May 6......

May 6 is the 126th (127th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 239 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Equality "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex." — Text of defeated constitutional amendment; The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Terrorism "FBI Urges Police to Watch for People With Almanacs" — Newspaper headline about an FBI intelligence bulletin inviting police to detain people based on their reading habits

Thought for the day: "Hearts will never be practical until they're unbreakable."

{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

● 1312 - Pope Clement V closes Council of Vienna

● 1432 - Flemish artist Jan van Eyck, 61, finished the altarpiece for St. John's Church in Ghent, Belgium. Van Eyck's work is noted for its descriptive realism and intensive color.

● 1476 - Emperor Frederik III of Habsburg & duke Charles the Stout arrange marriage of their children

● 1527 - Forty thousand mercenaries, hired by Cardinal Pompeo Colonna, sacked the city of Rome, destroying two-thirds of the houses. They butchered clergy and laity alike, and forced Clement VII to flee, disguised as a gardener. It was the end of the golden age of the Renaissance.

● 1529 - Battle at Gogra: Mogol emperor Babur beats Afghans & Bengals

● 1536 - King Henry VIII orders translated Bibles be placed in every church.

● 1542 - Francis Xavier reached Old Goa, the capital of Portuguese India at the time.

● 1576 - The peace treaty of Chastenoy ended the fifth war of religion.

● 1598 - Arch duke Albrecht & Isabella become monarch of Southern Netherlands

● 1626 - Manhattan is sold to the Dutch by the Shinnecock Indians, who lived in Brooklyn for $24 in trinkets.

● 1642 - Ville Marie (Montréal) forms

● 1644 - Johan Mauritius resigns as Governor of Brazil

● 1648 - Battle at Zólty Wody-Bohdan Chmielricki's Cossaks beat John II Casimir

● 1672 - Brandenburgs monarch Frederik Willem signs treaty with Netherlands

● 1682 - Louis XIV of France moves his court to Versailles.

● 1733 - 1st international boxing match: Bob Whittaker beats Tito di Carni

● 1753 - French King Louis XV observes transit of Mercury at Mendon Castle

● 1757 - Battle of Prague - A Prussian army fought an Austrian army in Prague during the Seven Years' War.

● 1763 - Pontiac Rebellion - Indians revolt against British rule and besiege Detroit for five months.

● 1794 - Haiti, under Toussaint L'Ouverture, revolts against France

● 1804 - Suriname sold to English (until February 1816)

● 1816 - The American Bible Society is founded in New York City.

● 1833 - John Deere makes 1st steel plow

● 1835 - Birth of John T. Grape, American Methodist layman. He composed a number of hymn tunes during his life, including ALL TO CHRIST, to which we sing today, "Jesus Paid It All."

● 1835 - James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the New York Herald.

● 1840 - The Penny Black postage stamp is valid for use in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

● 1844 - Johan Thorbecke argue general right to vote

● 1848 - Otto Tank ends slavery in Suriname colony

● 1851 - Dr John Gorrie patents a "refrigeration machine"

● 1851 - Linus Yale patents Yale-lock

● 1851 - New slave regulations go into effect in Suriname

● 1853 - 1st major US rail disaster kills 46 (Norwalk CT)

● 1856 - Birth of Sigmund Freud in Freiberg, Moravia (present-day Pribor, Czech Republic), the most influential psychological theorist of 20th-century. Freud's theories, including the formation of the Oedipus complex, have had an enormous influence on art, literature, and social thinking.

● 1857 - The British East India Company disbands the 34th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry whose Sepoy Mangal Pandey had earlier revolted against the British and is considered to be the First Martyr in the War of India's Independence.

● 1860 - Giuseppe Garibaldi's Mille set sail from Genoa to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.

● 1861 - Arkansas & Tennessee become 9th & 10th states to secede from US

● 1861 - Jefferson Davis approves a bill declaring War between US & Confederacy

● 1862 - Death of Henry David Thoreau, war tax resister and author of "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience."

