This date is the only date each year where both the month and day are different perfect numbers.
Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On McCarthyism "McCarthyism: 1. The practice of publicizing accusations of political disloyalty or subversion with insufficient regard to evidence. 2. The use of unfair investigatory or accusatory methods in order to suppress opposition." — American Heritage Dictionary
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Iraq War "We found the weapons of mass destruction." — George W. Bush, referring to two tractor-trailers found in Iraq that had no trace of chemical or biological agents
Thought for the day: "The only rose without thorns is friendship."
{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 Visit from Atlantis
Credit & Copyright: Ron Dantowitz, Marek Kozubal, Clay Center Observatory, Dexter and Southfield Schools
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 767 – St. Paul I ends his reign as Catholic Pope (dies)
● 1098 - Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul.
● 1243 - Innocent IV becomes Pope.
● 1245 - 1st Council of Lyons (13th ecumenical council) opens
● 1389 - Ottoman and Serbian armies fight the bloody battle of Kosovo, opening the way for the Ottoman conquest of Southeastern Europe.
● 1491 - England's King Henry VIII was born in Greenwich.
● 1519 - Charles V elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
● 1577 - Birth of Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter. His most famous canvasses include 'Descent from the Cross' and 'Erection of the Cross.'
● 1635 - French colony of Guadeloupe established in the Caribbean
● 1651 - Battle of Beresteczko between Poles and Ukrainians, the biggest battle in the 17th century, starts.
● 1675 - Frederick William of Brandenburg crushed the Swedes.
● 1709 - The Russians defeated the Swedes and Cossacks at the Battle of Poltava.
● 1712 - Birth of French philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau.
● 1763 - Earthquake in Komarom, Hungary
● 1770 - Quakers open a school for blacks in Philadelphia
● 1776 - American Colonists repulsed a British sea attack on Charleston, SC.
● 1776 - Thomas Hinkey was hanged for mutiny, sedition, and treachery for plotting to kidnap George Washington. Hinkey was one of his bodyguards.
● 1778 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Monmouth fought between the American Continental Army under George Washington and the British Army led by Sir Henry Clinton.
● 1778 - Mary "Molly Pitcher" Hays McCauley, wife of an American artilleryman, carried water to the soldiers during the Battle of Monmouth and, supposedly, took her husband's place at his gun after he was overcome with heat.
● 1816 - Luddite attack on Heathcoat and Boden's Mill at Loughborough, England.
● 1820 - Tomato is proven nonpoisonous {I'm so glad, I was thinking about trying one.}
● 1836 - James Madison, the fourth president of the United States, died in Montpelier, Va., at age 85.
● 1838 - The coronation of Victoria of the United Kingdom.
● 1851 - Birth of Eliza E. Hewitt, American Presbyterian church worker and devotional author. Four of her hymns still endure: 'Will There Be Any Stars?', 'More About Jesus I Would Know,' 'When We All Get to Heaven' and 'Sunshine in the Soul.'
● 1861 - Leipzig Observatory discovers short-period (6.2 yrs) Comet d'Arrest
● 1862 - Day 4 of the 7 Days-Battle of Savage's Station
● 1865 - The Army of the Potomac is disbanded
● 1869 - R. W. Wood was appointed as the first Surgeon General of the U.S. Navy.
● 1874 - Freedmen's Bank closes
● 1880 - Ned Kelly the Australian bushranger captured at Glenrowan.
● 1881 - Secret treaty between Austria and Serbia.
● 1886 - C H F Peters discovers asteroid #259 Aletheia
● 1886 - First scheduled Canadian transcontinental passenger train departs from Montreal, Quebec for Port Moody, British Columbia.
● 1887 - Minot, North Dakota incorporated as a city.
● 1894 - Labor Day established by U.S. Congress amid intense labor unrest.
● 1895 - El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua form the Central American Union.
● 1895 - Mass burning of firearms by Russian Doukhobovs.
● 1902 - Congress authorizes Louisiana Purchase Expo $1 gold coin
● 1902 - The U.S. Congress passed the Spooner bill, it authorized a canal to be built across the isthmus of Panama.
● 1902 - Richard Rodgers, the American composer who was a major force in 20th century musical comedy, was born.
