Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Moderation "The hottest place in Hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crises, maintain their neutrality." — Dante
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Racism "I want to say this about my state: when Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either." — Trent Lott, former Republican Senate majority leader, paying tribute to Thurmond's segregationist candidacy against Harry Truman in 1948
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: On Politics "I've read about foreign policy and studied, I now know the number of continents." — George Wallace, in his 1968 presidential campaign
Thought for the day: "A guy has to get fresh once in a while so a girl doesn't lose her confidence."
{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
Steep Cliffs on Mars
Credit: G. Neukum (FU Berlin) et al., Mars Express, DLR, ESA
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 96 - Vespasian, a Roman Army leader, was hailed as a Roman Emperor by the Egyptian legions.
● 251 - The battle of Abrittus is won by Goths against Romans. Roman Emperors Decius and Herennius Etruscus are killed.
● 1097 - Battle of Dorylaeum: Crusaders under Bohemond of Taranto defeat a Seljuk army under Qilich Arslan I.
● 1492 - King of Spain, culminating the Spanish Inquisition, gives all Jews in Spain 30 days to leave the country. Some of the confiscated Jewish assets were then used to finance the voyage of Columbus.
● 1520 - La Noche Triste: Joint Mexican Indian force led by Aztecs under Cuitláhuac defeat Spanish Conquistadors under Hernán Cortés.
● 1535 - Sir Thomas More went on trial in England charged with treason
● 1543 - England and Scotland signed the peace of Greenwich.
● 1566 - Death of Nostradamus.
● 1596 - An English fleet under the Earl of Essex, Lord Howard of Effingham and Francis Vere captured and sacked Cadiz, Spain.
● 1643 - The Westminster Assembly first convened in England, from which would emerge the Westminster longer and shorter catechisms.
● 1656 - First Quakers arrive in America, having come to what will be Boston.
● 1690 - Army of England's Protestant King William III defeats Roman Catholic King James II in Battle of the Boyne in Ireland, this is as reckoned under Julian calendar. (Now celebrated on July 12 as "The Battle of the Orange" )
● 1690 - The French defeated the forces of the Grand Alliance at Fleurus in the Netherlands.
● 1775 - Spanish repelled from the pirate stronghold of Algiers.
● 1776 - 1st vote on the Declaration of Independence
● 1782 - American privateers attack Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
● 1795 - John Rutledge becomes 2nd chief justice of Supreme Court
● 1796 - England executes 14 leaders of Fedon’s slave rebellion in Grenada.
● 1798 - Congress, under Pres. Adams, passes a "direct tax" on lands, houses, and slaves.
● 1798 - Napoleon Bonaparte took Alexandria, Egypt.
● 1800 - The earliest recorded Methodist camp meeting in America was held in Logan County Kentucky, near the Gaspar River Church.
● 1816 - French frigate Medusa wrecked; basis of Gericault's "Raft of the Medusa"
● 1820 - Uprising of Carbonari in Naples.
● 1823 - United Provinces of Central America gain independence from Mexico
● 1843 - Former slave Sojourner Truth begins abolitionist lecture tour across northern U.S.
● 1847 - 1st US adhesive postage stamps go on sale, 5 cents Franklin & 10 cents Washington, NYC
● 1847 - K L Hencke discovers asteroid #6 Hebe
● 1850 - At least 626 ships lie at anchor around SF Bay
● 1858 - The joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to the Linnean Society.
● 1859 - Balloon covers a record 809 miles over St Louis
● 1861 - 1st public schoolhouse opens at Washington & Mason St, San Francisco
● 1862 - American Civil War: The Battle of Malvern Hill takes place, the final battle in the Seven Days Campaign, part of the George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign.
● 1862 - Congress outlaws polygamy (1st time); bad news for Utah
● 1862 - Day 7 of the 7 Days-Battle of Malvern Hill
● 1862 - Internal Revenue Law imposes 1st federal taxes on inheritance, tobacco & on incomes over $600 (progressive rate)
● 1862 - Lincoln appoints Isaac Newton sec of agriculture-no kidding!
● 1863 – First day of the Battle of Gettysburg, Pa; Lee's northward advance halted
● 1867 - The British North America Act, 1867 takes effect as the Constitution of Canada, creating the Canadian Confederation; John A. Macdonald sworn as first Prime Minister.
● 1869 - US mint at Carson City, Nevada opens
● 1870 - James W Smith of SC is 1st black to enter West Point
● 1870 - The United States Department of Justice formally comes into existence.
