Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Human Rights "Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed." — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Bigotry, Chauvinism, & Theocracy "Our culture is superior. Our culture is superior because our religion is Christianity and that is the truth that makes men free." — Pat Buchanan, address to the Christian Coalition.
Thought for the day: "Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius."
{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.}
NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY
Messier 65
Credit & Copyright: Volker Wendel
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 193 - Roman Emperor Didius Julianus assassinated by Rome's Danube legions.
● 987 - Hugh Capet is elected king of France.
● 1204 - King Philip Augustus of France conquers Rouen.
● 1252 - Alfonso X is elected King of Castile and León.
● 1283 - Treaty of Rheinfelden: Duke Rudolph II of Austria waives his right to the Duchies of Austria and Styria.
● 1485 - Matthias of Hungary takes Vienna from Frederick III
● 1495 - 1st written record of Scotch Whiskey appears in Exchequer Rolls of Scotland. Friar John Cor is the distiller
● 1533 - Anne Boleyn crowned queen.
● 1638 - 1st earthquake recorded in US, at Plymouth, Mass
● 1660 - Quaker Mary Dyer hanged on Boston Common for heretical preaching.
● 1771 - Crowd of English women destroy fences around Renway Common.
● 1774 - British government orders Port of Boston closed
● 1779 - American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold court-martialed for malfeasance.
● 1789 - 1st US congressional act becomes law (on administering oaths)
● 1792 - Kentucky admitted as the 15th state of the United States.
● 1793 - Birth of Henry Francis Lyte, Scottish clergyman who wrote the hymns 'Abide with Me' and 'Jesus, I My Cross Have Taken.'
● 1796 - Tennessee admitted as the 16th state of the United States.
● 1801 - Birth of Mormon leader Brigham Young. "The Jim Jones of His People."
● 1808 - 1st US land-grant university founded-Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
● 1809 - Allardyce Barclay begins a bet of walking 1 mile every hour for 1,000 hours. Each hour he walked a mile round trip from his home
● 1812 - War of 1812: U.S. President James Madison asks the Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom.
● 1813 - James Lawrence, the mortally-wounded commander of the USS Chesapeake, cries out "Don't give up the ship!"
● 1815 - Napoleon swears fidelity to the Constitution of France.
● 1831 - James Clark Ross discovers the North Magnetic Pole.
● 1835 - 6th national black convention (Philadelphia)
● 1843 - Sojourner Truth begins abolition lecture tour across U.S.
● 1855 - American adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua and reestablishes slavery.
● 1861 - 1st skirmish in the Civil War, Fairfax Court House, Va
● 1861 - US & Confederacy simultaneously stop mail interchange
● 1862 - Gen Lee assumes command after Joe Johnston is injured at 7 Pines
● 1862 - Slavery abolished in U.S. possessions.
● 1862 - American Civil War Peninsula Campaign: Battle of Seven Pines or (Battle of Fair Oaks) - Engagement ends inconclusively, with both sides claiming victory.
● 1864 - Battle of Cold Harbour, VA
● 1866 - Renegade Irish Fenians invade Fort Erie Ontario from US
● 1868 - James Buchanan, the 15th president of the United States, died near Lancaster, Pa., at age 77.
● 1868 - Texas constitutional convention meets in Austin
● 1868 - Treaty of Bosque Redondo signed allowing the Navajos to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico.
● 1869 - Thomas Edison receives a patent for his electric voting machine. {It is not recorded whether he actually invented this machine or stole the design like so many of his patents.}
● 1877 - US troops authorized to pursue bandits into Mexico
● 1879 - Napoleon Eugene killed in the Anglo-Zulu War.
● 1886 - The railroads of the Southern United States convert 11,000 miles of track from a five foot rail gauge to standard gauge, beginning May 31.
● 1888 - California gets its 1st seismograph
● 1898 - Trans-Mississippi International Exposition opens in Omaha
● 1890 - The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns.
● 1905 - Lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition opens in Portland, Oregon
● 1907 - -27º F (-33º C), Sarmiento, Argentina (South American record)
● 1909 - Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition opens in Seattle
● 1910 - Robert Falcon Scott's South Pole expedition leaves England.
● 1914 - Eighty militia men refuse to board train as reinforcement for U.S. invasion of Veracruz, Mexico.
● 1915 - 1st Zeppelin air raid over England
● 1916 - The National Defense Act increased the strength of the U.S. National Guard by 450,000 men.
