Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Intelligence "American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest." — Richard Dawkins
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Meanness "Please don't kill me." — George W. Bush, while governor of Texas, mocking a woman's plea for clemency after he decided to put her to death
Thought for the day: "Just because he's on the road, it doesn't mean his mind is."
{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
The Merope Reflection Nebula
Credit & Copyright: Jean-Charles Cuillandre (CFHT), Hawaiian Starlight, CFHT
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 1184 B.C.E. - Trojan War: Troy was sacked and burned by the Greeks, according to the calculations of Eratosthenes.
● 1346 - Charles IV of Luxembourg was elected Holy Roman Emperor in Germany.
● 1381 - Priest "John Ball hath rungen his bell" - Peasant revolt in England.
● 1429 - Hundred Years' War: The start of the Battle of Jargeau.
● 1488 - James III of Scotland was murdered after his defeat at the Battle of Sauchieburn, Stirling. He was succeeded by his son James IV.
● 1517 - Sir Thomas Pert reached Hudson Bay
● 1580 - Juan de Garay founds Buenos Aires.
● 1594 - Philip II recognized the rights and privileges of the local nobles and chieftains in the Philippines, which paved way to the creation of the Principalía [i.e., elite ruling class of native nobility in Spanish Philippines].
● 1739 - English founder of Methodism John Wesley stated in his journal: 'I look upon all the world as my parish.'
● 1770 - Captain James Cook, commander of the British ship Endeavor, discovers the Great Barrier Reef off Australia when he ran aground on it.
● 1774 - Jews in Algiers escape the attacks of the Spanish army.
● 1776 - Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to a committee to draft a declaration of independence. {Jefferson becomes the main author of this the most important of revolutionary documents in history.}
● 1788 - 1st British ship built on Pacific coast begun at Nootka Sound, BC
● 1788 - Russian explorer Gerasim Izmailov reaches Alaska.
● 1793 - Robert Haeterick was issued the first patent for a stove.
● 1798 - Napoleon Bonaparte took the island of Malta.
● 1799 - Richard Allen (1760-1831), first African- American bishop in the U.S., was ordained a deacon of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia.
● 1805 - City of Detroit destroyed by fire.
● 1825 - The first cornerstone is laid for Fort Hamilton in New York City.
● 1837 - The Broad Street Riot occurred in Boston, fueled by ethnic tensions between English-Americans and Irish-Americans.
● 1847 - Sir John Franklin died in Canada while attempting to discover the Northwest Passage. Franklin was an English naval officer and an Arctic explorer.
● 1850 - Birth of David C. Cook, pioneer developer of Sunday School curriculum. In 1875, Cook founded the David C. Cook Publishing Co., headquartered today in Elgin, Illinois.
● 1859 - Comstock silver load discovered near Virginia City, Nevada
● 1864 - 300' (90 m) of Meigg's Wharf washed away in storm
● 1866 - The Allahabad High Court (then Agra High Court) is established in India.
● 1872 - Unions legalized in Canada.
● 1880 - Birth of Jeannette Rankin, first woman member of Congress; only member to vote against U.S. entry to both World Wars, and led anti-Vietnam War protests at age 90. Missoula, Montana.
● 1888 - Birth of Martyred U.S. anarchist Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italy.
● 1889 - The Washington Business High School opened in Washington, DC. It was the first school devoted to business in the U.S.
● 1891 - A Charlois discovers asteroid #311 Claudia
● 1895 - Charles E. Duryea received the first U.S. patent granted to an American inventor for a gasoline-driven automobile.
● 1896 - US Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota authorized
● 1898 - Spanish-American War: U.S. war ships start to sail for Cuba.
● 1901 - New Zealand annexes the Cook Islands.
● 1903 - King Alexander and Queen Draga of Serbia were murdered in a coup by members of the Serbian army.
● 1905 - Pennsylvania Railroad debuts fastest train in world (NY-Chicago in 18 hrs)
● 1910 - Jacques-Yves Cousteau was born. He was the French underwater explorer that invented the Aqua-Lung diving apparatus.
