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Sunday, May 27, 2007

May 27......

May 27 is the 147th (148th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 218 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Hate "It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not." — André Gide

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Undermining Public Education "The unfortunate truth is that 'evolution' has become a controversial buzzword that prevent some from reading the proposed biology curriculum." — Kathy Cox, Georgia superintendent of education, explaining why the word "evolution" should be purged from the state curriculum. {Again proving that women's worst enemy can be counted among other women.}

Thought for the day: "When forced to choose between two evils, try the new one."

{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

● 1120 - Richard III of Capua anointed as prince a fortnight before his untimely death

● 1281 - Flemish Earl Gwijde Dampierre takes financial responsibility of Brugge

● 1328 - Philip VI is crowned King of France.

● 1525 - Thomas Munzer, millinerian leader, Anabaptist communist, rebel against the authority of the church and all official representatives of God on earth, executed.

● 1529 - 30 Jews of Posing Hungary, charged with blood ritual, burned at stake

● 1647 - Alse Young became the first person executed as a witch in America when she was hanged in Hartford, Conn.

● 1660 - Denmark & Sweden sign ceasefire

● 1664 - Colonial theologian Increase Mather, 24, was installed as minister of Boston's Second (Congregational) Church. He remained there until his death in 1723.

● 1668 - Three colonists were expelled from Massachusetts for being Baptists.

● 1679 - Habeaus Corpus Act (no false arrest & imprisonment) passes in UK

● 1689 - Anthonie Heinsius succeeds G Fagel as pension advisor of Holland

● 1703 - Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.

● 1738 - Turkish troops occupy Orsova & Ochakov

● 1796 - James S McLean patents his piano

● 1799 - Birth of George Washington Doane, American Episcopal clergyman. One of the foremost promoters of Episcopal missions in his day, Doane also authored many hymns, including "Fling Out the Banner! Let It Float" and "Softly Now the Light of Day."

● 1813 - War of 1812: In Canada, American forces capture Fort George.

● 1818 - Birth of Amelia Bloomer, American social reformer and women's rights advocate.

● 1819 - Birth of Julia Ward (Howe), abolitionist, internationalist, women's movement campaigner, and founder of Mother's Day as a feminist general strike against male waging of war.

● 1844 - Samuel F.B. Morse completes 1st telegraph line

● 1850 - Mormon Temple in Nauvoo IL destroyed by tornado

● 1854 - Marine Telegraph from Fort Point to San Fransisco completed

● 1856 - Doctor William Palmer found guilty of poisoning

● 1856 - Rogue River Indians defeated in Battle of Big Bend, Oregon.

● 1860 - Giuseppe Garibaldi begins his attack on Palermo, Sicily, as part of the Italian Unification.

● 1862 - Battle of Hanover Court House VA (Slash Church, Peake's Station)

● 1863 - CSS Chattahoochie explodes on Chattahoochie River GA, 18 die

● 1863 - Siege of Port Hudson LA

● 1864 - Skirmish at Salem Church (Haw's Shop) VA

● 1871 - End of the Paris Commune (Bloody Week). Desperate combat by the Communards ends up even in Pere Lachaise cemetery. The Communards will be lined up and shot against the wall,

● 1875 - Germany - The Gotha Congress unites two workers' organizations into the Socialist Workers Party.

● 1883 - Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.

● 1890 - Birth of Andre Rene Valet, in Verdun, Meuse, France. Illegalist member of the anarchist Bonnot Gang. Killed in a shootout with the police and the army in May 1912.

● 1893 - Audath Yisroel forms at Kattowitz (Katowice) Poland

● 1895 - British inventor Birt Acres patents film camera/projector

● 1896 - The F4-strength St. Louis-East St. Louis Tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri and East Saint Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and incurring $2.9 billion in damages (1997USD).

● 1900 - Lord Roberts' army fights the Vaal in South Africa

● 1905 - Japanese fleet destroys Russian East Sea fleet in Straits of Tushima

● 1907 - Birth of author Rachel Carson, whose books in the 1950s and '60s spurred the beginnings of the mass environmental movement. Springdale, Penn.

● 1907 - A Bubonic plague outbreak begins in San Francisco, California.

