Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Privacy "Privacy is granted to you by others, by their decency, by their understanding, by their compassionate behavior, by the laws of the land." — Alida Brill
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Neo-Fascism "I want to be invisible. I do guerrilla warfare. I paint my face and travel at night. You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag. You don't know until election night." — Ralph Reed, former executive director of the Christian Coalition
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: On Politics "I think we can agree. The past is over." — Hall of Shame Member #1, George W. Bush
Thought for the day: "The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion."
{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 6384: Beyond the Stars
Credit & Copyright: Ken Crawford (Rancho Del Sol Observatory)
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 100 B.C.E. - Roman dictator Julius Caesar was born.
● 526 - St Felix IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope
● 1096 - Crusaders under Peter the Hermit reached Sofia, Bulgaria. There they met their Byzantine escort, which brought them safely the rest of the way to Constantinople by August 1.
● 1191 - Saladin's garrison surrenders, ending the two-year siege of Acre. Conrad of Montferrat, who has negotiated the surrender, raises the banners of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and of the Third Crusade leaders Richard ("The Lionhearted") I of England, Philip II of France, and Leopold V of Austria on the city's walls and towers.
● 1290 - Jews are expelled from England by order of King Edward I
● 1450 - Jack Cade, leader of rebellion of workers, executed and his head left on London Bridge.
● 1543 - King Henry VIII of England marries his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr at Hampton Court Palace.
● 1573 - Spanish forces under the Duke of Alba capture Haarlem after a seven month siege.
● 1580 - Ostrog Bible, the first printed Bible in a Slavic language, is published.
● 1690 - Battle of the Boyne (Gregorian calendar) (1 July O.S.) – Also called battle of the Orange - Protestant forces led by William III of Orange defeated the Roman Catholic army of James II.
● 1691 - William III defeated the allied Irish and French armies at the Battle of Aughrim, Ireland.
● 1759 - Seven Years' War - French and Indian War: British cannons start firing on French at Quebec City, from Lévis, Quebec.
● 1774 - Citizens of Carlisle, Penn. pass a declaration of independence
● 1790 - The French Assembly approved a Civil Constitution providing for the election of priests and bishops.
● 1804 - Alexander Hamilton was killed in a duel by Aaron Burr
● 1806 - Sixteen German imperial states leave the Holy Roman Empire and form the Confederation of the Rhine.
● 1806 - The Confederation of the Rhine was established in Germany.
● 1810 - Members of shoemakers' union face trial in New York City for striking to win wage increases.
● 1812 - US forces led by Gen Hull invade Canada (War of 1812)
● 1817 - Henry Thoreau, author of "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience," born in Concord, Massachusetts.
● 1839 - Cherokee Act of Union brings together the Eastern and Western Cherokee, split apart the previous winter by the deadly Trail of Tears, to form a unified tribal government.
● 1843 - Mormon church founder Joseph Smith announced that a divine revelation had been given him sanctioning polygamy among his newly-organized religious followers.
● 1854 - George Eastman, inventor of the Kodak camera, was born in Waterville, N.Y.
● 1859 - Paper bag manufacturing machine patented by William Goodale, Mass
● 1862 - Medal of Honor authorized by the United States Congress.
● 1864 - Birth of George Washington Carver.
● 1864 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln witnessed the battle where Union forces repelled Jubal Early's army on the outskirts of Washington, DC.
● 1865 - George Washington Carver, the African-American scientist whose discoveries helped to improve agriculture in the South, was born.
● 1874 - Ontario Agricultural College founded
● 1876 - Paul Henry discovers asteroid #164 Eva
● 1882 - 1st ocean pier in US completed, Washington, DC
● 1892 - A hidden lake bursts out of a glacier on the side of Mont Blanc, flooding the valley below and killing around 200 villagers and holidaymakers in Saint Gervais.
● 1892 - Pennsylvania state militia breaks Carnegie steel strike.
● 1895 - Birth of inventor, polymath, R. Buckminster Fuller.