● 1905 - Odessa taken by revolutionaries. Workers' Councils formed. Russian sailors mutiny aboard the battleship "Potemkin."
● 1909 - 1st French air show, Concours d'Avation opens
● 1911 - Samuel J. Battle became the first African-American policeman in New York City.
● 1912 - Black rebellion in Cuba is crushed when leader Estenoz killed in battle.
● 1914 - Assassination of the heir to the throne of Austria, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophia, in Sarajevo by a Serbian Nationalist, Gavrilo Princip. This incident precipitated a war with Serbia, eventually starting WW1
● 1914 - Birth of Lester Roloff, American evangelist. In his later years he founded the 'City of Refuge,' a work specializing in reforming children who came from broken homes.
● 1918 - 1st flight between Hawaiian Islands
● 1919 - The Treaty of Versailles is signed in Paris, formally ending World War I between Britain, France, Italy, the United States and allies on the one side and Germany and Austria Hungary on the other side exactly five years after it began. The treaty also established the League of Nations.
● 1921 - A coal strike in Great Britain was settled after three months.
● 1922 - First Welsh Children's Goodwill Message broadcast from Leafield, Oxfordshire, England.
● 1922 - The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Free State forces.
● 1924 - Tornado strikes Sandusky Ohio & Lorain Ohio, killing 93
● 1928 - Alfred E Smith (NY-Gov) nominated for president at Democratic Convention
● 1928 - Friedrich Schmiedl attempted rocket mail in Austria (unsucessful)
● 1930 - More than 1,000 communists were routed during an assault on the British consulate in London.
● 1936 - The Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang is formed in northern China.
● 1938 - A 450 metric ton meteorite struck the earth in an empty field near Chicora, Pennsylvania
● 1938 - The U.S. Congress created the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) to insure construction loans.
● 1938 - U.S. national minimum wage enacted.
● 1939 - Pan American Airways began the first transatlantic passenger service.
● 1940 - Romania cedes Bessarabia (current-day Moldova) to the Soviet Union.
● 1942 - German troops launched an offensive to seize Soviet oil fields in the Caucasus and the city of Stalingrad.
● 1944 - The Republican National Convention in Chicago nominated New York Gov. Thomas E. Dewey for president.
● 1945 - Polish Provisional Government of National Unity set up by Soviets
● 1945 - U.S. General Douglas MacArthur announced the end of Japanese resistance in the Philippines.
● 1946 - Enrico de Nicola becomes 1st president of Italy
● 1948 - Cominform circulates the "Resolution on the situation in the Communist Party of Yugoslavia"
● 1949 - The last U.S. combat troops were called home from Korea, leaving only 500 advisers.
● 1950 - North Korean forces captured Seoul, South Korea.
● 1954 - French troops began to pull out of Vietnam’s Tonkin Province.
● 1956 - 1st atomic reactor built for private research operates Chicago Ill
● 1956 - Anti-communist demonstrations in Poznań. Also called Poznański czerwiec (June of Poznań).
● 1958 - Algeria prisoners freed to win Muslim support; France orders the release of 30 political prisoners to win Muslim support for plans on Algeria's future.
● 1960 - Welsh pit blast kills 37 miners; At least 37 men are killed in a gas explosion at a coal mine in Monmouthshire, Wales.
● 1960 - 26.42 cm (10.40") of rainfall, Dunmor, Kentucky (state 24-hour record)
● 1960 - Cuba confiscates and nationalizes U.S.-owned oil refineries.
● 1962 - The Lutheran Church in America (LCA) was formed with the merger of four Lutheran synods: the United Lutheran Church in America, the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church, the American Evangelical Lutheran Church and the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church.
● 1964 - Malcolm X founded the Organization for Afro American Unity to seek independence for blacks in the Western Hemisphere.
● 1965 - 1st US ground combat forces in Vietnam authorized by Pres Johnson
● 1965 - A R Klemola discovers asteroid #2179 Platzeck
● 1965 - The first commercial satellite began communications service. It was Early Bird (Intelsat II).
● 1967 - Fourteen people were shot in race riots in Buffalo, New York.
