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Friday, July 13, 2007

July 13......

July 13 is the 194th (195th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 171 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Progress "Progress is not automatic; the world grows better because people wish that it should, and take the right steps to make it better." — Jane Addams

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Obtuseness "There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. There are known unknowns; that is to say, we know there are things we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know." — Donald Rumsfeld

Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: On Politics "[Senator John McCain] . . . can't have it both ways. He can't take the high horse and then claim the low road." — Hall of Shame Member #1, George W. Bush

Thought for the day: "Learning music by reading about it, Is like making love by mail."

{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

Manhattanhenge: A New York Sunset


Credit & Copyright: Neil deGrasse Tyson (AMNH)
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation


EVENTS

● 432 B.C.E. - Origin of Metonic Cycle

● 574 John III ends his reign as Catholic Pope

● 982 - Otto II is defeated in Calabria by the Saracens, Pandulf II of Salerno and Landulf IV of Benevento killed in battle.

● 1099 - The Crusaders launched their final assault on Muslims in Jerusalem.

● 1105 - Death of Rashi (b.1040), medieval Jewish Bible scholar. His name is a Hebrew acrostic for Rabbi Shelomoh ben Isaac. Rashi was the leading rabbinic commentator in his day on the Old Testament and Talmud.

● 1174 - William I of Scotland, a key rebel in the Revolt of 1173-1174, is captured at Alnwick by forces loyal to Henry II of England.

● 1534 - The Ottoman armies captured Tabriz in northwestern Persia.

● 1558 - Battle of Gravelines: In France, Spanish forces led by Count Lamoral of Egmont defeat the French forces of Marshal Paul des Thermes at Gravelines.

● 1568 - Dean of St Paul's Cathedral perfects a way to bottle beer

● 1573 - Eighty Years' War: The Siege of Haarlem ends after seven months. Haarlem surrenders to the Spanish army; a massacre follows.

● 1585 - A group of 108 English colonists, led by Sir Richard Grenville, reached Roanoke Island, NC.

● 1637 - Pequot War, which began when colonists attacked and murdered 500 Pequot Indians, ends with the massacre of the tribe near Fairfield, Connecticut.

● 1643 - In England, the Roundheads, led by Sir William Waller, were defeated by royalist troops under Lord Wilmot in the Battle of Roundway Down.

● 1754 - At the beginning of the French and Indian War, George Washington surrendered the small, circular Fort Necessity in southwestern Pennsylvania to the French.

● 1769 - Birth of Thomas Kelly, Irish Episcopal clergyman and author of 765 hymns, including 'Praise the Savior, Ye Who Know Him.'

● 1772 - HMS Resolution, under the command of Captain James Cook, sets sail from Plymouth, England.

● 1775 - Several canoes of Quinault meet Spanish ship Sonora off coast of Olympic Peninsula; problems arise, seven Quinault are killed.

● 1778 - Anglican clergyman and hymn writer John Newton wrote in a letter: 'It is perhaps the highest triumph we can obtain over bigotry when we are able to bear with bigots themselves.'

● 1786 - Northwest Ordinance enacted, stating "the utmost good faith shall always be observed toward the Indians...in their property, rights, and liberty they shall never be disturbed." {What a load of crap.}

● 1787 - Congress establishes Northwest Territory (excludes slavery)

● 1787 - The U.S. Congress, under the Articles of Confederation, enacted the Northwest Ordinance, which established the rules for governing the Northwest Territory, for admitting new states to the Union and limiting the expansion of slavery.

● 1793 - French revolutionary writer Jean Paul Marat was stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte Corday. She was executed four days later.

● 1794 - Battle of the Vosges between French forces and those of Prussia and Austria

● 1811 - Mexican independence hero, Miguel Hidalgo, executed when revolt fails.

● 1812 - The first pawn brokering ordinance was passed in New York City.

● 1815 - President John Adams wrote in a letter: 'The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist,... I should still believe fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.'

