pendleton, musician, The Pretty Things (b. 1944)

● 2002 - Big Dick Dudley, professional wrestler (b. 1968)

● 2002 - Alec Campbell, The last surviving ANZAC

● 2003 - Mark McCormack, American businessman (b. 1930)

● 2006 - Dan Ross, American football player (b. 1957)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Abdas
● St. Adam
● St. Andrew Bobola
● St. Annobert
● St. Brendan the Navigator
● St. Carantac
● St. Carantoc
● St. Domnolus
● Sts. Felix & Gennadius
● St. Fidouls
● St. Forannan
● St. Germerius
● St. Hilary
● St. Honoratus of Amiens
● St. John Nepomuk or John Nepomucene (1330 - 1393)
● St. Simon Stock
● St. Theodore of Tabenna
● St. Peregrinus
● St. Ubald Baldassini

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for May 3 (Civil Date: May 16)
● Martyrs Timothy the Reader and his wife Maura of Antinoe in Egypt.
● St. Theodosius, abbot of the Kiev Caves Monastery and founder of coenobitic monasticism in Russia.
● St. Peter the Wonderworker, Bishop of Argolis.

● Greek Calendar:
● St. Ecumenius of Trikala, the wonderworker.
● Great-Martyr Xenia of Peloponnesus, the wonderworker.
● Translation of the Relics of St. Luke of Mt. Stirion.
● New-Martyr Ahmet the Calligrapher of Constantinople.
● New-Martyr Mary of Crete.
● "Svenskaya" (Kiev Caves) Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos.

● Unification Church : Day of Love of God

● Middlesex Day.

● Teacher's Day in Malaysia.

● Cayman Islands : Commonwealth Day

● This Holiday is only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● US : Armed Forces Day - ( Saturday )

IN FICTION

● 1901 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of the Priory School"

● 1991 - Daily Planet fires cub reporter Jimmy Olson (Superman character)


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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