● 1895 - Broadway lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II was born in New York City.
● 1898 - Birth of Peter Deyneka, missions pioneer. The Slavic Gospel Association, which he founded in 1934, undertakes evangelistic work in Europe and South America.
● 1900 - 114° F (46° C), Basin, Wyoming (state record)
● 1904 - Forty-five thousand Chicago slaughterhouse workers strike.
● 1906 - Alfred Dreyfus exonerated in France
● 1909 - Working for the man - U.S. Congress authorizes income tax (16th amendment).
● 1910 - J Helffrich discovers asteroid #701 Oriola
● 1916 - Matawan Creek, New Jersey attacks, a bull shark swam 15 miles upstream and attacked three people, killing two.
● 1917 - In order to break up a copper mine strike, several thousand vigilantes round up 1,186 IWW members in Bisbee, Arizona; they are "deported" into the Sonoran desert. Patriotism and support for the war effort were cited as reasons for the action.
● 1920 - Lithuania & USSR sign peace treaty, Lithuania becomes independent republic {At least for a while}
● 1923 - K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #997 Priska & #3682
● 1932 - Lambeth Bridge, London, opened by King George V of the United Kingdom.
● 1933 - Congress passes the first federal minimum wage law in the United States: 33 cents per hour. {Republicans even then say the poor are overpaid.}
● 1934 - US Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island abandoned
● 1941 - Moscow was bombed by the German Luftwaffe for the first time.
● 1943 - World War II: Battle of Prokhorovka - German and Soviet forces engage in largest tank engagement of all time.
● 1944 - Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary was chartered in Mill Valley, CA, under sponsorship of the Southern Baptist Church.
● 1948 - 1st jets to fly across the Atlantic (6 RAF de Havilland Vampires)
● 1950 - René Pleven becomes Prime Minister of France.
● 1951 - Adlai Stevenson calls National Guard to stop rioting in Cicero, Illinois. Mob of 3,500 tries to keep an African-American family from moving into the city. {This courageous stance by Stevenson more than likely doomed any chance he had in his two runs for the presidency against Eisenhower. Later he would be remembered for saying, "I can wait till Hell freezes over." at UN during the Cuban missile crisis.}
● 1954 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower proposed a highway modernization program, with costs to be shared by federal and state governments.
● 1957 - 1st President to fly in helicopter-Dwight Eisenhower
● 1957 - The U.S. surgeon general, Leroy E. Burney, reported that there was a direct link between smoking and lung cancer.
● 1960 - Congo, Chad & Central African Republic declare independence
● 1960 - Echo I, 1st passive satellite launched
● 1960 - Orlyonok, the main Young Pioneer camp of the Russian SFSR, is founded.
● 1960 - USSR's Sputnik 5 launched with 2 dogs
● 1962 - 1st time 2 manned crafts in space (USSR)
● 1963 - Swiss Reformed theologian Karl Barth wrote in a letter: 'Do not stop testing and correcting your insights by holy scripture. Then, being sound in what really counts, you can live and represent a comforted life.'
● 1966 - 26.70 cm (10.51") of rainfall, Sandusky, Ohio (state record)
● 1966 - Racial riots erupt in Chicago and Cleveland.
● 1966 - US Treasury announces it will buy mutilated silver coins at silver bullion price at Philadelphia & Denver mints
● 1967 - Blacks in Newark, riot, 26 killed, 1500 injured & over 1000 arrested
● 1971 - Juan Corona, indicted for 25 murders
● 1972 - George McGovern won the Democratic presidential nomination at the party's convention in Miami Beach.
● 1973 - A fire destroys the entire 6th floor of the National Personnel Records Center of the United States.
● 1974 - John Ehrlichman, a former aide to U.S. President Nixon, and three others were convicted of conspiring to violate the civil rights of Daniel Ellsberg's former psychiatrist.
● 1975 - São Tomé and Príncipe declare independence from Portugal.