● 1873 - Henry Flipper of GA is 2nd black to enter West Point
● 1873 - Prince Edward Island becomes 7th Canadian province
● 1874 - 1st US kidnapping for ransom, 4-year-old Charles Ross, $20,000
● 1875 - Universal Postal Union established
● 1876 - Mikhail Bakunin dies, Berne, Switzerland. Prominent anarchist thinker.
● 1876 - Montenegro declared war on the Turks.
● 1877 - Strike begins on B&O railway which later spreads to all eastern railroads.
● 1878 - Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.
● 1881 - General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell-Childers reforms of the British Army's organisation, came into effect.
● 1881 - US Assay Office in St Louis, Missouri opens
● 1881 - World's first international telephone call takes place between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.
● 1884 - V Knorre discovers asteroid #238 Hypatia
● 1885 - Steel workers in Cleveland begin strike against wage cuts which will last 88 weeks.
● 1885 - United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada.
● 1889 - Frederick Douglass named Minister to Haiti
● 1889 - US mint at Carson City, Nevada reopens
● 1890 - Canada and Bermuda linked by telegraph cable.
● 1892 - The Homestead Strike, a strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers against the Carnegie Steel Company, begins. This strike leads to large-scale battles between workers and anti-labor Pinkerton agents.
● 1893 - Walter White, who headed the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for over 20 years, was born.
● 1897 - The Bronx acquires Hutton Square
● 1898 - Spanish-American War: The Battle of San Juan Hill was fought in Santiago de Cuba by Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders.
● 1899 - In Wisconsin, the Gideon Society was founded by three traveling businessmen. They placed their first Bibles in 1908 at the Superior Hotel in Iron Mountain, Montana.
● 1899 - SF City Hall turned over to city, after 29 years of building
● 1900 - Fraser River fisherman's strike, British Columbia.
● 1905 - The USDA Forest Service was created within the Department of Agriculture. The agency was given the mission to sustain healthy, diverse, and productive forests and grasslands for present and future generations.
● 1910 - Union of South Africa becomes a dominion
● 1915 - Australia begins Commonwealth Lighthouse Service
● 1915 - Australian Survey Corps becomes part of the Military Forces
● 1916 - Twenty thousand killed on first day of Battle of the Somme, France. Before it was called off five months later, over 600,000 British and French soldiers are killed, wounded, or missing in action German casualties were over 650,000. As a consequence, the Allied offensive gains 125 square miles along the Western Front. The battle was the first to use tanks.
● 1917 - Eight thousand anti-war marchers demonstrate in Boston.
● 1917 - Race riots in East St Louis Illinois (40 to 200 reported killed)
● 1919 - 1st class postage drops from 3 cents to 2 cents
● 1921 - Communist Party of China was founded.
● 1922 - One million railway shopmen strike.
● 1924 - Through regular transcontinental airmail service established, NYC-SF
● 1925 - Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs created in UK
● 1931 - Ice vending machines introduced in LA 25 lbs, 15 cents
● 1932 - Farmers in Iowa blockade roads, arm themselves with pitchforks and shotguns and refuse to allow farm produce to go to market.
● 1932 - Leavitt Act is passed, authorizing cancellation of all debts for seized Indian lands.
● 1932 - NY Gov FDR nominated for president at the Dem Convention in Chicago
● 1933 - Canadian Parliament suspends all Chinese immigration.
● 1933 - G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1590 Tsiolkovskaja.
● 1934 - 1st x-ray photo of entire body, Rochester, NY
● 1934 - The Federal Communications Commission replaced the Federal Radio Commission as the regulator of broadcasting in the United States.
● 1935 - Regina, Saskatchewan police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ambush strikers participating in On-to-Ottawa-Trek.
● 1937 - Hawaiian longshoremen's strike brings Japanese, Filipino and other ethnic plantation workers into one labor union (ILWU).
● 1940 - In Washington, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge was opened to traffic. The bridge collapsed during a wind storm on November 7, 1940.
● 1942 - Birth of Andrae Crouch, African-American sacred music artist. His most enduring gospel songs have been 'Soon and Very Soon,' 'My Tribute' and 'Through It All.'
● 1942 - Australian Federal Government becomes sole collector of Income Tax (State Income Tax Abolished).
● 1942 - German troops captured Sevestpol, Crimea, in the Soviet Union.
● 1942 - Germany - All Jewish schools closed and education for Jewish children forbidden by decree.
● 1942 - World War II: First Battle of El Alamein.
● 1943 - The U.S. Government began automatically withholding federal income tax from paychecks.