● 1821 - Nathan Bedford Forrest, the notorious Confederate Civil War general , was born.

● 1822 - Greek War of Independence: Greeks defeat Ottoman forces at Thermopylae.

● 1830 - Scottish Church College, one of the pioneering institutions that ushered the Bengal Renaissance is founded by Alexander Duff and Raja Ram Mohan Roy.

● 1832 - The source of the Mississippi River is discovered, by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft.

● 1835 - John Ruggles received patent #1 from the U.S. Patent Office for a traction wheel used in locomotive steam engines. All 9,957 previous patents were not numbered.

● 1837 - Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom moves into the first Buckingham Palace in London and is the first British monarch to live there.

● 1854 - In the battle of Guaymas, Mexico, General Jose Maria Yanez stops the French invasion led by Count Gaston de Raousset Boulbon.

● 1854 - U.S. forces shell and burn San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua in reprisal for an insult directed at the American Minister during a street fight.

● 1863 - Three days of massive anti-draft protests in New York City. Modern history's bloodiest riot began when a mob of 50,000 Civil War draft protestors burned buildings (including an orphan asylum), stores and draft offices, attacked police, and some clubbed, lynched, and shot large numbers of blacks, who they blamed for the government's position. Rioters were protesting the provision allowing cash payment in place of service. When troops returning from Gettysburg finally restored order, 1,200 were dead. {Fictionalized version appears in the movie, "The Gangs of New York," ignoring real causes and consequences.}

● 1865 - Horace Greeley advises his readers to "Go west young man." He will never go west of New York himself. Many western cities and counties are named after him.

● 1865 - PT Barnum's museum burns down

● 1868 - Oscar J Dunn, former slave, installed as lieutenant governor of Louisiana

● 1875 - David Brown patented the first cash-carrier system.

● 1878 - Treaty of Berlin: The European powers redraw the map of the Balkans. Serbia, Montenegro and Romania become completely independent of the Ottoman empire.

● 1882 - 200 die as train derails near Tcherny, Russia

● 1886 - Birth of Father Edward Flanagan, American Catholic parish priest. Believing there was 'no such thing as a bad boy,' in 1922 he organized Boys Town near Omaha, Nebraska.

● 1898 - Guglielmo Marconi patents the radio

● 1898 - SF Ferry Building at foot of Market St opens

● 1900 - Boxer Rebellion: In China, Tientsin is retaken by European Allies from the rebelling Boxers.

● 1909 - Gold discovered near Cochrane, Ontario.

● 1912 - Leader of the Indian freedom movement and scholar, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad brought out his noted Urdu news journal, al-Hilal.

● 1914 - Simone Pianetti's mass murder action in Camerata Cornello, Italy

● 1917 - Vision of Virgin Mary appeared to children of Fatima, Portugal

● 1919 - Race riots in Longview & Gregg counties Texas

● 1919 - The British airship R34 lands in Norfolk, England, completing the first airship return journey across the Atlantic in 182 hours of flight.

● 1923 - The Hollywood Sign is officially dedicated in the hills above Hollywood, Los Angeles. It originally reads "Hollywoodland" but the four last letters are dropped after renovation in 1949.

● 1930 - Sarnoff reports in NY Times "TV would be a theater in every home"

● 1931 - A major German financial institution, Danabank, failed. This led to the closing of all banks in Germany until August 5.

● 1936 - 112° F (44° C), Mio, Michigan (state record)

● 1936 - 114° F (46° C), Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin (state record)

● 1936 - A heat wave strikes the Midwestern United States. The all-time highest temperatures for the states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Indiana are all recorded on this date.

● 1941 - Britain and the Soviet Union signed a mutual aid pact, that provided the means for Britain to send war material to the Soviet Union.

● 1941 - World War II: Montenegrins start popular uprising against the Axis Powers

● 1942 - Top-secret Manhattan Project to develop nuclear weapons begins, Chicago. {Fermi will start first self-sustaining chain reaction in basement of the University of Chicago stadium.}

● 1942 - World War II: German U-Boats sink three more merchant ships in Gulf of St. Lawrence.

