Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Intellectuals "It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies." — Noam Chomsky
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Liberal Bashing "You are seeing today an all out attempt to marshal the forces of the opposition, using not merely the communists, or their fellow travelers – the deluded liberals, the eggheads, and some of my good friends in both the Democratic and Republican Parties who can become heroes overnight in the eyes of the left-wing press if they will just join the jackal pack." — Joseph McCarthy, former Republican U.S. Senator, known for his unsupported accusations of communist infiltration
Thought for the day: "If you want the last word with a woman, apologize."
{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
Looking Back at an Eclipsed Earth
Credit: Mir 27 Crew; Copyright: CNES
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 1190 - Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the Saleph River while leading an army to Jerusalem.
● 1539 - Council of Trent: Paul III Sends out letters to his bishops, delaying the Council due to war and the difficulty bishops had had traveling to Venice.
● 1610 - 1st Dutch settlers arrive (from NJ), to colonize Manhattan Island
● 1619 - Thirty Years' War: Battle of Záblatí, a turning point in the Bohemian Revolt.
● 1639 - 1st American log cabin at Fort Christina (Wilmington Delaware)
● 1682 - Tornado in Connecticut uproots a 3' diameter oak tree
● 1692 - Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is first person hanged during the ordeal known to history as the "Salem Witch Trials," at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for "certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries". In all, 20 people died before theological jurisprudence was restored in this isolated Puritan community in Massachusetts.
● 1719 - Battle of Glen Shiel
● 1720 - Mrs. Clements of England markets 1st paste-style mustard
● 1752 - Ben Franklin's kite is struck by lightning-what a shock!
● 1760 - NY passes 1st effective law regulating practice of medicine
● 1770 - Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef.
● 1772 - Burning of the Gaspee, British revenue cutter, by Rhode Islanders.
● 1776 - Continental Congress appoints a committee to write a Declaration of Independence
● 1793 - The Jardin des Plantes museum opens in Paris (becoming, a year later, the first public zoo).
● 1793 - French Revolution: Following arrests of Girondin leaders the Jacobins gain control of the Committee of Public Safety installing the revolutionary dictatorship.
● 1801 - Tripoli (in present day Libya) declares war on the U.S., which refused to continue paying tribute to the commerce-raiding Arab corsairs. Land and naval campaigns forced Tripoli to conclude peace in June of 1805. {Also provides the line, "to the shores of Tripoli," for Marine Anthem.}
● 1805 - First Barbary War: Yussif Karamanli signs a treaty ending hostilities with the United States.
● 1809 - 1st US steamboat to a make an ocean voyage leaves NY for Philadelphia
● 1846 - Robert Thomson obtains an English patent on a rubber tire
● 1846 - Mexican-American War: The California Republic declares independence from Mexico.
● 1848 - 1st telegraph link between NYC & Chicago
● 1850 - The American Bible Union was founded, organized by church leaders who had broken from the American and Foreign Bible Society.
● 1854 - Eventually to become the first African- American Roman Catholic bishop, James Augustine Healy, 24, was ordained a priest in Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris.
● 1854 - Georg F.B. Reiman proposes that space is curved
● 1854 - The first class of United States Naval Academy students graduate.
● 1856 - Defeated Rogue River Indians begin march down river to board steamer Columbia to take them to Grande Ronde reservation, hundreds of miles away in Northwest Oregon.
● 1863 - Battle of Brice's Crossroads, Miss; Forrest w/3500 defeats 8000 Feds
● 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Brice's Crossroads – Confederate troops under Nathan Bedford Forrest defeat a much larger Union force led by General Samuel D. Sturgis in Mississippi.
● 1865 - Lydia Sigourney, pacifist writer, dies, Connecticut.
● 1869 - Agnes arrives in New Orleans with 1st ever shipment of frozen beef
● 1871 - American military force landed in Korea to "protect U.S. interests." Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 Marines in naval attack on Han River forts on Kanghwa Island, Korea.
