Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Life "I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it, as well." — Diane Ackerman
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Homophobia "We are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy unless it obstructs interstate commerce." — J. Edgar Hoover, former FBI director
Thought for the day: "The wise shepherd never trusts his flock to a smiling wolf."
{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
All the Colors of the Sun
Credit & Copyright: Nigel Sharp (NSF), FTS, NSO, KPNO, AURA, NSF
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 451 - 10th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
● 972 - Battle of Cedynia, the first documented victory of Polish forces.
● 1128 - Battle of São Mamede, near Guimarães. Portuguese forces led by Alfonso I defeat his mother D.Teresa and D.Fernão Peres de Trava. After this battle, the future king calls himself "Prince of Portugal", the first step towards "official independence" in 1143.
● 1314 - End of the Battle of Bannockburn. Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce defeat Edward II of England. Scotland regains its independence.
● 1322 - Jews are expelled from France
● 1340 - Hundred Years' War: Battle of Sluys The French fleet was almost totally destroyed by the English Fleet commanded in person by Edward III of England.
● 1374 - A sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion.
● 1441 - Eton College founded by Henry VI
● 1497 - Cornish traitors Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank executed at Tyburn, London
● 1497 - Italian explorer John Cabot, sailing in the service of England, landed in North America on what is now Newfoundland.
● 1509 - Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon crowned King and Queen of England.
● 1519 - Birth of Theodore Beza, French-born Swiss theological reformer. Beza became the acknowledged leader of the Swiss Calvinists, following John Calvin's death in 1564.
● 1527 - King Gustavus of Sweden assembled the Diet of Wester's, for the purpose of carrying through the Protestant Reformation in Sweden.
● 1535 - The Anabaptist state of Münster is conquered and disbanded.
● 1597 - The first Dutch voyage to the East Indies reaches Bantam (on Java).
● 1647 - Lord Baltimore's niece, Margaret Brent urges women's vote before Maryland Assembly. Ejected.
● 1662 - Dutch invasion of Macau repulsed (Macau Day)
● 1664 - New Jersey, named after the Isle of Jersey, was founded.
● 1675 - King Philip's War began when Indians massacre colonists at Swansee, Plymouth colony.
● 1692 - Kingston, Jamaica is founded.
● 1778 - David Rittenhouse observes a total solar eclipse in Philadelphia
● 1793 - The first republican constitution in France was adopted.
● 1803 - Birth of George J. Webb, American church organist. He compiled several collections of sacred music during his lifetime, and also composed the melody to the hymn, 'Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus.'
● 1812 - Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon's Grande Armée crosses the Neman River beginning his invasion of Russia.
● 1813 - Battle of Beaver Dams : A British and Indian joint force defeat the U.S Army.
● 1817 - 1st coffee planted in Hawaii on Kona coast
● 1821 - Battle of Carabobo - Battle of Carabobo was the decisive battle in the war of independence of Venezuela from Spain, Bol¡var defeats royalists outside of Caracas
● 1841 - Fordham University (then St John's College), opens in the Bronx
● 1842 - Ambrose Bierce born, Meigs County, Ohio. "Bitter Bierce" -- American newspaper columnist, satirist, essayist, short-story writer and novelist -- disappeared in the Mexican Revolution. Presumably died in the siege of Ojinega, January 1914.
● 1844 - Charles Goodyear was granted U.S. patent #3,633 for vulcanized rubber.
● 1848 - Birth of Albert Parsons, Alabama. Radical American editor, printer. One of the anarchists unjustly accused and executed for the Haymarket bombing in Chicago.
● 1852 - J R Hind discovers asteroid #18 Melpomene
● 1859 - At the Battle of Solferino, also known as the Battle of the Three Sovereigns, the French and Sardinian army led by Napoleon III defeated the Austrian army under Franz Joseph I in northern Italy.
● 1861 - Federal gunboats attacked Confederate batteries at Mathias Point, Virginia.
● 1861 - Tennessee becomes 11th (& last) state to secede from US
● 1862 - U.S. intervention saved the British and French at the Dagu forts in China.
● 1869 - Mary Ellen "Mammy" Pleasant officially became the Vodoo Queen in San Francisco, CA.
● 1881 - 200 drown as train runs off bridge near Cuautla Mexico
● 1884 - John Lynch is 1st black elected chairman of Republican convention
● 1894 - Marie Francois Sadi Carnot assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio.
