Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Power "The obligation of accepting a position of power is to be, above all else, a good human being." — Peter Block
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Iraq War "From a marketing point of view, you don't introduce a new product in August." — Andrew Card, George W. Bush's chief of staff, explaining why the Bush administration waited until after Labor Day in its public relations offensive about the need to invade Iraq
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: On Politics "We've got a strong candidate. I'm trying to think of his name." — Senator Christopher Dodd
Thought for the day: "He was a bold man that first ate an oyster."
{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
Constellations and Cloudy Skies
Credit & Copyright: Laurent Laveder (PixHeaven.net)
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 911 - Signing of the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte between Charles the Simple and Rollo of Normandy.
● 1156 - Siege of Shirakawa-den in Japan.
● 1244 - Displaced by the Mongols, the Khwarismian Turks take Jerusalem; 300 people escape.
● 1302 - Battle of the Golden Spurs (Guldensporenslag in Dutch) - a coalition around the Flemish cities defeats the king of France's huge knightly army.
● 1346 - Charles IV of Luxembourg was elected Holy Roman Emperor in Germany.
● 1405 - Chinese fleet commander Zheng He set sail to explore the world for the first time.
● 1476 - Giuliano della Rovere is appointed bishop of Coutances.
● 1533 - Clement VII excommunicated Henry VIII for divorcing Catherine of Aragon, and afterward marrying Anne Boleyn. Two years later, Henry broke with Rome and established the Anglican communion as the national religion of England.
● 1576 - Martin Frobisher sights Greenland.
● 1616 - Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec.
● 1656 - Ann Austin and Mary Fisher became the first Quakers to arrive in America and were promptly arrested. Five weeks later, they were deported back to England.
● 1656 - Pacifists land and establish town of Boston, Massachusetts.
● 1708 - The French were defeated at Oudenarde, Malplaquet, in the Netherlands by the Duke of Marlborough and Eugene of Savoy.
● 1735 - Mathematical calculations suggest it was on this day that Pluto moved from the ninth to the eighth most distant planet from the Sun for the last time before 1979.
● 1740 - Jews are expelled from Little Russia by order of Czarina Anne
● 1742 - A papal decree was issued condemning the disciplining actions of the Jesuits in China.
● 1750 - Halifax, Nova Scotia almost completely destroyed by fire.
● 1767 - John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States, was born in Braintree, Mass.
● 1776 - Captain James Cook begins third voyage.
● 1781 - Thomas Hutchins designated Geographer of the US
● 1786 - Morocco agreed to stop attacking American ships in the Mediterranean for a payment of $10,000.
● 1789 - Jacques Necker dismissed as Finance Minister for France sparking the Storming of the Bastille.
● 1792 - Prussia army moves into French territory
● 1796 - The U.S. takes possession of Detroit from Great Britain under terms of the Jay Treaty.
● 1798 - The U.S. Marine Corps was formally re-established by "An Act for Establishing a Marine Corps" passed by the U.S. Congress. The act also created the U.S. Marine Band. The Marines were first commissioned by the Continental Congress on November 10, 1775.
● 1804 - Vice-President Aaron Burr provokes a duel with Alexander Hamilton and mortally wounded him in Weehawken, New Jersey. {This is caused by Burr's belief the area west of the Mississippi River from the Louisiana Purchase should become a separate independent country, charges of treason are brought against Burr but he is acquitted.}
● 1811 - Italian scientist Amedeo Avogadro publishes his memoir about molecular content of gases. {All you high school chemistry students should remember his number, 6.02 x 10 to the 23rd as the number of particles in a mole.}
● 1812 - U.S. invades Canada along the Detroit frontier.
● 1818 - Keats writes "In the Cottage Where Burns Was Born," "Lines Written in the Highlands," & "The Gadfly"
● 1848 - The Waterloo railway station in London opens.
● 1854 - Birth of Toussaint Bordat, Chassenard (Allier). French Lyons anarchist militant. Involved in militant labor actions. Arrested and a defendant in the monster "Trial of the 66" of 1883, sent to prison for four years.
● 1859 - A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens is published. {"It was the worst of times, it was the best of times." "It is a far better thing than I have ever done before." Probably the only book I remember both the opening and closing lines.}
● 1864 - In the U.S., Confederate forces led by Gen. Jubal Early began an invasion of Washington, DC. They turned back the next day.
