Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Media "What journalism is really about; it's to monitor power and the centers of power." — Amira Hass
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Obtuseness "Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind." — William Westmoreland, U.S. Army general on the war in Vietnam
Thought for the day: "The light of a hundred stars doesn't equal the light of the moon."
{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
Jumbled Galaxy Centaurus A
Credit & Copyright: Robert Gendler and Stephane Guisard
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 296 - St. Marcellinus begins his reign as Catholic Pope
● 350 - Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, is defeated and killed by troops of the usurper Magnentius, in Rome.
● 1097 - The Crusaders defeated the Turks at Dorylaeum.
● 1294 - Jews are expelled from Berne Switzerland
● 1422 - Battle of Arbedo between the duke of Milan and the Swiss cantons.
● 1520 - Montezuma and Aztec nobles murdered by Cortes. Aztecs counterattack Spanish and their Tlaxcalan allies, killing two-thirds of them.
● 1607 - Annales Ecclesiastici (Scientific History of Catholicism) published
● 1629 - The settlers of Salem, Mass. appointed Samuel Skelton as their pastor, by ballot. Their church covenant, afterward composed by Skelton, established Salem as the first non-separating congregational Puritan Church in New England.
● 1651 - The Battle of Beresteczko ends with a Polish victory.
● 1688 - The Immortal Seven issue the Invitation to William, beginning the struggle for English independence from Rome which would culminate in the Glorious Revolution.
● 1741 - Pope Benedict XIV encyclical forbidding traffic in alms
● 1758 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Domstadtl.
● 1780 - Benjamin Randall organized a fellowship of churches known as Free Will Baptists in New Hampshire. It became one of the early branches of the National Association of Free Will Baptists, which was formed in 1935.
● 1794 - Battle of Fort Recovery, Ohio
● 1797 - Leader of rebellion of English fleet, Richard Parker, hanged.
● 1805 - The U.S. Congress organizes Michigan Territory.
● 1834 - Congress creates Indian Territory (now Oklahoma)
● 1839 - Cinque leads successful slave revolt on the ship Amistad.
● 1841 - Rain of fish, Boston, Massachussetts.
● 1841 - The Erie Railroad rolled out its first passenger train.
● 1852 - Duwamish tribe awarded $62,000 for the taking of their aboriginal lands, including the present-day site of the city of Seattle.
● 1859 - Charles Blondin crossed Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
● 1862 - Day 6 of the 7 Days-Battle of White Oak Swamp
● 1864 - Secretary of the Treasury Chase resigns, charging speculators were plotting to prolong the Civil War for monetary gain.
● 1864 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln grants Yosemite Valley to California for "public use, resort and recreation."
● 1868 - Mabel Cratty, American social worker and head of the Y.W.C.A., was born.
● 1870 - Ada Kepley becomes first female law college graduate.
● 1871 - Guatemala revolts for agarian reforms
● 1881 - Henry Highland Garnet, named minister to Liberia
● 1882 - Birth of Robert Louzon (1882-1976). French engineer, revolutionary syndicalist, anarchist.
● 1882 - Charles Guiteau hanged in Washington, DC for the shooting death of President James Garfield.
● 1886 - The first transcontinental train trip across Canada departs from Montreal. It arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia on July 4 of the same year.
● 1888 - Death of anarchist Leon Metchnikoff (1838-1888).
● 1893 - Excelsior diamond (blue-white 995 carats) discovered
● 1894 - Korea declared independence from China and asked for Japanese aid.
● 1900 - 4 German liners burn at Hobokon Docks NJ, 326 die
● 1902 - S I Bailey discovers asteroid #504 Cora
● 1905 - Albert Einstein publishes the article "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies", where he introduces special relativity.
● 1906 - Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.
● 1906 - John Hope becomes 1st black president of Morehouse College
● 1908 - An explosion in Siberia, which knocked down trees in a 40-mile radius and struck people unconscious some 40 miles away. It was believed by some scientists to be caused by a falling fragment from a meteorite. This becomes known as the Tunguska Event.
● 1909 - In Rome, the Catholic Pontifical Biblical Commission issued a decree interpreting the first 11 chapters of Genesis as history, not myth.
● 1911 - US Assay Office in St Louis, Missouri closes
● 1912 - Belgian workers went on strike to demand universal suffrage.
● 1912 - The Regina Cyclone hits Regina, Saskatchewan, killing 28. It remains Canada's deadliest tornado event.
