Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Love "Love elevates or degrades; it never permits us to remain ourselves." — Gustave Le Bon
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Hypocrisy "Too many whites are getting away with drug use . . . The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them, and send them up the river." — Rush Limbaugh, right-wing radio talk-show host, plea bargained guilty for buying thousands of addictive prescription drugs
Thought for the day: "The weed of crime bears bitter fruit."
{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
The International Space Station Expands Again
Credit: STS-117 Shuttle Crew, NASA
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 253 - St Lucius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
● 524 - Battle of Vézeronce, Franks defeat Burgundians.
● 841 - Charles the Bald and Louis the German defeated Lothar at Fontenay.
● 1080 - At Brixen, a council of bishops declared Pope Gregory to be deposed and Archbishop Guibert as antipope Clement III.
● 1115 - St. Bernard founded a monastery in Clairvaux, France. It afterward became a strategic center for the Cistercians, a religious order that flourished up until the Reformation.
● 1178 - 5 Canterbury monks report something exploding on Moon
● 1530 - The Augsburg Confession is presented at the Diet of Augsburg to the Holy Roman Emperor by the Lutheran princes and Electors of Germany.
● 1580 - The German 'Book of Concord' was published, containing all the official doctrinal standards of the Lutheran Church. (English translations of the entire work were not available before 1851.)
● 1630 - Fork introduced to American dining by Gov Winthrop
● 1638 - A lunar eclipse becomes the 1st astronomical event recorded in US
● 1658 - Aurangzeb proclaimed himself emperor of the Moghuls in India.
● 1672 - 1st recorded monthly Quaker meeting in US held, Sandwich, Mass
● 1678 - Elena Cornaro Piscopia is the first woman awarded a doctorate of philosophy.
● 1744 - The first Methodist conference convened, in London. This new society within Anglicanism imposed strict disciplines upon its members, formally separating from the Established Church in 1795.
● 1749 - General fast because of drought in MA
● 1767 - Mexican Indians rioted as Jesuit priests were ordered home.
● 1788 - Virginia ratified the U.S. Constitution and became the 10th state of the United States.
● 1798 - US passes Alien Act allowing president to deport dangerous aliens
● 1825 - Capture of Bob Forbes, leader of Maroons (blacks resisting slavery) in Virginia.
● 1835 - 1st building constructed at Yerba Buena (now SF)
● 1862 - Day 1 of the 7 Days begins with fighting at Oak Grove
● 1864 - Union troops surrounding Petersburg, VA, began building a mine tunnel underneath the Confederate lines.
● 1865 - English pioneer missionary J. Hudson Taylor founded the China Inland Mission. Its headquarters moved to the US in 1901, and in 1965 its name became Overseas Missionary Fellowship (OMF) International.
● 1867 - Lucien B. Smith patented the first barbed wire.
● 1868 - Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina were readmitted to the Union.
● 1868 - The U.S. Congress enacted legislation granting an eight-hour day to workers employed by the Federal government.
● 1870 - In Spain, Queen Isabella abdicated in favor of Alfonso XII.
● 1876 - Lt. Col. Custer and the 210 men of U.S. 7th Cavalry were killed by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians at Little Big Horn in Montana. The event is known as "Custer's Last Stand." {and should also be known as karma is a bitch ain't it}
● 1877 - In Philadelphia, PA, Alexander Graham Bell demonstated the telephone for Sir William Thomson (Baron Kelvin) and Emperor Pedro II of Brazil at the Centennial Exhibition.
● 1878 - Despite mass protests, Erza Heywood gets two years hard labor for advocating free love sexual emancipation as part of women's rights in the U.S.. Pardoned the following day.
● 1881 - Birth of Crystal Eastman, organizer for peace and suffrage.
● 1887 - George Abbott, American playwright, director, actor and producer, was born.
● 1888 - Republican Convention, in Chicago, nominates Benjamin Harrison
● 1894 - Eugene Debs leads strike of American Railway Union.
● 1903 - Modern prognosticator George Orwell (Eric Blair) born, Britain.
● 1905 - Cullinan Diamond, the largest rough gem-quality diamond known, is discovered by Frederick Wells.
