Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Independence "There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived." — Henry David Thoreau
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Gynephobia "I really believe that the pagans and the abortionists and the feminists and the gays and the lesbians . . . the ACLU, People for the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America, I point the finger in their face and say, 'You helped [the September 11 attacks] happen.'" — Jerry Falwell {God finally put an end to this particular hate filled fount of garbage and "called Jerry home."}
Thought for the day: "They know enough who know how to learn."
{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
Shuttle Plume Shadow Points to Moon
Credit: Pat McCracken, NASA
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 350 - Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman Emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators.
● 1041 - Lady Godiva rides naked through Coventry to save people from exhorbitant tax.
● 1098 - First Crusade: Antioch falls to the crusaders after an eight-month siege.
● 1140 - French scholar Peter Abelard is found guilty of heresy.
● 1326 - Treaty of Novgorod delineates borders between Russia and Norway in Finnmark.
● 1391 - Sir Simon de Burley charges a man with being a serf, in Gravesend, England; this touched off Wat Tyler's Rebellion the next day.
● 1539 - DeSoto claims Florida for Spain
● 1608 - Samuel de Champlain completes his third voyage to New France at Tadoussac, Quebec.
● 1620 - Construction of the oldest stone church in French North America, Notre-Dame-des-Anges, begins at Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
● 1621 - The Dutch West India Company receives a charter for New Netherlands, would later be called New York.
● 1657 - The Parliamentarian Army kidnaps Charles I.
● 1658 - The Pope appoints François de Laval vicar apostolic in New France.
● 1665 - James Stuart, Duke of York (later to become King James II of England) defeats the Dutch Fleet off the coast of Lowestoft.
● 1726 - Birth of Philip William Otterbein, German Reformed pastor who in 1800 helped found the Church of the United Brethren in Christ (an early branch of the modern United Methodist Church).
● 1770 - Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo is founded in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.
● 1781 - Jack Jouett rides to warn Jefferson of British attack
● 1784 - The United States Congress created the United States Army.
● 1789 - Alex Mackenzie explores Mackenzie River (Canada)
● 1800 - U.S. President John Adams takes up residence in Washington, DC (in a tavern – the White House was not yet completed).
● 1805 - A peace treaty between the U.S. and Tripoli was completed in the captain's cabin on board the USS Constitution.
● 1808 - Jefferson Davis, the first and only president of the Confederacy, was born in Christian County, Ky.
● 1833 - 4th national black convention meets (Philadelphia)
● 1850 - Five Cayuse Indians hanged in Oregon City for their part in Cayuse War of 1848.
● 1850 - The traditional founding date of Kansas City, Missouri. This was the date on which it was first incorporated by Jackson County, Missouri as the "City of Kansas".
● 1853 - Central College was chartered in Pella, Iowa under Baptist auspices. (In 1916 the university passed to Dutch Reformed leadership.)
● 1856 - Cullen Whipple patented the screw machine.
● 1860 - Comanche, Iowa completely destroyed by 1 of a series of tornadoes
● 1861 - 1st Civil War land battle-Union defeats Confederacy at Philippi, WV
● 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Cold Harbor - Union forces attack Confederate troops at Cold Harbor, Virginia. About 7,000 Union troops were killed within 30 minutes during the battle.
● 1866 - Fenians are driven out of Fort Erie, Ontario, into the United States to a heroes' welcome.
● 1871 - Jesse James, then 24, and his gang robbed the Obocock bank in Corydon, Iowa. They stole $15,000.
● 1875 - C H F Peters discovers asteroid #144 Vibilia & #145 Adeona
● 1884 - John Lynch (R-MS) chosen 1st black major-party natl convention chair
● 1885 - Last military engagement fought on Canadian soil: Cree leader Big Bear escapes the North West Mounted Police.
● 1889 - The Canadian Pacific Railway is completed from coast to coast.
● 1889 - The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 miles between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon, United States.
● 1900 - International Ladies Garment Workers Union founded.
● 1906 - Belgian King Leopold II calls Congo his private possession.
● 1907 - Centro Escolar University was established by Librada Avelino and Carmen de Luna in Manila, Philippines.
● 1916 - The ROTC is established by the U.S. Congress.
● 1916 - The National Defense Act is signed into law, increasing the size of the United States National Guard by 450,000 men.