● 1967 - Israel formally declared Jerusalem reunified under its sovereignty following its capture of the Arab sector in the June 1967 war.
● 1967 - Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, was named a cardinal by Pope Paul VI.
● 1968 - Daniel Ellsberg indicted for leaking Pentagon Papers
● 1969 - Stonewall Rebellion in New York City--a riot of drag queens enraged by yet another evening of casual police brutality--marks birth of modern gay rights movement in U.S.
● 1971 - Fillmore East closes
● 1971 - Supreme Court overturns draft evasion conviction of Muhammad Ali, four years after the original conviction.
● 1971 - T Smirnova discovers asteroid #3093
● 1971 - The U.S. Supreme Court declared that state underwriting of nonreligious instruction in parochial schools was unconstitutional.
● 1972 - U.S. President Nixon announced that no new draftees would be sent to Vietnam.
● 1973 - Elections are held for the Northern Ireland Assembly, which will lead to power-sharing between unionists and nationalists in Northern Ireland for the first time.
● 1973 - Lawsuit in Detroit challenges Little League's "no girls" rule
● 1974 - Fall of earth & rocks kill 200. (Quebrada Blanca Canyon, Columbia)
● 1976 - Death sentence for mercenaries; Three Britons and an American are sentenced to death by firing squad for their roles during the Angolan civil war.
● 1976 - The first women entered the U.S. Air Force Academy.
● 1977 - Supreme Court allows Federal control of Nixon tapes papers
● 1978 - The U.S. Supreme Court ordered the medical school at the University of California at Davis to admit Allan Bakke. Bakke, a white man, argued he had been a victim of reverse racial discrimination.
● 1978 - UNICEF chooses rock group Kansas as ambassadors of goodwill
● 1980 - NYC transit fare rises from 50¢ to 60¢
● 1982 - Prince Upchuck & Lady Di name their baby "William"
● 1983 - NASA launches Galaxy-A
● 1983 - The Mianus River Bridge collapses over the Mianus River in Connecticut, killing 3 drivers in their vehicles.
● 1985 - Discovery ferried back to Kennedy Space Center via Bergstrom AFB, TX
● 1986 - Kenneth & Nellie Pike challenge Ala Dem runoff win by AG C Graddick
● 1987 - E F Helin discovers asteroid #3680 Sasha
● 1988 - The worst confined-space industrial accident in U.S. history occurs at a metal-plating plant in Auburn, Indiana, killing five.
● 1989 - Slobodan Milošević's delivers the Kosovo Polje speech
● 1989 - U.S. Congress reinstates Coquille Indians of Oregon.
● 1991 - Thatcher to retire from Commons; Margaret Thatcher is to give up her seat in the House of Commons at the general election.
● 1992 - The Constitution of Estonia is signed into law.
● 1994 - Department of Energy discloses that hundreds of U.S. citizens were unwittingly used for radiation experiments during the Cold War.
● 1995 - Webster Hubbell, the former No. 3 official at the Justice Department, was sentenced to 21 months in prison for bilking clients of the law firm where he and Hillary Rodham Clinton were partners.
● 1995 - State police in Guerrero, Mexico, ambush members of the Southern Sierra Peasant Organization (OCSS) near Aguas Blancas, Guerrero, and killed 17 of them.
● 1996 - The Citadel voted to admit women, ending a 153-year-old men-only policy at the South Carolina military school.
● 1996 - The Constitution of Ukraine is signed into law.
● 1998 - Poland, due to shortage of funds, is allowed to lease, U.S. aircraft to bring military force up to NATO standards.
● 2000 - The Supreme Court ruled the Boy Scouts can bar homosexuals from serving as troop leaders. {This legitimizes discrimination based on genetics instead of prior bad acts.}
● 2000 - Six-year-old Elián González returned to Cuba from the U.S. with his father. The child had been the center of an international custody dispute.
● 2000 - The U.S. Supreme Court declared that a Nebraska law that outlawed "partial birth abortions" was unconstitutional. About 30 U.S. states had similar laws at the time of the ruling.
● 2001 - Slobodan Milosevic was taken into custody and was handed over to the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands. The indictment charged Milosevic and four other senior officials, with crimes against humanity and violations of the laws and customs of war in Kosovo.