● 1895 - Jack Dempsey, the American world heavyweight boxing champion from 1919 to 1926, was born.
● 1896 - Booker T. Washington became the first African American to receive an honorary MA degree from Howard University.
● 1897 - Hail injures 26 in Topeka Kansas
● 1898 - American troops, drive Spanish forces from La Guasimas Cuba
● 1901 - Jewish National Fund starts
● 1902 - King Edward VII of the United Kingdom develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation.
● 1908 - Former President Grover Cleveland died in Princeton, N.J., at age 71. {The only president to have served two non-consecutive terms as president.}
● 1908 - A Kopff discovers asteroids #663 Gerlinde & #664 Judith
● 1910 - The Japanese army invaded Korea.
● 1913 - Greece and Serbia annulled their alliance with Bulgaria following border disputes over Macedonia and Thrace.
● 1913 - Joseph Cook becomes the 6th Prime Minister of Australia.
● 1914 - G Neujmin discovers asteroid #789 Lena
● 1915 - 800 die as excursion steamer Eastland capsizes in Chicago
● 1916 - Battle of the Somme begins with a week long artillery bombardment on the German Line.
● 1917 - Death of Orville J. Nave (born 1841), U.S. Armed Services chaplain and compiler of the popular 'Nave's Topical Bible.'
● 1917 - IWW Domestic Workers (Maids) Union reports they are supplying sandwiches to dozens of draft resisters in the Duluth, Minn. jail.
● 1918 - First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto.
● 1920 - Chuvash Autonomous Region formed in RSFSR
● 1928 - With declining business, the Great Gorge and International Railway begins using one-person crews on trolley operations in Canada
● 1930 - 1st radar detection of planes, Anacostia DC
● 1931 - The Soviet Union and Afghanistan signed a treaty of neutrality.
● 1932 - A military coup ends the absolute power of the king of Siam (Thailand).
● 1939 - Pan Am's 1st US to England flight
● 1940 - France signs an armistice with Italy during WW II
● 1940 - TV cameras were used for the first time in a political convention as the Republicans convened in Philadelphia, PA.
● 1941 - The two-day Constitutional Assembly of the Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan opened, during which was formed the United Church of Christ in Japan.
● 1941 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt pledged all possible support to the Soviet Union.
● 1945 - Moscow Victory Parade
● 1946 - 29.77 cm (11.72") of rainfall, Mellen, WI (state 24-hr record)
● 1946 - Georges Bidault becomes Prime Minister of France.
● 1947 - First reported sighting of flying saucer, over Mount Rainier by pilot Ken Arnold
● 1948 - Republican National Convention in Philadelphia nominates NY Governor Thomas Dewey
● 1948 - Start of the Berlin Blockade. The Soviet Union makes overland travel between the West with West Berlin impossible.
● 1949 - Cargo airlines 1st licensed by US Civil Aeronautics Board
● 1950 - Korean War begins.
● 1950 - M Itzigsohn discovers asteroid #1821 Aconcagua
● 1955 - Soviet MIG's down a U.S. Navy patrol plane over the Bering Strait.
● 1957 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.
● 1962 - 323 arrested in 24-hour blockade of H-Bomber base, Greenham Common, Britain.
● 1963 - 1st demonstration of home video recorder, at BBC Studios, London
● 1963 - Zanzibar is granted internal self-government by the UK.
● 1964 - The Federal Trade Commission announced that starting in 1965, cigarette manufactures would be required to include warnings on their packaging about the harmful effects of smoking.
● 1966 - Bombay-NY Air India flight crashes into Mont Blanc (Switz), 117 die
● 1966 - Period of relative peace following WW II exceeds that following WW I. {This of course ignores the ongoing conflict in Vietnam which really started the day after WWII.}
● 1968 - "Resurrection City," a shantytown constructed as part of the Poor People's March on Washington D.C., was closed down by authorities. National Guard ordered out in D.C. as looting breaks out in black section of city.
● 1968 - Deadline for redeeming silver certificate dollars for silver bullion
● 1968 - General Earle G. Wheeler, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army, assures a Long Island, N.Y. audience that "the enemy has lost whatever chance he had of taking South Vietnam by military force."