● 1906 - Pittsburgh millionaire Harry Kendall Thaw, the son of coal and railroad baron William Thaw, shot and killed Stanford White. White, a prominent architect, had a tryst with Florence Evelyn Nesbit before she married Thaw. The shooting took place at the premeire of Mamzelle Champagne in New York.
● 1910 - The U.S. Congress authorized the use of postal savings stamps.
● 1917 - The first American fighting troops landed in France.
● 1919 - 1st advanced monoplane airliner flight (Junkers F13)
● 1920 - The Greeks took 8,000 Turkish prisoners in Smyrna.
● 1921 - Samuel Gompers was elected head of the AFL for the 40th time.
● 1923 - New England telephone "girls" strike for seven-hour day.
● 1924 - K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1023 Thomana
● 1928 - Three hundred thousand textile workers strike in Mumbai, India.
● 1929 - Pres Hoover authorizes building of Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam)
● 1938 - Fair Labor Standards Act passed.
● 1938 - Federal minimum wage law guarantees workers 40 cents per hour
● 1938 - Gaelic scholar Dr. Douglas Hyde was inaugurated as the first president of the Irish Republic.
● 1940 - France formally surrenders to Nazi Germany.
● 1941 - Finland declared war on the Soviet Union.
● 1941 - Pres. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 8802 forbidding discrimination in war industries.
● 1942 - British RAF staged a 1,000 bomb raid on Bremen Germany (WW II)
● 1944 - The Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in the Nordic Countries begins.
● 1946 - Ho Chi Minh traveled to France for talks on Vietnamese independence.
● 1947- The Diary of Anne Frank is published.
● 1948 - The Berlin Airlift begins.
● 1948 - The Soviet Union tightened its blockade of Berlin by intercepting river barges heading for the city.
● 1950 - Israeli airline El Al begins service
● 1950 - The beginning of the Korean War, North Korean forces cross the 38th parallel to invade South Korea.
● 1950 - UN condemns North Korean invasion; North Korea has invaded South Korea at several points along the two countries' joint border.
● 1952 - John Christie, the British murderer of 10 Rillington Place, was sentenced to death for killing six women.
● 1953 - 86° F in Anchorage Alaska
● 1953 - Christie to hang for wife's murder; John Christie is sentenced to hang for murdering his wife and then hiding her body under the floorboards of their Notting Hill home in London.
● 1956 - 51 die in collision of "Andrea Doria" & "Stockholm" (Cape Cod)
● 1957 - During a convention in Cleveland, Ohio, the United Church of Christ (UCC) was formed by a merger of the Congregational Christian Church and the Evangelical and Reformed Church.
● 1959 - Eamon De Valera became president of Ireland at the age of 76.
● 1959 - The Cuban government seized 2.35 million acres under a new agrarian reform law.
● 1962 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the use of unofficial non-denominational prayer in public schools was unconstitutional.
● 1964 - U.S. President Lyndon Johnson ordered 200 naval personnel to Mississippi to assist in finding three missing civil rights workers.
● 1966 - Kosmos 122, 1st Soviet weather satellite, launched
● 1967 - Heavyweight boxing champion Muhammed Ali, stripped of his title upon conviction, is sentenced to five years in prison for his conscientious objection. Houston, Texas.
● 1968 - Leonard Marchand (Okanogan) becomes first Indian ever elected to Canadian House of Commons.
● 1968 - Pan-American Health Organization reports that Central American Indians have a worse diet than the pre-Columbian Mayans.
● 1969 - Canada's Minister of Indian Affairs, Jean Cretien, announces a government plan to end the legal status of Canada's native people. This endorsement of cultural genocide so cripples his political career that he later becomes Prime Minister for a decade.
● 1970 - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission handed down a ruling (35 FR 7732), making it illegal for radio stations to put telephone calls on the air without the permission of the person being called.
● 1970 - New peace plan for Middle East; The United States launches its latest plan to end the current war of attrition between Israel and Egypt.
● 1973 - Erskine Childers Jr. became president of Ireland after the retirement of Eamon De Valera.