● 1886 - Eruption of Mount Tarawera in New Zealand, killing 153 people and destroying the famous Pink and White Terraces.
● 1889 - Hattie McDaniel was born. She, for her role in "Gone With the Wind," was the first African-American to win an Academy Award.
● 1892 - Coeur d'Alene miner's strike in Idaho, in which mines were destroyed and seized to prevent them from being run by scabs. The strike was only broken by the declaration of martial law.
● 1898 - Spanish-American War: US Marines land on the island of Cuba.
● 1902 - The "outlook" or "see-through" (window) envelope was patented by Americus F. Callahan.
● 1904 - Seventy-nine striking Colorado miners "deported" to Kansas.
● 1905 - 1st forest fire lookout tower placed in operation, Greenville, ME
● 1908 - 1st flying club, Aeronautical Society of NY, opens
● 1909 - The SOS distress signal was used for the first time. The Cunard liner SS Slavonia used the signal when it wrecked off the Azores.
● 1916 - Mecca, under control of the Turks, fell to the Arabs during the Great Arab Revolt.
● 1917 - Women's Peace Crusade launched, Glasgow, Scotland.
● 1917 - Massive citywide textile strike for better wages/working conditions, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Strike lasts over a month. Workers appealed to the sympathies of police and army, and when this failed, they openly confronted them, refusing to be intimidated. At the beginning of July they were joined by striking cab drivers, utility workers, and many craft workers--totaling over 20,000 on strike.
● 1918 - Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Szent Istvan sinks after being torpedoed by an Italian MAS motorboat.
● 1920 - The Republican convention in Chicago endorsed woman suffrage.
● 1922 - Singer-actress Judy Garland was born Frances Gumm in Grand Rapids, Minn.
● 1924 - The Italian socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti was kidnapped and murdered by Fascists in Rome.
● 1924 - Thousands protest Sacco & Venzetti’s convictions.
● 1924 - 1st political convention broadcast on radio-Republicans at Cleveland
● 1924 - The Republican National Convention in Cleveland was broadcast by NBC radio. It was the first political convention to be on radio.
● 1925 - The state of Tennessee adopted a new biology text book that denied the theory of evolution.
● 1925 - Inaugural service for the United Church of Canada, a union of Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregationalist churches held in Toronto arena
● 1929 - Insurrection of workers in Curacao, Venezuela against U.S.-backed dictator Gomez.
● 1932 - 1st demonstration of artificial lightning Pittsfield Mass
● 1935 - Dr. Robert Smith takes his last drink, and Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, United States, by Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob.
● 1940 - Death of black nationalist Marcus Garvey, London.
● 1940 - World War II: Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom. In addition, Canada declared war on Italy.
● 1940 - World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounces Italy's actions with "Stab in the Back" speech from the graduation ceremonies of the University of Virginia.
● 1940 - World War II: German forces, under General Erwin Rommel, reach the English Channel.
● 1940 - World War II: Canada declares war on Italy.
● 1940 - World War II: Norway Surrenders to German forces.
● 1942 - Nazis massacre all men and send women and children to concentration camps at Lidice, Czechoslovakia. Gestapo kills 173 as reprisal for the killing of Reinhardt Heydrich.
● 1943 - FDR becomes 1st US president to visit a foreign country during wartime
● 1943 - Laszlo Biro patented his ballpoint pen. Biro was a Hungarian journalist.
● 1943 - The Allies began bombing Germany around the clock.
● 1943 - FDR signs withholding tax bill into law (this is W-2 Day!)
● 1944 - World War II: 642 men, women and children are killed in the Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre in France.
● 1944 - World War II: In Distomo, Boeotia Prefecture, Greece 218 children,women and men were massacred by German troops.
● 1945 - Australian Imperial Forces landed in Brunei Bay to liberate Brunei.