● 1916 - Pacific Coast longshoremen strike.
● 1918 - World War I Western Front: Battle for Belleau Wood - Allied Forces under John J. Pershing & James Harbord engage Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince.
● 1920 - Adolfo de la Huerta becomes president of Mexico.
● 1921 - Tulsa Race Riot: Civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma (21 whites & 60 blacks killed).
● 1922 - Birth of Ray Knighton, who in 1954 founded the Medical Assistance Program (MAP International) in Chicago.
● 1922 - Royal Ulster Constabulary founded .
● 1925 - General strike in Shanghai begins. Part of ongoing labor insurgency throughout all China's industrial cities.
● 1926 - Marilyn Monroe, the film actress and American icon, was born. She was born Norma Jeane Mortensen in Los Angeles.
● 1930 - Missionary-linguist Frank C. Laubach wrote in a letter: 'I must talk about God, or I cannot keep Him in my mind. I must give Him away in order to have Him.'
● 1932 - Gay rights organizer Henry Gerber publishes an article in Modern Thinker magazine attacking the view that homosexuality is a neurosis.
● 1935 - The first driving tests are introduced in the United Kingdom.
● 1939 - The Douglas DC-4 made its first passenger flight from Chicago to New York.
● 1939 - British sub "Thetis" sinks in Liverpool Bay with all 99 aboard
● 1941 - 31.98 cm (12.59") rainfall, Burlington, Kansas (state 24-hr record)
● 1941 - Germany bans all Catholic publications
● 1941 - World War II: Battle of Crete ends as Crete capitulates to Germany.
● 1942 - The U.S. began sending Lend-Lease materials to the Soviet Union.
● 1942 - World War II: The Warsaw paper Liberty Brigade publishes the first news of the concentration camps.
● 1943 - British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777 (Lisbon to London) is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation the downing was an attempt to kill British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
● 1944 - The French resistance was warned by a coded message from the British that the D-Day invasion was imminent.
● 1944 - Siesta was abolished by the government of Mexico.
● 1946 - Ion Antonescu executed.
● 1947 - The OPA, which issued WW II rationing coupons, disbands
● 1949 - 1st magazine on microfilm offered to subscribers (Newsweek)
● 1951 - 1st self-contained titanium plant opened Henderson Nevada
● 1951 - S Arend discovers asteroids #1592 Mathieu & #1593 Fagnes
● 1953 - The Christian Aid Mission (CIM) was chartered in Washington, DC by founder Bob Finley.
● 1954 - Atomic Energy Commission yanks the security clearance of J. Robert Oppenheimer, former Director of the Atomic Energy Research Project at Los Alamos, New Mexico, which developed the first atomic bomb. Oppenheimer had been accused of possible pro-Communist sympathies during the McCarthy period, mainly as a result of the incriminating, alarmist, and largely fabricated testimony of Edward Teller.
● 1957 - 1st US runner breaks 4 minute mile (Don Bowden)
● 1958 - Charles de Gaulle brought out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months.
● 1959 - Beginning of the Revolution in Nicaragua.
● 1959 - Constitution of Tunisia promulgated (National Day)
● 1962 - Oscar 2 (ham radio satellite) launched into Earth orbit
● 1962 - USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 40,420 m
● 1962 - Adolf Eichmann is hanged in Israel.
● 1963 - Governor George Wallace vowed to defy an injunction that ordered the integration of the University of Alabama.
● 1963 - King Victor Emmanual III of Italy, becomes Emperor of Ethiopia
● 1963 - 531, including NAACP Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins, are arrested at a peaceful civil rights march in Jackson, Mississippi.
● 1963 - U.S. Supreme Court bans formal prayers and religious exercises from public schools.
● 1963 - Kenya gains internal self-rule (Madaraka Day).
● 1964 - U.S. Supreme Court strikes down a Washington state law requiring loyalty oaths for state employees.
● 1965 - A Penzias & R Wilson detect 3º K primordial background radiation {They later share the Nobel Prize for the discovery.}
● 1965 - Explosion at Fukuoka, Japan kills 237 coal miners
● 1966 - 2,400 persons attend White House Conference on Civil Rights
● 1967 - Mayor-council form of government instituted for Washington, DC
● 1967 - Six Ft. Belvoir, Virginia, soldiers electrocuted while erecting a flagpole at a Little League baseball game.