● 1917 - Benedict XV promulgated the "Codex iuris canonici." Divided into five books and 2,414 regulations, the CIC was the first revision of canon law in the Catholic church in modern times, and went into effect at Pentecost the following year.

● 1917 - Race riot in East St Louis IL, 1 black killed

● 1918 - Battle of Aisne

● 1919 - Charles Strite patents pop-up toaster

● 1919 - The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight.

● 1920 - Tatar ASSR is established in Russian SFSR

● 1921 - After 84 years of British control, Afghánistán achieves sovereignty

● 1923 - Nobel Peace Prize winner, corporate consultant, and unrepentant war criminal Henry Kissinger born, Germany.

● 1924 - The General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, meeting at Springfield, Maryland, repealed its ban on dancing and theater attendance.

● 1927 - The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacturing the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make Ford Model A's.

● 1927 - Birth of Ralph Carmichael, a popular sacred composer whose works flourished most during the 1960s-1970s. Among his oftªsung arrangements are "The Savior is Waiting" and "He's Everything to Me."

● 1927 - Japanese military intervention in Chinese civil war

● 1927 - Thomas Masaryk elected Czechoslovakian president

● 1929 - U.S. Supreme Court bars Rosika Schwimmer from citizenship for refusal to bear arms in nation's defense.

● 1930 - The 1,046 feet (319 meters) tall Chrysler Building in New York (tallest man-made structure at the time) opens to the public.

● 1930 - Richard Drew invents masking tape

● 1931 - 1st full scale wind tunnel for testing airplanes, Langley Field VA

● 1931 - Piccard & Knipfer make 1st flight into stratosphere, by balloon; 1st use of pressurized cabin in a balloon

● 1932 - The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens.

● 1933 - New Deal: The U.S. Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.

● 1933 - Austrian communist party banned

● 1935 - New Deal: The Supreme Court of the United States declares the National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional in the case A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, (295 U.S. 495).

● 1936 - RMS Queen Mary leaves Southampton for New York on maiden voyage

● 1937 - In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County.

● 1939 - DC Comics publishes its second superhero in Detective Comics #27; he is Batman, one of the most topical comic book superheroes of all time.

● 1940 - British & French begin evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo)

● 1940 - World War II: 97 out of 99 members of a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are massacred while trying to surrender at Dunkirk. The German commander, Captain Fritz Knoechlein, is eventually hanged for war crimes.

● 1941 - German battleship Bismarck sunk by British naval force.

● 1941 - Allied troops begin evacuating Kreta

● 1941 - FDR proclaimes an "unlimited national emergency" due to Germany's sinking of Robin Moor

● 1942 - Pierre Ramus (aka Rudolf Grossman) (1882-1942) dies, fleeing from Nazi-occupied Europe. Austrian writer, pacifist, and propagandist. Organized the German FKAD (Federation of Anarchistic Communists of Germany).

● 1942 - World War II: Operation Anthropoid - assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in Prague.

● 1942 - German General Erwin Rommel began a major offensive in Libya with his Afrika Korps.

● 1942 - Dorie Miller, awarded navy cross for deeds at Pearl Harbor

● 1942 - Hitler orders 10,000 Czechoslovakians murdered

● 1942 - Italian army begin siege of French western Fort Bir Hachim

● 1943 - U.S. passes law barring military contractors from racial discrimination.

● 1943 - French defiance under Jean Moulin meets secretly in Paris

● 1944 - Allies land on Biak, Indonesia (operation Horlicks)

● 1944 - Japanese advance in Hangkhou China

● 1948 - Arabs blow up Jewish synagogue Hurvat Rabbi Yehudah he-Hasid

● 1949 - Russian stop train traffic West-Berlin

● 1951 - Chinese Communists force Dalai Lama to surrender his army to Beijing

● 1952 - Treaty creating European Defence Community signed, Paris.

● 1953 - Dutch social democratic/Dutch Liberal Party win municipal elections

● 1955 - Election victory for Tories under Eden; Anthony Eden's Conservatives win the general election with a clear majority, ending a five-year political stalemate.

● 1956 - French raid in Algiers

● 1956 - US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)

● 1956 - Tallahassee (Fla.) bus boycott.

● 1958 - Ernest Green becomes first African-American to graduate from Little Rock Central High School, Arkansas.

