"Quatorze Juillet" (Fourteenth of July in French) is Bastille Day, the French national holiday celebrating the storming of the Bastille in 1789 during the French Revolution.
Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Protest "The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing . . . . His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost." — Vaclav Havel
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Racism "I've been to Africa three times. All right? You can't bring Western reasoning into the culture, the same way you can't bring it into fundamental Islam." — Bill O'Reilly
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: On Politics "If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign." — Hall of Shame Member #1, George W. Bush
Thought for the day: "Think you've got influence? Try commanding someone else's dog."
{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
RCW 79: Stars in a Bubble
Credit: E. Churchwell (Univ. Wisconsin-Madison) et al., JPL-Caltech, NASA
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 160 C.E. - Founding of the kingdom of Copan (Mayan Indians), which would last for over 1,000 years.
● 1223 - In France, Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Philip II of France.
● 1430 - Joan of Arc, taken prisoner by the Burgundians in May, was handed over to Pierre Cauchon, the bishop of Beauvais.
● 1456 - Hungarians defeated the Ottomans at the Battle of Belgrade.
● 1536 - France and Portugal signed the naval treaty of Lyons, which aligned them against Spain.
● 1714 - Battle of Aland, Russian fleet overpowers larger Swedish fleet
● 1771 - Mission San Antonio de Padua founded in California
● 1773 - The first annual conference of the Methodist Church in America convened at St. George's Church in Philadelphia, PA.
● 1775 - Anglican clergyman and hymn writer John Newton wrote in a letter: 'The knowledge of God cannot be attained by studious discussion on our parts; it must be by revelation on His part.'
● 1789 - Storming of the Bastille heralds the French Revolution. Begun by Parisian crowds seeking arms and the liberation of political prisoners. Signals a new period in history with the taking of power by the nascent capitalist class, the French bourgeoisie.
● 1790 - French Revolution: Citizens of Paris celebrate the constitutional monarchy and national reconciliation in the Fête de la Fédération.
● 1791 - The Priestley Riots drive Joseph Priestley, a supporter of the French Revolution, out of Birmingham, England.
● 1798 - 1st direct federal tax on the states-on dwellings, land & slaves
● 1798 - The U.S. Congress passed the Sedition Act. The act made it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the U.S. government.
● 1800 - Birth of Anglican clergyman Matthew Bridges. In 1848 he converted to Catholicism, under the influence of the Oxford Movement in England. He is remembered today for authoring the hymn, 'Crown Him with Many Crowns.'
● 1811 - Luddites break machines at Sunnon-in-Ashuano, England.
● 1825 - The Jefferson Literary and Debating Society was founded at the University of Virginia.
● 1827 - The first Roman Catholic Mass is celebrated in the Hawaiian Islands by Fathers Abraham Armand and Alexis Bachelot of France and Patrick Short of the United Kingdom, members of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. It would be the foundation of the present-day Diocese of Honolulu.
● 1828 - Lower Umpqua Indians attack 17-man party under Jedediah Smith seeking road from California to Oregon; 13 killed.
● 1832 - Opium exempted from federal tariff duty
● 1833 - Anglican clergyman John Keble preached his famous sermon on national religious apostasy. It marked the beginning of the Oxford Movement, which sought to purify and revitalize the Church of England.
● 1834 - James McNeill Whistler, the famed American-born painter and designer, was born.
● 1845 - 1st postmasters' provisional stamps issued, NYC
● 1850 - 1st public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration
● 1853 - Commodore Perry requests trade relations with Japan
● 1865 - 1st ascent of Matterhorn
● 1868 - Tape measure enclosed in a circular case patented, Alvin J. Fellows, CT
● 1881 - The outlaw known as Billy the Kid was shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner, N.M.
● 1891 - The primacy of Thomas Edison's lamp patents was upheld in the court decision Electric Light Company vs. U.S. Electric Lighting Company.
● 1892 - The Baptist Young People's Union held its first national convention in Detroit. The founding of the BYP Union was inspired by the earlier work of Francis E. Clark, a Congregational pastor who founded the first 'modern' youth fellowship in 1881.
● 1893 - A Charlois discovers asteroid #370 Modestia
● 1896 - Birth of Spanish anarchist leader Buenaventura Durruti.
