Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Marriage "Marriage probably originated as a straightforward food-for-sex deal among foraging primates. Compatibility was not a big issue, nor, of course, was there any tension over who would control the remote." — Barbara Ehrenreich
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Inanity "Guns don't kill people, people do." — NRA slogan, obscures the issue of how the availability of guns facilitates violent crime
Thought for the day: "Statistics are often used as a drunk uses a light pole: For support rather than illumination."
{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
Wisps of the Iris Nebula
Credit & Copyright: Thomas V. Davis (tvdavisastropix.com)
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 363 - Roman Emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sassanid Empire. General Jovian is proclaimed Emperor by the troops on the battlefield.
● 684 – St. Benedict II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
● 1096 - Peter the Hermit's crusaders forced their way across Sava, Hungary.
● 1097 - The armies of the First Crusade (1096-99) occupied the ancient Byzantine city of Nicea.
● 1243 - The Seljuk Turkish army in Asia Minor was wiped out by the Mongols.
● 1284 - According to legend, the Pied Piper lures 130 children of Hamelin away.
● 1409 - Western Schism: The Roman Catholic church is led into a double schism as Petros Philargos is crowned Pope Alexander V after the Council of Pisa, joining Pope Gregory XII in Rome and Pope Benedict XII in Avignon.
● 1483 - Richard III usurps English throne
● 1541 - Pizarro, decimator of the Inca empire, assassinated in Peru. Too little, too late.
● 1702 - Birth of Philip Doddridge, an English Nonconformist clergyman. Doddridge authored 370 hymn- texts, of which 'O Happy Day That Fixed My Choice' is still sung today.
● 1718 - Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia, Peter the Great's son, mysteriously dies after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him.
● 1723 - After a lasting siege and firing from the cannons Baku surrendered to Russians.
● 1766 - New York Agrarian Rebellion begins.
● 1794 - The French defeated an Austrian army at the Battle of Fleurus.
● 1797 - Charles Newbold patents 1st cast-iron plow. He can't sell it to farmers, though, they fear effects of iron on soil!
● 1804 - The Lewis and Clark Expedition reached the mouth of the Kansas River after completing a westward trek of nearly 400 river miles.
● 1807 - Lightning hits a warehouse in Luxembourg, killing 230 people.
● 1819 - The bicycle was patented by W.K. Clarkson, Jr.
● 1839 - Scottish clergyman and missionary Robert Murray McCheyne wrote in a letter: 'Joy is increased by spreading it to others.'
● 1844 - John Tyler took Julia Gardiner as his bride, thus becoming the first U.S. President to marry while in office.
● 1848 - 1st pure food law enacted in US
● 1848 - End of the June Days Uprising in Paris.
● 1857 - The first investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, London.
● 1862 - Battle of Beaver Dam Creek-Union repulse Confederacy in Virginia
● 1862 - Day 2 of the 7 Days-Battle of Mechanicsville
● 1870 - The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.
● 1870 - The first section of the boardwalk in Atlantic City, NJ, was opened to the public.
● 1892 - Birth of Pearl S. Buck, American Presbyterian missionary to China and author of the 1931 best-seller, 'The Good Earth.' {Perennially on the required reading lists for high school students even today.}
● 1893 - Imprisoned Haymarket anarchists not already executed by the state are pardoned by governor of Illinois, John Peter Altgeld, effectively ending his political career.
● 1894 - Beginning of Pullman Railroad Strike, largest industrial strike to date in U.S. history, eventually broken by federal government troops. At least two dozen strikers were killed, and Pres. Cleveland suspended the constitutional right to assembly (the ability of any two or more people to meet in public) in seven states.
● 1894 - Mohandas Gandhi founds movement for Indian rights, South Africa.
● 1900 - A commission that included Dr. Walter Reed began the fight against the deadly disease yellow fever.
● 1900 - The United States announced that it would send troops to fight against the Boxer rebellion in China.
● 1902 - England establishes Order of Merit
● 1902 - M Wolf & L Carnera discovers asteroid #488 Kreusa
● 1907 - Russia's nobility demanded drastic measures to be taken against revolutionaries.
● 1908 - Shah Muhammad Ali's forces squelched the reform elements of Parliament in Persia.
● 1911 - Nieuport sets an aircraft speed record of 83 mph (133 kph)
● 1914 - Babe Zaharias, the American athlete known for her achievements in golf, basketball and track and field, was born.
● 1917 - Bisbee, Arizona miner strike.
● 1917 - General John "Black Jack" Pershing arrived in France with the American Expeditionary Force.
