May 30......

May 30 is the 150th (151st in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 215 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On The Human Condition "We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty." — G. K. Chesterton

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Anti-Semitism "The god of Judaism is the devil. The Jew will not be recognized by God as one of His chosen people until he abandons his demonic religion and returns to the faith of his fathers—the faith which embraces Jesus Christ and His Gospel." — David Chilton, author of The Days of Vengeance {I am ever amazed at how the hate mongers can ignore the facts of history. How can a religion 4000 years older than Christianity have Christianity as its forerunner? He ignores the fact he worships a man that was a devout practicing Jew for his entire lifetime.}

Thought for the day: "To save one life is better than to build a seven story pagoda."

{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

● 339 - Death of Eusebius, 74, Father of early church history. He attended the Council of Nicea in A.D. 325, and his "Historia Ecclesiastica" contains an abundance of detail on the first three centuries of the Early Church found nowhere else in ancient literature.

● 1035 - Boudouin V van Rijsel becomes earl of Flanders

● 1087 - German emperor Henry IV crowns his son Koenraad

● 1100 - Burchard becomes bishop of Utrecht

● 1381 - English boer uprising begins in Essex

● 1416 - The Council of Constance, called by the Emperor Sigismund, a supporter of Antipope John XXIII, burns Jerome of Prague following a trial for heresy.

● 1431 - French heroine Joan of Arc, 19, a prisoner of the English, was burned at the stake for heresy. {Her true heresy was having defeated the English.} (She was later canonized in 1920 by Benedict XV.)

● 1434 - Hussite Wars (Bohemian Wars): Battle of Lipany - Effectively ending the war, Utraquist forces led by Diviš Bořek of Miletínek defeat and almost annihilated Taborite forces led by Prokop the Great.

● 1498 - Columbus departs with 6 ships for 3rd trip to America

● 1522 - French troops driven out of Genoa

● 1539 - In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers with the goal of finding gold.

● 1574 - Henry III becomes King of France following brother Charles IX.

● 1574 - Sea battle at Lillo Belgium (Adolf Van Haemstede vs Louis de Boisot)

● 1584 - Earl Adolf van Nieuwenaar/Meurs becomes viceroy of Gelderland

● 1588 - The last ship of the Spanish Armada sets sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel.

● 1631 - France/Maximilian van Bavarian signs Accord of Fontainebleau

● 1635 - Thirty Years' War: Peace of Prague (1635) signed.

● 1646 - Spain & Netherlands signs temporary cease fire

● 1741 - Thirteen black men are burned at the stake, and 17 black men, two white men and two white women are hanged, for their roles in planning a slave revolt in New York City.

● 1783 - Pennsylvania Evening Post begins, first daily newspaper in U.S.

● 1793 - Georges Couthon chosen member of French Committee the Salut Public

● 1806 - Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel after the man had accused Jackson's wife of bigamy.

● 1808 - Napoleon annexes Tuscany & gave it seats in French Senate

● 1814 - 1st Treaty of Paris, after Napoleon's 1st abdication

● 1814 - Birth of anarchist theorist Mikhail Bakunin, Prjamuchino, Russia.

● 1814 - Napoleonic Wars: War of the Sixth Coalition - Treaty of Paris (1814) signed returning French borders to their 1792 extent.

● 1819 - Anglican bishop Reginald Heber, 36, penned the words to the missionary hymn, "From Greenland's Icy Mountains."

● 1821 - James Boyd patents Rubber Fire Hose

● 1822 - House slave betrays Denmark Vesey conspiracy (37 blacks hanged)

● 1832 - Evariste Galois give his theory on free assembly (dies in duel May 31)

● 1842 - John Francis attempts to assassinate Queen Victoria

● 1848 - 2nd battle at Gioto: Sardinia-Piemonte beats Austrians

● 1848 - México ratifies treaty giving US; New Mexico, California & parts of Nevada, Utah, Arizona & Colorado in return for $15 million

● 1848 - William G Young patents ice cream freezer

● 1854 - Kansas-Nebraska Act repeals Missouri Compromise and opens the Northern Territory to slavery. Opposition to it led to formation of the Republican Party. It also established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska.