● 1918 - U.S. Supreme Court declares newly passed child labor law unconstitutional; a similar law, passed by Congress the following year, would also be declared unconstitutional before the third one stuck.
● 1918 - The Finnish Parliament ratified its treaty with Germany.
● 1921 - A sudden cloudburst kills 120 near Pikes Peak, Colorado
● 1923 - In Italy, Benito Mussolini granted women the right to vote.
● 1924 - Gila Wilderness Area established by Forest Service
● 1925 - Goodyear airship "Pilgrim" makes 1st flight (1st with enclosed cabin)
● 1926 - Birth of beat poet, radical activist and pedophile Allen Ginsberg. Newark, New Jersey. Branded by FBI, in his 3-foot high file, as displayer of anti-American sympathies. Also kicked out of Cuba and Czechoslovakia for chanting to commie cops.
● 1928 - Manchurian warlord Chian Tso-Lin died as a result of a bomb blast set off by the Japanese.
● 1929 - Border dispute between Peru & Chile resolved
● 1930 - Missionary linguist Frank C. Laubach wrote in a letter: 'As we grow older all our paths diverge, and in all the world I suppose I could find nobody who could wholly understand me excepting God.'
● 1933 - Pope Pius XI encyclical "On oppression of the Church in Spain"
● 1934 - Dr Frederick Banting co-discoverer of insulin, is knighted
● 1935 - One thousand unemployed Canadian workers board freight cars in Vancouver, British Columbia, beginning a protest trek to Ottawa, Ontario.
● 1937 - Duke of Windsor (Edward VIII) weds Mrs Wallis Warfield Simpson in France
● 1938 - German law on "Entartete Art" legalizes art robbery.
● 1940 - World War II: The Luftwaffe bombs Paris, killing 254 people. Most of the people killed were civilians and schoolchildren.
● 1940 - World War II: The Battle of Dunkirk ends with a German victory and with Allied forces in full retreat.
● 1942 - Battle of Midway Island begins.
● 1942 - Japanese attack Dutch Harbor, in the Aleutian Islands off far southwest Alaska, the only known time any foreign power has come close to attacking the U.S. mainland since 1812.
● 1943 - A mob of 60 from the Los Angeles Naval Reserve Armory beats up everyone perceived to be Hispanic, starting the week-long Zoot Suit Riots.
● 1946 - U.S. Supreme Court bans segregation on interstate buses.
● 1948 - 200" (5.08 m) Hale telescope dedicated at Palomar Observatory
● 1948 - Korczak Ziolkowski begins sculpture of Crazy Horse near Mount Rushmore, South Dakota.
● 1949 - 1st African-American to graduate from US Naval Academy (Wesley Anthony Brown)
● 1952 - A rebellion by North Korean prisoners in the Koje prison camp in South Korea was put down by American troops.
● 1952 - Chinese officials mark campaign against opium with a rally of 4,000 ex-addicts. Guangzhou, China. The opium trade was introducd to China in the early 19th century by Western colonial powers which made huge profits from developing a "market" of millions of Chinese addicts.
● 1956 - British Rail renames 'Third Class' passenger facilities as 'Second Class' (Second Class facilities had been abolished in 1875, leaving just First Class and Third Class).
● 1957 - Linus Pauling and 2,000 other scientists join call for ban on nuclear weapons testing. Eisenhower rejects plea.
● 1957 - Noel Coward comes home; Noel Coward returns from Jamaica for a short visit to Britain and rebuffs suggestions he has become a tax exile.
● 1959 - The first class graduated from the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, CO.
● 1962 - An Air France Boeing 707 charter, Chateau de Sully crashed after aborted takeoff from Paris, killing 130, all but 2 on board.
● 1963 - Pope John XXIII died at age 81.
● 1963 - A Northwest Airlines DC-7 crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of British Columbia, killing 101.
● 1964 - Conscientious objection legally recognized in Belgium.
● 1965 - Launch of Gemini 4, the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew. (McDivitt & White)
● 1965 - For 21 minutes, Edward H. White floats free outside the space vehicle Gemini IV for the first time.
● 1966 - Gemini 9 launched; 7th US 2-man flight (Stafford & Cernan)
● 1968 - In one of the more lucid artistic statements of the 1960s, Valerie Solanas shoots Andy Warhol. Solanas was also, in her brief and troubled life, author of the legendary radical feminist "SCUM Manifesto." Warhol was illustrator of the 1954 edition of the "Joy of Cooking."
