Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Labor Unions "The Labor Movement: the people who brought you the weekend." — Bumper sticker
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Undermining Public Education "As people do better, they start voting like Republicans – unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing." — Karl Rove, George W. Bush's chief political handler
Thought for the day: "Equality of the sexes leaves women standing on buses."
{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
Analemma over Ukraine
Credit & Copyright: Vasilij Rumyantsev ( Crimean Astrophysical Obsevatory)
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 362 - Emperor Julian issued an edict banning Christians from teaching in Syria.
● 653 – St. Martin I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
● 676 - Deusdedit III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
● 1397 - Union of Kalmar established between Denmark, Sweden & Norway
● 1497 - Battle of Deptford Bridge - Forces under King Henry VII soundly defeat troops led by Michael An Gof.
● 1565 - Matsunaga Hisahide assassinates the 13th Ashikaga shogun, Ashikaga Yoshiteru.
● 1579 - Sir Francis Drake claims a land he calls Nova Albion (modern California) at San Francisco Bay for England.
● 1631 - Mumtaz Mahal died during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, then spent more than 20 years to build her tomb, the Taj Mahal.
● 1703 - Birth of John Wesley, English founder of Methodism. The systematic disciplines of the 'Holy Club,' which John and his brother Charles founded, elicited the nickname 'Methodies' from their critics.
● 1745 - American colonials capture Louisburg, Cape Breton I from French
● 1773 - Cúcuta, Colombia is founded by Juana Rangel de Cuéllar
● 1775 - American Revolutionary War: The British won the Battle of Bunker Hill (actually it was Breed's Hill).
● 1789 - The Third Estate in France declared itself a national assembly, and began to frame a constitution.
● 1799 - Napoleon Bonaparte incorporated Italy into his empire.
● 1810 - Birth of Ferdinand Freiligrath, German labor poet and journalist.
● 1822 - In New York City, the first elders of the newly founded African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Zion Church were ordained.
● 1824 - U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs established, Washington DC.
● 1837 - Charles Goodyear received his first patent. The patent was for a process that made rubber easier to work with.
● 1839 - In the Kingdom of Hawaii, Kamehameha III issues the Edict of toleration which gives Roman Catholics the freedom to worship in the Hawaiian Islands. The Hawaii Catholic Church and the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace is later established as a result.
● 1846 - Iowa College was chartered in Davenport under the joint sponsorship of the Congregational and Presbyterian churches. The school changed location in 1859 and was later renamed Grinnell College.
● 1848 - Austrian General Alfred Windischgratz crushed a Czech uprising in Prague.
● 1850 - Paddle-wheeler "G P Griffith" burns off Mentor Ohio (206 die)
● 1854 - The Red Turban revolt broke out in Guangdong, China.
● 1856 - The Republican Party opened its first national convention in Philadelphia.
● 1859 - Birth of J. Wilbur Chapman, Presbyterian pastor and evangelist who authored a number of hymns, including 'One Day When Heaven Was Filled with His Praises.'
● 1861 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln witnessed Dr. Thaddeus Lowe demonstrate the use of a hydrogen balloon.
● 1863 - Battle of Aldie in the Gettysburg Campaign, Confederates fail to drive back the Union in Virginia
● 1872 - George M. Hoover began selling whiskey in Dodge City, Kansas. The town had been dry up until this point.
● 1876 - Indian Wars: Battle of the Rosebud - An encampment of Lakota and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse is attacked by, and subsequently routs, attacking U.S. army soldiers. Rosebud, South Dakota.
● 1877 - Indian Wars: Battle of White Bird Canyon - The Nez Perce defeat the US Cavalry at White Bird Canyon in the Idaho Territory.
● 1879 - Thomas Edison received an honorary degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the trustees of Rutgers College in New Brunswick, NJ.
● 1882 - Tornado kills 130 in Iowa
● 1882 - Igor Stravinsky, the Russian composer, was born.
● 1885 - The Statue of Liberty arrived in New York City aboard the French ship Isere.
● 1894 - 1st US poliomyelitis epidemic breaks out, Rutland, Vermont
● 1895 - George MacLeod, pastor, pacifist and founder of Iona Community in Scotland, born.
