Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Intuition "It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover." — Henri Poincare
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Neo-Fascism "The judges need to be intimidated; they need to uphold the Constitution. If they don't behave, we're going to go after them in a big way." — Tom DeLay, {deposed House Republican leader now facing corruption charges} expressing his attitude toward perceived judicial activism
Thought for the day: "Death and taxes may always be with us, But at least death doesn't get any worse."
{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
Shuttle Plume
Credit: NASA, Ken Thornsley
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 816 - St Leo III ends his reign as Catholic Pope (dies)
● 1099 - Crusade leaders visited the Mount of Olives where they met a hermit who urged them to assault Jerusalem. {Crusaders seem to get their advice from the most "unique" sources.}
● 1365 - King Edward III bans soccer in London, orders archery practice.
● 1381 - Peasants' Revolt: In England rebels arrive at Blackheath.
● 1402 - John, Duke of Burgundy, massacres 3,500 people in Paris.
● 1418 - An insurrection delivers Paris to the Burgundians.
● 1429 - Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc leads the French army in their capture of the city and the English commander, William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk in the second day of the Battle of Jargeau.
● 1442 - Alfonso V of Aragon was crowned King of Naples.
● 1458 - In England, the College of St. Mary Magdalene was founded at Oxford University.
● 1560 - Battle of Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga defeats Imagawa Yoshimoto.
● 1587 - Ursula Fray and Catharina Kless burned for witchcraft.
● 1653 - First Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of the Gabbard – lasted until June 13.
● 1665 - England installs a municipal government in New York City. This was the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam.
● 1667 - The first human blood transfusion was administered by Dr. Jean Baptiste. He successfully transfused the blood of a sheep to a 15-year old boy.
● 1701 - Act of Settlement gives English crown to Sophia, Princess of Hanover
● 1720 - Birth of Isaac Pinto, translator of the first Jewish prayerbook published in America.
● 1744 - David Brainerd, 26, was ordained a missionary to the Indians in Colonial New England by the Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge (SPCK).
● 1758 - French and Indian War: Siege of Louisbourg – James Wolfe's attack at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia commences.
● 1775 - American Revolution: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts. The British offered a pardon to all colonists who lay down their arms. There would be only two exceptions to the amnesty: Samuel Adams and John Hancock, if captured, were to be hanged.
● 1775 - 1st naval battle of Revolution-Unity (Am) captures Margaretta (Br)
● 1776 - Virginia adopts Declaration of Rights.
● 1787 - Law passes providing a senator must be at least 30 years old
● 1792 - George Vancouver discovers site of Vancouver, BC
● 1812 - Napoleon's invasion of Russia begins
● 1830 - Beginning of the French colonization of Algeria: 34,000 French soldiers landed 27 kilometers west of Algiers, at Sidi Ferruch.
● 1838 - Hopkins Observatory, dedicated in Williamstown, Mass
● 1838 - Territory of Iowa organized
● 1839 - Abner Doubleday created the game of baseball, according to the legend. However, evidence has surfaced that indicates that the game of baseball was played before 1800.
● 1845 - George Abernethy becomes 1st governor of Oregon
● 1849 - Gas mask patented by Lewis P. Haslett, Louisville, KY
● 1859 - The Comstock Lode is discovered near Virginia City, Nevada.
● 1860 - The State Bank of the Russian Empire established.
● 1864 - American Civil War Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor - Ulysses S. Grant gives the Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee a victory when he pulls his Union troops from their positions at Cold Harbor, Virginia and moves south.
● 1867 - Austro-Hungarian Empire forms
● 1885 - At a murder trial in France, a roof collapses, killing 30 people.
● 1888 - Polish mathematician Zygmunt Janiszewski born in Warsaw.
● 1889 - 88 are killed in the Armagh rail disaster near Armagh in what is now Northern Ireland.
● 1889 - Single tornado kills 119, injures 146 (New Richmond Wisconsin)
● 1897 - Possibly most severe quake in history strikes Assam India. Shockwaves felt over an area size of Europe. Negligible death toll
● 1897 - Carl Elsener patented his penknife. The object later became known as the Swiss army knife.
● 1897 - Anthony Eden, the British statesman, was born.