● 2001 - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit set aside an order that would break up Microsoft for antitrust violations. However, the judges did agree that the company was in violation of antitrust laws.
● 2004 - Estonia, Lithuania and Slovenia join the European Exchange Rate Mechanism
● 2004 - Sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending the U.S.-led rule of that nation. {Yeah and if believe this crap I have some ski resort land for sale in Phoenix.}
● 2004 - The 17th NATO Summit starts in Istanbul.
● 2004- The U.S. resumed diplomatic ties with Libya after a 24-year break.
● 2005 - A final design for Manhattan's Freedom Tower is formally unveiled.
● 2005 - Canada becomes the third country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage.
● 2006 - The Republic of Montenegro was admitted as the 192nd Member of the United Nations by General Assembly resolution 60/264.
BIRTHS
● 1243 - Emperor Go-Fukakusa of Japan (d. 1304)
● 1476 - Pope Paul IV (d. 1559)
● 1490 - Albert of Mainz, bishop and elector of Mainz (d. 1545)
● 1491 - King Henry VIII of England (d. 1547)
● 1503 - Giovanni della Casa, Italian poet (d. 1556)
● 1547 (baptism) - Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian composer (d. 1599)
● 1577 - Peter Paul Rubens, Belgian painter (d. 1640)
● 1703 - John Wesley, English founder of Methodism (d. 1791)
● 1712 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher (d. 1778)
● 1719 - Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, French statesman (d. 1785)
● 1806 - Napoleon Coste, French guitarist and composer (d. 1883)
● 1819 - Carlotta Grisi, Italian ballerina (d. 1899)
● 1824 - Paul Broca, French physician (d. 1880)
● 1831 - Joseph Joachim, Austrian violinist (d. 1907)
● 1858 - Otis Skinner, American actor (d. 1942)
● 1867 - Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1936)
● 1873 - Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1944)
● 1875 - Henri Lebesgue, French mathematician (d. 1941)
● 1883 - Pierre Laval, Prime Minister of France (d. 1945)
● 1884 - Lamina Sankoh, early Sierra Leonean nationalist (d. 1964)
● 1887 - Floyd Dell, American novelist and journalist (d. 1969)
● 1891 - Carl Spaatz, American first chief of staff of the Air Force (d. 1974)
● 1891 - Carl Panzram, American serial killer (d. 1930)
● 1892 - E. H. Carr, English political scientist and historian (d. 1982)
● 1902 - Richard Rodgers, American composer (d. 1979)
● 1906 - Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1972)
● 1909 - Eric Ambler, English author and screenwriter (d. 1998)
● 1912 - Sergiu Celibidache, Romanian conductor (d. 1996)
● 1912 - Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist and philosopher (d. 2007)
● 1913 - Franz Antel, Austrian filmmaker
● 1913 - Walter Oesau, German pilot (d. 1944)
● 1914 - Aribert Heim, Austrian physician
● 1920 - A. E. Hotchner, American editor, novelist and playwright
● 1921 - P. V. Narasimha Rao, Prime Minister of India (d. 2004)
● 1923 - Adolfo Schwelm Cruz, Argentine racing driver
● 1926 - Mel Brooks, American filmmaker
● 1927 - Frank Sherwood Rowland, American chemist, Nobel laureate
● 1928 - Dr Hans Blix, Head of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission 2000-2003
● 1928 - Harold Evans, English journalist and writer; editor of The Sunday Times 1967-1981
● 1930 - Itamar Franco, President of Brazil
● 1932 - Pat Morita, American actor (d. 2005)
● 1933 - Gusty Spence, Northern Irish loyalist politician
● 1934 - Carl Levin, United States Senator (D-MI)
● 1935 - John Inman, English actor (d. 2007)
● 1936 - Chuck Howley, American football player
● 1937 - George Knudson, Canadian golfer (d. 1989)
● 1938 - Leon Panetta, Former White House chief of staff
