May 29......

May 29 is the 149th (150th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 216 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Humanism "I cannot affirm God if I fail to affirm man." — Norman Cousins

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Absurdity "I'm telling you that President Bush is doing just Jesus would have done." — Bill "looffah" O'Reilly

Thought for the day: "To laugh at men of sense is the privilege of fools."

{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

● 363 - Roman Emperor Julian defeats the Sassanid army in the Battle of Ctesiphon, under the walls of the Sassanid capital, but is unable to take the city.

● 526 - Antioch struck by Earthquake; about 250,000 die

● 757 - St. Paul I succeeds Stephen II as pope.

● 1138 - Anti-Pope Victor IV (Gregorio) overthrows self for Innocentius II

● 1167 - Battle of Monte Porzio - A Roman army supporting Pope Alexander III is defeated by Christian of Buch and Rainald of Dassel

● 1176 - Battle of Legnano, in which the Lombard League defeats Emperor Frederick I.

● 1414 - Council of Constance.

● 1453 - Constantinople, the capital of Eastern Christianity from A.D. 324, fell to the Turks; Byzantine Empire ends. The city became the capital of the Ottoman Empire and was renamed Istanbul. Marks the end of the Middle Ages.

● 1576 - Spanish army under Mondragón conquerors Zierik sea

● 1652 - English Admiral Robert Blake drives out Dutch fleet under Lieutenant-Admiral Tromp

● 1660 - English Restoration: Charles II is restored to the throne of Great Britain.

● 1677 - Treaty of Middle Plantation establishes peace between the Virginia colonists and the local Indians.

● 1692 - Battle at La Hogue: English & Dutch fleet beat France

● 1698 - Construction began on Old Swedes (Holy Trinity) Church in Wilmington, Delaware. The structure has been used continuously as a place of Christian worship ever since.

● 1721 - South Carolina formally incorporated as a royal colony

● 1727 - Peter II, age 11, becomes Tsar of Russia.

● 1733 - Right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves upheld at Quebec City.

● 1736 - Patrick Henry, American revolutionary patriot, is born. Henry's incindiary prose actually caused quite a bit of discomfort amongst the other, generally wealthy American revolutionaries.

● 1765 - Patrick Henry in a speech denouncing the Stamp Act is said to have said, "If this be treason, make the most of it!"

● 1774 - Pioneer American Methodist bishop Francis Asbury wrote in his journal: 'Lord, keep me from all the superfluity of dress, and from preaching empty stuff to please the ear, instead of changing the heart.'

● 1780 - Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton brutally massacred Colonel Abraham Buford's continentals even after the continentals surrendered. 113 Americans were killed.

● 1787 - "Virginia Plan" proposed

● 1790 - Rhode Island becomes the last of the original United States colonies to ratify the Constitution and is admitted as the 13th U.S. state.

● 1792 - Spanish fort established at Neah Bay, the first European settlement in Washington state. It was abandoned after four months.

● 1830 - Birth of French Commune leader and prominent anarchist activist Louise Michel. Vroncourt, France.

● 1827 - The first nautical school opened in Nantucket, MA, under the name Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin’s Lancasterian School.

● 1837 - Birth of Charles W. Fry, the English musician who, along with his three sons, formed the first Salvation Army brass band. Fry also authored the hymn, "Lily of the Valley."

● 1838 - Americans burn British steamer Sir Robert Peel in revenge for the British destruction of the Caroline, which had been smuggling arms to Canadian nationalists.

● 1848 - Wisconsin is admitted as the 30th U.S. state.

● 1848 - Battle at Curtazone: Austrians beat Sardinia-Piemonte

● 1849 - Lincoln says "You can fool some of the people all of the time, & of people some of time, but you can't fool all of the people all of time"

● 1849 - Patent for lifting vessels granted to Abraham Lincoln

● 1854 - Lydia Flood Jackson, civil rights activist, starts first school for black children in Sacramento, Calif.

● 1861 - Dorothea Dix offers help in setting up hospitals for Union Army

● 1864 - Emperor Maximilian of Mexico arrives in Mexico for the first time.

