It is the last day of the spring season in the Northern Hemisphere and the last day of the autumn season in the Southern Hemisphere.
Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Learning "We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself." — Lloyd Alexander
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Bigotry, Chauvinism, & Theocracy "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity." — Ann Coulter, contributing editor to National Review Online, responding to the 9/11 attacks
Thought for the day: "Take a lesson from the weather: It pays no attention to criticism."
{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
A Daylight Eclipse of Venus
Credit & Copyright: Peter Heinzen
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 451 - Roman and Barbarian warriors brought Attila's army to a halt at the Catalaunian Plains in eastern France.
● 1214 - University of Oxford receives its charter.
● 1397 - The Union of Kalmar united Denmark, Sweden, and Norway under one monarch.
● 1402 - Battle of Angora (Ankara)-Tatars defeat Turkish Army
● 1529 - Clement VII and Holy Roman Emperor Charles V signed the Peace of Barcelona, which ended attacks on Rome by the Lutheran armies.
● 1567 - Jews are expelled from Brazil by order of regent Don Henrique
● 1599 - The Synod of Diamper reunited a native church in India with Rome. Discovered in 1498 by Portuguese explorers, this isolated pocket of worshipers traced their Christian origins back to the missionary efforts of the Apostle Thomas.
● 1631 - The sack of Baltimore: the Irish village of Baltimore is attacked by Algerian pirates.
● 1632 - Britain grants 2nd Lord Baltimore rights to Chesapeake Bay area
● 1685 - Monmouth Rebellion: The Duke of Monmouth declares himself King of England at Bridgwater.
● 1756 - In India, 150 British soldiers were imprisoned in a cell that became known as the "Black Hole of Calcutta." Most of them die.
● 1776 - Anglican clergyman and hymnwriter John Newton wrote in a letter: 'A Christian is not of hasty growth...but rather like the oak, the progress of which is hardly perceptible, but in time becomes a deep-rooted tree.'
● 1779 - Battle of Stone Ferry
● 1779 - Birth of Dorothy Ann Thrupp, English devotional writer and author of the hymn, 'Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us.'
● 1782 - Congress approves Great Seal of US & the eagle as it's symbol. A pig was proposed and seriously considered.
● 1789 - Deputies of the French Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath (for a new constitution).
● 1790 - Titles of nobility abolished during French revolution.
● 1791 - King Louis XVI of France was captured while attempting to flee the country in the so-called Flight to Varennes. {He might have escaped if he wasn't so worried about taking a large part of treasury.}
● 1793 - Eli Whitney applied for a cotton gin patent. He received the patent on March 14. The cotton gin initiated the American mass-production concept.
● 1819 - The U.S. vessel SS Savannah arrives at Liverpool, United Kingdom. She is the first steam-propelled vessel to cross the Atlantic, but most of the journey was made under sail.
● 1837 - England issues its 1st stamp, 1P Queen Victoria
● 1837 - Queen Victoria at 18 ascends British throne following death of uncle King William IV Ruled for 63 years ending in 1901
● 1855 - Commissioners appointed to lay out San Francisco streets west of Larkin
● 1862 - Barbu Catargiu, the Prime Minister of Romania, is assassinated.
● 1863 - The National Bank of Philadelphia in Philadelphia, PA, became the first bank to receive a charter from the U.S. Congress.
● 1863 - West Virginia became the 35th state to join the U.S. {Formerly part of Virginia, this part of Virginia refused to withdraw from the Union.}
● 1867 - Pres Andrew Johnson announces purchase of Alaska
● 1871 - Ku Klux Klan trials began in federal court in Oxford Miss
● 1874 - 1st US Lifesaving Medal awarded (Lucian Clemons)
● 1877 - Alexander Graham Bell installs world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
● 1885 - A band of Moravian missionaries landed on the shores of Alaska and founded the Bethel Mission. During the first year of their mission work among the, eskimoes, winter temperatures outside their makeshift housing plummeted to 50 degrees below zero!
● 1892 - American Railway Union (ARU), founded by Eugene Debs, first organized.
● 1893 - A jury in New Bedford, MA, found Lizzie Borden innocent of the ax murders of her father and stepmother. {Like O. J. Simpson, public opinion is that she is as guilty as sin.}
● 1895 - 1st female doctor of science earned (Caroline Willard Baldwin)
● 1895 - A Charlois discovers asteroid #404 Arsinoe
● 1895 - Nicaragua, El Salvador & Honduras form a short-lived confederation
● 1898 - The U.S. Navy seized the island of Guam en route to the Philippines to fight the Spanish.