● 1912 - Silas Christoferson became the first pilot to take off from the roof of a hotel.
● 1913 - Cops shoot Black and White IWW/AFL maritime workers striking against United Fruit company in New Orleans, killing one, wounding two.
● 1915 - British troops took Cameroon in Africa.
● 1918 - Brazil's first Pentecostal Church was established by missionaries Daniel Berg and Adolf Gunnar Vingren. The new congregation was registered as an 'Assembly of God' church.
● 1920 - Republicans nominate Warren G Harding for president
● 1927 - Charles A. Lindberg was presented the first Distinguished Flying Cross.
● 1929 - G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1147 Stavropolis
● 1930 - William Beebe dove to a record-setting depth of 1,426 feet off the coast of Bermuda. He used a diving chamber called a bathysphere.
● 1932 - E Delporte discovers asteroid #1222 Tina
● 1932 - William Forgan Smith becomes Premier of the Australian state of Queensland.
● 1934 - The Disarmament Conference in Geneva ended in failure.
● 1935 - Inventor Edwin Armstrong gives the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States, at Alpine, New Jersey.
● 1936 - The Presbyterian Church of America (PCA) was organized in Philadelphia. In 1938 the denomination changed its name to the Orthodox Presbyterian Church.
● 1937 - Great Purge: The Soviet Union executes eight army leaders under Joseph Stalin.
● 1939 - King & Queen of England taste 1st "hot dogs" at FDR's party
● 1940 - World War II: British forces bomb Genoa and Turin in Italy.
● 1940 - World War II: First attack of the Italian Air Force on the island of Malta.
● 1942 - World War II: The United States agrees to send Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union.
● 1943 - During World War II, the Italian island of Pantelleria surrendered after a heavy air bombardment.
● 1944 - 1st Serbian Orthodox cathedral in US, Cathedral of St Sava, NYC
● 1945 - William Lyon Mackenzie King is re-elected as Canadian prime minister.
● 1947 - WW II sugar rationing finally ends in U.S. (began May 28, 1942).
● 1951 - Mozambique becomes an oversea province of Portugal
● 1955 - 1st jet magnesium airplane flown
● 1955 - Eighty-three are killed and at least 100 are injured after an Austin-Healey and a Mercedes-Benz collide at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The cars had ploughed into the spectator's grandstand.
● 1956 - First Puerto Rican Parade was held in Harlem, New York.
● 1957 - 12 die in a train crash in Vroman, CO
● 1959 - Postmaster General bans D.H. Lawrence's book, Lady Chatterley's Lover
● 1959 - Hovercraft marks new era in transport;
The Hovercraft invented by Christopher Cockerell is officially launched in Southampton.
● 1960 - House packed with wedding celebrants collapses killing 30 (Pakistan)
● 1962 - Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin become the only prisoners to successfully escape from the prison on Alcatraz Island.
● 1963 - American Civil Rights Movement: Gov. George Wallace confronted federal troops at the University of Alabama in an effort to defy a federal court order to allow two blacks to enroll at the school.
● 1963 - JFK says segregation is morally wrong & that it is "time to act"
● 1963 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested in Florida for trying to integrate restaurants.
● 1963 - Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc burns himself with gasoline in a busy Saigon intersection to protest the lack of religious freedom in South Vietnam under the government of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem.
● 1964 - World War II veteran Walter Seifert runs amok in an elementary school in Cologne, Germany, killing at least eight children and two teachers and seriously injuring several more with a home-made flamethrower and a lance.
● 1967 - Race riot in Tampa Florida; National Guard mobilizes
● 1967 - Mexico becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
● 1968 - French student rebel arrives in UK; French student rebel leader Daniel Cohn-Bendit arrives in Britain stirring up fears of campus unrest.
● 1970 - US leaves Wheelus AFB Libya
● 1970 - After being appointed on May 15, Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington officially receive their ranks as U.S. Army Generals, becoming the first females to do so.
● 1971 - Nineteen-month occupation by Native American protesters of Alcatraz Island, in San Francisco Bay, ends.
