May 8......

May 8 is the 128th (129th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 237 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Faith "It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion." — Francis Bacon

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Union Disregard "They don't suffer; they can't even speak English." — George Baer, railroad industrialist, responding to a reporter's question about impossible living wages and conditions during a coal strike

Thought for the day: "Better three hours too soon than a minute too late."

{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

● 535 - John II ends his reign as Catholic Pope

● 589 - Reccared summons the Third Council of Toledo

● 615 - St Boniface IV ends his reign as Catholic Pope

● 685 - St Benedict II ends his reign as Catholic Pope

● 1096 - Peter the Hermit and his army reached Hungary. They passed through without incident.

● 1360 - Treaty of Brétigny signed by English & French

● 1373 - English mystic Julian of Norwich, 31, by her own account, received a series of sixteen revelations, while in a state of ecstasy lasting five hours. Her book, "The Sixteen Revelations of Divine Love," was written 20 years later as the fruit of her meditations on this experience. Little else is known of her life.

● 1429 - French troops under Joan of Arc rescues Orléans

● 1450 - Jack Cade's Rebellion: Kentishmen revolt against King Henry VI.

● 1521 - Parliament of Worms installs edict against Marten Luther

● 1541 - Hernando de Soto reaches the Mississippi River and names it Río de Espíritu Santo, Holy Ghost (Spirit) River.

● 1624 - Hung king Bethlen Gábor & emperor Ferdinand II sign Treaty of Vienna

● 1639 - William Coddington founds Newport RI

● 1660 - English parliament asks King Charles II to resign

● 1721 - Michelangiolo dei Conti replaces Pope Clement XI, as Innocent XIII

● 1741 - France & Bavaria sign Covenant of Nymphenburg

● 1753 - Birth of Miguel Hidalgo, Mexican priest and revolutionary.

● 1781 - American Colonel Ethan Allen and his brothers, desperate to secure Vermont's independence from New York, opened private negotiations with the British, allegedly aimed at making the area between the Connecticut and Hudson Rivers a province of Canada.

● 1784 - Only known deaths by hailstones in US (Winnsborough SC)

● 1792 - British Captain George Vancouver sights and renames Mount Rainier.

● 1792 - US establishes military draft

● 1794 - US Post Office established

● 1794 - Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by revolutionists, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the Ferme Générale, was tried, convicted, and guillotined all on one day in Paris. He was the French chemist that discovered oxygen.

● 1816 - The American Bible Society was organized in the Dutch Reformed Church on Garden Street in NY City. The non-profit society was instituted to promote wider circulation of the Scriptures by publishing Bibles without notes or comments.

● 1821 - Greek War of Independence: The Greeks defeat the Turks in Gravia.

● 1828 - U.S. Peace Society founded.

● 1834 - Charles Darwin's expedition returns to the Beagle

● 1834 - Prussia, Austria & Russia sign classified accord about Belgium

● 1840 - Alexander Wolcott patents Photographic Process

● 1842 - Versailles to Paris train catches fire; 50 die

● 1845 - At a three-day convention in Augusta, GA, the Southern Baptist Convention was formed by 300 representatives from Baptist churches in Georgia, Virginia and South Carolina.

● 1846 - Mexican-American War: The Battle of Palo Alto – Zachary Taylor defeats a Mexican force north of the Rio Grande in the first major battle of the war.

● 1847 - Robert Thompson patents rubber tire

● 1858 - John Brown holds antislavery convention

● 1861 - American Civil War: Richmond, Virginia, is named the capital of the Confederate States of America.

● 1862 - Valley Campaign: Federals repulsed at Battle of McDowell VA

● 1863 - Confederación Granadina becomes Estados Unidos de Colombia

● 1863 - International Red Cross founded.

● 1864 - Actions at Stony Creek/Nottoway Bridge VA (Drewry's Bluff)

● 1864 - Atlanta Campaign: Severe fighting near Dalton

● 1864 - Battle of Antietam VA (Spotslyvania Court House, Laurel Hill)

● 1871 - English-US treaty ends Alabama dispute

● 1876 - Peter Maurin, co-founder of Catholic Worker movement, born.