● 1895 - US Ship Canal (W 225th St) in the Bronx completed; cutting Marble Hill off from Manhattan
● 1897 - William Frank Powell, NJ educator, named minister to Haiti
● 1898 - The United States Navy Hospital Corps is established.
● 1907 - Equality Colony in Washington state closes.
● 1909 - A Kopff discovers asteroid #682 Hagar
● 1912 - The German Zeppelin SZ 111 burned in its hanger in Friedrichshafen.
● 1913 - IWW sitdown strike at Studebaker.
● 1913 - U.S. Marines set sail from San Diego to protect American interests in Mexico.
● 1917 - The Russian Duma met in a secret session in Petrograd and voted for an immediate Russian offensive against the German Army.
● 1924 - The Fascist militia marched into Rome.
● 1925 - Protocol forbidding gas and bacteriological warfare signed, Geneva.
● 1926 - Spain threatened to quit the League of Nations if Germany was allowed to join.
● 1928 - Amelia Earhart embarked on the first trans-Atlantic flight by a woman. She flew from Newfoundland to Wales in about 21 hours as a passenger.
● 1930 - U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act into law. It placed the highest tariff on imports to the U.S.
● 1931 - British authorities in China arrested Indochinese Communist leader Ho Chi Minh.
● 1932 - Bonus Army: Around a thousand World War I veterans amass at the United States Capitol as the U.S. Senate defeated a bill that would give them certain benefits.
● 1933 - Union Station Massacre: In Kansas City, Missouri, four FBI agents and captured fugitive Frank Nash were gunned down by gangsters attempting to free Nash.
● 1939 - Last public guillotining in France. Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is guillotined in Versailles outside the prison Saint-Pierre.
● 1940 - France asked Germany for terms of surrender in World War II.
● 1940 - France asks Germany for terms of surrender in WW II
● 1940 - The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania fall under the occupation of the Soviet Union.
● 1940 - World War II: Operation Ariel begins - Allied troops start to evacuate France, following Germany's takeover of Paris and most of the nation.
● 1940 - World War II: Sinking of the RMS Lancastria by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France.
● 1942 - 1st WW II American expeditionary force lands in Africa (Gold Coast)
● 1942 - Yank, a weekly magazine for the U.S. armed services, began publication. The term "G.I. Joe" was first used in a comic strip by Dave Breger.
● 1944 - French troops landed on the island of Elba in the Mediterranean.
● 1944 - Iceland becomes independent from Denmark and forms a republic at Thingvallir, Iceland.
● 1945 - Day of Unity in West Germany (National Day)
● 1947 - 1st round-the-world civil air service leaves NYC
● 1948 - A Douglas DC-6 carrying United Airlines Flight 624 crashes near Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, killing all 43 people on board.
● 1948 - Joe Cronin pinch hit HRs in both ends of a doubleheader
● 1950 - Dr. Richard H. Lawler performed the first kidney transplant in a 45-minute operation in Chicago, IL.
● 1953 - Soviet tanks fought thousands of Berlin workers that were rioting against the East German government asking for reunification.
● 1953 - Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas stays executions of spies Julius & Ethel Rosenberg scheduled for the next day, their 14th anniversary.
● 1953 - Workers Uprising: Workers strike for democracy; U.S.S.R. invades "to restore law and order." East Berlin, East Germany.
● 1954 - Televised Senate Army McCarthy hearings ends
● 1957 - Tuskegee boycott begins (Blacks boycotted city stores)
● 1960 - First convention of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), New York City.
● 1961 - The New Democratic Party of Canada is founded with the merger of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and the Canadian Labour Congress.
● 1961 - Russian dancer in freedom dash; Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev breaks free from security guards at Paris airport and asks for asylum in France.
● 1963 - The United States Supreme Court ruled 8 to 1 in Abington School District v. Schempp against allowing the reciting of Bible verses and the Lord's Prayer in public schools.
● 1963 - English apologist C.S. Lewis wrote in a letter: 'Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave it with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.'
● 1964 - Japan trade fair floats into London; The first purpose-built floating trade fair docks at Tilbury in London with 22,000 samples of Japanese goods on board.
● 1965 - 28.14 cm (11.08") of rainfall, Holly, Colorado (state 24-hour record)
● 1965 - Twenty-seven B-52’s hit Viet Cong outposts but lost two planes in South Vietnam.