● 1968 - Rail go-slow begins; The British rail network is thrown into disarray as the National Union of Railwaymen begins its work-to-rule and ban on overtime.
● 1969 - Blacks riot in Omaha, Nebraska.
● 1970 - U.S. Senate votes overwhelmingly to repeal Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. Late by at least a million dead Asians and Americans.
● 1974 - Labour rift over nuclear test; The Labour Government admits Britain exploded a nuclear device in the United States a few weeks ago.
● 1975 - 113 people were killed when an Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 crashed while attempting to land during a thunderstorm at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.
● 1976 - Poland - Government hikes staple food prices enormously. Nationwide strikes and demonstrations erupt. In Radom demonstrators burn Communist Party headquarters, build barricades and fight the police--injuring 75 cops. On the 26th the price increases were repealed and two days later reinstated at half the initial amount.
● 1977 - IRS reveals Jimmy Carter paid no taxes in 1976
● 1978 - Fourteen thousand gather to protest proposed nuclear power plant at Seabrook, New Hampshire.
● 1981 - What would be the world's longest single-span suspension bridge for 17 years, the Humber Bridge opens, connecting Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.
● 1982 - British Airways Flight 9, sometimes referred to as the Jakarta incident, flew into a cloud of volcanic ash thrown up by the eruption of Mount Galunggung, resulting in the failure of all four engines.
● 1982 - Equal Rights Amendment supporters admit defeat - 33 states have ratified in 10 years, three short of the three-quarters needed by the June 30 deadline.
● 1982 - Jean-Loup Chretien, 1st spacionaut, 2 others, lift off (Soyuz T-16)
● 1983 - Peaks for Peace commemorate dead of Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings with a peace plaque at the summit of Ben Nevis, Scotland.
● 1983 - Space Shuttle program: STS-7 Mission Sally Ride, first female American astronaut, returns to earth.
● 1983 - Yasir Arafat banned from Damascus.
● 1985 - 18th Space Shuttle Mission (51-G)-Discovery 5 returns to Earth
● 1985 - Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-F
● 1985 - Natalia Solzhenitsyn the wife of exiled, Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, became a U.S. citizen.
● 1986 - Ian Paisley's battle cry condemned; Hard-line unionist leader the Reverend Ian Paisley warns Northern Ireland is on the verge of civil war.
● 1986 - Guy Hunt elected 1st Republican governor of Alabama in 112 years
● 1986 - Seven women are arrested in Rochester, New York for conducting a topless picnic to protest local laws which allowed men, but not women, to be shirtless in public.
● 1986 - US Senate approves "tax reform"
● 1987 - Actor Jackie Gleason died at age 71.
● 1993 - Minister resigns over business links; Northern Ireland Minister Michael Mates resigns over his links with fugitive tycoon Asil Nadir.
● 1993 - Yale computer science professor Dr. David Gelernter loses the sight in one eye, the hearing in one ear, and part of his right hand after receiving a mailbomb from the Unabomber.
● 1994 - A United States Air Force B-52 aircraft crashes at Fairchild Air Force Base, killing all four members of its crew.
● 1994 - After years of refusal, U.S. finally ratifies International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. No word yet on whether Dubya is withdrawing from that one, presumably to protect U.S. interests.
● 1997 - 18-year-old Melissa Drexler was charged with murder in the death of her baby. Drexler had given birth during her prom.
● 1997 - The U.S. Air Force released a report on the "Roswell Incident," suggesting the alien bodies witnesses reported seeing in 1947 were actually life-sized dummies.
● 1998 - Red Cross report says that cars will kill more people than wars by 2020. {Sounds overly optimistic to me.}
● 2002 - The Igandu train disaster in Tanzania kills 281, the worst train accident in African history.
● 2002 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that juries, not judges, must make the decision to give a convicted killer the death penalty.
● 2003 - President Vladimir Putin arrived in London on the first state visit to Britain by a Russian leader since the 19th century.
● 2004 - Federal investigators questioned President George W. Bush for more than an hour in connection with the news leak of a CIA operative's name.
● 2004 - Habib Dodo, the general secretary of the Communist Youth of Côte d'Ivoire is assassinated by pro-government forces.
● 2004 - In New York, Capital punishment was declared unconstitutional.