● 1913 - Fighting broke out between Bulgaria and Greece and Spain. It was the beginning of the Second Balkan War.
● 1914 - Gandhi's first arrest, in campaign for Indian equal rights in South Africa.
● 1915 - During World War I, the Second Battle Artois ended when the French failed to take Vimy Ridge.
● 1917 - Birth of Lena Horne, Harlem Renaissance dramatist.
● 1918 - Militant Socialist leader Eugene V. Debs arrested in Cleveland for interfering with army and navy recruiting practices.
● 1921 - President Warren G. Harding appointed former President William Howard Taft chief justice of the United States.
● 1922 - Irish rebels in London assassinate Sir Henry Wilson, the British deputy for Northern Ireland.
● 1922 - One million railway shopmen strike in U.S.
● 1923 - New Zealand claims Ross Dependency in Antarctica
● 1927 - Augusto Cesar Sandino issues his Manifesto Politico
● 1927 - US Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota closes
● 1928 - Radio Service Bulletin lists radio stations call signs that are to be changed to conform with international standards
● 1930 - France pulled its troops out of Germany’s Rhineland.
● 1930 - Francisco Saverio Merlino (1856-1930) dies. Lawyer, theorist, propagandist of Italian anarchism, then a socialist. Continued to defend the anarchists when needed -- which was often.
● 1931 - Work camp at Brynmawr, Wales, leading to branch of International Voluntary Service for Peace.
● 1933 - US Assay Offices in Helena Mon, Boise Id & Salt Lake City Utah closes
● 1934 - Adolf Hitler purged the Nazi Party by destroying the SA and bringing to power the SS in the "Night of the Long Knives."
● 1934 - French Equitorial Africa constituted a single administrative unit
● 1935 - C Jackson discovers asteroid #1784 Benguella
● 1935 - The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its first congress.
● 1936 - 40 hour work week law approved (federal)
● 1936 - Anarchist icon Alexander Berkman is buried in Nice, France. Lifelong anarchist pal Emma Goldman is in attendance.
● 1936 - Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie pleads before League of Nations for help against Italian fascist invasion of his country. The League's inability to stop unprovoked invasions by fascist governments led to its downfall, a fate the modern United Nations is acutely aware of.
● 1939 - Heinkel He. 176 rocket plane flies for 1st time, at Peenemunde
● 1940 - US Fish & Wildlife Service established
● 1942 - US Mint in New Orleans ceases operation
● 1944 - The Battle of Cherbourg ends with the fall of the strategically valuable port to American forces.
● 1948 - Transistor as a substitute for Radio tubes announced (Bell Labs)
● 1950 - U.S. President Harry Truman ordered U.S. troops into Korea and authorizes the draft.
● 1951 - First and founding convention to reconstitute the Socialist International, Frankfurt, Germany.
● 1951 - NAACP begins attack on school segregation & discrimination
● 1951 - On orders from Washington, General Matthew Ridgeway broadcasts that the United Nations was willing to discuss an armistice with North Korea.
● 1952 - Congress passes McCarran-Walter Immigration Act, to screen out "subversive" aliens and deport them, even if they have become U.S. citizens. Follows up on the McCarran Act (Internal Security Act of 1950)--one of the more bucolic provisions being its authorization of concentration camps "for emergency situations." McCarran-Walter strengthened provisions allowing exclusion of immigrants on grounds of insanity, disease, pauperism, crime record or political activity, and made exclusion of anarchists and communists easier. It attacked people merely on account of speech or association, even if there is no evidence they might act violently or illegally. Harry Truman noted "The idea behind this discriminatory policy is, to put it baldly, that Americans with English or Irish names were better citizens than Americans with Italian, Greek, or Polish names..." -- while in fact it was motivated more toward excluding non-whites in this aspect.
● 1953 - The first Corvette rolled off the Chevrolet assembly line in Flint, MI. It sold for $3,250.
● 1954 - Three continents see eclipse of sun; Millions of people turn to look at the darkening skies as a total eclipse of the sun spreads from America through Europe and on to Asia.
● 1955 - The U.S. began funding West Germany’s rearmament.
● 1956 - A TWA Super Constellation and a United Airlines DC-7 (Flight 718) collide above the Grand Canyon in Arizona, United States, killing 128.
● 1957 - Jose Oiticica (1882-1957) dies. Brazilian lawyer, student of medicine, teacher, and an influential figure in the Brazilian anarchist and labor movement.
● 1957 - The American occupation headquarters in Japan was dissolved.
