Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Inferiority "The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation." — Alfred Adler
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Homophobia "[T]hese perverted homosexuals . . . absolutely hate everything that you and I and most decent God-fearing citizens stand for . . . Make no mistake. These deviants seek no less than total control and influence in society, politics, our schools, and in our exercise of free speech and religious freedom . . . If we do not act now, homosexuals will own America!" — Jerry Falwell
Thought for the day: "Love is blind, to everything except fat."
{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
Jet Approaching a Crescent Moon
Credit & Copyright: Vincent Jacques
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 8239 B.C.E. - Presumed origin of Mayan Era of Creation.
● 70 - Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem.
● 753 - St. Boniface slain by Druids for chopping down sacred tree.
● 754 - Death of Abul'-Abbas, Caliph of Baghdad.
● 1257 - Cracow, Poland received city rights.
● 1305 - Pope Clement V is elected.
● 1595 - Henry IV's army defeated the Spanish at the Battle of Fontaine-Francaise.
● 1637 - American settlers in New England massacred a Pequot Indian village.
● 1661 - Isaac Newton admitted as a student to Trinity College, Cambridge
● 1723 - Economist Adam Smith was born in Kirkcaldy, Scotland.
● 1752 - Benjamin Franklin flew a kite for the first time to demonstrate that lightning was a form of electricity.
● 1783 - A hot-air balloon was demonstrated by Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier. It reached a height of 1,500 feet. It was the first public manned balloon flight.
● 1794 - Congress passed the Neutrality Act, prohibiting Americans from enlisting in the service of a foreign power.
● 1798 - Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread United Irish Rebellion into Munster is defeated.
● 1805 - 1st recorded tornado in "Tornado Alley" (Southern Illinois)
● 1806 - Batavian Republic becomes the Kingdom of Holland
● 1817 - First Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac, is launched.
● 1827 - Athens fell to the Ottomans.
● 1829 - HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.
● 1832 - Parisian student uprisings of 1832 begin.
● 1833 - Ada Lovelace (future 1st computer programmer) meets Charles Babbage
● 1837 - Houston, Texas is incorporated by the Republic of Texas.
● 1849 - Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy by the signing of a new constitution.
● 1851 - Harriet Beecher Stow published the first installment of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in "The National Era." {Later when Abraham Lincoln met the author, he remarked, "How could one small lady cause such a large war (meaning the Civil War)."}
● 1855 - Anti-foreign anti-Roman Catholic Know-Nothing Party's 1st convention
● 1860 - The Scandinavian Evangelical Lutheran Augsburg Synod in North America was founded in Wisconsin. In 1962, the Augsburg Synod became one of four branches in American Lutheranism that merged to form the Lutheran Church in America (LCA).
● 1863 - CSS "Alabama" captures the "Tailsman" in the Mid Atlantic
● 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Piedmont: Union forces under General David Hunter defeat a Confederate army at Piedmont, Virginia, taking nearly 1,000 prisoners.
● 1865 - The first safe deposit vault was opened in New York. The charge was $1.50 a year for every $1,000 that was stored. The idea that the contents were private would not come until later.
● 1872 - Republican National Convention meets (Philadelphia)
● 1878 - Revolutionist Francisco "Pancho" Villa born, San Juan del Rio, Durango, Mexico.
● 1883 - John Maynard Keynes, the British economist whose studies of unemployment and recession revolutionized 20th-century economics, was born.
● 1884 - U.S. Civil War General William T. Sherman refused the Republican presidential nomination, saying, "I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected."
● 1885 - J Palisa discovers asteroid #248 Lameia
● 1899 - Birth of radical Spanish poet and playwright Garcia Lorca.
● 1900 - Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.
● 1907 - BAPS Swaminarayan religion established.
● 1910 - J Helffrich discovers asteroids #699 Hela & #700 Auravictrix
● 1912 - US marines invade Cuba (3rd time)
● 1915 - Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage.
● 1916 - Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
● 1917 - World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as "Army registration day."
● 1920 - 1st rivet driven on Bank of Italy headquarters at 1 Powell
● 1924 - Ernst F. W. Alexanderson transmitted the first facsimile message across the Atlantic Ocean.
● 1933 - The U.S. Congress abrogates the United States' use of the gold standard by enacting a joint resolution (48 Stat. 112) nullifying the right of creditors to demand payment in gold.
● 1934 - 1st formal meeting of The Baker Street Irregulars (NYC)
● 1937 - A Bohrmann discovers asteroid #1455 Mitchella
● 1940 - 1st synthetic rubber tire exhibited Akron Oh
● 1940 - American Negro Threater organizes
● 1940 - During World War II, the Battle of France began when Germany began an offensive in Southern France.