● 1977 - 1st free flight test of space shuttle Enterprise
● 1979 - Kiribati (Gilbert & Ellice islands) gains independence from Britain
● 1980 - Cree of northern Quebec file suit claiming Canadian and Quebec governments failed to honor James Bay and North Quebec Agreement. The James Bay I hydroelectric project, built in the 1970s, flooded tens of thousands of square miles of Cree and Inuit lands.
● 1982 - FEMA promises survivors of a nuclear war will get their mail. {Quite reassuring that one since survivors of flood and storm aren't afforded the same promise.}
● 1982 - The last of the distinctive-looking Checker taxicabs rolled off the assembly line in Kalamazoo, MI.
● 1984 - Democratic presidential candidate Walter F. Mondale named U.S. Rep. Geraldine A. Ferraro of New York to be his running mate. Ferraro was the first woman to run for vice president on a major party ticket.
● 1985 - Doctors discover a cancerous growth in Pres Reagan's colon. {Puzzled doctors don't understand why the growth looks exactly like Reagan's head.}
● 1985 - Salvadoran guerillas liberate 149 prisoners.
● 1985 - STS 51-F launch scrubbed at T -3s because of main engine shutdown
● 1986 - Orange Parade sparks riots; Dozens are injured in the second consecutive night of violence in Portadown, County Armagh, in Northern Ireland.
● 1988 - USSR launches Phobos II for Martian orbit
● 1990 - Russian republic president Boris N. Yeltsin announced his resignation from the Soviet Communist Party.
● 1993 - A magnitude 7.8 earthquake off the shore of Hokkaidō, Japan launches a devastating tsunami, killing 202 on the small island of Okushiri.
● 1994 - President Bill Clinton visited the eastern sector of Berlin, the first president to do so since Harry Truman.
● 1998 - In Ballymoney, Northern Ireland, three young brothers were burned to death in an sectarian arson attack while they slept.
● 2000 - A car bomb exploded in central Madrid injuring nine people. The attack was blamed on the Basque separatist group ETA.
● 2000 - One minute of silence to protest terrorism is widely observed, Greece.
● 2000 - British-backed dam threatens ancient lifestyle; The British Foreign Office is severely criticised over plans to back a new dam in Turkey.
● 2000 - Russia launched the Zvezda after two years of delays. The module was built to be the living quarters for the International Space Station (ISS.)
● 2001 - Abner Louima, a Haitian immigrant tortured in a New York City police station, agreed to an $8.7 million settlement.
● 2002 - Gay rights: The Superior Court of Ontario orders Ontario to recognize same-sex marriages.
● 2003 - The USS Ronald Reagan, the first carrier named for a living president, was commissioned in Norfolk, Va.
● 2004 - Pedro Santana Lopes is officially appointed Prime Minister of Portugal.
● 2005 - Prince Albert II is enthroned as ruler of the Principality of Monaco.
● 2005 - Mohammed Bouyeri, a Muslim extremist on trial in the slaying of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, unexpectedly confessed in court, saying he was driven by religious conviction. (Bouyeri was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.)
● 2006 - Hezbollah initiates Operation True Promise. Hezbollah guerrillas kidnapped two Israeli soldiers and killed eight others in a cross-border raid; Israel sent ground troops into Lebanon in response.