● 1969 - Off the coast of South Vietnam, the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne cuts the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Frank E. Evans in half.
● 1970 - Har Gobind Khorana and colleagues announced the first synthesis of a gene from chemical components.
● 1972 - Protestant march ends in battle; Soldiers disperse crowds as a Protestant march against "no-go" areas in Londonderry turns violent at Craigavon Bridge.
● 1972 - In Cincinnati, Ohio, Sally J. Priesand, 25, became the first woman in Reform Judaism to be ordained as a rabbi.
● 1973 - A Soviet supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 crashes near Goussainville, France, killing 14, the first crash of a supersonic passenger aircraft.
● 1974 - Charles Colson, an aide to U.S. President Richard Nixon, pled guilty to obstruction of justice.
● 1976 - US presented with oldest known copy of Magna Carta
● 1979 - Ex-president Idi Amin of Uganda flees to Libya.
● 1979 - A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 600,000 tons (176,400,000 gallons) of oil to be spilled into the waters, the worst oil spill to date.
● 1980 - Crew of Soyuz 36 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 35
● 1980 - Jimmy Carter wins enough delegates for re-nomination
● 1980 - Computer malfunction--specifically, failure of a 46 cent computer chip- -in the Colorado headquarters of NORAD signals a Soviet nuclear attack on U.S. U.S. forces are called back in the nick of time.
● 1981 - Pope John Paul II left a Rome hospital and returned to the Vatican three weeks after an attempt on his life.
● 1982 - The Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, Shlomo Argov, is shot on a London street. He survives but is permanently paralyzed.
● 1983 - Gordon Kahl, a militant tax protester wanted in the slayings of two U.S. marshals in North Dakota, was killed in a gun battle with law enforcement officials near Smithville, Ark.
● 1984 - The Indian Army storms the Golden Temple (Harmandir Sahib), the most sacred shrine of Sikhism, near Amritsar.
● 1985 - Appeal court in England rules war tax resistance unlawful.
● 1986 - E F Helin discovers asteroid #3767
● 1989 - Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini died.
● 1989 - The government of China sends troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation. Hundreds of student protesters are killed.
● 1991 - IRA men shot dead by British army; Three members of the IRA are ambushed and killed by soldiers in Northern Ireland acting on intelligence information.
● 1991 - Mount Unzen erupts in Japan in Kyūshū killing 43 people, all of them either researchers or journalists. Worst eruption in recorded Japanese history.
● 1992 - The Mabo Decision is handed down, recognising the land rights of Australian Aborigines.
● 1997 - Lionel Jospin becomes Prime Minister of France.
● 1998 - Eschede train disaster: an ICE high speed train derails in Lower Saxony, Germany, causing 101 deaths.
● 1999 - Slobodan Milosevic's government accepted an international peace plan concerning Kosovo. NATO announced that airstrikes would continue until 40,000 Serb forces were withdrawn from Kosovo.
● 2006 - The union of Serbia and Montenegro comes to an end with Montenegro's formal declaration of independence.
● 2006 - Canada conducts largest domestic anti-terrorism operation, arresting 17 suspected of planning attacks in Ontario.