● 1863 - American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville ends, with a defeat of the Army of the Potomac under General Joseph Hooker by Confederate troops under Stonewall Jackson.

● 1864 - Battle of Port Walthall Junction VA

● 1864 - Battle of Wilderness-General Longstreet seriously injured

● 1864 - General Sherman begins advance to Atlanta GA

● 1877 - Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Sioux surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska.

● 1882 - Chinese Exclusion Act: US Congress ceases Chinese immigration

● 1882 - Epping Forest England dedicated by Queen Victoria

● 1889 - The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.

● 1890 - Mormon Church renounces polygamy

● 1891 - Conductors on London General Omnibus Company go on strike

● 1902 - British SS Camorta sinks off Rangoon; 739 die

● 1902 - Zulu assault at Holkrantz South-Africa

● 1906 - "Temporary" permit to erect overhead wires on Market St San Fransisco

● 1910 - George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII.

● 1913 - King Nikita I of Montenegro vacates Skoetari, North-Albania

● 1914 - British House of Lords rejects women suffrage

● 1915 - Orson Welles, the American motion-picture actor, director, producer and writer who combined his talents in the highly regarded movie "Citizen Kane," was born.

● 1915 - Allies attack Cape Helles, Hellespont

● 1915 - German U-20 sinks Centurion SE of Ireland

● 1916 - Belgian troop march into Kigali, German East-Africa

● 1919 - Paris Peace Conference disposes of German colonies; German East Africa is assigned to Britain & France, German Southwest Africa to South Africa

● 1933 - Italy & USSR sign trade agreement

● 1935 - British King George & Queen Mary celebrates silver jubilee

● 1935 - New Deal: Executive Order 7034 creates the Works Progress Administration (WPA).

● 1937 - Hindenburg disaster: The German zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed within a minute while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey. Thirty-six people are killed.

● 1938 - Dutch writer Maurits Dekker sentenced to 50 days for "offending a friendly head of state" (Hitler)

● 1941 - Joseph Stalin became premier of Russia

● 1942 - World War II: On Corregidor, the last American forces in the Philippines surrender to the Japanese.

● 1943 - British 1st army opens assault on Tunis

● 1944 - Mohandas Gandhi released from last imprisonment, India.

● 1945 - General J Blaskowitz surrenders German troops in Netherlands

● 1945 - World War II: Axis Sally delivers her last propaganda broadcast to Allied troops (first was on December 11, 1941).

● 1945 - World War II: The Prague Offensive, the last major battle of the Eastern Front, begins.

● 1952 - Death of Maria Montessori, radical pacifist educator.

● 1955 - Responding to a letter received from a child, English apologist C. S. Lewis wrote: 'God knows quite well how hard we find it to love Him more than anyone or anything else, and He won't be Angry with us as long as we are trying. And He will help us.'

● 1955 - West Germany joins NATO

● 1957 - Italian Government of Segni resigns

● 1959 - Iceland gunboats shoot at British fishing ships

● 1960 - President Eisenhower signs Civil Rights Act of 1960

● 1960 - Students attack Dutch embassy in Djakarta

● 1960 - Trotsky's murderer Jacques Mornard (Ramón Mercader), freed in México

● 1961 - Omer Vanaudenhove chosen chairman of Belgium Liberal Party

● 1962 - 1st nuclear warhead fired from Polaris submarine (Ethan Allen)

● 1962 - Antonio Segni elected President of Italy

● 1962 - Pathet Lao breaks cease fire/conquerors Nam Tha Laos

● 1962 - US performs nuclear test at Pacific Ocean

● 1962 - St. Martín de Porres becomes canonized by Pope John XXIII.

● 1966 - Canadian Minister of Finance announces a $20 Centennial gold coin

● 1966 - Moors murderers jailed for life; Ian Brady and his lover Myra Hindley are sentenced to life imprisonment for the so-called Moors murders.