● 1938 - Moy Yat, Chinese martial artist (d. 2001)
● 1940 - Muhammad Yunus, Bangladeshi banker, economist and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
● 1941 - Al Downing, American baseball player
● 1941 - Joseph Goguen, American computer scientist (d. 2006)
● 1943 - Klaus von Klitzing, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
● 1945 - David Knights, English bass guitarist (Procul Harum)
● 1946 - Gilda Radner, American actress (d. 1989)
● 1946 - Bruce Davison, Actor
● 1947 - Mark Helprin, American writer
● 1947 - Anny Duperey, French film and television actress
● 1947 - Clarissa Dickson Wright, English celebrity chef
● 1947 - Robert Bondi, American politician
● 1948 - Kathy Bates, American actress
● 1950 - Mauricio Rojas, Swedish politician
● 1952 - Pietro Mennea, Italian athlete
● 1952 - David Miner, American musician and record producer
● 1954 - Alice Krige, South African actress
● 1955 - Thomas Hampson, American baritone
● 1957 - Georgi Parvanov, President of Bulgaria
● 1960 - John Elway, American football player and Hall of Fame member
● 1962 - Tony Mercedes, Record company executive
● 1963 - Beverley Craven, singer-songwriter, most notably hit 'Promise Me' (UK no. 3, 1991)
● 1964 - Mark Grace, American baseball player
● 1965 - Saul Davies, Rock musician (James)
● 1965 - Jessica Hecht, Actress
● 1966 - John Cusack, American actor
● 1966 - Mary Stuart Masterson, American actress
● 1967 - Gil Bellows, Actor ("Ally McBeal")
● 1967 - Lars Riedel, German discus thrower
● 1968 - Adam Woodyatt, British actor
● 1969 - Danielle Brisebois, American actress
● 1969 - David Allen Lambert, American genealogist and author
● 1969 - Jimmy Sommers, Jazz saxophonist
● 1970 - Mushtaq Ahmed, Pakistani cricketer
● 1970 - Steve Burton, American actor
● 1971 - Tichina Arnold, American actress ("Everybody Hates Chris")
● 1971 - Fabien Barthez, French footballer
● 1971 - Kenny Cunningham, Irish footballer
● 1971 - Aileen Quinn, American actress
● 1971 - Norika Fujiwara, Japanese actress and television personality
● 1971 - Juan Carlos Echeverry, Colombian operatic tenor
● 1972 - Alessandro Nivola, Actor
● 1972 - Jon Heidenreich, American professional wrestler
● 1973 - Adrian Annus, Hungarian athlete
● 1974 - Cindy Hall, American game show contestant
● 1976 - Tim Nordwind, Rock musician (OK Go)
● 1976 - Shinobu Asagoe, Japanese tennis player
● 1976 - Seth Wescott, American snowboarder
● 1977 - Mark Stoermer, American bass player (The Killers)
● 1979 - Ha Ji-won, South Korean actress and singer
● 1979 - Randy McMichael, American football player
● 1986 - Kellie Pickler, American singer
● 1986 - Shadia Simmons, Canadian actress
● 1990 - Jasmine Richards, Canadian actress
● 1994 - Madeline Duggan, English actress
● 1994 - Prince Hussein bin Al Abdullah II, Prince of Jordan
DEATHS
● 548 - Theodora, Byzantine empress
● 767 - Pope Paul I
● 928 - Louis the Blind, King of Provence
● 1061 - Floris I, Count of Holland
● 1175 - Andrei Bogolyubsky, Russian prince
● 1194 - Emperor Xiaozong of Song China (b. 1127)
● 1385 - Andronicus IV Palaeologus, Eastern Roman Emperor (b. 1348)
● 1389 - Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović of Serbia (b. 1329)
● 1586 - Primož Trubar, Slovenian Protestant reformer (b. 1508)
● 1598 - Abraham Ortelius, Flemish-born cartographer (b. 1527)
● 1716 - George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, English general (b. 1665)
● 1813 - Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Prussian general (b. 1755)
● 1834 - Joseph Bové, Russian architect (b. 1784)
● 1836 - James Madison, President of the United States (b. 1751)
● 1881 - Jules Armand Dufaure, French statesman (b. 1798)
● 1892 - Alexandros Rhizos Rhankaves, Greek poet and statesman (b. 1810)
