Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Poverty "I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I was not poor, I was needy. They told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was deprived. Then they told me underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still do not have a dime, but I have a great vocabulary." — Jules Feiffer
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Ineptitude "I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version." — Oliver North, Reagan administration official in his Iran-Contra testimony before Congress
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: On Politics "Give Bill a second term, and Al Gore and I will be turned loose to do what we really want to do." — Hillary Clinton, speaking at a 1996 Democratic fund-raiser
Thought for the day: "In fashion be a reed in the wind, In principles be a rock in the stream."
{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
NGC 4449: Close-Up of a Small Galaxy
Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Aloisi (STScI / ESA), Hubble Heritage (STScI / AURA) - ESA/Hubble Collaboration
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 48 B.C.E. - Battle of Dyrrhachium, Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedonia.
● 552 - Origin of Armenian calendar
● 988 - The City of Dublin is founded on the banks of the river Liffey.
● 1212 - The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground.
● 1376 - The "Good Parliament" closes. Never to be replaced.
● 1509 - Birth of John Calvin, French religious reformer. His 'Institutes of the Christian Religion' became the most popular doctrinal statement of the Protestant Reformation. {Hobbes came later.}
● 1553 - Lady Jane Grey takes the throne of England.
● 1584 - William I the Silent of Orange was assassinated in his home in Delft, Holland by Balthasar Gérard.
● 1609 - The Catholic states in Germany set up a league under the leadership of Maximillian of Bavaria.
● 1629 - The first non-separatist Congregational church in America was established at Salem, Massachusetts.
● 1645 - English Civil War: Battle of Langport.
● 1679 - The British crown claimed New Hampshire as a royal colony.
● 1690 - Battle of Beachy Head-French fleet defeats Anglo-Dutch fleet
● 1747 - Persian ruler Nadir Shah was assassinated at Fathabad in Persia.
● 1775 - Horatio Gates, issues order excluding blacks from Continental Army
● 1776 - The statue of King George III was pulled down in New York City.
● 1778 - American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.
● 1789 - Alexander Mackenzie reaches Mackenzie River Delta.
● 1796 - Carl Friedrich Gauss discovered that every positive integer is representable as a sum of at most three triangular numbers.
● 1800 - British Indian Government established Fort William College to promote Urdu, Hindi and other vernaculars of sub continent.
● 1806 - The Vellore Mutiny was the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company
● 1821 - The United States takes possession of its newly-bought territory of Florida from Spain.
● 1832 - President Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would re-charter the Second Bank of the United States. {this leads to impeachment proceedings against him}
● 1847 - Urbain J.J. Leverrier & John Couch Adams, co-discoverers of Neptune meet for 1st time at home of John Herschel
● 1850 - Millard Fillmore is inaugurated as the 13th President of the United States following Zachary Taylor's death.
● 1851 - California Wesleyan College was chartered in Santa Clara, under sponsorship of the Methodist Church. In 1961, its name was changed to the University of the Pacific.
● 1866 - Edison P. Clark patented his indelible pencil.
● 1875 - L Schulhof discovers asteroid #147 Protogeneia
● 1875 - Mary McLeod Bethune, black educator and activist, born, Mayesville, S. C. Founder of Daytona Normal & Industrial Institute in 1904 (now Bethune-Cookman College). In 1935, founded the National Council of Negro Women.
● 1877 - The then villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain.
● 1886 - Eruption of Tarawera volcano destroys famous pink & white calcium carbonate hot-spring terraces (North Island, New Zealand)
● 1886 - The steamboat Reutan, returning from Milwaukee, runs aground on a sand bar just offshore of the Chicago waterfront in Lake Michigan, causing the sand bar to sandbar to grow, marshland to fill it in, and new land to be formed at the end of E. Superior St. The steamboat's captain proclaims the area an 186-acre free district open to the poor, homeless, tramps, etc. The "Streeterville" territory is successfully defended against Chicago cops and developers for over 25 years in the "District of Lake Michigan." The parties fought their war both in the courts and on the land. Hundreds of police officers were sent to Streeterville, many people were injured, and at least one was killed. Authorities repeatedly evicted the Streeters from their shanties in the District with no lasting effect until, finally, they burned down Cap. Streeter's shanty in 1918.
