Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Justice "When the man who feeds the world by toiling in the fields is himself deprived of the basic rights of feeding, sheltering, and caring for his own family, the whole community of man is sick." — Cesar Chavez
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Social and Economic Irresponsibility "We didn't squander a surplus. We never had it." — John W. Snow, George W. Bush's treasury secretary
Thought for the day: "Who to himself is law, no law doth need."
{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 96
Credit & Copyright: Adam Block (Caelum Observatory), Acknowledgement: R. Jay GaBany
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 763 B.C.E. - Assyrians record a solar eclipse that will be used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history.
● 923 - Battle of Soissons: King Robert I of France is killed and King Charles the Simple is arrested by the supporters of Duke Rudolph of Burgundy.
● 1184 - King Magnus V of Norway is killed at the battle of Fimreite.
● 1215 - King John of England puts his seal to the Magna Carta at Runnymede, England.
● 1219 - Dannebrog - oldest national flag in the world - and flag of Denmark. According to legend, fell from the sky during the Battle of Lyndanisse (now Tallinn) in Estonia, and turned the Danes' luck. King Valdemar brought victory for Denmark.
● 1246 - With the death of Duke Frederick II, the Babenberg dynasty ends in Austria.
● 1381 - Radical poll tax protestor Wat Tyler, leader of English Peasants' Revolt, beheaded, Smithfields, London, effectively ending the revolt.
● 1389 - Battle of Kosovo: The Ottoman Empire defeats Serbs and Bosnians.
● 1520 - Leo X issued the papal encyclical 'Exsurge Domine,' which condemned German Reformer Martin Luther as a heretic on 41 counts and branded him an enemy of the Roman Catholic Church.
● 1560 - Will Sommers, "Poor Man's Friend," court jester to Henry VIII, buried.
● 1567 - Jews are expelled from Genoa Italy
● 1580 - Phillip II of Spain declares William the Silent to be an outlaw.
● 1607 - Colonists in North America completed James Fort in Jamestown.
● 1649 - Margaret Jones of Charlestown became the first person tried and executed for witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts.
● 1664 - New Jersey established
● 1667 - The first human blood transfusion is administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys.
● 1686 - In Boston, the King's Chapel was organized. It was the first Anglican church established in colonial New England.
● 1752 - Benjamin Franklin experimented by flying a kite during a thunderstorm. The result was a little spark that showed the relationship between lightning and electricity. {We are lucky he didn't kill himself. Don't try this at home kiddies.}
● 1775 - American Revolutionary War: George Washington is appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental Army.
● 1776 - Delaware Separation Day - Delaware votes to suspend government under the British Crown and separate officially from Pennsylvania.
● 1779 - General Anthony Wayne captures Stony Point, Bronx
● 1785 - Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, co-pilot of the first-ever manned flight (1783), and his companion, Pierre Romain, become the first-ever casualties of an air crash when their hot air balloon explodes during their attempt to cross the English Channel.
● 1804 - New Hampshire approves the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratifying the document. It deals with manner of choosing president and vice president. Starts practice of running mates.
● 1808 - Joseph Bonaparte becomes King of Spain.
● 1836 - Arkansas is admitted as the 25th U.S. state.
● 1844 - Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber.
● 1846 - The Oregon Treaty establishes the 49th parallel as the border between the United States and Canada, from the Rocky Mountains to the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
● 1849 - James Polk, the 11th president of the United States, died in Nashville, Tenn., at age 53.
● 1851 - Jacob Fussell, Baltimore dairyman, sets up 1st ice-cream factory
● 1857 – San Francisco Water Works organized
● 1859 - Pig War: Ambiguity in the Oregon Treaty leads to the "Northwestern Boundary Dispute" between U.S. and British/Canadian settlers.
● 1860 - 1st White settlement in Idaho (Franklin)
● 1862 - Gen JEB Stuart completes his "ride around McClellan"
● 1864 - American Civil War: Siege of Petersburg begins.
● 1864 - Arlington National Cemetery is established when 200 acres (0.8 km²) around Arlington Mansion, General Robert E. Lee's plantation, are officially set aside as a military cemetery by U.S. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.