● 1967 - Vietnam Veterans Against War (VVAW) is formed.
● 1968 - Socialist, triple-sense-deprived Helen Keller dies, Westport, Connecticut. Her politics and fierce social advocacy for the dispossessed are rarely remembered as part of her legacy.
● 1969 - Tobacco advertising is banned on Canadian radio & TV
● 1970 - Zimbabwe came into existence. It was formerly known as Rhodesia.
● 1970 - Soyuz 9 launched into Earth orbit for 18 days
● 1970 - British Prime Minister hit by flying egg; The Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, has been hit in the face with an egg thrown by a Young conservative demonstrator.
● 1971 - Perth Observatory discovers asteroid #2167 Erin
● 1974 - Bundy victim Brenda Ball disappears from Burien, Wash
● 1974 - Flixborough disaster: Explosion at a chemical plant kills 28 people.
● 1977 - The Soviet Union formally charged Jewish human rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky with treason. He was imprisoned until 1986.
● 1978 - The U.S. reported the finding of wiretaps in the American embassy in Moscow.
● 1978 - The Evangelical Free Baptist Church was incorporated in DuPage County, Illinois, having withdrawn from the Southern Baptist Convention following a doctrinal dispute.
● 1978 - The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty filed.
● 1979 - Vizianagaram district is formed in Andhra Pradesh, India.
● 1979 - The first black-led government of Rhodesia in 90 years takes power.
● 1980 - Cable News Network (CNN) made its debut as the first all-news station.
● 1980 - H Debehogne discovers asteroids #2543 Machado & #3411
● 1981 - Domingo and Viernes, two Filipino longshoreman union organizers, assassinated in Seattle; the killings are later found to have been ordered by the U.S.-backed Marcos dictatorship.
● 1985 - British police trap and attack Peace Convoy; 520 beaten and arrested, living vehicles burnt.
● 1985 - Hippies clash with police at Stonehenge; More than 300 people are arrested as police intercept a convoy of hippies going to Stonehenge.
● 1985 - Unemployed in Vancouver, B.C., Canada demand free bus service.
● 1985 - Alan García is proclaimed President of Peru.
● 1990 - George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production. {This becomes another treaty his son George W will nullify and withdraw the US.}
● 1991 - Mount Pinatubo (Philippines) erupts for 1st time in 600 years
● 1992 - United Nations Earth Summit begins in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. United States government obstructs passage of most proposed agreements.
● 1993 - Serb attack on football match kills 11; Serb forces shell a football match in Bosnia killing 11 people, including four children.
● 1993 - Police brutally repress mass demonstration against regime, Serbia.
● 1997 - Betty Shabazz, the widow of Malcolm X, was fatally burned in a fire set by her 12-year-old grandson in her Yonkers, N.Y., apartment.
● 1997 - Eleven activists protesting the removal of trees for a development in downtown Eugene, Oregon, were assaulted by local police with dozens of cans of OC (pepper) spray and tear gas, marking one of the first times pepper spray was used on non-resisting demonstrators in the U.S. Remarkably, it was controversial at the time; within three years, it had become standard practice for law enforcement officers across the country.
● 1997 - Hugo Banzer wins the Presidential elections in Bolivia.
● 1998 - In the U.S., the FDA approved a urine-only test for the AIDS virus.
● 1998 - A $124 million suit was brought against Goodyear Tire & Rubber that alleged discrimination towards black workers.
● 2000 - The Patent Law Treaty (PLT) signed.
● 2001 - Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal slaughters his family including the King and Queen and 7others during dinner then kills self.
● 2001 - Dolphinarium massacre: A Hamas suicide bomber kills 21 at a disco in Tel Aviv.
● 2003 - The People's Republic of China begins filling the reservoir behind the Three Gorges Dam.
● 2003 - Same-sex marriage comes into force in Belgium
● 2004 - A federal judge declared the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act unconstitutional, saying the measure infringed on women's right to choose.
● 2005 - The Dutch referendum on the European Constitution results in its rejection.
● 2006 - A contrite U.S. Army Corps of Engineers took responsibility for the flooding of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina.
● 2007 - Jack Kevorkian was released from prison after serving eight years of his 10-25 year prison term for second-degree murder in the 1998 death of Thomas Youk, 52, of Oakland County, Michigan.