● 1967 - China becomes world's 4th thermonuclear (H-bomb) power
● 1970 - North Vietnamese troops cut the last operating rail line in Cambodia.
● 1970 - 'Babes in the wood' bodies found; Detectives investigating the disappearance of two children are at the site of a shallow grave in Essex where two bodies have been found.
● 1971 - C U Cesco discovers asteroid #2399 Terradas
● 1971 - Representatives of Japan and the United States sign the Okinawa Reversion Agreement, setting out a plan where the U.S. would return control of Okinawa.
● 1972 - Watergate scandal: Five White House operatives are arrested for burglarizing the offices of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate Hotel complex, on their fourth try, in Washington, D.C., in an attempt by some members of the Republican party to illegally wiretap the opposition. It would turn they work for CREEP—Committee to RE-Elect the President (Nixon)
● 1974 - IRA bombs parliament; A bomb explodes at the Houses of Parliament, causing extensive damage and injuring 11 people.
● 1974 - Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroids #2997 & #3083
● 1975 - Voters in Northern Mariana Is approve commonwealth status with US
● 1977 - EPA approves Seabrook nuclear power plant, New Hampshire.
● 1977 - International Indian Treaty Council announces its intention to provide Soviet Union with a list of U.S. human rights abuses against its indigenous peoples.
● 1980 - Government announces missile sites; The locations for the first US nuclear missiles to be stored on British soil are revealed by the government.
● 1980 - C Shoemaker discovers asteroid #2586 Matson
● 1982 - Former U.S. President Richard M. Nixon was interviewed by Diane Sawyer on "The CBS Morning News."
● 1982 - National Marine Fisheries Service, after 14 month SAM-SCAM investigation of illegal fish sales on the Columbia River--using wire taps, body microphones, aerial reconnaissance photography and river patrols, and zeroing in on the 147-mile stretch between the Bonneville and McNary Dams where only Indians fish under the 1974 Boldt decision based on the 1855 treaty, raids camp of and arrests David SoHappy, 50, Howard Jim, 65, and 73 other Indians.
● 1982 - Pres Reagan 1st UN Gen Assembly address ("evil empire" speech)
● 1982 - President Galtieri resigns after leading Argentina to defeat
● 1982 - The body of "God's Banker", Roberto Calvi is found hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London.
● 1985 - 18th Space Shuttle Mission (51-G)-Discovery 5 launched
● 1985 - Judy Norton-Taylor was photographed for "Playboy" magazine.
● 1986 - Chief Justice Warren Earl Burger resigns Antonin Scalia nominated
● 1987 - American journalist Charles Glass was kidnapped. He was held captive for 62 days until he escaped on August 18, 1987.
● 1987 - With the death of the last individual, the Dusky Seaside Sparrow becomes extinct.
● 1988 - Microsoft releases MS DOS 4.0
● 1988 - The Givens' Family reports Mike Tyson beats his wife Robin Givens
● 1988 - Women sentenced to 90 years in 1st product tampering murder case
● 1991 - Apartheid: The South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act, which had required all racial classification of all South Africans at birth.
● 1991 - Country entertainer Minnie Pearl suffers a stroke at 78
● 1992 - A 'Joint Understanding' agreement on arms reduction is signed by U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin (this would be later codified in START II). {Even later ignored by Bush's son the war criminal)
● 1994 - O.J. Simpson drove his Ford Bronco across Orange and Los Angeles Counties with police in pursuit and millions of people watching live on television. After the slow speed chase ended Simpson was arrested and charged with the murders of Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
● 2001 - Catholic leader Cardinal Winning dies; The leader of the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland dies suddenly at his Glasgow home.
● 2003 - Canada legalizes gay marriage.
● 2005 - Former Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski and a second executive, Mark H. Swartz, were convicted of looting their company of more than $600 million. (Each was later sentenced to 8-1/3 to 25 years in prison.)
● 2006 - Officials in Chechnya reported police had killed rebel leader Abdul-Khalim Sadulayev by acting on a tip from within his network.