● 1943 - Tokyo City merged with Tokyo Prefecture and was dissolved. Since then, no city in Japan has had the name "Tokyo." (Present-day Tokyo is not a city.)
● 1944 - Bretton Woods Conference starts, establishing IMF & World Bank
● 1944 - Guatemalan dictator Jorge Ubico resigns in the face of a massive general strike and nonviolent protest; a decade of peaceful democratic rule follows, until a CIA-backed coup in 1954 ushers in a new, even more brutal era of genocidal regimes.
● 1945 - New York established the New York State Commission Against Discrimination to prevent discrimination in employment because of race, creed or natural origin. It was the first such agency in the U.S.
● 1946 - Rajah cedes Sarawak to the British crown
● 1946 - The U.S. exploded a 20-kiloton atomic bomb near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. (4th atomic explosion)
● 1946 - U.S. President Harry Truman signed Public Law 476 that incorporated the Civil Air Patrol as a benevolent, nonprofit organization. The Civil Air Patrol was created on December 1, 1941.
● 1947 - Brit Dominion Affairs office becomes Commonwealth Relations office
● 1948 - NYC subway fare goes to 10 cents, bus fare to 7 centa & combo fare at 12 cents
● 1948 - Quaid-i-Azam inaugrates Pakistan's central bank, the State Bank of Pakistan.
● 1949 - Bao Dai's Republic of Vietnam gains independence from France
● 1950 - American ground troops arrived in South Korea to stem the tide of the advancing North Korean army.
● 1950 - NYC bus fare rises to 10 cents equal to subway fare, combo fare at 15 cents
● 1954 - Libertarian League founded, New York City.
● 1957 - The International Geophysical Year begins (until December 31, 1958).
● 1958 - Flooding of the St. Lawrence Seaway begins.
● 1958 - Seven hundred protest at White House against nuclear testing.
● 1958 - The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave.
● 1959 - The Party of the African Federation (PFA) holds its constitutive conference.
● 1959 - World Refugee Year begins
● 1960 - For the second time in two months, a U.S. surveillance plane is shot down by the Russians after violating Soviet air space--despite President Eisenhower's pledge that reconnaissance missions over the U.S.S.R. had been stopped following the U-2 incident in May.
● 1960 - Ghana becomes a Republic and Kwame Nkrumah becomes its first President as Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom ceases to be the Head of state.
● 1960 - Somalia gained its independence from Britain through the unification of Somaliland with Italian Somalia.
● 1961 - Haleakala National Park established in Hawaii
● 1961 - The first community air-raid shelter was built. The shelter in Boise, ID had a capacity of 1,000 people and family memberships sold for $100.
● 1961 - Britain's Princess Diana was born Diana Spencer near Sandringham, England.
● 1962 - Algeria wins independence from France.
● 1962 - Burundi & Rwanda gain independence from Belgium (National Days)
● 1963 - Dr. Samuel B. McKinney leads 400 civil rights marchers from the Central District to downtown Seattle. 35 break off and occupy the mayor's office for 24 hours before being arrested in Seattle's first major civil rights protest.
● 1963 - Philby confirmed as 'third man'; Former Foreign Office official Harold Philby is confirmed as the "third man" in the Burgess and Maclean case working as a Soviet agent.
● 1963 - The U.S. postmaster introduced the five-digit ZIP (Zoning Improvement Plan) code.
● 1966 - Construction crews begin tearing up Market St to build BART
● 1966 - Medicare, a government program to pay part of the medical expenses of U.S. citizens over the age of 65, begins. {Despite NeoCon PR it is still one of the most successful and efficient US government programs ever instituted. Overhead expenses run about 3% compared to the 18% of for profit insurance operations.}
● 1966 - The historic, nonviolent civil rights group CORE adopts Black Power concepts, Baltimore.
● 1967 - Canada celebrates the 100th anniversary of the British North America Act, 1867.
● 1967 - The European Community is formally created out of a merger with the Common Market, the European Coal and Steel Community, and the European Atomic Energy Commission.
● 1968 - Formal separation of the United Auto Workers from the AFL-CIO.
● 1968 - The CIA's Phoenix Program is officially established.
● 1968 - The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty was signed by 60 countries. It limited the spreading of nuclear material for military purposes. On May 11, 1995, the treaty was extended indefinitely.
● 1969 - Britain's Prince Charles was invested as the Prince of Wales. {His future bride turned 8 years old.}
● 1970 - President General Yahya Khan abolished One-Unit of West Pakistan restoring the provinces.
● 1970 - Women Against Daddy Warbucks destroy 1-A files in eight New York City draft boards.