● 1898 - Philippine Declaration of Independence: General Emilio Aguinaldo declares the Philippines' independence from Spain.
● 1899 - New Richmond Tornado: 8th deadliest tornado in U.S. history - killing 117 and injuring around 200 people.
● 1900 - German Navy Law calls for massive increase in sea power
● 1901 - Cuba agreed to become an American protectorate by accepting the Platt Amendment.
● 1902 - Australia: Women in the four Australian States without female suffrage achieved the right to vote in Commonwealth elections under Section 3 of the Commonwealth Franchise Act for an Uniform Federal Franchise. Specifically excluded from enrolling to vote were 'aboriginal native[s] of Australia Africa Asia or the Islands of the Pacific except New Zealand' unless covered under Section 41 of the Constitution of Australia.
● 1903 - Niagara Falls, Ontario incorporated as a city
● 1914 - The first edition of A.T. Robertson's monumental 'Grammar of the Greek New Testament' was released. Its 1400+ pages make it the largest systematic analysis of the original New Testament language ever published.
● 1917 - Secret Service extends protection of president to his family
● 1917 - 260 people die in a mine disaster in Butte, Montana, sparking a strike of 14,000 people against unsafe conditions.
● 1918 - 1st airplane bombing raid by an American unit, France
● 1920 - Farmer-Labor Party established at Chicago convention.
● 1921 - U.S. President Warren Harding urged every young man to attend military training camp.
● 1926 - Brazil quit the League of Nations in protest over plans to admit Germany.
● 1929 - Anne Frank was born in Germany. She wrote in her diary about growing up in occupied Amsterdam during World War II. She died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in March 1945.
● 1931 - Al Capone and 68 of his henchmen were indicted for violating U.S. Prohibition laws.
● 1934 - Black-McKeller Bill passes causes Bill Boeing empire to break up into Boeing United Aircraft [Technologies] & United Air Lines
● 1935 - Chaco War ends: A truce is called between Bolivia and Paraguay, fighting since 1932.
● 1935 - U.S. Senator Huey Long of Louisiana made the longest speech on Senate record. The speech took 15 1/2 hours and was filled by 150,000 words.
● 1936 - C Jackson discovers asteroid #1394 Algoa
● 1937 - USSR executes 8 army leaders as Stalin's purge continued
● 1939 - The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum was dedicated in Cooperstown, New York. This was exactly one hundred years to the day on which the game was invented by Abner Doubleday.
● 1940 - World War II: 13,000 British and French troops surrender to Field Marshal Erwin Rommel at Saint-Valery-en-Caux.
● 1941 - In London, the Inter-Allied Declaration was signed. It was the first step towards the establishment of the United Nations.
● 1942 - Holocaust: Future essayist Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
● 1942 - Tornado kills 35 in Oklahoma City
● 1943 - Holocaust: German Nazis liquidate Jewish Ghetto in Berezhany, western Ukraine. On Saturday morning, 1,180 Jews of Berezhany were led to face death at city's old Jewish graveyard, where they had been shot into a mass grave.
● 1944 - Chinese Communist leader Mao Tse-tung announced that he would support Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek in the war against Japan.
● 1950 - American missionary martyr Jim Elliot wrote in his journal: 'Earthly blessing is no sign of heavenly favor. Behold how many wicked prosper.'
● 1957 - Hundreds of students fight cops and attack Communist Party headquarters in Hang Yang, China. Part of the real criticism which emerged to threaten Party rule during the "Hundred Flowers" Movement. Because of this criticism and opposition in cities and countryside, where cadres were beaten up like usurers of old, resistance flourished until the Party reinstituted repressive measures.
● 1961 - Army Maj. Gen. Edwin Walker is disciplined for indoctrinating his troops with John Birch Society propaganda.
● 1962 - USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 56,270 m
● 1963 - Civil rights leader Medgar Evers is shot dead in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith. His murderer is not convicted until 1994.
● 1964 - Nelson Mandela sentenced to life imprisonment after conviction for "sabotaging" South African government.
● 1967 - Race riot in Cincinnati Ohio (300 arrested)
● 1967 - Blacks riot in Tampa, Florida.
● 1967 - The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.