● 1942 - In France, Pierre Laval congratulated French volunteers that were fighting in the U.S.S.R. with Germans.
● 1942 - Elwood Ordnance Plant near Joliet Illinois kills 54
● 1944 - The first B-29 bombing raid hit the Japanese rail line in Bangkok, Thailand. One plane lost due to engine failure.
● 1944 - World War II: More than 1000 British bombers drop 5000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day.
● 1944 - German Lutheran theologian and martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote in a letter from prison: 'Certainly one must try everything, but only to become more certain what God's way is.'
● 1944 - Celebrations as Rome is liberated; The people of Rome crowd onto the streets to welcome the victorious Allied troops.
● 1945 - USA, UK, USSR, France declare supreme authority over Germany. Allied Control Council, military occupation governing body of Germany, formally takes power.
● 1946 - A fire in the LaSalle Hotel in Chicago, kills 61 people.
● 1946 - The first medical sponges were first offered for sale in Detroit, MI.
● 1947 - Marshall Plan: At a speech at Harvard University, United States Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid to war-torn Europe.
● 1950 - US Supreme Court undermines legal foundations of segregation
● 1953 - Denmark adopts a new constitution
● 1956 - Fed court rules racial segregation on Montgomery buses anti-Constitutional
● 1956 - Premier Nikita Khrushchev denounced Josef Stalin to the Soviet Communist Party Congress.
● 1957 - NY narcotics investigator, Dr Herbert Berger, urges AMA to investigate use of stimulating drugs by athletes
● 1958 - Golden Rule crew sentenced to 60 days for sailing into Pacific A- bomb test site.
● 1959 - The first government of the State of Singapore is sworn in.
● 1960 - John XXIII published his motu proprio, 'Superno Dei Nutu,' which created the necessary committees and organizational structure for the upcoming Vatican II Ecumenical Council (1962-65).
● 1961 - U.S. Supreme Court orders U.S. Communist Party to register with the Justice Dept.
● 1961 - English apologist C.S. Lewis wrote in a letter: 'Any fixing of the mind on old evils beyond what is absolutely necessary for repenting of our own sins and forgiving those of others is...usually bad for us.'
● 1962 - Committee of 100 sit in until an interview is granted in London's Soviet Embassy.
● 1963 - John Profumo, British Secretary of State for War resigns his post following revelations he had sex with a prostitute who also had a thing with a Soviet Naval officer.
● 1963 - Movement of 15 Khordad: protest against arrest of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini by Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. In several cities, masses of angry demonstrators were confronted by tanks and paratroopers.
● 1966 - Mississippi March Against Fear begins after James Meredith shooting.
● 1967 - Israel attacks Egypt and Syria in what becomes known as the Six-Day War, resulting in its illegal occupation of the Sinai Peninsula, West Bank, Gaza Strip and Golan Heights. A cease-fire arranged by the U.N. ended the open hostilities on June 10; the effects of this war are being felt today.
● 1967 - Boxer Mohammed Ali is sentenced to five years in prison for refusing the military draft.
● 1967 - Forty Chicanos stage armed raid on Tierra Armarilla, New Mexico. The group claimed 2,500 square miles of territory in New Mexico, which they said Spain granted to their ancestors. Two policemen were wounded, and 11 prisoners at the County Court House were "liberated."
● 1967 - Murderer Richard Speck sentenced to death in the electric chair
● 1968 - Senator and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan in Los Angeles after winning the California Democratic party; dies the following day. Former staff member for Senator Joseph McCarthy during the 50s witch hunts, recast as a populist.
● 1969 - Race riot in Hartford Connecticut
● 1969 - International communist conference begins in Moscow.
● 1970 - Chile becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
● 1972 - Duke of Windsor laid to rest; World leaders attend the funeral in Windsor of the former King of Britain who abdicated in 1936 to marry an American divorcee. {Long suspected of having Nazi sympathies, one wonders how different WWII might have been conducted had he not abdicated.}
● 1972 - UN Conference on the Human Environment opens in Stockholm
● 1975 - The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War.
● 1975 - The UK holds its first and only UK-wide referendum, on remaining in the EEC.
● 1976 - Collapse of the Teton Dam in Idaho, United States killing 14 and causing one billion dollars damage.
● 1977 - A coup takes place in Seychelles.
● 1977 - The Apple II, the first practical personal computer, goes on sale.