● 1958 - The U.S. Congress passed a law authorizing the admission of Alaska as the 49th state in the Union.
● 1960 - Congo gains independence from Belgium.
● 1960 - The Katanga province seceded from Congo (upon Congo's independence from Belgium).
● 1961 - Explorer (12) fails to reach Earth orbit
● 1962 - Rwanda & Burundi become independent
● 1963 - Cardinal Montini elected Pope Paul VI, 262nd head of Roman Catholic Church
● 1963 - Ciaculli massacre: a car bomb, intended for Mafia boss Salvatore Greco, kills seven police and military officers near Palermo.
● 1964 - Centaur 3 launch vehicle fails to make Earth orbit
● 1964 - The last of U.N. troops left Congo after a four-year effort to bring stability to the country.
● 1965 - First U.S. military ground actions begin in Vietnam.
● 1966 - U.S. Polaris submarine base opens, Faslane, Scotland.
● 1967 - Maj Robert H Lawrence Jr named 1st black astronaut
● 1968 - Petition for recognition of conscientious objection as a basic human right is presented to United Nations Human Rights Commission.
● 1969 - Nigeria bans Red Cross aid to Biafra; Four million people face starvation when the Nigerian government bans night flights of food by the Red Cross.
● 1969 - Seattle City Council approves a plan to purchase Kiker Island, off Deception Pass (Whidbey Island), as a site for a future nuclear power plant.
● 1969 - Spain cedes Ifni to Morocco
● 1969 - Vigilantes cut down trees in Kew Gardens in Queens, New York City. The park is a gathering place for area gays. About a month previous, a group of men from nearby apartment buildings started going into the park and ordering gay men to leave. Vigilante organizer Myles Tashman said, (quote) "Admittedly it was against the law but we had police consent." On this evening, the vigilantes just raze the park. A local resident twice called the police after seeing them at work with a power saw. Arriving almost an hour later, the officers chat with the treecutters and then leave. The Mattachine Society and other gay clubs start a fund, "Trees for Queens," to replace the foliage.
● 1970 - An Army depot on Kimber Road, London, England firebombed.
● 1970 - T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2139 Makharadze
● 1971 - Ohio ratifies the 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, lowering the voting age to 18, thereby putting the amendment into effect.
● 1971 - Pres. Nixon orders felony burglary of the Brookings Institute, where Daniel Ellsberg, Leslie Gelb, and Morton Halperin worked, in a meeting with National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger, Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, Attorney General John Mitchell and Haldeman. Colson later proposed a firebombing.
● 1971 - The Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 11 returned to Earth. The three cosmonauts were found dead inside when their air supply escapes through a faulty valve.
● 1971 - The U.S. Supreme Court allowed the New York Times to continue publishing the Pentagon Papers.
● 1972 - 1st leap second day; also 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985
● 1973 - In Korea, the Far Eastern Broadcasting Co. began transmitting the Gospel from HLAZ, its first radio station in this country. FBEC is active today through radio missions outreach, and focuses its work among the islands of Eastern Asia and the Pacific.
● 1973 - Observers aboard Concorde jet observe 72-min solar eclipse
● 1974 - Mrs. Martin Luther King, Sr., and a church deacon were slain by a crazed gunman in Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church, where her son, the assassinated civil rights leader, once preached.
● 1974 - Petty thief Peter Leonard sets fire to cover burglary that torches "Gulliver's" nightclub. 24 die (Port Chester NY)
● 1974 - Russian ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defected in Toronto, Canada.
● 1974 - Selective Service law authorizing the draft expires, marking the official end of conscription in the U.S. {at least for the time being}
● 1975 - Bundy victim Shelley Robertson disappears in Colorado
● 1977 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced his opposition to the B-1 bomber.
● 1977 - US Railway Post Office final train run (NY to Wash DC)
● 1979 - Thirty-five thousand protest nuclear power project at Diablo Canyon, Calif.
● 1980 - U.S. Supreme Court upholds $122 million judgment to the Lakota (Sioux) Nation for illegal taking of Black Hills, South Dakota.
● 1981 - China's Communist Party condemns the late Mao Tse-tung's policy
● 1982 - Federal Equal Rights Amendment fails 3 states short of ratification
● 1982 - Orbiter Challenger (OV-099) rolled out at Palmdale
● 1985 - Thirty-nine American hostages were freed from a hijacked TWA jetliner in Beirut after being held for 17 days.