● 1946 - Italy established a republic replacing its monarchy.
● 1948 - Chuck Yeager exceeded the speed of sound in the Bell XS-1.
● 1954 - General Motors announced the gas turbine bus had been produced successfully.
● 1955 - 1st separation of virus into component parts reported
● 1957 - Harold MacMillan becomes British PM
● 1957 - John Diefenbacker (C) elected PM of Canada
● 1964 - Southern filibuster on civil rights bill ends; cloture invoked
● 1965 - A R Klemola discovers asteroid #2370 van Altena
● 1965 - Chicago school segregation is protested by mass demonstrations.
● 1965 - Vietnam War: Battle of Dong Xoai begins.
● 1967 - U.S. Claims Court upholds decision that Seminole tribes of Florida and Oklahoma have claims to lands covering much of the state of Florida.
● 1967 - The Six-Day War ended as Israel and Syria agreed to observe a United Nations-mediated cease-fire.
● 1967 - Argentina becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
● 1968 - Turkey - 20,000 students occupy Universities of Ankara, Erzeroum, Izmar.
● 1970 - A fifteen-man group of special forces troops began training for Operation Kingpin. The operation was a POW rescue mission in North Vietnam.
● 1971 - The U.S. ended a 21-year trade embargo of red China.
● 1971 - 11 die in a train crash in Salem Ill
● 1973 - NASA launches Radio Astronomy Explorer 49 into lunar orbit
● 1973 - John Paul Getty III, grandson of billionaire J. Paul Getty, is kidnapped in Rome, Italy.
● 1975 - Release of Rockefeller Commission report detailing a secret CIA- sponsored domestic program, CHAOS, that monitored over 300,000 anti-war dissidents and organizations in the United States illegally.
● 1977 - James Earl Ray with 6 others escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Petros, Tennessee, but is recaptured on June 13.
● 1977 - Apple Computer ships its first Apple II personal computer.
● 1978 - Costa Rica becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
● 1979 - Pope John Paul II visits Poland
● 1980 - The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a call to fight from their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela.
● 1980 - Percy Wood, president of United Airlines, is injured by an exploding package sent by the Unabomber.
● 1981 - IRA's Joseph Doherty escapes from Crumlin Road Jail
● 1982 - Israeli troops reach outskirts of Beirut
● 1983 - The Presbyterian Church (USA) was formed in Atlanta, through a reunification of the United Presbyterian Church (UPCUSA) and the Southern Presbyterian Church (PCUS).
● 1983 - Salvadoran Army begins Vietnam-style "pacification."
● 1984 - US missile shot down an incoming missile in space for 1st time
● 1985 - The Israeli army pulled out of Lebanon after 1,099 days of occupation.
● 1986 - Magee convicted of Brighton bombing; Patrick Joseph Magee is found guilty of planting the Brighton bomb which killed five people two years ago.
● 1987 - An earthquake hit 15 states from Iowa to South Carolina.
● 1987 - Discovery's SRBs and External Tank are mated
● 1988 - Greatest number of participants (31,678) on a bicycle tour (London)
● 1990 - The Civic Forum movement won Czechoslovakia's first free elections since 1946. The movement was founded by President Vaclav Havel.
● 1990 - Bulgaria's former Communist Party won the country's first free elections in more than four decades.
● 1990 - Rap group 2 Live crew members arrested in Fla for obscenity
● 1990 - Fifty thousand attend first March for the Animals in Washington, D.C.
● 1991 - In what was dubbed "The Mother of All Parades," New York City hosts a parade welcoming back troops from Operation Desert Storm.
● 1993 - It was announced by scientists that genetic material was extracted from an insect that lived when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. {Novel Jurassic Park soon followed.}
● 1994 - U.S. President Clinton intensified sanctions against Haiti's military leaders. U.S. commercial air travel was suspended along with most financial transactions between Haiti and the U.S.