● 1890 - Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
● 1892 - 1st concrete-paved street built (Bellefountaine, Ohio)
● 1900 - ‘His Master’s Voice’, was registered with the U.S. Patent Office. The logo of the Victor Recording Company, and later, RCA Victor, shows the dog, Nipper, looking into the horn of a gramophone machine.
● 1902 - Coal mine explosion in Johnstown, Pennsylvania takes 112 lives.
● 1913 - Death Valley, California hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C), which is the highest temperature recorded in the United States (as of 2003).
● 1917 - Emma Goldman jailed two years for inciting U.S. draft resisters.
● 1917 - England - Harriet A. Kidd, officer of the Co-operative Working Women's Guild, and an active socialist and trade union organizer, buried at Golders Green Crematorium, London.
● 1917 - Jerome Deportation, Arizona. Precursor to the better-documented Bisbee Deportation two days later. At 4 AM over 200 men armed with rifles, pick handles, and "billies" swarmed over and into any place where the Wobblies (IWWs) might bed down; about 135 men were rounded up. Each man received a "trial"; 75 were loaded into cattle cars and "deported" into the Sonoran desert. One man said he was leaving behind four children, the youngest of whom was only four days old. He was told that he had had his chance and that it was "too late." The vigilantes and their supporters (none of whom, oddly, seemed to be fighting in Europe) justified the deportation as a legitimate act of a community protecting itself from traitors, spies, and anarchists who were determined to undermine the war effort.
● 1918 - Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic established
● 1919 - The Treaty of Versailles was hand delivered to the U.S. Senate by President Wilson.
● 1920 - Pioneering TV news anchorman David Brinkley was born in Wilmington, N.C.
● 1923 - 2-pound hailstones kill 23 & many cattle. (Rostov, Russia)
● 1923 - All non-fascist parties dissolved in Italy
● 1925 - Meher Baba begins his silence of 44 years. His followers still observe Silence Day on this date in commemoration.
● 1925 - Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law. Clarence Darrow for the defense. William Jennings Bryan will testify for the prosecution.
● 1925 - The Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS), the official news agency of the Soviet Union , is established.
● 1926 - Arsenal explodes in Lake Denmark, N.J., killing 21 people die and destroying $75 million worth of property.
● 1927 - Kevin O'Higgins, Irish Free State Vice President, assassinated.
● 1928 - George Eastman first demonstrated color motion pictures.
● 1928 - H E Wood discovers asteroid #3300
● 1929 - The U.S. government began issuing paper money in the small size.
● 1933 - 1st police radio system operated, Eastchester Township, NY
● 1934 - 1st sitting US president to visit South America, FDR in Colombia
● 1934 - German anarchist poet Erich Muhsam murdered by Nazis at the Orianenburg concentration camp.
● 1936 - 109° F (43° C), Cumberland & Frederick, Maryland (state record)
● 1936 - 111° F (44° C), Phoenixville, Pennsylvania (state record)
● 1936 - New Straits Convention allows Turkish rearmament of Dardanelles
● 1938 - Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91 hour airplane flight around the world.
● 1940 - During World War II, the 114-day Battle of Britain began as Nazi forces began attacking southern England by air. By late October, Britain managed to repel the Luftwaffe, which suffered heavy losses.
● 1940 - World War II: Vichy France government established.
● 1941 - Jedwabne Pogrom was a massacre of Jewish people living in and near the village of Jedwabne in Poland.
● 1943 - Arthur Ashe, the first African-American inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame, was born. He had won 33 career titles.
● 1943 - World War II: The launching of Operation Husky begins the Italian Campaign with the invasion of Sicily by U.S. and British forces.
● 1946 - Birth of Stuart Christie, Scottish international revolutionary militant. Co-founder, with Albert Meltzer, of the prison support movement Anarchist Black Cross. In Aug. 1964, arrested with explosives under his kilt trying to cross into Spain to assassinate the dictator Franco.
● 1947 - 200 die when train derails & fell into a river in Canton, China
● 1947 - Birth, to legendary folk singer Woody Guthrie and wife Marjorie, of son Arlo.
● 1947 - Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor General of Pakistan by then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Clement Attlee.
● 1949 - The first practical rectangular television was presented. The picture tube measured 12 by 16 and sold for $12. {They had been round until now.}
● 1950 - American missionary and martyr Jim Elliot wrote in his journal: 'I am just trying to deliver familiar truth from the oblivion of general acceptance.'