● 1948 - The Coptic and Ethiopian Churches reach an agreement leading to the promotion of the Ethiopian church to the rank of an autocephalous Patriarchate.

● 1953 - J A Bruwer discovers asteroids #1658 Innes & #3284

● 1954 - In Geneva, the United States, Great Britain and France reached an accord on Indochina which divided Vietnam into two countries, North and South, along the 17th parallel. {Too bad, nobody bother to get approval from the Vietnamese people themselves. They were promised an election that was never held because the West feared the results would favor Ho Chi Minh.}

● 1955 - Ruth Ellis hanged for killing lover; Convicted murderer Ruth Ellis is hanged at Holloway Prison, London.

● 1960 - Democratic Nationall convention nominates Senator John F. Kennedy for president

● 1962 - British Committee of 100 demonstrates against all nuclear weapons, Red Square, Moscow, U.S.S.R.

● 1967 - Race-related rioting broke out in Newark, NJ. At the end of four days of violence 27 people had been killed.

● 1969 - Russia launches unmanned Luna 15 to Moon

● 1971 - Death for Moroccan rebel leaders; Ten army officers involved in an aborted coup in Morocco have been executed.

● 1972 - C Torres discovers asteroid #3050 Carrera

● 1972 - T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2112 Ulyanov

● 1973 - Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of the Nixon tapes to the special Senate committee investigating the Watergate break in.

● 1975 - 8.5" (21.6 cm) of rainfall, Dover, Delaware (state record)

● 1976 - Courtmartial begins in USSR for Valeri Sablin (Hunt for Red Oct)

● 1977 - The New York City Blackout of 1977 lasts for 25 hours and results in looting and other disorder.

● 1978 - Alexander Ginzburg sentenced by Soviet court to 8 years

● 1978 - Ford Motor Company President Lee Iacocca is fired by chairman Henry Ford II, ending a long dispute between the men.

● 1979 - A 45-hour siege began at the Egyptian Embassy in Ankara, Turkey. Four Palestinian guerrillas killed two security men and seized 20 hostages.

● 1982 - Women's Peace March to Minsk (U.S.S.R.) leaves Stockholm, Sweden.

● 1983 - Around 3,000 Tamils were slaughtered by Sinhalese Buddhist majority in Sri Lanka and some 400,000 Tamils fled to neighboring Tamil Nadu, India and a lot found refuge in Europe and Canada. This incident, known as Black July led directly to beginning of civil war in Sri Lanka.

● 1984 - In Arkansas, Terry Wallis was injured in a car accident and was left comatose. He came out of the coma in June of 2003.

● 1985 - Vice President George H. W. Bush became the first Vice President to become Acting President when President Ronald Reagan underwent surgery to remove polyps from his colon. Bush served as Acting President for approximately eight hours {when Reagan resumed his duties as acting President}.

● 1989 - Nurses' local 1199 goes on strike in Seattle area.

● 1994 - Jeff Gillooly, Tonya Harding's ex-husband, was sentenced in Portland, OR, to two years in prison for his role in the attack on Nancy Kerrigan.

● 1996 - Eight thousand reclaim the M41 freeway in West London for a party.

● 1998 - "Image of an Assassination" went on sale. The video documentary is of Abraham Zapruder's home video of U.S. President Kennedy's assassination in Dallas.

● 1998 - Four young cousins in Gallup, NM, died after becoming trapped in a car trunk.

● 1999 - Protesting staff of Berkeley community radio station KPFA kicked off air by station owners Pacifica. {Free speech radio takes a giant step backwards.}

● 2000 - The United States and Vietnam singed a major trade agreement. The pact still needed to be approved by the U.S. Congress.

● 2001 - Family demand inquiry into police shooting; The family of a mentally ill man shot dead by police in Liverpool last night demands a public inquiry.

● 2002 - A lightning strike sets off the Sour Biscuit Fire in Oregon and northern California, which had burned 499,570 acres (2,020 km²) when finally contained on September 5.