● 1867 - Austro-Hungarian agreement called Ausgleich ("the Compromise") is born through Act 12, which established the Austro-Hungarian Empire; on June 8 Emperor Francis Joseph was crowned King of Hungary.

● 1868 - The assassination of Michael Obrenovich III, Prince of Serbia, in Belgrade.

● 1874 - Present constitution of Switzerland takes effect

● 1884 - 1st steam cable trams start in highgate

● 1886 - Chemist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, the ad appearing in the Atlanta Journal.

● 1886 - Putney Bridge opens in west London.

● 1892 - Death of Baha'u'llah, founder of Baha'i faith, Palestine.

● 1900 - Trademark "Escalator" registered by Otis Elevator Co

● 1902 - Dutch State Mine law forms

● 1903 - May coup d'etat: Alexander Obrenovich, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.

● 1903 - Entertainer Bob Hope was born Leslie Townes Hope in Eltham, England.

● 1905 - Pogrom against Jewish community in Brisk Lithuania

● 1910 - An airplane raced a train from Albany, NY, to New York City. The airplane pilot Glenn Curtiss won the $10,000 prize.

● 1910 - Pope's encyclical on Editae Saepe, against church reformers

● 1912 - 15 young women fired by Curtis Publishing for dancing the "Turkey Trot" during their lunch break

● 1914 - Ocean liner Empress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of St. Lawrence; 1,024 lives lost.

● 1916 - Official flag of President of US adopted

● 1916 - US forces invade Dominican Republic, stay until 1924

● 1917 - John Fitzgerald Kennedy, American 35th president , was born.

● 1919 - Charles Strite patents pop-up toaster

● 1919 - Einstein's theory of general relativity (light bent by gravity) is tested (later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington's observation of a total solar eclipse in Principe and by Andrew Crommelin in Sobral, Ceará, Brazil.

● 1922 - Ecuador becomes independent

● 1922 - US Supreme Court rules organized baseball is a sport and not a business and thus not subject to antitrust laws {only one of some very bad corporate friendly and anti-citizen rulings}

● 1924 - AEK Athens FC is established on the anniversary of the siege of Constantinople by the Turks.

● 1928 - Fritz von Opel reaches 200 kph in experimental rocket car

● 1932 - Original Bonus Army marchers arrive in Washington, D.C. By mid-June, setting up a massive “Hooverville.” some 20,000 World War I veterans had converged, demanding full payment of their bonuses from Congress. In direct violation of the Posse Comitatus Act, they were violently disbanded by the Army in July.

● 1935 - Construction of Hoover Dam is completed.

● 1940 - Arthur Seyss-Inquart installed as Reich Commissioner of Hague Netherlands

● 1940 - In WWII, Germans capture Ostend & Ypres in Belgium & Lille in France

● 1943 - Confederacy of Algiers (Churchill-Marshall-Eisenhower)

● 1943 - Meat & cheese rationed in US

● 1944 - German Lutheran theologian and Nazi martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote in a letter: 'We are to find God in what we know, not in what we don't know; God wants us to realize His presence, not in unsolved problems, but in those that are solved.'

● 1944 - British troops occupy Aprilia Italy

● 1945 - US 1st Marine division conquerors Shuri-castle Okinawa

● 1946 - KVP wins Provincial National election in Netherlands

● 1950 - St. Roch, first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia .

● 1951 - 1st North Pole flight in single engine plane-CF Blair

● 1953 - Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay are the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay's 39th birthday.

● 1954 - Pope Pius X issues holy declaration

● 1955 - Jordan government of Tewfik Abdul Huda resigns

● 1957 - Algerian rebels kill 336 collaborators

● 1957 - Laos Government of prince Suvanna Phuma resigns

● 1959 - Charles de Gaulle forms French Government

● 1962 - Buck (John) O'Neil is the first black coach in major-league baseball, for the Chicago Cubs.

● 1964 - St. Augustine, Florida "night raiders" shower a car with bullets, narrowly missing an aide to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

● 1967 - Pope Paul VI names 27 new cardinals, including Karol Wojtyla, archbishop of Krakow, who later became Pope John Paul II

● 1968 - Truth in Lending Act signed into law

● 1968 - UN resolves sanctions on white-minority-ruled Rhodesia

● 1968 - Poor Peoples' Campaign begins in Washington D.C.

