Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Laws "The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they'll sleep at night." — Otto von Bismarck
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Absurdity "If life were to be found on a planet, then it would also have been contaminated by original sin and would require salvation." — Piero Coda, Roman Catholic theologian, discussing the possible need to evangelize extraterrestrials
Thought for the day: "Never borrow trouble, the interest is entirely too high."
{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
Monitoring M2-9
Credit: R. Corradi, M. Santander-Garcia (Isaac Newton Group, IAC), Bruce Balick (U. Washington)
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 1155 - Coronation of Fredrick I "Barbarossa," King of Germany, as Holy Roman Emperor; 1,000 Romans die in riots.
● 1178 - Five Canterbury monks see what was possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed (only such observation known). It is believed that the current oscillations of the moon's distance (on the order of meters) are a result of this collision.
● 1264 - The Parliament of Ireland meets at Castledermot in County Kildare, the first definitively known meeting of this Irish legislature.
● 1429 - French forces under the leadership of Joan of Arc crush the main English army under Sir John Fastolf at the Battle of Patay. This turns the tide of the Hundred Years' War.
● 1464 - Pius II led a brief 'crusade' into Italy, against the Turks. However, he soon became ill and died, before the rest of his allies arrived. Soon after, the three-centuries-old 'crusades mentality' among European Christians came to an end.
● 1583 - Richard Martin of London takes out 1st life insurance policy, on William Gibbons.
● 1621 - The first duel in America took place in the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts.
● 1667 - The Dutch fleet sailed up the Thames toward London.
● 1767 - Samuel Wallis, an English sea captain, sighted Tahiti and is considered the first European to reach the island.
● 1778 - British troops evacuate Philadelphia as Colonial forces enter.
● 1781 - The first Baptist church established in Kentucky was organized at Elizabethtown. (Kentucky was first visited by Baptist missionaries in 1772 when Squire Boone, brother of explorer Daniel Boone, began exploring the eastern Kentucky regions.)
● 1812 - U.S. Congress passes declaration of war against England to protect "seamen's rights and free trade." Hostilities began with a U.S. attempt to conquer Canada. British Navy invades and sacks new U.S. capitol at Washington, D.C.
● 1815 - At the Battle of Waterloo Napoleon was defeated by an international army under the Duke of Wellington. On June 22 Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated the throne of France for a second and final time.
● 1817 - London's Waterloo Bridge opened. The bridge, designed by John Rennie, was built over the River Thames.
● 1819 - Birth of Samuel Longfellow, an American clergyman who composed the words to the hymn, 'Father, Give Thy Benediction.'
● 1822 - Part of US-Canadian boundary determined
● 1830 - Birth of Elizabeth Cecilia Clephane, an orphaned Scottish poet who penned two of the most haunting hymns in the English language: 'Beneath the Cross of Jesus' and 'The Ninety and Nine.'
● 1858 - Charles Darwin receives from Alfred Russel Wallace a paper that included nearly identical conclusions about evolution as Darwin's own. This prompts Darwin to publish his theory.
● 1861 - The first American fly-casting tournament was held in Utica, NY.
● 1863 - After long neglect, Confederates hurriedly fortify Vicksburg
● 1864 - At Petersburg, Grant ends 4 days of assaults
● 1872 - Woman's Sufferage Convention held at Merchantile Liberty Hall
● 1873 - Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
● 1878 - C H F Peters discovers asteroid #188 Menippe
● 1884 - Edouard Daladier, the French politician who was a signer of the Munich Pact of 1938, was born.
● 1887 - The Reinsurance Treaty is closed between Germany and Russia.
● 1892 - Macademia nuts 1st planted in Hawaii
● 1900 - Empress Dowager Longyu of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families.
● 1903 - 1st transcontinental auto trip begins in SF; arrives NY 3-mo later
● 1906 - Birth of Gordon Lindsay, missions pioneer. In 1948 Lindsay and he wife Freda founded Christ for the Nations, an interdenominational foreign missions support agency.
● 1915 - During World War I, the second battle of Artois ended.
● 1916 - Six thousand attend anti-conscription rally, Sydney, Australia.
● 1918 - Allied forces on the Western Front began their largest counter-attack against the German army.
● 1921 - Eighteen IWW anti-war activists released from Leavenworth federal prison.