● 2003 - With the blessing of U.S. administrators, Iraqis inaugurated a broadly representative governing council.

● 2005 - Former WorldCom Inc. boss Bernard Ebbers was sentenced to 25 years in prison for leading the largest corporate fraud in U.S. history.

● 2005 - Three trains collide in the Ghotki rail crash in Ghotki, Pakistan, killing over 150 people.

● 2006 - Israel imposed a naval blockade against Lebanon and blasted the Beirut airport and army air bases; Hezbollah fired dozens of rockets into Israel.


BIRTHS

● 100 B.C.E. - Julius Caesar, Roman military and political leader (d. 44 B.C.) (born either July 12 or July 13)

● 40 C.E. - Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman Governor of Britain (d. 93 C.E.)

● 1527 - John Dee, English scientist (d. 1609)

● 1579 - Arthur Dee, English physician (d. 1651)

● 1590 - Pope Clement X (d. 1676)

● 1607 - Václav Hollar, Czech-born artist (d. 1677)

● 1608 - Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1657)

● 1765 - Simeon North, American firearms manufacturer (d. 1852)

● 1770 - Alexander Balashov, Russian general (d. 1837)

● 1793 - John Clare, English poet (d. 1864)

● 1808 - Patrice MacMahon, duc de Magenta, President of France (d. 1893)

● 1821 - Nathan Bedford Forrest, American founder of the original Ku Klux Klan (not the current one) {Neither group is or was a bunch of fun guys.} (d. 1877)

● 1841 - Otto Wagner, Austrian architect (d. 1918)

● 1858 - Stewart Culin, American ethnographer (d. 1929)

● 1859 - Sidney Webb, British socialist (d. 1947)

● 1864 - John Jacob Astor IV, American entrepreneur (d. 1912)

● 1894 - Isaac Babel, Ukrainian writer (d. 1940)

● 1895 - Sidney Blackmer, American actor (d. 1973)

● 1896 - Mordecai Ardon, Israeli painter (d. 1992)

● 1898 - Julius Schreck, member of the Nazi party (d. 1936)

● 1900 - George Lewis, American musician (d. 1969)

● 1901 - Mickey Walker, American professional boxer (d. 1981)

● 1901 - Sir Reginald Goodall, English opera conductor (d. 1990)

● 1903 - Eric Portman, English stage and film actor (d. 1969)

● 1913 - Dave Garroway, American television host (d. 1982)

● 1918 - Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver (d. 1955)

● 1920 - Bill Towers, English footballer (d. 2000)

● 1921 - Charles Scribner, Jr., American book publisher (d. 1995)

● 1921 - Ernest Gold, Austrian composer (d. 1999)

● 1921 - Friedrich Peter, Austrian poltitician (d. 2005)

● 1921 - Git Gay, Swedish actress and singer (d. 2007)

● 1922 - Ken Mosdell, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2006)

● 1924 - Carlo Bergonzi, Italian singer

● 1924 - Michel Constantin, French film actor (d. 2003)

● 1927 - Simone Veil, French politician

● 1928 - Leroy Vinnegar, American jazz bassist

● 1928 - Bob Crane, American actor {Murdered in Scottsdale, AZ. Accused killer was acquitted.} (d. 1978)

● 1928 - Tommaso Buscetta, Sicilian mafioso and pentito (d. 2000)

● 1929 - Alan Civil, English musician (d. 1989)

● 1929 - Sofia Muratova, Soviet gymnast

● 1931 - Frank Ramsey, American basketball player

● 1932 - Hubert Reeves, Canadian astrophysicist

● 1934 - Wole Soyinka, Nigerian writer, Nobel laureate

● 1934 - Aleksei Yeliseyev, Soviet cosmonaut

● 1935 - Jack Kemp, American football player and politician

● 1936 - Albert Ayler, American musician (d. 1970)

● 1940 - Patrick Stewart, English actor (Star Trek, TNG)