● 1879 - George Selden files for 1st patent for a gasoline-driven automobile

● 1881 - Henry Morton Stanley signs contract with Congolian monarch

● 1884 - Harry S Truman, American 33rd president of the United States, was born.

● 1885 - Sarah Ann Henley survives 76-meter jump from Clifton Bridge, Avon, England

● 1886 - Atlanta pharmacist (Jacob's Pharmacy) Dr John Styth Pemberton invents Coca Cola (contained cocaine)

● 1895 - China cedes Taiwan to Japan under Treaty of Shimonoseki

● 1900 - 250 grave robbers shot to death

● 1902 - Mt. Pele, on the island of Martinique, erupted, killing over 30,000, the largest number of people ever directly killed by a volcanic eruption.

● 1904 - U.S. Marines landed in Tangier to protect the Belgian legation.

● 1914 - The U.S. Congress passed a Joint Resolution that designated the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day.

● 1916 - German munitions bunker in Fort Douaumont explodes

● 1919 - 1st transatlantic flight take-off by a navy seaplane

● 1919 - Edward George Honey first proposed the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate The Armistice of World War I, which later resulted in the creation of Remembrance Day.

● 1921 - Sweden abolished capital punishment

● 1924 - Memel territories given to Lithuania

● 1924 - Workers at Werkspoor in Amsterdam strike against 3rd wage cut

● 1925 - French colonial army beats Rifkabylen in Morocco

● 1926 - A Philip Randolph organizes Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

● 1929 - Jan Mayen island, 500 km NNE of Iceland, incorporated into Norway

● 1933 - Gandhi begins 31-day fast in jail, India to protest British oppression.

● 1939 - English apologist C.S. Lewis wrote in a letter: 'The process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like barren platitudes.'

● 1941 - German Q-ship Pinguin sinks in Indian Ocean

● 1942 - German summer offensive opens in Crimea

● 1942 - World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea comes to an end. This is the first time in the naval history where two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships.

● 1942 - World War II: Gunners of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery on Horsburgh Island in the Cocos Islands rebelled in the Cocos Islands Mutiny. Their mutiny was crushed and three of them were executed, the only British Commonwealth soldiers to be executed for mutiny during the Second World War. {Holding true to form the British execute 'colonists' and not from the home country.}

● 1943 - The Germans suppressed a revolt by Polish Jews and destroyed the Warsaw Ghetto.

● 1943 - Admiral Cunningham of British fleet: "Sink, burn & destroy; let nothing pass"

● 1944 - 1st eye bank opens (NYC)

● 1944 - 33 communist resistance fighters sentenced to death

● 1944 - U-575 sinks Asphodel

● 1945 - Canadian troops move into Amsterdam

● 1945 - Chinese counter attack at Tsjangte, supports by 14th air fleet

● 1945 - General Von Keitel surrenders to Marshal Zhukov near Berlin

● 1945 - Hundreds of Algerian civilians are killed by FRENCH Army soldiers in the Sétif massacre.

● 1945 - U.S. President Harry Truman announced that World War II had ended in Europe.

● 1945 - World War II: VE Day. German forces agree to an unconditional surrender.

● 1948 - American missionary and martyr Jim Elliot wrote in his journal: 'Either take me to be with Thee, Savior, or put out the life of this old man as I draw near Thee in the flesh. Consume me, Fiery Lover, as Thou dost choose.'

● 1949 - West German constitution approved

● 1950 - Chiang Kai-shek asks US for weapons

● 1951 - Dacron men's suits introduced

● 1951 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak

● 1952 - Mad Magazine debuts

● 1958 - U.S. President Eisenhower ordered the National Guard out of Little Rock as Ernest Green became the first black to graduate from an Arkansas public school.

● 1958 - Vice President Richard Nixon shoved, stoned, booed, and spat upon by protesters in Peru.