● 1995 - 26 people were killed in Medellin, Columbia, by a bomb blast that was blamed on drug traffickers.
● 1996 - Britain and Ireland opened Northern Ireland peace talks. The IRA's political arm Sinn Fein was excluded.
● 1997 - Former Black Panther Geronimo Pratt released from prison after being jailed 27 years on a false FBI murder charge. Santa Ana, Calif.
● 1997 - Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot orders the killing of his defense chief Son Sen and 11 of Sen's family members before Pol Pot flees his northern stronghold. The news did not emerge for three days.
● 1998 - Mexican Army tries to invade San Juan de la Libertad, Chiapas, but Zapatista rebels force a retreat.
● 1998 - The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that poor children in Milwaukee could attend religious schools at taxpayer expense.
● 1999 - Kosovo War: NATO suspends its air strikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.
● 2000 - Swaying Millennium Bridge closed; London's newest bridge is closed for safety checks after large crowds cause it to sway violently.
● 2000 - Syrian President Hafez Assad died at age 69.
● 2001 - Pope John Paul II canonizes Saint Rafqa
● 2002 - Organized crime figure John Gotti died at a prison hospital at age 61.
● 2003 - The Spirit Rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission.
● 2003 - ImClone chief Sam Waksal was sentenced to more than seven years in prison in connection with a stock-trading scandal.
● 2004 - Singer-musician Ray Charles died at age 73.
BIRTHS
● 1213 - Fakhruddin 'Iraqi, Persian philosopher
● 1632 - Esprit Fléchier, French writer and bishop (d. 1710)
● 1637 - Jacques Marquette, French Jesuit missionary and explorer (d. 1675)
● 1657 - James Cragg the Elder, British politician (d. 1721) (baptism: date of birth not recorded)
● 1688 - James Francis Edward Stuart (d. 1766)
● 1706 - John Dollond, English optician (d. 1761)
● 1710 - James Short, Scottish mathematician (d. 1768)
● 1803 - Henry Darcy, French scientist (d. 1858)
● 1804 - Hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist (d. 1884)
● 1819 - Gustave Courbet, French painter (d. 1877)
● 1825 - Sondre Norheim, Norwegian skier (d. 1897)
● 1835 - Rebecca Latimer Felton, U.S. Senator (d. 1930)
● 1839 - Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg, Council President of Denmark (d. 1912)
● 1861 - Pierre Duhem, French physicist (d. 1916)
● 1862 - Mrs. Leslie Carter, American actress (d. 1937)
● 1863 - Louis Marie Anne Couperus, Dutch novelist (d. 1923)
● 1880 - André Derain, French painter (d. 1954)
● 1889 - Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese actor (d. 1973)
● 1895 - Hattie McDaniel, American actress (d. 1952)
● 1897 - Grand Duchess Tatiana of Russia (d. 1918)
● 1901 - Frederick Loewe, Austrian-born composer (d. 1988)
● 1902 - Clyde Beatty, American trainer of wild animals (d. 1965)
● 1907 - Fairfield Porter, American painter (d. 1975)
● 1908 - Robert Cummings, American actor (d. 1990)
● 1910 - Howlin' Wolf, American musician (d. 1976)
● 1910 - Frank Demaree, American baseball player (d. 1958)
● 1910 - Robert Still, English composer (d. 1971)
● 1911 - Sir Terence Rattigan, British playwright (d. 1977)
● 1911 - Ralph Kirkpatrick, American musicologist and harpsichordist (d. 1984)
● 1912 - Jean Lesage, Premier of Quebec (d. 1980)
