Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Inspiration "Don't loaf and invite inspiration. Light out after it with a club." — Jack London
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Ineptitude "Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life." — Orrin Hatch, Republican, Mormon from Utah U.S. senator explaining his support for the death penalty
Thought for the day: "Would that government spent our money like it was their own."
{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
Markarian's Eyes
Credit & Copyright: Ken Crawford (Rancho Del Sol Observatory)
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 65 - Jewish rebels capture fortress of Antonia in Jerusalem. Beginning of the Jewish rebellion against Rome.
● 68 - The Roman Senate accepts emperor Galba.
● 452 - Italy invaded by Attila the Hun.
● 536 - St. Silverius becomes Pope (probable date).
● 570 - Relgion of Islam (submission) founded in Mecca
● 632 - Death of prophet Mohammed. Medina, Arabia.
● 793 - The first Viking raid on British soil at Lindisfarne where a set date for the raid is known.
● 1191 - Richard I arrives in Acre thus beginning his crusade.
● 1247 - Revolt of Rhys ap Meredudd.
● 1405 - Richard le Scrope, Archbishop of York and Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Norfolk, executed in York on Henry IV's orders.
● 1536 - Ten Articles of Religion were published by the English clergy, in support of Henry VIII's Declaration of Supremacy. The Anglican Church had begun defining its doctrinal distinctions, after breaking with Roman Catholicism.
● 1624 - An earthquake strikes Peru.
● 1776 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Trois-Rivières - American invaders are driven back at Trois-Rivières, Quebec.
● 1783 - The volcano Laki, in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people, one fifth of Iceland's population and starts a seven-year famine.
● 1786 - In New York City, commercial ice cream was manufactured and sold for the first time.
● 1789 - James Madison introduces a proposed Bill of Rights in the U.S. House of Representatives.
● 1790 - The first loan for the U.S. was repaid. The Temporary Loan of 1789 was negotiated and secured on September 18, 1789 by Alexander Hamilton.
● 1809 - Thomas Paine dies in obscurity in New York. Six people follow his casket to the grave. Ten years later William Cobbett, essayist/pamphleteer who attacked Paine during his lifetime, retrieved and sent the coffin to England, to honor Paine with a memorial there, but the plan collapsed, and his remains were lost.
● 1810 - Birth of German composer Robert A. Schumann, who composed the sacred tune CANONBURY, to which is commonly sung the hymn, 'Lord Speak to Me That I May Speak.'
● 1815 - 39 German states unite under the Act of Confederation
● 1824 - Washing machine patented by Noah Cushing of Quebec
● 1845 - Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, died in Nashville, Tenn., at age 78.
● 1861 - People of Tennessee vote to succeed from Union
● 1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Cross Keys - Confederate forces under General Stonewall Jackson save the Army of Northern Virginia from a Union assault on the James Peninsula led by General George B. McClellan.
● 1866 - The Canadian Parliament meets for the first time in Ottawa.
● 1866 - Prussia annexed the region of Holstein.
● 1867 - Frank Lloyd Wright, the famed American architect, was born.
● 1869 - Ives W McGaffey of Chicago patents 1st vacuum cleaner (it sucks)
● 1872 - The penny postcard was authorized by the U.S. Congress.
● 1875 - A Borrelly discovers asteroid #146 Lucina
● 1886 - Unemployed riot in London.
● 1887 - Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his punch card calculator.
● 1887 - A Borrelly discovers asteroid #268 Adorea
● 1889 - Cable Cars begin service in LA
● 1904 - Battle between the Colorado Militia and striking miners at Dunnville ended with six union members dead and 15 taken prisoner. Seventy-nine of the strikers were "deported" to Kansas two days later.
● 1904 - U.S. Marines landed in Tangiers, Morocco, to "protect" U.S. citizens.
● 1906 - Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.
● 1915 - U.S. Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigned in a disagreement over U.S. handling of the sinking of the Lusitania.
● 1917 - 164 miners killed in Butte, Montana mine fire.