● 1969 - Britain's Trans-Arctic expedition makes 1st crossing of Arctic Sea ice

● 1970 - USSR performs nuclear test (underground)

● 1972 - Japanese kill 26 at Tel Aviv airport; Three Japanese gunmen open fire at Lod International Airport in Israel, killing 26 people and injuring dozens more.

● 1973 - Thomas Bradley elected 1st black mayor of Los Angeles CA {Bradley would later run for governor of California and even though the polls showed at least 10-15 point advantage for him, he would lose. Which just proves people will lie to pollsters; and then vote their prejudices in the voting booth.}

● 1974 - U.S. President Nixon agreed to turn over 1,200 pages of edited Watergate transcripts. {Edited of the truth that Nixon was a crook.}

● 1974 - Northern Ireland is brought under direct rule from Westminster

● 1977 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

● 1978 - 1st class postage now 15¢ (13¢ for 3 years)

● 1978 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

● 1978 - Troops massacre 100 Quiche (Mayan) campesinos protesting against eviction. Panzos, Alta Vehapaz, Guatemala.

● 1979 - Bishop Abel Muzorewa is sworn in as Zimbabwe's 1st black PM

● 1980 - Attempted assassination of Vernon Jordan Jr, National Urban League president

● 1981 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1982 - Pope makes historic visit to Canterbury; The Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie, welcomed Pope John Paul II to Canterbury Cathedral. First Papal visit to Britain since 1531.

● 1982 - Pentagon plans 1st strategy to fight a nuclear war

● 1984 - In South Yorkshire, England, 8,000 police officers charge pickets of striking coal miners and their supporters.

● 1985 - Heysel Stadium disaster: In Brussels, Belgium, 39 football fans die and hundreds are injured during a riot at a European Cup match. As a result English clubs banned from playing in European competition for five years.

● 1986 - Christic Institute files lawsuit charging U.S. complicity in Contra assassination bombing at La Penca, Nicaragua, and CIA role in smuggling cocaine into U.S. to fund Contra wars. Mainstream media ignores the allegations for ten years; a federal judge throws the suit out as frivilous and, at government request, assesses all government court costs to Christic, forcing it out of business.

● 1988 - U.S. President Reagan began his first visit to the Soviet Union in Moscow.

● 1988 - NBC aired "To Heal A Nation," the story of Jan Scruggs' effort to build the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

● 1988 - President Zia ul-Haq fires government/disbands parliament in Pakistan

● 1989 - Student protesters in Tiananmen Square China construct a replica of the Statue of Liberty

● 1990 - An earthquake hits Peru, killing 56

● 1990 - Boris Yeltsin is elected President of the Russian Republic

● 1990 - U.S. Supreme Court rules Indian tribes do not possess the authority to exercise criminal jurisdiction over anyone other than tribal members on their reservations.

● 1993 - Nazis kill 5 Turkish women in Solingen Germany

● 1994 - Great comet-iceball seen above North Sea

● 1994 - Hungary's Socialist Party wins parliamentary election

● 1995 - The last 3 bodies were recovered from the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.

● 1996 - Benjamin Netanyahu was elected Israeli prime minister.

● 1996 - Space Shuttle STS 77 (Endeavour 11), lands

● 1997 - The ruling party in Indonesia, Golkar, won the Parliament election by a record margin. There was a boycott movement and rioting that killed 200 people.

● 1997 - Jesse Timmedequas, found guilty of rape/murder of Megan Kanka, 7. This case inspires "Megan's Laws" around the country requiring sex offenders to register and their whereabouts to be known to public.

● 1997 - Span scientists announce new human species in 780,000 year old fossil

● 1997 - Nobel Peace Prize laureates sign International Code of Conduct on arms sales.

● 1998 - Death of Barry "In Your Guts, You Know He's Nuts" Goldwater. {Despite wanting to use nuclear weapons in Vietnam, he was an excellent Senator for Arizona. He was the final straw in convincing Tricky Dick to leave office.}

● 1999 - Olusegun Obasanjo takes office as President of Nigeria, the first elected and civilian head of state in Nigeria after 16 years of military rule.