● 1925 - The first degree in landscape architecture was granted by Harvard University.
● 1927 - The U.S. Post Office offered a special 10-cent postage stamp for sale. The stamp was of Charles Lindbergh’s "Spirit of St. Louis."
● 1928 - Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean as she completed a flight from Newfoundland to Wales (she was a passenger; Wilmer Stutz was pilot and Lou Gordon, mechanic).
● 1928 - Birth of Chicano leader Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales. Denver, Colo.
● 1934 - Indian Reorganization Act passed against the virtually unanimous opposition of U.S. Indians, who generally felt they'd already been reorganized enough.
● 1934 - US Highway planning surveys nationwide authorized
● 1936 - 1st bicycle traffic court in America established, Racine, WI
● 1936 - Charles ‘Lucky’ Luciano was found guilty on 62 counts of compulsory prostitution.
● 1940 - Appeal of June 18 by Charles de Gaulle.
● 1940 - Winston Churchill urges perseverance so that future generations would remember that "this was their finest hour"
● 1941 - A. Philip Randolph and others meet with Pres. Roosevelt about their proposed March on Washington on July 1 to protest discrimination in war industries. A week later, Roosevelt orders their desegregation.
● 1942 - Eric Nessler of France stays aloft in a glider for 38h21m
● 1942 - Jews ordered to surrender all electrical goods, bicycles, and typewriters, Germany.
● 1942 - The U.S. Navy commissioned its first black officer, Harvard University medical student Bernard Whitfield Robinson.
● 1945 - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower received a tumultuous welcome in Washington, D.C., where he addressed a joint session of Congress.
● 1945 - William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) Brit radio traitor charged with treason
● 1946 - Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, a Socialist called for a Direct Action Day against the Portuguese in Goa. A road is named after this date in Panjim.
● 1948 - American Library Association adopts the Library Bill of Rights
● 1948 - National Security Council authorizes covert operations for 1st time
● 1948 - The United Nations Commission on Human Rights adopted its International Declaration of Human Rights.
● 1948 - Columbia Records unveiled its new long-playing, 33 1/3 rpm phonograph record.
● 1951 - General Vo Nguyen Giap ended his Red River Campaign against the French in Indochina.
● 1952 - U.S. denounces Soviet suggestion that it ratify the 1925 Geneva Protocol against bacteriological warfare.
● 1953 - A United States Air Force C-124 crashed and burned near Tokyo, Japan killing 129.
● 1953 - Egypt proclaimed a republic, General Neguib becomes president
● 1954 - Albert Fuller, former sheriff of Russell County, Alabama, murders Alfred Patterson, the Democratic nominee for Alabama State Attorney, after Patterson vowed to rid the county seat, Phoenix City, of vice.
● 1954 - Pierre Mendès-France becomes Prime Minister of France.
● 1956 - Last of foreign troops leaves Egypt
● 1956 - Truman rejects anti-Stalin talk; The former President of the United States, Harry Truman, dismisses suggestions Moscow may be about to turn its back on its Stalinist past.
● 1957 - John Diefenbacker (C) takes office as PM of Canada
● 1959 - 1st telecast transmitted from England to US
● 1959 - A Federal Court annulled the Arkansas law allowing school closings to prevent integration.
● 1959 - Governor of Louisiana Earl K. Long is committed to a state mental hospital; he responds by having the hospital's director fired and replaced with a crony who proceeds to proclaim him perfectly sane.
● 1961 - England - Pacifist Fortnight Campaign begins.
● 1961 - Radioactive leak on a Soviet nuclear submarine results in the deaths of 14 Soviet sailors.
● 1963 - Three thousand blacks boycott Boston public school.
● 1965 - Vietnam War: The United States uses B-52 bombers to attack National Liberation Front guerrilla fighters in South Vietnam.
● 1965 - Drink-drive limit to be introduced; The British government announces it will introduce a blood alcohol limit for drivers with penalties for those caught above it.
● 1966 - Samuel Nabrit became the first African American to serve on the Atomic Energy Commission.
● 1968 - Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in sale & rental of housing
● 1972 - A BEA Trident crashed just after takeoff from London Airport. All 118 people on board were killed.
● 1973 - NCAA makes urine testing mandatory for participants
● 1977 - Space Shuttle test model "Enterprise" carries a crew aloft for 1st time, It was fixed to a modified Boeing 747
● 1979 - In Vienna, U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev signed the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) 2.