BIRTHS
● 1239 - King Edward I of England (d. 1307)
● 1603 - Joseph of Cupertino, Italian saint (d. 1663)
● 1682 - King Charles XII of Sweden (d. 1718)
● 1691 - Giovanni Paolo Pannini, Italian painter and architect (d. 1765)
● 1693 - Johann Georg Walch, German theologian (d. 1775)
● 1703 - John Wesley, English Anglican clergyman and evangelist (d. 1791)
● 1704 - John Kay, English inventor (d. 1780)
● 1714 - Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, German philosopher (d. 1762)
● 1714 - César-François Cassini de Thury, French astronomer (d. 1784)
● 1718 - George Howard, British field marshal (d. 1796)
● 1742 - William Hooper, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1790)
● 1808 - Henrik Wergeland, Norwegian author (d. 1845)
● 1810 - Ferdinand Freiligrath, German writer (d. 1876)
● 1811 - Jón Sigurðsson, Icelandic independence fighter (d. 1879)
● 1818 - Charles Gounod, French composer (d. 1893)
● 1821 - E. G. Squier, American newspaper editor, diplomat and archaeologist (d. 1888)
● 1832 - Sir William Crookes, English physicist and chemist (d. 1919)
● 1839 - Fr. Arthur Tooth SSC, Anglican Clergyman prosecuted for ritualist activities (d. 1931)
● 1861 - Pete Browning, American baseball player (d. 1905)
● 1867 - John Robert Gregg, inventor of shorthand system (d. 1948)
● 1867 - Henry Lawson, Australian poet (d. 1922)
● 1871 - James Weldon Johnson, American poet, diplomat and anthologist of black culture (d. 1938)
● 1880 - Carl Van Vechten, American writer and photographer (d. 1964)
● 1881 - Tommy Burns, Canadian boxer (d. 1955)
● 1882 - Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer (d. 1971)
● 1888 - Aleksandr Friedmann, Russian mathematician and physical scientist (d. 1925)
● 1888 - Heinz Guderian, German General (d. 1954)
● 1898 - M.C. Escher, Dutch artist (d. 1972)
● 1898 - Carl Hermann, German physicist (d. 1961)
● 1900 - Martin Bormann, Nazi official (d. 1945)
● 1902 - Sammy Fain, American popular music composer (d. 1989)
● 1902 - Alec Hurwood, Australian cricketer (d. 1982)
● 1903 - Ruth Wakefield, inventor of the Toll House Cookie, the first chocolate chip cookie (d. 1977)
● 1904 - Ralph Bellamy, American actor (d. 1991)
● 1907 - Charles Eames, American designer and architect (d. 1978)
● 1909 - Elmer Lee Andersen, Governor of Minnesota (d. 2004)
● 1909 - Ralph E. Winters, Canadian film editor (d. 2004)
● 1910 - Red Foley, American musician (d. 1968)
● 1910 - George Hees, Canadian politician (d. 1996)
● 1914 - John Hersey, American author (d. 1993)
● 1915 - Karl Targownik, Hungarian psychiatrist (d. 1996)
● 1915 - David "Stringbean" Akeman, American banjo player and actor (d. 1973)
● 1917 - Atle Selberg, Norwegian mathematician
● 1918 - Ajahn Chah, Buddhist meditation master
● 1919 - Kingman Brewster, Jr., American educator, diplomat; president of Yale University (1963-77) (d. 1988)
● 1920 - Jacob H. Gilbert, American politician (d. 1981)
● 1920 - François Jacob, French biologist, Nobel laureate
● 1923 - Elroy 'Crazylegs' Hirsch, American football player (d. 2004)
● 1927 - Martin Böttcher, German conductor
● 1929 - Bud Collins, Tennis journalist
● 1929 - Tigran Petrosian, Armenian chess player (d. 1984)
● 1930 - Brian Statham, English cricketer (d. 2000)
● 1932 - Peter Lupus, Actor
● 1932 - John Murtha, U.S. representative, D-PA
● 1933 - Rod Paige, Former secretary of education
● 1933 - Christian Ferras, French violinist (d. 1982)
● 1933 - Harry Browne, American free-market libertarian writer, politician, and investment analyst (d. 2006)
● 1936 - Ken Loach, British director
● 1940 - George Akerlof, American economist, Nobel laureate
● 1942 - Mohamed ElBaradei, Egyptian International Atomic Energy Agency director, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