● 1913 - Tikhon Khrennikov, Russian composer
● 1915 - Saul Bellow, Nobel laureate (d. 2005)
● 1918 - Barry Morse, British-born Canadian actor
● 1919 - Kevin O'Flanagan, Irish athlete and physician (d. 2006)
● 1921 - Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Husband of Britain's Queen Elizabeth
● 1921 - Jean Robic, French cyclist (d. 1980)
● 1922 - Judy Garland, American musical actress (d. 1969)
● 1923 - Robert Maxwell, Slovakian-born English newspaperman (d. 1991)
● 1925 - Nat Hentoff, Columnist
● 1926 - Lionel Jeffries, British actor
● 1927 - Lin Yang-kang, Chinese politician
● 1927 - Ladislao Kubala, Hungarian-born footballer (d. 2002)
● 1928 - Maurice Sendak, American writer
● 1929 - Harald Juhnke, German actor and comedian (d. 2005)
● 1929 - Ian McCahon Sinclair, Australian politician
● 1929 - E. O. Wilson, American biologist
● 1931 - João Gilberto, Brazilian singer and guitarist
● 1932 - Branko Lustig, film producer
● 1933 - Georgi Atanasov, Bulgarian Prime Minister
● 1933 - F. Lee Bailey, American attorney
● 1935 - Vic Elford, British racing driver
● 1939 - Alexandra Stewart, Actress
● 1940 - Augie Auer, Meteorologist and television presenter (d. 2007)
● 1940 - John Stevens, British drummer (d. 1994)
● 1941 - Jürgen Prochnow, German actor
● 1941 - Mickey Jones, American musician and actor
● 1941 - Shirley Alston Owens, American singer (Shirelles)
● 1941 - David Walker, Australian racing driver
● 1942 - Preston Manning, Canadian politician
● 1943 - Jeff Greenfield, TV commentator
● 1947 - Ken Singleton, American baseball player
● 1949 - John Sentamu, Archbishop of York
● 1950 - Elias Sosa, Major League Baseball pitcher
● 1951 - Dan Fouts, American football player and Hall of Fame member
● 1952 - Thom Schuyler, Country singer
● 1953 - John Edwards, American politician
● 1955 - Andrew Stevens, Actor
● 1957 - Lindsay Hoyle, British politician
● 1957 - Hidetsugu Aneha, Japanese architect
● 1959 - Eliot Spitzer, American politician
● 1959 - Carlo Ancelotti, A.C. Milan coach
● 1960 - Balakrishna Nandamuri, Indian actor, Son of actor and politician N. T. Rama Rao
● 1961 - Kim Deal, American musician (Pixies), (The Breeders)
● 1961 - Kelley Deal, American musician (The Breeders)
● 1962 - Maxi Priest, Reggae singer
● 1962 - Gina Gershon, American actress
● 1962 - Koma Wong Ka-Kui, Hong Kong musician (Beyond) (d. 1993)
● 1962 - Vincent Perez, Swiss actor
● 1962 - Akie Abe, current First Lady of Japan
● 1963 - Brad Henry, American politician (current Oklahoma governor)
● 1963 - Jeanne Tripplehorn, American actress
● 1964 - Jimmy Chamberlin, American musician (The Smashing Pumpkins)
● 1964 - Ben Daniels, British actor
● 1965 - Joey Santiago, Rock musician (Pixies)
● 1965 - Elizabeth Hurley, British actress and model
● 1966 - Doug McKeon, Actor
● 1966 - David Platt, English footballer
● 1967 - Brian Hofeldt, Country musician (The Derailers)
● 1967 - Emma Anderson, British guitarist and songwriter (Lush, Sing-Sing (band))
● 1968 - Jimmy Shea, American skeleton racer
● 1968 - The D.O.C., American rapper
● 1969 - Ronny Johnsen, Norwegian footballer
● 1970 - Mike Doughty, American singer (Soul Coughing)
● 1971 - Jo Jo, R&B singer (K-Ci)
● 1971 - Joel Hailey, American singer
● 1971 - Bruno N'Gotty, French footballer
● 1971 - Kyle Sandilands, Australian radio host and TV personality
● 1972 - Daniel Wise, English businessman and visionary