● 1866 - C H F Peters discovers asteroid #88 Thisbe
● 1866 - Prussia attacks Austria
● 1869 - Celluloid patented by John Wesley Hyatt, Albany, NY
● 1871 - Phoebe Couzins is 1st woman graduate of a US collegiate law school
● 1876 - Sara Spencer (R) is 1st woman to address a US presidential convention
● 1877 - Henry Ossian Flipper becomes the first African American cadet to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point.
● 1878 - 1st attempt at motion pictures (used 12 cameras, each taking 1 picture) done to see if all 4 of a horse's hooves leave the ground {The answer was yes.}
● 1888 - Crown Prince Wilhelm becomes Kaiser Wilhelm II and is the last emperor of the German Empire
● 1896 - Tsunami strikes Shinto festival on beach at Sanriku, Japan. 27,000 die, 9,000 injured, with 13,000 houses destroyed.
● 1898 - U.S. Congress passes Newland's Resolution to annex Hawai'i.
● 1898 - George Claude Etievant, French typographer and anarchist, condemned to death for the murder of a sentry, and the injury of another, at the Berzeliu street police station. He had previously, in 1892, received a five year sentence for providing dynamite for Ravachol, and again another five year prison sentence for a series of articles he published in "Le libertaire." His sentence was commuted to penal servitude for life. He died a few years later in the penal colony in Guyana.
● 1902 - Canada's Maritime Provinces switch from Eastern to Atlantic time
● 1902 - Erik Erikson, the psychoanalyst who reshaped views of human developement, was born.
● 1904 - A fire aboard the steamboat General Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1031.
● 1907 - 44 nations meet in 2nd Hague Peace Conference
● 1909 - Benjamin Shibe patented the cork center baseball.
● 1911 - Dutch government adopts anti-gay law, provoking establishment of Dutch chapter of German gay rights group Scientific Humanitarian Committee.
● 1911 - The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. was incorporated in the state of New York. The company was later renamed International Business Machines (IBM) Corp.
● 1913 - U.S. troops finally end the Moro Uprising in the Philippines by exterminating 600 men, women and children in an assault on the same crater where an entire community was similarly liquidated on 8 March 1906.
● 1915 - US government mints 1st $50 gold pieces, for Panama Pacific Expo
● 1916 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America, making them the only American youth organization with a federal charter.
● 1917 - Anarchists Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman are arrested and charged conspiring to "induce persons not to register" for World War I military service. Both were deported from the U.S. after their prison sentences.
● 1917 - Great Britain pledged the release of all the Irish captured during the Easter Rebellion of 1916.
● 1918 - French anarchist Jules Durand declared innocent of 1910 murder charges after his case had been reopened. Unfortunately, while incarcerated, Durand - - forcibly subdued in a strait jacket for 40 days -- had become insane and spent the rest of his life in an asylum.
● 1918 - 1" of snow falls in Northern Pennsylvania
● 1919 - John Alcock and Arthur Brown complete first nonstop transatlantic flight at Clifden, County Galway, Ireland. They won a prize of $50,000 in the process.
● 1920 - Duluth lynchings in Minnesota
● 1923 - Argentine anarchist Kurt Wilkens (Gustav Wilckens), jailed for the assassination of the "Killer of Patagonia," Col. Valera, is in turn assassinated while sleeping in his cell by the right wing nationalist, Perez Millan.
● 1924 - Ford Motor Company manufactures its 10 millionth automobile
● 1924 - Native Americans are proclaimed US citizens
● 1925 - B Jekhovsky discovers asteroid #1093 Freda
● 1929 - 1st time NY curb stock exchange transacts more business than NY Exch
● 1932 - Gaston Means was sentenced to 15 years for fraud in the Lindbergh baby kidnapping. {He was entrusted with money for the kidnappers that he kept for himself.}
● 1933 - C Jackson discovers asteroids #1278 Kenya & #1279 Uganda
● 1934 - Hitler and Mussolini meet for the first time, Venice, Italy.
● 1934 - The U.S.'s Great Smoky Mountains National Park is founded.
● 1934 - C Jackson discovers asteroid #1324 Knysna
● 1934 - K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1322 Coppernicus
● 1939 - C Jackson discovers asteroid #1676 Kariba
● 1940 - French fortress of Verdun captured by Germans
● 1943 - Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) founded in Chicago.
● 1944 - World War II: Battle of Saipan: The United States invades Saipan.