● 1951 - Armistice talks aimed at ending the Korean conflict began at Kaesong.
● 1951 - E L Johnson discovers asteroid #1609 Brenda
● 1952 - Socialist Unity Party Congress agrees to create "People's Army," East Germany.
● 1953 - American forces withdraw from Pork Chop Hill in Korea after heavy fighting.
● 1958 - 1st parking meter installed in England (625 installed)
● 1962 - Fred Baldasare swam the English Channel underwater. It was 42 miles and took 18 hours.
● 1962 - Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ralph Abernathy choose to go to jail for their part in the December demonstrations in Albany, Ga.
● 1962 - The Telstar Communications satellite was launched. The satellite relayed TV and telephone signals between Europe and the U.S.
● 1962 - U.S. government rejects Soviet proposal of complete and general disarmament. {Of course the stated reason was, "we can't trust the Russians," no mention is made of the loss of profits for the military-industrial complex.}
● 1966 - Martin Luther King, Jr. begins a Chicago campaign for fair housing -- his first foray into a northern city for desegregation activities.
● 1966 - Orbiter 1 launched to Moon
● 1967 - New Zealand adopts decimal currency.
● 1967 - Uruguay becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
● 1968 - Maurice Couve de Murville becomes Prime Minister of France
● 1969 - Chilean Association of Librarians created
● 1970 - A resolution by the Northern California-Western Nevada District Council of the Japanese-American Citizen's Leauge calls for reparations for the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans. It proposed that the JACL seek a bill in Congress awarding individual compensation on a per diem basis, tax-free.
● 1970 - Home of a retired policeman in Stoke Newington, England firebombed.
● 1971 - First meeting of National Women's Political Caucus.
● 1972 - A herd of elephants, enraged by a searing heat wave, go berserk in India's Chandka Forest, stampeding through five villages. The villages were devastated and 24 people killed.
● 1972 - Democratic convention opens in Miami Beach Florida (McGovern)
● 1972 - Whitelaw's secret meeting with IRA; The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland William Whitelaw is involved in secret talks with the provisional IRA in London.
● 1973 - Britain granted the Bahamas their independence after three centuries of British colonial rule.
● 1973 - National Assembly of Pakistan passes a resolution on Bangladesh recognition.
● 1974 - Sen. Edward J. Gurney, Pres. Nixon's lone defender on the Senate Watergate Committee, indicted in Jacksonville, Fla. on charges of influence peddling and extortion.
● 1976 - Four UK and US mercenaries executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.
● 1976 - KKK members near Georgetown, Illinois, gather for a good old-fashioned cross burning. The meeting got off on the wrong foot, starting an hour late. They went to plant their cross only to find that it was too heavy to move. It took the white robed merrymakers three hours to chop the cross down to a portable size. Then they planted it, only to find it would not light. Finally they gave up and went home.
● 1976 - The Seveso Disaster occurs in Italy.
● 1978 - E F Helinand E Shoemaker discovers asteroid #3484
● 1978 - Mauritania, President Moktar Ould Daddah is ousted in a bloodless coup.
● 1979 - Conductor Arthur Fiedler, who had led the Boston Pops orchestra for a half-century, died at age 84.
● 1980 - Ayatollah Khomeini releases Iran hostage Richard I Queen
● 1980 - Willie Jones hospitalized for heat stroke with record 46.5° C temp
● 1981 - Bay Mills and Sault Ste. Marie Chippewa and Grand Traverse of Ottowa tribes win fine-year court battle for fishing rights in Lakes Michigan, Superior and Huron.
● 1981 - CERN achieves 1st proton-antiproton beam collision (570 GeV)
● 1983 - E Bowell discovers asteroids #3222 Lillerand #3751
● 1984 - Acting Pres. Reagan claims that his environmental record is "one of the best kept secrets" of his Presidency. When a reporter asks where former EPA head Anne Burford fits in that record, press secretary Larry Speakes steps forward and orders the lights turned off. Reagan, believed by many to be the most powerful man on the planet, stands behind his aide, saying, "My guardian says I can't talk." And so the secret was kept.
● 1985 - French secret police blow up Greenpeace "Rainbow Warrior" anti- nuclear vessel in Auckland Harbour, New Zealand, killing one activist, Fernando Pereira.