BIRTHS
● 100 B.C.E. - Julius Caesar, Roman military and political leader (d. 44 B.C.E.) (born either July 12 or July 13)
● 1394 - Ashikaga Yoshinori, Japanese shogun (d. 1441)
● 1468 - Juan del Encina, Spanish poet and composer (d. ?1533)
● 1596 - Tsar Michael I of Russia (d. 1645)
● 1674 - Abigail Williams, American accuser in the Salem witch trials (d. 1765)
● 1675 - Evaristo Abaco, Italian composer (d. 1742)
● 1730 - Josiah Wedgwood, English potter (d. 1795)
● 1803 - Peter Chanel, French priest and saint (d. 1841)
● 1807 - Thomas Hawksley, English civil engineer (d. 1893)
● 1817 - Henry David Thoreau, American writer and philosopher (d. 1862)
● 1824 - Eugène Boudin, French painter (d. 1898)
● 1828 - Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher (d. 1889)
● 1840 - Benjamin Altman, American merchant; founded B. Altman department store chain (d. 1913)
● 1849 - Sir William Osler, Canadian physician and author (d. 1919)
● 1850 - Otto Schoetensack, German anthropologist (d. 1912)
● 1852 - Hipólito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina (d. 1933)
● 1854 - George Eastman, American inventor (d. 1932)
● 1861(64? NYT) - George Washington Carver, American botanist (d. 1943)
● 1863 - Albert Calmette, French physician (d. 1933)
● 1863 - Paul Karl Ludwig Drude, German physicist (d. 1906)
● 1868 - Stefan George, German poet (d. 1933)
● 1870 - Louis II of Monaco (d. 1949)
● 1872 - Frederick Birkenhead, English lord chancellor (1919-22) (d. 1930)
● 1876 - Max Jacob, French poet (d. 1944)
● 1880 - Tod Browning, American film director (d. 1962)
● 1884 - Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor (d. 1920)
● 1886 - Jean Hersholt, Danish film director and actor (d. 1956)
● 1892 - Bruno Schulz, Polish writer and painter (d. 1942)
● 1895 - Kirstin Flagstad, Norwegian soprano (d. 1962)
● 1895 - Buckminster Fuller, American architect (d. 1983)
● 1895 - Oscar Hammerstein II, American lyricist (d. 1960)
● 1904 - Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
● 1908 - Milton Berle, American comedian (d. 2002)
● 1909 - Curly Joe DeRita, American actor and comedian (d. 1993)
● 1909 - Fritz Leonhardt, German civil engineer (d. 1999)
● 1913 - Willis Lamb, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
● 1917 - Andrew Wyeth, American artist
● 1920 - Pierre Berton, Canadian journalist and writer (d. 2004)
● 1920 - Beah Richards, American actress (d. 2000)
● 1921 - Bob Fillion, French Canadian ice hockey player
● 1922 - Mark Hatfield, U.S. Senator from Oregon
● 1925 - Roger B. Smith, American automobile executive
● 1928 - Elias James Corey, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
● 1930 - Gordon Pinsent, Canadian actor, director, and writer
● 1932 - Monte Hellman, Director
● 1932 - Otis Davis, American runner
● 1933 - Donald E. Westlake, American author
● 1934 - Van Cliburn, American pianist
● 1937 - Bill Cosby, American comedian and actor
● 1937 - Lionel Jospin, Prime Minister of France 1997-2002
● 1937 - Michel Louvain, French Canadian singer
● 1938 - Ron Fairly, American baseball player
● 1938 - Wieger Mensonides, Dutch swimmer
● 1941 - Benny Parsons, American NASCAR driver (d. 2007)
● 1942 - Billy Smith, Australian rugby league footballer
● 1943 - Christine McVie, British singer, musician, and songwriter (Fleetwood Mac)
● 1943 - Walter Murch, American film editor
● 1944 - Denise Nicholas, Actress
● 1945 - Butch Hancock, Singer, songwriter
● 1946 - Fujioka Hiroshi, Japanese martial artist and actor
● 1947 - Gareth Edwards, Welsh rugby union footballer
● 1948 - Walter Egan, American singer
● 1948 - Richard Simmons, American fitness trainer
● 1948 - Jay Thomas, American actor
● 1949 - Rick Hendrick, American NASCAR Team Owner, and car dealer.