● 1944 - In the Saskatchewan general election, 1944, the CCF, led by Tommy Douglas, is elected and forms the first socialist government of North America.
● 1945 - The General Dutch Youth League (ANJV) is founded in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
● 1947 - The All-Indian Congress accepted a British plan for the partition of India.
● 1950 - U.S. Senate opens investigation of 3,500 alleged "sex perverts" {code for homosexuals} in the federal government.
● 1950 - General strike against apartheid in South Africa.
● 1950 - Itzigsohn discover asteroid 1581 Abanderada, 1582 Martir & 1779 Parana
● 1950 - American missionary martyr Jim Elliot wrote in his journal: 'A man without Christ has his roots only in his own times, and his fruits as well.'
● 1951 - 1st commercial electronic computer dedicated Philadelphia
● 1954 - Sen. Joe McCarthy declares physicist Robert Oppenheimer a security risk.
● 1955 - Twenty-eight people arrested for ignoring compulsory civil defense drills, New York.
● 1955 - The Eisenhower administration stages the first annual "Operation Alert" (OPAL) exercise, an attempt to assess the USA's preparations for a nuclear attack.
● 1957 - 42.01 cm (16.54") of rainfall, East St Louis, Ill (state record)
● 1958 - Greece severed military ties to Turkey because of the Cypress issue.
● 1960 - Argentina complains to UN about Israeli illicit transfer of Eichman
● 1962 - South Africa passes a bill setting death penalty for many crimes
● 1962 - Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) meeting prepares the "Port Huron Statement," a manifesto which helps inspire much of the '60s student protest movement.
● 1963 - Rev. Mance Jackson leads 1,000 from Mt. Zion Baptist Church to Westlake Mall in Seattle's first civil rights march.
● 1964 - The last French troops left Algeria.
● 1966 - End of three days of Dutch Provo rioting, Amsterdam, Holland.
● 1966 - Hovercraft deal opens show; The world's first hovershow opens in Britain with news of a Ministry of Defence order worth £1m.
● 1967 – Gov. Reagan signs liberalized California abortion bill {Of course when he runs for president this is overlooked by the Neocons.}
● 1970 - U.S. Supreme Court rules that conscientious objectors need not base their moral beliefs on an organized religion.
● 1971 - Vernon E Jordan Jr., appointed executive director of National Urban League
● 1971 - Councils defy Thatcher milk ban; Opposition is growing to Margaret Thatcher's plans to end free school milk for children over the age of seven.
● 1972 - Rock fall inside Vierzy Tunnel (France) causes 2 train crash; 107 die
● 1974 - Man dies in race rally clashes; A march through central London leaves one person dead and many more injured as rival demonstrators clash with police and each other.
● 1977 - Spain's 1st free elections since 1936
● 1978 - Soyuz 29 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6; they stay 139 days
● 1979 - 1st space shuttle SRB qualification test firing; 122 seconds
● 1979 - Greater Europe Mission moved its headquarters from Chicago to Wheaton, Illinois. Founded in 1949, GEM is an evangelical missionary agency involved in church planting and evangelism in over a dozen European countries.
● 1982 - Riots in Argentina after Falklands/Malvinas defeat
● 1982 - 450 occupy uranium mine for three days in anti-nuclear protest, Honeymoon, South Australia.
● 1983 - The U.S. Supreme Court reinforced its position on abortion by striking down state and local restriction on abortions.
● 1985 - U.S. Navy diver Robert D. Stethem was killed by the hijackers of Flight 847.
● 1985 - En route to Halley's Comet, USSR's Vega 2 drops lander on Venus
● 1986 - Pravda announces high-level Chernobyl staff fired for stupidity {scape-goated}
● 1988 - NASA launches space vehicle S-213
● 1989 - In Shanghai three Chinese workers were sentenced to death for setting fire to a train during a pro-democracy protest.
● 1989 - Ronald Reagan is knighted by Queen Elizabeth
● 1991 - Philippines volcano Mount Pinatubo errupts
● 1991 - Birth of the first federal political party in Canada that supports Quebec nationalism, the Bloc Québécois.