● 1958 - Vanguard SLV-1 launched for Earth orbit (failed)

● 1960 - In Turkey, a military coup removed President Celal Bayar and the rest of the democratic government from office.

● 1961 - 1st black light is sold

● 1961 - President Kennedy announces US goal to reach the Moon

● 1963 - Jomo Kenyatta elected 1st prime minister of Kenya

● 1964 - Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru dies in office.

● 1965 - Vietnam War: United States warships begin bombardments of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam for the first time.

● 1966 - 55th German F-16 Starfighter crashes

● 1966 - 6 French fighters crash above Spain

● 1967 - Australia gives citizenship to aborigines.

● 1967 - The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) is christened by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline.

● 1968 - Grand jury indicts the "L.A. 13" for conspiracy to disturb the peace during school walkouts. Those indicted are Sal Castro, Eliezar Risco, Patricio Sanchez, Moctezuma Esparza, David Sánchez, Carlos Montes, Ralph Ramirez, Fred Lopes, Richard Vigil, Gilberto Olmeda, Joe Razo, Henry Gomez, and Carlos Muñoz, Jr.

● 1968 - Nuclear-powered U.S.S. Scorpion disappears in North Atlantic with 99 crewmen aboard.

● 1970 - British expedition climbs south face of Annapurna I

● 1970 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

● 1971 - The Dahlerau train disaster, the worst railway accident in West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25 near Wuppertal.

● 1972 - Second "Watergate break-in" attempt in two days by Dick "I am not a Used Car Salesman" Nixon's CREEP agents fail when Virgilio Gonzales is unable to pick a lock on the door of the Democratic National Committee headquarters.

● 1975 - Worst motor vehicle disaster in UK; bus full of elderly women plunges from Dibble's Bridge Yorkshire, killing 38

● 1975 - Alaska legalizes home use of marijuana.

● 1977 - 2 Boeing 747s by Pan Am & KLM collide in Canary Islands, killing 582

● 1977 - NYC fines George Willig 1¢ for each of 110 stories of the World Trade Center he climbed, $1.10.

● 1977 - An Aeroflot plane crashes, killing 69 people.

● 1978 - About 20,000 rally in New York City to protest nuclear weapons, marking the beginning of a resurgence in anti-nuclear weapon activism that would culminate in the Freeze campaign of the early '80s.

● 1979 - Pope John Paul ordains John J O'Conner as a bishop

● 1980 - Peach death was 'misadventure'; The jury at the inquest of Blair Peach, the London teacher who died in a demonstration last year, returns a verdict of misadventure.

● 1980 - The South Korean army massacres three thousand unarmed civilians in Kwangju. The victims were protesting military rule in the country and asking for democracy. This massacre and its coverup is not unlike the little known U.S.-backed and perpetrated murder of possibly 60,000 civilians in the Cheju-do Massacre of 1950. High U.S. government officials knew of this slaughter, did nothing to prevent if, and then tried to cover up what they had condoned.

● 1981 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

● 1983 - Former EPA official Rita Lavelle indicted for contempt of Congress

● 1985 - In Beijing, representatives of Britain and China exchanged instruments of ratification on the pact returning Hong Kong to the Chinese in 1997.

● 1986 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island

● 1986 - Mel Fisher recovered a jar that contained 2,300 emeralds from the Spanish ship Atocha. The ship sank in the 17th century.

● 1986 - President Reagan orders 2 Poseidon-class submarines be dismantled

● 1988 - Senate ratified a treaty eliminating medium-range nuclear missiles

● 1990 - César Gaviria Trujillo chosen President of Colombia

● 1990 - Radical Democratic Party holds 1st political meetings in Moscow

● 1991 - Austrian Boeing 767-300 explodes at Bangkok, 223 die

● 1992 - Massacre of bread queue, Sarajevo, Bosnia.

● 1992 - National plan of Reforestation for Peace begins, El Salvador.

● 1993 - Mafia bombs Uffizi-museum in Florence, kills 6

● 1994 - Nobel Prize-winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia. He had been in exile for two decades.

● 1996 - First Chechnya War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire in the war.

● 1997 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the sexual harassment suit filed by Paula Jones could continue while President Clinton was in office.

● 1997 - 1st all female (20 British women) team reaches North Pole

● 1997 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin signs a historic treaty with NATO

● 1997 - The F5-strength Jarrell Tornado slams into the small town of Jarrell, Texas, killing 27 people.