● 1959 - 3-deck Nile excursion steamer springs a leak panicking passengers who capsized ship; 200 drown just yards from shore

● 1960 - USSR & Cuba resume diplomatic relations

● 1961 - 1st practical sea water conversion plant-Freeport TX

● 1961 - Alan Shepard receives NASA Distinguished Service Medal, Washington

● 1962 - 1st Atlas Centaur Launch

● 1962 - London trolley buses go out of service

● 1962 - An estimated nine million people participate in a ten-minute work stoppage to protest nuclear weapons, Belgium.

● 1963 - JFK offers Israel assistance against aggression

● 1967 - Muhammad Ali is indicted for refusing induction in US Army

● 1967 - The Philippine province of Davao is split into three: Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, and Davao Oriental.

● 1968 - Krays held on suspicion of murder; The Kray twins, Reginald and Ronnie and their brother Charlie are arrested after dawn raids by police in London.

● 1969 - Cambodia recognizes German Democratic Republic

● 1969 - Pope Paul VI publishes constitution Sacra Ritum Congregation

● 1970 - The Hard Hat riot occurs in the Wall Street area of New York City as blue-collar construction workers clash with anti-war demonstrators protesting the Vietnam War.

● 1972 - Sabena aircraft at Lod International, Tel Aviv, captured by Palestinians

● 1972 - Vietnam War – U.S. President Richard M. Nixon announces his order to place mines in major North Vietnamese ports in order to stem the flow of weapons and other goods to that nation.

● 1973 - A 71-day standoff, between federal authorities and the American Indian Movement members occupying the Pine Ridge Reservation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, ends with the surrender of the militants.

● 1974 - 50 MPH speed limit in Britain lifted

● 1974 - Canadian Government of Trudeau falls

● 1978 - David Berkowitz pleads guilty in "Son of Sam" 44-caliber shootings

● 1979 - El Salvador - On the steps of a San Salvador cathedral, police machine-gun a mass rally protesting U.S.-backed rightist regime, killing 25.

● 1980 - World Health Organization announced smallpox had been eradicated

● 1984 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island

● 1984 - Thames Barrier to stop flooding in London officially completed

● 1984 - Cpl. Denis Lortie enters the Quebec National Assembly and opens fire, killing three and wounding 13. René Jalbert, sergeant-at-arms of the assembly, succeeds in calming him, for which he will later receive the Cross of Valour.

● 1985 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island

● 1986 - Reporters were told that 84,000 people had been evacuated from areas near the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Soviet Ukraine.

● 1987 - Gary Hart quits democratic presidential race (Donna Rice affair)

● 1987 - The SAS ambushes and kills the Loughgall Martyrs.

● 1988 - François Mitterrand elected President of France

● 1989 - US space shuttle STS-30 lands

● 1990 - Cuyahoga County voters approve sin tax to build Cleveland Gateway

● 1991 - CIA director William H Webster resigns

● 1993 - 16 year old Keron Thomas disguises himself as a motorman & takes NYC subway train & 2,000 passengers on a 3 hour ride

● 1994 - Ernesto Pérez Balladares elected President of Panamá

● 1994 - José Maria Figueres becomes President of Costa Rica

● 1994 - President Clinton announces US will no longer repatriate boat people

● 1996 - The Constitutional Assembly of South Africa ratifies the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996. Considered one of the most liberal Constitutions in the world regarding Human Rights.

● 1997 - A China Southern Airlines Boeing 737 crashes on approach into Shenzhen's Huangtian Airport, killing 35 people.

● 1998 - A pipe burst leaving a million residents without water in Malaysia's capital area. This added to four days of shortages that 2 million already faced.

● 1999 - Nancy Mace becomes the first female cadet to graduate from The Citadel military college.

● 2005 - The new Canadian War Museum opens, in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of V-E Day.