BIRTHS
● 1540 - Charles II of Austria (d. 1590)
● 1635 - Philippe Quinault, French writer (d. 1688)
● 1659 - David Gregory, Scottish astronomer (d. 1708)
● 1723 - Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian-born naturalist (d. 1788)
● 1726 - James Hutton, Scottish geologist (d. 1797)
● 1770 - Manuel Belgrano, Argentine politician (d. 1820)
● 1780 - William Hone, English radical journalist and publisher (d. 1842)
● 1808 - Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America (d. 1889)
● 1811 - Henry James, American philosophical theologian (d. 1882)
● 1818 - Louis Faidherbe, French general (d. 1889)
● 1819 - Anton Anderledy, Swiss Superior General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1892)
● 1832 - Alexandre Charles Lecocq, French composer (d. 1918)
● 1843 - Frederick VIII of Denmark (d. 1912)
● 1844 - Garret Hobart, 24th Vice President of the United States (d. 1899)
● 1844 - Detlev von Liliencron, German poet (d. 1909)
● 1853 - William Matthew Flinders Petrie, English Egyptologist (d. 1942)
● 1864 - Otto Erich Hartleben, German writer (d. 1905)
● 1864 - Ransom Eli Olds, American automobile pioneer (d. 1950)
● 1865 - George V of the United Kingdom (d. 1936)
● 1866 - George Howells Broadhurst, English director (d. 1952)
● 1873 - Otto Loewi, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (d. 1961)
● 1877 - Raoul Dufy, French painter (d. 1953)
● 1878 - Barney Oldfield, American race car driver (d. 1946)
● 1879 - Raymond Pearl, American biologist (d. 1940)
● 1881 - Mikhail Larionov, Russian painter (d. 1964)
● 1888 - Tom Brown, American musician (d. 1958)
● 1899 - Georg von Békésy, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (d. 1972)
● 1901 - Maurice Evans, English-born American actor (d. 1989)
● 1903 - Eddie Acuff, American actor (d. 1956)
● 1904 - Jan Peerce, American tenor (d. 1984)
● 1905 - Martin Weiss, Commandant of Dachau concentartion camp (d. 1946)
● 1906 - Josephine Baker, American dancer (d. 1975)
● 1907 - Paul Rotha, English director (d. 1984)
● 1911 - Ellen Corby, American actress (d. 1999)
● 1911 - Paulette Goddard, American actress (d. 1990)
● 1912 - William Douglas-Home, English playwright (d. 1992)
● 1913 - Pedro Mir, Dominican Poet Laureate (d. 2000)
● 1917 - Leo Gorcey, American actor (d. 1969)
● 1918 - Lili St. Cyr, American ecdysiast (d. 1999)
● 1921 - Forbes Carlile, Australian athlete
● 1922 - Alain Resnais, French director
● 1923 - Igor Shafarevich, Russian mathematician
● 1924 - Colleen Dewhurst, Canadian actress (d. 1991)
● 1924 - Ted Mallie, American radio and television announcer (d. 1999)
● 1924 - Torsten Wiesel, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
● 1924 - Jimmy Rogers, American blues guitarist (d. 1997)
● 1925 - Tony Curtis, American actor
● 1926 - Allen Ginsberg, American poet (d. 1997)
● 1927 - Boots Randolph, American musician
● 1929 - Werner Arber, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
● 1929 - Chuck Barris, American game show host and purported CIA hit man
● 1930 - Marion Zimmer Bradley, American author (d. 1999)
● 1930 - Dakota Staton, American jazz singer (d. 2007)
● 1930 - Ben Wada, Japanese television producers
● 1931 - John Norman, American author
● 1931 - Lindy Remigino, American athlete
● 1933 - Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifah, emir of Bahrain (d. 1999)
● 1934 - Rolland D. McCune, American theologian
● 1935 - Irma P. Hall, Actress
● 1936 - Jim Gentile, baseball player
● 1936 - Larry McMurtry, American author
● 1937 - Solomon P. Ortiz, American politician
● 1939 - Steve Dalkowski, baseball player
● 1939 - Ian Hunter (singer), English musician (Mott the Hoople)
● 1942 - Curtis Mayfield, American musician (d. 1999)
● 1943 - Billy Cunningham, American basketball player and Hall of Fame member
● 1944 - Edith McGuire, American runner
● 1944 - Eddy Ottoz, Italian athlete
● 1946 - Eddie Holman, American singer
● 1946 - Michael Clarke American musician (d. 1993)
● 1947 - Mickey Finn, British guitarist and percussionist (T. Rex) (d. 2003)
