Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Idealism "Our ideals are our better selves." — Amos Bronson Alcott
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Christians Against Pluralism "The 'wall of separation between church and state' is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned." — William Rehnquist, chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
Thought for the day: "Justice delayed is justice denied."
{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
3D Full Moon
Credit & Copyright: Laurent Laveder (PixHeaven.net)
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EVENTS
● 455 - The Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks.
● 553 - The Second Council of Constantinople closed. Led by Eutychius, Patriarch of Constantinople, the council condemned the Nestorian writings of Theodore of Mopsuestia, Theodoret of Cyprus and Ibas of Edessa.
● 575 - Benedict I becomes Pope.
● 597 - Augustine, missionary to England and first archbishop of Canterbury, baptized Saxon king Ethelbert. Afterward, the Christian faith spread rapidly among the Angles and Saxons.
● 657 - St Eugene I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
● 1098 - First Crusade: The first Siege of Antioch ends as Crusader forces take the city. The second siege would later start on June 7.
● 1537 - Pope Paul III banned the enslavement of Indians.
● 1567 - Shane O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, Irish rebel, assassinated.
● 1615 - First Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France.
● 1738 - Writing of his contemporary, English revivalist George Whitefield penned in his journal: 'The good which John Wesley has done in America, under God, is inexpressible. His name is very precious among the people; and he has laid such a foundation that I hope neither man nor devils will ever be able to shake.'
● 1740 - Birth of writer and sex deviate Marquis de Sade, Paris. By order of the king and at his mother-in-law's request, the 23-year-old bridegroom of five months was imprisoned, in theory for excesses committed in a brothel he was frequenting for a month, but probably because he was spending his wife's money too fast. He then spent the next 27 years in prisons. To overcome boredom he started to write sexually graphic novels and plays.
● 1763 - Pontiac's Rebellion: At what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a ball into the fort.
● 1774 - Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act, requiring American colonists to let British soldiers into their homes, is reenacted.
● 1793 - Jean-Paul Marat recites the names of 29 people to the French National Convention. Almost all of these are guillotined, followed by 17,000 more over the course of the next year during the Reign of Terror.
● 1797 - 1st ascent of "Great Mountain" (4,622') in Adirondack NY (C Broadhead)
● 1800 - First smallpox vaccination in North America, at Trinity, Newfoundland.
● 1818 - The British army defeated the Maratha alliance in Bombay, India.
● 1834 - 5th national black convention meet (NYC)
● 1848 - Slavic congress in Prague begins.
● 1851 - 1st US alcohol prohibition law enacted (Maine)
● 1855 - The Portland Rum Riot occurs in Portland, Maine.
● 1857 - James Gibbs, Va., patents chain-stitch single-thread sewing machine
● 1858 - Donati Comet 1st seen named after it's discoverer
● 1862 - Gen Robert E Lee takes command of the Confederate armies of E VA & NC
● 1863 - Harriet Tubman frees 750 slaves in raid.
● 1864 - Battle of Cold Harbour, Day 2
● 1865 - At Galveston, Kirby-Smith surrenders the Trans-Mississippi Dept
● 1866 - Renegade Irish Fenians surrender to US forces
● 1873 - Ground broken on Clay St (SF) for world's 1st cable railroad
● 1875 - James A. Healy was consecrated bishop over the Diocese of Maine, making him the first African- American bishop in the history of American Catholicism.
● 1883 - Chicago's "El" opens to traffic
● 1886 - U.S. President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom in the White House, becoming the only president to wed in the executive mansion.
● 1896 - Guglielmo Marconi receives a patent for his newest invention: the radio.
● 1897 - Mark Twain, at age 61, was quoted by the New York Journal as saying "the report of my death was an exaggeration." He was responding to the rumors that he had died.
● 1899 - Black Americans observed day of fasting to protest lynchings
● 1902 - 2nd statewide initiative & referendum law adopted, in Oregon {Later when Arizona was trying to get statehood, President Taft would object to the inclusion of initiative and referendum clause in the new state Constitution and it was omitted. Within a year of being granted statehood it was reinstated in the state Constitution.}
● 1904 - Johnny Weissmuller, the Olympic gold medallist and actor famous for his portrayal of "Tarzan"was born.