● 1918 - Nova Aquila, brightest nova since Kepler's nova of 1604, discovered
● 1923 - S Belyavskij discovers asteroid #995 Sternberga
● 1928 - 1st US-to-Australia flight lands (Sir Charles Kingford)
● 1928 - Second Northern Expedition: NRA captures Beijing, whose name is changed to Beiping.
● 1937 - American Medical Association recognizes right to birth control.
● 1940 - Discovery of element 93, neptunium, announced
● 1941 - World War II: Allies invade Syria and Lebanon.
● 1942 - Unevangelized Fields Mission (UFM) was incorporated in Philadelphia. Today this interdenominational mission agency works in a dozen countries in Latin America, Europe and Africa.
● 1942 - World War II: Japanese imperial submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle.
● 1948 - John Rudder becomes 1st African-American commissioned officer in US marines
● 1949 - Such celebrities as Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.
● 1950 - Sir Thomas Blamey becomes the only Field Marshal in Australian history.
● 1953 - Flint-Worcester Tornadoes: A tornado hits the U.S. city of Flint, Michigan, and kills 115. This is the last tornado to claim more than 100 lives.
● 1953 - The United States Supreme Court rules that Washington, D.C. restaurants could not refuse to serve black patrons.
● 1956 - U.S. Air Force Cpl. Fannie Mae Clackum sues to overturn her discharge on psychiatric evaluation of "latent homosexuality."
● 1959 - The USS Barbero and United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail in Jacksonville, FL.
● 1959 - X-15 makes 1st unpowered flight, from a B-52 at 11,500 m
● 1963 - Ward charged over 'immoral earnings'; Dr Stephen Ward, a London osteopath and friend of Christine Keeler, is arrested and charged with living on immoral earnings
● 1965 - US troops ordered to fight offensively in Vietnam
● 1965 - USSR launches Luna 6; missed Moon
● 1966 - One of the XB-70 Valkyrie prototypes is destroyed in a mid-air collision with a F-104 Starfighter chase plane during a photo shoot. NASA pilot Joseph A. Walker and USAF test pilot Carl Cross were both killed.
● 1966 - Topeka, Kansas is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita Scale: the first to exceed US$100 million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed.
● 1967 - Israeli aircraft and boats attack the USS Liberty in international waters, during Israel's "Six Day War." The attack included rocket fire, machine-gunning, napalm bombing, and torpedoing, for over two hours, directed also at fleeing life rafts. 34 Americans killed; 171 wounded. A ship was forbidden to go to Liberty's assistance. The attack was downplayed and the press reported it lasted only five minutes and consisted of a single torpedo attack. Numerous individuals since then claim it was no accident--including Israeli officers involved and U.S. administration members. The U.S. has never publicly investigated the incident.
● 1968 - James Earl Ray was captured at the London Airport. He was suspected of assassinating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
● 1968 - The body of assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.
● 1968 - New colonial constitution for Bermuda adopted
● 1969 - U.S. President Richard Nixon met with President Thieu of South Vietnam to tell him 25,000 U.S. troops would pull out by August.
● 1972 - N Chernykh discovers asteroid #3230
● 1973 - The American Society of Missiology was founded in St. Louis. The ecumenical organization seeks to stimulate an academic interest in Christian missions, and publishes the journal 'Missiology: An International Review.'
● 1974 - An F4 tornado strikes the U.S. city of Emporia, Kansas, killing six.
● 1975 - 2 passenger trains collided near Munich Germany killing 35
● 1975 - USSR launches Venera 9 for Venus landing
● 1976 - Trial begins for Bob Robideau and Dino Butler for murdering two FBI agents at Oglala, South Dak. They would be acquitted on grounds of self-defense; later, a third Native American activist, Leonard Peltier, would be convicted of the same charges after most evidence and witnesses used by Robideau and Butler were disallowed in Peltier's trial.
● 1978 - Through the voice of its president Spencer W. Kimball, the Mormon Church reversed a 148-year- long policy of spiritual discrimination against African-American leadership within the denomination. {Of course this had nothing to do with the possible loss of its tax exempt status if the policy were to continue.}
● 1978 - A jury in Clark County, Nevada, ruled that the "Mormon will," was a forgery. The work was supposedly written by Howard Hughes.