● 1998 - One hundred twenty thousand South Korean students and workers go out on strike, protesting international finance demands for social service cutbacks and austerity measures.

● 1998 - Oklahoma City bombing: Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot.

● 1999 - The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo. (Milosevic died in 2006 while on trial.)

● 2000 - GM blunder leaves farmers in uproar; Scottish farmers who accidentally planted genetically modified seeds say they will fight for compensation.

● 2006 - The May 2006 Java earthquake strikes at 5:53:58 AM local time (22:53:58 UTC May 26) devastating Bantul and the city of Yogyakarta killing over 6,600 people.

● 2007 - Parlimentary reelections will occur in Ukraine after Ukrainian President Victor Yuschenko dismissed Parliament.


BIRTHS

● 1332 - Ibn Khaldun, Arab historian (d. 1406)

● 1519 - Girolamo Mei, Italian historian (d. 1594)

● 1576 - Caspar Schoppe, German scholar (d. 1649)

● 1601 - Antoine Daniel, Jesuit missionary and martyr (d. 1648)

● 1623 - William Petty, English scientist and philosopher (d. 1687)

● 1626 - William II, Prince of Orange (d. 1650)

● 1651 - Louis-Antoine, Cardinal de Noailles, French cardinal (d. 1729)

● 1652 - Liselotte von der Pfalz, Duchess of Orléans (d. 1722)

● 1738 - Nathaniel Gorham, American politician (d. 1796)

● 1756 - King Maximilian I of Bavaria (d. 1825)

● 1794 - Cornelius Vanderbilt, American entrepreneur (d. 1877)

● 1818 - Amelia Bloomer, American suffragette (d. 1894)

● 1819 - Julia Ward Howe, American composer (d. 1910)

● 1827 - Samuel F. Miller, American politician (d. 1892)

● 1836 - Jay Gould, American financier (d. 1892)

● 1837 - Wild Bill Hickok, American gunfighter (d. 1876)

● 1837 - Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter (d. 1887)

● 1864 - Ante Trumbić, Croatian politician (d. 1938)

● 1867 - Arnold Bennett, British novelist (d. 1931)

● 1871 - Georges Rouault, French painter and graphic artist (d. 1958)

● 1876 - Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Polish writer (d. 1945)

● 1879 - Hans Lammers, German SS officer (d. 1962)

● 1884 - Max Brod, Austrian author (d. 1968)

● 1888 - Louis Durey, French composer (d. 1979)

● 1894 - Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French writer (d. 1961)

● 1894 - Dashiell Hammett, American author (d. 1961)

● 1897 - John Cockcroft, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967)

● 1900 - Uładzimir Zylka, Belarusian poet (d. 1933)

● 1904 - Chuhei Nambu, Japanese athlete (d. 1997)

● 1907 - Rachel Carson, American biologist and science writer (d. 1964)

● 1909 - William Hansen, American physicist; pioneered use of microwave technology (d. 1949)

● 1911 - Hubert H. Humphrey, (HHH) Vice President of the United States (d. 1978) {The "Happy Warrior"}

● 1911 - Teddy Kollek, Austrian-born mayor of Jerusalem (d. 2007)

● 1911 - Vincent Price, American actor (d. 1993)

● 1912 - John Cheever, American author (d. 1982)

● 1912 - Sam Snead, American golfer (d. 2002)

● 1912 - Terry Moore, baseball player (d. 1995)

● 1913 - Wols, German painter (d. 1951)

● 1915 - Herman Wouk, American writer

● 1918 - Yasuhiro Nakasone, Prime Minister of Japan

● 1921 - Caryl Chessman, American robber and rapist (d. 1960)

● 1922 - Christopher Lee, English actor

● 1923 - Henry Kissinger, United States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize {unrepentant war criminal, has advised W to stay the course in Iraq}

● 1923 - Sumner Redstone, American entrepreneur

● 1925 - Tony Hillerman, American writer

● 1930 - John Barth, American novelist

● 1930 - William S. Sessions, American director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