● 1986 - In Bowers v. Hardwick, Georgia sodomy law upheld by Supreme Court (5-4) - Sodomy, one to 20 years. Upheld as to homosexuals on the grounds that there is no fundamental federal constitutional right to "engage in sodomy." Still on the books in half of the states, most laws are applied against homosexuals in order to further anti-gay discrimination. State-by-state laws have created a patchwork of penalties which range from a $50 fine in Arizona to life in prison in Idaho.
● 1987 - ACT UP demonstration at Federal Plaza in New York city.
● 1988 - Brooklyn dedicates a bus depot honoring Jackie Gleason
● 1988 - French archbishop Marcel Lefebvre is excommunicated by the Catholic church.
● 1989 - Attorney General Thornburgh orders Joseph Doherty deported to the UK
● 1989 - Congressman Lukins found guilty of having sex with a 16 year old girl
● 1989 - England - Court seizes about $7,000 withheld war taxes from Peace Pledge Union's bank account.
● 1989 - NASA closes down tracking stations in Santiago, Chile & Guam
● 1989 - NY State Legislature passes Staten Island seccession bill
● 1990 - East and West Germany merge their economies.
● 1992 - Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher joins the House of Lords as Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven.
● 1997 - In Hong Kong, the Union Jack was lowered for the last time over Government House as Britain prepared to hand the colony back to China after ruling it for 156 years.
● 1998 - French "Sans-papiers," undocumented immigrants begin hunger strike. Thirty begin fasting as their request for "regularisation" and legal residence papers has been refused.
● 1998 - In Paris, France, a group of 100 people manages to enter the buildings of the Constitutional Council. One of them seizes an original specimen of the constitution, tears it, declaring - "The dictatorship of capitalism is abolished. The workers declare anarchist-communism."
● 1998 - Officials confirmed that the remains of a Vietnam War serviceman buried in the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery were identified as those of Air Force pilot Michael J. Blassie.
● 1998 - Some 20,000 New York City construction workers rally to protest the city's use of a nonunion contractor.
● 2000 - U.S. President Clinton signed the E-Signature bill to give the same legal validity to an electronic signature as a signature in pen and ink.
● 2001 - Doctors implanted a dual-purpose pacemaker in Vice President Dick Cheney's chest.
● 2001 - Country musician Chet Atkins died at age 77.
● 2004 - The international Cassini spacecraft entered Saturn's orbit after a nearly seven year journey.
● 2005 - Spain became the third country to legalize gay marriage.
BIRTHS
● 1286 - John de Warenne, 8th Earl of Surrey, English politician (d. 1347)
● 1468 - John, German elector of Saxony and supporter of Martin Luther (d. 1532)
● 1470 - Charles VIII of France (d. 1498)
● 1503 - John Frederick, Elector of Saxony (d. 1554)
● 1641 - Meinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg, Irish general (d. 1719)
● 1685 - Dominikus Zimmermann, Bavarian Baroque architect (d. 1766)
● 1685 - John Gay, British writer (d. 1732)
● 1717 - Johann Stamitz, Czech-born composer (d. 1757)
● 1755 - Paul François Jean Nicolas Barras, French politician (d. 1829)
● 1789 - Horace Vernet, French painter and graphic artist (d. 1863)
● 1803 - Thomas Lovell Beddoes, English poet (d. 1849)
● 1807 - Friedrich Theodor von Vischer, German narrator, lyricist, and philosopher (d. 1887)
● 1817 - Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, British botanist (d. 1911)
● 1819 - Lucile Grahn, Danish choreographer and ballerina (d. 1907)
● 1819 - William Wheeler, American politician; U.S. vice-president (1877-81) (d. 1887)
● 1823 - Dinshaw Maneckji Petit, Indian industrialist (d. 1901)
● 1843 - Ernest Mason Satow, British diplomat (d. 1929)
● 1868 - Mabel Cratty, American social worker and head of the Y.W.C.A. (d. 1928)