● 1992 - The United States Supreme Court rules in US vs. Alvarez-Machain that it is permissible for the USA to abduct suspects in foreign countries and bring them to the USA for trial, without approval from those other countries. {This means even if those suspects have never been in the US they are subject to US laws.}
● 1992 - Ghana Airways inaugurates flights to JFK Airport (NYC)
● 1992 - U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle instructed a student to spell "potato" with an "e" on the end during a spelling bee. He claimed he had relied on a faulty flash card that had been written by the student's teacher. {Being the intellectual midget he was didn't help either.}
● 1994 - Israel and Vatican City establish full diplomatic relations.
● 1995 - During the O. J. Simpson murder trial, O. J. was asked to put on a pair of gloves. The gloves were said to have been worn by the killer on the night of the murders of Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman. The gloves appeared not to fit. {It was never noted that he had donned a pair of disposable gloves first making his hands artificially large and difficult to fit anything over them. The commiserate liar he was allowed him to overact this to the point everyone believed the gloves didn't fit.}
● 1996 - Singer Ella Fitzgerald died at age 79.
● 1996 - In response to an underpublicized nuclear accident the previous month, six people are arrested at a protest demanding the shutdown of the Point Beach nuclear power plant near Manitowoc, Wisconsin.
● 1996 - The Irish Republican Army set of a truck bomb in a retail district in Manchester England. The explosion wounded more than 200 people and devastates a large part of the city centre.
● 1998 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that state prison inmates are protected by the Americans with Disabilities Act.
● 1999 - South Korean naval forces sank a North Korean torpedo boat during an exchange in the disputed Yellow Sea.
● 2000 - British marines leave Sierra Leone; The major contingent of the British military task force sent to help restore order in Sierra Leone leaves the country.
● 2002 - Near earth asteroid 2002 MN misses our planet by 75,000 miles (120,000 km) about one third the distance to the moon
● 2003 - A jury in Houston convicted accounting firm Arthur Andersen of obstruction of justice.
● 2005 - The autopsy on Terri Schiavo was released, backing the contention of her husband, Michael, that she was in a persistent vegetative state.
● 2006 - A divided U.S. Supreme Court said that judges cannot throw out evidence collected by police who have search warrants but do not properly announced their arrival. {This is extends the "no-knock" rule to new lengths.}
BIRTHS
● 1330 - Edward the Black Prince, Prince of Wales (d. 1376)
● 1594 - Nicolas Poussin, French painter (d. 1665)
● 1623 - Cornelis de Witt, Dutch politician (d. 1672)
● 1624 - Hiob Ludolf, German orientalist (d. 1704)
● 1640 - Bernard Lamy, French mathematician (d. 1715)
● 1755 - Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, French chemist (d. 1809)
● 1763 - Franz Danzi, German composer of operas, lieder and symphonies (d. 1826)
● 1765 - Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, German mathematician (d. 1831)
● 1767 - Rachel Donelson Jackson, First Lady of the United States (d. 1828)
● 1789 - Josiah Henson, American slave and settlement founder (d. 1883)
● 1801 - Benjamin Raymond, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1883)
● 1805 - William Butler Ogden, first Mayor of Chicago (d. 1877)
● 1809 - François-Xavier Garneau, French Canadian poet and historian (d. 1866)
● 1815 - Hablot Knight Browne, English illustrator; depicted Dickens' characters (d. 1882)
● 1835 - Adah Isaacs Menken, American actress and poet (d. 1868)
● 1843 - Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (d. 1907)