● 1971 - Golden Gate Bridge paid for (so why is there still a toll?)
● 1972 - Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl Raspe and Holger Meins of the Red Army Faction are captured in Frankfurt after a shootout with the police.
● 1972 - Boy Roel sails from New Zealand for French nuclear test zone at Mururoa Atoll, South Pacific.
● 1972 - First Gay Pride march in England
● 1972 - First Rainbow Gathering, Strawberry Lake, Colorado.
● 1972 - Pres. Nixon is recorded on tape, with chief political aide Charles Colson, plotting a break-in at the Republican National Committee headquarters. This is to divert attention from the Watergate Break-In. Nixon suggests the vandals should "tear (the Republican offices) to shambles" and that the dollar damage be $3-4,000.
● 1972 - Ratification of Virginia State Constitution
● 1974 - Isabel Peron became the president of Argentina upon the death of her husband, Juan.
● 1974 - Monmouthshire renamed Gwent & becomes part of Wales
● 1975 - Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora founded.
● 1975 - Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #2680
● 1975 - WEDway People Mover inaugurated
● 1976 - Kenneth Gibson, is 1st black president of US Conference of Mayors
● 1976 - Portugal granted autonomy to Madeira.
● 1977 - Native American activist Leonard Peltier is sentenced to two life sentences for being somewhere in the general proximity of two FBI agents who died while attacking an American Indian Movement encampment.
● 1978 - Former Pres Nixon makes 1st public speech since resigning in 1974
● 1978 - Northern Territory of Australia becomes self-governing
● 1979 - Stampede Pass, Washington is covered with 6" of snow
● 1979 - Susan B. Anthony was commemorated on a U.S. coin, the Susan B. Anthony dollar.
● 1980 - "O Canada" was proclaimed the national anthem of Canada.
● 1980 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter signed legislation that provided for 2 acres of land near the Lincoln Memorial for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
● 1981 - Laurel Canyon Calif murders (4 die, 1 wounded)
● 1981 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that candidates for federal office had an "affirmative right" to go on national television.
● 1982 - Challenger moves overland to Dryden
● 1982 - Kosmos 1383, 1st search & rescue satellite, launched
● 1983 - A North Korean Ilyushin Il-62M jet en route to Conakry Airport in Guinea crashes into the Fouta Djall Mountains in Guinea-Bissau, killing all 23 people on board.
● 1983 - Copper miners begin a long, bitter strike against Phelps-Dodge in Clifton, Arizona, in which then-Governor Bruce Babbitt repeatedly deployed state police and National Guardsmen to assist the company.
● 1983 - Death of eccentric genius Buckminster Fuller. Invented, among other things, giant golf balls for people to live in.
● 1985 - The print shop producing the Parisian daily newspapers is paralysed by saboteurs in support of a prison uprising - "We have decided to impose half a day's silence on the national press in honor of the rebellious convicts."
● 1985 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that public school teachers may not enter parochial school classrooms, to provide remedial or enrichment instruction. {As a result of this ruling, all private school students requiring remedial instruction had to go to their local public school for such classes.}
● 1987 - President Ronald Reagan nominated federal appeals court judge Robert H. Bork to the Supreme Court. (Bork was later rejected by the Senate in October.)
● 1987 - British Columbia government agrees to establish a national park in the South Moresby region of Queen Charlotte Islands due to Haida protests of logging operations there.
● 1987 - Excavation begins on the Channel Tunnel.
● 1987 - Stock-broker guilty of corruption; One of the London's top investment bankers receives the first conviction for insider dealing since it became illegal.
● 1987 - John Kevin Hill, at age 11, became the youngest to fly across the U.S. when he landed at National Airport in Washington, DC.
● 1987 - Sixteen Mexican illegal aliens heading for Dallas in a boxcar die from lack of oxygen and heat.
● 1989 - The Montreal Protocol, an international treaty, went into effect. It limited the production of ozone-destroying chemicals.
● 1990 - East Germany accepts the Deutsche Mark as its currency, thus uniting the economies of East and West Germany.
● 1990 - In Victoria, Australia, helmetless bike riding becomes illegal
● 1991 – President George H. W. Bush nominated federal appeals court judge Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court.
● 1991 - Dissolution of Warsaw Treaty Organization signed, Prague, Czechoslovakia.
● 1994 - PLO chairman Yasser Arafat returned to the Gaza Strip after a 27-year exile.
● 1995 - Legendary DJ Wolfman Jack dies, Belvidere, North Carolina.