● 1972 - Radmila Šekerinska, Macedonian politician
● 1973 - Faith Evans, American singer
● 1973 - Pokey Reese, American baseball player
● 1975 - Henrik Pedersen, Danish footballer
● 1975 - Risto Jussilainen, Finnish ski jumper
● 1976 - Freddy García, American baseball player
● 1976 - Hadi Saei Bonehkohal, Persian taekwondoka
● 1976 - Stefan Postma, Dutch footballer
● 1977 - Takako Matsu, Japanese singer and actress
● 1978 - Lemisha Grinstead, R&B singer (702)
● 1978 - Shane West, American actor
● 1978 - DJ Qualls, Actor
● 1979 - Konstantinos Loumpoutis, Greek footballer
● 1979 - Jake Tsakalidis, Georgian-Greek basketball player
● 1980 - Francelino Matuzalem, Brazilian footballer
● 1980 - Jessica Di Cicco, American actress
● 1981 - Burton O'Brien, Scottish footballer
● 1981 - Hoku, American singer and actress
● 1981 - Prince Hashim bin Al Hussein, of Jordan
● 1982 - Princess Madeleine of Sweden
● 1982 - Tara Lipinski, American figure skater
● 1983(82? NYT) - Leelee Sobieski, American actress
● 1985 - Kristina Lundberg, Swedish ice hockey player
● 1985 - Vasilis Torosidis, Greek footballer
● 1987 - Amobi Okoye, Nigeria-born American football player
DEATHS
● 323 BC - Alexander the Great (b. 356 BC)
● 1075 - Ernest of Austria (b. 1027)
● 1190 - Frederick Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor (drowned) (b. 1122)
● 1424 - Duke Ernest of Austria (b. 1377)
● 1552 - Alexander Barclay, English poet
● 1556 - Martin Agricola, German composer (b. 1486)
● 1580 - Luís de Camões, Portuguese poet
● 1607 - John Popham, English politician
● 1654 - Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor (b. 1598)
● 1680 - Johan Göransson Gyllenstierna, Swedish statesman (b. 1635)
● 1735 - Thomas Hearne, English antiquarian (b. 1678)
● 1776 - Leopold Widhalm, Austrian luthier (b. 1722)
● 1791 - Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte, French admiral (b. 1720)
● 1831 - Hans Karl von Diebitsch, Russian field marshal (b. 1785)
● 1836 - André-Marie Ampère, French physicist (b. 1775)
● 1849 - Thomas Robert Bugeaud, Marshal of France and duke of Isly (b. 1784)
● 1899 - Ernest Chausson, French composer (b. 1855)
● 1901 - Robert Williams Buchanan, British dramatist (b. 1841)
● 1902 - Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet (b. 1845)
● 1909 - Edward Everett Hale, American author (b. 1822)
● 1912 - Anton Aškerc, Slovenian poet (b. 1856)
● 1918 - Arrigo Boito, Italian composer (b. 1842)
● 1923 - Pierre Loti, French sailor (b. 1850)
● 1930 - Adolf Harnack, German theologian (b. 1851)
● 1934 - Frederick Delius, English composer (b. 1862)
● 1937 - Robert Borden, eighth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1854)
● 1940 - Marcus Garvey, American civil rights activist (b. 1887)
● 1944 - Willem Jacob van Stockum, Dutch physicist (b. 1910)
● 1946 - Jack Johnson, American boxer (b. 1878)
● 1947 - Alexander Bethune, Canadian politician (b. 1852)
● 1949 - Sigrid Undset, Norwegian writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1882)
● 1958 - Angelina Weld Grimke, American journalist (b. 1880)
● 1959 - Zoltán Meskó, Hungarian Nazi (b. 1883)
● 1967 - Spencer Tracy, American actor (b. 1900)
● 1971 - Michael Rennie, English actor (b. 1909)
● 1973 - William Inge, American playwright (b. 1913)
● 1973 - Erich von Manstein, German military commander (b. 1887)