● 1861 - Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Austrian contralto (d. 1936)
● 1875 - Herman Smith-Johannsen, cross-country skier (d. 1987)
● 1880 - Nagano Osami, Japanese admiral; planned the Pearl Harbor attack (d. 1947)
● 1882 - Ion Antonescu, Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1946)
● 1884 - Harry Langdon, American actor (d. 1944)
● 1887 - Malvina Hoffman, American sculptor (d. 1966)
● 1888 - Ramón López Velarde, Mexican poet (d. 1921)
● 1894 - Nikolai Chebotaryov, Ukrainian mathematician (d. 1947)
● 1894 - Robert Russell Bennett, American composer and arranger (d. 1981)
● 1900 - Gotthard Günther, German philosopher (d. 1984)
● 1900 - Otto Luening, German-American composer (d. 1996)
● 1902 - Erik Erikson, psychoanalyst (d. 1994)
● 1906 - Léon Degrelle, Belgian SS officer (d. 1994)
● 1908 - Sam Giancana, American mafioso (d. 1975)
● 1910 - David Rose, American songwriter, composer and orchestra leader (d. 1990)
● 1911 - W.V. Awdry, British children's writer (d. 1997)
● 1914 - Yuri Andropov, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Russian head of the KGB (1967-82) (d. 1984)
● 1914 - Saul Steinberg, Romanian-American cartoonist (d. 1999)
● 1915 - Thomas Huckle Weller, American virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
● 1916 - Herbert Simon, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2001)
● 1917 - John Fenn, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
● 1917 - Lash La Rue, American actor (d. 1996)
● 1917 - Michalis Genitsaris, Greek singer and composer (d. 2005)
● 1920 - Alberto Sordi, Italian actor and director (d. 2003)
● 1921 - Errol Garner, American musician (d. 1977)
● 1922 - John Veale, English composer (d. 2006)
● 1924 - Ezer Weizman, 7th President of Israel (d. 2005)
● 1926 - Shigeru Kayano, Japanese Ainu activist (d. 2006)
● 1927 - Ibn-e-Insha, Pakistani humourist and Urdu poet (d. 1978)
● 1930 - Marcel Pronovost, professional ice hockey player
● 1932 - Mario Cuomo, former Governor of New York
● 1933 - Sergio Endrigo, Italian singer (d. 2005)
● 1936 - William Joseph Levada, American Catholic prelate
● 1937 - Waylon Jennings, American singer (d. 2002)
● 1938 - Billy Williams, baseball player and Hall of Fame member
● 1939 - Ward Connerly, American political figure
● 1939 - Brian Jacques, British author
● 1941 - Harry Nilsson, American singer and composer (d. 1994)
● 1942 - John E. McLaughlin, former Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
● 1943 - Xaviera Hollander, Dutch author
● 1943 - Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, Prime Minister of Denmark
● 1943 - Johnny Hallyday, French singer and actor
● 1943 - Muff Winwood, British songwriter, producer and bassist (Spencer Davis Group)
● 1945 - Miriam Defensor-Santiago, Philippine senator
● 1945 - Nicola Pagett, British actress
● 1946 - Janet Lennon, Singer (The Lennon Sisters)
● 1946 - Noddy Holder, British singer (Slade)
● 1946 - Demis Roussos, Greek singer
● 1947 - John Hoagland, American photographer
● 1948 - Mike Holmgren, American football coach
● 1949 - Dusty Baker, baseball player and manager
● 1949 - Simon Callow, British actor
● 1949 - Russell Hitchcock, Member of Air Supply
● 1949 - Jim Varney, American actor (d. 2000)
● 1950 - Lakshmi Mittal, Indian industrialist
● 1951 - Steve Walsh, American singer (Kansas)
● 1953 - Rita Lee, Playboy Playmate
● 1954 - James Belushi, American actor ("According to Jim")
● 1954 - Terri Gibbs, Country singer
● 1954 - Paul Rusesabagina, Manager of Hôtel des Mille Collines during the Rwandan genocide
● 1955 - Julie Hagerty, American actress ("Airplane" movies)
● 1957 - Seppo Pääkkönen, Finnish actor
● 1958 - Wade Boggs, baseball player, serial adulterer, and Hall of Fame member
● 1958 - Riccardo Paletti, Italian racing driver (d. 1982)
● 1959 - Eileen Davidson, American actress ("The Young and the Restless")
● 1960 - Michèle Laroque, French actress