● 1996 - Margaux Hemingway was found dead in her apartment. It was concluded that she had committed suicide. {This continued the tradition started by her grandfather Ernest.}
● 1997 - David Thoreau Wieck, an anarchist theorist, educator, and activist, dies, Albany, New York. Spent 34 months in jail as a conscientious objector during WWII.
● 1997 - The People's Republic of China resumes sovereignty over the city-state of Hong Kong, ending 156 years of British colonial rule.
● 1997 - Actor Robert Mitchum died at age 79.
● 1999 - The Scottish Parliament is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth on the day powers are officially transferred from the old Scottish Office in London to the new devolved Scottish Executive in Edinburgh.
● 1999 - The U.S. Justice Department released new regulations that granted the attorney general sole power to appoint and oversee special counsels. The 1978 independent-counsel statute expired on June 30.
● 2000 - Ex-Blair ally attacks prime minister; Millionaire novelist Ken Follett levels scathing personal criticism at Prime Minister Tony Blair.
● 2000 - The Oresund Bridge, connecting Sweden and Denmark, opens for traffic.
● 2000 - Vermont's civil unions law went into effect, granting gay couples most of the rights, benefits and responsibilities of marriage.
● 2000 - The Confederate flag was removed from atop South Carolina's Statehouse.
● 2002 - A Bashkirian Airlines (flight 2937) Tupolev TU-154 and a DHL (German cargo) Boeing 757 collide in mid-air over Ueberlingen, southern Germany, killing 71.
● 2002 - The International Criminal Court is established to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression. {Bush and cronies have exempted themselves from prosecution.}
● 2002 - Chile's Supreme Court ruled that former dictator General Augusto Pinochet was suffering from dementia and dropped all charges against him for human rights violations during his regime.
● 2003 - In Hong Kong, thousands of protesters marched to show their opposition to anti-subversion legislation.
● 2004 - Saddam Hussein made a defiant first public appearance in an Iraqi court since being captured seven months earlier, scoffing at charges of war crimes and mass killings.
● 2004 - Saturn Orbit insertion of Cassini-Huygens begins at 01:12 UT and ends at 02:48 UT. Cassini captures Saturn's rings; International space probe Cassini-Huygens reaches Saturn and sends back the closest photographs yet of the planet's rings.
● 2004 - Actor Marlon Brando died at age 80.
● 2005 - Sandra Day O'Connor, the first female Supreme Court justice, announced her retirement. {She would briefly come out of retirement to serve on the commission that wrote the report on the Iraqi occupation that Bush and his fellow war criminals would totally ignore.}
● 2005 - Revaluation of the Romanian Leu.
● 2006 - The first operation of Qinghai-Tibet Railway in the People's Republic of China.
● 2007 - Smoking in England is banned in all public indoor spaces. With the ban already in force in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, this means it is illegal to smoke in indoor public places anywhere in the UK.
● 2007 - The 9th Ordinary Session of the African Union opened in Accra, Ghana.
BIRTHS
● 1481 - Christian II of Denmark, Sweden and Norway (d. 1559)
● 1506 - Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1526)
● 1534 - Frederick II of Denmark (d. 1588)
● 1574 - Joseph Hall, English bishop and writer (d. 1656)
● 1586 - Claudio Saracini, Italian composer (d. 1630)
● 1633 - Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian (d. 1698)
● 1646 - Gottfried Leibniz, German mathematician (d. 1716)
● 1676 - Anthony Collins, English philosopher (d. 1729)
● 1723 - Pedro Rodríguez, Conde de Campomanes, Spanish statesman (d. 1802)
● 1725 - Jean-Baptiste Rochambeau, French general; aided colonists in American Revolution (d. 1807)
● 1742 - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist (d. 1799)
● 1788 - Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician (d. 1867)
● 1804 - George Sand, French writer (d. 1876)
● 1807 - Thomas Green Clemson, American university founder (d. 1888)