● 1999 - Space shuttle Discovery completed the first docking with the International Space Station.

● 2000 - Fiji's military took control of the nation and declared martial law following a coup attempt by indigenous Fijians in mid-May.

● 2001 - In New York, four followers of Osama bin Laden were convicted of a global conspiracy to murder Americans. The crimes included the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa that killed 224 people.

● 2001 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that disabled golfer Casey Martin could use a cart to ride in tournaments.

● 2004 - America dedicated a memorial to its World War II veterans on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

● 2004 - The Al-Khobar massacres in Saudi Arabia kill 22.

● 2005 - France, one of the founders of a united Europe, resoundingly rejects the European Constitution.

BIRTHS

● 1594 - Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian general (d. 1632)

● 1627 - Anne, Duchess of Montpensier, French writer (d. 1693)

● 1630 - Charles II of England (d. 1685)

● 1660 - Sarah Jennings Marlborough Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, English wife of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough; active in Queen Anne's court (d. 1744)

● 1675 - Humphry Ditton, English mathematician (d. 1715)

● 1716 - Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, French naturalist (d. 1800)

● 1722 - James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, Irish politician (d. 1773)

● 1736 - Patrick Henry, American patriot (d. 1799)

● 1823 - John H. Balsley, American carpenter (d. 1895)

● 1826 - Ebenezer Butterick, American manufacturer; developed use of paper patterns for clothing (d. 1903)

● 1860 - Isaac Albéniz, Spanish composer (d. 1909)

● 1863 - Arthur Mold, English cricketer (d. 1921)

● 1874 - G. K. Chesterton, English novelist (d. 1936)

● 1880 - Oswald Spengler, German philosopher (d. 1936)

● 1892 - Alfonsina Storni, Argentine writer (d. 1938)

● 1893 - Max Brand, American author and war correspondent (d. 1944)

● 1894 - Beatrice Lillie, Canadian actress (d. 1989)

● 1894 - Josef von Sternberg, Austrian-born writer and film director (d. 1969)

● 1897 - Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Austrian composer (d. 1957)

● 1903 - Bob Hope, British-born comedian and actor (d. 2003)

● 1904 - Junzo Sakakura, Japanese architect (d. 1969)

● 1904 - Gregg Toland, American motion-picture cinematographer (d. 1948)

● 1906 - T.H. White, British author (d. 1964)

● 1907 - Hartland Molson, Canadian businessman and senator (d. 2002)

● 1911 - Armida - Mexican-American stage, vaudeville and film star (d. 1989)

● 1913 - Tony Zale, American boxer (d. 1997)

● 1914 - Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese sherpa (d. 1986)

● 1914 - Stacy Keach, Sr., American actor (d. 2003)

● 1915 - Karl Münchinger, German conductor (d. 1990)

● 1917 - John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (d. 1963)

● 1920 - John Harsanyi, Hungarian-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000)

● 1921 - Clifton James, Actor

● 1922 - Iannis Xenakis, Greek composer and architect, major contributor to musical modernism (d. 2001)

● 1925 - Danny Davis, Country musician

● 1927 - Jean Coutu, Quebec businessman (Jean Coutu Group)

● 1932 - Richie Guerin, former basketball player

● 1933 - Helmuth Rilling, German conductor

● 1933 - Edward Whittemore, American writer (d. 1995)

● 1937 - Charles W. Pickering, American judge

● 1938 - Fay Vincent, baseball commissioner

● 1939 - Al Unser Sr., American race car driver

● 1940 - Farooq Leghari, President of Pakistan

● 1941 - Bob Simon, Broadcast journalist

● 1942 - Pierre Bourque, Former mayor of Montreal

● 1942 - Kevin Conway, American actor

● 1944 - Helmut Berger, Actor

● 1945 - Gary Brooker, musician (Procol Harum)

● 1946 - Fernando Buesa, Basque politician (d. 2000)

● 1947 - Gene Robinson, American ecclesiastic

● 1948(47? NYT) - Anthony Geary, American actor ("General Hospital")