● 1905 - Lillian Hellman, the American playwright and screenwriter, was born.
● 1907 - 1st Portland Rose festival
● 1910 - Mexican President Porfirio Diaz proclaimed martial law and arrested hundreds.
● 1911 - NAACP incorporates (NY)
● 1917 - J Palisa discovers asteroid #876 Scott
● 1919 - 150 die at the Teatro Yaguez fire, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
● 1921 - 29.2 cm (11.5") of rainfall, Circle, Montana (state record)
● 1923 - France announced it would seize the Rhineland to assist Germany in paying its war debts.
● 1923 - Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa dies, Parral, Mexico.
● 1926 - Mordecai W Johnson becomes 1st black president of Howard University
● 1927 - Charlotte Whitney pardoned after serving seven years in California prisons for "criminal syndicalism."
● 1933 - German feminist, radical Clara Zetkin dies.
● 1939 - C Jackson discovers asteroid #1817 Katanga
● 1939 - Test flight of 1st rocket plane using liquid propellants
● 1941 - The U.S. Army Air Force was established, replacing the Army Air Corps.
● 1943 - National Congress of Racial Equality organizes
● 1943 - New Quebec (Chubb) Crater discovered in northern Quebec (3 km dia)
● 1943 - Striking African American auto workers attacked by Federal troops, National Workers League, KKK, and armed white workers at Detroit's Bell Isle amusement park. In the ensuing two days of riots, 34 people killed, over 1,300 arrested.
● 1944 - Congress charters Central Intelligence Agency
● 1947 - Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel was murdered in Beverly Hills, CA, at the order of mob associates angered over the soaring costs of his project, the Flamingo resort in Las Vegas, NV.
● 1947 - Taft-Hartley Labor Act, curbing strikes, is vetoed by President Truman. Congress overrode the veto.
● 1952 - Country-wide demonstrations against military bases, Japan.
● 1955 - The AFL and CIO agreed to combine names and a merge into a single group.
● 1956 - A Venezuelan Super-Constellation crashed in Atlantic Ocean off Asbury Park, New Jersey killing 74 people.
● 1959 - A train-bus collision near Lauffen, Germany kills 43 people
● 1960 - Federation of Mali & Senegal becomes independent of France
● 1963 - The so-called "red telephone" is established between Soviet Union and United States following the Cuban Missile Crisis.
● 1965 - Students protest after Algiers coup; Police in Algiers break up demonstrations by people who have taken to the streets chanting slogans in support of deposed President Ben Bella
● 1966 - Canada sells 336 million bushels (9.14 teragrams) of wheat to Soviet Union.
● 1966 - Sheila Scott completes 1st round-the-world solo flight by a woman
● 1967 - Boxing champion Muhammad Ali--who, three years after his conversion to Islam, white media still insist on calling Cassius Clay--is convicted of refusing draft. Ali is stripped of his boxing titles. The conviction would be overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court four years later. {Living in the red state of Arizona I observed that the local state fair grounds commission continued to refuse to carry his fights, saying they didn't care what the Supreme Court said, he was still a draft dodger.}
● 1967 - Saboteurs--allegedly members of the Ku Klux Klan--blow up four private houses and a barber shop in McComb, Mississippi.
● 1969 - Jacques Chaban-Delmas becomes Prime Minister of France.
● 1973 - American F-14 Tomcat fighter plane shot itself down with its own Sparrow air-to-air missile.
● 1973 - Ezeiza massacre in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Snipers fired upon left-wing peronists. At least 13 are killed and more than 300 injured.
● 1974 - Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #2124 Nissen
● 1976 - Westerners evacuated from Beirut; Hundreds of Americans and Britons are moved from Beirut and taken to safety in Syria by the US military, following the murder of the US ambassador.
● 1976 - Carol Fugate, Starkwether accomplice, paroled
● 1977 - Oil enters Trans-Alaska pipeline exits 38 days later at Valdez
● 1978 - An earthquake registering 6.5 on the Richter scale hits Thessaloniki, Greece.
● 1979 - ABC News correspondent Bill Stewart was shot to death in Managua, Nicaragua, by a member of President Anastasio Somoza's national guard.
● 1980 - Augusta AVA became the first federally recognized American Viticultural Area.