● 1941 - Robert Forster, American actor

● 1941 - Jacques Perrin, French actor and filmmaker

● 1942 - Harrison Ford, American actor

● 1942 - Roger McGuinn, American musician (The Byrds)

● 1944 - Ernő Rubik, Hungarian inventor

● 1946 - Cheech Marin, American actor

● 1948 - Catherine Breillat, French director and screenwriter

● 1948 - Daphne Maxwell Reid, Actress

● 1950 - George "Pinky" Nelson, American astronaut

● 1950 - Ma Ying-jeou, former mayor of Taipei, former chairman of the Kuomintang(KMT)

● 1951 - Stellan Skarsgård, Swedish actor

● 1951 - Rob Bishop, American politician

● 1951 - Didi Conn, Actress

● 1953 - Mila Mulroney, wife of former Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney

● 1954 - Sezen Aksu, Turkish singer

● 1954 - Louise Mandrell, American musician

● 1954 - Rick Chartraw, American ice hockey player

● 1956 - Claude Giroux, Canadian midget wrestler

● 1957 - Phil Margera, father of Bam Margera

● 1957 - Cameron Crowe, American film director

● 1957 - Thierry Boutsen, Belgian racing driver

● 1959 - Richard Leman, English field hockey player

● 1960 - Ian Hislop, English writer, editor of Private Eye

● 1961 - Tim Watson, Australian rules footballer

● 1961 - Stelios Manolas, Greek footballer and manager

● 1962 - Rhonda Vincent, American singer

● 1962 - Tom Kenny, American voice actor

● 1962 - Gonzalo Martinez De La Cotera, Rock musician (Marcy Playground)

● 1962 - Victoria Shaw, Country singer, songwriter

● 1963 - Neal Foulds, English snooker player

● 1965 - Michael Jace, Actor

● 1965 - Neil Thrasher, Country singer

● 1966 - Gerald Levert, American singer (d. 2006)

● 1967 - Benny Benassi, Italian disc jockey

● 1967 - Sandy Fox, American voice actress

● 1968 - Robert Gant, American actor

● 1969 - Oleg Serebrian, Moldovan politician and political scientist

● 1969 - Mark Greenway, British vocalist

● 1969 - Kakhi Kakhiashvili, Georgian-born Greek weightlifter

● 1970 - Barry Pinches, English snooker player

● 1972 - Sean Waltman, American wrestler

● 1973 - Monoxide Child, American rapper

● 1973 - Ariel Silvio Zárate, Argentine footballer

● 1974 - Jarno Trulli, Italian race car driver

● 1974 - Deborah Cox, Canadian R&B singer

● 1975 - Danni Boatwright, American model, sports caster, and Survivor contestant

● 1978 - Sheldon Souray, Canadian ice hockey player

● 1979 - Craig Bellamy, Welsh footballer

● 1982 - Joost van den Broek, Dutch keyboard player (After Forever)

● 1982 - Simon Clist, English footballer

● 1982 - Christopher Bauman, American professional wrestler (d. 2005)

● 1982 - Yadier Molina, Puerto Rican baseball player

● 1983 - Liu Xiang, Chinese hurdling athlete

● 1989 - Sayumi Michishige, Japanese singer

● 1992 - Dylan Patton, American actor


DEATHS

● 939 - Pope Leo VII

● 1189 - Matilda of England, daughter of Henry II of England (b. 1156)

● 1205 - Hubert Walter, Archbishop of Canterbury and Justicier of England

● 1357 - Bartolus de Saxoferrato Italian jurist (b. 1313)

● 1399 - Peter Parler, German architect (b. 1330)

● 1402 - Jianwen Emperor of China (b. 1377)

● 1551 - John Wallop, English soldier and diplomat

● 1621 - Archduke Albert of Austria, Governor of the Low Countries (b. 1559)

● 1626 - Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, English statesman (b. 1563)

● 1628 - Robert Shirley, English adventurer

● 1629 - Caspar Bartholin the Elder, Swedish physician and theologian (b. 1585)