● 2006 - Patsy Ramsey, who was thrust into the national spotlight by the unsolved slaying of her daughter JonBenet, died at age 49.
BIRTHS
● 1244 - Henry I of Hesse (d. 1308)
● 1386 - Giovanni da Capistrano, Italian saint (d. 1456)
● 1485 - Johannes Bugenhagen, German reformer (d. 1558)
● 1519 - Theodore Beza, French theologian (d. 1605)
● 1532 - Robert Dudley Leicester, English favorite of Queen Elizabeth I (d. 1588)
● 1542 - St. John of the Cross, Spanish Carmelite friar and poet (d. 1591)
● 1546 - Robert Parsons, English Jesuit priest (d. 1610)
● 1663 - Jean Baptiste Massillon, French churchman (d. 1742)
● 1687 - Johann Albrecht Bengel, German scholar (d. 1757)
● 1694 - Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, Swiss publicist (d. 1748)
● 1704 - Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, French writer (d. 1771)
● 1774 - François Nicolas Benoît, Baron Haxo, French general (d. 1838)
● 1777 - John Ross, British naval officer and explorer (d. 1856)
● 1795 - Ernst Heinrich Weber, German anatomist and physiologist (d. 1878)
● 1797 - John Hughes, Irish-born American religious leader; first Roman Catholic archbishop of New York (d. 1864)
● 1803 - George James Webb, English-born composer (d. 1887)
● 1804 - Willard Richards, American religious leader (d. 1854)
● 1813 - Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman and reformer (d. 1887)
● 1826 - George Goyder, surveyor-general of South Australia (d. 1898)
● 1839 - Gustavus Swift, American business leader; founded Swift & Co. (d. 1903)
● 1842 - Ambrose Bierce, American author
● 1850 - Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum, British field marshal (d. 1916)
● 1860 - Mercedes of Orleans, queen of Spain (d. 1878)
● 1882 - Carl Diem, German Olympic official (d. 1962)
● 1882 - Athanase David, French Canadian politician and businessman (d. 1953)
● 1883 - Victor Franz Hess, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964)
● 1886 - George Shiels, Northern Irish dramatist (d. 1949)
● 1888 - Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect (d. 1964)
● 1895 - Jack Dempsey, American boxer (d. 1983)
● 1897 - Daniel K. Ludwig, American shipping magnate (d. 1992)
● 1900 - Wilhelm Cauer, German mathematician (d. 1945)
● 1901 - Harry Partch, American composer (d. 1974)
● 1904 - Phil Harris, American singer, songwriter and comedian (d. 1995)
● 1906 - Pierre Fournier, French cellist (d. 1986)
● 1907 - Arseny Tarkovsky, Russian poet (d. 1989)
● 1908 - Hugo Distler, German composer (d. 1942)
● 1908 - Guru Gopinath, Indian classical dancer (d 1987)
● 1908 - Alfons Rebane, Estonian military officer (d. 1976)
● 1910 - Irving Kaufman, American judge; presided over the Rosenberg case (d. 1992)
● 1911 - Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentine Formula one 5 time World Champion(d. 1995)
● 1911 - Ernesto Sábato, Argentinian writer
● 1912 - Brian Johnston, British cricket commentator (d 1994)
● 1914 - Pearl Witherington CBE, British WW II secret agent
● 1915 - Fred Hoyle, British astronomer (d. 2001)
● 1915 - Norman Cousins, American essayist and editor of The Saturday Review (d. 1990)
● 1916 - John Ciardi, American poet, critic and translator (d. 1986)
● 1919 - Al Molinaro, Actor ("Happy Days")
● 1922 - Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra)
● 1923 - Jack Carter, Comedian
● 1924 - Kurt Furgler, member of the Swiss Federal Council
● 1927 - Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
● 1930 - Claude Chabrol, French film director
● 1930 - William B. Ziff, Jr., American publishing executive (d. 2006)
● 1931 - Billy Casper, American golfer
● 1934 - Jean-Pierre Ferland, Québec singer
● 1938 - Lawrence Block, an acclaimed contemporary American crime writer
● 1941 - Julia Kristeva, Bulgarian-French philosopher, psychoanalyst, and novelist
● 1942 - Michele Lee, American actress ("Knot's Landing")