● 1918 - Pacifist and socialist organizer Eugene Debs is arrested for giving an anti-war speech. Canton, Ohio.
● 1918 - World War I Western Front: Battle for Belleau Wood - Allied Forces under John J. Pershing & James Harbord defeat Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince.
● 1919 - 1st issue of NY Daily News published
● 1919 - John Hartfield lynched, Ellisville, Mississippi, at 2:30 pm.
● 1924 - After eight years of occupation, U.S. troops leave the Dominican Republic.
● 1925 - Charlie Chaplin's comedy, "The Gold Rush," premiered in Hollywood.
● 1926 - A memorial to the first U.S. troops in France was unveiled at St. Nazaire.
● 1928 - Troops and sailors in Greece change sides to support general strike.
● 1934 - Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.
● 1934 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions.
● 1934 - W E B Du Bois resigns position at NAACP
● 1936 - L Boyer discovers asteroid #2021 Poincare
● 1940 - End of USSR experimental calendar; Gregorian readopted 6/27
● 1940 - World War II: Under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Romania requiring it to cede Bessarabia and northern part of Bukovina.
● 1941 - Finland enters WW II against Russia
● 1942 - The Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter was flown for the first time.
● 1945 - The U.N. Charter was signed by 50 nations in San Francisco, CA.
● 1947 - Boston's Mayor James M. Curley enters Federal Prison, convicted of mail fraud. Continued to run the city from his jail cell in Danbury, Connecticut. Curley officially resumed his duties in November, when Pres. Truman, himself a former major city machine pol (in Kansas City), abruptly commuted his sentence.
● 1948 - The Berlin Airlift began as the U.S., Britain and France started ferrying supplies to the isolated western sector of Berlin.
● 1948 - US denounces Soviet blockade of Berlin
● 1948 - William Shockley filed the original patent for the grown junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.
● 1949 - Walter Baade discovers asteroid Icarus inside orbit of Mercury
● 1951 - The Soviet Union proposed a cease-fire in the Korean War.
● 1952 - New York Times reports that the U.S. State Department removed 119 alleged homosexuals in 1951 as "security risks."
● 1952 - Nonviolent campaign against apartheid begins, South Africa.
● 1953 - Albert Luthuli calls for bonfires and candles to symbolize sparks of freedom, South Africa.
● 1955 - The first Southern Baptist congregation was formally organized in Las Vegas, with 33 charter members. It was the second Southern Baptist church established in Nevada.
● 1957 - Hurricane Audrey strikes Louisiana claiming 500 lives
● 1958 - Mackinac Straits Bridge, Michigan dedicated
● 1958 - Vanguard SLV-2 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
● 1959 - Queen Elizabeth & Pres Eisenhower open the St Lawrence Seaway, opening North America's Great Lakes to ocean-going ships.
● 1960 - British Somaliland (now Somalia) gains independence from Britain
● 1960 - Madagascar gains independence from France (National Day)
● 1961 - A Kuwaiti vote opposed Iraq's annexation plans.
● 1963 - John F. Kennedy speaks the famous words "Ich bin ein Berliner" on a visit to West Berlin. {His lack of knowledge of the German language means he is really saying "I am a jelly donut," "Ich bin Berliner," would have been correct. His West Berlin audience didn't give a damn and cheered wildly.}
● 1967 - Two hundred protesting against state violence are killed by Somoza's U.S.-trained National Guard. Managua, Nicaragua.
● 1968 - Iwo Jima & Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US
● 1969 - West Berlin police raids lead to the arrest of 145 radical “Roaming Hash Rebels.”
● 1970 - Riots erupt in Northern Ireland after British courts jail Bernadette Devlin, Member of Parliament, for fomenting unrest.
● 1971 - The U.S. Justice Department issued a warrant for Daniel Ellsberg, accusing him of giving away the Pentagon Papers.
● 1973 - On Plesetsk Cosmodrome 9 people are killed in an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket.
● 1974 - The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio
● 1975 - FBI-initiated shootout at Oglala, South Dakota kills two FBI agents and Lakota activist Joe Stuntz. Two American Indian Movement leaders are prosecuted for the FBI deaths and found innocent by reason of self-defense; a third, Leonard Peltier, is later tried and convicted when he is not allowed the same defense witnesses as the previous two.
● 1975 - Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency due to "deep and widespread conspiracy." This establishes authoritarian rule in India.
● 1976 - The CN (Canadian National) Tower, the tallest free-standing structure on land in the world, was opened.