● 1949 - Brian Kidd, English footballer

● 1950 - Rebbie Jackson, American musician

● 1951 - Peter Chernin, President of News Corporation

● 1953 - Danny Elfman, American musician (Oingo Boingo)

● 1955 - Michael Porcaro, Rock musician (Toto)

● 1955 - John Hinckley, Jr., American attempted assassin

● 1955 - Sut Jhally, Kenyan-born American educator

● 1956 - LaToya Jackson, American musician

● 1957 - Jeb Hensarling, American politician

● 1957 - Ted Levine, American Actor ("Monk")

● 1958 - Annette Bening, American actress

● 1958 - Willem Holleeder, Dutch criminal

● 1959 - Rupert Everett, English actor

● 1959 - Adrian Paul, English actor ("Highlander")

● 1961 - Melissa Etheridge, American musician

● 1961 - Gregory Williams, American educator and designer

● 1962 - Eric Davis, American baseball player

● 1962 - John D. LeMay, American actor

● 1963 - Tracey Bregman, Actress

● 1963 - Blaze Bayley, British singer (ex-Iron Maiden)

● 1963 - Lisa Whelchel, American actress

● 1967 - Jayski McGowan, Singer (Quad City DJs)

● 1967 - Noel Gallagher, English musician (Oasis)

● 1967 - Mike Keane, Canadian hockey player

● 1969 - Chan Kinchla, Canadian musician (Blues Traveler)

● 1971 - Craig McCracken, American animator

● 1972 - Közi, Japanese visual kei artist

● 1973 - Mark Lee, Rock musician (Third Day)

● 1973 - Alpay Özalan, Turkish footballer

● 1974 - Aaron McGruder, Comic strip creator ("The Boondocks")

● 1975 - Melanie Brown, English musician and actress (Spice Girls)

● 1975 - Playa Poncho, Rapper

● 1976 - David Buckner, American musician (Papa Roach)

● 1976 - Jerry Hairston Jr., American baseball player

● 1977 - Antonio Lebo-Lebo, Angolan footballer

● 1978 - Lorenzo Odone, Adrenoleukodystrophy victim

● 1978 - Pelle Almqvist, Swedish musician (The Hives)

● 1978 - Sébastien Grosjean, French tennis player

● 1979 - Brian Kendrick, American professional wrestler

● 1979 - Arne Friedrich, German footballer

● 1979 - Casey Sheehan, American soldier; son of Cindy Sheehan (d. 2004)

● 1982 - Ana Beatriz Barros, Brazilian model

● 1983 - Rama Claproth, Indonesian blues guitarist

● 1984 - Carmelo Anthony, American basketball player

● 1986 - Dylan Postl, American professional wrestler

DEATHS

● 1153 - King David I of Scotland

● 1259 - King Christopher I of Denmark (b. 1219)

● 1379 - King Henry II of Castile (b. 1334)

● 1405 - Philippe de Mézières, advisor to Charles V of France

● 1425 - Hongxi Emperor of China (b. 1378)

● 1453 - Constantine XI Palaeologus, last Byzantine Emperor (b. 1404)

● 1500 - Bartolomeu Dias, Portuguese explorer

● 1546 - David Beaton, Scottish Catholic cardinal

● 1593 - John Penry, Welsh Protestant leader (b. 1559)

● 1660 - Frans van Schooten, Dutch mathematician (b. 1615)

● 1691 - Cornelis Tromp, Dutch admiral (b. 1629)

● 1790 - Israel Putnam, American Revolutionary War general (b. 1718)

● 1796 - Carl Fredrik Pechlin, Swedish politician (b. 1720)

● 1814 - Joséphine de Beauharnais, Empress of France (b. 1763)

● 1829 – Humphry Davy, English chemist (b. 1778)

● 1847 - Emmanuel, marquis de Grouchy, French marshal (b. 1766)

● 1866 - Winfield Scott, American general (b. 1786)

● 1868 - Michael Obrenovich III, Prince of Serbia (b. 1823)

● 1882 - Vasily Perov, Russian painter (b. 1833)