● 1989 - Mel Blanc, the "man of a thousand voices," died at age 81. He was known for such cartoon characters as Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny and Porky Pig.
● 1990 - Mikhail Gorbachev won re-election as the leader of the Soviet Communist Party.
● 1991 - Boris Yeltsin begins his 5-year term as the first elected President of Russia.
● 1991 - U.S. President Bush lifted economic sanctions against South Africa, citing its "profound transformation" toward racial equality.
● 1992 - In Miami, Florida, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations. {He failed to give his CIA handlers their percentage.}
● 1992 - In New York, a jury found Pan Am responsible for allowing a terrorist to destroy Flight 103 in 1988, killing 270 people.
● 1995 - Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi was freed after nearly six years of house arrest in Yangon, Myanmar.
● 1996 - Girl survives murder of mother and sister; The battered bodies of Lin Russell and her six-year-old daughter Megan are found near their home in Kent.
● 1997 - NATO forces captured one Serb war crimes suspect and killed another in a warning to Bosnia's most wanted.
● 1997 - Scientists in London said DNA from a Neanderthal skeleton supported a theory that all humanity descended from an "African Eve" 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
● 1997 - Spain, Partido Popular member Miguel Ángel Blanco is kidnapped in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests.
● 1998 - Argentinean Soledad dies, hanged herself in Benevagienna, Italy, where she was living under house arrest in the community "Sotto i ponti." The 22- year-old anarchist, in Italy since Sept. 1997, had been accused of membership in an armed group called "Lupi Grigi" (Gray Wolves) which had claimed responsibility for one of a number of sabotages against the High Speed Train Project (TAV) in Val Susa. There had been a dozen such attacks, almost all prior to her arrival, but she had been arrested in March. Charges against a second defendant were dropped after the jail suicide of the third, Edoardo Massari.
● 1998 - Roman Catholic sex abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by former priest Rudolph Kos.
● 1998 - The U.S. military delivered the remains of Air Force 1st Lt. Michael Blassie to his family in St. Louis. He had been placed in Arlington Cemetery's Tomb of the Unknown in 1984. His identity had been confirmed with DNA tests.
● 1998 - The World Bank approved a $700 million loan to Thailand.
● 1999 - The heads of six African nations that had troops in the Democratic Republic of the Congo signed a cease-fire agreement that would end the civil war in that nation.
● 2000 - UK tidal wave of web users; One in four British homes is now using the internet according to figures released by the government.
● 2000 - A leaking southern Nigerian petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers scavenging gasoline.
● 2000 - A woman was sentenced to nine years in prison for allowing three men to have sex with her 13-year-old daughter. The men involved were sentenced from six to seven years in prison.
● 2000 - Jean-Claude Van Damme was given three years probation and fined $1,200 for drunk driving and driving without a license. Van Damme had been arrested after he crashed his Mercedes-Benz into a restaurant on September 23, 1999.
● 2000 - Justin Pierce commited suicide the day before the premiere of his last movie "Pigeonholed."
● 2003 - A Neoplan bus, owned by Kowloon Motor Bus, collides with a truck, falls off a bridge on Tuen Mun Road, Hong Kong, and plunges into the underlying valley, killing 21 people. This is the deadliest traffic accident to date in Hong Kong.
● 2005 - Hurricane Dennis slams into the Florida Panhandle causing billions of dollars in damage.
● 2006 - A section of ceiling in Boston's Big Dig tunnel collapsed, killing a car passenger.
● 2006 - Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev was killed when a dynamite-laden truck in his convoy exploded.
● 2006 - Pakistan International Flight PK-688 crashes in Multan, Pakistan shortly after takeoff, killing all 45 people on board.