● 1980 - Soyuz T-2 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
● 1981 - The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that five homosexual men in Los Angeles, California have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems, in what turns out to be the first recognized cases of AIDS.
● 1984 - Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi orders an attack on the Golden Temple, the holiest site of the Sikh religion.
● 1986 - A federal jury in Baltimore convicted Ronald W. Pelton of selling secrets to the Soviet Union. Pelton was sentenced to three life prison terms plus 10 years.
● 1986 - A 52-year old man in Auburn, Washington, United States, dies after taking an Excedrin capsule laced with cyanide; this is the first of two Excedrin deaths.
● 1987 - "Nightline" presents it's 1st "Town Meeting" the subject is AIDS & the show runs until 3:47 AM
● 1989 - The Inuvialuit Final Agreement is signed in Canada to give the Inuit of western Canada the first comprehensive land claim agreement north of the 60th parallel.
● 1991 - Space Shuttle STS 40 (Columbia 12) launched
● 1991 - Lesbian priest Elizabeth Carl ordained in Episcopal Church.
● 1992 - Huge rise in water disconnectionsin Britain; New figures show the number of people having their water supplies cut off for failing to pay their bills has almost trebled in a year.
● 1993 - Thousands march in Germany to protest neo-Nazi violence.
● 1994 - An earthquake in East Java killed 264 people.
● 1995 - Twenty-five hundred peasants shut down Mexico City stock exchange.
● 1995 - Bose-Einstein condensate is first created.
● 1998 - A strike begins at the General Motors parts factory in Flint, Michigan, that quickly spreads to five other assembly plants (the strike lasted seven weeks).
● 2001 - U.S. Senator Jim Jeffords leaves the Republican Party, an act which shifts control of the United States Senate from the Republicans to the Democratic Party.
● 2001 - Tropical Storm Allison makes landfall on the upper-Texas coastline as a strong tropical storm and dumps large amounts of rain over Houston. The storm caused $5.5 billion in damages, making Allison the costliest tropical storm in U.S. history.
● 2002 - Elizabeth Smart, 14, was kidnapped from her bedroom in her family's Salt Lake City home. (She was found alive in March 2003; two people accused of abducting her have been found mentally unfit to stand trial.)
● 2003 - Severe heat wave across Pakistan and India reaches its peak, as temperatures exceed 50°C in the region.
● 2004 - The U.S.S. Jimmy Carter was christened in the U.S. Navy in Groton, CT.
● 2004 - Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th president of the United States, died in Los Angeles at age 93 after a long struggle with Alzheimer's disease. {Public treasury pays for obscenely expensive funeral services, but like his presidency this is done with borrowed money.}
● 2006 - Serbia declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro
● 2006 - An Islamic militia with alleged links to al-Qaida seized Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, after weeks of fighting with U.S.-backed secular warlords.
● 2007 - 12 people are killed and 23 others injured in a train crash near Kerang in Victoria, Australia
BIRTHS
● 1341 - Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of Edward III of England (d. 1402)
● 1493 - Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (d. 1555)
● 1553 - Bernardino Baldi, Italian mathematician (d. 1617)
● 1640 - Pu Songling, Chinese writer (d. 1715)
● 1646 - Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician (d. 1684)
● 1718 - Thomas Chippendale, English furniture maker (d. 1779)
● 1723 - Adam Smith, Scottish economist (d. 1790)
● 1757 - Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist (d. 1808)
● 1760 - Johan Gadolin, Finnish scientist (d. 1852)
● 1771 - Ernest Augustus I of Hanover (d. 1851)
● 1781 - Christian August Lobeck, German scholar (d. 1860)
● 1819 - John Couch Adams, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1892)
● 1850 - Pat Garrett, American Western lawman; shot and killed Billy the Kid (d. 1908)
● 1862 - Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1930)
● 1868 - Jan Thorn-Prikker, Dutch painter, designer and decorator (d. 1932)
● 1876 - Tony Jackson, American musician (d. 1920)