● 1900 - European Allies retook Tientsin, China, from the rebelling Boxers.
● 1902 - The Campanile in St Mark's Square, Venice collapses, also demolishing the loggetta.
● 1911 - 46" of rain begins to fall in Baguio, Phillipines
● 1911 - Harry N. Atwood landed an airplane on the lawn of the White House to accept an award from U.S. President William Taft.
● 1912 - Birth of folk singer Woody Guthrie.
● 1913 - Gerald R. Ford, the 38th president of the United States, was born Leslie King in Omaha, Neb. (His mother's second husband later adopted and renamed him.)
● 1914 - 1st patent for liquid-fueled rocket design granted to Robert Hutchins Goddard
● 1916 - Tristan Tzara delivers the first Manifesto of Dada in Zurich.
● 1921 - Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti convicted in Dedham Mass, of killing their shoe company's paymaster. Their fruitless long years of appeals and massive protests worldwide begin. (They were executed in 1927.)
● 1927 - 1st commercial airplane flight in Hawaii
● 1932 - International Peace Garden established on U.S./Canadian border at Pembina, North Dakota.
● 1933 - Gleichschaltung: In Germany, all political parties are outlawed except the Nazi Party.
● 1934 - 116° F (47° C), Orogrande, New Mexico (state record)
● 1934 - C Jackson discovers asteroids #1325 Inanda & #1326 Losaka
● 1934 - NY Times erronously declares Ruth 700 HR record to stand for all time
● 1935 - Seven thousand "Peace Pledgers" rally in Albert Hall, London, Britain.
● 1936 - 116° F (47° C), Collegeville, Indiana (state record)
● 1940 - A force of German Ju-88 bombers attacked Suez, Egypt, from bases in Crete.
● 1940 - Lithuania becomes the Lithuanian SSR
● 1940 - World War II: Andrew George Latta McNaughton takes command of the 7th Army Corps consisting of British, Canadian and New Zealand troops.
● 1941 - Vichy French Foreign Legionaries signed an armistice in Damascus, which allowed them to join the Free French Foreign Legion.
● 1942 - Mass deportation of Dutch Jews to Auschwitz begins, followed by Jews from Belgium and Luxembourg.
● 1945 - American battleships and cruisers bombarded the Japanese home islands for the first time.
● 1947 - C A Wirtanen discovers asteroid #1747 Wright
● 1948 - Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communist Party, is shot near to the Italian Parliament.
● 1950 - Indian Claims Commission upholds Indian claim for the first time in its history, awarding $3.5 million to the Choctaw and Chickasaw for lands illegally taken at the end of the Civil War.
● 1950 - RE Wayne awarded 1st Distinguished Flying Cross in Korea
● 1951 - The George Washington Carver National Monument in Joplin, MO, became the first national park to honor an African American.
● 1953 - NL beats AL 5-1 in 20th All Star Game (Crosley Field Cincinnati)
● 1954 - The central region of the United States suffers extremely hot weather, with the temperature reaching 118° F (48° C) in Warsaw and Union, Missouri, and 117° F (47° C) in East St. Louis, Illinois, setting new all-time state record high temperatures.
● 1955 - 2 killed, many dazed when lightning strikes Ascott racetrack, England
● 1957 - Soviet steamer "Eshghbad" sinks in Caspian Sea, drowning 270
● 1958 - Iraqi Revolution: In Iraq the monarchy is overthrown by Arab nationalists and Abdul Karim Kassem becomes the nation's new leader.
● 1958 - Coup in Iraq sparks jitters in Middle East; A military revolt in Iraq overthrows the monarchy and prompts King Hussein of Jordan to call for British and US military help to avert a similar rebellion in his country.
● 1959 - 1st atomic powered cruiser, the Long Beach, Quincy Mass
● 1960 - Fire raging through a Guatemala City, Guatemala insane asylum kills 225, severly injuring 300
● 1965 - Mariner 4 flyby of Mars takes the first close-up photos of another planet.
● 1965 - Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., the Democratic presidential nominee in 1952 and 1956, died at age 65.
● 1965 - Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., the Democratic presidential nominee in 1952 and 1956, died at age 65.
● 1966 - In Chicago, Richard Speck murders eight student nurses in their dormitory. {He misses one hiding under the bed, who then testifies and gets him convicted.} (Speck died in prison in 1991.)