● 1943 - Georg Stanford Brown, Actor, director
● 1944 - Jeff Beck, English musician (The Yardbirds)
● 1944 - Arthur Brown, English musician
● 1944 - John "Charlie" Whitney, English guitarist (Family, Streetwalkers, Axis Point)
● 1944 - Chris Wood, English musician (d. 1983)
● 1945 - Colin Blunstone, English musician (The Zombies)
● 1945 - George Pataki, American politician
● 1945 - Wayne Cashman, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1946 - Ellison Onizuka, American astronaut (d. 1986)
● 1946 - David Collenette, Canadian politician
● 1947 - Peter Weller, American actor
● 1947 - Mick Fleetwood, English musician (Fleetwood Mac)
● 1948 - Patrick Moraz, Swiss keyboard player (Yes)
● 1949 - John Illsley, English bassist (Dire Straits)
● 1950 - Mercedes Lackey, American author
● 1950 - Nancy Allen, American actress
● 1950 - Derrick Simpson, Reggae singer (Black Uhuru)
● 1953 - Ivo Lill, Estonian artist
● 1955 - Gurumayi Chidvilasananda, Guru of Siddha Yoga
● 1955 - Betsy Randle, American actress
● 1956 - Joe Penny, English actor
● 1957 - Astro, Reggae singer (UB40)
● 1958 - Jean Charest, Premier of Québec
● 1958 - John Tortorella, American ice hockey coach
● 1959 - Andy McCluskey, Rock musician (Orchestral Manoevres in the Dark)
● 1960 - Juli Inkster, Golfer
● 1960 - Trisha Meili, the "Central Park Jogger"
● 1960 - Karin Pilsäter, Swedish politician
● 1961 - Bernie Nicholls, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1961 - Curt Smith, English musician and songwriter (Tears for Fears)
● 1963 - Anatoly Borisovich Jurkin, Russian writer
● 1963 - Preki, Serbian-born American soccer player
● 1963 - Mike Wieringo, American comic book artist
● 1964 - Gary Suter, American ice hockey player
● 1965 - Danielle Spencer, Actress
● 1966 - Hope Sandoval, American singer-songwriter
● 1967 - Bill Huard, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1967 - Janez Lapajne, Slovenian film director
● 1967 - Richard Kruspe-Bernstein, German musician (Rammstein)
● 1967 - Sherry Stringfield, American actress ("ER")
● 1969 - Sissel Kyrkjebø, Norwegian singer
● 1970 - Glenn Medeiros, American singer
● 1972 - Robbie McEwen, Australian cyclist
● 1972 - Denis Zvegelj, Slovenian rower
● 1973 - Alexander Beyer, German actor
● 1973 - Ji Jin Hee, South Korean actor
● 1976 - Louisa Leaman, English author
● 1977 - Dimosthenis Dikoudis, Greek basketball player
● 1978 - Erno "Emppu" Vuorinen, Finnish guitarist (Nightwish)
● 1978 - Luis García, Spanish footballer
● 1978 - Juan Román Riquelme, Argentine footballer
● 1978 - Pantelis Kafes, Greek footballer
● 1978 - Shunsuke Nakamura, Japanese footballer
● 1979 - Craig Shergold, British internet folklore subject
● 1979 - Petra Němcová, Czechoslovakian-born supermodel
● 1980 - Minka Kelly, American Actress ("Friday Night Lights")
● 1980 - Cicinho, Brazilian footballer
● 1980 - Andrew Jones, Australian racing driver
● 1982 - Kevin Nolan, English footballer
● 1982 - Jarret Stoll, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1982 - Mark Penney, Canadian film director
● 1984 - J.J. Redick, American basketball player
● 1986 - Solange Knowles, American singer
● 1986 - Phil Hughes, American baseball player
● 1986 - Kaitlin Cullum, Actress
● 1987 - Lionel Messi, Argentine footballer
● 1987 - Arturo Lupoli, Italian footballer
● 1988 - Micah Richards, English footballer
DEATHS
● 803 - Higbald of Lindisfarne
● 1398 - Hongwu Emperor of China (b. 1328)
● 1439 - Duke Frederick IV of Austria (b. 1382)
● 1519 - Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara (b. 1480)
● 1520 - Hosokawa Sumimoto, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1489)
● 1604 - Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, Lord Great Chamberlain of England (b. 1550)
● 1637 - Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer (b. 1580)
● 1643 - John Hampden, English politician (b. 1595)