● 1978 - Woman takes world sailing record; Yachtswoman Naomi James breaks the solo round-the-world sailing record by two days.
● 1982 - Fifty die in Argentine air attack; Up to 50 British servicemen are killed in an Argentine air attack on two supply ships in the Falklands.
● 1982 - U.S. President Reagan became the first American chief executive to address a joint session of the British Parliament. President Reagan predicted that Marxism-Leninism would wind up “on the ash heap of history.”
● 1984 - Homosexuality is declared not a crime in the state of New South Wales, Australia.
● 1986 - Former United Nations Secretary-General and alleged Nazi Kurt Waldheim is elected president of Austria.
● 1987 - Fawn Hill began testifying in the Iran-Contra hearings. She said that she had helped to shred some documents.
● 1987 - New Zealand's Labour government legislates against nuclear weapons and nuclear powered vessels. This makes New Zealand the first and (as of June 2006) only nation to ban these things from its territory.
● 1990 - U.S. citizen Michael Devine kidnapped and murdered by CIA-paid Guatemalan military officials, led by ex-School of the Americas two-time graduate Col. Julio Alpirez.
● 1991 - A victory parade was held in Washington, DC, to honor veterans of the Persian Gulf War. {Something that will never be possible for Iraqi occupation veterans.}
● 1992 - The first World Ocean Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
● 1994 - The warring factions in Bosnia agreed to a one-month cease-fire.
● 1995 - U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady was rescued by U.S. Marines after surviving alone in Bosnia after his F-16 fighter was shot down on June 2.
● 1996 - China set off an underground nuclear test blast.
● 1996 - Panama becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
● 1997 - First protest on a GM test site in England. Anti-genetic food activists play cricket using bioengineered potatoes previously scheduled for harvesting. What with a muddy field and hard swings, the entire crop was destroyed. Cambridge, England.
● 1998 - The National Rifle Association elected Charlton Heston to be its president.
● 1998 - In the U.S., the FTC brought an antitrust complaint against Intel Corp., alleging its policies punished other developers of microprocessor chips.
● 1998 - The space shuttle Discovery pulled away from Mir, ending America's three-year partnership with Russia.
● 1999 - Thousands of Iranian students protest for six days for greater freedom; largest public demonstration since the 1979 revolution.
● 1999 - War on Drugs: The government of Colombia announces it will include the estimated value of the country's illegal drug crops, exceeding half a billion US dollars, in its gross national product.
● 1999 - Liar Aitken jailed for 18 months; Ex-cabinet minister Jonathan Aitken is jailed for 18 months after admitting he lied during a libel action.
● 2001 - Marc Chagall's painting "Study for 'Over Vitebsk" was stolen from the Jewish Museum in New York City. The 8x10 painting was valued at about $1 million. A group called the International Committee for Art and Peace later announced that they would return the painting after the Israelis and Palestinians made peace.
● 2001 - In Japan, a knife-wielding man murdered eight children at an elementary school.
● 2004 - Nate Olive and Sarah Jones began the first known continuous hike of the 1,800-mile trail down the U.S. Pacific Coast. They completed the trek at the U.S.-Mexico border on September 28.
● 2004 - First Transit of Venus (between Earth & Sun) in this millennium.
● 2007 - Roll out ceremony launch for the First of Class Astute class submarine, in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria.