BIRTHS

● 1460 - Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (d. 1536)

● 1521 - Petrus Canisius, Dutch Jesuit (d. 1597)

● 1587 - Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy (d. 1637)

● 1622 - Claes Rålamb, Swedish statesman (d. 1698)

● 1629 - Niels Juel, Danish admiral (d. 1697)

● 1632 - Heino Heinrich Graf von Flemming, German marshal (d. 1706)

● 1653 - Claude-Louis-Hector de Villars, Marshall of France (d. 1734)

● 1668 - Alain-René Lesage, French writer (d. 1747)

● 1670 - Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, English soldier (d. 1726)

● 1735 - Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland, English painter (d. 1811)

● 1737 - Edward Gibbon, English historian (d. 1794)

● 1738 - Mikhail Kamensky, Russian general (d. 1809)

● 1753 - Miguel Hidalgo Mexican revolutionary (d. 1811)

● 1786 - Thomas Hancock, English inventor; helped start the British rubber industry (d. 1865)

● 1821 - William Henry Vanderbilt, member of the Vanderbilt family (d. 1885)

● 1825 - George Bruce Malleson, Indian officer (d. 1898)

● 1828 - Jean Henri Dunant, Founder of the Red Cross; Nobel laureate (d. 1910)

● 1828 - Sharbel Makhluf, Lebanese monk (d. 1898)

● 1829 - Louis Moreau Gottschalk, American musician (d. 1869)

● 1842 - Emil Christian Hansenw, Danish physiologist (d. 1909)

● 1850 - Ross Barnes, baseball player (d. 1915)

● 1859 - Johan Jensen, Danish mathematician (d. 1925)

● 1869 - James Rowland Angell, American psychologist and president of Yale University (d. 1949)

● 1884 - Harry S. Truman, President of the United States (d. 1972)

● 1885 - Thomas Costain, Canadian-born American historical novelist (d. 1965)

● 1895 - Joselito, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1920)

● 1895 - Edmund Wilson, American essayist and literary critic (d. 1972)

● 1895 - Fulton J. Sheen, American bishop (d. 1979)

● 1899 - Arthur Q. Bryan, American voice actor (d. 1959)

● 1899 - Friedrich Hayek, Nobel laureate (d. 1992)

● 1902 - Andre Michael Lwoff, Nobel laureate (d. 1994)

● 1903 - Fernandel, French actor (d. 1971)

● 1904 - John Snagge, British radio personality (d. 1996)

● 1905 - Red Nichols, American musician (d. 1965)

● 1906 - Roberto Rossellini, Italian director (d. 1977)

● 1911 - Robert Johnson, American musician (d. 1938)

● 1913 - Bob Clampett, American animator (d. 1984)

● 1914 - Romain Gary, Polish writer (d. 1980)

● 1916 - João Havelange, Brazilian industrialist

● 1916 - Swami Chinmayananda, Indian spiritualist (d. 1993)

● 1917 - Papa John Creach, American musician (Jefferson Airplane) (d. 1994)

● 1919 - Lex Barker, American actor (d. 1973)

● 1920 - Saul Bass, American graphic designer (d. 1996)

● 1920 - Tom of Finland, Finnish fetish artist (d. 1991)

● 1925 - Ali Hassan Mwinyi, President of Tanzania

● 1926 - David Attenborough, British producer

● 1926 - Don Rickles, American comedian

● 1928 - Theodore Sorenson, American writer

● 1930 - Heather Harper, Irish singer

● 1930 - Gary Snyder, American poet

● 1932 - Phyllida Law, Scottish actress

● 1932 - Sonny Liston, American boxer (d. 1970)

● 1935 - Princess Elisabeth of Denmark, 7th in the Line of succession to the Danish Throne

● 1935 - Jack Charlton, English footballer

● 1937 - Dennis DeConcini, Former U.S. senator, D-Ariz.

● 1937 - Carlos Gaviria Díaz, Colombian politician

● 1937 - Thomas Pynchon, American novelist

● 1937 - Mike Cuellar, baseball player

● 1940 - Peter Benchley, American author (d. 2006)

● 1940 - Ricky Nelson, American singer (d. 1985)

● 1942 - Jack Blanchard, Country singer

● 1942 - Terry Neill, Northern Irish footballer

● 1943(40? NYT) - Toni Tennille, Singer (The Captain and Tennille)