● 1868 - J C Watson discovers asteroid #100 Hekate
● 1869 - Buffalo Bill Cody and scouts attack Tall Bull's camp; 51 Cheyenne killed, 17 women and children captured.
● 1888 - 118° F (48° C), Bennett, Colorado (state record)
● 1888 - Pennsylvania's Monongehela River rises 32" after 24 hour rainfall
● 1889 - Tijuana, Mexico was founded
● 1892 - France - Ravachol (1859-1892) dies. Anarchist bandit and advocate of "propaganda of the deed."
● 1892 - Striking coal miners in Coeur D'Alene, Idaho, dynamite the Frisco Mill, including Pinkerton barracks, leaving it in ruins.
● 1893 - The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto.
● 1895 - The brothers Lumière show film for scientists.
● 1897 - Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to try to reach the North pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.
● 1899 - E. B. White, the American writer of essays and children's books, was born.
● 1901 - L Carnera discovers asteroid #472 Roma
● 1905 - Black intellectuals & activists organize Niagara movement, precursor to the NAACP.
● 1916 - 1st federal grant-in-aid for state roads enacted
● 1918 - M Wolf discovers asteroid #895 Helio
● 1919 - Eight-hour working day and free Sunday made into law in the Netherlands.
● 1920 - General strike in Tampico, Mexico.
● 1921 - Former US President William Howard Taft sworn in as 10th Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, becoming the only person to ever be both President and Chief Justice.
● 1921 - Mongolia gains independence from China (National Day)
● 1921 - Truce called in the Irish War of Independence
● 1931 - League of Nations Union mass rally for disarmament, Albert Hall, London, England.
● 1934 - The first appointments to the newly created Federal Communications Commission were made.
● 1934 - U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt became the first American chief executive to travel through the Panama Canal while in office.
● 1936 - Tri borough Bridge linking Manhattan, Bronx & Queens opens
● 1940 - World War II: Vichy France regime formally established. Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Prime Minister of France.
● 1943 - World War II: Allied invasion of Sicily - German and Italian troops launch a counter-attack on Allied forces in Sicily.
● 1944 - Franklin D. Roosevelt says he will run for a fourth term as President of the United States.
● 1947 - Eight black prisoners killed in Georgia for refusing to work in swamp without boots.
● 1950 - Pakistan joins the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the International Bank.
● 1952 - American missionary and martyr Jim Elliot wrote in his journal: 'Teach me, Lord Jesus,... not to be hungering for the "strange and peculiar" when the common, ordinary, and regular, rightly taken, will suffice to feed and satisfy the soul.'
● 1952 - The Republican National Convention, meeting in Chicago, nominated Dwight D. Eisenhower for president and Richard M. Nixon for vice president.
● 1954 - First White Citizens Council organizes in Indianola, Mississippi.
● 1955 - American Presbyterian missionary Francis Schaeffer observed in a letter: 'No price is too high to have a free conscience before God.'
● 1955 - Congress authorizes all American currency to state, "In God We Trust."
● 1955 - The U.S. Air Force Academy was dedicated in Colorado Springs, CO, at Lowry Air Base.
● 1957 - Prince Karim Husseini Aga Khan IV inherits the office of Imamat as the 49th Imam of Shia Imami Ismaili worldwide, after the death of Sir Sultan Mahommed Shah Aga Khan III
● 1958 - Judge Raulston Schoolfield convicted by the Tennessee Senate of articles of impeachment, which included accepting an automobile from law violators and using obscene language while performing his duties.
● 1960 - Independence of Benin, Burkina Faso and Niger.
● 1960 - Ivory Coast, Dahomey, Upper Volta & Niger declare independence
● 1962 - Cosmonaut Micolaev set then record longest space flight - 4 days
● 1962 - First transatlantic satellite television transmission. {Ice skating in France seen in US. I remember seeing this when it happened.}
● 1962 - Fred Baldasare is 1st to swim English Channel underwater (scuba)
● 1967 - A week of riots begins in Newark, New Jersey, eventually leaving 26 dead, 1,500 wounded and over 1,000 arrested amidst widespread charges of police brutality.
● 1967 - The Vatican reported that Albania had closed its last Roman Catholic church.(Albania is a tiny Balkan country with an area only the size of Maryland. Communist aligned with China and not the Soviet Union.)
● 1969 - The federal appeals court in Boston reverses the convictions of Dr. Benjamin Spock who had been found guilty of conspiring to counsel evasion of the military draft in 1968.