● 1967 - Surveyor 4 launched to Moon; explodes just before landing
● 1969 - Football War: After Honduras loses a soccer game against El Salvador, rioting breaks out in Honduras against Salvadoran migrant workers. Of the 300,000 Salvadoran workers in Honduras, tens of thousands are expelled, prompting a brief Salvadoran invasion of Honduras. The OAS works out a cease-fire on July 18, taking effect on July 20.
● 1969 - Large denominations of United States currency, namely the $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills, are officially withdrawn from circulation by the Federal Reserve System due to "lack of use," {which is pure BS, it is because the ease with which they can be counterfeited} leaving the $100 bill as the largest unit of circulating United States currency.
● 1971 - Suicide note reveals murder confession; Police in Cheshire call off the hunt for the murderer of three French tourists after another body is found.
● 1972 - L Zhuravleva discovers asteroids #1959 Karbyshev & #2423 Ibarruri
● 1974 - Bundy victims Janice Ott and Denise Naslund disappear, Lake Sammamish, Washington, near Seattle.
● 1976 - Jimmy Carter won the Democratic presidential nomination at the party's convention in New York City.
● 1977 - N Chernykh discovers asteroids #2286 Fesenkov, #2492 Kutuzov, #2509 Chukotka, #2607 Yakutia & #3213
● 1978 - Allen Ginsburg completes "Plutonian Ode," blocks trainload of fissionable material headed for Rockwell's nuclear bomb trigger factory, Colorado
● 1978 - Anatoly Shcharansky convicted of anti-Soviet agitation
● 1979 - Anti-Somocista popular revolution in Nicaragua successful; no apologies to U.S. government, CIA and other avid supporters of the dictator.
● 1981 - MCLN bombs a popular cinema in Bangui, Central African Republic. Afterwards a declaration is issued, demanding withdrawal of French troops from the country.
● 1982 - In response to massive protests, government abandons war exercise. Hard Rock, Britain.
● 1983 - Representatives Crane (R-IL) and Studds (Rep-D-MA) admit to sex with pages.
● 1984 - New Zealand elects the Fourth Labour Government bringing in David Lange as Prime Minister of New Zealand, and thus breaking nine years of National party governance under Robert Muldoon. It was this government that introduced the world's first and only nuclear free legislation.
● 1984 - STS 41-D vehicle moves to Vandenberg AFB for remanifest of payloads
● 1985 - Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Offutt AFB, Neb
● 1986 - NASA's plan to implement recommendations of Rogers commission
● 1986 - Richard W Miller became 1st FBI agent convicted of espionage
● 1987 - Lt Col Oliver North concludes 6 days of Congressional testimony
● 1987 - Taiwan ends 37 years of martial law
● 1988 - 200,000 demonstrate in Soviet Armenia for incorp of Nagorno-Karabak
● 1988 - Volkswagen's automobile plant in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania - the first auto assembly plant operated by a non-American car manufacturer in the United States - closes after little more than a decade of operation. The plant built Volkswagen's Rabbit model in its first six years, then produced the Golf and some Jetta models until its closing.
● 1989 - F-16 first air-to-air kill against a fighter by an Israeli Air Force pilot shooting down a Syrian MIG-21.
● 1989 - Paris in 200-year-old revolutionary fervour; About 500 people are involved in scuffles as Parisians celebrate the bicentenary of the French Revolution.
● 1991 - UK forces withdraw from Kurdish haven; British troops protecting the Kurdish population in Iraq begin to pull out amid fears of reprisal.
● 1992 - A major fire consumes an entire city block in tourist destination Gatlinburg, Tennessee, destroying the "Ripley's Believe It Or Not!" Museum and several other local businesses and attractions in the process.
● 1995 - The MP3 format was named.
● 1997 - The international war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia sentenced Dusan Tadic, a Bosnian Serb, to 20 years in prison for turning on his Muslim and Croat neighbors in a deadly campaign of terror and torture.
● 1998 - Los Angeles sued 15 tobacco companies for $2.5 billion over the dangers of secondhand smoke.
● 1999 - Race-based school busing in Boston ended after 25 years.
● 2000 - George Speight, the principal instigator of the Fiji coup of 2000, was arrested with 369 of his followers and charged with treason.