BIRTHS
● 1419 - Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (d. 1471)
● 1452 - King James III of Scotland (d. 1488)
● 1509 - John Calvin, French religious reformer (d. 1564)
● 1517 - Odet de Coligny, French cardinal and Protestant (d. 1571)
● 1592 - Pierre d'Hozier, French historian (d. 1660)
● 1614 - Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, English royalist statesman (d. 1686)
● 1625 - Jean Herauld Gourville, French adventurer (d. 1703)
● 1638 - David Teniers III, Flemish painter (d. 1685)
● 1666 - John Ernest Grabe, German-born Anglican theologian (d. 1711)
● 1682 - Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg, German Lutheran missionary to India (d. 1719)
● 1682 - Roger Cotes, English mathematician (d. 1716)
● 1723 - Sir William Blackstone, English jurist (d. 1780)
● 1792 - George Mifflin Dallas, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania and the 11th Vice President of the United States (d. 1864)
● 1802 - Robert Chambers, Scottish author and publisher (d. 1871)
● 1804 - Emma Smith Inaugural President of the Women's Relief Society of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
● 1809 - Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist (d. 1889)
● 1830 - Camille Pissarro, French painter (d. 1903)
● 1832 - Alvan Graham Clark, American telescope maker and astronomer (d. 1897)
● 1834 - James McNeil Whistler, American painter (d. 1903)
● 1835 - Henryk Wieniawski, Polish composer (d. 1880)
● 1839 - Adolphus Busch, German-born brewer (d. 1913)
● 1856 - Nikola Tesla, Serb-American inventor (d. 1943)
● 1867 - Finley Peter Dunne, American journalist and humorist (d. 1936)
● 1867 - Prince Maximilian of Baden, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1929)
● 1871 - Marcel Proust, French writer (d. 1922)
● 1874 - Sergey Konenkov, Russian painter (d. 1971)
● 1875 - Mary McLeod Bethune, American educator (d. 1955)
● 1883 - Johannes Blaskowitz, German general (d. 1948)
● 1888 - Giorgio de Chirico, Italian painter (d. 1978)
● 1895 - Carl Orff, German composer (d. 1982)
● 1896 - Thérèse Casgrain, French Canadian politician and senator (d. 1981)
● 1897 - Karl Plagge, German officer (d. 1957)
● 1899 - John Gilbert, American actor (d. 1936)
● 1899 - Heiri Suter, Swiss cyclist (d. 1978)
● 1900 - Sampson Sievers, Russian Orthodox Christian monk, priest and wonder-worker (d. 1979)
● 1900 - Mitchell Parish, American lyricist (d. 1993)
● 1902 - Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
● 1903 - John Wyndham, British author (d. 1969)
● 1903 - Werner Best, German jurist and nazi leader (d. 1989)
● 1905 - Thomas Gomez, American actor (d. 1971)
● 1905 - Wolfram Sievers, Nazi physician (d. 1948)
● 1906 - Jorge Icaza, Ecuadorian novelist and playwright (d. 1978)
● 1913 - Salvador Espriu, Spanish poet (d. 1985)
● 1914 - Joe Shuster, Canadian-born cartoonist (d. 1992)
● 1917 - Don Herbert aka "Mr. Wizard", American television host (d. 2007)
● 1920 - David Brinkley, American television reporter (d. 2003)
● 1920 - Owen Chamberlain, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
● 1921 - Harvey Ball, American inventor (d. 2001)
● 1921 - Jake LaMotta, American boxer
● 1921 - Eunice Kennedy Shriver, American activist, sister of JFK and Schwarzenegger's mother-in-law
● 1923 - Earl Hamner Jr., American author and television producer
● 1923 - Jean Kerr, American author (d. 2003)
● 1924 - Bobo Brazil, professional wrestler (d. 1998)
● 1925 - Mahathir bin Mohamad, fourth Malaysian Prime Minister
● 1926 - Fred Gwynne, American actor ("The Munsters") (d. 1993)
● 1927 - William Smithers, Actor
● 1927 - Grigory Barenblatt, Russian mathematician
● 1927 - Suzanne Cloutier, Canadian film actor (d. 2003)
● 1928 - Moshe Greenberg, American-Israeli Bible scholar
● 1928 - Alejandro de Tomaso, Argentine-Italian racing driver and car manufacturer (d. 2003)
● 1928 - Bernard Buffet, French painter (d. 1999)
● 1929 - Winnie Ewing, Scottish politician