● 1943 - Newt Gingrich, American politician
● 1943 - Barry Manilow, American musician
● 1945 - Tommy Franks, American General
● 1945 - Ken Livingstone, English politician
● 1945 - Eddy Merckx, Belgian cyclist
● 1945 - Frank Ashmore, American actor
● 1946 - Peter Rosei, Austrian writer
● 1948 - Aurelio López, baseball player (d. 1992)
● 1948 - Dave Concepción, Venezuelian baseball player
● 1951 - Joe Piscopo, American actor and comedian ("Saturday Night Live")
● 1952 - Mike Milbury, American ice hockey player, coach and executive
● 1954 - Mark Linn-Baker, Actor
● 1957 - Philip Chevron, Rock musician (The Pogues)
● 1957 - Jon Gries, American actor
● 1957 - Martin Dillon, American opera singer (d. 2005)
● 1957 - Jack Wouterse, Dutch actor
● 1958 - Jello Biafra, American musician and activist
● 1958 - Bobby Farrelly, American film director
● 1958 - Sam Hamad, Syrian-born Canadian politician
● 1960(61? NYT) - Thomas Haden Church, Actor ("Sideways")
● 1962 - Michael Monroe, Finnish singer (Hanoi Rocks)
● 1963 - Greg Kinnear, American actor
● 1964 - Michael Gross, German swimmer
● 1964 - Rinaldo Capello, Italian racing driver
● 1964 - Erin Murphy, American actress
● 1965 - Dan Jansen, Olympic gold-medal speed skater
● 1965 - Dermontti Dawson, American football player
● 1966 - Jason Patric, American actor
● 1967 - Eric Stefani, American musician
● 1968 - Minoru Suzuki, Japanese professional wrestler
● 1969 - Kevin Thornton, R&B singer
● 1969 - Paul Tergat, Kenyan athlete
● 1970 - Jason Hanson, American football player
● 1970 - Sasha Sokol, Mexican singer and actress
● 1970 - Will Forte, American writer, actor and comedian
● 1970 - Stéphane Fiset, French Canadian ice hockey player
● 1971 - Paulina Rubio, Mexican singer
● 1971 - Mildred Fox, Irish politician
● 1973 - Krayzie Bone, American rapper (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony)
● 1973 - Leander Paes, Indian tennis player
● 1974 - Evangelia Psarra, Greek archer
● 1975 - Joshua Leonard, American actor
● 1975 - Chloe Jones, American actor (d. 2005)
● 1977 - Mark Tauscher, American football player
● 1977 - Branko Tomovic, Serbian actor
● 1978 - Kumiko Aso, Japanese actress
● 1978 - Isabelle Delobel, French European ice dancer
● 1979 - Nick Rimando, American soccer player
● 1980 - Kimeru, Japanese singer
● 1980 - Venus Williams, American tennis player
● 1981 - Amrita Rao, Indian model and actress
● 1981 - Kyle Boller, American football quarterback
● 1983 - Lee Ryan, British singer, formerly of Blue
● 1983 - Kazunari Ninomiya, Japanese singer and actor
● 1983 - Connie Fisher, English stage actress
● 1983 - Herculeez, Rapper
● 1985 - Marcos Baghdatis, Cypriot professional tennis player
● 1985 - Rafael Sóbis, Brazilian footballer
DEATHS
● 1025 - Bolesław I the Brave, first king of Poland
● 1091 - Dirk V, Count of Holland (b. 1052)
● 1285 - Yekuno Amlak, Emperor of Ethiopia and restorer of the Solomonic dynasty[1]
● 1463 - Princess Catherine of Portugal, writer (b. 1436)
● 1565 - Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Japanese shogun (b. 1536)
● 1694 - Philip Cardinal Howard, English Catholic Cardinal (b. 1629)
● 1696 - John III Sobieski, King of Poland (b. 1629)
● 1719 - Joseph Addison, English politician and writer (b. 1672)
● 1734 - Claude-Louis-Hector de Villars, Marshal of France (b. 1653)
● 1740 - William Wyndham, English politician (b. 1687)
● 1762 - Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, French writer (b. 1674)
● 1775 - Major John Pitcairn, British marine (killed in battle) (b. 1722)
● 1797 - Agha Muhammad Khan, Shah of Persia (b. 1742)
● 1813 - Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, English sailor and politician (b. 1726)