● 2001 - NI agreement stalls in Staffordshire; Six days of crisis talks to save the Northern Ireland peace process end in deadlock.
● 2001 - Fifteen demonstrators and two journalists are arrested at Vandenburg AFB, California, after their trespassing delayed a test for National Missile Defense (Star Wars) technology by 40 minutes. The group is hit with unprecedented felony charges that carried possible sentences of six years in prison and $250,000 in fines.
● 2002 - During Bastille Day celebrations, French President Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt unscathed.
● 2004 - The Senate voted 50-48 against a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.
● 2005 - Europe holds a two minute silence at 12:00 BST in remembrance of the 7/7 bombings of London, United Kingdom
● 2006 - Israel destroyed the home and office of Hezbollah's leader, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, and tightened its seal on Lebanon, blasting its air and road links to the outside world.
BIRTHS
● 1454 - Poliziano, Florentine humanist (d. 1494)
● 1602 - Jules Mazarin, French statesman and cardinal (d. 1661)
● 1608 - George Goring, Lord Goring, English royalist soldier (d. 1657)
● 1610 - Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1670)
● 1634 - Pasquier Quesnel, French Jansenist theologian (d. 1719)
● 1671 - Jacques D'Allonville, French astronomer and mathematician (d. 1732)
● 1675 - Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, French soldier (d. 1747)
● 1676 - Caspar Abel, German theologian, historian, and poet (d. 1763)
● 1696 - William Oldys, English antiquarian and bibliographer (d. 1761)
● 1721 - John Douglas, Scottish Anglican bishop and man of letters (d. 1807)
● 1743 - Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian poet (d. 1816)
● 1794 - John Gibson Lockhart, Scottish critic, novelist and biographer (d. 1854)
● 1801 - Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist (d. 1858)
● 1816 - Arthur de Gobineau, French philosopher (d. 1882)
● 1829 - Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1896)
● 1834 - James McNeill Whistler, American painter and designer (d. 1903)
● 1857(58? NYT) - Emmeline Pankhurst, English suffragette (d. 1928)
● 1859 - Willy Hess, German violinist (d. 1928)
● 1860 - Owen Wister, American author (d. 1938)
● 1862 - Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter and graphic artist (d. 1918)
● 1865 - Arthur Capper, Newspaper publisher and politician (d. 1951)
● 1868 - Gertrude Bell, English archaeologist, writer, spy, and administrator (d. 1926)
● 1874 - Khedive Abbas II of Egypt (d. 1944)
● 1885 - King Sisavang Vong of Laos (d. 1959)
● 1891 - Alexander M. Volkov, Russian novelist and mathematician (d. 1977)
● 1893 - Clarence J. Brown, Newspaper publisher and politician (d. 1965)
● 1896 - Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish anarchist (d. 1936)
● 1898 - A. B. "Happy" Chandler, American politician and baseball commissioner (1945-51) (d. 1991)
● 1903 - Irving Stone, American writer (d. 1989)
● 1901 - Gerald Finzi, British composer (d. 1956)
● 1901 - Pancho Barnes, American aviator and movie stunt pilot (d. 1975)
● 1903 - Irving Stone, American author (d. 1989)
● 1904 - Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish Yiddish author (d. 1991)
● 1906 - Tom Carvel, Greek-born businessman and inventor (d. 1990)
● 1907 - Chico Landi, Brazilian racing driver (d. 1989)
● 1910 - William Hanna, American animator (d. 2001)
● 1911 - Terry-Thomas, British actor (d. 1990)
● 1912 - Northrop Frye, Canadian literary critic (d. 1991)
● 1912 - Woody Guthrie, American folk musician (d. 1967)
● 1913 - Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr., 38th President of the United States (d. 2006)
● 1918 - Ingmar Bergman, Swedish film and theatre director
● 1918 - Arthur Laurents, American playwright, novelist, and director
● 1919 - Lino Ventura, Italian-born actor (d. 1987)
● 1921 - Leon Garfield, English children's author (d. 1996)
● 1921 - Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
● 1922 - Brigadier General Robin Olds, American fighter pilot (d. 2007)
● 1922 - Elfriede Rinkel, Nazi concentration camp guard
● 1923 - Dale Robertson, American actor