● 1858 - Hudson Bay Company's rights to Vancouver Island revoked

● 1862 - Battle of Booneville MS - captured General Beauregard evacuates Corinth MS

● 1862 - Battle of Front Royal VA

● 1864 - Battle of Bethesda Church VA

● 1864 - Cavalry fight at Old Church (Totopotomoy Creek) VA

● 1868 - Memorial Day 1st observed when 2 women in Columbus MS placed flowers on both Confederate & Union graves

● 1868 - Decoration Day (the predecessor of the modern "Memorial Day") observed in the United States for the first time (By "Commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic" John A. Logan's proclamation on May 5).

● 1871 - The Paris Commune falls.

● 1872 - Mahlon Loomis patents wireless telegraphy

● 1876 - Ottoman sultan Abd-ul-Aziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murat V.

● 1879 - An F4 tornado strikes Irving, Kansas, killing 18 and injuring 60.

● 1879 - 92º F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland OH in May

● 1883 - In New York City, a rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse causes a stampede which crushes twelve people.

● 1889 - The brassiere is invented {German word holdzemfromflappin}

● 1896 - 1st car accident occurs, Henry Wells hit a bicyclist (NYC)

● 1901 - Russian writer Maxim Gorky, arrested on charges of printing revolutionary literature, is released from prison after Count Leo Tolstoy intercedes on his behalf. Gorky will serve a similar role by interceding on the behalf of many writers victimized by Stalin's regime.

● 1908 - 1st federal workmen's compensation law approved

● 1908 - Aldrich Vineland Currency Act forerunner to Federal Reserve System

● 1908 - Paris advocate E Archdeacon is 1st passenger in a airplane

● 1908 - US Assay Office in Salt Lake City UT authorized

● 1909 - Benny Goodman, the American jazz clarinetist and orchestra leader, was born.

● 1909 - National Conference on the Negro is held

● 1909 - Reuben Siegel laid cornerstone of 1st home in Tel-Aviv

● 1912 - US Marines sent to Nicaragua

● 1913 - First Balkan War: Treaty of London, 1913 signed ending the war. Albania becomes an independent nation.

● 1914 - New & then largest Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania, 45,647 tons, sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.

● 1917 - Alexander I becomes king of Greece.

● 1921 - The U.S. Navy transferred the Teapot Dome oil reserves to the Department of the Interior.

● 1921 - Salzburg Austria votes to join Germany

● 1922 - Latvia & Vatican sign accord

● 1922 - In Washington, D.C., the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated.

● 1924 - Socialist Matteotti falls in Italian parliament run by fascists

● 1925 - British mariners shoot on demonstrators

● 1933 - Patent on invisible glass installation

● 1934 - The two-day Barmen Synod ended in Germany. The resulting Barmen Declaration affirmed that the German Confessing Church recognized Jesus Christ to be the only authoritative voice of God, in clear contrast to all other (i.e., Nazi) powers representing divine revelation.

● 1937 - Memorial Day Massacre - Chicago police shoot on union marchers at Republic Steel Plant in Chicago, 10 die

● 1941 - 1st anti semitic measures in Serbia

● 1941 - English Army enters Baghdad, chasing pro-German coup government

● 1941 - World War II: Germany captures Crete.

● 1941 - World War II: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas climb on the athenian Acropolis, tear down the Nazi swastika and replace it with the Greek flag.

● 1942 - World War II: 1,047 British bombers launch a 90-minute attack on Cologne, Germany.

● 1942 - Reichsführer Himmler arrives in Prague

● 1942 - US aircraft carrier Yorktown leaves Pearl Harbor

● 1943 - French General De Gaulle arrives in Algiers

● 1943 - US troops reconquer Attu Aleutians

● 1944 - Transport number 75 departs with French Jews to Nazi-Germany

● 1946 - United flight 521 crashes on takeoff at LaGuardia Airport (New York) 42 die

● 1948 - A dike along the flooding Columbia River breaks, obliterating Vanport, Oregon within minutes. Fifteen people die and tens of thousands are left homeless.