● 1933 - Ted Rogers, Canadian entrepreneur

● 1934 - Harlan Ellison, American author

● 1935 - Lee Meriwether, Miss America and actress

● 1935 - Ramsey Lewis, American pianist

● 1935 - Mal Evans, British Beatles assistant

● 1936 - Louis Gossett Jr., American actor

● 1936 - Marcel Masse, Canadian politician

● 1937 - Allan Carr, American film producer and writer (d. 1999)

● 1939 - Raymond Sanders, R&B singer (The Persuasions)

● 1939 - Don Williams, Country singer

● 1939 - Socratis Kokkalis, Greek businessman, owner of Olympiacos

● 1943 - Cilla Black, English singer and presenter

● 1943 - Bruce Weitz, American actor ("Hill Street Blues")

● 1944 - Christopher Dodd, U.S. senator, D-Conn.

● 1944 - Alain Souchon, French singer and songwriter

● 1945 - Bruce Cockburn, Canadian musician

● 1946 - Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Danish musician (d. 2005)

● 1947 - Branko Oblak, Slovenian footballer

● 1948 - Wubbo de Boer, Dutch civil servant

● 1951 - Ana Belén, Spanish singer and actress

● 1955 - Richard Schiff, American actor ("The West Wing")

● 1955 - Eric Bischoff, American professional wrestling promoter

● 1957 - Siouxsie Sioux, English musician (Siouxsie and the Banshees )

● 1958 - Neil Finn, New Zealand singer and songwriter (Crowded House)

● 1958 - Linnea Quigley, American actress

● 1961 - Peri Gilpin, American actress ("Fraiser")

● 1961 - Cathy Silvers, Actress

● 1962 - Ray Borner, Australian basketball player

● 1964 - Adam Carolla, American comedian and radio and television personality

● 1965 - Todd Bridges, Actor ("Diff'rent Strokes")

● 1966 - Sean Kinney, Rock musicisn (Alice in Chains)

● 1967 - Paul Gascoigne, British footballer

● 1968 - Jeff Bagwell, baseball player

● 1968 - Frank Thomas, baseball player

● 1969 - Dondre Whitfield, Actor

● 1970 - Tim Farron, British politician

● 1970 - Joseph Fiennes, English actor

● 1970 - Michele Bartoli, Italian cyclist

● 1971 - Paul Bettany, English actor

● 1971 - Glenn Ross, Northern Irish strongman

● 1971 - Brian Desveaux, Rock singer, musician (Nine Days)

● 1971 - Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes, American singer (d. 2002)

● 1971 - Monika Schnarre, Canadian model

● 1972 - Jace Everett, Country singer

● 1972 - Ivete Sangalo, Brazilian singer

● 1974 - Derek Webb, American singer and songwriter (Caedmon's Call)

● 1974 - Danny Wuerffel, American football player

● 1975 - Andre 3000, American musician (OutKast)

● 1975 - Jadakiss, American rapper (The Lox)

● 1975 - Jamie Oliver, British chef and television personality

● 1977 - Abderrahmane Hammad, Algerian athlete

● 1979 - Mile Sterjovski, Australian footballer

● 1981 - Marcos Miloy, Angolan footballer

● 1981 - Özgür Çevik, Turkish singer and actor

● 1983 - Bobby Convey, American soccer player

● 1984 - Kalle Spjuth, Bandy player

● 1985 - Chien-Ming Chiang, Taiwanese Major League Baseball player

● 1994 - Ethan Dampf, Actor ("American Dreams")


DEATHS

● 366 - Procopius, Roman usurper (b. 326)

● 735 - Bede, English historian and theologian (b. 672 or 673)

● 866 - Ordoño I of Asturias, King of Asturias (b. 831)

● 927 - Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria (b. 864 or 865)

● 1444 - John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, English military leader (b. 1404)

● 1508 - Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan (b. 1452)

● 1525 - Thomas Muentzer, German rebel leader

● 1541 - Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury (b. 1473)

● 1564 - John Calvin, French religious reformer (b. 1509)

● 1610 - François Ravaillac, French assassin of Henry IV of France (b. 1578)

● 1615 - Marguerite de Valois, queen of Henry IV of France (b. 1553)

● 1661 - Archibald Campbell, Scottish religious dissident (b. 1607)

● 1675 - Gaspard Dughet, French painter (b. 1613)

● 1690 - Giovanni Legrenzi, Italian composer (b. 1626)