● 1980 - C Shoemaker discovers asteroid #2891 McGetchin
● 1980 - E Bowell discovers asteroid #2569 Madeline
● 1981 - Europarliament calls for abolition of death penalty throughout Europe.
● 1981 - Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart retires (replaced by Sandra Day O'Connor, 1st woman on high court)
● 1982 - U.S.S.R. renounces first use of nuclear weapons.
● 1982 - Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended by Senate by 85-8 vote
● 1983 - IRA's Joseph Doherty arrested in NYC
● 1983 - Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.
● 1983 - Women's peace camp established at Bangor nuclear submarine base in Kitsap County.
● 1984 - Alan Berg was shot to death outside his home. Two white supremacists were convicted of civil rights violations in the murder.
● 1984 - Major clash between about 5,000 police and a similar number of miners at Orgreave, South Yorkshire, during the 1984-1985 miners' strike. Incident later known as the Battle of Orgreave.
● 1984 - Perth Observatory discovers asteroid #3541
● 1986 - 52 die in plane/helicopter collision over Grand Canyon
● 1989 - Comet Churyunov-Gerasimenko at perihelion
● 1989 - Muckraking journalist I. F. Stone dies.
● 1990 - "Redwood Summer" protests begin with IWW blockade of lumber exports, Sonoma, Calif.
● 1991 - Pres Zachary Taylors body is exhumed to test how he died
● 1996 - Richard Allen Davis was convicted in San Jose, CA, of the 1993 kidnap-murder of 12-year-old Polly Klaas.
● 1996 - Ted Kaczynski, suspected of being the Unabomber, is indicted on ten criminal counts.
● 1997 - Sirhan Sirhan was denied parole for the 10th time. He had assissinated presidential candidate Robert Kennedy in 1968.
● 1998 - "The Boston Globe" asked Patricia Smith to resign after she admitted to inventing people and quotes in four of her recent columns.
● 1998 - Nine commemorative U.S. postage stamps were reissued. The stamps were considered to be classically beautiful examples of stamp engraving.
● 1999 - Simultaneous anti-globalization protests around the world; includes "Reclaim the Streets" demonstration in Eugene, Oregon, which turns into a media-hyped "riot" in which 200 or so anarchists confront police and cause minor property damage, an incident which helps inspire local anarcho- primitivists to plan property damage later that year at WTO demonstrations in Seattle.
● 1999 - Anti-capitalism demo turns violent; Police and protesters clash at a demonstration against capitalism in the centre of London's financial district.
● 2000 - In Algiers, Algeria, the foreign ministers of Ethiopia and Eritrea signed a preliminary cease-fire accord and agreed to work toward a permanent settlement of their two-year border war.
● 2001 - Protests occur in Manipur over the extension of the ceasefire between Naga insurgents and the government of India.
● 2002 - In Jerusalem, a suicide bomber killed 19 people and injured at least 50 more on a city bus. The Islamic militant group Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
● 2003 - A Palestinian detonated a nail-studded bomb in a Jerusalem bus, killing 19 passengers and himself.
● 2004 - An al-Qaida cell in Saudi Arabia beheaded American engineer Paul M. Johnson Jr., posting grisly photographs of his severed head on the Internet; hours later, Saudi security forces tracked down and killed the alleged mastermind of the kidnapping and murder.
● 2004 - European Union leaders agreed on the first constitution for the bloc's 25 members.
● 2006 - Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori was elected the first female presiding bishop for the Episcopal Church, the U.S. arm of the global Anglican Communion.
● 2006 - The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat is launched.