● 1907 - Second International Peace Conference opens, The Hague, Netherlands.
● 1909 - Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
● 1910 - 1st roundtrip flight over the English Channel (Charles Stewart Roll, England)
● 1910 - Pygmies discovered in Dutch New Guinea
● 1913 - 1st strike settlement mediated by US Dep't of Labor-RR clerks
● 1916 - IWW Mesabi Range strike.
● 1924 - U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
● 1925 - Bulgarian anarchist George Cheitanov, age 29, is executed for having led an attack on the capital of Sofia in April.
● 1928 - Nationalist Chiang Kai-shek captured Peking, China.
● 1930 - Mrs. M. Niezes of Panama gave birth to the first baby to be born on a ship while passing through the Panama Canal.
● 1930 - Sarah Dickson becomes 1st woman Presbyterian elder in US, Cincinnati
● 1933 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt accepted the first swimming pool to be built inside the White House.
● 1936 - General Anastasio Somoza, valued friend of eight U.S. Presidents, takes over as dictator of Nicaragua.
● 1941 - Lou Gehrig died in New York of the degenerative disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
● 1943 - 99th Pursuit Squadron flies 1st combat mission (over Italy)
● 1946 - Birth of the Italian Republic: In a referendum Italians decide to turn Italy from a monarchy into a Republic. After this referendum the king of Italy Umberto II di Savoia is exiled.
● 1949 - Transjordan renamed Jordan
● 1952 - U.S. Supreme court rules illegal Pres. Truman's order two months earlier for the U.S. Army to seize the nation's steel mills to avert a strike.
● 1953 - Queen Elizabeth II of Britain was crowned in Westminster Abbey, 16 months after the death of her father, King George VI. This is the first British coronation to be televised.
● 1954 - U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy charged that there were communists working in the CIA and atomic weapons plants.
● 1955 - USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between both countries, discontinued since 1948.
● 1957 - Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev was interviewed by CBS-TV.
● 1959 - Allen Ginsberg writes his poem "Lysergic Acid," San Francisco.
● 1965 - 2nd of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 (Ganges R India)
● 1965 - Vietnam War: The first contingent of Australian combat troops arrives in South Vietnam.
● 1966 - Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first US spacecraft to soft land on another world.
● 1967 - Riots begin in black sections (Roxbury neighborhoods) of Boston.
● 1967 - Protests in West Berlin against the arrival of the Shah of Iran turn into riots, during which Benno Ohnesorg is killed by a police officer. His death results in the founding of the terrorist group Movement 2 June.
● 1969 - Australian aircraft carrier "Melbourne" slices US destroyer "Frank E Evans" in half, killing 74. (South Vietnam)
● 1970 - Maggie Kuhn founds the Gray Panthers senior activist group.
● 1971 - U.S. Brigadier General John Donaldson charged with murder and assault in connection with an incident involving eight South Vietnamese civilians.
● 1975 - French sex workers occupied a Lyon church in protest against excessive fines and taxes, as well as a lack of police action against violence, thereby sparking the birth of the modern sex worker rights movement.
● 1977 - NJ allows casino gambling in Atlantic City
● 1977 - Native American activist Leonard Peltier sentenced in Fargo, North Dakota, to two consecutive life terms for the killing of two FBI agents, in one of the most corrupt trials in recent U.S. history.
● 1979 - Pope John Paul II visits his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.
● 1979 - NASA launches space vehicle S-198
● 1982 - Israel invades Lebanon and ultimately destroys Beirut, the “Paris of the East.”
● 1983 - Toilet catches fire on Air Canada's DC-9, 23 die at Cincinatti
● 1984 - B A Skiff discovers asteroid #3617
● 1984 - Flight readiness firing of Discovery's main engines
● 1985 - UEFA bans English clubs from Europe; English clubs are banned from playing in Europe indefinitely, after the riot at Brussels' Heysel stadium in which 39 people died.