● 1973 - Former White House Counsel John Dean began testifying before the Senate Watergate Committee, admitting that U.S. President Nixon took part in the Watergate cover-up.
● 1975 - Mozambique became independent. Samora Machel was sworn in as president after 477 years of Portuguese rule.
● 1975 - Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declares Emergency in India, suspending civil liberties and elections.
● 1976 - Missouri Governor Christopher S. Bond issues an executive order rescinding the Extermination Order, formally apologizing on behalf of the state of Missouri for the suffering it had caused the Latter Day Saints.
● 1978 - In response to the passage of an anti-gay ordinance in Miami, 240,000 people march in San Francisco in the first large-scale version of that city's annual Gay Freedom Day Parade.
● 1979 - E F Helin & S J Bus discovers asteroid #2343 Siding Spring, #2392 Jonathan Murray, #2441 Hibbs, #2618 Coonabarabran, #2619 Skalnate Pleso, #2628 Kopal, #2682 Soromundi, #2704 Julian Loewe, #3129 Bonestell, #3205 & #3756
● 1981 - Supreme Court upholds male-only draft registration, constitutional {Easily done with no Equal Rights Amendment.}
● 1982 - Greece abolishes headshaving of the recruits in the military.
● 1982 - Sec of State Alexander Haig Jr. resigns, replaced by Schultz
● 1984 - STS 41-D launch attempt scrubbed because of computer problem
● 1985 - Police hunt IRA resort bombs; Thirteen people are arrested in connection with a suspected IRA bombing campaign uncovered by police two days ago.
● 1985 - Fireworks factory near Hallett, OK explodes (21 die)
● 1986 - The U.S. Congress approved $100 million in aid to the Contras fighting in Nicaragua.
● 1987 - Austrian President Kurt Waldheim visited Pope John Paul II at the Vatican. The meeting was controversial due to allegations that Waldheim had hidden his Nazi past.
● 1987 - Conscientious objector Michaelis Maraggakis jailed four years for refusing compulsory military service, Thessaloniki, Greece.
● 1989 - 1st US postmark dedicated to Lesbian & Gay Pride (Stonewall, NYC)
● 1990 - 120° F in Phoenix Arizona
● 1990 - Hundreds rally, Madrid, Spain, for an end to bullfighting.
● 1990 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the right of an individual, whose wishes are clearly made, to refuse life-sustaining medical treatment. "The right to die" decision was made in the Curzan vs. Missouri case.
● 1991 - The last Soviet troops left Czechoslovakia 23 years after the Warsaw Pact invasion.
● 1991 - The Yugoslav republics of Slovenia and Croatia declared their independence from Yugoslavia.
● 1993 - Kim Campbell is chosen as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and becomes the first female Prime Minister of Canada. She assumed power upon the resignation of Brian Mulroney.
● 1995 - Warren E. Burger, the 15th chief justice of the United States, died at age 87.
● 1996 - Outside the Khobar Towers near Dhahran, Saudi Arabia a truck bomb exploded. The bomb killed 19 Americans and injured over 500 Saudis and Americans.
● 1997 - The Russian space station Mir was hit by an unmanned cargo vessel. Much of the power supply was knocked out and the station's Spektr module was severely damaged.
● 1997 - U.S. air pollution standards were significantly tightened by U.S. President Clinton.
● 1997 - Oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau died at age 87.
● 1998 - In Clinton v. City of New York, the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional.
● 1998 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that those infected with HIV are protected by the Americans With Disabilities Act.
● 1999 - Germany's parliament approved a national Holocaust memorial to be built in Berlin.
● 2000 - A Florida judge approved a class-action lawsuit to be filed against American Online (AOL) on behalf of hourly subscribers who were forced to view "pop-up" advertisements.
● 2000 - U.S. and British researchers announced that they had completed a rough draft of a map of the genetic makeup of human beings. The project was 10 years old at the time of the announcement.
● 2001 - Race violence erupts in Burnley; The ring leaders of a weekend of racial clashes in Burnley, Lancashire, are hunted by the police as the clear up in the town begins.
● 2002 - A federal judge in Alexandria, Va., entered an innocent plea on behalf of Zacarias Moussaoui, who was accused of conspiracy in the Sept. 11 attacks.