● 1950 - Eric Carr, American drummer (Kiss) (d. 1991)
● 1950 - Gilles Meloche, French Canadian ice hockey goaltender
● 1951 - Brian Grazer, American film producer
● 1951 - Cheryl Ladd, American actress ("Charlie's Angels")
● 1952 - Voja Antonić, Serbian inventor and writer
● 1954 - Wolfgang Dremmler, German footballer
● 1956 - Julie Miller, Country singer
● 1956 - Sandi Patty, American singer
● 1956 - Mario Soto, Dominican professional baseball player
● 1957 - Buddy Foster, Actor
● 1957 - Mel Harris, Actress
● 1957 - Richard Douglas Husband, American astronaut (d. 2003)
● 1959 - Steve Fuller, Anglo-American philosopher and sociologist
● 1962 - Dan Murphy, American guitarist (Soul Asylum)
● 1962 - Julio César Chávez, Mexican boxer
● 1962 - Dean Wilkins, English football manager
● 1964 - Gaby Roslin, English television presenter
● 1965 - Robin Wilson, American singer (Gin Blossoms)
● 1967 - Richard Herring, English comedian
● 1967 - John Petrucci, American guitar player (Dream Theater)
● 1967 - Bruny Surin, Canadian athlete
● 1968 - Catherine Plewinski, French swimmer
● 1969 - Lisa Nicole Carson, American actress
● 1969 - Jesse Pintado, American guitarist (Napalm Death) (d. 2006)
● 1970 - Brian Lee Byung-Hun, South Korean actor
● 1971 - Kristi Yamaguchi, American figure skater
● 1972 - Travis Best, American basketball player
● 1972 - Brett Reed, American musician (Rancid)
● 1973 - Magoo, American rapper
● 1973 - Christian Vieri, Italian football player
● 1973 - Shannon Lawson, Country singer
● 1974 - Sharon den Adel, Dutch singer (Within Temptation)
● 1974 - Stelios Giannakopoulos, Greek footballer
● 1974 - Gregory Helms, American professional wrestler
● 1975 - Tracie Spencer, R&B singer
● 1976 - Dan Boyle, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1976 - Anna Friel, British actress
● 1976 - Tracie Spencer, American singer
● 1977 - Neil Harris, English footballer
● 1977 - Steve Howey, American actor
● 1977 - Airin Older, American musician
● 1977 - Brock Lesnar, American professional wrestler
● 1978 - Topher Grace, American actor ("That 70's Show")
● 1978 - Michelle Rodriguez, American actress ("Lost")
● 1979 - Nikos Barlos, Greek basketball player
● 1982 - Antonio Cassano, Italian footballer
● 1983 - Megumi Kawamura, Japanese volleyballer
● 1984 - Gareth Gates, British singer
● 1984 - Michael McGovern, Northern Irish footballer
● 1985 - Luiz Ejlli, Albanian singer
● 1985 - Natasha Poly, Russian supermodel
● 1988 - Melissa O'Neil, Canadian singer
● 1991 - Erik Per Sullivan, Actor ("Malcom in the Middle")
DEATHS
● 783 - Bertrada of Laon, wife of Pippin III (b. 720)
● 1441 - Ashikaga Yoshinori, Japanese shogun (b. 1394)
● 1536 - Erasmus, Dutch writer and philosopher
● 1584 - Steven Borough, English explorer (b. 1525)
● 1664 - Stefano della Bella, Italian printmaker (b. 1610)
● 1682 - Jean Picard, French astronomer (b. 1620)
● 1693 - John Ashby, English admiral
● 1712 - Richard Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland (b. 1626)
● 1742 - Evaristo Abaco, Italian composer (b. 1675)
● 1749 - Charles de la Boische, Marquis de Beauharnois, Governor of New France
● 1773 - Johann Joachim Quantz, German flutist and composer (b. 1697)
● 1804 - Alexander Hamilton, 1st United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1755)
● 1845 - Henrik Wergeland, Norwegian author (b. 1808)
● 1910 - Charles Stewart Rolls, British engineer and aviator (b. 1887)
● 1918 - Dragutin Lerman, Croatian explorer (b. 1864)
● 1926 - Gertrude Bell, English archaeologist, writer, spy, and administrator (b. 1868)
● 1931 - Nathan Söderblom, Swedish archbishop, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1866)
● 1934 - Ole Evinrude, Norwegian-American inventor and industrialist (b. 1877)