● 1766 - Adrien-Maurice, 3rd duc de Noailles, French soldier (b. 1678)
● 1778 - Pieter Burmann the Younger, Dutch philologist (b. 1714)
● 1803 - Matthew Thornton, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1714)
● 1817 - Thomas McKean, American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1734)
● 1835 - Andreas Vokos Miaoulis, Greek admiral and politician, commander of the Greek naval forces during the Greek War of Independence (b. 1769)
● 1894 - Marie François Sadi Carnot, French statesman (b. 1837)
● 1908 - Grover Cleveland, President of the United States (heart failure) (b. 1837)
● 1909 - Sarah Orne Jewett, American writer (b. 1849)
● 1922 - Walther Rathenau, German Minister of Foreign Affairs (assassinated) (b. 1867)
● 1935 - Carlos Gardel, Argentine singer (airplane crash) (b. 1890)
● 1947 - Emil Seidel, Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (b. 1864)
● 1968 - Tony Hancock, British comedian (b. 1924)
● 1977 - André-Gilles Fortin, French Canadian politician (b. 1943)
● 1978 - Robert Charroux, French writer (b. 1909)
● 1984 - Clarence Campbell, Canadian NHL president (b. 1905)
● 1987 - Jackie Gleason, American actor and musician (b. 1916)
● 1993 - Archie Williams, American athlete (b. 1915)
● 1997 - Don Hutson, American athlete (b. 1913)
● 1997 - Brian Keith, American actor (b. 1921)
● 2000 - Vera Atkins, Romanian-born British intelligence officer (b. 1908)
● 2000 - David Tomlinson, English actor (b. 1917)
● 2002 - Pierre Werner, Prime Minister of Luxembourg (b. 1913)
● 2003 - Vladimir Garin, Russian actor (b. 1987)
● 2004 - Ifigeneia Giannopoulou, Greek songwriter (b. 1957)
● 2005 - Paul Winchell, American voice actor and ventriloquist (b. 1922)
● 2005 - Hakham Yedidia Shofet, Former chief rabbi of Iran (b. 1908)
● 2006 - Patsy Ramsey, mother of JonBenét Ramsey (b. 1956)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Amphibalus
● St. Bartholomew of Fame
● St. Faustus and Companions
● St. Germoc
● St. John of Tuy
● St. John the Baptist, patron St. of Québec, brush makers and knife sharpeners; also Festival of San Juan observed in Bolivia and Peru, Jaaniõhtu in Estonia and Sao Joao in Portuguese, especially in Porto, Cusco's Day In Peru
● St. Kundegunda
● St. Orentius
● St. Rumold
● St. Theodulf
● Bl. Ivan
● Bl. Joseph Yuen
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for June 11 (Civil Date: June 24)
● Holy Apostles Bartholomew and Barnabas.
● Opening of the Relics of St. Ephraim, abbot of Novotorzhk.
● St. Barnabas, abbot of Vetluga.
● Translation of the Relics of St. Arcadius, monk of Vyazma and Novotorzhk.
● Commemoration of the appearance of Archangel Gabriel to a monk on Mt. Athos. and the reveleation of the hymn "It is truly meet" (Axion estin).
● Greek Calendar:
● Martyr Theopemptus and four others.
● Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Axion Estin".
● Repose of Righteous recluse Melania of Eletz and Zadonsk (1836).
● Anglican, Lutheran and Congregationalist: Solemnity of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist
● Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Rahmat (Mercy) - First day of the sixth month of the Bahá'í Calendar
● Fête nationale du Québec, also called St-Jean-Baptiste Day
● Original Midsummer's Eve in Finland and Sweden, although the official holiday is now moved to the nearest Friday
● One of the four Irish Quarter days in the Irish Calendar.
● Inti Raymi in Cusco
● Jāņi - Latvia
● Juhannuspaiva in Finland
● Bannockburn Day in Scotland (1314)
● Quarter days in England
● Azores : Feriado Municipal Augra
● Peru : Countryman's Day/Day of the Indian/Dia del Indio
● Venezuela : Army Day/Carabobo Day (1821)
● Zaire : Constitution Day
● This Holiday is only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Newfoundland : Discovery Day (1497-John Cabot) - ( 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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