● 2005 - Hardline Tehran Mayor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the winner of Iran's presidential runoff election.
● 2006 - Palestinian militants kidnapped an Israeli soldier, Corporal Gilad Shalit, after tunneling under the border and attacking a military post, killing two other soldiers.
BIRTHS
● 1328 - William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (d. 1397)
● 1560 - Wilhelm Fabry, German surgeon (d. 1634)
● 1612 - John Albert Vasa, Polish bishop (d. 1634)
● 1689 - Edward Holyoke, American educator; president of Harvard University (1737-69) (d. 1769)
● 1715 - Joseph-François Foulon, French politician (d. 1789)
● 1814 - Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist (d. 1896)
● 1852 - Antoni Gaudí, Catalan architect (d. 1926)
● 1858 - Georges Courteline, French dramatist (d. 1929)
● 1860 - Gustave Charpentier, French composer (d. 1956)
● 1863 - Emile Francqui, Belgian soldier (d. 1935)
● 1864 - Walther Nernst, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1941)
● 1865 - Robert Henri, American painter (d. 1929)
● 1881 - Crystal Eastman, American lawyer, suffragist and writer (d. 1928)
● 1884 - Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, German art promoter (d. 1979)
● 1885 - Benito Lynch, Argentine novelist and short story writer (d. 1951)
● 1886 - Henry Harley Arnold, American Army Air Force commander (d. 1950)
● 1887 - George Abbott, American playwright (d. 1995)
● 1894 - Hermann Oberth, German physicist (d. 1989)
● 1900 - Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Viceroy of India (d. 1979)
● 1903 - George Orwell (pen name of Eric Arthur Blair), British writer (d. 1950)
● 1903 - Anne Revere, American actress (d. 1990)
● 1907 - J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1973)
● 1908 - Willard Van Orman Quine, American philosopher (d. 2000)
● 1911 - William Howard Stein, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1980)
● 1912 - William T. Cahill, Governor of New Jersey (d. 1996)
● 1913 - Cyril Fletcher, British comedian (d. 2005)
● 1921 - Celia Franca, Canadian ballet dancer
● 1923 - Nicholas Mosley, British writer
● 1924 - Sidney Lumet, American film director
● 1925 - June Lockhart, American actress ("Lassie," "Lost in Space")
● 1926 - Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian writer (d. 1973)
● 1928 - Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate
● 1928 - Peyo, Belgian illustrator (d. 1992)
● 1928 - Bill Russo, American jazz composer (d. 2003)
● 1929 - Eric Carle, American author
● 1930 - Mary Beth Peil, American singer
● 1932 - Peter Blake, British artist
● 1933 - James Meredith, American civil rights activist
● 1933 - Álvaro Siza Vieira, Portuguese architect
● 1935 - Eddie Floyd, American singer
● 1936 - Jusuf Habibie, President of Indonesia
● 1939 - Harold Melvin, American musician (Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes) (d. 1997)
● 1939 - Barbara Montgomery, Actress
● 1939 - Allen Fox, American Tennis Player
● 1940 - A.J. Quinnell, British writer (d. 2005)
● 1941 - Denys Arcand, Canadian film director
● 1942 - Willis Reed, Basketball hall of famer
● 1942 - Michel Tremblay, Canadian playwright
● 1944 - Robert Charlebois, Canadian singer
● 1945 - Carly Simon, American singer
● 1946 - Allen Lanier, Rock musician (Blue Oyster Cult)
● 1946 - Roméo Dallaire, Canadian senator
● 1946 - Ian McDonald, musician (King Crimson and Foreigner)
● 1947 - Jimmie Walker, American TV actor (best known for his role on Good Times)
● 1948 - Michael Lembeck, Actor, director
● 1949 - Phyllis George, TV personality
● 1952 - Tim Finn, New Zealand singer/singwriter (Crowded House)
● 1954 - David Paich, composer (Toto)