● 1949 - East Germans constitution approved

● 1949 - NPS/VHP win 1st general election in Suriname

● 1954 - Dutch bishops forbid membership to non-catholic sporting clubs

● 1955 - Said el-Mufti forms Jordan Government

● 1955 - Tunisia begins domestic self governing

● 1956 - Bus boycott begins in Tallahassee FL

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

● 1958 - US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)

● 1958 - Memorial Day: The bodies of several unidentified soldiers killed in action during World War II and the Korean War are buried at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery.

● 1959 - Iraq terminates military assistance pact with US due to neutrality

● 1959 - President Somoza ends emergency crisis in Nicaragua

● 1959 - President Stroessner disbands Paraguay's parliament

● 1959 - World's 1st hovercraft (SR-N1) tested at Cowes England

● 1961 - Dutch DC-8 crashes after takeoff at Lisbon, 62 die

● 1962 - 69 killed in bus crash (Ahmedabad India)

● 1965 - France performs nuclear test at Ecker Algeria (Underground)

● 1965 - Viet Cong offensive against US base Da Nang, begins

● 1965 - Vivian Malone, is 1st black to graduate from University of Alabama

● 1966 - 300 US airplanes bomb North Vietnam

● 1966 - US launches Surveyor 1 to the Moon

● 1966 - Former Congolese Prime Minister Evariste Kimba and several other politicians are publicly executed in Kinshasa on the orders of President Joseph Mobutu.

● 1967 - The Nigerian Eastern Region declares independence as the Republic of Biafra, sparking a civil war.

● 1967 - Egypt and Jordan unite against Israel; The King of Jordan and President Abdel Nasser of Egypt sign a joint defence agreement in case of a conflict with Israel.

● 1968 - President De Gaulle disbands French parliament

● 1968 - University church in Leipzig German Democratic Republic, blown up

● 1968 - West German Parliament accepts emergency crisis law

● 1968 - Death of Martin Noth, 66, German Old Testament scholar. Noth was the first authority to note that 1&2 Samuel and 1&2 Kings contain virtually no mention of the classic prophets: Isaiah, Jeremiah, Amos and Hosea.

● 1969 - Gibraltar adopts constitution

● 1969 - Twenty thousand rally in a peaceful protest in Berkeley, Cal., to oppose state suppression of People's Park.

● 1969 - Riots on the Caribbean island of Curaçao

● 1971 - Mariner program: Mariner 9 launched to Map 70% of the surface and study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface of Mars.

● 1971 - 36 hospitalized during Grateful Dead concert; after drinking LSD apple juice

● 1971 - Train crash at Duivendrecht Netherlands, 5 die

● 1972 - Official IRA declares ceasefire; The Official IRA announces a ceasefire, but the Provisional IRA says it will continue fighting until the British leave Northern Ireland.

● 1972 - Trade union ban begins in U.S. on French airlines and business mail in protest of French nuclear testing.

● 1972 - The Angry Brigade goes on trial over a series of 25 bombings throughout Britain.

● 1972 - In Tel Aviv, members of the Japanese Red Army carry out the Lod Airport Massacre, killing 24 people and injuring 78 others.

● 1975 - European Space Agency (ESA) forms

● 1980 - 1st papal visit to France since 1814

● 1981 - Bangladesh President Ziaur Rahman is shot and killed by group of rebel officers

● 1982 - Spain becomes the 16th member of NATO and the first nation to enter the alliance since West Germany's admission in 1955.

● 1984 - Bomb explodes in rebel leader Eden Pastora headquarters in Nicaragua

● 1986 - Ariane-2 (ESA) launched

● 1986 - France performs nuclear test

● 1989 - Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: The 33-foot high "Goddess of Democracy" statue is unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators.

● 1990 - Midnight Oil closes down 6th Avenue in New York City as they play a protest concert in front of Exxon's offices in reaction to the Exxon Valdez disaster.

● 1990 - Earthquake (6.4) hits Peru, killing 135

● 1990 - France bans British beef imports; The French Government bans imports of British beef and live cattle because of fears over BSE or "mad cow" disease.

● 1991 - Supreme Court rules prosecutors can be sued for legal advice they give police & can be held accountable

● 1992 - UN votes for sanctions against Serb-led Yugoslavia to halt fighting

● 1997 - Jesse K. Timmendequas was convicted in Trenton, NJ, of raping and strangling a 7-year-old neighbor, Megan Kanka. The 1994 murder inspired "Megan's Law," requiring that communities be notified when sex offenders move in.