● 1985 - The R.J. Reynolds Company proposed a major merger with Nabisco that would create a $4.9 billion conglomerate. {Reynolds hoped this would provide some protection with the pending ant-smoking lawsuits.}
● 1986 - NYC transit system issues a new brass with steel bullseye token
● 1986 - Regular TV coverage of US Senate sessions begins
● 1987 - President Ronald Reagan announced he was nominating economist Alan Greenspan to succeed Paul Volcker as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.
● 1988 - Singer James Brown's wife Adrienne claims diplomatic immunity while fighting numerous traffic violations on grounds that she is the wife of the "Official Ambassador of Soul."
● 1989 - Ten thousand Chinese soldiers are blocked by 100,000 citizens protecting students demonstrating for democracy in Tiananmen Square, Beijing.
● 1990 - Lower Ohio Valley Tornado Outbreak spawns 88 confirmed tornados in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, killing 9. Petersburg, Indiana was the hardest-hit town in the outbreak, with 6 deaths.
● 1992 - Cease fire in Angolan civil war.
● 1992 - Denmark rejects the Maastricht Treaty by a thin margin in a national referendum.
● 1994 - MI5 officers killed in helicopter crash; Twenty of Britain's top intelligence experts are killed when a RAF helicopter crashes on the Mull of Kintyre.
● 1995 - United States Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady's F-16 is shot down over Bosnia while patrolling the NATO no-fly zone. He was rescued six days later.
● 1997 - Timothy McVeigh was found guilty of the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City in which 168 people were killed.
● 1998 - Royal Caribbean Cruises agreed to pay $9 million to settle charges of dumping waste at sea.
● 1998 - Voters in California passed Proposition 227. The act abolished the state's 30-year-old bilingual education program by requiring that all children be taught in English.
● 1998 - The CIH computer virus is discovered in Taiwan.
● 1999 - In South Africa, the African National Congress (ANC) won a major victory. ANC leader Thabo Mbeki was to succeed Nelson Mandela as the nation's president.
● 1999 - The Bhutan Broadcasting Service brings television transmissions to the Kingdom for the first time.
● 2003 - In the U.S., federal regulators voted to allow companies to buy more television stations and newspaper-broadcasting combinations in the same city. The previous ownership restrictions had not been altered since 1975.
● 2003 - In Seville, Spain, a chest containing the supposed remains of Christopher Columbus were exhumed for DNA tests to determine whether the bones were really those of the explorer. The tests were aimed at determining if Colombus was currently buried in Spain's Seville Cathedral or in Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic.
● 2003 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that companies could not be sued under a trademark law for using information in the public domain without giving credit to the originator. The case had originated with 20th Century Fox against suing Dastar Corp. over their use of World War II footage.
● 2003 - William Baily was reunited with two paintings he had left on a subway platform. One of the works was an original Picasso rendering of two male figures and a recreation of Picasso's "Guernica" by Sophie Matisse. Sophie Matisse was the great-granddaughter of Henri Matisse.
● 2003 - Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European Space Agency's Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan.
● 2005 - Georgia "runaway bride" Jennifer Wilbanks pleaded no contest to faking her own abduction; she was sentenced to probation, community service and a fine.
● 2006 - Canadian authorities announced they had foiled a homegrown terrorist attack by arresting 17 suspects.