● 1889 - Maria Mitchell, American astronomer (b. 1818)
● 1913 - Manoel Ferraz de Campos Salles, President of Brazil (b. 1841)
● 1914 - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1863)
● 1914 - Countess Sophie Chotek, wife of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1868)
● 1915 - Victor Trumper, Australian cricketer (b. 1877)
● 1916 - Ştefan Luchian, Romanian painter (b. 1868)
● 1922 - Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet (b. 1885)
● 1929 - Edward Carpenter, English poet (b. 1844)
● 1960 - Jake Swirbul, American aircraft manufacturer (b. 1898)
● 1962 - Mickey Cochrane, baseball player (b. 1903)
● 1962 - Cy Morgan, baseball player (b. 1878)
● 1965 - Red Nichols, American musician (b. 1905)
● 1971 - Franz Stangl, commandant of concentration camps (b. 1908)
● 1974 - Frank Sutton, American actor (b. 1923)
● 1975 - Rod Serling, American television scriptwriter (b. 1924)
● 1976 - Stanley Baker, British actor and producer (b. 1927)
● 1978 - Clifford Dupont, First President of Rhodesia (b. 1905)
● 1980 - José Iturbi, Spanish pianist and conductor (b. 1895)
● 1981 - Terry Fox, Canadian athlete and cancer activist (b. 1958)
● 1985 - Lambros Konstantaras, Greek actor (b. 1913)
● 1989 - Joris Ivens, Dutch filmmaker (b. 1898)
● 1992 - Mikhail Tal, Latvian chess player (b. 1936)
● 1993 - GG Allin, American punk rock singer (b. 1956)
● 1997 - Mrs. Miller, American singer (b. 1907)
● 2000 - Jane Birdwood, British anti-Semitic activist (b. 1913)
● 2000 - Nils Poppe, Swedish actor (b. 1908)
● 2001 - Mortimer Adler, American philosopher (b. 1902)
● 2001 - Joan Sims, English actress (b. 1930)
● 2003 - Wim Slijkhuis, Dutch athlete (b. 1923)
● 2004 - Anthony Buckeridge, English author (b. 1912)
● 2005 - Brenda Howard, American LGBT activist (b. 1946)
● 2006 - George Unwin, British fighter ace WWII (b. 1913)
● 2006 - Jim Baen, American science fiction publisher and editor (b. 1943)
● 2006 - Peter Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell, English barrister, politician and author (b. 1919)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Almus
● St. Argymirus
● St. Austell
● St. Benignus
● St. Crummine
● St. Egilo
● St. Heimrad
● St. Irenaeus of Lyon, bishop and martyr
● St. John Southworth
● St. Marcella
● St. Paul I, Pope (died 767)
● St. Plutarch
● St. Theodichildis
● St. Vincenza Gerosa
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for June 15 (Civil Date: June 28)
● Prophet Amos.
● St. Jonah, Metropolitan of Moscow.
● Martyrs Vitus, Modestus, and Crescentia at Lucania.
● Martyr Dulas of Cilicia.
● St. Jerome (Hieronymus) of Stridonium.
● St. Dulas the Passion-bearer of Egypt.
● St. Lazarus, prince of Serbia.
● Translation of the Relics of St. Theodore the Sykeote.
● St. Orsiesius of Tabenna, disciple of St. Pachomius the Great.
● Blessed Augustine, Bishop of Hippo.
● Saints Gregory and Cassian, abbots of Avnezhk (Vologda).
● St. Michael, first Metropolitan of Kiev.
● St. Symeon, Archbishop of Novgorod.
● St. Ephraim, Patriarch of Serbia.
● Martyr Leonis (Leonida) of Syria.
● St. Abraham, abbot of Auvergne (Gaul).
● Greek Calendar:
● Apostles Fortunatus, Achaicus, and Stephen.
● Martyr Grace.
● St. Joseph, monk of Bethlehem.
● Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Marianica".
● Repose of Jonah, fool-for-Christ of Peshnosha Monastery (1838).
● Orthodox:
● Vidovdan, commemorating St. Vitus
● Anglican and Lutheran
● St. Irenaeus of Lyon, bishop and martyr
● Malta : Mnarja Day-recreate customs of Middle Ages
● This Holiday is only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Iowa : Independence Sunday (1776) - ( 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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