● 1956 - Boris Trajkovski, President of the Republic of Macedonia (d. 2004)
● 1959 - Jari Puikkonen, Finnish ski jumper, Winter Olympics medalist
● 1960 - Dario de Judicibus, Italian writer
● 1960 - Craig Johnston, Australian footballer
● 1961 - Ricky Gervais, English comedian ("The Office")
● 1963 - George Michael, British singer
● 1963 - Yann Martel, Canadian author
● 1963 - Doug Gilmour, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1964 - Erica Gimpel, Actress
● 1964 - Johnny Herbert, British race car driver
● 1966 - Dikembe Mutombo, Congolese (DRC) basketball player
● 1967 - Richie Rich, Rapper, producer
● 1968 - Candyman, Rapper
● 1969 - Matt Gallant, American television host
● 1969 - Zim Zum, American musician (former Marilyn Manson guitarist)
● 1970 - Lucy Benjamin, British actress
● 1970 - Erki Nool, Estonian decathlete
● 1971 - Sean Kelly, Rock musician
● 1971 - Angela Kinsey, American actress ("The Office")
● 1971 - Santiago de Tezanos, Uruguayan architect
● 1971 - Neil Lennon, Northern Irish footballer
● 1971 - Michael Tucker, American baseball player
● 1972 - Carlos Delgado, Puerto Rican baseball player
● 1972 - Mike Kroeger, American bassplayer (Nickelback)
● 1973 - Jamie Redknapp, English footballer
● 1974 - Mario Calire, Rock musician (Wallflowers)
● 1974 - Jim LaMarca, American bassplayer (Chimaira)
● 1974 - Karisma Kapoor, Indian actress
● 1975 - Linda Cardellini, American actress
● 1975 - Albert Costa, Spanish tennis player
● 1975 - Vladimir Kramnik, Russian chess player
● 1975 - Natasha Klauss, Colombian actress
● 1976 - José Cancela, Uruguayan footballer
● 1976 - Dubravka Vukotić, Montenegrin female actor
● 1978 - Layla El, 2006 WWE Diva Search Winner
● 1979 - Busy Philipps, Actress ("ER")
● 1979 - Hirooki Goto, Japanese professional wrestler
● 1979 - Katie Doyle, American actress and reality television star
● 1979 - Brandi Burkhardt, American vocalist, theater actress, and beauty queen
● 1980 - Maja Latinović, Serbian model
● 1980 - Nozomi Takeuchi, Japanese actress
● 1981 - Sheridan Smith, British actress
● 1981 - Simon Ammann, Swiss ski jumper
● 1982 - Mikhail Youzhny, Russian tennis player
● 1982 - Rain, Korean singer (Rain, Jeong Ji-Hoon)
● 1983 - Nargis Farahmand, Afghan poet
● 1983 - Todd Cooper, British swimmer
● 1986 - Aya Matsuura, Japanese singer
● 1988 - Amanda Dowler, British murder victim (d. 2002)
DEATHS
● 635 - Emperor Gaozu, first emperor of the Chinese Tang Dynasty (b. 566)
● 1134 - King Niels of Denmark
● 1218 - Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, French crusader (b. 1160)
● 1483 - Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, English writer
● 1522 - Franchinus Gaffurius, Italian composer (b. 1451)
● 1533 - Mary Tudor, queen consort of Louis XII of France (b. 1496)
● 1579 - Hatano Hideharu, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1541)
● 1593 - Michele Mercati, Italian physician and gardener (b. 1541)
● 1634 - John Marston, English playwright (b. 1576)
● 1638 - Juan Pérez de Montalbán, Spanish writer (b. 1602)
● 1665 - Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria (b. 1630)
● 1669 - François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort, French soldier (b. 1616)
● 1673 - Charles de Batz-Castelmore, Comte d'Artagnan, Captain of the Musketeers under Louis XIV of France (b. 1611)
● 1671 - Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Italian astronomer (b. 1598)
● 1686 - Simon Ushakov, Russian painter (b. 1626)
● 1715 - Jean du Casse, French admiral (b. 1646)
● 1767 - Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer (b. 1681)
● 1792 - Thomas Peters, Early Sierra Leonean founder (b. 1738)
● 1798 - Thomas Sandby, English architect (b. 1721)
● 1822 - E.T.A. Hoffmann, German writer (b. 1776)