BIRTHS
● 1625 - Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian scientist (d. 1712)
● 1671 - Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer (d. 1751)
● 1717 - John Collins, American politician (d. 1795)
● 1724 - John Smeaton, English civil engineer (d. 1794)
● 1743 - Alessandro Cagliostro, Italian adventurer (d. 1795)
● 1745 - Caspar Wessel, Danish mathematician (d. 1818)
● 1757 - Cardinal Ercole Consalvi, Italian Roman Catholic Cardinal (d. 1824)
● 1810 - Robert Schumann, German composer (d. 1856)
● 1815 - Samuel Hirsch, German-born philosopher and rabbi (d. 1889)
● 1829 - Sir John Millais, English painter and illustrator (d. 1896)
● 1847 - Ida McKinley, First Lady of the United States (d. 1907)
● 1848 - Franklin Hiram King, American agricultural scientist (d. 1911)
● 1851 - Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, French physicist (d. 1940)
● 1859 - Smith Wigglesworth, British religious figure (d. 1947)
● 1860 - Alicia Boole Stott, Irish mathematician (d. 1940)
● 1867 - Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect (d. 1959)
● 1877 - Robert Wagner, American politician; U.S. senator from New York (1927-49) (d. 1953)
● 1885 - Karl Genzken, Nazi physician (d. 1957)
● 1901 - Lena Baker, American murderer (d. 1945)
● 1903 - Ralph Yarborough, U.S. Senator from Texas (d. 1996)
● 1903 - Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian-born American novelist and essayist (d. 1987)
● 1910 - John W. Campbell, American science fiction publisher and editor (d. 1971)
● 1910 - Fernand Fonssagrives, French photographer (d. 2003)
● 1911 - Edmundo Rivero, Argentine singer (d. 1986)
● 1912 - Harry Holtzman, American abstract artist (d. 1987)
● 1912 - Maurice Bellemare, French Canadian politician (d. 1989)
● 1916 - Francis Crick, English molecular biologist; Nobel laureate (d. 2004)
● 1916 - Luigi Comencini, Italian film director (d. 2007)
● 1917 - Byron White, American athlete and Supreme Court Justice (d. 2002)
● 1918 - Robert Preston, American actor (d. 1987)
● 1918 - John D. Roberts, American chemist
● 1921 - LeRoy Neiman, American painter
● 1921 - Alexis Smith, Canadian actress (d. 1993)
● 1921 - Suharto, President of Indonesia
● 1924 - Lyn Nofziger, American political operative (d. 2006)
● 1925 - Barbara Bush, First Lady of the United States
● 1925 - Eddie Gaedel, American baseball player (d. 1961)
● 1925 - Del Ennis, baseball player (d. 1996)
● 1927 - Jerry Stiller, American comedian and actor ("The King of Queens," "Seinfeld")
● 1930 - Robert Aumann, German-born Israeli mathematician; Nobel laureate
● 1931 - Dana Wynter, German-born American actress
● 1933 - Joan Rivers, American comedian and author
● 1933(34? NYT) - Millicent Martin, English singer and actress
● 1936 - James Darren, American actor and singer
● 1936 - Kenneth G. Wilson, American physicist, Nobel laureate
● 1939 - Bernie Casey, American football player and actor
● 1940 - Nancy Sinatra, American singer
● 1941 - Robert Bradford, Northern Irish politician (d. 1981)
● 1941 - Fuzzy Haskins, American musician (P Funk)
● 1942 - Doug Mountjoy, Welsh snooker player
● 1942 - Chuck Negron, American singer (Three Dog Night)
● 1943 - Colin Baker, British actor
● 1943 - William Calley, American war criminal
● 1943 - Willie Davenport, American athlete (d. 2002)
● 1944 - Mark Belanger, American baseball player (d. 1998)
● 1944 - Marc Ouellet, Archbishop of Quebec City
● 1944 - Boz Scaggs, American singer and songwriter
● 1944 - Don Grady, Actor ("My Three Sons")
● 1945 - James Baird, American architect
● 1947 - Mick Box, Rock musician (Uriah Heep)
● 1947 - Sara Paretsky, Author
● 1947 - Eric F. Wieschaus, American biologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
● 1949 - Emanuel Ax, Polish-born pianist
● 1950 - Kathy Baker, American actress
● 1950 - Sonia Braga, Brazilian actress
● 1951 - Bonnie Tyler, Welsh singer and guitarist
● 1951 - Tony Rice, American acoustic guitarist
● 1953 - Bonnie Tyler, Rock singer
● 1953 - Olav Stedje, Norwegian singer-songwriter
● 1953 - Ad Tak, Dutch cyclist
● 1955 - Tim Berners-Lee, English internet developer
● 1955 - Griffin Dunne, American actor
● 1955 - Greg Ginn, American guitarist (Black Flag)
● 1957 - Scott Adams, American cartoonist ("Dilbert")
● 1957 - Don Robinson, baseball player