● 1935 - Alfred Dreyfus, French military officer (b. 1859)
● 1944 - Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., American general, received Medal of Honor (b. 1887)
● 1945 - Wolfram von Richthofen, German field marshal (b. 1895)
● 1945 - Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician (b. 1871)
● 1947 - Jimmie Lunceford, American saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1902)
● 1949 - Douglas Hyde, first President of Ireland (b. 1860)
● 1950 - Elsie De Wolfe, American socialite and interior decorator (b. 1865)
● 1961 - Mazo de la Roche, Canadian author (b. 1879)
● 1962 - Roger Wolfe Kahn, American band leader (b. 1907)
● 1971 - Yvon Robert, French Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1914)
● 1973 - Lon Chaney, Jr., American actor (b. 1906)
● 1979 - Minnie Riperton, American soul singer (b. 1947)
● 1983 - Chris Wood, British musician, played with Traffic, (b. 1944)
● 1993 - Dan Eldon, British photojournalist (b. 1970)
● 1996 - John Chancellor, American television journalist (b. 1927)
● 1996 - Jonathan Melvoin, American musician and keyboardist (The Smashing Pumpkins) (b. 1961)
● 1998 - Serge Lemoyne, French Canadian artist (b. 1941)
● 1998 - Jimmy Driftwood, American folk songwriter and musician (b. 1907)
● 1999 - Bill Owen, British actor (b. 1914)
● 2003 - Benny Carter, American musician (b. 1907)
● 2004 - Betty Oliphant, co-founder of National Ballet of Canada (b. 1918)
● 2005 - Lord John King, Baron King of Wartnaby, Chief executive of British Airways since its privitisation. (b. 1917)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Agnes De
● St. Amator, bishop of Auxerre, confessor
● St. Ansbald
● St. Cletus, pope, martyr
● St. Epiphania
● Sts. Hermagoras and Fortunatus, martyrs
● St. Jason
● St. John Gualbert, abbot, confessor
● St. John Jones
● St. John the Iberian
● St. Leo of Lucca
● St. Liethard
● St. Marcellinus, pope, martyr
● St. Marciana
● St. Margaret, virgin, martyr
● St. Menulf, bishop, confessor
● St. Nabor and Felix, martyrs
● St. Paternian
● St. Paulinus of Antioch
● Sts. Peter and Paul, Foremost of Apostles
● St. Peter Khanh
● St. Prejectus, bishop, martyr
● St. Sixtus
● St. Veronica
● St. Viventiolus, bishop of Lyon, confessor
● Bl. Andrew Oexner of Riun
● Bl. David Gonson
● Bl. John Naisen
● Bl. John Tanaka
● Bl. Louis Naisen
● Bl. Matthias Araki
● Bl. Monica Naisen
● Bl. Peter Araki Kobjoje
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for June 30 (Civil Date: July 12)
● Synaxis of the Holy, Glorious and All-Praised Twelve Apostles: Peter, Andrew, James and John the sons of Zebedee, Philip, Bartholomew, Thomas, Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Jude the brother of James, Simon Zelotes, and Matthias
● St. Sophronius, Bishop of Irkutsk.
● New-Martyr Michael of Athens.
● St. Andrew, prince of Bogoliubsk.
● Greek Calendar:
● Martyr Meleton.
● Martyr Peter of Synope.
● Repose of Bishop Nestor of San Francisco and Alaska (1882).
● Central African Republic, Chad, Congo : Independence Day (1960)
● Kiribati - Independence Day.
● Manhattan: Sunset and sunrise occur along Manhattan's street grid centerline.
● Mongolia - Naadam Holiday (2nd day).
● Newfoundland - Orangemen's Day.
● Northern Ireland - Battle of the Boyne Day (also known as Orangemen's Day or the Twelfth).(1690) (7/1 OS)
● Rhodesia : Thodes Day
● São Tomé and Príncipe - Independence Day.
● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● South Africa : Family Day - ( Monday )
● Swaziland : Reed Dance Day - ( Monday )
IN FICTION
● 1874 - Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure, "The Gloria Scott"
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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