● 1891 - Man Mountain Dean, American professional wrestler (d. 1953)
● 1891 - Ed "Strangler" Lewis, American professional wrestler (d. 1966)
● 1892 - Oswald Pohl, German Nazi leader (d. 1951)
● 1893 - Walter Ulbricht, German politician (d. 1973)
● 1893 - Harold Laski, English political scientist, educator and writer (d. 1950)
● 1899 - Madge Bellamy, American actress (d. 1990)
● 1899 - Harry Shields, American jazz clarinetist (d. 1971)
● 1901 - Willie Sutton, American bank robber and prison escapee (d. 1980)
● 1906 - Ralph Allen, English footballer (d. 1981)
● 1908 - Winston Graham, British writer (d. 2003)
● 1911 - Czesław Miłosz, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
● 1912 - Ludwig Bölkow, German aeronautical engineer (d. 2003)
● 1912 - Dan Reeves - Owner of the Cleveland/Los Angeles Rams (d. 1971)
● 1913 - Harry Wismer, owner of the New York Jets (d. 1967)
● 1917 - Susan Hayward, American actress (d. 1975)
● 1917 - Lena Horne, American actress and singer
● 1919 - Ed Yost, American inventor (d. 2007)
● 1926 - Paul Berg, Nobel Prize laureate
● 1929 - James Goldman, American screenwriter (d. 1998)
● 1931 - Bert Eriksson, Belgian neo-Nazi (d. 2005)
● 1931 - Andrew Hill, American jazz pianist (d. 2007)
● 1934 - Harry Blackstone Jr., American magician (d. 1997)
● 1936 - Nancy Dussault, American actress
● 1936 - Tony Musante, Actor
● 1938 - Apostolos Nikolaidis, Greek singer (d. 1999)
● 1939 - José Emilio Pacheco, Mexican poet
● 1940 - Mark Spoelstra, American folksinger (d. 2007)
● 1941 - Peter Pollock, South African cricket player
● 1943 - Florence Ballard, American singer (The Supremes) (d. 1976)
● 1944 - Raymond Moody, American parapsychologist
● 1944 - Terry Funk, American professional wrestler
● 1944 - Glenn Shorrock, Singer (Little River Band)
● 1950 - Leonard Whiting, British actor
● 1951 - Stanley Clarke, American musician
● 1952 - Tubby Smith, Minnesota basketball coach
● 1952 - David Garrison, Broadway and television actor
● 1952 - Athanassios S. Fokas, Greek mathematician
● 1953 - Hal Lindes, British-American musician (Dire Straits)
● 1954 - Pierre Charles, Prime Minister of Dominica (d. 2004)
● 1955 - David Alan Grier, American actor and comedian
● 1957 - Sterling Marlin, American Nascar driver
● 1958 - Esa-Pekka Salonen, Finnish conductor and composer
● 1959 - Vincent D'Onofrio, American actor ("Law and Order: Criminal Intent" "Full Metal Jacket")
● 1959 - Brendan Perry, British musician (Dead Can Dance)
● 1960 - Murray Cook, Australian children's singer (The Wiggles)
● 1962 - Tony Fernandez, Dominican baseball player
● 1963 - Yngwie J. Malmsteen, Swedish guitarist
● 1963 - Rupert Graves, Actor
● 1964 - Alexandra Christina Manley, Former Danish princess, now countess
● 1965 - Mitch Richmond, American basketball player
● 1966 - Mike Tyson, American boxer and ear biter
● 1966 - Marton Csokas, New Zealand actor
● 1968 - Philip Anselmo, American musician
● 1969 - Sanath Jayasuriya, Sri Lankan cricketer
● 1969 - Tom Drummond, Rock musician (Better Than Ezra)
● 1970 - Brian Bloom, Actor
● 1970 - Brian Vincent, Actor
● 1970 - Mark Grudzielanek, baseball player
● 1971 - Anette Michel, Mexican actress
● 1971 - Monica Potter, American actress
● 1973 - Chan Ho Park, Major League Baseball player
● 1975 - Ralf Schumacher, German race car driver
● 1977 - Richard Henderson, famous packaging engineer
● 1977 - Chris Maxwell, baseball player (New Mexico)
● 1978 - Owen Lafave, ex-husband of Debra Lafave
● 1979 - Matisyahu, Hasidic Jewish Reggae Rapper
● 1979 - Rick Gonzalez, Hispanic-American actor
● 1981 - Can Artam, Turkish racing driver
● 1981 - Karolina Sadalska, Polish kayaker
● 1982 - Dan Jacobs, American guitarist (Atreyu)
● 1982 - Andy Knowles, British musician (Franz Ferdinand)
● 1982 - Lizzy Caplan, American actress (Mean Girls, 2004)
● 1983 - Brendon James, British drummer (Thirteen Senses)
● 1983 - Marlin Jackson, American football player
● 1983 - Patrick Wolf, British musician
● 1983 - Cheryl Cole, British singer (Girls Aloud)