● 1971 - Copper mines in Chile nationalized.
● 1972 - U.S. forces broke the 95-day siege at An Loc in Vietnam.
● 1973 - A Brazilian Boeing 707 crashes near Paris on approach to Orly Airport, killing 123 people of the 134 on-board.
● 1974 - House Judiciary Committee releases evidence on Watergate inquiry
● 1975 - Chinese archaeologists discover a large burial site with 6,000 clay statutes of warriors from 221 B.C.E.
● 1975 - L Chernykh discovers asteroid #2489 Suvorov
● 1977 - Martin Luther King is posthumously awarded the Medal of Freedom. {I'm sure he found this very reassuring.}
● 1977 - Gay paper guilty of blasphemy; The Gay News and its editor is found guilty of blasphemous libel in the first case of its kind for more than fifty years.
● 1978 - 216 people were killed when a tanker truck overfilled with propylene gas exploded on a coastal highway south of Tarragona, Spain.
● 1978 - A group of homeless people blows up the office of the Communist Party housing assessor in Rome, Italy.
● 1978 - Los Alfaques Disaster: a truck carrying liquid gas crashes and explodes at a coastal campsite in Tarragona, Spain killing 216 tourists.
● 1979 - The abandoned U.S. space station Skylab returned to Earth. It burned up in the atmosphere and showered debris over the Indian Ocean and Australia.
● 1980 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ordered the release of hostage Richard Queen due to illness. Queen was flown to Zurich, Switzerland. Queen had been taken hostage with 62 other Americans at the U.S. embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979.
● 1980 - Jaime Suarez Quemain, Salvadoran poet, assassinated by the U.S.-backed Salvadoran army.
● 1983 - A Boeing 727 crashes into hilly terrain after a tail strike in Cuenca, Ecuador, claiming 119 lives.
● 1983 - E Bowell discovers asteroid #3485 Barucci
● 1985 - Dr. H. Harlan Stone announced that he had used zippers for stitches on 28 patients. The zippers were used when he thought he may have to re-operate.
● 1985 - Refurbished Columbia moves overland from Palmdale to Dryden
● 1985 - U.S. votes to impose sanctions against South Africa in protest of its apartheid policy. {Finally, Dick Cheney as congress critter from Wyoming went out of his way to oppose any such move.}
● 1986 - Mary Beth Whitehead christens surrogate Baby M, Sara
● 1987 - According to the United Nations, the world population crosses the 5,000,000,000 mark.
● 1987 - Soldiers remember Passchendaele; Veterans return to the scene of the bloodiest battle of World War I to commemorate its 70th anniversary.
● 1989 - Actor Laurence Olivier died at age 82.
● 1990 - NYC police arrest "Dartman" (stabbed over 50 women with darts)
● 1990 - Oka Crisis in Quebec.
● 1991 - Anti-poll tax MP jailed; Labour MP Terry Fields is sentenced to 60 days in prison for refusing to pay his poll tax.
● 1991 - A Nationair DC-8 crashed during an emergency landing at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing 261. The Canadian charter was ferrying Hajj pilgrims on behalf of Nigeria Airways.
● 1991 - Total solar eclipse in Hawaii and Mexico.
● 1994 - Shawn Eckardt was sentenced in Portland, OR, to 18 months in prison for his role in the attack on figure skater Nancy Kerrigan.
● 1995 - A Cubana de Aviacion Antonov An-24 crashes into the Caribbean off southeast Cuba killing 44 people.
● 1995 - Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel peace laureate, released from six years' house arrest, Burma.
● 1995 - Full diplomatic relations were established between the United States and Vietnam.
● 1995 - Srebrenica Genocide: Serb army from Yugoslavia and Bosnia, capture the Bosniak town of Srebrenica. More than eight thousand inhabitants are murdered. It is generally regarded to be the most horrific event in recent European history.
● 1998 - U.S. Air Force Lt. Michael Blassie, a casualty of the Vietnam War, was laid to rest near his Missouri home. He had been positively identified from his remains that had been enshrined in the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington, VA.
● 1999 - A U.S. Air Force jet flew over the Antarctic and dropped off emergency medical supplies for Dr. Jerri Nelson after she had discovered a lump in her breast. Nelso was at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Research Center. {She successfully self-administered chemotherapy for breast cancer.}
● 2000 - Britain pioneers HIV vaccine; The World AIDS Conference in South Africa announces trials for a new HIV vaccine will begin in Britain.