● 1818 - Ignaz Semmelweis, Hungarian physician (d. 1865)
● 1834 - Jadwiga Łuszczewska, Polish poet (d. 1908)
● 1863 - William Grant Stairs, Canadian explorer (d. 1892)
● 1869 - William Strunk Jr., American grammarian (d. 1946)
● 1872 - Louis Blériot, French aviator (d. 1936)
● 1873 - Alice Guy-Blaché, American film director (d. 1968)
● 1879 - Léon Jouhaux, French labor leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1954)
● 1882 - Susan Glaspell, American dramatist; founder of the Provincetown Players (d. 1948)
● 1883 - Arthur Borton, English soldier (d. 1933)
● 1892 - James Cain, American novelist (d. 1977)
● 1893 - Walter White, American executive secretary of the NAACP (1931-55) (d. 1955)
● 1899 - Thomas A. Dorsey, American composer (d. 1993)
● 1899 - Charles Laughton, English-born American actor (d. 1962)
● 1902 - William Wyler, French-born American motion-picture director (d. 1981)
● 1903 - Amy Johnson, English pilot (d. 1941)
● 1904 - Mary Steichen Calderone, American physician and writer (d. 1998)
● 1906 - Estée Lauder, American entrepreneur (d. 2004)
● 1906 - Jean Dieudonné, French mathematician (d. 1992)
● 1908 - Peg Entwistle, Welsh actress (d. 1932)
● 1909 - Bill Stern, American sportscaster (d. 1971)
● 1911 - Sergei Sokolov, Soviet marshal
● 1912 - David R. Brower, American environmentalist (d. 2000)
● 1912 - Sally Kirkland, American fashion editor (d. 1989)
● 1913 - Frank Barrett, baseball player (d. 1998)
● 1915 - Jean Stafford, American novelist and short story writer (d. 1979)
● 1915 - Willie Dixon, American musician (d. 1992)
● 1915 - Joseph Ransohoff, American neurosurgeon (d. 2001)
● 1916 - Olivia de Havilland, British-born actress ("Gone With the Wind") {for those that "give a damn"
● 1917 - Humphry Osmond, British psychiatrist
● 1920 - Harold Sakata, Japanese-born actor (d. 1982)
● 1921 - Seretse Khama, first President of Botswana
● 1925 - Farley Granger, American actor
● 1926 - Robert Fogel, Nobel laureate
● 1926 - Hans Werner Henze, German composer
● 1926 - Carl Hahn, German automotive executive
● 1929 - Gerald Edelman, American biologist, Nobel laureate
● 1930 - Bobby Day, American singer (d. 1990)
● 1930 - Moustapha Akkad, Syrian-American filmmaker (d. 2005)
● 1931 - Leslie Caron, French actress
● 1934 - Jamie Farr, American actor ("M*A*S*H")
● 1934 - Jean Marsh, English actress ("Upstairs, Downstairs")
● 1934 - Sydney Pollack, American film director
● 1934 - Claude Berri, French actor, director and screenwriter
● 1935 - James Cotton, Blues musician
● 1935 - David Prowse, Actor
● 1936 - Wally Amos, "Famous" Cookie maker
● 1938 - Craig Anderson, baseball player
● 1939 - Karen Black, American actress
● 1939 - Delaney Bramlett, Rock musician
● 1941 - Alfred G. Gilman, American scientist, Nobel laureate
● 1941 - Myron Scholes, American economist, Nobel laureate
● 1941 - Twyla Tharp, American choreographer and dancer
● 1941 - Rod Gilbert, Canadian hockey player and Hall of Fame member
● 1942 - Geneviève Bujold, Canadian actress
● 1942 - Andraé Crouch, American singer
● 1945 - Deborah Harry, American musician (Blondie)
● 1945 - Mike Burstyn, Israeli-American actor
● 1947 - Shirley Hemphill, American actress (d. 1999)
● 1949 - John Farnham, Australian singer
● 1950 - Michael Pressman, Producer
● 1951 - Daryl Anderson, Actor
● 1951 - Trevor Eve, Actor
● 1951 - Fred Schneider, American singer (The B-52's)
● 1952 - Dan Aykroyd, Canadian actor ("Saturday Night Live")
● 1952 - Steve Shutt, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1956 - Alan Ruck, Actor
● 1957 - Lisa Blount, Actress
● 1957 - Hannu Kamppuri, Finnish ice hockey player
● 1961 - Kalpana Chawla, Indian-American astronaut (d. 2003)
● 1961 - Carl Lewis, Olympic gold medal track star
● 1961 - Diana, Princess of Wales, English consort of Charles, Prince of Wales (d. 1997)
● 1961 - Malcolm Elliott, British cyclist
● 1961 - Michelle Wright, Canadian musician
● 1962 - Andre Braugher, American actor
● 1963 - Roddy Bottum, American musician (Faith No More and Imperial Teen)
● 1965 - Harald Zwart, Norwegian film director
● 1966 - Enrico Annoni, Italian footballer