● 1924 - James W. Black, Scottish pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
● 1926 - Harry Dean Stanton, American actor
● 1927 - John Chancellor, American television commentator (d. 1996)
● 1928 - Nancy Olson, American actress
● 1930 - Polly Bergen, American actress, singer, and entrepreneur
● 1932 - Roosevelt "Rosey" Grier, American football player, actor, and minister
● 1937 - Yoshiro Mori, Japanese politician
● 1938 - Jerry Rubin, American activist (d. 1994)
● 1939 - Karel Gott, Czech singer
● 1939 - Sid Haig, American actor
● 1939 - George E. Slusser, American scholar and writer
● 1941 - Maulana Karenga, American author and activist
● 1941 - Andreas Khol, Austrian politician
● 1942 - Javier Solana, Spanish European Union foreign policy chief
● 1944 - Billy McCool, baseball player
● 1946 - John Wood, Australian actor
● 1947 - Claudia Kennedy, retired U.S. Army lieutenant general
● 1949 - Tommy Mottola, Music company executive
● 1950 - Gwen Guthrie, American singer (d. 1999)
● 1951 - Erich Hallhuber, German actor (d. 2003)
● 1952 - Franklin Graham, American evangelist
● 1952 - Jerry Houser, Actor
● 1952 - Stan Shaw, Actor
● 1952 - Eric Laneuville, Actor, director
● 1956 - Vladimir Kulich, Czech actor
● 1958 - Scott Rudin, Movie producer
● 1960 - Ray Herndon, Country musician
● 1961 - Jackie Earle Haley, American actor
● 1965 - Igor Khoroshev, Russian keyboard player (Yes)
● 1966 - Charles Edward Ambler, British noble
● 1966 – Tonya Donelly, American musician (Belly)
● 1966 - Ellen Reid, Canadian musician (Crash Test Dummies)
● 1966 - Matthew Fox, American actor ("Lost")
● 1967 - Jeff Jarrett, American professional wrestler
● 1967 - Robin Ventura, baseball player
● 1967 - Patrick J. Kennedy, politician
● 1970 - Missy Gold, Actress
● 1971 - Mark LoMonaco, American professional wrestler
● 1971 - Joey Styles, American wrestling commentator
● 1972 - Deborah Mailman, Australian actress
● 1973 - Monoxide Child, American musician (Twiztid)
● 1973 - Adam Quinn, American bagpipe player
● 1974 - David Mitchell, English comedian and actor
● 1975 - Taboo, American rapper
● 1975 - Tim Hudson, baseball player
● 1975 - Tameka Cottle, R&B singer (Xscape)
● 1976 - Geraint Jones, English cricketer
● 1977 - Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden
● 1979 - Bernie Castro, baseball player
● 1980 - George Smith (Australian rugby player), Australian Rugby Union Player
● 1981 - Lee Mead, theatrical actor and winner of any dream will do
● 1983 - Wesley Dening, Australian TV personality
● 1986 - Rivers Langley, American radio personality
● 1987 - Kieran Williams, Radio Presenter and Voice Over
● 1988 - James Vaughan, English footballer
● 1989 - Sean Flynn-Amir, American actor
● 1991 - Simon Mistry, British actor
DEATHS
● 664 - Deusdedit of Canterbury, Archbishop of Canterbury
● 937 - Arnulf, Duke of Bavaria
● 1223 - King Philip II of France (b. 1165)
● 1270 - Boniface of Savoy, Archbishop of Canterbury
● 1274 - Saint Bonaventure (b. 1221)
● 1575 - Richard Taverner, English Bible translator
● 1614 - Camillus de Lellis, Italian saint (b. 1550)
● 1671 - Méric Casaubon, English classical scholar (b. 1599)
● 1723 - Claude Fleury, French historian (b. 1640)
● 1742 - Richard Bentley, English classical scholar (b. 1662)
● 1766 - František Maxmilián Kaňka, Czech architect (b. 1674)
● 1774 - James O'Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawley and Kilmaine, British field marshal (b. 1682)
● 1780 - Charles Batteux, French philosopher (b. 1713)
● 1789 - Jacques de Flesselles, French provost (assassinated) (b. 1721)
● 1789 - Bernard-René de Launay, governor of the Bastille, murdered during the Storming of the Bastille (b.1740)
● 1790 - Ernst Gideon Freiherr von Laudon, Austrian field marshal (b. 1717)
● 1817 - Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, Swiss author (b. 1766)
● 1827 - Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist (b. 1788)
● 1834 - Edmond Charles Genêt, French ambassador to the United States during the French Revolution (b. 1763)
● 1850 - August Neander, German theologian (b. 1789)
● 1876 - Thomas Hazlehurst, English Methodist chapel builder (b. 1816)
● 1881 - Billy the Kid, American outlaw (b. 1859?)