BIRTHS
● 1076 - Mstislav I of Kiev (d. 1132)
● 1300 - Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, son of Edward I of England (d. 1338)
● 1480 - Tiedemann Giese, Polish Catholic bishop (d. 1550)
● 1503 - Wilhelm von Grumbach, German adventurer (d. 1567)
● 1563 - Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, English statesman and spymaster (d. 1612)
● 1633 - Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer (d. 1687)
● 1637 - Jacques Marquette, French Jesuit missionary and explorer (d. 1675)
● 1653 - Georg Muffat, French composer (d. 1704)
● 1675 - Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei, Italian archaeologist (d. 1755)
● 1762 - Edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish founder of the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (d. 1844)
● 1771 - Ferdinando Paer, Italian composer (d. 1839)
● 1780 - Carl von Clausewitz, Prussian general (d. 1831)
● 1790 - Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian playwright (d. 1836)
● 1796 - Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French mathematician (d. 1832)
● 1800 - Edward Deas Thomson, Australian politician (d. 1879)
● 1801 - Brigham Young, Mormon church leader (d. 1877)
● 1804 - Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (d. 1857)
● 1815 - Philip Kearny, American general (d. 1862)
● 1815 - Otto of Greece (d. 1862)
● 1831 - John Bell Hood, American Confederate general (d. 1879)
● 1833 - John Marshall Harlan, American associate justice of the U. S. Supreme Court (1877-1911) (d. 1911)
● 1843 - Henry Faulds, Scottish fingerprinting pioneer (d. 1930)
● 1844 - John J. Toffey, American Civil War hero (d. 1911)
● 1878 - John Masefield, English novelist and poet (d. 1967)
● 1881 - Charles Kay Ogden, English writer and linguist (d. 1957)
● 1889 - C. K. Ogden, English writer and linguist (d. 1957)
● 1890 - Frank Morgan, American actor (d. 1949)
● 1898 - Molly Picon, American actress (d. 1992)
● 1899 - Edward Charles Titchmarsh, English mathematician (d. 1963)
● 1901 - John Van Druten, English screen writer (d. 1957)
● 1901 - Hap Day, Canadian hockey player and manager (d. 1990)
● 1907 - Frank Whittle, English inventor of the jet engine. (d. 1996)
● 1909 - Hans Vogt, Norwegian linguist (d. 1986)
● 1915 - John Randolph, American actor (d. 2004)
● 1917 - William S. Knowles, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
● 1921 - Nelson Riddle, American bandleader and arranger (d. 1985)
● 1922 - Povel Ramel, Swedish entertainer (d. 2007)
● 1922 - Joan Copeland, American actress
● 1924 - William Sloane Coffin, American clergyman (d. 2006)
● 1925 - Richard Erdman, Actor
● 1926 - Andy Griffith, American actor
● 1926 - Marilyn Monroe, American actress (d. 1962)
● 1928 - Georgi Dobrovolski, cosmonaut
● 1928 - Bob Monkhouse, English comedian (d. 2003)
● 1930 - Edward Woodward, English actor
● 1930 - John Lemmon, English logician
● 1933 - Charles Wilson, American politician
● 1934 - Peter Masterson, Actor, director
● 1934 - Pat Boone, American singer
● 1936 - Gerald Scarfe, British illustrator
● 1937 - Morgan Freeman, American actor
● 1937 - Colleen McCullough, Australian novelist
● 1939 - Cleavon Little, American actor (d. 1992)
● 1940 - René Auberjonois, American actor
● 1940 - Kip Thorne, American physicist
● 1944 - Robert Powell, English actor
● 1945 - Frederica von Stade, American mezzo-soprano
● 1945 - Linda Scott, American singer
● 1946 - Brian Cox, Scottish actor
● 1947 - Jonathan Pryce, British actor
● 1947 - Ron Wood, English guitarist (Rolling Stones)
● 1947 - Ron Dennis, Formula One team principal
● 1948 - Michel Plasse, French Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2006)
● 1949 - Powers Boothe, Actor
● 1950 - Gemma Craven, Actress
● 1950 - Wayne Nelson, American musician (Little River Band)
● 1953 - Ronnie Dunn, American musician (Brooks & Dunn)