● 1645 - Tsar Michael I of Russia (b. 1596)

● 1683 - Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex, English statesman (b. 1631)

● 1693 - Hendrik Trajectinus, Count of Solms, Dutch lieutenant-general (b. 1636)

● 1705 - Titus Oates, English Protestant conspirator (b. 1649)

● 1755 - Edward Braddock, British general

● 1760 - Conrad Weiser, Pennsylvania's ambassador to the Native Americans (b. 1696)

● 1761 - Tokugawa Ieshige, Japanese shogun (b. 1712)

● 1762 - James Bradley, English Astronomer Royal (b. 1693)

● 1789 - Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, French economist (b. 1715)

● 1793 - Jean-Paul Marat, French revolutionary (b. 1743)

● 1807 - Henry Benedict Stuart, Jacobite claimant to the throne of England (b. 1725)

● 1882 - Johnny Ringo, American Gunfighter (b. 1850)

● 1889 - Robert Hamerling, Austrian poet (b. 1830)

● 1896 - Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, German chemist (b. 1829)

● 1921 - Gabriel Lippmann, Luxembourg scientist (b. 1845)

● 1922 - Martin Dies, American politician (b. 1870)

● 1946 - Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer (b. 1864)

● 1951 - Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian composer (b. 1874)

● 1954 - Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (b. 1907)

● 1955 - Ruth Ellis, last woman to get the death sentence in Britain (b. 1926)

● 1960 - Joy Gresham, American writer (b. 1915)

● 1965 - Photios Kontoglou, Greek writer, painter and iconographer (b. 1895)

● 1967 - Tom Simpson, British cyclist (b. 1937)

● 1973 - Willy Fritsch, German film actor (b. 1901)

● 1974 - Patrick Blackett, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)

● 1976 - Joachim Peiper, German military leader (b. 1915)

● 1980 - Seretse Khama, first President of Botswana (b. 1921)

● 1983 - Gabrielle Roy, Canadian author (b. 1909)

● 1993 - Davey Allison, American race car driver (b. 1961)

● 1995 - Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, Danish toy manufacturer (Lego Group) (b. 1920)

● 1996 - Pandro S. Berman, American film producer (b. 1905)

● 1997 - Miguel Ángel Blanco, Spanish politician (b. 1968)

● 2002 - Yousuf Karsh, Turkish-born photographer (b. 1908)

● 2003 - Compay Segundo, Cuban musician (b. 1907)

● 2003 - Jeff Groteboer, American writer (b. 1960)

● 2004 - Arthur Kane, American musician (b. 1951)

● 2004 - Carlos Kleiber, Austrian conductor (b. 1930)

● 2006 - Red Buttons, American comedian (b. 1919)


HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic
● Our Lady Fatima
● St. Abd-al-Masih, martyr
● St. Abel of Tacla Haimonot of the Coptic Church
● St. Anacletus, pope, martyr
● St. Dogfan
● St. Eugenius, bishop of Carthage, and companions, confessors (died 505)
● St. Francis Solano
● St. Henry II (the pious), Holy Roman Emperor, confessor (died 1024)
● St. Joel
● St. Margaret, virgin, martyr
● St. Mildrada, abbess, virgin
● St. Myrope
● St. Sara
● St. Serapion
● St. Silas, apostle of northern France
● St. Teresa de los Andes
● St. Thuriaf, bishop of Dol, confessor
● St. Turiaf
● St. Willehad, bishop of Bremen, confessor
● Bl. Thomas Tunstal

● No entries for Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for (Civil Date: July 13)

● Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Kálimát (Words) - First day of the seventh month of the Bahá'í calendar

● Bon Festival - Buddhist festival to honor the dead (East Japan)

● France : La Retraite aux Flambeaux/Night Watch Day

● Kiribati - Independence Day, 2nd day (not a holiday)

● Mongolia - Naadam Holiday, 3rd day

● Rhodesia : Founder's Day/Rhode's Day

● 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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