● 1887 - Alfred Krupp, German munitions manufacturer (b. 1812)
● 1904 - Paul Kruger, Boer resistance leader (b. 1824)
● 1907 - William Henry Perkin, English chemist and inventor (b. 1838)
● 1917 - Octave Lapize, French cyclist (b. 1887)
● 1939 - Alphonse Mucha, Czech painter, decorative artist (b. 1860)
● 1954 - Jacinto Benavente, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)
● 1965 - Adlai Stevenson, U.S. Presidential candidate (b. 1900)
● 1967 - Tudor Arghezi, Romanian writer (b. 1880)
● 1968 - Konstantin Georgiyevich Paustovsky, Russian writer (b. 1892)
● 1975 - Madan Mohan, Hindi Film's Melodious Music director (b. 1924)
● 1984 - Ernest Tidyman, American writer (b. 1928)
● 1984 - Philippe Wynne, American musician (b. 1941)
● 1989 - Frank Bell, British educator (b. 1916)
● 1994 - César Tovar, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player (b. 1940)
● 1996 - Jeff Krosnoff, CART driver (b. 1964)
● 1998 - Dick McDonald, American fast food entrepreneur (b. 1909)
● 1999 - Gar Samuelson, American drummer (b. 1958)
● 2000 - William Roscoe Estep, American Baptist historian (b. 1920)
● 2002 - Joaquín Balaguer, President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1906)
● 2003 - Tex Schramm, American football general manager (b. 1920)
● 2003 - Éva Janikovszky, Hungarian novelist (b. 1926)
● 2005 - Cicely Saunders, English Nurse, physician, and writer (b. 1918)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Amelberga, virgin
● St. Bonaventure, bishop, confessor, Doctor of the Church
● St. Camillus de Lellis, priest, confessor (died 1614), patron of nurses and sick care
● St. Cyprian, martyr at Poitiers
● St. Cyrus of Carthage
● St. Exuperius, bishop of Bayeux
● St. Giles of Assisi
● St. Henry, Holy Roman Emperor, confessor
● St. Heraclas
● St. Idus
● St. Justus, confessor
● St. Landericus, bishop of Sées
● St. Libertus (died 743)
● St. Lupus, bishop of Bayeux
● St. Maldegar, confessor
● St. Nicodemus of the Holy Mountian
● St. Optatian
● St. Phocas, bishop, martyr
● St. Sisinnius and companions, martyrs
● St. Ulrich
● St. Vigor, bishop of Bayeux
● St. Vincent, confessor
● St. William Breteuil
● Bl. Humbert
● Bl. Kateri Tekakwitha, Lily of the Mohawks, virgin
● Bl. Richard Langhorne
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for July 1 (Civil Date: July 14)
● Holy and wonderworking unmercenaries Cosmas and Damian, Martyrs at Rome
● Martyr Potitus at Naples.
● St. Peter, monk of Constantinople.
● St. Angelina of Serbia.
● Translation of the Relics of St. John of Rila from Tirnovo to Rila.
● St. Gallus, Bishop of Clermont (Gaul).
● Greek Calendar:
● Martyr Maurice.
● 25 Martyrs in Nicomedia.
● St. Basil, founder of the Monastery of the Deep Stream.
● Martyr Constantine the Wonderworker and those with him of Cyprus.
● St. Leo the Hermit.
● Muslim-Indonesia, Kuwait, Oman, UAE, Yemen PDR : Mohammed Ascension
● France, Guiana, Polynesia, Guadel, Martinique : Bastille Day (1789)
● Iran : Appointment of the Prophet
● Iraq : Republic Day (1958)
● Kiribati - Independence Day, 3rd day, not a holiday.
● Senegal : African Community Day
● Sweden - Birthday of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, an official flag 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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