● 1977 - 42 die in fire inmate causes at Maury County Jail in Columbia Tenn
● 1977 - The Yorkshire Ripper kills 16 year old shop assistant Jayne MacDonald in Leeds, changing public perception of the killer as she was the first victim who was not a prostitute.
● 1978 - Air Canada Flight 189 to Toronto overran the runway and crashed into the Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of 107 passengers onboard died.
● 1978 - Brittany separatists bomb Palace of Versailles in France
● 1978 - First dedicated oceanographic satellite, SEASAT 1, launched
● 1979 - Muhammad Ali, at 37 years old, announced that he was retiring as world heavyweight boxing champion.
● 1981 - In Mountain Home, Idaho, Virginia Campbell took her coupons and rebates and bought $26,460 worth of groceries. She only paid 67 cents after all the discounts.
● 1982 - A Gilmore & P Kilmartin discovers asteroid #3521
● 1982 - US vetos UN Security Council resolution for a limited withdrawal from Beirut of Israeli & Palestine Liberation Organization forces
● 1984 - 1st flight of Shuttle Discovery (41-D) scrubbed at T -4s
● 1986 - Branson on course for Blue Riband; Entrepreneur Richard Branson sets off on his second attempt to claim the transatlantic crossing record for Britain.
● 1990 - 122° F in Phoenix Arizona
● 1992 - President George H.W. Bush, who had campaigned for office on a pledge of "no new taxes," conceded that tax increases would have to be included in any deficit-reduction package.
● 1992 - Navy Secretary H. Lawrence Garrett III resigned, accepting responsibility for a "leadership failure" that resulted in the Tailhook sex-abuse scandal.
● 1993 - The U.S. launches a missile attack targeting Baghdad intelligence headquarters in retaliation for a thwarted assassination attempt against former President George H. W. Bush in April in Kuwait.
● 1994 - In commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion, over one million people march in New York City to celebrate and demand gay and lesbian rights.
● 1995 - Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani deposed his father Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup.
● 1996 - Irish Journalist Veronica Guerin is shot in her car while in traffic in the outskirts of Dublin
● 1996 - The U.S. Supreme Court ordered the Virginia Military Institute to admit women or forgo state support.
● 1997 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Communications Decency Act of 1996 that made it illegal to distribute indecent material on the Internet.
● 1997 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld state laws that allow for a ban on doctor-assisted suicides.
● 1998 - The U.S. and Peru open school to train commandos to patrol Peru's rivers for drug traffickers.
● 1998 - The Supreme Court issued a landmark sexual harassment ruling, putting employers on notice that they can be held responsible for supervisors' misconduct even if they knew nothing about it.
● 2000 - IRA weapons dump inspected; International inspectors say they have seen a large number of IRA weapons "safely and adequately stored" in bunkers. {Of course stored means for later use. Why weren't they destroyed?}
● 2000 - Indonesia's President Abdurrahman Wahid declared a state of emergency in the Moluccas due to the escalation of fighting between Christians and Muslims.
● 2000 - The Human Genome Project and Celera Genomics Corp. jointly announced that they had created a working draft of the human genome.
● 2003 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional in Lawrence v. Texas.
● 2003 - Strom Thurmond, the longest-serving senator in U.S. history, died in Edgefield, S.C., at age 100.
● 2003 - Sir Denis Thatcher, husband of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, died at age 88.
● 2006 - The Republic of Montenegro becomes the 192nd member of the United Nations.