● 1702 - Dominique Bouhours, French critic (b. 1628)

● 1707 - Marquise de Montespan, French mistress of Louis XIV of France (b. 1641)

● 1781 - Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist (b. 1716)

● 1797 - François-Noël Babeuf, French revolutionary and early socialist (b. 1760)

● 1831 - Jedediah Smith, American explorer (b. 1799)

● 1840 - Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1782)

● 1896 - Aleksandr Grigorievich Stoletov, Russian physicist (b. 1839)

● 1910 - Robert Koch, German physician, Nobel laureate (b. 1843)

● 1919 - Kandukuri Veeresalingam Social Reformer of Andhra Pradesh, India (b. 1848)

● 1926 - Srečko Kosovel, Slovenian poet (b. 1904)

● 1947 - Ed Konetchy, American baseball player (b. 1885)

● 1949 - Robert Ripley, American cartoonist (Ripley's Believe It or Not!) (b. 1890)

● 1953 - Jesse Burkett, baseball player (b. 1868)

● 1960 - James Montgomery Flagg, American illustrator (b. 1877)

● 1964 - Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian politician (b. 1889)

● 1963 - Gregoris Lambrakis, Greek physician and politician (b. 1912)

● 1967 - Ernst Niekisch, German politician (b. 1889)

● 1969 - Jeffrey Hunter, American actor (b. 1926)

● 1986 - Isma'il Raji' al-Faruqi, Palestinian-born philosopher and scholar (b. 1921)

● 1987 - John Howard Northrop, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1891)

● 1989 - Arseny Tarkovsky, Russian poet (b. 1907)

● 1990 - Robert B. Meyner, American politician (b. 1908)

● 1991 - Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist (b. 1904)

● 1992 - Uncle Charlie Osborne, American fiddler (b. 1890)

● 1993 - Mary Philbin, American actress (b. 1903)

● 1993 - Werner Stocker, German actor (b. 1955)

● 2000 - Crawford Murray MacLehose of Beoch, British Governor of Hong Kong (b. 1917)

● 2000 - Charles Monroe Schulz Creator of the comic strip Peanuts

● 2000 - Maurice Richard, Canadian hockey player (b. 1921)

● 2001 - Ramon Bieri, American actor (b. 1929)

● 2003 - Luciano Berio, Italian composer (b. 1925)

● 2006 - Craig Heyward, American football player (b. 1966)

● 2006 - Paul Gleason, American actor (b. 1939)

● 2006 - Alex Toth, American cartoonist (b. 1928)

● 2006 - Rob Borsellino, American columnist (b. 1949)


HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Bede the Venerable, doctor, writer
● St. Bruno, Bishop of Würzburg
● St. Eutropius
● St. Frederick
● St. Hildebert
● St. Pope John I
● St. Julius the Veteran
● St. Melangell
● St. Ranulphus
● St. Restituta of Sora

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for May 14 (Civil Date: May 27)
● Martyr Isidore of Chios.
● St. Isidore, fool-for-Christ, wonderworker of Rostov.
● Martyr Maximus.
● St. Serapion, monk of Egypt.
● St. Nicetas, Bishop of Novgorod and recluse of the Kiev Caves.
● New-Martyr Mark of Crete at Smyrna.
● New-Martyr John of Bulgaria.
● First Opening of the Relics of St. Tikhon of Zadonsk (1846).

● Greek Calendar:
● Martyrs Alexander, Barbarus and Acolythus, martyred at the Church of the Holy Peace by the Sea in Constantinople.
● St. Leontius, Patriarch of Jerusalem.
● Commemoration of the martyrdom by the Poles of Abbot Anthony with 40 monks and 1000 laymen of St. Paisius of Uglich Monastery, and Abbot Daniel with 30 monks and 200 laymen of St. Nicholas' Monastery (1609).

● Lutheran:
● John Calvin, renewer of the church

● Mother's Day in Bolivia (Día de la Madre)

● Children's Day in Nigeria

● Afghánistán : Independence Day (1921)

● Nicaragua : Army Day

● Turkey : Freedom & Constitution Day (1960, 1961)

● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● US : Memorial Day/Decoration Day, a legal holiday (1868) - ( Monday )
● Virginia : Confederate Memorial Day (1868) - ( Monday )



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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