● 1997 - Betty Shabazz, widow of Malcolm X, set afire by 12 year old grandson

● 1998 - A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits northern Afghanistan, killing up to 5,000.

● 2001 - French ex-minister jailed over sleaze; Former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas is sentenced to six months in prison over the country's biggest political scandal in recent history.

● 2002 - A solemn, wordless ceremony marked the end of the cleanup at Ground Zero in New York, 8 1/2 months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. {It also signaled the end of the most poorly processed crime scenes in all of History.}

● 2003 - The final flight of an Air France Concorde.

● 2005 - American teenager Natalee Holloway, during a visit to Aruba, was last seen leaving a bar with three young men before disappearing; her fate remains unknown. {However, the story was a great distraction for several months from things of true import.}

● 2006 - A jury in Rockville, Md., convicted John Allen Muhammad of six of the Washington-area sniper killings.

● 2006 - The FBI said it had found no trace of Jimmy Hoffa after digging up a suburban Detroit horse farm.

BIRTHS

● 1010 - Emperor Renzong of China (d. 1063)

● 1423 - Georg Purbach, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1461)

● 1623 - John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English politician (d. 1686)

● 1672 (O.S.) - Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia (d. 1725)

● 1718 - Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, English politician (d. 1793)

● 1719 - Roger Newdigate, English politician (d. 1806)

● 1757 - Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1844)

● 1814 - Mikhail Bakunin, Russian anarchist (d. 1876)

● 1814 - Eugène Charles Catalan, Belgian mathematician (d. 1894)

● 1819 - William McMurdo, British army officer (d. 1894)

● 1847 - Alice Stopford Green, Irish historian and strong supporter of Irish independence (d. 1929)

● 1858 - Siegfried Alkan, German composer (d. 1941)

● 1875 - Giovanni Gentile, Italian philosopher (d. 1944)

● 1878 - Mike Donlin, Baseball player (d. 1933)

● 1879 - Colin Blythe, English cricketer (d. 1917)

● 1881 - Georg von Küchler, German field marshal (d. 1968)

● 1882 - Wyndham Halswelle, Scottish runner (d. 1915)

● 1886 - Randolph Bourne, American writer (d. 1918)

● 1888 - James Farley, American businessman; managed Franklin Roosevelt's first two presidential campaigns (d. 1976)

● 1895 - Maurice Tate, English cricketer (d. 1956)

● 1896 - Howard Hawks, American film director (d. 1977)

● 1899 - Irving Thalberg, American film producer (d. 1936)

● 1901 - Cornelia Otis Skinner, American writer and actress (d. 1979)

● 1902 - Stepin Fetchit, American dancer and actor (d. 1985)

● 1906 - Bruno Gröning, German faith healer (d. 1959)

● 1907 - Elly Beinhorn, German pilot

● 1908 - Hannes Alfvén, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)

● 1908 - Mel Blanc, American voice actor (d. 1989)

● 1909 - Benny Goodman, American clarinetist and bandleader (d. 1986)

● 1910 - Inge Meysel, German actress (d. 2004)

● 1912 - Julius Axelrod, American biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)

● 1912 - Erich Bagge, German physicist

● 1912 - Hugh Griffith, Welsh actor (d. 1980)

● 1916 - Joseph William Kennedy, American scientist; one of four co-discoverers of plutonium (d. 1957)

● 1918 - Guadalupe "Pita" Amor, Mexican poet (d. 2000)

● 1920 - Ralph Metcalfe, American athlete (d. 1978)

● 1920 - Franklin Schaffner, American film director (d. 1989)

● 1922 - Hal Clement, American writer (d. 2003)

● 1926 – Johnny Gimble, Country musician

● 1926 - Christine Jorgensen, American transsexual activist (d. 1989)

● 1927 - Clint Walker, American actor

● 1928 - Agnès Varda, French director

● 1934 - Aleksei Leonov, Russian cosmonaut

● 1934 - Alketas Panagoulias, Greek footballer and coach

● 1936 - Ruta Lee, Actress

● 1936 - Keir Dullea, American actor {"Dave, can we talk about this?"}

● 1939 - Michael J. Pollard, American actor

● 1943 - James Chaney, American civil rights activist (d. 1964)