● 1960 - Marieke van Doorn, Dutch field hockey player
● 1960 - Terry Smith, Bluegrass musician (The Grascals)
● 1961 - Kai Eckhardt, German musician (Garaj Mahal)
● 1961 - Dave McAuley, Northern Irish boxer
● 1961 - Yoshimi Iwasaki, Japanese singer/actress
● 1962 - Andrea Rost, Hungarian soprano
● 1963 - Helen Hunt, American actress ("Mad About You")
● 1963 - Nigel Walker, Welsh athlete and rugby union player
● 1963 - Scott Rockenfield, Rock musician (Queensryche)
● 1964 - Courteney Cox Arquette, American actress ("Friends")
● 1964 - Tony Ardoin, Country musician (River Road)
● 1964 - Michael Laudrup, Danish footballer
● 1965 - Adam Smith, American politician
● 1966 - Idalis DeLeon, American actress/singer
● 1966 - Michael Britt, Country musician (Lonestar)
● 1966 - Rob Mitchell, Rock musician
● 1967 - Yuji Ueda, Japanese voice actor
● 1968 - Jimmy McD, Rock musician
● 1968 - Oh Dal-su, South Korean actor
● 1969 - Ice Cube, American rapper
● 1969 - Oliver Kahn, German footballer
● 1969 - Cédric Pioline, French tennis player
● 1969 - Maurice Odumbe, Kenyan Cricket Player
● 1970 - Leah Remini, American actress ("King of Queens")
● 1970 - Gaëlle Méchaly, French soprano
● 1971 - Edwin Brienen, Dutch director
● 1971 - Bif Naked, Canadian musician
● 1971 - Nathan Astle, New Zealand Cricket Player
● 1971 - Jake Busey, Actor
● 1972 - Jamie Johnson, Bluegrass musician (The Grascals)
● 1972 - T-Bone Willy, Rock musician (Save Ferris)
● 1972 - Justin Leonard, American golfer
● 1972 - Andy Pettitte, American baseball player
● 1972 - Marcus Hahnemann, American footballer
● 1972 - Hank Von Helvete, Turbonegro Frontman
● 1973 - Neil Patrick Harris, American actor ("How I Met Your Mother," "Doogie Howser, M.D.")
● 1973 - Tore André Flo, Norwegian footballer
● 1973 - Pia Miranda, Australian actress
● 1973 - Greg Vaughan, American actor
● 1975 - Elizabeth Reaser, American actress
● 1975 - Rachel Wacholder, American beach volleyballer
● 1976 - Dryden Mitchell, Rock singer (Alien Ant Farm)
● 1976 - Gary Lightbody, Irish musician (Snow Patrol)
● 1977 - Nina Liu, Australian actress
● 1978 - Wilfred Bouma, Dutch footballer
● 1978 - Charlie Balfe, English footballer
● 1978 - Zach Day, American baseball player
● 1979 - Yulia Nesterenko, Belarusian athlete
● 1979 - Julia Schultz, American model
● 1980 - Mary Carey, American pornographic actress
● 1980 - Christopher Castile, American actor
● 1980 - Almudena Cid, Spanish gymnast
● 1980 - Cara Zavaleta, American model
● 1981 - Billy Martin, Rock musician (Good Charlotte)
● 1981 - Jeremy Reed, American baseball player
● 1981 - William Dean Martin, American musician
● 1984 - Tim Lincecum, American baseball player
● 1985 - Nadine Coyle, Northern Irish singer (Girls Aloud)
● 1988 - Miku Ishida, Japanese teen idol
DEATHS
● 923 - Robert I of France (b. c. 865)
● 991 - Empress Theophanu
● 1073 - Emperor Go-Sanjō of Japan (b. 1034)
● 1246 - Duke Frederick II of Austria (b. 1219)
● 1341 - Andronicus III Palaeologus, Eastern Roman Emperor (b. 1297)
● 1381 - John Cavendish, Lord Chief Justice of England
● 1381 - Wat Tyler, English rebel
● 1383 - John VI Cantacuzenus, Byzantine Emperor
● 1389 - Prince Lazar, Serbian Orthodox saint (b. 1329)
● 1467 - Philip III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1396)
● 1521 - Tamás Bakócz. Hungarian Catholic cardinal and statesman (b. 1442)
● 1614 - Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton, English politician (b. 1540)
● 1679 - Guillaume Courtois, French painter (b. 1628)
● 1724 - Henry Sacheverell, English churchman and politician (b. 1674)
● 1750 - Marguerite De Launay, Baronne Staal, French writer (b. 1684)
● 1768 - James Short, Scottish mathematician and optician (b. 1710)
● 1772 - Louis-Claude Daquin, French composer (b. 1694)
● 1849 - James Knox Polk, 11th President of the United States (b. 1795)
● 1858 - Ary Scheffer, Dutch-French painter (b. 1795)