● 1931 - Jerry Herman, Broadway composer ("Hello Dolly")
● 1931 - Nick Adams, American actor (d. 1968)
● 1931 - Alice Munro, Canadian writer
● 1932 - Carlo Mario Abate, Italian racing driver
● 1933 - Ivan Passer, Director
● 1934 - Jerry Nelson, American puppeteer
● 1935 - Tura Satana, American actress
● 1938 - Paul Andreu, French architect
● 1939 - Lawrence Pressman, Actor
● 1939 - Mavis Staples, R&B, gospel singer
● 1939 - Ahmet Taner Kışlalı, Turkish politician, journalist, and educator (d. 1999)
● 1940 - Tom Farmer, Scottish entrepreneur
● 1940 - Mills Watson, Actor
● 1940 - Helen Donath, American soprano
● 1941 - David G. Hartwell, American editor and anthologist
● 1941 - Robert Pine, Actor
● 1941 - Ian Whitcomb, English songwriter, entertainer and producer
● 1942 - Ronnie James Dio, American musician
● 1942 - Pyotr Klimuk, cosmonaut
● 1943 - Jerry Miller, Rock guitarist (Moby Grape)
● 1943 - Arthur Ashe, American tennis player (d. 1993)
● 1945 - Ron Glass, Actor ("Barney Miller")
● 1945 - John Motson, British sports (football) commentator
● 1945 - Virginia Wade, British tennis player and Hall of Fame member
● 1946 - Sue Lyon, American actress
● 1947 - Arlo Guthrie, American musician (Alice's Restaurant)
● 1949 - Sunil Gavaskar, Indian cricketer
● 1950 - Greg Kihn, American musician
● 1951 - Cheryl Wheeler, American singer and songwriter
● 1952 - Ludmilla Tourischeva, Russian gymnast
● 1952 - Kim Mitchell, Canadian guitarist/singer
● 1952 - Peter van Heemst, Dutch politician
● 1953 - Zoogz Rift, singer/songwriter and wrestling booker
● 1953 - Rik Emmett, Canadian musician (Triumph)
● 1954 - Neil Tennant, British musician (Pet Shop Boys)
● 1954 - Andre Dawson, American baseball player
● 1956 - Tom McClintock, American politician
● 1958 - Béla Fleck, American musician (Bela Fleck & the Flecktones)
● 1959 - Janet Julian, American actress
● 1960 - Shaw Wilson, Country musician (BR549)
● 1961 - Jacky Cheung, Hong Kong singer and actor
● 1964 - Urban Meyer, American football coach
● 1965 - Peter DiStefano, Rock musician (Porno for Pyros)
● 1965 - Ken Mellons, Country singer
● 1965 - Alec Mapa, Filipino-American actor and comedian
● 1966 - Johnny Grunge, wrestler (d. 2006)
● 1968 - Hassiba Boulmerka, Algerian athlete
● 1969 - Gale Harold, American actor
● 1970 - Helen Sjöholm, Swedish singer and actress
● 1970 - Jason Orange, UK pop singer and dancer
● 1970 - John Simm, British actor
● 1970 - Gary LeVox, American singer (Rascal Flatts)
● 1972 - Sofia Vergara, Colombian actress
● 1974 - Chiwetel Ejiofor, English actor
● 1975 - Alain Nasreddine, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1975 - Stefán Karl Stefánsson, Icelandic actor
● 1976 - Adrian Grenier, Actor ("Entourage")
● 1976 - Elijah Blue Allman, American musician (Deadsy)
● 1976 - Ludovic Giuly, French footballer
● 1978 - Jesse Lacey, American musician (Brand New)
● 1979 - Tyrell Godwin, American baseball player
● 1979 - Mvondo Atangana, Cameroon footballer
● 1980 - Thomas Ian Nicholas, American actor
● 1980 - Adam Petty, American race car driver (d. 2000)
● 1980 - Jesse Jane, American porn actress
● 1980 - Jessica Simpson, American singer
● 1982 - Alex Arrowsmith, American musician
● 1982 - Sebastian Mila, Polish footballer
● 1983 - Kim Hee Chul, Korean musician (Super Junior)
● 1984 - Mark González, Chilean football player
DEATHS
● 138 - Hadrian, Roman Emperor (b. 76)
● 1099 - El Cid, of Castile (b. 1044)
● 1103 - King Eric I of Denmark
● 1298 - King Ladislaus IV of Hungary (b. 1262)
● 1460 - Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English military leader (b. 1402)
● 1480 - King René I of Naples (b. 1410)
● 1559 - King Henry II of France (b. 1519)
● 1584 - William I of Orange (b. 1533)
● 1590 - Archduke Charles II of Austria (b. 1540)
● 1594 - Paolo Bellasio, Italian composer (b. 1554)
● 1621 - Karel Bonaventura Buquoy, French soldier (b. 1571)
● 1653 - Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar (b. 1600)