● 1953 - David Berkowitz, American serial killer, a.k.a. The Son of Sam
● 1955 - Tony Snow, White House press secretary
● 1956 - Lisa Hartman, American actress
● 1957 - Dorota Kędzierzawska, Polish film director
● 1958 - Ahron Bregman, Israeli journalist
● 1959 - Martin Brundle, British race car driver
● 1959 - Alan Wilder, British musician (Depeche Mode and Recoil)
● 1960 - Simon Gallup, English guitarist (The Cure)
● 1961 - Richard Comeaux, Country musician (River Road)
● 1961 - Paul Coffey, Canadian hockey player
● 1963 - Mike Joyce, English drummer (The Smiths)
● 1964 - Mark Curry, American comedian and actor
● 1965 - Larisa Lazutina, Russian cross-country skier
● 1965 - Nigel Short, English chess player
● 1966 - Greg Schiano, American football coach
● 1967 - Roger Sanchez, American disc jockey
● 1968 - Jason Donovan, Australian actor and singer
● 1968 - Jeff Hackett, Canadian hockey player
● 1969 - Teri Polo, American actress
● 1970 - Alexi Lalas, American soccer player
● 1970 - Karen Mulder, Dutch model
● 1970 - R. Madhavan, Indian actor
● 1971 - Mario Cimarro, Cuban actor
● 1973 - Adam Garcia, Australian actor
● 1973 - Derek Lowe, American baseball player
● 1973 - Heidi Klum, German model
● 1974 - Alanis Morissette, Canadian singer-songwriter
● 1974 - Michael Rasmussen, Danish cyclist
● 1974 - Akis Zikos, Greek footballer
● 1975 - James Storm, American professional wrestler
● 1975 - Michal Grosek, Czech hockey player
● 1977 - Veronika Vařeková, Czech supermodel
● 1977 - Richard Williams, British racing driver
● 1979 - Santana Moss, Football player
● 1980 - Damien Fahey, TV host ("Total Request Live")
● 1980 - Oliver James, British actor
● 1981 - Carlos Zambrano, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player
● 1982 - Justine Henin (formerly Henin-Hardenne), Belgian tennis player
● 1984 - Taylor Handley, Actor ("The O.C.")
● 1984 - Oliver Tielemans, Dutch racing driver
● 1985 - Mário Hipólito, Angolan footballer
● 1987 - Zoltán Harsányi, Slovakian footballer
DEATHS
● 195 BC - Gaozu of Han of China
● 193 - Marcus Severus Didius Julianus, Roman Emperor (b. 133)
● 1434 - Wladislaus II of Poland
● 1571 - John Story, English Catholic
● 1616 - Tokugawa Ieyasu (b. 1543)
● 1625 - Honoré d'Urfé, French writer (b. 1568)
● 1639 - Melchior Franck, German composer
● 1660 - Mary Dyer, English Quaker (martyred)
● 1710 - David Mitchell, British admiral (b. 1642)
● 1740 - Samuel Werenfels, Swiss theologian (b. 1657)
● 1769 - Edward Holyoke, President of Harvard University (b. 1689)
● 1795 - Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist (b. 1744)
● 1815 - Louis Alexandre Berthier, French marshal (b. 1853)
● 1823 - Louis Nicolas Davout, French marshal (b. 1770)
● 1826 - Jean Frédéric Oberlin, Alsatian pastor (b. 1740)
● 1841 - David Wilkie, Scottish artist (b. 1785)
● 1846 - Pope Gregory XVI (b. 1765)
● 1864 - Hong Xiuquan, Chinese rebel (b. 1812)
● 1868 - James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States (b. 1791)
● 1872 - James Gordon Bennett, Sr., American newspaper publisher (b. 1795)
● 1873 - Joseph Howe, Canadian politician (b. 1804)
● 1876 - Hristo Botev, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1848)
● 1879 - Napoléon Eugène, Prince Imperial son of Emperor Napoleon III (b. 1856)
● 1927 - J. B. Bury, Irish historian (b. 1861)
● 1941 - Hans Berger, German neuroscientist (b. 1873)
● 1943 - Leslie Howard, English actor (b. 1893)
● 1943 - Wilfrid B. Israel, Jewish activist
● 1946 - Ion Antonescu, Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1882)
● 1948 - Sonny Boy Williamson I, American musician (b. 1914)
● 1954 - Martin Andersen Nexø, Danish writer (b. 1869)
● 1959 - Sax Rohmer, English author (b. 1883)
● 1960 - Lester Patrick, Canadian hockey player (b. 1883)
● 1960 - Paula Hitler, Adolf Hitler's final living sibling (b. 1896)
● 1962 - Adolf Eichmann, Nazi official (b. 1906)