● 1967 - 400 students seize administration building at Cheyney State College

● 1967 - Zakir Hussain elected 1st Moslem President of India

● 1968 - Battle between students & troops in Paris France, 1000 injured

● 1968 - Spain closes border to Gibraltar except to Spaniards

● 1970 - Yuchiro Miura of Japan skis down Mount Everest

● 1970 - Congressional hearings begin on ratification of Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the U.S. Constitution.

● 1973 - Demonstrations against Pacific nuclear tests in 14 cities across France.

● 1974 - Bundy victim Roberta Parks disappears from OSU, Corvallis OR

● 1974 - Stolen "Guitar Player" painting by Jan Vermeer found in London

● 1974 - West German chancellor W Brandt resigns

● 1975 - Bundy victim Lynette Culver disappears from Pocatello ID

● 1975 - Early warnings provided by REACT (ham radio operators) means only 3 people die in tornado that strikes Omaha NE

● 1976 - Huge earthquake rocks Italy; Italy's worst ever earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale kills at least 60 people and leaves thousands homeless.

● 1978 - South Africa military goes into Angola

● 1979 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

● 1979 - Six weeks after Three Mile Island, 125,000 rally in Washington, D.C. to oppose nuclear power.

● 1980 - One hundred seventy thousand workers in Togliatti, Russia, U.S.S.R. auto plant stay home in support of bus driver walkout.

● 1981 - A jury of architects and sculptors unanimously selects Maya Ying Lin's design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial from 1,421 other entries.

● 1981 - US expels Libyan diplomats

● 1984 - José Napoleon Duarte wins El Salvador presidential election

● 1985 - 17th Space Shuttle Mission (51-B)-Challenger 7 lands at Edwards Air Force Base

● 1986 - The Rev. Donald E. Pelotte, 41, was installed in Gallup, New Mexico -- the first American Indian to be made a Roman Catholic Bishop in the U.S.

● 1986 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island

● 1987 - Gary Hart denies affair with model Donna Rice

● 1987 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

● 1987 - PTL's Jim Bakker and Rich Dortch dismissed from Assemblies of God.

● 1988 - An airplane going from Namsos to Brønnøysund in Norway crashes into the side of the Torghatten mountain, killing all 36 passengers and crew.

● 1990 - Former President PW Botha quit South Africa's ruling National Party

● 1991 - Space Shuttle STS 39 (Discovery 12) lands

● 1993 - STS-55 (Columbia) lands

● 1994 - Comedian Bobcat Goldthwait sets fire to the couch on Tonight Show

● 1994 - House passes the assault weapons ban

● 1994 - Nelson Mandela & his ANC, finally confirmed winners in South Africa

● 1994 - Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and French President François Mitterrand officiate at the opening of the Channel Tunnel.

● 1994 - Former Arkansas state worker Paula Jones filed suit against U.S. President Clinton. The case alleged that he had sexually harassed her in 1991.

● 1996 - The body of former CIA director William Colby is found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after he disappeared.

● 1996 - Alvaro Arzu aimed at ending 35 years of civil war

● 1996 - Guatemala's leftist guerrillas sign key accord with government of President

● 1997 - Army Staff Sgt. Delmar G. Simpson was sentenced to 25 years in prison for raping six trainees at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland.

● 1997 - Four health-care companies agreed to a settlement of $600 million to hemophiliacs who had contracted AIDS from tainted blood between 1978-1985.

● 1997 - Brown sets Bank of England free; The Chancellor, Gordon Brown, gives the Bank of England independence from political control.

● 1999 - Britain's Labour Party won the largest number of seats in the first elections for Scotland's new Parliament and Wales' new Assembly.

● 1999 - A parole board in New York voted to release Amy Fisher. She had been in jail for 7 years for shooting her lover's wife, Mary Jo Buttafuoco, in the face.

● 2001 - Second blast at London post office; A bomb explodes at a north London postal sorting office - the second such attack in three weeks - and has been linked to the Real IRA.

● 2001 - Pope John Paul II, during a trip to Syria, became the first pope to enter a mosque.

● 2001 - Chandra Levy's parents reported her missing to police in Washington, DC. Levy's body was found on May 22, 2002 in Rock Creek Park.