● 1892 - Bahá'u'lláh, Persian founder of the Bahá'í Faith (b. 1817)

● 1896 - Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist (b. 1814)

● 1903 - Draga Mašin, Queen of Serbia (b. 1864)

● 1903 - Bruce Price, American architect (b. 1845)

● 1910 - Mily Balakirev, Russian composer (b. 1837)

● 1911 - William S. Gilbert, English dramatist (b. 1836)

● 1919 - Robert Bacon, American politician (b. 1860)

● 1935 - Josef Suk, Czech composer and violinist (b. 1874)

● 1939 - Ursula Julia Ledochowska, Polish-Austrian Catholic saint (b. 1865)

● 1942 - John Barrymore, American actor (b. 1882)

● 1948 - Dame May Whitty, English actress (b. 1865)

● 1951 - Fanny Brice, American singer/comedian (b. 1891)

● 1953 - Man Mountain Dean, American professional wrestler (b. 1891)

● 1958 - Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)

● 1970 - John Gunther, American writer (b. 1901)

● 1972 - Stephen Timoshenko, Ukrainian-born mechanical engineer (b. 1878)

● 1977 - Ba Maw, Burmese politician (b. 1893)

● 1979 - Mary Pickford, Canadian-born American actress and studio founder (b. 1892)

● 1979 - John H. Wood, Jr., American federal judge (b. 1916)

● 1982 - Romy Schneider, Austrian actress (b. 1938)

● 1989 - John Cipollina, American musician (Quicksilver Messenger Service) (b. 1943)

● 1993 - Billy Conn, American boxer (b. 1917)

● 1994 - Erich Honecker, leader of East Germany (b. 1912)

● 1996 - Tamara Toumanova, Ballet star and actress (b. 1919)

● 1997 - Jeff Buckley, American musician (drowned) (b. 1966)

● 1997 - George Fenneman, American radio and television announcer (b. 1919)

● 1998 - Barry M. Goldwater, U.S. Senator from Arizona and presidential candidate (b. 1909)

● 2003 - David Jefferies, British motorcycle racer (b. 1972)

● 2004 - Archibald Cox, Watergate special prosecutor (b. 1912)

● 2004 - Samuel Dash, American Congressional counsel (b. 1925)

● 2005 - George Rochberg, American composer (b. 1918)

● 2006 - Steve Mizerak, American pool player (b. 1944)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● Solemnity of Corpus Christi (Body & Blood of Christ)
● St. Alexander of Alexandria
● St. Conon
● St. Eleutherius
● St. Erwin
● St. John de Atares
● St. Mary Magdalen dei Pazzi, virgin
● St. Maximinus of Trier
● St. Restitutus
● St. Theodosia & Companions
● St. Votus, Felix, & John
● St. William Arnaud
● Bl. Adhemar
● Bl. Martyrs of Toulouse
● Bl. Richard Thirkeld

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for May 16 (Civil Date: May 29)
● St. Theodore the Sanctified, disciple of St. Pachomius the Great.
● St. Ephraim, abbot of Perekos (Novgorod).
● Blessed child Musa of Rome.
● St. George, Bishop of Mitylene.
● Martyr Abdiesus, Bishop, and companions, in Persia.
● Martyr Peter of Blachernae.
● St. Nicholas the Mystic, Patriarch of Constantinople.
● Martyrs Vitus, Modestus, and Crescentia at Lucania.
● New-Martyr Nicholas of Metsov, whose relics are at Meteora.
● Sts. Cassian and Laurence, abbots of Komel (Vologda).

● Greek Calendar:
● St. Alexander, Archbishop of Jerusalem.
● St. Euphemia near Neaorion.

● Christian-Andorra:
● Our Lady of Canolic

● Lutheran:
● Jiri Tranovsky, hymn writer

● Bahá'í : Death (ascension) of prophet Bahá'u'lláh ('Azamat 7, 49)

● Nigeria: Democracy Day

● England : Oak Apple Day/Nettle Day (1660)

● Rhode Island : Ratification Day (13th state in Union) (1790)

● Wisconsin : (30th state in Union) Admission Day (1848)

● 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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