● 2000 - Arkansas Judge Leon Johnson announced that he would preside over the disbarment case against U.S. President Clinton. Several other judges had stepped aside from the case citing the appearance of conflict of interest.
● 2000 - Liam Neeson broke his pelvis after hitting a deer with his Harley Davidson motorcycle.
● 2003 - Lahore-Delhi bus service resumed after suspension of 18 months.
● 2004 - CIA Director George Tenet leaves his position at the agency. {Way too late and he still considers the "War Criminal" Shrub a friend.}
● 2006 - 209 people are killed in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai, India.
BIRTHS
● 1274 – Robert I the Bruce, King of Scotland (d. 1329)
● 1366 - Anne of Bohemia, consort of Richard II of England (d. 1394)
● 1561 - Luis de Góngora, Spanish poet (d. 1627)
● 1603 - Kenelm Digby, English privateer (d. 1665)
● 1628 - Tokugawa Mitsukuni, Japanese warlord (d. 1701)
● 1657 - King Frederick I of Prussia (d. 1713)
● 1662 - Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria (d. 1726)
● 1767 - John Quincy Adams, American sixth president (d. 1848)
● 1723 - Jean-François Marmontel, French historian and writer (d. 1799)
● 1754 - Thomas Bowdler, English physician and censor (d. 1825)
● 1767 - John Quincy Adams, President of the United States (d. 1848)
● 1826 - Alexander Afanasyev, Russian folklorist (d. 1871)
● 1826 - John Fowler, English developer of the steam-hauled plow (d. 1864)
● 1832 - Charilaos Trikoupis, Greek politician (d. 1896)
● 1838 - John Wanamaker, American businessman; founded Wanamaker department stores (d. 1922)
● 1846 - Leon Bloy, French writer (d. 1917)
● 1849 - Harry Kellar, American magician (d. 1922)
● 1854 - Georgiana Barrymore, American actress (d. 1893)
● 1857 - Sir Joseph Larmor, Irish physicist (d. 1942)
● 1857 - Alfred Binet, French psychologist (d. 1911)
● 1864 - Petar Danov, Bulgarian spiritual teacher (d. 1944)
● 1885 - Roger de La Fresnaye, French painter (d. 1925)
● 1886 - Boris Grigoriev, Russian painter (d. 1939)
● 1890 - Arthur Tedder, English deputy commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force (d. 1967)
● 1897 - Bull Connor, American law enforcement official (d. 1973)
● 1899 - E. B. White, American writer (d. 1985)
● 1903 - Sidney Franklin, American bullfighter (d. 1976)
● 1903 - Rudolf Abel, Soviet intelligence officer and spy (d. 1971)
● 1906 - Herbert Wehner, German politician (d. 1990)
● 1910 - Irene Hervey, American actress (d. 1998)
● 1913 - Cordwainer Smith, American writer (d. 1966)
● 1916 - Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002)
● 1916 - Gough Whitlam, 21st Prime Minister of Australia
● 1920 - Yul Brynner, Russian-born actor (d. 1985)
● 1921 - Ilse Werner, Dutch-born actress
● 1922 - Gene Evans, American actor (d. 1998)
● 1924 - César Lattes, Brazilian physicist (d. 2005)
● 1924 - Brett Somers, Canadian actress
● 1924 - Charlie Tully, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1971)
● 1925 - Nicolai Gedda, Swedish tenor
● 1926 - Frederick Buechner, American author
● 1929 - Hermann Prey, German baritone (d. 1998)
● 1929 - David Kelly (actor), Irish actor
● 1930 - Harold Bloom, American literary critic
● 1931 - Tab Hunter, American actor
● 1931 - Tullio Regge, Italian physicist
● 1931 - Thurston Harris, American singer (d. 1990)
● 1932 - Jean-Guy Talbot, French Canadian ice hockey player
● 1933 - Bob McGrath, American actor
● 1934 - Giorgio Armani, Italian fashion designer
● 1935 - Oliver Napier, Northern Irish politician
● 1937 - Pai Hsien-yung, Taiwanese writer
● 1940 - Yvon Charbonneau, French Canadian union leader and politician
● 1943 - Susan Seaforth Hayes, Actress ("Days of Our Lives")
● 1944 - Myra Gale Brown, former wife of Jerry Lee Lewis