BIRTHS
● 1466 - Ottaviano Petrucci, Italian printer (d. 1539)
● 1511 - Bartolomeo Ammanati, Italian architect and sculptor (d. 1592)
● 1517 - Emperor Ogimachi of Japan (d. 1593)
● 1552 - Gabriello Chiabrera, Italian poet (d. 1637)
● 1667 - Ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshal (d. 1750)
● 1681 - Feofan Prokopovich, Russian Orthodox archbishop; important ally of Peter the Great (d. 1736)
● 1716 - Joseph-Marie Vien, French painter (d. 1809)
● 1757 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine leader (d. 1833)
● 1757 - Ignaz Pleyel, Austrian composer and piano manufacturer (d. 1831)
● 1799 - William Lassell, English astronomer (d. 1880)
● 1812 - Ivan Goncharov, Russian author (d. 1891)
● 1815 - Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, German general (d. 1881)
● 1839 - William Henry Seward, Jr., Union Brigadier General in the American Civil War (d. 1920)
● 1845 - Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1922)
● 1854 – Edward Wyllis Scripps, American journalist and publisher (d. 1926)
● 1857 - Henry Clay Folger, American industrialist and philanthropist (d. 1930)
● 1863 - George Essex Evans, Australian poet (d. 1909)
● 1868 - Miklós Horthy, Hungarian admiral and regent (d. 1957)
● 1871 - Nicolae Iorga, Romanian scholar, statesman and historian (d. 1940)
● 1877 - James Montgomery Flagg, American illustrator (d. 1960)
● 1882 - Georgi Dimitrov, Bulgarian Communist leader (d. 1949)
● 1884 - Édouard Daladier, French politician (d. 1970)
● 1886 - Alexander Wetmore, American ornithologist (d. 1978)
● 1891 - Mae Busch, Australian actress (d. 1946)
● 1895 - Blanche Sweet, American actress (d. 1986)
● 1896 - Philip Barry, American dramatist (d. 1949)
● 1901 - Grand Duchess Anastasia Nicolaievna Romanova of Russia (d. 1918)
● 1903 - Jeanette MacDonald, American actress and singer (d. 1965)
● 1903 - Raymond Radiguet, French author (d. 1923)
● 1904 - Keye Luke, Chinese-born actor (d. 1991)
● 1904 - Manuel Rosenthal, French conductor and composer (d. 2003)
● 1907 - Frithjof Schuon, Swiss metaphysician, poet, and painter (d. 1998)
● 1908 - Bud Collyer, American game show host (d. 1969)
● 1908 - Nedra Volz, American actress (d. 2003)
● 1908 - Stanley Knowles, Canadian politician (d. 1997)
● 1910 - E.G. Marshall, American actor (d. 1998)
● 1910 - Ray McKinley, jazz drummer and bandleader (d. 1995)
● 1910 - Dick Foran, American actor (d. 1979)
● 1913 - Sammy Cahn, American composer (d. 1993)
● 1913 - Sylvia Field Porter, American economist and journalist
● 1915 - Red Adair, American firefighter (d. 2004)
● 1916 - Julio César Turbay Ayala, Colombian politician (d. 2005)
● 1917 - Richard Boone, American actor (d. 1981)
● 1917 - Arthur Tremblay, French Canadian politician (d. 1996)
● 1918 - Jerome Karle, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
● 1918 - Franco Modigliani, Italian-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003)
● 1920 - Ian Carmichael, English actor
● 1922 - Claude Helffer, French pianist (d. 2004)
● 1924 - George Mikan, American basketball player (d. 2005)
● 1926 - Tom Wicker, Journalist
● 1927 - Paul Eddington, English actor (d. 1995)
● 1927 - Eva Bartok, Hungarian-born British actress
● 1928 - David T. Lykken, American scientist
● 1929 - Jürgen Habermas, German sociologist and philosopher
● 1931 - Fernando Henrique Cardoso, President of Brazil from 1995 to 2002
● 1932 - Dudley R. Herschbach, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
● 1932 - Geoffrey Hill, English poet
● 1935 - Hugh McColl, American banker
● 1935 - John Spencer, English snooker player
● 1936 - Jay Rockefeller, U.S. senator, D-WV
● 1936 - Denny Hulme, 1967 Formula One World Champion (d. 1992)
● 1937 - Wray Carlton, American football player
● 1937 - John D. Rockefeller IV, U.S. Senator
● 1937 - Vitali Zholobov, cosmonaut
● 1938 - Kevin Murray, Australian footballer
● 1939 - Lou Brock, baseball player and Hall of Fame member