● 1838 - François Nicolas Benoît, Baron Haxo, French general (b. 1774)
● 1861 - Abd-ul-Mejid, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1823)
● 1866 - Alexander von Nordmann, Finnish zoologist (b. 1803)
● 1868 - Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist (b. 1811)
● 1875 - Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor of gooches (b. 1796)
● 1876 - George Armstrong Custer, U.S. Army officer (b. 1839)
● 1876 - Thomas Custer, Brother of George A. Custer & 2-time Medal of Honor winner (b. 1845)
● 1876 - Boston Custer, Brother of George A. Custer (b. 1848)
● 1876 - James C. Calhoun, Brother-in-Law of George Armstrong Custer & U.S. Soldier (b. 1845)
● 1876 - Myles Keogh, U.S. Soldier & Irish Soldier of Fortune (b. 1840)
● 1882 - François Jouffroy, French sculptor (b. 1806)
● 1884 - Hans Rott, Austrian composer (b. 1858)
● 1916 - Thomas Eakins, American artist (b. 1844)
● 1918 - Jake Beckley, baseball player (b. 1867)
● 1937 - Colin Clive, British actor (b. 1900)
● 1944 - Lucha Reyes, Mexican singer (b. 1906)
● 1948 - William C. Lee, U.S. general (b. 1895)
● 1949 - Buck Freeman, baseball player (b. 1871)
● 1959 - Charles Starkweather, spree killer (b. 1938)
● 1960 - Tommy Corcoran, baseball player (b. 1869)
● 1971 - John Boyd Orr, Scottish physician, Nobel laureate (b. 1880)
● 1974 - Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1893)
● 1976 - Johnny Mercer, American songwriter (b. 1909)
● 1979 - Philippe Halsman, American photographer (b. 1906)
● 1983 - Alberto Ginastera, Argentine composer (b. 1916)
● 1984 - Michel Foucault, French philosopher (b. 1926)
● 1985 - Morris Mason, American murderer (b. 1954)
● 1988 - Hillel Slovak, Israeli-born musician (Anthym/What Is This?, Red Hot Chili Peppers (b. 1962)
● 1990 - Ronald Gene Simmons, American mass murderer
● 1992 - Jerome Brown, American football player (b. 1965)
● 1995 - Warren Burger, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (b. 1907)
● 1995 - Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
● 1997 - Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French explorer (b. 1910)
● 2002 - Jean Corbeil, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
● 2003 - Lester Maddox, American politician (b. 1915)
● 2005 - John Fiedler, American Actor (b. 1925)
● 2006 - Jaap Penraat, Dutch architect (b. 1918)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Adelbert of Egmond
● St. Dominic Henares
● St. Eleonora
● St. Eurosia
● St. Febronia
● St. Gallicanus
● St. Gohardus
● St. Maximus of Turin
● St. Moloc
● St. Molonachus
● Fiesta of Santa Orosia – Spain
● St. Prosper of Aquitaine
● St. Selyf
● St. William of Vercelli, abbot (died 1142)
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for June 12 (Civil Date: June 25)
● Saints Onuphrius the Great, and Peter of Mt. Athos.
● St. Arsenius, abbot of Konevits.
● Saints John, Andrew, Heraclemon, and Theophilus, hermits of Egypt (also 2 December).
● St. John the Soldier of Egypt.
● St. Onuphrius, abbot of Malsk (Pskov).
● Saints Onuphrius and Auxentius, monks of Vologda.
● St. Stephen of Komel, abbot of Ozersk Monastery (Vologda).
● New-Martyr Bishop Onuphrius (1938) and his cosufferers Hieromartyrs Anthony, Barsanuphius and Joseph (1937).
● Greek Calendar:
● St. Julian of Dagaz.
● St. Zeno, monk.
● Lutheran:
● Commemoration of the Augsburg Confession
● Commemoration of Philipp Melanchthon, renewer of the Church
● Statehood Day in Slovenia and Croatia
● National Catfish Day
● Gibraltar : Spring Bank Holiday
● Mozambique : Independence Day (1975)
● Virginia : Ratification Day (1788)
● 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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