● 2002 - Jean-Pierre Raffarin becomes Prime Minister of France.

● 2002 - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was freed after 19 months of house arrest.

● 2002 - Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn is shot and killed by a left-wing extremist.

● 2012 - Transit of Venus

BIRTHS

● 1397 - Sejong the Great of Joseon, ruler of Korea (d. 1450)

● 1501 - Pope Marcellus II (d. 1555)

● 1574 - Pope Innocent X (d. 1655)

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

● 1713 - Charles Batteux, French philosopher (d. 1780)

● 1758 - André Masséna, French marshal (d. 1817)

● 1758 - Maximilien Robespierre, French Revolutionary (d. 1794)

● 1769 - Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1824)

● 1769 - Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, French mathematician (d. 1834)

● 1797 - Joseph Brackett, American religious leader and composer (d. 1882)

● 1800 - Roman Sanguszko, Polish aristocrat and general (d. 1881)

● 1830 - Abraham Jacobi, German-born physician and pioneer in the field of pediatric medicine (d. 1919)

● 1856 - Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist (d. 1939)

● 1856 - Robert Peary, American explorer (d. 1920)

● 1861 - Motilal Nehru, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1931)

● 1868 - Gaston Leroux, French writer (d. 1927)

● 1868 - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia (d. 1918)

● 1870 - John McCutcheon, American newspaper cartoonist and writer (d. 1949)

● 1871 - Victor Grignard, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935)

● 1871 - Christian Morgenstern, German author (d. 1914)

● 1872 - Willem de Sitter, Dutch scientist (d. 1934)

● 1875 - William Leahy, American admiral; chief of staff during World War II (d. 1959)

● 1879 - Bedrich Hrozny, Czech orientalist (d. 1952)

● 1880 - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German painter (d. 1938)

● 1882 - Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany (d. 1951)

● 1889 - Stanley Morison, English typographer and scholar

● 1895 - Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (d. 1926)

● 1895 - Júlio César de Mello e Souza, Brazilian writer (d. 1974)

● 1895 - Fidél Pálffy, Hungarian Nazi (d. 1946)

● 1899 - Billy Cotton, British entertainer (d. 1969)

● 1902 - Harry Golden, American journalist (d. 1981)

● 1902 - Max Ophüls, German-born director (d. 1957)

● 1903 - Toots Shor, New York restaurateur (d. 1977)

● 1904 - Moshe Feldenkrais, Ukrainian-born founder of the Feldenkrais method (d. 1984)

● 1904 - Harry Martinson, Nobel laureate (d. 1978)

● 1904 - Raymond Bailey, American actor (d. 1980)

● 1906 - Enrique Laguerre, Puerto Rican writer (d. 2005)

● 1909 - Lew Christensen, American dancer, teacher and choreographer (d. 1984)

● 1913 - Stewart Granger, English film actor (d. 1993)

● 1913 - Carmen Cavallaro, American pianist (d. 1989)

● 1915 - Orson Welles, American director (d. 1985)

● 1915 - Theodore White, American writer (d. 1986)

● 1916 - Robert H. Dicke, American physicist (d. 1997)

● 1917 - Kal Mann, American lyricist (d. 2001)

● 1920 - Kamisese Mara, 1st Prime Minister of Fiji and President of Fiji (d. 2004)

● 1920 - Ross Hunter, American film producer (d. 1996)

● 1921 - Erich Fried, German author (d. 1988)

● 1922 - Camille Laurin, Quebec psychiatrist and politician (d. 1999)

● 1923 - Vladimir Etush, Russian actor

● 1924 - Denny Wright, British guitarist (d. 1992)

● 1924 - Patricia Kennedy Lawford, American socialite (d. 2006)

● 1926 - Gilles Grégoire, Quebec politician, co-founder of the Parti Québécois (d. 2006)

● 1929 - Paul Lauterbur, Nobel laureate

● 1931 - Willie Mays, American baseball player

● 1934 - Richard Shelby, U.S. senator, R-Ala.