● 1878 - Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1923)
● 1879 - Robert Mayer, German-born philanthropist (d. 1985)
● 1879 - René Pottier, French cyclist (d. 1907)
● 1883 - John Maynard Keynes, English economist (d. 1946)
● 1884 - Ralph Benatzky, Czech composer (d. 1957)
● 1887 - Ruth Benedict, American anthropologist (d. 1948)
● 1894 - Roy Thomson, Lord Thomson of Fleet, English publisher (d. 1976)
● 1895 - William Boyd (actor), American actor (d. 1972)
● 1898 - Federico García Lorca, Spanish poet, lyricist and dramatist (d. 1936)
● 1900 - Dennis Gabor, Hungarian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
● 1905 - John Abbott, British actor (d. 1996)
● 1912 - Dean Amadon, American ornithologist (d. 2003)
● 1919 - Richard Scarry, American children's author (d. 1994)
● 1920 - Cornelius Ryan, Irish-American author (d. 1974)
● 1923 - Daniel Pinkham, American composer, organist, and harpsichordist (d. 2006)
● 1923 - Jorge Daponte, Argentine racing driver (d. 1963)
● 1925 - Bill Hayes, Actor, singer ("Days of Our Lives")
● 1925 - Art Donovan, American football star
● 1928 - Tony Richardson, British actor (d. 1991)
● 1930 - Alifa Rifaat, Egyptian writer (d. 1996)
● 1931 - Jacques Demy, French film director (d. 1990)
● 1932 - Christy Brown, Irish author (d. 1981)
● 1934 - Bill Moyers, American journalist
● 1938 - Karin Balzer, German hurdler
● 1939 - Joe Clark, sixteenth Prime Minister of Canada
● 1939 - Margaret Drabble, English novelist
● 1941 - Martha Argerich, Argentine pianist
● 1941 - Spalding Gray, American actor and writer (d. 2004)
● 1941 - Floyd Butler, R&B singer
● 1941 - Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots
● 1941 - Erasmo Carlos, Brazilian singer and songwriter
● 1942 - Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Equatoguinean politician
● 1943 - Matthew Lesko, American author
● 1944 - Tommie Smith, American athlete
● 1944 - Colm Wilkinson, Irish singer
● 1945 - John Carlos, American Athlete
● 1945 - Patrick Head, British engineer
● 1945 - Don Reid, Country singer (The Statler Brothers)
● 1946 - Freddie Stone, American guitarist (Sly & the Family Stone)
● 1946 - John Bach, Welsh actor
● 1947 - Laurie Anderson, American performance artist
● 1947 - Tom Evans (musician), from Badfinger (d. 1983)
● 1948 - Gail Davies, Country singer
● 1949 - Ken Follett, Welsh author
● 1950 - J. J. Bittenbinder, American television host and author
● 1951 - Suze Orman, American financial advisor, writer, and television personality.
● 1952 - Daniel Katzen, Symphony musician
● 1952 - Carole Fredericks, American singer (d. 2001)
● 1954 - Nicko McBrain, English musician (Iron Maiden)
● 1955 - Edino Nazareth Filho, Brazilian football player
● 1956 - Richard Butler, English singer (Psychedelic Furs)
● 1956 - Kenny G, American saxophonist
● 1958 - Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi, President of the Comoros
● 1961 - Anthony Burger, American musician and singer (d. 2006)
● 1961 - Mary Kay Bergman, American voice actress (Beauty and the Beast, South Park)(d. 1999)
● 1962 - Princess Astrid of Belgium
● 1962 - Jeff Garlin, American comedian
● 1963 - Joe Rudán, Hungarian heavy metal singer
● 1965 - Karen Sillas, Actress
● 1965 - Sandrine Piau, French soprano
● 1967 - Joe DeLoach, American athlete
● 1967 - Ray Lankford, baseball player
● 1968 - Ron Livingston, American actor
● 1969 - Brian McKnight, American musician
● 1970 - Claus Norreen, Rock musician (Aqua)
● 1970 - Martin Gelinas, Canadian hockey player
● 1971 - Susan Lynch, Northern Irish actress
● 1971 - Mark Wahlberg, American singer and actor
● 1972 - Pavel Kotla, Polish conductor
● 1972 - Chuck Klosterman, American journalist
● 1972 - Mike Bucci, American professional wrestler
● 1973 - Daniel Gildenlöw, Swedish musician and songwriter
● 1973 - Lamon Brewster, American boxer
● 1974 - Chad Allen, American actor
● 1974 - Russ Ortiz, American baseball player
● 1974 - P-Nut, Rock musician (311)
● 1975 - Žydrūnas Ilgauskas, NBA basketball player (Cleveland Cavaliers)
● 1976 - Torry Holt, Football player
● 1977 - Navi Rawat, Actress ("Numb3rs")
● 1977 - Liza Weil, American actress ("The Gilmore Girls")
● 1979 - David Bisbal, Spanish singer
● 1979 - Fraser Watts, Scottish cricketer
● 1979 - Pete Wentz, American musician (Fall Out Boy)