● 1958 - Keenen Ivory Wayans, American actor and director
● 1960 - Mick Hucknall, English singer and songwriter (Simply Red)
● 1960 - Thomas Steen, Swedish hockey player
● 1962 - Nick Rhodes, English musician (Duran Duran)
● 1962 - Kristine W, American musician
● 1963 - Keti Garbi, Greek singer
● 1965 - Kevin Farley, American actor
● 1965 - Rob Pilatus, member of Milli Vanilli (d. 1998)
● 1965 - Chris Chavis, American professional wrestler
● 1966 - Doris Pearson, R&B singer (Five Star)
● 1966 - Julianna Margulies, American actress ("ER")
● 1967 - Dan Futterman, Actor
● 1969 - J.P. Manoux, American actor
● 1969 - Marcos Siega, American director
● 1969 - David Sutcliffe, Canadian actor ("Gilmore Girls")
● 1970 - Nicci Gilbert, R&B singer
● 1970 - Gabrielle Giffords, American politician
● 1970 - Kelli Williams, American actress ("The Practice")
● 1971 - Troy Vincent, American football player
● 1971 - Mark Feuerstein, American actor
● 1972 - Lexa Doig, Canadian actress
● 1973 - Lucija Šerbedžija, Croatian actress
● 1975 - Mike Scheuchzer, Rock musician (MercyMe)
● 1975 - Bryan McCabe, Canadian hockey player
● 1975 - Shilpa Shetty, Indian actress
● 1976 - Lindsay Davenport, American tennis player
● 1976 - Kenji Johjima, Japanese baseball player
● 1977 - Kanye West, American rapper
● 1978 - Maria Menounos, American actress and television host
● 1979 - Pete Orr, Canadian baseball player
● 1979 - Derek Trucks, American guitarist
● 1979 - Adine Wilson, New Zealand netball player
● 1981 - Sara Watkins, American fiddle player (Nickel Creek)
● 1981 - Ai Nonaka, Japanese voice actor
● 1981 - Matteo Meneghello, Italian racing driver
● 1981 - Alex Band, American singer (The Calling)
● 1982 - Katy Morgan-Davies, British politician
● 1983 - Nadia Petrova, Russian tennis player
● 1983 - Kim Clijsters, Belgian tennis player
● 1983 - Lee Harding, Australian punk-rock singer
● 1983 - Mamoru Miyano, Japanese seiyuu
● 1983 - Prophecy (producer), American music producer
● 1984 - Javier Mascherano, Argentine soccer player
● 1984 - Andrea Casiraghi, son of Princess Caroline of Monaco
● 1985 - Alexandre Despatie, French Canadian diver
DEATHS
● 218 - Macrinus, Roman Emperor
● 632 - Muhammad, Prophet of Islam (b. 570)
● 1042 - Harthacanute, King of Denmark and England (b. 1018)
● 1376 - Edward, the Black Prince, son of Edward III of England (b. 1330)
● 1383 - Thomas de Ros, 5th Baron de Ros, English Crusader (b. 1338)
● 1384 - Kanami, Japanese actor (b. 1333)
● 1476 - George Neville, English archbishop and statesman
● 1505 - Hongzhi, Emperor of China (b. 1470)
● 1611 - Jean Bertaut, French poet (b. 1552)
● 1612 - Hans Leo Hassler, German composer (b. 1562)
● 1621 - Anne de Xainctonge, French saint (b. 1567)
● 1628 - Rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher (b. 1547)
● 1714 - Sophia of Hanover, heir to the throne of Great Britain (b. 1630)
● 1716 - Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (b. 1658)
● 1727 - August Hermann Francke, German Protestant minister (b. 1663)
● 1768 - Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German classical scholar and archaeologist (b. 1717)
● 1771 - George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, English statesman (b. 1716)
● 1795 - King Louis XVII of France (b. 1785)
● 1809 - Thomas Paine, American revolutionary and writer (b. 1737)
● 1835 - Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Italian physicist (b. 1761)
● 1845 - Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States (b. 1767)
● 1857 - Douglas William Jerrold, British playwright and satirist (b. 1803)
● 1874 - Cochise, Apache leader
● 1876 - George Sand, French author (b. 1804)
● 1885 - Ignace Bourget, Bishop of Montreal (b. 1799)
● 1924 - Andrew Irvine, English mountain climber (climbing accident) (b. 1902)
● 1924 - George Leigh Mallory, English mountain climber (climbing accident) (b. 1886)
● 1929 - Bliss Carman, Canadian poet (b. 1861)
● 1951 - Eugène Fiset, French Canadian military officer and politician (b. 1874)
● 1956 - Marie Laurencin, French painter (b. 1883)
● 1965 - Edmondo Rossoni, Italian fascist (b. 1884)
● 1966 - Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer (b. 1890)
● 1969 - Robert Taylor, American actor (b. 1911)
● 1970 - Abraham Maslow, American psychologist (b. 1908)
● 1972 - Jimmy Rushing, American blues singer (b. 1903?)