● 1680 - Louis Moréri, French encyclopedist (b. 1643)
● 1683 - François-Eudes de Mézeray, French historian (b. 1610)
● 1686 - John Fell, English churchman (b. 1625)
● 1776 - Richard Peters, English-born clergyman (b. 1704)
● 1806 - George Stubbs, British painter (b. 1724)
● 1851 - Louis-Jacques Daguerre, French inventor and photographer (b. 1787)
● 1881 - Georg Hermann Nicolai, German architect (b. 1812)
● 1884 - Paul Morphy, American chess player (b. 1837)
● 1908 - Phoebe Knapp, American hymn writer (b. 1839)
● 1920 - Jackie Fisher, British admiral (b. 1841)
● 1941 - Jelly Roll Morton, American musician (b. 1890)
● 1970 - Bjarni Benediktsson, Icelandic foreign and later prime minister (b. 1908)
● 1972 - Lovie Austin, American jazz pianist (b. 1887)
● 1978 - John D Rockefeller III, American businessman (b. 1906)
● 1978 - Joe Davis, English snooker player (b. 1901)
● 1979 - Arthur Fiedler, American conductor (b. 1894)
● 1981 - Ken Rex McElroy, American hog rustler (b. 1936)
● 1987 - John H. Hammond, American record producer (b. 1910)
● 1989 - Mel Blanc, American voice actor (voiced Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Barney Rubble, etc.) (b. 1908)
● 2000 - Vakkom Majeed, Indian Freedom fighter, Travancore-Cochin Legislative member (b. 1909)
● 2000 - Justin Pierce, English-American actor and skateboarder (b. 1975)
● 2002 - Jean-Pierre Côté, French Canadian politician and Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1926)
● 2003 - Winston Graham, English writer (b. 1908)
● 2003 - Hartley Shawcross, British prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials (b. 1902)
● 2003 - Bishnu Maden, Nepalese politician
● 2005 - A.J. Quinnell, English writer (b. 1940)
● 2005 - Freda Wright-Sorce, American radio performer (b. 1955)
● 2005 - Freddy Soto, American comedian and actor (b. 1970)
● 2006 - Shamil Basayev, Chechen rebel (b. 1965)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Alexander
● St. Amalberga, virgin (died 690)
● St. Anthony Pechersky
● Martyrs of Damascus
● St. Etto, bishop, confessor
● St. Felicitas of Rome, martyr
● St. Kanute IV, King of Denmark, martyr
● St. Lantfrid
● St. Leontius
● St. Maclovius, bishop of St.-Malo, confessor
● St. Maria Amandina of Schakkebroek and Companions (died 1900)
● St. Pascharius
● St. Peter of Perugia
● St. Peter Tu
● Sts. Rufina and Secunda, martyrs
● The Seven Brothers (Sts. Januarius, Felix, Philip, Silvanus, Alexander, Vitalis, and Martialis), martyrs
● St. Theodosius Pechersky
● St. Witger of Hamme
● Bl. Emmanuel Ruiz
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for June 28 (Civil Date: July 10)
● Saints Sergius and Herman, abbots of Valaam.
● Translation of the Relics of the Holy and Wonderworking Unmercenaries Cyrus and John.
● St. Paul the Physician of Corinth.
● St. Xenophon, abbot of Robeika (Novgorod).
● Greek Calendar:
● Martyr Pappias.
● Martyr Macedonius.
● St. Vulkian, monk, and St. Moses the Anchorite.
● Two children crucified for Christ.
● Hieromartyr Donatus of Libya.
● Three Martyrs of Galatia.
● 70 Martyrs of Scythopolis.
● St. Magnus, monk who reposed while praying to the Lord.
● Blessed Sergius the Magistrate, founder of the Monastery of the Mother of God called Nikitiatus in Nicomedia.
● Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Of the Three Hands".
● Buddhist-Burma: Beginning of Buddhist Fast
● Silence Day - celebrated by followers of Meher Baba.
● Ancient Latvia - Septinu Bralu Diena observed.
● Albania : Army Day
● Bahamas : Independence Day (1973)
● Mauritania - Armed Forces Day.
● Wyoming : Statehood Day (1890)
● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● South Africa : Family Day - ( Monday )
● Swaziland : Reed Dance Day - ( 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
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day taken from 1001 Dumbest Things Ever Said Edited by Steven D. Price ©2004
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