● 1971 - U.S. and Japan sign accord to return Okinawa to Japan. Among the details was picking a date and time when everybody had to switch from driving on the right side of the road to the left.
● 1972 - Eltham Well Hall rail crash, caused by an intoxicated train driver, kills six people and injures 126
● 1974 - Bundy victim Georgann Hawkins disappears from UW, Seattle, Wash
● 1976 - Mercenaries trial begins in Angola; The trial of 13 mercenaries - 10 of them British - begins in Angola with the public still in the dark over the exact charges.
● 1977 - In the Netherlands, a 19-day hostage situation came to an end when Dutch marines stormed a train and a school being held by South Moluccan extremist. Two hostages and the six terrorists were killed.
● 1978 - Altaf Hussain founded students' political movement All Pakistan Muhajir Students Organisation a.k.a (APMSO) in Karachi University
● 1979 - Actor John Wayne died at age 72.
● 1980 - Mass protests across Chile against U.S.-backed dictator Pinochet; 1300 arrested.
● 1980 - E Bowell discovers asteroid #2531 Cambridge
● 1980 - C Shoemaker discovers asteroids #2459 Spellmann, #2511 Patterson & #2614 Torrence
● 1981 - In Iran, more than 1,000 people were killed in an earthquake that measured 6.8 on the Richter ScaleRichter Scale. The town of Golbaf in the Kermin province was destroyed.
● 1982 - Israel & Syria stop fighting in Lebanon
● 1982 - Ninety-million signature for disarmament presented to United Nations, New York.
● 1984 - U.S. Supreme Court declares illegally obtained evidence may be admitted at trial if it could be proved that it would have been discovered legally.
● 1985 - Karen Ann Quinlan died at age 31. Quinlan was a comatose patient whose case prompted a historic right-to-die court decision. She was removed from a ventilator and lived for several years without it, making her case not as dramatic as it might have been.
● 1986 - A divided Supreme Court struck down a Pennsylvania abortion law while reaffirming its 1973 decision establishing a constitutional right to abortion.
● 1987 - Margaret Thatcher became the first British prime minister in 160 years to win a third consecutive term of office.
● 1988 - Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute Wembley Stadium, London.
● 1988 - The name of the General Public License (GPL) is mentioned for the first time.
● 1990 - UN appoints Olivia Newton-John environmental ambassador
● 1990 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a law that would prohibit the desecration of the American Flag. {My problem is the word desecration as it means the destruction or disrespect for something sacred; a flag of a country can be neither holy nor sacred.}
● 1991 - Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines erupted, becoming the first act of nature ever to permanently close a U.S. military installation. The eruption of ash and gas could be seen for more than 60 miles.
● 1991 - Microsoft releases MS DOS 5.0
● 1993 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that people who commit "hate crimes" could be sentenced to extra punishment. The court also ruled in favor of religious groups saying that they indeed had a constitutional right to sacrifice animals during worship services.
● 1994 - A car bomb blew up in Guadalajara, Mexico killing five people. The bombing was believed to be drug related.
● 1994 - Prairie Peace Park and Maze opens at Interstate 80 exit of Pleasant Dale, Nebraska.
● 1996 - Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan., left the Senate to concentrate on his campaign for the presidency.
● 1997 - Brazil - MST leader Jose Rainha sentenced for murder at a land takeover he didn't attend.
● 1998 - UN warns of famine in Sudan; More than a million people in Sudan are facing starvation, prompting the United Nations to declare an official famine in the region.
● 1998 - Pakistan announced moratorium on nuclear testing and offered to talk with India over disputed Kashmir.
● 2001 - Timothy McVeigh was executed by the U.S. federal government for his role in the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City that 168 people.
● 2002 - Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress.
● 2003 - Pioneering broadcast journalist David Brinkley died at age 82.
● 2004 - Cassini-Huygens makes its closest flyby of Phoebe.