● 1965 - Earl "Curly" Lambeau, American football coach (b. 1898)
● 1966 - Papa Jack Laine, American musician (b. 1873)
● 1968 - Helen Keller, American humanitarian (b. 1880)
● 1968 - André Laurendeau, French Canadian writer, journalist and politician (b. 1912)
● 1969 - Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian ice skater (b. 1904)
● 1971 - Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian (b. 1892)
● 1973 - Mary Kornman, American actress (b. 1915)
● 1979 - Werner Forssmann, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1904)
● 1980 - Rube Marquard, baseball player (b. 1886)
● 1980 - Arthur Nielsen, American market analyst (b. 1897)
● 1981 - Carl Vinson, U.S. Congressman (b. 1883)
● 1983 - Prince Charles of Belgium (b. 1903)
● 1985 - Richard Greene, British actor (b. 1918)
● 1986 - Jo Gartner, Austrian racing driver (d. 1958)
● 1987 - Rashid Karami, Lebanese statesman (b. 1921)
● 1991 - David Ruffin, American singer (The Temptations) (b. 1941)
● 1994 - Frances Heflin, American actress (b. 1923)
● 1996 - Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, Fifth President of India (b. 1913)
● 1998 - Darwin Joston, American actor (b. 1937)
● 1999 - Christopher Sydney Cockerell, British engineer and inventor (b. 1910)
● 2001 - Queen Aiswarya of Nepal (b. 1949)
● 2001 - King Birendra of Nepal (b. 1945)
● 2001 - Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (b. 1920)
● 2002 - Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (b. 1969)
● 2003 - Johnny Hopp, baseball player (b. 1916)
● 2004 - William Manchester, American writer (b. 1922)
● 2005 - George Mikan, American basketball player (b. 1924)
● 2006 - Rocío Jurado, Spanish singer and actress (b. 1944)
● 2007 - Arn Shein, American sports writer (b. 1928)
● 2007 - Tony Thompson, Singer in R&B group Hi-Five (b. 1975)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● Blessed Virgin Mary, Mediatrix of All Graces
● St. Atto
● St. Candida
● St. Caprasius
● St. Conrad of Trier
● St. Crescentinus
● St. Eneco
● Sts. Felinus and Gratian
● St. Firmus
● St. Fortunatus
● St. Inigo
● St. Justin Martyr
● St. Justinus (died 1066)
● St. Juventius
● St. Leo Tanaka
● St. Pamphilus
● St. Reverianus
● St. Ronan
● St. Secundus
● St. Telga
● St. Thespesius
● St. Valens
● St. Wistan
● Bl. Alexius
● Bl. Alphonsus de Mena
● Bl. Andrew Sushinda
● Bl. Andrew Tokuan
● Bl. Anthony of Tuy
● Bl. Dominic Nifaki
● Bl. Dominic of Fiunga
● Bl. Dominic of the Holy Rosary
● Bl. Dominic Shibioge
● Bl. Dominic Tomaki
● Bl. Ferdinand Ayala
● Bl. John Storey
● Bl. Theobald
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for May 18 (Civil Date: June 1)
● Martyr Julian.
● St. Stephen the New, Patriarch of Constantinople.
● Hieromartyr Theodore, pope of Rome.
● St. Anastaso of Lukada.
● St. Martinian of Areovinthus, monk.
● Repose of Archimandrite Macarius, missionary to the Altai, Siberia (1847), and Blessed Philip, founder of the Gethsemane Caves Skete of St. Sergius' Lavra (1869).
● Eastern Orthodox:
● All Saint's Day
● St. Justin, Martyr
● Anglican and Luthern:
● St. Justin, martyr at Rome
● Moslem-Uganda : Supreme Council Day
● Roman Empire - Festival in honour of Carna.
● Admission to the United States: Kentucky(15th)—1792, Tennessee(16th)—1796
● China PR, Mongolia :Children's Festival Day.
● Kenya - Madaraka Day 1963.
● Western Samoa - Independence Day 1962.
● Tunisia - Constitution Day / Victory Day 1959.
● Foundation Day in Western Australia
● Philadelphia : Elfreth's Alley Day-celebrates oldest US street
● Thailand : Visakha Puja
● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Massachusetts : Teachers' Day - ( Sunday )
● Ireland : Bank Day - ( Monday )
● Bahamas : Labour Day - ( Friday )
● New Zealand : Queen's Birthday - ( Monday )
● Western Australia : Foundation Day (1838) - ( 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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