● 1947 - Mike Burgmann, Australian racing driver (d. 1986)
● 1947 - John Dykstra, American special effects supervisor
● 1948 - Too Slim, Country musician (Riders in the Sky)
● 1950 - Melissa Mathison, American screenwriter
● 1950 - Deniece Williams, American singer
● 1950 - Suzi Quatro, American musician and actress
● 1951 - Deniece Williams, R&B singer
● 1952 - Billy Powell, American keyboardist (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
● 1954 - Dan Hill, Canadian singer and songwriter
● 1956 - Brad Nessler, American sports broadcaster
● 1957 - Horst-Ulrich Hänel, German field hockey player
● 1958 - Scott Valentine, Actor
● 1961 - Lawrence Lessig, American lawyer and author
● 1962 - Susannah Constantine, British fashion guru
● 1963 - Doro Pesch, German singer
● 1963 - Rudy Demotte, Belgian politician
● 1963 - Toshiaki Karasawa, Japanese actor
● 1964 - Kerry King, American musician (Slayer)
● 1964 - James Purefoy, British actor
● 1965 - Mike Gordon, American musician
● 1966 - Wasim Akram, Pakistani cricketer
● 1967 - Anderson Cooper, American reporter
● 1968 - Jamie O'Neal, American singer
● 1968 - Samantha Sprackling, Nigerian singer
● 1969 - Takako Minekawa, Japanese musician
● 1969 - Hiroyuki Takami, Japanese musician
● 1970 - Esther Hart, Dutch singer
● 1970 - Julie Masse, French Canadian singer
● 1970 - Peter Tägtgren, Swedish musician (Hypocrisy) and producer
● 1971 - Gabriel Hernandez, Singer (No Mercy)
● 1971 - Carl Everett, American baseball player
● 1974 - Kelly Jones, Welsh singer (Stereophonics)
● 1975 - Jose Molina, Puerto Rican baseball player
● 1976 - Jamie McMurray, American NASCAR driver
● 1976 - Yuri Ruley, American drummer
● 1976 - Enda Markey, Irish/Australian entertainer
● 1977 - Cris, Brazilian footballer
● 1977 - Az-Zahir Hakim, American football player
● 1977 - Travis Hafner, American baseball player
● 1980 - Lazaros Papadopoulos, Greek basketball player
● 1982 - Yelena Isinbayeva, Russian pole vaulter
● 1983 - Joseph Arand, American national racewalking champion
● 1985 - Tavion La'Corey Mathis, American singer, member of Pretty Ricky
● 1986 - Alexandros Karageorgiou, Greek archer
● 1986 - Rafael Nadal, Spanish tennis player
● 1986 - Tomas Verner, Czech Republic ice skater
● 1987 - Lalaine, American actress and singer
● 1987 - Masami Nagasawa, Japanese actress
● 2002 - Prince Tirso of Bulgaria, titular Bulgarian royal family
● 2006 - Countess Leonore, Member of the Dutch Royal Family
DEATHS
● 1395 - Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria
● 1397 - William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (b. 1328)
● 1411 - Duke Leopold IV of Austria (b. 1371)
● 1548 - Juan de Zumárraga, Spanish Catholic bishop of Mexico (b. 1468)
● 1594 - John Aylmer, English political theorist (b. 1521)
● 1615 - Sanada Yukimura, Japanese samurai (b. 1567)
● 1640 - Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician (b. 1584)
● 1657 - William Harvey, English physician (b. 1578)
● 1649 - Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (b. 1590)
● 1659 - Morgan Llwyd, Welsh Puritan preacher and writer (b. 1619)
● 1780 - Thomas Hutchinson, American colonial governor of Massachusetts (b. 1711)
● 1818 - Egwale Seyon, Emperor of Ethiopia
● 1826 - Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, Russian writer (b. 1766)
● 1858 - Julius Reubke, German composer (b. 1834)
● 1861 - Stephen A. Douglas, American politician (b. 1813)
● 1865 - Okada Izō, Japanese samurai (b. 1838)
● 1875 - Georges Bizet, French composer (b. 1838)
● 1877 - Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, Austrian musicologist (b. 1800
● 1882 - Christian Wilberg, German painter (b. 1839)
● 1894 - Karl Eduard Zachariae, German expert on Byzantine Law (b. 1812)
● 1899 - Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer (b. 1825)
● 1924 - Franz Kafka, Czech novelist (b. 1883)
● 1928 - Li Yüan-hung, Chinese general and political figure (b. 1864)
● 1933 - William Muldoon, wrestler (b. 1852)