● 1967 - Venera program: Venera 4 is launched (it will become the first space probe to enter another planet's atmosphere and successfully return data).
● 1971 - Mexican police and death squads kill 43 student protesters in Mexico City.
● 1971 - T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2216 Kerch
● 1972 - Radical labor organizer Saul Alinsky dies, Carmel, California.
● 1975 - Gandhi found guilty of corruption; Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is barred from holding office for six years after she being found guilty of electoral corruption in 1971.
● 1977 - Ground-breaking ceremonies for JFK library
● 1978 - David Berkowitz, the "Son of Sam" killer in New York City, is sentenced to 365 years in prison for six killings.
● 1979 - Bryan Allen flies the Gossamer Albatross, man powered, across the English Channel. The flight took 2 hrs, 49 min.
● 1980 - Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan says he will submit to periodic medical tests. Later, doctors find the President's brain is missing, leading pundits to speculate - "Will he run for re-election?"
● 1982 - A crowd estimated as large as two million rallies in New York's Central Park to support nuclear disarmament. Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, and Linda Ronstadt attended. A parallel rally at Peace Arch Park, on the British Columbia/Washington border, draws 50,000.
● 1982 - Peace camp set up, Faslane Polaris base, Scotland.
● 1985 - 1,756 people arrested in 150 cities over two days for protests against U.S. arming and financing of Nicaraguan Contras.
● 1985 - The U.S. House of Representatives approved $27 million in aid to the Nicaraguan contras.
● 1986 - South African government declares state of emergency, virtually unlimited power was given to security forces and restrictions were put on news coverage of the unrest, begins jailing 20,000.
● 1986 - Labour expels Militant Hatton; Derek Hatton, the controversial deputy leader of Liverpool Council, is thrown out of the Labour Party for belonging to the leftwing Militant faction.
● 1987 - The Central African Republic's former Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa is sentenced to death for crimes he had committed during his 13-year rule.
● 1987 - Cold War: U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall at Brandenburg Gate.
● 1990 - Russia Day – The parliament of the Russian Federation formally declares its sovereignty.
● 1991 - Russians elect Boris Yeltsin as the president of their republic.
● 1992 - In a letter to the U.S. Senate, Russian Boris Yeltsin stated that in the early 1950's the Soviet Union had shot down nine U.S. planes and held 12 American survivors.
● 1993 - Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola elected President of Nigeria in record turnout for Nigerian elections.
● 1994 - Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are murdered outside her home in Los Angeles, California. O. J. Simpson is later acquitted of the killings, but is held liable in a civil suit. {Simpson continues to make headlines and faces jail time in Nevada.}
● 1994 - German districts Röbel and Waren are merged to form Müritz
● 1996 - Senate Republicans chose Trent Lott of Mississippi to succeed Bob Dole as majority leader. {Lott would later be forced to give up the post when he declared he was proud his state voted for the segregationist candidate, Strom Thurmond in 1948, on the occasion of Thurmond's 100th birthday.}
● 1996 - In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a panel of federal judges blocks a law against indecency on the internet. The panel said that the 1996 Communications Decency Act would infringe upon the free speech rights of adults.
● 1997 - Straw to reconsider Bulger killers' fate; Law lords rule former Home Secretary Michael Howard acted illegally when he raised the minimum sentence imposed on the Bulger killers.
● 1997 - The United States Department of the Treasury unveils a new $50 bill meant to be more counterfeit-resistant.
● 1998 - The Philippines celebrates its centennial year of Independence from Spain.
● 1998 - Compaq Computer paid $9 billion for Digital Equipment Corp. in largest high-tech acquisition.
● 1998 - A jury in Hattiesburg, MS, convicted 17-year-old Luke Woodham of killing two students and wounding seven others at Pearl High School.
● 1999 - Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian begins – NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping force KFor enters the province of Kosovo in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
● 2000 - Sandro Rosa do Nascimento takes hostages while robbing Bus #174 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; the highly-publicized standoff becomes a media circus and ends with the death of do Nascimento and a hostage.
● 2003 - In Arkansas, Terry Wallis spoke for the first time in nearly 19 years. Wallis had been in a coma since July 13, 1984, after being injured in a car accident.