● 1982 - Israeli PM Menachem Begin arrives in Washington
● 1983 - LZW patent filed in USA.
● 1984 - O-Levels to be replaced by GCSEs; The biggest British exam shake-up for over 10 years is announced with O-Level and CSE exams to be replaced by a new exam.
● 1986 - Doctors at Bethesda Naval remove 2 small benign polyps from Reagan's colon
● 1990 - 40,000-50,000 die in a (7.6) earthquake in Iran
● 1990 - Asteroid Eureka discovered.
● 1990 - Nelson Mandela lands in NYC to begin a tour of the US
● 1990 - Major proposes new Euro currency; British Chancellor John Major proposes a new European currency which would circulate alongside existing national currencies.
● 1991 - German parliament decides to move the capital from Bonn back to Berlin.
● 1994 - In Los Angeles, O. J. Simpson pled innocent to the killing of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
● 1995 - Shell makes dramatic U-turn; Oil giant Shell caves in to international pressure and abandons plans to dump the Brent Spar oil rig at sea.
● 1997 - The tobacco industry agreed to a massive settlement in exchange for major relief from mounting lawsuits and legal bills.
● 1999 - As the last of 40,000 Yugoslav troops left Kosovo, NATO declared a formal end to its bombing campaign against Yugoslavia.
● 2001 - Andrea Yates drowned her five children in the bathtub in her family's home in Houston. (She was later found not guilty by reason of insanity and committed to a state hospital.)
● 2001 - Pervez Musharraf becomes president of Pakistan.
● 2001 - Billy Collins was named the 11th U.S. poet laureate.
● 2002 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the execution of mentally retarded murderers was unconstitutionally cruel. The vote was 6 in favor and 3 against.
● 2003 - Formation of Wikimedia Foundation announced.
● 2003 - LZW patent expires in USA.
● 2006 - Hastings, Nebraska experiences a rare heat burst, raising temperatures from the mid-seventies to 94° F (34.4° C) in the middle of the night.
BIRTHS
● 1005 - Ali az-Zahir, caliph (d. 1036)
● 1389 - John, Duke of Bedford, regent of England (d. 1435)
● 1566 (O.S.) - King Sigismund III Vasa (d. 1632)
● 1583 - Jacob De la Gardie, Swedish soldier and statesman (d. 1652)
● 1615 - Salvator Rosa, Italian Baroque painter and etcher (d. 1673)
● 1634 - Charles Emmanuel II of Savoy (d. 1675)
● 1642 (O.S.) - George Hickes, English minister and scholar (d. 1715)
● 1647 - John George III, Elector of Saxony (d. 1691)
● 1717 - Jacques Saly, French sculptor (d. 1776)
● 1723 (O.S.) - Adam Ferguson, Scottish philosopher and historian (d. 1816)
● 1723 (O.S.) - Theophilus Lindsey, English theologian (d. 1808)
● 1756 - Joseph Martin Kraus, Swedish composer (d. 1792)
● 1763 - Wolfe Tone, Irish patriot (d. 1798)
● 1770 - Moses Waddel, American educator/minister and bestselling author (d. 1840)
● 1771 - Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, Scottish philanthropist (d. 1820)
● 1786 - Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, French poet (d. 1859)
● 1791 - Thomas Edward Bowdich, English traveler and scientific writer (d. 1824)
● 1808 - Samson Raphael Hirsch, German rabbi (d. 1888)
● 1819 - Jacques Offenbach, German-born French composer (d. 1880)
● 1858 - Charles W. Chesnutt, American writer (d. 1932)
● 1860 - Jack Worrall, Australian cricketer, footballer, and coach (d. 1937)
● 1860 - Alexander Winton, Scottish-born American automobile manufacturer (d. 1932)
● 1861 – Sir Frederick Hopkins, English biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (d. 1947)
● 1872 - George Carpenter, the 5th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1948)
● 1885 - Andrzej Gawroński, Polish scholar (d. 1927)