● 1936 - Bernard Lemaire, French Canadian businessman (Cascades)

● 1937 - Rubin Carter, American boxer

● 1938 - Jean Garon, Quebec economist and politician

● 1942 - Rin Kaiho, professional Go player

● 1944 - Anton Furst, American production designer (d. 1991)

● 1945 - Jimmie Dale Gilmore, American musician

● 1945 - Bob Seger, American singer

● 1947 - Alan Dale, Actor

● 1947 - Ben Masters, Actor

● 1947 - Martha Nussbaum, American philosopher

● 1948 - Mary MacGregor, American singer

● 1952 - Gregg Henry, Actor

● 1952 - Michael O'Hare, American actor

● 1952 - Christian Clavier, French actor

● 1953 - Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

● 1953 - Graeme Souness, Scottish footballer/manager

● 1953 - Michelle Courchesne, Quebec politician

● 1955 - Tom Bergeron, American game show host ("Dancing with the Stars")

● 1960(63? NYT) - Roma Downey, Northern Irish actress ("Touched by an Angel")

● 1960 - John Flansburgh, American musician (They Might Be Giants)

● 1960 - Anne Parillaud, French actress

● 1961 - George Clooney, American actor

● 1964 - Tony Scalzo, Rock musician (Fastball)

● 1964 - Dana Hill, American actress (d. 1996)

● 1965 - Leslie Hope, Actress

● 1967 - Mark Bryan, Rock musician (Hootie and the Blowfish)

● 1969 - Jim Magilton, Northern Irish footballer

● 1971 - Chris Shiflett, Rock musician (Foo Fighters)

● 1972 - Martin Brodeur, Canadian ice hockey player

● 1977 - David Connolly, England-born Irish footballer

● 1977 - Marc Chouinard, French Canadian ice hockey player

● 1978 - John Abraham, American football player

● 1978 - Alexander Fedorov, Russian bodybuilder

● 1978 - Fredrick Federley, Swedish politician

● 1980 - Taebin, Korean singer (1TYM)

● 1980 - Scott Colton, American professional wrestler

● 1980 - Kate Lawler, English reality TV star

● 1980 - Ricardo Oliveira, Brazilian footballer

● 1980 - Kelly van der Veer, Dutch reality TV star

● 1983 - Adrianne Palicki, Actress ("Friday Night Lights")

● 1985 - Chris Paul, American basketball player

● 1986 - Cindy Daniel, Quebec singer

● 1987 - Moon Geun-young, South Korean actress

DEATHS

● 680 - Muawiyah I, caliph (b. 602)

● 1502 - James Tyrrell, alleged murderer of the Princes in the Tower (executed)

● 1596 - Giaches de Wert, Flemish composer (b. 1535)

● 1620 - Hayyim ben Joseph Vital, Palestinian-born Kabbalist (b. 1543)

● 1631 - Robert Bruce Cotton, English politician

● 1638 - Cornelius Jansen, French bishop and religious reformer (b. 1585)

● 1708 - François de Laval, first bishop of New France (b. 1623)

● 1757 - Maximilian Ulysses Reichsgraf von Browne, Austrian field marshal (b. 1705)

● 1757 - Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, British politician (b. 1683)

● 1757 - Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Prussian field marshal (b. 1684)

● 1859 - Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist and explorer (b. 1769)

● 1862 - Henry David Thoreau, American author and philosopher (b. 1817)

● 1877 - Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finnish poet (b. 1804)

● 1902 - Bret Harte, American author (b. 1836)

● 1910 - King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (b. 1841)

● 1919 - L. Frank Baum, American writer (b. 1856)

● 1939 - Konstantin Somov, Russian writer (b. 1869)

● 1949 - Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)

● 1951 - Élie Cartan, French mathematician (b. 1869)

● 1952 - Maria Montessori, Italian educator (b. 1870)

● 1961 - Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher (b. 1895)

● 1963 - Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian-born physicist (b. 1881)