● 2003 - Actor Gregory Peck died at age 87.
● 2004 - A 1.3 kg chondrite type meteorite strikes a house in Ellerslie, New Zealand causing serious damage but no injuries.
● 2006 - Al-Qaida in Iraq named a successor to slain leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, identified by the nom de guerre Abu Hamza al-Muhajer.
BIRTHS
● 1107 - Emperor Gaozong of China (d. 1187)
● 1519 - Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1574)
● 1577 - Paul Guldin, Swiss astronomer and mathematician (d. 1643)
● 1659 - Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Japanese samurai (d. 1719)
● 1775 - Karl Freiherr von Müffling, Prussian field marshal (d. 1851)
● 1802 - Harriet Martineau, controversial journalist, political economist, abolitionist and life-long feminist (d. 1876)
● 1812 - Edmond Hébert, French geologist (d. 1890)
● 1819 - Charles Kingsley, English writer (d. 1875)
● 1827 - Johanna Spyri, Swiss author (d. 1901)
● 1851 - Sir Oliver Lodge, English physicist and parapsychologist (d. 1940)
● 1859 - Thomas Walsh, American politician; U.S. senator from Montana (1913-33) (d. 1933)
● 1861 - William Attewell, English cricketer (d. 1927)
● 1875 - Sam De Grasse, Canadian actor (d. 1953)
● 1888 - Zygmunt Janiszewski, Polish Mathematician (d. 1920)
● 1890 - Egon Schiele, Austrian painter and graphic artist (d. 1918)
● 1892 - Djuna Barnes, American author (d. 1982)
● 1897 - Anthony Eden, British foreign secretary (1935-38, 1940-45 and 1951-55) and prime minister (1955-57) (d. 1977)
● 1899 - Fritz Albert Lipmann, American biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1986)
● 1902 - Hendrik Elias, Belgian politician (d. 1973)
● 1903 - Emmett Hardy, American musician (d. 1925)
● 1905 - Ray Barbuti, American athlete (d. 1988)
● 1906 - Sandro Penna, Italian poet (d. 1977)
● 1908 - Alphonse Ouimet, Canadian TV pioneer and president of the CBC (d. 1988)
● 1908 - Marina Semenova, Russian ballerina
● 1908 - Otto Skorzeny, Famous WWII German Operative (d. 1975)
● 1910 - Bill Naughton, English playwright (d. 1992)
● 1911 - Milovan Djilas, Yugoslav political writer (d. 1995)
● 1912 - Jameel Jalibi, Pakistani scholar, writer, and Urdu linguist
● 1913 - Jean Victor Allard, Canadian army general (d. 1996)
● 1915 - Christopher Mayhew, British politician (d. 1997)
● 1915 - David Rockefeller, American banker
● 1916 - Irwin Allen, American film producer (d. 1991)
● 1918 - Samuel Z. Arkoff, American film producer (d. 2001)
● 1919 - Uta Hagen, American actress (d. 2004)
● 1920 - Dave Berg, American cartoonist (d. 2002)
● 1920 - Jim Siedow, American actor (d. 2003)
● 1921 - James Houston, Canadian artist (d. 2005)
● 1924 - George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States
● 1926 - Jackie Pallo, English professional wrestler (d. 2006)
● 1928 - Vic Damone, American singer
● 1928 - Richard M. Sherman, American songwriter
● 1929 - Brigid Brophy, British writer
● 1929 - Anne Frank, German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim (d. 1945)
● 1930 - Donald Byrne, American chess player (d. 1976)
● 1930 - Jim Nabors, Actor-singer ("Gomer Pyle, USMC")
● 1932 - Rona Jaffe, American novelist
● 1932 - Mamo Wolde, Ethiopian athlete (d. 2002)
● 1934 - John A. Alonzo, American cinematographer (d. 2001)
● 1937 - Vladimir Arnold, Russian mathematician
● 1939 - Frank McCloskey, American politician (d. 2003)
● 1941 - Marv Albert, American sportscaster
● 1941 - Roy Harper, Singer
● 1941 - Chick Corea, American musician
● 1941 - Roy Harper, English musician
● 1941 - Lyman Ward, Canadian/American actor
● 1942 - Bert Sakmann, German physiologist, Nobel laureate
● 1942 - Len Barry, American singer and musicien (The Dovells)