● 1944 - Captain Dale Dye, American actor

● 1944 - Gary Glitter, English singer

● 1945 - Keith Jarrett, American musician

● 1947 - H. Robert Horvitz, Nobel laureate

● 1948 - Felicity Lott, English singer

● 1948 - Steve Braun, baseball player

● 1948 - Stephen Stohn, Canadian television producer (Degrassi)

● 1951 - Philip Bailey, American singer (Earth, Wind & Fire)

● 1951 - Chris Frantz, American musician (Talking Heads)

● 1953 - Billy Burnette, Country musician

● 1953 - Alex Van Halen, Rock musician (Van Halen)

● 1954 - Stephen Furst, Actor

● 1954 - David Keith, American actor

● 1957 - Bill Cowher, American football coach

● 1957 - Marie Myriam, French singer

● 1959 - Ronnie Lott, Football Hall of Famer

● 1960 - Franco Baresi, Italian footballer

● 1960 - Eric Brittingham, American bassist

● 1963 - Robin Jarvis, British writer

● 1963 - Izabela Kloc, Polish politician

● 1964 - Melissa Gilbert, American actress ("Little House on the Prairie")

● 1964 - Bobby Labonte, American race car driver

● 1964 - Dave Rowntree, British musician (Blur)

● 1966 - Claudio Taffarel, Brazilian footballer

● 1968 - Del Gray, Country musician (Little Texas)

● 1968 - Jamie Summers, American porn star

● 1968 - Johan Pehrson, Swedish politician

● 1969 - Akebono Taro, sumo wrestler

● 1970 - Luis Enrique, Spanish football player

● 1972 - Darren Hayes, Australian singer

● 1972 - Ray Whitney, Canadian ice hockey player

● 1973 - Hiromu Arakawa, Japanese artist

● 1974 - Jon Tickle, English entertainer

● 1974 - Korey Stringer, American football player (d. 2001)

● 1975 - Enrique Iglesias, Spanish singer

● 1975 - Jussi Markkanen, Finnish ice hockey player

● 1976 - Martha Wainwright, Canadian musician and songwriter

● 1976 - Ian "H" Watkins, pop singer (Steps)

● 1976 - Jeff Simmons, IRL racing driver

● 1977 - Theodoros Papaloukas, Greek basketball player

● 1978 - Ana Maria Lombo, Singer

● 1978 - Jang Woo Hyuk, Korean singer

● 1978 - Lúcio, Brazilian footballer

● 1978 - Josie Maran, American model

● 1980 - Michelle McManus, Scottish singer

● 1980 - Benny Yau, Canadian entertainer

● 1981 - Andrea Barzagli, Italian footballer

● 1981 - Björn Dixgård, Swedish guitarist

● 1981 - John Maine, American baseball player

● 1981 - Yasuko Tajima, Japanese swimmer

● 1983 - Matt Willis, British singer

● 1984 - Julia Whelan, Actress ("Once and Again")

● 1984 - Nadine Chandrawinata, 2006 Miss Universe Pageant (Indonesia)

● 1985 - Mashio Miyazaki, Japanese actress

● 1987 - Banafsheh, Persian Beauty

DEATHS

● 1278 - Emperor Duanzong of China (b. 1268)

● 1319 - King Haakon V of Norway (b. 1270)

● 1473 - John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English politician (b. 1420)

● 1538 - Edward Fox, English bishop

● 1766 - Samuel Chandler, English non-conformist minister (b. 1693)

● 1773 - Ali Bey Al-Kabir, Mamluk Sultan of Egypt (b. 1728)

● 1781 - Richard Jago, English poet (b. 1715)

● 1785 - Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, French statesman (b. 1719)

● 1785 - Pietro Longhi, Venetian painter (b. 1701)

● 1788 - Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian-born physician and naturalist (b. 1723)

● 1794 - Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist (executed) (b. 1743)

● 1819 - Kamehameha I, King of Hawaii

● 1828 - Mauro Giuliani, Italian composer (b. 1781)

● 1837 - Alexander Balashov, Russian general and statesman (b. 1770)

● 1842 - Jules Dumont d'Urville, French explorer (b. 1790)

● 1853 - Jan Roothaan, Dutch priest (b. 1785)