● 1967 - Zhou Zuoren, Chinese writer (b. 1885)

● 1970 - Aleksandr Rodzyanko, Russian general (b. 1879)

● 1973 - Ernest MacMillan, Canadian orchestra conductor and composer (b. 1893)

● 1975 - József Mindszenty, Hungarian Catholic Cardinal (b. 1892)

● 1983 - Kai Winding, American trombonist and jazz composer (b. 1922)

● 1984 - Bonner Pink, Conservative Party politician

● 1984 - Mary Cain, Mississippi newspaper editor and politician (b. 1904)

● 1987 - William Casey, American Central Intelligence Agency director (b. 1913)

● 1989 - Earl Blaik, Former American football coach (b. 1897)

● 1990 - Charles Farrell, American actor (b. 1901)

● 1991 - Wilfrid Hyde-White, English actor (b. 1903)

● 1992 - Marlene Dietrich, German actress (b. 1901)

● 1993 - Ann Todd, English actress (b. 1909)

● 1995 - Noel Brotherston, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1956)

● 1995 - Hilda Toledano (b. 1907)

● 2002 - Pim Fortuyn, Dutch politician (b. 1948)

● 2002 - Otis Blackwell, American pianist, singer and songwriter (b. 1932)

● 2003 - Art Houtteman, baseball player (b. 1927)

● 2004 - Philip Kapleau, American Zen teacher (b. 1912)

● 2004 - Barney Kessel, American jazz guitarist (b. 1923)

● 2006 - Lillian Asplund, last American RMS Titanic survivor (b. 1906)

● 2006 - Lorne Saxberg, Canadian television journalist (b. 1958)

● 2006 - Shigeru Kayano, Japanese Ainu activist (b. 1926)

● 2006 - Grant McLennan, co-founder of Australian band The Go-Betweens (b. 1958)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Benedicta of Rome
● St. Dominic Savio, patron St. of studying youth
● St. Eadbert
● St. Evodius
● St. Heliodorus
● St. John Before the Latin Gate
● St. Justus
● St. Lucius of Cyrene
● St. Petronax of Monte Cassino
● St. Theodotus
● Bl. Anthony Middleton
● Bl. Edward Jones
● Bl. Prudentia

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for April 24 (Civil Date: May 6)
● Martyr Sabbas Stratelites ("the General") of Rome, and 70 soldiers with him.
● Martyrs Eusebius, Neon, Leontius, Longinus, and others at Nicomedia.
● Martyrs Pasicrates and Valentine in Moesia (Bulgaria).
● St. Thomas the Fool of Syria.
● St. Elizabeth the Wonderworker of Constantinople.
● Saints Sabbas and Alexius the hermit of the Kiev Caves.
● New-Martyr Luke.
● New-Martyr Nicholas of Magnesia.
● Martyr Alexander of Lyons.
● St. Iorest and St. Sava Brancovici, Metropolitan of Ardeal, confessors against the Calvinists.
● Repose of Schemamonk Nicholas of Valaam (1947).

● St George's Day — Đurđevdan (Serbian), Gergyovden (Bulgarian), Giorgoba (Georgian) the most famous Serbian slava, the most celebrated namesday in Bulgaria, and one of the two Giorgoba holidays in Georgia Commemoration of the following Orthodox Christian saints:
● Barbaros the Robber in Thessaly
● Barbarus the soldier, with Bacchus, Callimachus and Dionysios
● Righteous Job the Long-suffering (OT)
● New Martyr Elias Ardunis
● New Martyr Demetrios of the Peloponnesus (d. 1803)
● Micah of Radonezh
● Sinaites of Serbia
● Seraphim the Struggler of Mt. Domvu
● Hidrellez - Celebration of the awakening of nature. (Turkey)

● Denmark : Prayer Day

● Bulgaria : Shepherd's & Herdsman's Day

● Lebanon : Martyrs' Day

● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Zambia : Labour Day - ( Monday )
● New Orleans : McDonogh Day (1850) - ( Friday )

IN FICTION

● 1902 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place"


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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