● 1888 - Emperor Friedrich III of Germany (b. 1831)
● 1889 - Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet (b. 1850)
● 1917 - Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian physicist (b. 1867)
● 1934 - Alfred Bruneau, French composer (b. 1857)
● 1941 - Evelyn Underhill, British writer (b. 1875)
● 1941 - Otfrid Foerster, German neurologist (b. 1873)
● 1962 - Alfred Cortot, Swiss pianist (b. 1877)
● 1965 - E. A. Speiser, American Bible scholar (b. 1902)
● 1965 - Steve Cochran, American actor (b. 1917)
● 1968 - Sam Crawford, baseball player (b. 1880)
● 1968 - Wes Montgomery, American jazz guitarist (b. 1925)
● 1971 - Wendell Meredith Stanley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
● 1976 - Jimmy Dykes, baseball player and manager (b. 1896)
● 1983 - Srirangam Srinivasarao, also known as Sri Sri, Telugu poet (b. 1910)
● 1984 - Meredith Willson, American composer (b. 1902)
● 1985 - Andy Stanfield, American athlete (b. 1927)
● 1989 - Victor French, American actor (b. 1934)
● 1989 - Maurice Bellemare, French Canadian politician (b. 1912)
● 1991 - Arthur Lewis, British economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
● 1991 - Happy Chandler, American politician and Commissioner of Major League Baseball (b. 1898)
● 1993 - John Connally, American politician (b. 1917)
● 1993 - James Hunt, English race car driver (b. 1947)
● 1994 - Manos Hadjidakis, Greek composer (b. 1925)
● 1995 - John Vincent Atanasoff, American computer pioneer (b. 1903)
● 1996 - Ella Fitzgerald, American singer (b. 1917)
● 1996 - Dick Murdoch, professional wrestler (b. 1946)
● 2002 - Choi Hong Hi, founder of Taekwon-Do (b. 1918)
● 2003 - Hume Cronyn, Canadian actor (b. 1911)
● 2006 - Raymond Devos, French humorist (b. 1922)
● 2006 - Herb Pearson, New Zealand cricket player (b. 1910)
● 2007 - Sherri Martel, American professional wrestler and valet (b. 1958)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● Solemnity of Corpus Christi (Body & Blood of Christ)
● St. Abraham
● St. Adelaide
● St. Aleydis
● St. Alice
● St. Benildis
● St. Crescentia, martyr
● Sts. Domitian & Hadelin
● St. Dulas
● St. Edburga of Winchester (d. 960)
● St. Germaine Cousin, (d. 1601), patron of shepherdesses and of victims of child abuse
● St. Hesychius
● St. Landelin (7th century)
● St. Lybe
● St. Modestus, martyr
● St. Melan
● St. Orsisius
● St. Trillo
● St. Vitus, martyr and patron of actors and epileptics
● St. Vouga
● Bls. Thomas Green, Thomas Scryven, and Thomas Reding
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for June 2 (Civil Date: June 15)
● St. Nicephorus the Confessor, Patriarch of Constantinople.
● Great-Martyr John the New of Sochi, who suffered at Belgrade.
● New-Martyr Demetrius of Philadelphia.
● Hieromartyr Photinus (Pothimus), Bishop of Lyons.
● New-Martyr Constantine of the Hagarenes (Mt. Athos. .
● Greek Calendar:
● Hieromartyr Erasmus of Ochrid, who reposed in peace, and 8,000 Martyrs with him.
● New-Martyr John of Trebizond.
● Eastern Orthodox:
● St. Augustine of Hippo
● Commemoration of Evelyn Underhill (Anglican mystic and poet)
● Roman Empire – ninth and final day of the Vestalia in honor of Vesta
● Commemoration of William Adams (Miura Anjin 三浦按針) a man shipwrecked in Japan in the 1600s, and whom James Clavell's "Shogun" was based upon
● Arkansas : Admission Day (1836)
● Denmark : Flag Day/Valdemar Day (1219)
● Idaho : Pioneer Day (1910)
● Korea : Farmer's Day-day to transplant rice seeds
● Malawi Freedom Day
● Oregon : Treaty Day (1846)
● Elder Abuse Awareness Day
● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Paraguay : Chaco Peace Day (1935) - ( Sunday )
● US : Father's Day (Remind the guy how much you care) - ( Sunday )
IN FICTION
● 1889 - Start of the Sherlock Holmes Adv "The Stockbroker's Clerk"
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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