BIRTHS
● 926 - Murakami, Emperor of Japan (d. 967)
● 1535 - Pope Leo XI (d. 1605)
● 1731 - Martha Washington, First American first lady (1789-1797) (d. 1802)
● 1740 - Marquis de Sade, French author (d. 1814)
● 1743 - Count Alessandro di Cagliostro, Sicilian Occultist (d. 1795)
● 1773 - John Randolph, U.S. Senator from Virginia (d. 1833)
● 1774 - William Lawson, explorer of New South Wales, Australia (d. 1850)
● 1823 - Gédéon Ouimet, French Canadian politician (d. 1905)
● 1835 - Pope Pius X (d. 1914)
● 1840 - Thomas Hardy, English writer (d. 1928)
● 1857 - Edward Elgar, English composer (d. 1934)
● 1857 - Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)
● 1863 - Felix Weingartner, Yugoslavian conductor (d. 1942)
● 1865 - George Lohmann, English cricketer (d. 1901)
● 1869 - Jack O'Connor, baseball player (d. 1937)
● 1875 - Charles Stewart Mott, American automotive industrialist (d. 1973)
● 1887 - Howard Johnson, American songwriter (d. 1941)
● 1891 - Thurman Arnold, American attorney and jurist (d. 1969)
● 1899 - Lotte Reiniger, German film director (d. 1981)
● 1904 - Frank Runacres, English artist (d. 1974)
● 1904 - Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor (d. 1984)
● 1907 - John Lehmann, English poet, editor and publisher (d. 1987)
● 1907 - Dorothy West, American writer (d. 1998)
● 1913 - Barbara Pym, English novelist (d. 1980)
● 1915 - Walter Tetley, American voice actor (d. 1975)
● 1917 - Heinz Sielmann, German photographer and filmmaker
● 1920 - Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Polish-born critic
● 1920 - Tex Schramm, American football team president and general manager (d. 2003)
● 1920 - Frank G. Clement, Governor of Tennessee (d. 1969)
● 1922 - Charlie Sifford, American golfer
● 1922 - Juan Antonio Bardem, Spanish director and screenwriter (d. 2002)
● 1924 - June Callwood, Canadian jounalist, author & social activist (d. 2007)
● 1926(25? NYT) - Milo O'Shea, Irish actor
● 1929 - Norton Juster, American author and architect
● 1930 - Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr., American astronaut (d. 1999)
● 1930 - Bob Lillis, baseball player
● 1931 - Larry Jackson, baseball player (d. 1990)
● 1935 - Carol Shields, American-born novelist (d. 2003)
● 1935 - Roger Brierley, English actor (d. 2005)
● 1935 - Dimitri Kitsikis, Greek turkologist, professor of International Relations and Geopolitics at the University of Ottawa
● 1936(37? NYT) - Sally Kellerman, American actress
● 1937 - Jimmy Jones (singer), American singer and songwriter
● 1940 - King Constantine II of Greece
● 1941 - Stacy Keach, American actor
● 1941 - Charlie Watts, English musician (The Rolling Stones)
● 1941 - William Guest, American singer (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
● 1943 - Charles Haid, American actor ("Hill Street Blues")
● 1943 - Ilaiyaraaja, Indian composer
● 1944 - Marvin Hamlisch, American composer and musician
● 1945 - Jon Peters, American film producer and hairdresser
● 1946 - Peter Sutcliffe, English murderer
● 1946 - Lasse Hallström, Swedish film director
● 1947 - Mark Elder, British opera and symphony conductor
● 1948 - Jerry Mathers, American actor ("Leave it to Beaver")
● 1949 - Heather Couper, British astronomer
● 1949 - Frank Rich, American theater critic and political columnist
● 1950 - Joanna Gleason, actress
● 1951 - Larry Robinson, Canadian hockey player
● 1952 - Gary Bettman, American National Hockey League commissioner
● 1953 - Craig Stadler, American golfer
● 1954 - Dennis Haysbert, American actor ("The Unit," "24")
● 1955 - Michael Steele, American musician (The Bangles)
● 1955 - Dana Carvey, Comedian ("Saturday Night Live")
● 1955 - Gary Grimes, Actor
● 1955 - Chantal Hochuli, Swiss-born socialite