● 1943 - Gale Sayers, American football player, Hall of Fame member and teammate and friend of Brian Piccolo's

● 1944 - Meredith MacRae, American actress (d. 2000)

● 1947 - Vashti Murphy McKenzie, African Methodist Episcopal Church bishop

● 1950 - Bertrand Delanoë, French politician

● 1950 - Paresh Rawal, Indian actor

● 1951 - Stephen Tobolowsky, American actor ("Groundhog Day")

● 1951 - Zdravko Čolić, Bosnian singer

● 1953 - Colm Meaney, Irish actor (Star Trek sersises}

● 1955 - Topper Headon, British musician (The Clash)

● 1958 - Ted McGinley, Actor

● 1958 - Marie Fredriksson, Swedish singer and songwriter (Roxette)

● 1961 - Ralph Carter, Actor

● 1961 - Harry Enfield, British comedian

● 1962 - Tonya Pinkins, Actress

● 1962 - Kevin Eastman American comic book creator

● 1964 - Wynonna Judd, American singer

● 1964 - Tom Morello, American guitarist (Audioslave, Rage Against the Machine)

● 1964 - Andrea Montermini, Italian racing driver

● 1966 - Antoine Fuqua, Director

● 1966 - Stephen Malkmus, American musician (Pavement)

● 1970 - Flora Chan, Hong Kong television actress

● 1970 - Ness Wadia, Indian industrialist

● 1971 - Idina Menzel, American actress and singer ("Rent," "Wicked")

● 1971 - Patrick Dahlheimer, Rock musician (Live)

● 1972 - Manny Ramirez, Dominican baseball player

● 1972 - Trey Parker, Actor

● 1973 - Leigh Francis, British comedian

● 1974 - Cee-Lo, American musician (Gnarls Barkley)

● 1974 - Big L, American rapper (d. 1999)

● 1974 - Konstantinos Chalkias, Greek footballer

● 1974 - Shin Ha-kyun, South Korean actor

● 1975 - Andrew Farrell, English rugby league and union footballer

● 1976 - Radoslav Nesterovič, Slovenian basketball player

● 1977 - Rachael Stirling, British actress

● 1977 - Fabrice Akwa, Angolan footballer

● 1979 - Mike Bishai, Canadian ice hockey player

● 1979 - Kugimiya Rie, Japanese seiyuu (voice actress)

● 1980 - Steven Gerrard, English footballer

● 1981 - Devendra Banhart, American singer and songwriter

● 1981 - Gianmaria Bruni, Italian racing driver

● 1981 - Blake Bashoff, American actor

● 1984 - Matt Maguire, Australian rules footballer

● 1985 - Justin Pasfield, Australian soccer player

DEATHS

● 1159 - Wladislaus II the Exile of Poland (b. 1105)

● 1252 - King Ferdinand III of Castile

● 1416 - Jerome of Prague, Czech theologian (executed) (b. 1379)

● 1431 - Joan of Arc, French peasant girl that joined the French royal army, heroine and saint (burned at the stake) (b. 1412)

● 1434 - Prokop the Great, Hussite general

● 1469 - Lope de Barrientos —a powerful bishop in Castile

● 1574 - King Charles IX of France (b. 1550)

● 1576 - Harada Naomasa, Japanese retainer and samurai

● 1593 - Christopher Marlowe, English playwright (b. 1564)

● 1640 - Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter (b. 1577)

● 1696 - Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell, First Lord of the British Admiralty (b. 1638)

● 1718 - Arnold Joost van Keppel, 1st Earl of Albemarle, Dutch favorite of William III of England (b. 1670)

● 1730 - Arabella Churchill, English mistress of James II of England (b. 1648)

● 1744 - Alexander Pope, English writer (b. 1688)

● 1770 - François Boucher, French painter (b. 1703)

● 1778 - Voltaire, French philosopher and author (b. 1694)

● 1826 - Germanos of Patras, Greek Metropolitan bishop who proclaimed the Greek War of Independence (b. 1771)