● 1943 - Reg Presley, Rock singer (The Troggs)
● 1945 - Pat Jennings, Northern Irish footballer
● 1946 - Harry Glasper, English writer
● 1946 - Michel Bergeron, NHL head coach
● 1948 - Hans Binder, Austrian racing driver
● 1949 - Marc Tardif, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1949 - John Wetton, English musician (Asia)
● 1951 - Andranik Margaryan, 14th Prime Minister of Armenia (d. 2007)
● 1951 - Bun E. Carlos, American musician (Cheap Trick)
● 1951 - Brad Delp, American singer (Boston) (d. 2007)
● 1952 - Pete Farndon, English musician (The Pretenders) (d. 1983)
● 1952 - Spencer Abraham, Secretary of Energy under George W. Bush
● 1952 - Junior Brown, Country singer, musician
● 1953 - Rocky Burnette, Singer, songwriter
● 1953 - Allan Weiner, American radio station owner
● 1956 - Terry Alderman, Australian cricketer
● 1957 - Timothy Busfield, American actor ("The West Wing," "thirtysomething")
● 1957 - Javed Miandad, Pakistani cricketer and coach
● 1958 - Meredith Brooks, Singer
● 1958 - Rebecca Holden, American actress and singer
● 1959 - John Linnell, American musician (They Might Be Giants)
● 1961 - Jim Goad, American author
● 1962 - Grandmaster Dee, Rapper (Whodini)
● 1962 - Paul Clark, English musician (The Bolshoi)
● 1963 - Jerry Lynn, American professional wrestler
● 1963 - Johnny Weiss, American professional wrestler
● 1964 - Paula Marshall, American actress
● 1965 - Filip Topol, Czech musician and writer
● 1965 - Vicky Vette, Norwegian-born adult film actress
● 1967 - Frances O'Connor, Australian actress
● 1968 - Scott Aldred, American baseball player
● 1968 - Bobby Sheehan, American musician (Blues Traveler) (d. 1999)
● 1969 - Mathieu Schneider, American ice hockey player
● 1971 - Mark Henry, American professional wrestler
● 1971 - Ryan Klesko, American baseball player
● 1973 - Takis Fyssas, Greek footballer
● 1973 - Darryl White, Australian rules footballer
● 1974 - Hideki Matsui, Japanese baseball player
● 1974 - Jason Mewes, American actor
● 1976 - Thomas Sørensen, Danish footballer
● 1977 - Kenny Wayne Shepherd, American blues-rock guitarist
● 1979 - Dallas Clark, American football player
● 1979 - Wil Horneff, American actor
● 1979 - Robyn, Singer
● 1980 - Larry Foote, American football player
● 1981 - Adriana Lima, Brazilian supermodel
● 1982 - Ben Blackwell, American musician
● 1982 - Jason David, American football player
● 1983 - Josh Dies, American author and musician (Showbread)
● 1983 - Bryan Habana, South African rugby player
● 1983 - Christine Sinclair, Canadian soccer player
● 1985 - Tasha-Ray Evin, Canadian musician (Lillix)
● 1985 - Kendra Wilkinson, American Playboy bunny/Playmate
● 1985 - Chris Young, American musician
DEATHS
● 816 - Pope Leo III
● 918 - Ethelfleda, Lady of the Mercians
● 1020 - Lyfing, Archbishop of Canterbury
● 1418 - Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac, Constable of France (b. 1360)
● 1435 - John FitzAlan, 14th Earl of Arundel, English military leader (b. 1408)
● 1560 - Imagawa Yoshimoto, Japanese daimyo (b. 1519)
● 1560 - Ii Naomori, Japanese warrior (b. 1506)
● 1565 - Adrianus Turnebus, French classical scholar (b. 1512)
● 1567 - Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1490)
● 1647 - Thomas Farnaby, English grammarian
● 1675 - Duke Charles Emmanuel II of Savoy (b. 1634)
● 1734 - James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, French military commander (b. 1670)
● 1758 - Augustus William, Prince of Prussia (b. 1722)
● 1772 - Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, French explorer (b. 1724)
● 1778 - Philip Livingston, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1716)
● 1816 - Pierre Augereau, Marshal of France and duc de Castiglione (b. 1757)