● 1956 - Mani Ratnam, Indian director
● 1957 - King Lizzard, American entertainer
● 1958 - Lawrence Pfohl, American professional wrestler
● 1959 - Lydia Lunch, American singer
● 1960 - Kyle Petty, American race car driver
● 1960 - Tony Hadley, English singer (Spandau Ballet)
● 1961 - Dez Cadena, American musician
● 1964 - Caroline Link, German film director and screenwriter
● 1965 - Jim Knipfel, American autobiographer and journalist
● 1965 - Mark and Steve Waugh, Australian cricketers
● 1967 - Mike Stanton, baseball player
● 1968 - Merril Bainbridge, Rock singer
● 1968 - Jon Culshaw, British comedian
● 1970 - Paula Cale, Actress
● 1970 - B Real, rapper (Cypress Hill)
● 1971 - Anthony Montgomery, American actor
● 1971 - Kateřina Jacques, Czech politician
● 1972 - Wayne Brady, American actor and comedian ("Whose Line is it Anyway")
● 1972 - Wentworth Miller, American actor ("Prison Break")
● 1973 - Neifi Perez, Dominican-born baseball player
● 1974 - Chris Harris, American professional wrestler
● 1974 - Gata Kamsky, American chess player
● 1976 - Earl Boykins, American basketball player
● 1976 - Tim Rice-Oxley, English musician (Keane)
● 1977 - Zachary Quinto, American actor
● 1978 - Deon Richmond, Actor
● 1978 - Nikki Cox, American actress
● 1978 - Justin Long, American actor
● 1978 - Dominic Cooper, English actor
● 1978 - A.J. Styles, American professional wrestler
● 1980 - Irish Grinstead, R&B singer (702)
● 1980 - Fabrizio Moretti, American rock drummer (The Strokes)
● 1982 - Jewel Staite, Canadian actress
● 1983 - Dan Cahoon, Country singer (Marshall Dyllon)
● 1988 - Sergio Agüero, Argentinian footballer
● 1988 - Patrik Berglund, Swedish hockey player
● 1989 - Freddy Adu, Ghanaian-American footballer
DEATHS
● 829 - Saint Nicephorus, Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 758)
● 910 - Richilde of Provence, Queen of Western Francia
● 1418 - Katherine of Lancaster, wife of Henry III of Castile
● 1567 - Shane O'Neill, Irish chieftain
● 1581 - James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, regent of Scotland
● 1693 - John Wildman, English soldier and politician
● 1701 - Madeleine de Scudéry, French writer (b. 1607)
● 1716 - Ogata Korin, Japanese painter
● 1754 - Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish religious dissenter (b. 1680)
● 1761 - Jonas Alströmer, Swedish industrialist (b. 1685)
● 1785 - Jean Paul de Gua de Malves, French mathematician (b. 1713)
● 1833 - Simon Byrne, Irish bare-knuckle prize fighter (b. 1806)
● 1865 - Ner Alexander Middleswarth, American politician (b. 1783)
● 1875 - Józef Kremer, Polish messianistic philosopher (b. 1806)
● 1876 - Hristo Botev, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1848)
● 1881 - Émile Littré, French lexicographer (b. 1801)
● 1882 - Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian revolutionarist (b. 1807)
● 1901 - George Leslie Mackay, Canadian missionary (b. 1844)
● 1933 - Frank Jarvis, American athlete (b. 1878)
● 1937 - Louis Vierne, French organist and composer (b. 1870)
● 1941 - Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (b. 1903)
● 1948 - Viktor Brack, Nazi physician (b. 1904)
● 1948 - Karl Brandt, personal physician of Adolf Hitler (b. 1904)
● 1948 - Karl Gebhardt, Nazi doctor (b. 1897)
● 1948 - Waldemar Hoven, German physician (b. 1903)
● 1948 - Wolfram Sievers, Nazi physician (b. 1905)
● 1956 - Jean Hersholt, Danish actor and humanitarian (b. 1886)
● 1961 - George S. Kaufman, American playwright (b. 1889)
● 1962 - Vita Sackville-West, English writer, and gardener (b. 1892)
● 1968 - André Mathieu, Quebec pianist and composer (b. 1929)
● 1969 - Leo Gorcey, American actor (b. 1917)