● 1967 - Pamela Anderson, Canadian model and actress ("Baywatch")
● 1968 - Tim Abell, American actor
● 1970 - Franny Griffiths, Rock musician (Space)
● 1970 - Mark Pirro, Rock musician
● 1970 - Henry Simmons, Actor ("NYPD Blue")
● 1970 - Melissa Peterman, American actress
● 1971 - Missy Elliott, American singer
● 1971 - Julianne Nicholson, American actress
● 1971 - Steven W. Bailey, American actor
● 1971 - Jamie Walker, American baseball player
● 1972 - Claire Forlani, English actress
● 1972 - Alex Machacek, Austrian musician
● 1975 - Sufjan Stevens, American musician
● 1976 - Patrick Kluivert, Dutch footballer
● 1976 - Ruud van Nistelrooy, Dutch footballer
● 1976 - Justin Lo, Hong Kong singer and songwriter
● 1976 - Hannu Tihinen, Finnish footballer
● 1977 - Jarome Iginla, Canadian hockey player
● 1977 - Liv Tyler, American actress ("Lord of the Rings" films)
● 1981 - Tadhg Kennelly, Irish-Born Australian Rules footballer
● 1982 - Hilarie Burton, American actress ("One Tree Hill")
● 1982 - Carmella DeCesare, American model
● 1982 - Romola Garai, English actress
● 1982 - Joachim Johansson, Swedish tennis player
● 1982 - Adrian Ward, American football player
● 1983 - Marit Larsen, Norwegian musician
● 1983 - Lynsey Bartilson, Actress
● 1989 - Shaun Keelan, Singer / Songwriter
● 1992 - Andrew Cavarno, Actor ("Party of Five")
● 1992 - Stephen Cavarno, Actor ("Party of Five")
DEATHS
● 251 - Decius, Roman Emperor (b. 207)
● 251 - Herennius Etruscus, Roman Emperor (b. ca. 227)
● 868 - Ali al-Hadi, Shia Imam (b. 828)
● 1109 - King Alfonso VI of Castile (b. 1040)
● 1277 - Baibars, Mameluk sultan of Egypt (b. 1223)
● 1592 - Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, Italian composer
● 1614 - Isaac Casaubon, French-born classical scholar (b. 1559)
● 1622 - William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle, British politician (b. 1575)
● 1681 - Oliver Plunkett, Irish saint (b. 1629)
● 1708 - Emperor Tekle Haymanot I of Ethiopia (b. 1706)
● 1774 - Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, English statesman (b. 1705)
● 1782 - Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1730)
● 1784 - Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German composer (b. 1710)
● 1819 - Jemima Wilkinson, American preacher (b. 1752)
● 1860 - Charles Goodyear, American inventor (b. 1800)
● 1863 - John Fulton Reynolds, American Civil War general (b. 1820)
● 1894 - Allan Pinkerton, American private detective (b. 1819)
● 1896 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author (b. 1811)
● 1925 - Erik Satie, French composer (b. 1866)
● 1944 - Tanya Savicheva, Russian diarist (b. 1930)
● 1948 - Achille Varzi, Italian race car driver (b. 1904)
● 1950 - Eliel Saarinen, Finnish architect (b. 1873)
● 1961 - Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French writer (b. 1894)
● 1964 - Pierre Monteux, French conductor (b. 1875)
● 1965 - Wally Hammond, English cricketer (b. 1903)
● 1968 - Fritz Bauer, German judge and prosecutor (b. 1903)
● 1971 - William Lawrence Bragg, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)
● 1974 - Juan Perón, President of Argentina (b. 1895)
● 1981 - Carlos de Oliveira, Portuguese writer (b. 1921)
● 1981 - Rushton Moreve, American bass player (b. 1948)
● 1983 - R. Buckminster Fuller, American architect and philosopher (b. 1903)
● 1984 - Moshe Feldenkrais, Ukrainian-born educator (b. 1904)
● 1987 - Snakefinger, British-born musician (b. 1949)
● 1991 - Michael Landon, American actor (b. 1936)
● 1992 - Francisco Mendes, Guinea-Bissauan politician (b. 1933)
● 1995 - Wolfman Jack, American radio personality (b. 1939)
● 1996 - William T. Cahill, Governor of New Jersey (b. 1904)
● 1996 - Steve Tesich, Serbian screenwriter (b. 1942)
● 1996 - Margaux Hemingway, American actress and model (b. 1954)
● 1997 - Robert Mitchum, American actor (b. 1917)
● 1999 - Edward Dmytryk, Canadian-born film director (b. 1908)
● 1999 - Guy Mitchell, American popular singer (b. 1927)
● 1999 - Forrest Mars Sr., American candy magnate (b. 1904)
● 1999 - Sylvia Sidney, American actress (b. 1910)
● 2000 - Walter Matthau, American actor (b. 1920)