● 1939 - Jean-Claude Germain, French Canadian author, journalist and historian
● 1940 - Michael Sheard, British actor (d. 2005)
● 1942 - Roger Ebert, American film reviewer
● 1942 - Sir Paul McCartney, English singer and songwriter (The Beatles)
● 1942 - Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor (d. 2004)
● 1942 - Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa
● 1942 - Carl Radle, American bass guitarist (d. 1980)
● 1943 - Raffaella Carrà, Italian singer
● 1944 - Sandy Posey, American singer
● 1946 - Fabio Capello, Italian football coach
● 1946 - Bruiser Brody, professional wrestler (d. 1988)
● 1947 - Constance McCashin, Actress
● 1947 - Linda Thorson, Actress
● 1949 - Chris Van Allsburg, American author and illustrator
● 1949 - Prince Lincoln Thompson, Jamaican musician (d. 1999)
● 1949 - Lech Kaczyński, Polish president, 2005-present
● 1949 - Jarosław Kaczyński, Polish prime minister, twin brother of Lech Kaczyński
● 1950 - Mike Johanns, Secretary of agriculture
● 1950 - Jackie Leven aka Sir Vincent Lone Scottish singer and songwriter
● 1952 - Isabella Rossellini, Italian actress
● 1952 - Carol Kane, American actress
● 1956 - Brian Benben, American actor
● 1957 - Miguel Ángel Lotina, Spanish football manager
● 1960 - Ralph Brown, British actor
● 1961 - Andrés Galarraga, baseball player
● 1961 - Alison Moyet, English pop singer
● 1963 - Bruce Smith, American football player
● 1964 - Uday Hussein, Iraqi leader (d. 2003)
● 1966 - Kurt Browning, Canadian figure skater
● 1967 - Tim Hunt, Country musician
● 1969 - Sice, Rock musician (The Boo Radleys)
● 1969 - Pål Pot Pamparius, Norwegian musician (Turbonegro)
● 1969 - Vito LoGrasso, American professional wrestler
● 1969 - Christopher Largen, American author
● 1971 - Nathan Morris, American singer (Boyz II Men)
● 1971 - Mara Hobel, Actress
● 1971 - Jason McAteer, England-born Irish footballer
● 1972 - Michal Yannai, Israeli actress and model.
● 1973 - Alexandros Papadimitriou, Greek hammer thrower
● 1973 - Julie Depardieu, French actress
● 1974 - Vincenzo Montella, Italian footballer
● 1975 - Silkk the Shocker, Rapper
● 1975 - Martin St. Louis, Canadian hockey player
● 1975 - Aleksandrs Koliņko, Latvian footballer
● 1975 - Marie Gillain, Belgian actress
● 1975 - Jemma Griffiths, Welsh singer-songwriter
● 1975 - Jamel Debbouze, French actor and producer
● 1976 - Alana de la Garza, American actress ("Law and Order")
● 1976 - Blake Shelton, Country singer
● 1978 - Tara Platt, American actress
● 1978 - Wang Liqin, Chinese table tennis player
● 1980 - Antonio Gates, American football player
● 1980 - Ivana Wong, Hong Kong singer and songwriter
● 1981 - Kim Jae Won, South Korean actor
● 1981 - Teresa Cormack, New Zealand murder victim (d. 1987)
● 1981 - Ella (Jiahua) Chen, member of the Taiwanese girl-group S.H.E
● 1982 - Sean Conant, Irish-American artist
● 1984 - Mateus, Angolan footballer
● 1989 - Renee Olstead, American singer and actress
● 1991 - Willa Holland, American actress
● 2006 - Countess Zaria of Orange-Nassau, Jonkvrouwe van Amsberg
DEATHS
● 1234 - Emperor Chukyo of Japan (b. 1218)
● 1291 - King Alfonso III of Aragon (b. 1265)
● 1464 - Roger van der Weyden, Flemish painter
● 1588 - Robert Crowley, English printer and poet
● 1629 - Piet Hein, Dutch naval commander and folk hero (b. 1577)
● 1650 - Christoph Scheiner, German astronomer
● 1673 - Jeanne Mance, French Canadian settler (b. 1606)
● 1680 - Samuel Butler, English poet (b. 1612)
● 1704 - Tom Brown, English satirist (b. 1662)
● 1726 - Michel Richard Delalande, French organist and composer (b. 1657)
● 1742 - John Aislabie, English politician (b. 1670)
● 1749 - Ambrose Philips, English poet (b. 1674)
● 1772 - Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German judge and philosopher (b. 1706)
● 1772 - Gerard van Swieten, Dutch-born physician (b. 1700)
● 1788 - Adam Gib, Scottish religious leader (b. 1714)