● 1979 - Jason White, American NASCAR driver
● 1981 - Sebastien Lefebvre, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
● 1981 - Jade Goody, British television personality
● 2005 - Irene Urdangarin, granddaughter of King Juan Carlos I of Spain
DEATHS
● 535 - Epiphanius of Constantinople, patriarch of Constantinople
● 1017 - Emperor Sanjo of Japan (b. 976)
● 1118 - Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester
● 1296 - Edmund Crouchback, son of Henry III of England (b. 1245)
● 1316 - King Louis X of France (b. 1289)
● 1383 - Dmitry Konstantinovich, Russian prince (b. 1324)
● 1568 - Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Flemish general and statesman (b. 1522)
● 1625 - Orlando Gibbons, English composer (b. 1583)
● 1667 - Pietro Sforza Pallavicino, Italian cardinal and historian (b. 1607)
● 1688 - Constantine Phaulkon, Greek adventurer (b. 1667)
● 1716 - Roger Cotes, English mathematician (b. 1682)
● 1722 - Johann Kuhnau, German composer, organist, and harpsichordist (b. 1660)
● 1738 - Isaac de Beausobre, French Protestant pastor (b. 1659)
● 1791 - Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-born British colonial governor (b. 1718)
● 1816 - Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (b. 1741)
● 1825 - Odysseas Androutsos, hero in the Greek War of Independence
● 1826 - Carl Maria von Weber, German composer (b. 1786)
● 1900 - Stephen Crane, American author (b. 1871)
● 1902 - Louis J. Weichmann, chief witness in the trail of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1842)
● 1906 - Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher (b. 1842)
● 1910 - O. Henry, American author (b. 1862)
● 1913 - Chris von der Ahe, baseball pioneer (b. 1851)
● 1916 - Horatio Kitchener, Lord Kitchener, British field marshal (b. 1850)
● 1920 - Rhoda Broughton, Welsh author (b. 1840)
● 1921 - Georges Feydeau, French playwright (b. 1862)
● 1930 - Pascin, Bulgarian painter (b. 1885)
● 1975 - Paul Keres, Estonian chess player (b. 1916)
● 1976 - Violet Wilkey, American actress (b. 1903)
● 1993 - Conway Twitty, American musician (b. 1933)
● 1993 - Twenty-Four Pakistani Soldiers, during Operation Restore Hope
● 1998 - Jeanette Nolan, American actress (b. 1911)
● 1998 - Sam Yorty, Mayor of Los Angeles (b. 1909)
● 1999 - Mel Tormé, American singer ("The Velvet Fog"), composer, and actor (b. 1925)
● 2000 - Don Liddle, baseball player (b. 1925)
● 2002 - Gwen Plumb, Australian actress (b. 1912)
● 2002 - Dee Dee Ramone, American bassist (The Ramones) (b. 1952)
● 2003 - Jürgen Möllemann, German politician (b. 1945)
● 2003 - Manuel Rosenthal, French composer and conductor (b. 1904)
● 2004 - Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States (b. 1911)
● 2004 - Iona Brown, British violinist and conductor (Academy of St. Martin in the Fields) (b. 1941)
● 2006 - Frederick Franck, American artist and writer (b. 1909)
● 2007 - Povel Ramel, Swedish entertainer (b. 1922)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Adalar
● St. Boniface of Mainz (died 754), bishop, martyr, apostle to Germany
● St. Dorotheus
● St. Eoban
● St. Felix of Fritzlar
● St. Florentius
● St. Igor (died 1147)
● St. Luke Loan
● St. Marcian
● St. Sanctinus
● St. Tudno
● St. Valeria
● St. Waccar
● Bl. Franciscan Martyrs of China
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for May 22 (Civil Date: June 5)
● Martyr Basiliscus, Bishop of Comana.
● St. John-Vladimir, ruler of Serbia.
● New Hieromartyr Zachariah of Prusa.
● Blessed James, youth, of Borovichi (Novgorod).
● Commemoration of the Second Ecumenical Council.
● Righteous Melchizedek, king of Salem.
● Greek Calendar:
● Martyrs Marcellus and Codratus.
● Martyr Sophia and physician.
● New Monk-martyr Paul of Tripoli.
● Repose of Cleopas of Valaam, disciple of St. Paisius Velichkovsky (1816).
● Lutheran and Anglican:
● St. Boniface of Mainz (died 754), bishop, martyr, apostle to Germany
● Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Núr (Light) - First day of the fifth month of the Bahá'í Calendar.
● Columbia : Thanksgiving Day
● Denmark : Constitution Day (1849, 1953)
● Seychelles - Liberation Day.
● World Environment Day, since the United Nations General Assembly resolution in 1972.
● 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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