BIRTHS
● 1681 - Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (d. 1708)
● 1689 - Edward Holyoke, American academic (d. 1769)
● 1694 - Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and minerologist (d. 1768)
● 1702 - Philip Doddridge, English religious leader (d. 1751)
● 1703 - Thomas Clap, American academic (d. 1767)
● 1742 - Arthur Middleton, American; signed the Declaration of Independence (d. 1787)
● 1819 - Abner Doubleday, American Major General (d. 1893)
● 1824 - Lord Kelvin, Irish-born physicist (d. 1907)
● 1838 - Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Bengali Novelist (d. 1894)
● 1854 - Robert Laird Borden, Canadian politician (d. 1937)
● 1865 - Bernard Berenson, American art historian (d. 1959)
● 1866 - George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English financier of Egyptian excavations (d. 1923)
● 1869 - Martin Andersen Nexø, Danish writer (d. 1954)
● 1878 - Albert Siklos, Hungarian cellist, composer and musicologist (d. 1942)
● 1892 - Pearl S. Buck, American writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1973)
● 1898 - Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer (d. 1978)
● 1899 - Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
● 1901 - Stuart Symington, American politician; U.S. senator from Missouri (1953-76) (d. 1988)
● 1902 - William Lear, American industrialist and electrical engineer (d. 1978)
● 1902 - Antonia Brico, Dutch-born American conductor and pianist (d. 1989)
● 1904 - Frank Scott Hogg, Canadian astronomer (d. 1951)
● 1904 - Peter Lorre, Hungarian-born actor (d. 1964)
● 1906 - Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer (d. 1974)
● 1906 - Viktor Schreckengost, American industrial designer
● 1907 - Debs Garms, American baseball player (d. 1984)
● 1909 - Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley's manager (d. 1997)
● 1911 - Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American athlete (d. 1956)
● 1914 - Laurie Lee, British writer (d. 1997)
● 1919 - Richard Neustadt, American political historian (d. 2003)
● 1921 - Violette Szabo, French WWII secret agent (d. 1945)
● 1922 - Eleanor Parker, American actress
● 1923 - Barbara Graham, American murderer (d. 1955)
● 1924 - Costas Axelos, Greek philosopher
● 1925 - Pavel Belyayev, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1970)
● 1928 - Jacob Druckman, American composer (d. 1996)
● 1933 - Claudio Abbado, Italian conductor
● 1933 - Gene Green, American baseball player (d. 1981)
● 1934 - Jeremy Wolfenden, British journalist (d. 1965)
● 1934 - Dave Grusin, American jazz pianist
● 1934 - Josef Sommer, Actor
● 1936 - Robert Maclennan, British politician
● 1936 - Jean-Claude Cardinal Turcotte, Archbishop of Montreal
● 1937 - Sombat Metanee, Thai film actor
● 1937 - Robert Coleman Richardson, American physicist, Nobel laureate
● 1939 - Charles Robb, Former Virginia governor and U.S. senator
● 1940 - Billy Davis Jr., Singer (The Fifth Dimension)
● 1941 - Yves Beauchemin, Canadian novelist
● 1942 - Gilberto Gil, Brazilian Minister of Culture
● 1943 - John Beasley, American actor
● 1943 - Georgie Fame, British singer
● 1945 - Dwight York, American cult leader
● 1946 - Clive Francis, Actor
● 1951 - Gary Gilmour, Australian cricketer
● 1953 - Robert Davi, Actor
● 1954 - Steve Barton, American actor (d. 2001)
● 1955 - Mick Jones, British guitarist (The Clash, Big Audio Dynamite)
● 1955 - Gedde Watanabe, Actor ("ER")
● 1956 - Chris Isaak, American singer
● 1957 - Patty Smyth, American singer (Scandal)
● 1959 - Mark McKinney, Canadian actor
● 1961 - Greg LeMond, American cyclist
● 1961 - Terri Nunn, American singer (Berlin)
● 1963 - Harriet Wheeler, Rock singer (The Sundays)
● 1963 - Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, Russian businessman
● 1963 - Richard Garfield, American game designer
● 1968 - Paolo Maldini, Italian footballer
● 1968 - Shannon Sharpe, American football player
● 1969 - Colin Greenwood, British musician (Radiohead)
● 1969 - Mike Myers, American baseball player
● 1970 - Chris O'Donnell, American actor
● 1970 - Sean Hayes, American actor ("Will and Grace")
● 1970 - Matt Letscher, Actor
● 1970 - Irv Gotti, American record producer
● 1970 - Paul Thomas Anderson, American filmmaker
● 1970 - Nick Offerman, American actor
● 1972 - Garou, Canadian singer
● 1972 - Jai Taurima, Australian long jumper
● 1973 - Rebecca Budig, Actress
● 1973 - Gretchen Wilson, American singer
● 1973 - Paweł Małaszyński, Polish actor
● 1973 - Jussi Sydänmaa, Finnish musician (Lordi)
● 1974 - Matt Striker, American professional wrestler
● 1974 - Derek Jeter, American baseball player
● 1974 - Jeff Frankenstein, Australian musician (Newsboys)
● 1974 - Jason Kendall, American baseball player
● 1975 - Jonah Sorrentino, American hip hop artist
● 1976 - Ed Jovanovski, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1976 - Chad Pennington, American football player
● 1976 - Joe Landon, American pornographic actor