● 1974 - Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (b. 1900)
● 1976 - Adolph Zukor, Hungarian-born producer (b. 1873)
● 1982 - Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German author (b. 1945)
● 1982 - Addie "Micki" Harris, American singer (Shirelles) (b. 1940)
● 1986 - Merle Miller, American biographer (b. 1919)
● 1987 - Elizabeth Hartman, American actress (b. 1943)
● 1988 - Louis L'Amour, American author (b. 1908)
● 1991 - Vercors, French writer (b. 1902)
● 1993 - Ayoola Adedeji Nigerian youth (b. 1993)
● 1996 - George Hees, Canadian politician (b. 1910)
● 1996 - Jo Van Fleet, American actress (b. 1914)
● 1998 - Hammond Innes, English author (b. 1914)
● 1998 - Jim Hearn, American baseball player (b. 1921)
● 2000 - Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (b. 1930)
● 2000 - Brian Statham, English cricketer (b. 1930)
● 2001 - Princess Leila of Iran (b. 1970)
● 2001 - Mike Mentzer, American bodybuilder (b. 1951)
● 2002 - John Gotti, American gangster (b. 1940)
● 2003 - Donald Regan, Chief of Staff and U.S. Treasury Secretary (b. 1918)
● 2003 - Bernard Williams, English philosopher (b. 1929)
● 2003 - Dr Phil Williams, Welsh politician and scientist (b. 1939)
● 2004 - Ray Charles, American musician (b. 1930)
● 2005 - Curtis Pitts, American aircraft designer (b. 1915)
● 2007 - Augie Auer, Meteorologist and television presenter (b. 1940)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● Solemnity of Corpus Christi (Body & Blood of Christ)
● St. Amelberga
● St. Anianus, bishop of Chartres
● St. Aresius and Companions
● St. Aster (died 362)
● St. Bardo
● St. Basilides and Companions
● St. Bogumilus
● St. Censurius, bishop of Auxerre
● St. Crispulus & Restitutus
● St. Evermund, abbot
● St. Fortunatus, bishop of Trier, confessor
● St. Getulius
● St. Gezelin
● St. Jodocus, abbot, confessor
● St. Landericus, bishop of Paris, confessor
● St. Landoald, bishop
● St. Margaret, Queen of Scotland, widow
● St. Maurinus, abbot, martyr
● St. Maximus
● St. Olivia
● St. Onuphrius, hermit, confessor
● St. Timothy
● Bl. Amata
● Bl. Caspar Sadamazu
● Bls. Getulius, Amancius and Cerealus, martyrs
● Bl. Henry of Treviso, confessor
● Bl. Margaret, queen of Scotland
● Bl. Olive
● Bl. priest Ward Poppe
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for May 27 (Civil Date: June 10)
● Hieromartyr Therapon, Bishop of Sardis.
● Translation of the Relics of St. Nilus of Stolbensk.
● Virgin Martyr Theodora and Martyr Didymus the soldier at Alexandria.
● Translation of the Relics of Saints Cyprian, Photius and Jonah, Metropolitan of Kiev.
● St. Therapont, abbot of Byelozersk.
● St. Therapont, abbot of Monza.
● St. John the Russian, whose relics are on the island of Euboia.
● Greek Calendar:
● Martyr Eusebiotus.
● Martyr Alypius.
● Anglican:
● Ephrem of Edessa, Syria, deacon
● Roman Empire – fourth day of the Vestalia in honor of Vesta
● Argentina : Affirmation of Argentina's Rights over the Malvinas
● Azores : Camoes Day (1580)
● Cape Verde, Maderia : National Day (1580)
● Portugal : Day of Portugal (1580)
● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Massachusetts : Children's Day - ( Sunday )
● Shelby, MI: National Asparagus Festival - ( Thursday )
● Great Britain : Queen's official birthday (National 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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