● 1887 - Kurt Schwitters, German painter and writer (d. 1948)
● 1889 - John S. Paraskevopoulos, Greek-South African astronomer (d. 1951)
● 1891 - John A. Costello, second Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland (d. 1976)
● 1894 - Lloyd Hall, American chemist (d. 1971)
● 1896 - Wilfrid Pelletier, French Canadian conductor (d. 1982)
● 1899 - Jean Moulin, French WWII Resistance leader (d. 1943)
● 1905 - Lillian Hellman, American playwright (d. 1984)
● 1907 - Jimmy Driftwood, American songwriter and musician (d. 1998)
● 1909 - Errol Flynn, Australian actor (d. 1959)
● 1910 - Chester Arthur Burnett, American blues singer and composer (d. 1976)
● 1912 - Anthony Buckeridge, English author (d. 2004)
● 1915 - Terence Young, British film director (d. 1994)
● 1916 - Jean-Jacques Bertrand, premier of Quebec (d. 1973)
● 1917 - Igor Śmiałowski, Polish actor (d. 2006)
● 1918 - George Lynch, American auto racer (d. 1997)
● 1918 - Zoltán Sztáray, Hungarian writer
● 1920 - Hans Gerschwiler, Swiss figure skater
● 1924 - Chet Atkins, American guitar player (d. 2001)
● 1924 - Audie Murphy, American actor (d. 1971)
● 1928 - Eric Dolphy, American jazz musician (d. 1964)
● 1928 - Jean-Marie Le Pen, French politician
● 1930 - Paul Pender, American boxer
● 1930 - Magdalena Abakanowicz, Polish artist
● 1931 - James Tolkan, Actor
● 1931 - Olympia Dukakis, Greek-American actress
● 1931 - Martin Landau, American actor
● 1933 - Danny Aiello, American actor
● 1934 - Rossana Podestà, Italian actress
● 1935 - Len Dawson, former football player
● 1935 - Neal Knox, gun rights activist (d. 2005)
● 1936 - Billy Guy, American singer (The Coasters) (d. 2002)
● 1937 - Jerry Keller, pop singer and songwriter
● 1938 - Mickie Most, British record producer (d. 2003)
● 1939 - Ramakant Desai, Indian cricketer (d. 1998)
● 1940 - Eugen Drewermann, German theologian
● 1940 - John Mahoney, English actor ("Frasier")
● 1941 - Ulf Merbold, German physicist and astronaut
● 1941 - Stephen Frears, English film director
● 1942 - Brian Wilson, American musician; founder of The Beach Boys
● 1944 - Cheryl Holdridge, American actress
● 1945 - John McCook, Actor ("The Bold and the Beautiful")
● 1945 - Anne Murray, Canadian singer
● 1946 - Bob Vila, television presenter ("This Old House")
● 1946 - Xanana Gusmão, President of East Timor
● 1946 - Andre Watts, American pianist
● 1947 - Dolores Brooks, American singer (the Crystals)
● 1947 - Candy Clark, American actress
● 1948 - Tina Sinatra, Producer
● 1948 - Ludwig Scotty, President of Nauru
● 1949 - Lionel Richie, American musician (The Commodores)
● 1951 - Paul Muldoon, Northern Irish poet
● 1952 - John Goodman, American actor
● 1952 - Larry Riley, American actor (d. 1992)
● 1954 - Michael Anthony, American musician (Van Halen)
● 1954 - Ilan Ramon, Israeli combat pilot and astronaut (d. 2003)
● 1956 - Ace Andres, American musician
● 1958 - Chuck Wagner, American actor
● 1960 - John Taylor, English musician (Duran Duran)
● 1962 - Mark De Gli Antoni, Rock musician (Soul Coughing)
● 1963 - Don West, American professional wrestling announcer
● 1967 - Nicole Kidman, American-born Australian actress
● 1967 - Murphy Karges, Rock musician (Sugar Ray)
● 1968 - Robert Rodriguez, Mexican-American Film Director
● 1969 - Peter Paige, Actor ("Queer as Folk")
● 1970 - Prince Moulay Rachid of Morocco
● 1971 - Josh Lucas, American actor
● 1972 - Paul Bako, American baseball player
● 1973 - Chino Moreno, American musician (Deftones)
● 1977 - Amos Lee, Folk singer, songwriter
● 1978 - Frank Lampard, English international soccer player (Chelsea)
● 1980 - Damián A. Fernández Beanato, Newsweek and ANSA journalist.