● 1873 - John Stuart Mill, English philosopher (b. 1806)

● 1880 - Gustave Flaubert, French novelist (b. 1821)

● 1891 - Helena Blavatsky, Russian-born author (b. 1831)

● 1936 - Oswald Spengler, German historian and philosopher (b. 1880)

● 1943 - Mordechaj Anielewicz, Polish Resistance Fighter (b. 1919)

● 1947 - Harry Gordon Selfridge, American-born department store founder (b. 1858)

● 1948 - U Saw, Burmese politician (b. 1900)

● 1950 - Vital Brazil, Brazilian physician (b. 1865)

● 1952 - William Fox, Austrian-born film producer (b. 1879)

● 1960 - J. H. C. Whitehead, British mathematician (b. 1904)

● 1969 - Remington Kellogg, American naturlist (b. 1892)

● 1975 - Avery Brundage, President of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1887)

● 1982 - Neil Bogart, American record executive (b. 1943)

● 1982 - Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian race car driver (b. 1950)

● 1984 - Lila Bell Wallace, American magazine publisher (Reader's Digest) (b. 1890)

● 1985 - Theodore Sturgeon, American science fiction writer (b. 1918)

● 1985 - Dolph Sweet, American actor (b. 1920)

● 1987 - Doris Stokes, British psychic medium (b. 1920)

● 1988 - Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction writer (b. 1907)

● 1990 - Luigi Nono, Italian composer (b. 1924)

● 1990 - Tomás Cardinal Ó Fiaich, Northern Irish clergyman (b. 1923)

● 1991 - Jean Langlais, French composer and pianist (b. 1907)

● 1991 - Rudolf Serkin, Austrian pianist (b. 1903)

● 1993 - Avram Davidson, writer (b. 1923)

● 1994 - George Peppard, American actor (b. 1928)

● 1995 - Teresa Teng, Asian superstar (b. 1953)

● 1996 - Beryl Burton, English cyclist (b. 1937)

● 1996 - Dominguín, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1926)

● 1996 - Garth Williams, American illustrator (b. 1912)

● 1998 - Bebe Rebozo, American banker and Watergate figure (b. 1912)

● 1999 - Dirk Bogarde, British actor (b. 1921)

● 1999 - Dana Plato, American actress (b. 1964)

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

● 2000 - Alexander Chislenko, Russian-American transhumanist (b. 1959)

● 2000 - Henry Nicols, AIDS activist (b. 1973)

● 2006 - Iain MacMillan, Abbey Road photographer (b. 1938)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Abran
● St. Acacius
● St. Desideratus
● St. Dionysius
● St. Helladius of Auxerre
● St. Ida of Nivelles
● St. Macharius of Ghent (died 1012)
● St. Maria Magdalen of Canossa
● St. Michael the Arch angel
● St. Odrian
● St. Peter of Tarantaise
● St. Stanislaus
● St. Victor the Moor
● Sts. Wiro, Plechelmus and Otger

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for April 26 (Civil Date: May 8)
● Hieromartyr Basil, Bishop of Amasea.
● St. Stephen, Bishop of Perm.
● Righteous Virgin Glaphyra.
● St. Ioannicius of Devich in Serbia.
● St. Justa.

● Greek Calendar:
● St. Nestor the Silent.
● Sts. Andrew and Anatole, disciples of St. Euthymius the Great.

● Orthodox:
● Latest possible Orthodox Easter

● Anglican:
● Dame Julian of Norwich

● Christian:
● Solemnity of the Ascension

● World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day

● VE Day (Victory in Europe WWII, 1945)

● Iris feast of the Region of Brussels capital (in Belgium)

● Parents' Day in South Korea

● Helston, England : Furry Day

● México : Hidalgo Day

● Missouri : Harry S Truman's Birthday (1884)

● Norway : Liberation Day

● Ribe, Denmark : Stork Day

● Czechoslovakia : Liberation Day/National Holiday

● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● US : Mother's Day, give her a call today - ( Sunday )
● Ireland : Feis Ceoil music festival (1897) - ( Monday )
● US : Native American/Indian Day - ( Saturday )


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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