● 1980 - Ernst Busch, German singer and actor (b. 1900)
● 1982 - Satchel Paige, American baseball player (b. 1906)
● 1984 - Gordon Jacob, English composer (b. 1895)
● 1993 - Root Boy Slim, American entertainer (b. 1945)
● 1998 - Sani Abacha, President of Nigeria (b. 1943)
● 1998 - Maria Reiche, German-born mathematician and archaeologist (b. 1903)
● 2000 - Jeff MacNelly, American political cartoonist (b. 1948)
● 2003 - Leighton Rees, Welsh darts player (b. 1940)
● 2004 - Mack Jones, American baseball player (b. 1938)
● 2006 - Robert Donner, American actor (b. 1931)
● 2006 - Abouna Matta El Meskeen, Coptic Orthodox monk (b. 1919)
● 2007 - Kenny Olsson, Swedish speedway racer (b. 1977)
● 2007 - Richard Rorty, American postanalytic, pragmatic philosopher (b. 1931)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Audomar, Bishop of Thérouanne, confessor
● St. Bron
● St. Calliope
● St. Clodulf
● St. Edgar the Peaceful
● St. Elphege, Bishop, martyr
● St. Eustadiola
● St. Gildard, Bishop of Rouen, confessor
● St. Heraclius of Sens
● St. Levan
● St. Marius, hermit
● St. Maximinus of Aix, bishop
● St. Medard, Bishop of Noyon, confessor
● St. Melania the Elder
● St. Muirchu
● St. Robert of Frassinoro
● St. Sabinianus, abbot, confessor
● St. Sallustian
● St. Severinus
● St. Syria, virgin (at Troyes)
● St. Trojecia, virgin (at Rodez)
● St. William of York
● Bl. Pacificus of Cerano
● Bl. Syra of Ireland, virgin
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for May 25 (Civil Date: June 8)
● Third Finding of the Honorable Head of St. John the Baptist.
● Hieromartyr Therapon, Bishop of Cyprus.
● St. Dodo, prince of Georgia.
● Synaxis of Saints of Volhynia: Saints Yaropolk, Stephen, Macarius, Igor and Juliana.
● Righteous John and Mary of Ustiug (Vologda).
● Commemoration of the Reunion of the 3,000,000 Uniates with the Orthodox Church at Vilna in 1831.
● Greek Calendar:
● Martyr Celestine.
● St. Olbian, monk.
● Repose of Recluse George of Zadonsk (1836).
● Roman Empire - second day of the Vestalia in honor of Vesta.
● Swaziland, Botswana : Commonwealth Day
● World Ocean Day.
● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Massachusetts : Children's Day - ( Sunday )
● Shelby, Mich : National Asparagus Festival - ( Thursday )
● Great Britain : Queen's official birthday (National Day) - ( Saturday )
IN FICTION
● 1889 - Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure "The Boscombe Valley Mystery"
● 1900 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of the 6 Napoleons"
● 1960 - 1st date in James Clavell's novel "Nobel House"
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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