● 2004 - The nation bade farewell to former President Ronald Reagan at an overblown and overly expensive state funeral in Washington, D.C. Hours later he was buried in California. {May he burn in hell forever.}
● 2005 - G8 finance ministers agree to cancel the debt owed by 18 of the poorest countries.
BIRTHS
● 1403 - John IV, Duke of Brabant (d. 1427)
● 1456 - Anne Neville, wife of Richard III of England (d. 1485)
● 1540 - Barnabe Googe, English poet (d. 1594)
● 1572 - Ben Jonson, English dramatist (d. 1637)
● 1588 - George Wither, English writer (d. 1667)
● 1672 - Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and composer (d. 1749)
● 1696 - Francis Edward James Keith, Scottish soldier and Prussian field marshal (d. 1758)
● 1704 - Carlos Seixas, Portuguese composer (d. 1742)
● 1713 - Edward Capell, English critic (d. 1781)
● 1723 - Johann Georg Palitzsch, German astronomer (d. 1788)
● 1741 - Joseph Warren, American doctor and soldier (d. 1775)
● 1776 - John Constable, English painter (d. 1837)
● 1815 - Julia Margaret Cameron, English photographer (d. 1879)
● 1842 - Carl von Linde, German engineer and industrialist (d. 1934)
● 1846 - William Louis Marshall, American general and engineer (d. 1920)
● 1847 - Dame Millicent Fawcett, British suffragist and feminist (d. 1929)
● 1864 - Richard Strauss, German composer and conductor (d. 1949)
● 1867 - Charles Fabry, French physicist (d. 1945)
● 1876 - Alfred L. Kroeber, American anthropologist (d. 1960)
● 1877 - Renee Vivien, English-born poet (d. 1909)
● 1879 - Roger Bresnahan, baseball player (d. 1944)
● 1879 - Max Schreck, German actor (d. 1936)
● 1880 - Jeannette Rankin, American politician, feminist, and pacifist, first female elected to Congress (d. 1973)
● 1888 - Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchist (d. 1927)
● 1895 - Nikolai Bulganin, Soviet politician (d. 1975)
● 1899 - Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese Nobel-Prize winning novelist (1968) (d. 1972)
● 1903 - Ernie Nevers, American football and baseball player (d. 1976)
● 1910 - Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French explorer and inventor (d. 1997)
● 1910 - Carmine Coppola, American composer, director and songwriter (d. 1991)
● 1913 - Vince Lombardi, American football coach (d. 1970)
● 1913 - Risë Stevens, American operatic soprano
● 1915 - Nicholas Metropolis, Greek-American mathematician, physicist and computer scientist (d. 1999)
● 1919 - Richard Todd, British actor
● 1920 - Hazel Scott, West Indian-born singer (d. 1981)
● 1920 - Irving Howe, American literary and social critic (d. 1993)
● 1922 - John Bromfield, American actor (d. 2005)
● 1922 - Michael Cacoyannis, Greek Cypriot film maker
● 1924 - Ed Farhat, American professional wrestler (d. 2003)
● 1925 - William Styron, American author (d. 2006)
● 1928 - Fabiola de Mora y Aragón, Queen of the Belgians
● 1930 - Charles Rangel, U.S. congressman, D-N.Y.