● 1984 - Fantasia Barrino, American singer ("American Idol")
● 1984 - Gabriel Badilla, Costa Rican footballer
● 1985 - Michael Phelps, American swimmer
● 1985 - Fabiana Vallejos, Argentine footballer
● 1992 - Lamb and Lynx Gaede, American musicians (Prussian Blue)
DEATHS
● 350 - Nepotianus, Roman usurper
● 1181 - Hugh de Kevelioc, 3rd Earl of Chester, English politician (b. 1147)
● 1364 - Arnost of Pardubice, Archbishop of Prague (b. 1297)
● 1538 - Charles of Egmond, Duke of Guelders (b. 1467)
● 1579 - Mehmed Pasha Sokolović, Turkish Janissary
● 1607 - Caesar Baronius, Italian cardinal and historian (b. 1538)
● 1660 - William Oughtred, English mathematician (b. 1575)
● 1666 - Alexander Brome, English poet (b. 1620)
● 1670 - Henrietta Anne Stuart, Princess of England, Scotland, and Ireland (b. 1644)
● 1704 - John Quelch, a pirate was hanged (b. 1665)
● 1709 - Edward Lhuyd, Welsh scientist (b. 1660)
● 1785 - James Oglethorpe, English general and founder of the state of Georgia (b. 1696)
● 1796 - Abraham Yates, American Continental Congressman (b. 1724)
● 1857 - Alcide d'Orbigny, French naturalist (b. 1802)
● 1882 - Charles J. Guiteau, American assassin of President James A. Garfield (b. 1841)
● 1890 - Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, American composer (b. 1819)
● 1919 - John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1842)
● 1934 - Kurt von Schleicher, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1882)
● 1953 - Charles William Miller, father of football in Brazil (b. 1874)
● 1959 - José Vasconcelos, Mexican writer and politician (b. 1882)
● 1961 - Lee DeForest, American inventor (b. 1873)
● 1966 - Giuseppe Farina, Italian race car driver (b. 1906)
● 1971 - Herbert Biberman, Jewish American screenwriter and film director (b. 1900)
● 1971 - Crew of Soyuz 11
● Viktor Patsayev (b. 1933)
● Georgi Dobrovolski (b. 1928)
● Vladislav Volkov (b. 1935)
● 1974 - Vannevar Bush, American engineer and politician (b. 1890)
● 1976 - Firpo Marberry, baseball player (b. 1898)
● 1984 - Lillian Hellman, American playwright (b. 1905)
● 1993 - George "Spanky" McFarland, American actor (b. 1928)
● 1993 - Wong Ka Kui, Hong Kong singer (b. 1962)
● 1995 - Gale Gordon, American actor (b. 1906)
● 1995 - Georgi Beregovoi, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1921)
● 1995 - Phyllis Hyman, American jazz vocalist (b. 1949)
● 1997 - Larry O'Day, wrestler (b. 1944)
● 2001 - Chet Atkins, American guitarist (b. 1924)
● 2002 - Chico Xavier, popular medium in Brazil´s spiritism movement (b. 1910)
● 2003 - Buddy Hackett, American comic (b. 1924)
● 2003 - Robert McCloskey, American children's book writer and illustrator (b. 1915)
● 2006 - Robert Gernhardt, German satirist (b. 1937)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● First Martyrs of Rome
● First Martyrs of the See of Rome.
● Martyrs of Rome
● St. Adilia van Orp (died 670)
● St. Adolf (died 1224)
● St. Airick
● St. Basilides
● St. Bertrand
● St. Clotsindis
● St. Emiliana
● St. Erentrudis
● St. Eurgain
● St. Lucina
● St. Marcian
● St. Martial
● St. Martialis
● St. Ostianus
● St. Paul
● St. Theobald
● St. Vincent Yen
● Bl. Arnold Cornibout
● Bl. Philip Powell
● Bl. Raymond Lull
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for June 17 (Civil Date: June 30)
● Martyrs Manuel, Sabel, and Ismael of Persia.
● Hieromartyr Philoneides, Bishop of Kurion in Cyprus.
● Saints Joseph and Pior, disciples of St. Anthony the Great.
● The Alfanov brothers (see May 4).
● St. Ananias the Iconographer of Novgorod.
● Greek Calendar:
● lM Isaurus, and with him Basil, Innocent, Felix, Hermes and Peregrinus of Athens.
● Guatemala : Revolution Day (1871)
● Lybia : Troop Withdrawl Day
● Mongolia : Constitution Day
● Rwanda & Burundi : Independence Day (1962)
● Surinam : Lebaran, official holiday
● Zaire : Independence Day (1960)
● 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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