● 1945 - Patrick Joseph McGrath, Catholic bishop
● 1947 - Jeff Hanna, Country singer (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
● 1947 - Bo Lundgren, Swedish politician
● 1949 - Jay Johnson, Ventriloquist, actor ("Soap")
● 1949 - Liona Boyd, English-born musician
● 1950 - Pervez Hoodbhoy, Pakistani nuclear physicist
● 1950 - Bruce McGill, American actor
● 1950 - J.R. Morgan, British classical scholar
● 1951(50? NYT) - Bonnie Pointer, American singer (Pointer Sisters)
● 1952 - Stephen Lang, Actor
● 1952 - Bill Barber, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1953 - Mindy Sterling, Actress
● 1953 - Peter Brown, American singer, songwriter and producer
● 1953 - Leon Spinks, American heavyweight boxer
● 1954 - Butch Reed, American professional wrestler
● 1956 - Sela Ward, American actress ("Once and Again" "Sisters" "House")
● 1957 - Peter Murphy, British musician - (Bauhaus)
● 1957 - Michael Rose, Jamaican musician (Black Uhuru)
● 1958 - Hugo Sánchez, Mexican footballer
● 1958 - Andrew Gilbert-Scott, British racing driver
● 1958 - Mark Lester, Actor
● 1958 - Kirk Whalum, Jazz saxophonist
● 1959 - Richie Sambora, American musician (Bon Jovi)
● 1959 - Suzanne Vega, American singer
● 1962 - Pauline McLynn, Irish actress
● 1962 - Gaetan Duchesne, French Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
● 1963 - Al MacInnis, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1963 - Lisa Rinna, American actress
● 1963 - Sandra Schmirler, Canadian curler (d. 2000)
● 1964 - Craig Charles, English actor
● 1964 - Kyrill, Prince of Preslav, titular Bulgarian royal family
● 1965 - Ernesto Hoost, Dutch kickboxer
● 1965 - Scott Shriner, American musician (Weezer)
● 1966 - Debbe Dunning, Actress ("Home Improvement")
● 1966 - Greg Grunberg, Actor ("Heroes")
● 1968 - Esera Tuaolo, American football player
● 1968 - Michael Geist, Canadian academic
● 1969 - David Tao, Taiwanese singer-songwriter
● 1970 - Justin Chambers, Actor ("Grey's Anatomy")
● 1971 - Brett Hauer, American ice hockey player
● 1972 - Michael Rosenbaum, American actor ("Smallville")
● 1972 - Steven Richards, Australian racing driver
● 1972 - Jussi 69, Finnish musician (The 69 Eyes)
● 1973 - Scotty Emerick, Country singer
● 1973 - Andrew Bird, American musician
● 1973 - Konstantinos Kenteris, Greek athlete
● 1974 - Hermann Hreidarsson, Icelandic footballer
● 1975 - Willie Anderson, American football player
● 1975 - Rubén Baraja, Spanish footballer
● 1975 - Riona Hazuki, Japanese actress
● 1975 - Lil' Kim, American rapper
● 1975 - Samer el Nahhal, Finnish musician (Lordi)
● 1976 - Eduardo Nájera, Mexican-born basketball player
● 1977 - Javier López, Puerto Rican baseball player
● 1980 - T.J. Wilson, Canadian professional wrestler
● 1981 - Andre Johnson, American football player
● 1982 - Chris Cooley, American football player
● 1982 - Lil' Zane, American rapper
● 1983 - Peter Cincotti, Jazz singer, musician
● 1983 - Kelly Poon, Singaporean singer
● 1983 - Marie Serneholt, Swedish musician (A*Teens)
● 1984 - Tanith Belbin, Canadian ice dancer
● 1984 - Hitomi Hyuga, Japanese actress
● 1985 - Aki Maeda, Japanese actress
● 1986 - Yoann Gourcuff, French footballer
● 1986 - Ryan Jarvis, English footballer
● 1989 - David Henrie, American actor
DEATHS
● 472 - Anthemius, Emperor of the Western Roman Empire
● 937 - King Rudolph II of Burgundy
● 969 - Olga of Kiev
● 1174 - King Amalric I of Jerusalem (b. 1136)
● 1183 - Otto I Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria
● 1302 - Robert II of Artois, French soldier (b. 1250)
● 1535 - Elector Joachim I of Brandenburg (b. 1484)
● 1581 - Peder Skram, Danish senator and naval hero
● 1679 - William Chamberlayne, English poet (b. 1619)
● 1688 - King Narai of Siam (b. 1629)