● 1932 - Athol Fugard, South African playwright
● 1933 - Gene Wilder, American actor
● 1934 - Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark
● 1936 - Jud Strunk, American musician and comedian (d. 1981)
● 1936(37? NYT) - Chad Everett, American actor
● 1937 - Robin Warren, Australian pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
● 1937 - Johnny Brown, American comic
● 1939 - Jackie Stewart, Scottish race car driver
● 1939 - Bernard Purdie, American session drummer
● 1940 - Joey Dee, American musician (Joey Dee and the Starliters)
● 1945 - Adrienne Barbeau, American actress
● 1947 - Laloo Prasad Yadav, Indian politician
● 1947 - Henry Cisneros, American politician, former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
● 1947 - Richard Palmer-James, British lyricist and guitarist (King Crimson and Supertramp)
● 1947 - Bob Evans, British racing driver
● 1948 - Dave Cash, Major league baseball player
● 1949 - Frank Beard, American drummer (ZZ Top) {He's the one without a beard.}
● 1949 - Benjamin Vasserman, Estonian graphic artist
● 1950 - Lynsey De Paul, British singer and songwriter
● 1950 - Graham Russell, British guitarist and vocalist (Air Supply)
● 1952 - Donnie Van Zant, American rock musician (.38 Special)
● 1953 - Peter Bergman, American actor ("The Young and the Restless")
● 1956 - Joe Montana. American football player and Hall of Fame member
● 1957 - Jamaaladeen Tacuma, American musician
● 1959 - Hugh Laurie, English actor and comedian ("House")
● 1962 - Erika Salumäe, Estonian cyclist, Olympian
● 1963 - Gioia, Singer (Expose)
● 1964 - Jean Alesi, French Formula One driver
● 1965 - Joey Santiago, Filipino guitarist (Pixies)
● 1966 - Bruce Robison, Country singer, songwriter
● 1968 - Prince Alois of Liechtenstein, Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein
● 1969 - Peter Dinklage, American actor
● 1969 - Steven Drozd, American drummer
● 1969 - Bryan Fogarty, professional ice hockey player (d. 2002)
● 1969 - Dan Lavery, Rock musician (Tonic)
● 1969 - Smilin' Jay McDowell, Country musician (BR5-49)
● 1970 - Chris Rice, singer/songwriter
● 1974 - David Starie, British boxer
● 1975 - Choi Ji Woo, South Korean actress and model
● 1975 - Thomas Bimis, Greek diver
● 1976 - Tai Anderson, Rock musician (Third Day)
● 1977 - Geoff Ogilvy, Australian golfer
● 1978 - Joshua Jackson, Canadian actor ("Dawson's Creek")
● 1980 - Ryan Shrout, Rock musician (Kutless)
● 1981 - Emiliano Moretti, Italian footballer
● 1982 - Diana Taurasi, American basketball player
● 1982 - Eldar Rønning, Norwegian cross-country skier
● 1982 - Diana Taurasi, Basketball player
● 1982 - Johnny Candido, American professional wrestler
● 1982 - Joey Graham, American basketball player
● 1983 - Jose Reyes, American baseball player
● 1984 - Vagner Love, Brazilian footballer
● 1985 - Anja Rubik, Polish supermodel
● 1986 - Shia LaBeouf, American actor
● 1988 - Yui Aragaki, Japanese actress and model
● 1994 - Ivana Baquero, Spanish actress
DEATHS
● 1183 - Henry the Young King, son of Henry II of England (b. 1155)
● 1216 - Henry of Flanders, Emperor of the Latin Empire
● 1488 - King James III of Scotland
● 1557 - King John III of Portugal (b. 1502)
● 1695 - André Félibien, French architect (b. 1619)
● 1712 - Louis Joseph, duc de Vendôme, Marshal of France (b. 1654)
● 1727 - King George I of Great Britain (b. 1668)
● 1796 - Samuel Whitbread, English brewer and politician (b. 1720)
● 1847 - John Franklin, English sea captain and explorer (b. 1786)
● 1852 - Karl Briullov, Russian painter (b. 1799)
● 1858 - Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, Austrian statesman (b. 1773)
● 1879 - Prince Willem of the Netherlands, disgraced heir apparent to the Dutch throne (b. 1840)
● 1882 - Louis Maigret, Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1804)
● 1903 - Nikolai Bugaev, Russian mathematician (b. 1837)
● 1903 - Alexander Obrenovich, King of Serbia (b. 1876)