● 1865 - John Catron, United States Supreme Court Justice

● 1868 - Souji Okita, 1st Captain of the Shinsengumi (b. 1823

● 1901 - Victor D'Hondt, Belgian mathematician (b. 1841)

● 1912 - Wilbur Wright, aviation pioneer (Wright Brothers) (b. 1867)

● 1925 - Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, German historian (b. 1876)

● 1926 - Vladimir Steklov, Russian physicist (b. 1864)

● 1934 - Togo Heihachiro, Japanese admiral (b. 1848)

● 1941 - Prajadhipok, Rama VII, king of Thailand (b. 1893)

● 1946 - Louis Slotin, Canadian Scientist at Los Alamos (b. 1910)

● 1951 - Hermann Broch, Austrian author (b. 1886)

● 1953 - Dooley Wilson, American musician and actor (b. 1886)

● 1955 - Bill Vukovich, Auto racer, killed during 1955 Indianapolis 500 (b. 1918)

● 1960 - Boris Pasternak, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (declined) (b. 1890)

● 1961 - Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic (b. 1891)

● 1964 - Leó Szilárd, Hungarian-born nuclear physicist (b. 1898)

● 1964 - Eddie Sachs and Dave MacDonald, American auto racers, killed during 1964 Indianapolis 500 (b. 1927)

● 1967 - Claude Rains, English actor (b. 1889)

● 1971 - Marcel Dupré, French organist and composer (b. 1886)

● 1975 - Steve Prefontaine, American runner (b. 1951)

● 1975 - Michel Simon, French actor (b. 1895)

● 1980 - Carl Radle, American bass guitarist (b. 1942)

● 1981 - Don Ashby, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1955)

● 1981 - Ziaur Rahman, President of Bangladesh (b. 1936)

● 1986 - Perry Ellis, American fashion designer (b. 1940)

● 1993 - Sun Ra, American musician (b. 1914)

● 2000 - Tex Beneke, American bandleader, singer, and saxophone player (b. 1914)

● 2003 - Mickie Most, English record producer (b. 1938)

● 2005 - Tomasz Pacyński, Polish writer (b. 1958)

● 2006 - Shohei Imamura, Japanese film director (b. 1926)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Anastasius XV
● St. Exuperantius
● St. Felix I, pope [268-73], martyr
● St. Ferdinand III of Castile, Spanish king/patron of engineers
● St. Joan of Arc, , Maid of Orleans, patroness of France
● St. Gabinus
● St. Hubert
● St. Luke Kirby
● St. Madelgisilus
● St. Reinhilde
● St. Venantius
● St. Walstan
● Bl. Lawrence Richardson
● Bl. Maurus Scott
● Bl. Richard Newport
● Bl. Thomas Cottam
● Bl. William Filby

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for May 17 (Civil Date: May 30)
● Apostle Andronicus of the Seventy and his fellow laborer Junia.
● St. Stephen, Archbishop of Constantinople.
● Martyrs Solochon, Pamphamer, and Pamphalon at Chalcedon.
● Sts. Nectarius and Theophanes of Meteora.
● St. Euphrosyne (princess Eudocia) of Moscow.

● Greek Calendar:
● St. Athanasius the New, wonderworker of Christianopolis.
● Repose of Righteous Priest Jonah of Odessa (1924).
● Martyr Theodotus of Ancyra, and with him the seven Virgin Martyrs Alexandra, Tecusa, Claudia, Phaine, Euphraisa, Matrona and Julia.
● Martyrs Peter, Dionysius, and those who suffered under Decius: Andrew, Paul, Christina, Heraclius, Paulinus, and Benedimus.
● Martyrs Symeon, Isaac and Bachtisius of Persia.
● Martyr Euphrasia of Nicaea.
● Martyr Theodota at Ancyra.
● Martyrs David and Tarechan of Georgia.

● Trinidad and Tobago – Indian Arrival Day (National Holiday).

● Peru – National Potato Day.

● Canary Islands – Canary Islands' Day

● Channel Is, England, N Ireland, Wales : Spring Holiday

● Guam, Puerto Rico, US, US Virgin Islands : Memorial Day

● Lincoln City IN : Nancy Hanks Lincoln Memorial Day

● US : The REAL Memorial Day (Decoration Day) (1868)

● 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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