● 1766 - Elizabeth Farnese, wife of Philip V of Spain (b. 1692)
● 1774 - Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, Irish-born New York pioneer
● 1775 - Simon Boerum, American Continental Congressman (b. 1724)
● 1797 - Ienăchiţă Văcărescu, Wallachian writer (b. 1740)
● 1804 - Alexander Hamilton, United States Secretary of the Treasury (duel) (b. 1757)
● 1806 - James Smith, American signer of the Declaration of Independence
● 1825 - Thomas P. Grosvenor, American Revolutionary War soldier (b. 1744)
● 1844 - Evgeny Baratynsky, Russian poet (b. 1800)
● 1909 - Simon Newcomb, American astronomer and mathematician (b. 1835)
● 1929 - William Mosforth, English footballer (b. 1857)
● 1920 - Empress Eugénie de Montijo of France (b. 1826)
● 1936 - James Murray, American actor (b. 1901)
● 1937 - George Gershwin, American composer (b. 1898
● 1959 - Charlie Parker, English cricketer (b. 1882)
● 1966 - Delmore Schwartz, American poet (b. 1913)
● 1967 - Guy Favreau, French Canadian lawyer, politician and judge (b. 1917)
● 1971 - John W. Campbell, American writer and editor (b. 1910)
● 1971 - Pedro Rodríguez, Mexican racing driver (b. 1940)
● 1974 - Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
● 1979 - Claude Wagner, French Canadian judge and politician (b. 1925)
● 1983 - Ross Macdonald, American-Canadian writer (b. 1915)
● 1987 - Avi Ran, Israeli footballer (b. 1963)
● 1989 - Sir Laurence Olivier, English stage and screen actor (b. 1907)
● 1991 - Hitoshi Igarashi, English-Japanese translator of the Satanic Verses (b. 1947)
● 1994 - Gary Kildall, American computer programmer (b. 1942)
● 1994 - Savannah, American actress (b. 1970
● 1999 - Helen Forrest, American singer (b. 1917)
● 2000 - Pedro Mir, Dominican poet (b. 1913)
● 2000 - Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1921)
● 2001 - Herman Brood, Dutch singer and artist (suicide) (b. 1946)
● 2004 - Laurance Rockefeller, American conservationist and philanthropist (b. 1910)
● 2005 - Gretchen Franklin, English actress (b. 1911)
● 2005 - Frances Langford, American actress and singer (b. 1914)
● 2005 - Jesús Iglesias, Argentine racing driver (b. 1922)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Abundius
● St. Amabilis
● St. Benedict of Nursia, founder of the Benedictine Order
● St. Cindeus
● St. Drostan
● St. Hidulphus
● Sts. Januarius and Pelagia
● St. John of Bergamo
● St. Leontius the Younger
● St. Marcian
● St. Olga
● St. Oliver Plunkett
● St. Pius I, 10th pope (141-55), martyr
● Sts. Sabinus & Cyprian
● St. Turketil
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for June 29 (Civil Date: July 11)
● The Holy, Glorious and All-Praised Leaders of the Apostles, Peter and Paul.
● St. Peter, prince of the Tatar Horde, Wonderworker of Rostov.
● Opening of the Relics of St. Nicander, monk of Pskov.
● Repose of Archbishop Andrew (Fr. Adrian) of New Diveyevo (1979).
● Orthodox: Feast of St. Olga, 1st Russian saint of the Orthodox Church
● Anglican and Lutheran:
● St. Benedict of Nursia, founder of the Benedictine Order
● Appleton Cheshire, England : Bawming the Thorn Day
● China - China National Maritime Day
● Dahomey, Ivory Coast, Niger, Upper Volta : Independence Day (1960)
● Flanders, region in Belgium - Flemish Day (1302 Battle of the Golden Spurs)
● Ireland - National Day of Commemoration held on nearest Sunday to this date.
● Mongolia : National Day (1921)
● North Belgium : Flemish Day
● Bonfire night in Northern Ireland, precursor to The Twelfth
● United Nations - World Population Day
● United States: Free Slurpee at 7-Eleven (most locations do this - get a free 7.11 oz Slurpee on 7-11).
● 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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