● 1911 - James Curtis Hepburn, American missionary and linguist (b. 1815)
● 1924 - Théodore Dubois, French composer and teacher (b. 1837)
● 1927 - William Attewell, English cricketer (b. 1861)
● 1934 - Lev Vygotsky, Russian psychologist (b. 1896)
● 1936 - Robert E. Howard, American author (b. 1906)
● 1937 - R. J. (Reginald Joseph) Mitchell, British aircraft designer (b. 1895)
● 1941 - Daniel Carter Beard, founder of the Boy Scouts of America (b. 1850)
● 1963 - Thích Quảng Đức, Vietnamese monk, self-immolation (b. 1897)
● 1970 - Frank Laubach, Christian missionary (b. 1884)
● 1970 - William 'Billy Batts' Devino, American crime figure (b. 1921)
● 1974 - Julius Evola, Italian philosopher (b. 1898)
● 1974 - Eurico Gaspar Dutra, President of Brazil (b. 1883)
● 1976 - Jim Konstanty, American baseball player (b. 1917)
● 1979 - John Wayne (born Marion Morrison), American actor (b. 1907)
● 1984 - Enrico Berlinguer, Italian politician (b. 1922)
● 1985 - Karen Ann Quinlan, American right-to-die cause célèbre (b. 1954)
● 1985 - Sapfo Notara, Greek actress (b. 1907)
● 1986 - Chesley Bonestell, American-born engineer, architect, and artist (b. 1888)
● 1991 - Cromwell Everson, South African composer (b. 1925)
● 1993 - Ray Sharkey, American actor (b. 1952)
● 1996 - Brigitte Helm, German actress (b. 1908)
● 1998 - Catherine Cookson, British novelist (b. 1906)
● 1999 - DeForest Kelley, American actor (b. 1920)
● 2001 - Timothy McVeigh, American terrorist (b. 1968)
● 2001 - Amalia Mendoza, Mexican singer (b. 1923)
● 2003 - David Brinkley, American television reporter (b. 1920)
● 2004 - Egon von Furstenberg, Swiss fashion designer (b. 1946)
● 2004 - Xenophon Zolotas, Greek politician (b. 1904)
● 2005 - Vasco Gonçalves, Portuguese general (b. 1922)
● 2006 - Bruce Shand, father of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (b. 1917)
● 2006 - Michael Bartosh, computer expert and author (b. 1977)
● 2007 - Stack Bundles, American rapper (b. 1983)
● 2007 - Mala Powers, American film actress (b. 1931)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● Solemnity of Corpus Christi (Body & Blood of Christ)
● St. Aleidis of Schaarbeek (died 1250)
● St. Barnabas, apostle, martyred in the year 62
● St. Blitharius
● St. Eskil, medieval patron St. of the Diocese of Strängnäs in Sweden (later moved to June 12 outside that diocese in order not to collide with the Feast of Barnabas)
● St. Herebald
● St. Onuphrius, hermit, confessor
● St. Parisius
● St. Paula Frasinetti
● St. Peter Rodriguez and Companions
● St. Reimbert, bishop of Bremen, confessor
● St. Tochmura
● Bl. Flora (died 1347)
● Bl. Tochumra, virgin
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for May 28 (Civil Date: June 11)
● St. Nicetas, Bishop of Chalcedon.
● St. Ignatius, Bishop and wonderworker of Rostov.
● Hieromartyr Helladius, Bishop in the East.
● St. Eutychius, Bishop of Melitene.
● Martyr Heliconis of Thessalonica.
● St. Sophronius, monk of Bulgaria.
● New-Martyr Demetrius.
● New-Martyr Zachariah of Prusa.
● St. Germanus, Bishop of Paris.
● Greek Calendar:
● Martyrs Crescens, Paul and Dioscorus of Rome.
● Anglican, Lutheran and Congregationalist:
● St. Barnabas, apostle, martyred in the year 62
● Roman Empire, Matralia in honor of Mater Matuta
● Roman Empire, fifth day of the Vestalia in honor of Vesta
● Kamehameha Day, official state holiday of Hawaii, United States, in honor of its first monarch, King Kamehameha I (1737-1819), celebrated with floral parades, hula competition, and festivals
● Davis Day, in remembrance of William Davis, observed in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada
● National Puerto Rican Day, Started in 1956, Festivals and Parades held
● Nepal : King's Birthday
● US : National Impressionists Day
● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Massachusetts : Children's Day - ( Sunday )
● Paraguay : Chaco Peace Day (1935) - ( 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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