● 1977 - Kubo Tite, Japanese cartoonist
● 1979 - Kostas Katsouranis, Greek footballer
● 1979 - Walter Herrmann, Argentinian basketball player
● 1980 - Jason Schwartzman, American actor
● 1980 - Michael Vick, American football player
● 1980 - Chris Shelton, American baseball player
● 1983 - Leela James, American singer
● 1984 - Elijah Dukes, American baseball player
● 1984 - Deron Michael Williams, American basketball player
● 1985 - Urgyen Trinley Dorje, Tibetan spiritual leader
● 1986 - Casey Desmond, American singer
● 1987 - Carlos Iaconelli, Brazilian racing driver
● 1990 - Ryan Ward, American actor
● 2005 - Princess Alexia of the Netherlands
DEATHS
● 363 - Julian the Apostate, Roman Emperor (killed in battle) (b. 331)
● 1291 - Eleanor of Provence, wife of Henry III of England
● 1541 - Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conqueror of Peru (murdered)
● 1688 - Ralph Cudworth, English philosopher (b. 1617)
● 1784 - Caesar Rodney, American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1728)
● 1793 - Gilbert White, English ornithologist (b. 1720)
● 1810 - Joseph Michel Montgolfier, inventor of the hot air balloon (b. 1740)
● 1836 - Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French composer (La Marseillaise) (b. 1760)
● 1918 - Peter Rosegger, Austrian poet and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843)
● 1922 - Albert I, Prince of Monaco (b. 1848)
● 1939 - Ford Madox Ford, English writer (b. 1873)
● 1943 - Karl Landsteiner, Austrian biologist and physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1868)
● 1946 - Yosuke Matsuoka, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan (b. 1880)
● 1946 - Max Kögel, SS officer (b. 1895)
● 1947 - Richard Bedford Bennett, eleventh Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1870)
● 1956 - Clifford Brown, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1930)
● 1957 - Alfred Döblin, German writer (b. 1878)
● 1958 - George Orton, Canadian athlete (b. 1873)
● 1958 - Andrija Štampar, Croatian physician and United Nations diplomat (b. 1888)
● 1964 - Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect (b. 1888)
● 1967 - Françoise Dorléac, French actress (b. 1942)
● 1975 - St. Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish Catholic priest (b. 1902)
● 1992 - Herman Rohde, professional wrestler (b. 1921)
● 1993 - William H. Riker, American political scientist (b. 1920)
● 1993 - Roy Campanella, Major League baseball player (b. 1921)
● 1994 - Jahanara Imam, Bangladeshi writer and political activist (b. 1929)
● 1996 - Veronica Guerin, Irish journalist (b. 1958)
● 1997 - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Hawaiian singer (b. 1959)
● 2001 - Soccer (dog actor) (b. 1988)
● 2002 - Arnold Brown, the 11th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1913)
● 2002 - Jay Berwanger, American football player (b. 1914)
● 2003 - Marc-Vivien Foé, Cameroon footballer (b. 1975)
● 2003 - Strom Thurmond, U.S. Senator (b. 1902)
● 2003 - Sir Dennis Thatcher MBE, husband of Margaret Thatcher (b. 1915)
● 2004 - Yash Johar, Indian film producer (b. 1929)
● 2005 - Richard Whiteley, British television game show host (b. 1943)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Anthelm of Belley
● St. Babolenus
● St. Corbican
● St. David
● St. Hermogius
● St. Jane Gerald, Blessed
● Sts. John & Paul, martyrs in Rome
● St. John of the Goths
● St. Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer (d. 1975)
● St. Mar Abhai
● St. Marie Magdalen Fontaine
● St. Maxentius
● St. Pelagius
● St. Perseveranda
● St. Salvius
● St. Vigilius
● Bl. Teresa Fantou
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for June 13 (Civil Date: June 26)
● Martyr Aquila of Byblos in Syria.
● St. Triphyllius, Bishop of Leucosia (Nicosia) in Cyprus.
● Martyr Antonina of Nicaea.
● St. Anna and her son St. John of Constantinople.
● St. Antipater, Bishop of Bostra in Arabia.
● St. Andronicus, disciple of St. Sergius of Radonezh, and St. Sabbas, abbots of Moscow.
● Finding of the relics of New-Martyr Nicholas the Deacon of Lesbos.
● Greek Calendar:
● St. James, monk, who was deceived and worshipped the Antichrist.
● St. Eulogius, Patriarch of Antioch.
● Martyr Diodorus of Emesus who was crucified.
● Repose of Abbess Alexandra, foundress of Diveyevo Convent (1789).
● International Day in Support of Torture Victims
● International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
● Lebanon: Prophet's Birthday (until 1999)
● Madagascar: Independence Day
● Romania: Flag Day
● Thailand: Sunthorn Phu Day
● Malagasy Republic & British Somaliland : Independence Day (1960)
● This Holiday is only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Newfoundland : Discovery Day (1497-John Cabot) - ( Monday )
IN FICTION
● 1902 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of the 3 Garidebs"
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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