● 1983 - Darren Sproles, NFL player
DEATHS
● 451 - Theodorid, King of the Visigoths
● 840 - Louis the Pious, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (b. 778)
● 885 - Bernard Plantapilosa, Count of Auvergne (b. 841)
● 1597 - Willem Barentsz, Dutch navigator
● 1668 - Heinrich Roth, German Sanskrit scholar (b. 1620)
● 1776 - Benjamin Huntsman, English inventor and manufacturer (b. 1704)
● 1787 - Karl Friedrich Abel, German composer (b. 1723)
● 1800 - Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, German mathematician (b. 1719)
● 1820 - Manuel Belgrano, Argentine lawyer and politician (b. 1770)
● 1837 - William IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1765)
● 1866 - Bernhard Riemann, German mathematician (b. 1826)
● 1869 - Toshizou Hijikata, Shinsengumi vice-commander (b. 1835)
● 1870 - Jules de Goncourt, French writer (b. 1830)
● 1906 - John Clayton Adams, British landscape artist (b. 1840)
● 1925 - Josef Breuer, Austrian psychologist (b. 1842)
● 1945 - Bruno Frank, German author (b. 1878)
● 1947 - Bugsy Siegel, American crime figure (b. 1906)
● 1952 - Luigi Fagioli, Italian race car driver (b. 1898)
● 1958 - Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1902)
● 1963 - Raphaël Salem, Greek mathematician (b. 1898)
● 1972 - Howard Deering Johnson, American entrepreneur (b. 1897)
● 1976 - Lou Klein, American baseball player (b. 1918)
● 1978 - Mark Robson, Canadian film director and producer (b. 1913)
● 1992 - Sir Charles Groves, English conductor (b. 1915)
● 1993 - Vince Foster, Clinton Administration member (b. 1945)
● 1995 - Emil Cioran, Romanian-born French philosopher (b. 1911)
● 1996 - Jim Ellison, Singer/Guitarist for the band Material Issue (b. 1964)
● 1997 - Lawrence Payton, American singer (The Four Tops) (b. 1938)
● 1998 - Conrad Schumann, East German border guard (b. 1942)
● 1999 - Clifton Fadiman, American author (b. 1902)
● 2002 - Erwin Chargaff, Austrian biochemist (b. 1905)
● 2002 - Tinus Osendarp, Dutch runner (b. 1916)
● 2003 - Bob Stump, American politician (b. 1927)
● 2005 - Jack Kilby, American electrical engineer, Nobel laureate (b. 1923)
● 2005 - Larry Collins, American writer (b. 1929)
● 2006 - Billy Johnson, American baseball player (b. 1918)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Adalbert of Magdeburg (died 981)
● St. Bagne
● St. Benigna
● St. Florentina
● St. Francis Pacheco
● St. Govan
● St. Helena
● St. Novatus
● Sts. Paul and Cyriacus
● St. Pope Silverius (58th, 536-37), martyr (died 537)
● St. Vincent Kaun
● Bl. Anthony Turner
● Bl. Balthasar de Torres
● Bl. John Baptist Zola
● Bl. John Fenwick & John Gavan
● Bl. John Kinsako
● Bl. Michael Tozo
● Bl. Paul Shinsuki
● Bl. Peter Rinshei
● Bl. Thomas Whitbread
● Bl. William Harcourt
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for June 7 (Civil Date: June 20)
● Hieromartyr Theodotus, Bishop of Ancyra.
● Martyrs Cyriaca, Caleria, and Mary, of Caesarea in Palestine.
● Hieromartyr Marcellus, Bishop of Rome, and those with him: Sisinius and Cyriacus, deacons; Smaragdus, Largus, Apronian, Saturninus, Pappias, Maurus, Crescentian, Priscilla, Lucina, and princess Artemia.
● St. Daniel of Scete in Egypt.
● Hieromartyr Marcellinus, pope of Rome.
● Virgin Martyr Potemaiena of Alexandria.
● Martyr Zenais (Zenaida) of Caesarea in Palestine.
● Greek Calendar:
● Holy women Aesia and Susanna, disciples of St. Pancratius of Taormina and martyred with him.
● Martyr Lycarion of Hermopolis in Egypt.
● Martyrs Tarasius and John.
● St. Stephen the hieromonk.
● St. Anthimus the hieromonk.
● St. Sebastian the Wonderworker.
● Repose of Anthony Ivanovich, fool-for-Christ of Valaam (1832).
● Roman Empire – Festival in honor of Summanus.
● Ancient Latvia – Zalu Diena.
● Day of The Royal Victorian Order.
● UNHCR - World Refugee Day.
● Flag Day in Argentina (1938).
● Audie Murphy Day; in honor of US Army soldier Audie Murphy - Texas observance
● West Virginia – West Virginia Day. (1863)
● American Radio Relay League – Bring your Handy-Talky to Work Day
● Senegal : Independence Day (1960)
● 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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