● 1970 - Bruce McLaren, New Zealand car racer, designer, and manufacturer (b. 1937)
● 1970 - Giuseppe Ungaretti, Italian poet (b. 1888)
● 1970 - Albert Lamorisse, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
● 1977 - Stephen Boyd, Northern Irish actor (b. 1931)
● 1979 - Jim Hutton, American actor (b. 1934)
● 1982 - Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani politician (b. 1904)
● 1984 - Georgios Kasassoglou, Greek musician (b. 1908)
● 1986 - Aurel Joliat, Canadian hockey player (b. 1901)
● 1987 - Sammy Kaye, American bandleader (b. 1910)
● 1987 - Andrés Segovia, Spanish guitarist (b. 1893)
● 1989 - Ted a'Beckett, Australian cricketer (b. 1907)
● 1990 - Jack Gilford, American actor (b. 1908)
● 1990 - Rex Harrison, English actor (b. 1908)
● 1992 - Phillip Dunne, American film director (b. 1908)
● 1993 - Johnny Mize, American baseball player (b. 1913)
● 1996 - John Alton, American cinematographer (b. 1901)
● 1996 - Ray Combs, American game show host and comedian (b. 1956)
● 1996 - Leon Garfield, English children's author (b. 1921)
● 1996 - Amos Tversky, Israeli psychologist (b. 1937)
● 1997 - Doc Cheatham, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1905)
● 1998 - Sylvester Ritter, American professional wrestler (b. 1952)
● 1999 - Junior Braithwaite, Jamaican musician (The Wailers) (b. 1949)
● 2000 - Svyatoslav Fyodorov, Russian ophthalmologist (b. 1927)
● 2000 - Gerald Whitrow, British mathematician (b. 1912)
● 2001 - Imogene Coca, American actress (b. 1908)
● 2001 - Joey Maxim, American boxer (b. 1922)
● 2003 - Fred Blassie, American professional wrestler (b. 1918)
● 2004 - Loyd Sigmon, American amateur ("ham") radio broadcastor (b. 1909)
● 2005 - Chloe Jones, Model and pornographic actress (b. 1975)
● 2005 - Samir Kassir, Lebanese journalist and teacher (b. 1950)
● 2005 - Melita Norwood, British spy (b. 1912)
● 2006 - Vince Welnick, musician, keyboardist (The Grateful Dead) (b. 1951)
● 2007 - Huang Ju, Chinese Vice-Premier
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● Solemnity of Corpus Christi (Body & Blood of Christ)
● St. Adalgis
● St. Alexander
● St. Blandina
● St. Bodfan
● St. Erasmus (Elmo), martyr, patron of sailors
● St. Eugene I (died 657)
● St. Felix of Nicosia
● St. John de Ortega
● Martyrs of Lyons
● Sts. Marcellinus and Petrus, martyrs (died 304)
● St. Nicholas Peregrinus
● Bl. Sadoc & Companions
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for May 19 (Civil Date: June 2)
● Hieromartyr Patrick, Bishop of Prusa, and his companions: Presbyters Acacius, Menander, and Polyenus.
● St. Cornelius, abbot of Komel (Vologda).
● Martyr Acolothus of the Thebaid.
● St. John, Bishop of Goths in Crimea.
● St. John, prince of Uglich, tonsured as Ignatius (Vologda).
● St. Sergius, monk of Shukhtov.
● St. Cornelius, abbot of Paleostrov.
● Greek Calendar:
● Martyrs Cyriaca and Theotima.
● Commemoration of ascetics of St. Anthony of Syandem Monastery: Elias (also of Valaam), Theophanes, and Dionysius.
● Greek Orthodox:
● St. Nicephorus
● Anglican:
● Commemoration of the martyrs of Lyons
● Bhutan : Coronation Day
● Iceland : Seaman's Day
● Italy's Festa della Repubblica (Republic Day), which commemorates the birth of the Repubblica Italiana and the end of the monarchy.
● Xenia name day in Slovakia.
● The death of Hristo Botev in Bulgaria.
● Tunisia : Youth Day
● Note: These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Massachusetts : Teachers' Day - ( Sunday )
● Ireland : Bank Day - ( Monday )
● Bahamas : Labour Day - ( Friday )
● New Zealand : Queen's Birthday - ( Monday )
● Western Australia : Foundation Day (1838) - ( Monday )
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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