● 1955 - Barbara Graham, American murderer (b. 1923)
● 1963 - Nazim Hikmet, Turkish poet (b. 1902)
● 1963 - Pope John XXIII (b. 1881)
● 1964 - Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Finnish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
● 1970 - Hjalmar Schacht, Nazi official (b. 1877)
● 1971 - Heinz Hopf, German mathematician (b. 1894)
● 1973 - Dory Funk, professional wrestler (b. 1919)
● 1975 - Ozzie Nelson, American band leader, producer, director, and actor (b. 1906)
● 1975 - Eisaku Sato, Prime Minister of Japan, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1901)
● 1977 - Archibald Vivian Hill, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
● 1977 - Roberto Rossellini, Italian film director (b. 1906)
● 1983 - Nanna, Rafi Khawar, Lollywood actor, Lahore
● 1989 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian Shi'ite leader (b. 1900)
● 1989 - John McCauley, NHL official
● 1990 - Stiv Bators, American musician (The Dead Boys) (b. 1949)
● 1990 - Robert Noyce, American inventor (b. 1927)
● 1991 - Katia Krafft, French volcanologist (eruption) (b. 1942)
● 1991 - Maurice Krafft, French volcanologist (eruption) (b. 1946)
● 1991 - Takeshi Nagata, Japanese geophysicist (b. 1913)
● 1992 - Robert Morley, English actor (b. 1908
● 1994 - Puig Aubert, French rugby league footballer (b. 1925)
● 1997 - Dennis James, American television personality (b. 1917)
● 1998 - Poul Bundgaard, Danish actor and singer (b. 1922)
● 2001 - Anthony Quinn, Mexican-born actor (b. 1915)
● 2003 - Felix de Weldon, Austrian sculptor (b. 1907)
● 2005 - Harold Cardinal, Cree political leader, writer, and lawyer (b. 1945)
● 2006 - Johnny Grande, original accordion/piano/keyboard player for Bill Haley's Comets (b. 1932)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● Solemnity of Corpus Christi (Body & Blood of Christ)
● St. Achilleus Kewanuka
● St. Adolphus Ludigo-Mkasa
● St. Albert of Como
● St. Ambrose Kibuka
● St. Anatole Kiriggwajjo
● St. Andrew Kagwa
● St. Athanasius Badzekuketta
● St. Bruno Seronkuma
● St. Caecilius
● St. Charles Lwanga and 21 Companions, Martyrs of Uganda.
● St. Clotilda, queen of the Franks
● St. Conus
● St. Cronan
● St. Davinus
● St. Dionysius Sebuggwao
● St. Glushallaich
● St. Gonzaga Gonza
● St. Hilary
● St. James Buzabalio
● St. John Maria Muzeyi
● St. John Mary Mzec
● St. Joseph Mukasa
● St. Kevin of Glendalough
● St. Liphardus
● St. Lucillian
● St. Luke Banabakiutu
● St. Noe Mawaggali
● St. Matthias Murumba
● St. Mbaga Tuzinde
● St. Morand
● St. Mugagga
● St. Mukasa Kiriwawanyu
● St. Ovidius
● St. Paula (died 273)
● St. Pergentinus and Laurentinus
● St. Pontian Ngondwe
● Bl. Pope John XXIII
● Bl. Kizito
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for May 20 (Civil Date: June 3)
● Martyr Thalalaeus at Aegae in Cilicia, and his companions, Martyrs Alexander and Asterius.
● Opening of the Relics of St. Alexis, Metropolitan of Moscow and wonderworker of All Russia.
● Martyr Asclas of Egypt.
● St. Thalassius the Myrrh-giver of Libya.
● Saints Nicetas, John, and Joseph, monks of Chios.
● St. Dovmont-Timothy, prince of Pskov.
● Greek Calendar:
● St. Mark the hermit.
● St. Stephen, abbot of "Piper" in Serbia.
● St. Dodo, disciple of St. David of Georgia.
● Repose of Schemamonk Cyriacus of Valaam, (1798).
● Anglican:
● St. Charles Lwanga and 21 Companions, Martyrs of Uganda.
● Lutheran:
● Commemoration of John XXIII, Bishop of Rome
● Buddhist - Memorial of Broken Dolls
● Roman Empire - Festival to Bellona.
● Vladimirskaya (in Russia)
● Confederate Memorial Day observed in Kentucky, Louisiana, and Tennessee. (1868)
● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Massachusetts : Teachers' Day - ( Sunday )
● Ireland : Bank Day - ( Monday )
● Bahamas : Labour Day - ( Friday )
● New Zealand : Queen's Birthday - ( Monday )
● Western Australia : Foundation Day (1838) - ( 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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