● 1794 - François Nicolas Leonard Buzot, French Revolutionary leader (b. 1760)
● 1794 - James Murray, British military officer and administrator (b. 1721)
● 1815 - Thomas Picton, British general (killed in battle) (b. 1758)
● 1815 - Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, French general (b. 1766)
● 1835 - William Cobbett, English journalist and author (b. 1763)
● 1902 - Samuel Butler, English writer (b. 1835)
● 1915 - Eufemio Zapata, brother to Mexican revolutionist Emiliano Zapata, killed by Sidronio Comancho
● 1922 - Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer (b. 1851)
● 1928 - Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer (b. 1872)
● 1936 - Maxim Gorky, Russian author (b. 1868)
● 1937 - Gaston Doumergue, French statesman (b. 1863)
● 1959 - Ethel Barrymore, American actress (b. 1879)
● 1963 - Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican actor (b. 1912)
● 1967 - Beat Fehr, Swiss racing driver (b. 1942)
● 1971 - Paul Karrer, Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)
● 1973 - Roger Delgado, British actor (b. 1918)
● 1974 - Georgy Zhukov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1896)
● 1974 - Júlio César de Mello e Souza, Brazilian writer (b. 1896)
● 1980 - André Leducq, French cyclist (b. 1904)
● 1980 - Terence Fisher, English film director (b. 1904)
● 1982 - John Cheever, American author (b. 1912)
● 1982 - Curd Jürgens, German actor (b. 1915)
● 1984 - Alan Berg, American radio talk show host
● 1985 - Paul Colin, French poster designer (b. 1892)
● 1986 - Frances Scott Fitzgerald, Daughter of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre. (b. 1921)
● 1992 - Mordecai Ardon, one of Israel's greatest painters (b. 1896)
● 1992 - Peter Allen, Australian singer and songwriter (b. 1944)
● 1997 - Lev Kopelev, Russian writer and dissident (b. 1912)
● 2000 - Nancy Marchand, American actress (b. 1928)
● 2002 - Jack Buck, American baseball announcer (b. 1924)
● 2003 - Larry Doby, American baseball player (b. 1923)
● 2005 - Syed Mushtaq Ali, Indian cricketer (b. 1914)
● 2005 - Manuel Sadosky, Argentine mathematician (b. 1914)
● 2006 - Vincent Sherman, American film director (b. 1906)
● 2007 - Bernard Manning, British comedian (b. 1930)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● Solemnity of Corpus Christi (Body & Blood of Christ)
● St. Alena
● St. Amandus
● St. Aquilina
● St. Calogerus
● St. Elizabeth of Schönau
● St. Ephrem, confessor, doctor
● St. Etherius
● St. Fortunatus
● St. Gregory Barbarigo
● St. Guy
● Sts. Hypatius and Theodulus
● St. Leontius
● St. Marina
● Sts. Mark & Marcellian, martyrs
● St. Osmanna
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for June 5 (Civil Date: June 18)
● Hieromartyr Dorotheus, Bishop of Tyre.
● Repose of St. Theodore Yaroslavich, older brother of St. Alexander Nevsky.
● Martyrs Marcian, Nicander, Hyperechius, Apollonius, Leonides, Arius, Gorgias, Selenias, Irenius, and Pambo, of Egypt.
● St. Theodore the wonderworker, hermit of the Jordan.
● St. Anubius, confessor and anchorite of Egypt.
● Blessed Constantine, Metropolitan of Kiev.
● Blessed Igor-George, tonsured Gabriel, Great Prince of Chernigov and Kiev.
● St. Abba Dorotheus of Palestine.
● St. Peter, monk of Serbia.
● Finding of the relics of Saints Bassian and Jonah, monks of Pertomsk (Solovki).
● St. Basil, Bishop of Ryazan.
● New-Martyr Mark of Smyrna, who suffered in Chios.
● St. Illidius, Bishop of Clermont (Gaul).
● Greek Calendar:
● Martyr Christopher of Rome.
● Martyr Conon of Rome.
● Anglican: Commemoration of Bernard Mizeki, catechist, martyr in Rhodesia
● Seychelles - National Day.
● Autistic Pride Day, beginning in 2005.
● International Phi day
● Egypt : Evacuation Day (1956)
● This Holiday is only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● 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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