● 2001 - Nikolay Basov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922)
● 2003 - Herbie Mann, American jazz flutist (b. 1930)
● 2003 - Wesley Mouzon, American boxer (b. 1927)
● 2003 - N!xau, Namibian actor (b. 1944)
● 2004 - Peter Barnes, English writer (b. 1931)
● 2004 - Todor Skalovski, Macedonian composer (b. 1909)
● 2004 - Marlon Brando, American actor (b. 1924)
● 2005 - Luther Vandross, American singer (b. 1951)
● 2005 - Obie Benson, American musician (b. 1936)
● 2006 - Fred Trueman, English cricketer (b. 1931)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● Aaron - brother of Moses
● St. Arnulf
● St. Calais, abbot of Ancille
● St. Carileffus, priest Chartres, Rouen, Tours, Durham
● Sts. Castus & Secundinus
● St. Cewydd
● St. Cybar, recluse
● St. Domitian of Huy, abbot, confessor
● St. Eparchius, priest at Angoulême, confessor
● St. Esther
● St. Felix of Como
● St. Gaius, pope, martyr
● St. Gall, bishop of Clermont
● St. Golvinus, bishop of Léon, confessor
● St. John the Baptist's Octave
● Sts. Julius and Aaron, martyrs
● St. Juthware
● St. Leonore, bishop, confessor [in Paris, as Lunaire]
● St. Leontius, bishop of Autun, confessor
● St. Martin of Vienne
● St. Monegundis, virgin
● St. Oliver Plunkett, Irish martyr/theologian/primate
● St. Rumbold, Rumold, or Rombout, bishop, martyr
● St. Servanus, bishop, confessor
● St. Simeon Salus
● Sts. Sophia, widow, and daughters Faith, Hope, and Charity, martyrs
● St. Theobald, priest, confessor
● St. Theoderic, or Diederik, or Thierry, abbot of Mont d'Hor, confessor
● St. Veep
● Bl. Junipero Serra
● Old Catholic: Feast of the Precious Blood of Jesus
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for June 18 (Civil Date: July 1)
● Martyr Leontius, and with him Martyrs Hypatius and Theodulus, at Tripoli in Syria
● St. Leontius, clairvoyant of Dionysiou Monastery on Mt. Athos.
● Martyr Aetherus of Nicomedia.
● St. Leontius, canonarch of the Kiev Caves.
● Greek Calendar:
● St. Erasmus, monk.
● St. Leontius the Shepherd, monk.
● "Bogoliubsk" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos.
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for June 19 (Civil Date: July 1)
● Holy Apostle Jude, the Brother of the Lord.
● Martyr Zosimas the Soldier at Antioch in Pisidia.
● St. Paisius the Great.
● St. John the Solitary of Jerusalem.
● St. Zeno, hermit of Egypt.
● St. Barlaam, monk of Shenkursk.
● Holy Myrrh-bearer Mary, mother of Apostle James.
● New-Martyr Bishop Parthenius (1937).
● Greek Calendar:
● Hieromartyr Asyncretus, martyred at the Church of Holy Peace by the Sea in Constantinople.
● Repose of Blessed John (Maximovitch), Archbishop of Shanghai and San Francisco (1966).
● Repose of Archbishop Leonty of Chile (1971).
● Lutheran: Commemoration of Catherine Winkworth and John Neale, hymn writers
● Bangladesh, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Iraq, Taiwan : Bank Holiday
● British Virgin Islands : Territory Day
● Burundi, Rwanda : Independence Day (1962)
● Bulgaria, July Morning tradition
● Canada : Dominion Day/Canada Day (except Sunday) (1867)
● Moving Day in the province of Québec
● Memorial Day in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
● Czechoslovakia : Stoznice Folk Festival
● Ghana : Republic Day (1960)
● Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Establishment Day.
● Ireland : Pilgrimage to Shrine of Blessed Oliver Plunkett
● Somalia : Union Day/Foundation Day (1960)
● Surinam: Keti Koti (Breaking of Chains) Day of Liberty; On July 1, 1863 slavery was abolished.
● Turkey : Navy & Merchant Marine Day
● US : Honor America Days
● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Iowa : Independence Sunday - ( Sunday )
● Caribbean Common Market : Caribbean Day (1973) - ( Monday )
● Lesotho : Family Day - ( Monday )
● Zambia : Heroes Day - ( Monday )
● Zambia : Unity Day - ( Tuesday )
IN FICTION
● 1902 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax"
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
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day taken from 1001 Dumbest Things Ever Said Edited by Steven D. Price ©2004
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