● 1821 - Martín Miguel de Güemes Argentine military leader (b. 1785)
● 1858 - Rani Lakshmibai, queen of Jhansi in North India, one of the leading figures of the Indian rebellion of 1857 (b. 1828)
● 1898 - Edward Burne-Jones, English artist (b. 1833)
● 1904 - Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov, Russian politician, Governor-General of Finland (assassinated) (b. 1839)
● 1939 - Allen Sothoron, American baseball player (b. 1893)
● 1940 - Arthur Harden, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
● 1942 - Charles Fitzpatrick, Canadian politician (b. 1853)
● 1952 - Jack Parsons, American rocket-fuel pioneer and renegade occultist (b. 1914)
● 1956 - Paul Rostock, German doctor (b. 1892)
● 1956 - Bob Sweikert, American racing driver (b. 1926)
● 1957 - Dorothy Richardson, English writer (b. 1873)
● 1961 - Jeff Chandler, American actor (b. 1918)
● 1968 - José Nasazzi, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1901)
● 1974 - Pamela Britton, American actress (b. 1923)
● 1979 - Duffy Lewis, baseball player (b. 1888)
● 1981 - Richard O'Connor, British general (b. 1889)
● 1981 - Zerna Sharp, American writer and educator (Dick and Jane) (b. 1889)
● 1982 - Roberto Calvi, Italian banker (b. 1920)
● 1983 - Peter Mennin, American composer and teacher (b. 1923)
● 1986 - Kate Smith, American singer (God Bless America) (b. 1907)
● 1987 - Dick Howser, baseball player and manager (b. 1936)
● 1996 - Thomas Kuhn, American philosopher of science (b. 1922)
● 2001 - Donald J. Cram, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1919)
● 2002 - Willie Davenport, American athlete (b. 1943)
● 2002 - Fritz Walter, German footballer (b. 1920)
● 2004 - Gerry McNeil, Canadian hockey player (b. 1926)
● 2005 - Karl Mueller, American bassist (Soul Asylum) (b. 1962)
● 2005 - Sam Loeb, comic book writer (b. 1988)
● 2006 - Cláudio Besserman Vianna, aka "Bussunda", Brazilian comedian (b. 1962)
● 2007 - Gianfranco Ferrè, Italian fashion designer (b. 1944)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Adulf
● St. Albert Chmielowski
● St. Alena of Dilbeek (died 640)
● St. Antidius
● St. Avitus
● St. Botolph (Abbot, died circa 680)
● St. Briavel
● St. Emily de Vialar
● St. Gondulf
● St. Harvey
● St. Hervé patron of the blind
● St. Himerius
● St. Hypatius of Bithynia
● St. Manuel
● St. Moling
● St. Montanus
● St. Nectan
● St. Nicander and Marcian
● St. Rainbold
● St. Rainier
● St. Teresa of Portugal
● Bl. Emmanuel d'Abreu
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for June 4 (Civil Date: June 17)
● St. Metrophanes, first Patriarch of Constantinople.
● Hieromartyr Astius, Bishop of Dyrrachium in Macedonia.
● Martyr Concordius of Spoleto.
● Martyrs Frontasius, Severinus, Severian, and Salanus of Gaul.
● St. Zosimas of Cilicia, Bishop of Babylon in Egypt.
● St. Methodius, abbot of Peshnosha, disciple of St. Sergius of Radonezh.
● St. Sophia of Thrace.
● St. John, abbot of Monagria near Cyzicus.
● St. Alonius of Scete in Egypt.
● Saints Mary and Martha, sisters of St. Lazarus.
● Saints Eleazar and Nazarius, wonderworkers of Olonets.
● New-Martyrs Archbishops.
● Andronicus of Perm and Basil of Chernigov, and those with them (1918).
● Repose of Righteous sisters Vera and Lyubov (June 8), foundresses of Shamordino Convent of Elder Ambrose of Optina (1883).
● Iceland's national day, celebrating independence from Denmark in 1944.
● National holiday of West Germany until 1990 (when it was changed to October 3), see Workers' Uprising of 1953 in East Germany.
● Anglican:
● St. Alban
● Japan : Lily Festival
● Massachusetts : Bunker Hill Day (1775)
● 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 )
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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