● 1904 - Camille de Renesse, Belgian Count (b. 1836)
● 1912 - Frédéric Passy, French economist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1822)
● 1917 - Teresa Carreño, Venezuelan pianist (b. 1853)
● 1937 - Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1893)
● 1957 - Jimmy Dorsey, American musician (b. 1904)
● 1962 - John Ireland, English composer (b. 1879)
● 1963 - Medgar Evers, American civil rights activist (b. 1925)
● 1966 - Hermann Scherchen, German conductor (b. 1891)
● 1969 - Alexander Deyneka, Ukrainian painter (b. 1899)
● 1978 - Guo Moruo, Chinese writer (b. 1892)
● 1980 - Milburn Stone, American actor (b. 1904)
● 1980 - Masayoshi Ohira, Prime minister of Japan (b. 1910)
● 1982 - Karl von Frisch, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1886)
● 1983 - Norma Shearer, Canadian actress (b. 1902)
● 1989 - Lou Monte, American singer (b. 1917)
● 1994 - Ronald Goldman, American actor and model (b. 1969)
● 1994 - Nicole Brown Simpson, American ex-wife of O.J. Simpson (b. 1959)
● 1994 - Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Lubavitcher Rebbe (b. 1902)
● 1994 - Christopher Collins, American actor and comedian (b. 1949)
● 1995 - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian pianist (b. 1920)
● 1997 - Bulat Okudzhava, Russian writer and musician (b. 1924)
● 2000 - P.L.Deshpande, Marathi Writer (b. 1919)
● 2002 - Bill Blass, American fashion designer (b. 1922)
● 2003 - Gregory Peck, American actor (b. 1916)
● 2006 - György Ligeti, Hungarian composer (b. 1923)
● 2006 - Kenneth Roy Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian businessman and art collector (b. 1923)
● 2007 - Don Herbert aka "Mr. Wizard", American television host (b. 1917)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Amphion
● St. Ampliatus
● Sts. Basilides, Quirinus (Cyrinus), Nabor and Nazarius, martyrs
● St. Chirstian
● St. Cominus
● St. Cunera
● St. Cuniald & Geslar
● St. Eskill, bishop, martyr
● St. Gerebald
● St. John of Sahagun, hermit, confessor
● St. John of San Facondo, confessor
● St. Pope Leo III died 816
● St. Marinus, Vimius, & Zimius
● St. Odulf (Odulph) of Oirschot died 865
● St. Olympius
● St. Peter of Mount Athos
● St. Pharaildis, virgin
● St. Rufus, bishop, martyr
● St. Ternan, bishop, confessor
● St. Ursinus, bishop of Bourges, confessor
● Bl. Guido (Guy) of Cortona (died 1250)
● Bl. Onuphrius, monk
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for May 29 (Civil Date: June 12)
● Virgin Theodosia of Constantinople.
● Repose of Blessed John of Ustiug, fool-for-Christ.
● Virgin Martyr Theodosia of Tyre.
● St. Alexander, Patriarch of Alexandria.
● New-Martyr Andrew.
● New-Martyr John (or Nannus) at Smyrna.
● Commemoration of the First Ecumenical Council.
● Greek Calendar:
● Hieromartyr Olbian, Bishop of Aneus, and his disciple.
● Two women of senatorial rank martyred with St. Procopius and others.
● Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Surety of Sinners".
● Repose of Schemamonk Michael of Valaam (1854).
● Buddhist-Bhutan:
● Buddha's Ascension
● Roman Empire – sixth day of the Vestalia in honor of Vesta
● Brazil – Dia dos Namorados (Lover's Day; similar to St. Valentine's)
● Finland : Helsinki Day (1550)
● Philippines – Araw ng Kalayaan (Independence Day) 1898
● Russian Federation – Russia Day (Independence Day) 1990
● Turk & Cacios Island : Constitution Day
● United Kingdom – Trooping the Colour (Military celebration of the monarch's official birthday held in London on the second Saturday of June)
● World Day Against Child Labor
● 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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