Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Punishment "No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes." — Hannah Arendt
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Terrorism "This crusade, this war on terrorism, is going to take a while. [emphasis added]" — George W. Bush, inviting comparisons to the first Christian crusade on the Muslim world {Also proving he is not a student of History – The crusades were all unmitigated disasters.}
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: On Politics "It's no exaggeration to say that say that the undecided could go one way or another." — Hall of Shame Member #1, George W. Bush
Thought for the day: "It is better to live rich than to die rich."
{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
Aurora from Space
Credit: Don Pettit, ISS Expedition 6, NASA
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 1099 - First Crusade: Christian soldiers take Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after a difficult siege. The Muslim citizens of Jerusalem surrendered their city to the armies of the First Crusade. The Crusaders then proceeded, through misguided religious zeal, to massacre thousands of unarmed men, women and children. {In other words} Capture of Jerusalem (first Crusade); thousands massacred, the traditional Christian way.
● 1162 - Ladislaus II of Hungary declared King of Hungary.
● 1205 - Pope Innocent III says Jews are doomed to perpetual servitude and subjugation due to the crucifixion of Jesus.
● 1207 - John of England expels Canterbury monks for supporting Archbishop of Canterbury Stephen Langton.
● 1240 - A Novgorodian army led by Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes in the Battle of the Neva.
● 1381 - John Ball, a leader in the Peasants' Revolt, hanged, drawn and quartered in the presence of Richard II of England.
● 1410 - Battle of Grunwald, allied forces of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeat the army of the Teutonic Order at Tannenburg, Prussia.
● 1430 - Jeanne d'Arc handed over to Pierre Cauchon, the Bishop of Beauvais.
● 1606 - The painter Rembrandt was born in Leiden, Netherlands.
● 1662 - Charles II grants charter to establish Royal Society in London
● 1685 - James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth is executed at Tower Hill, England after his defeat at the Battle of Sedgemore on 6 July 1685.
● 1779 - Birth of Clement C. Moore, American Episcopal educator. His fame endures today, not as a theologian, but as the author of a completely mythical poem: 'Twas the Night Before Christmas' (1823).
● 1788 - Louis XVI jailed 12 deputies who protested new judicial reforms.
● 1789 - Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette, by acclamation, named colonel-general of the new National Guard of Paris.
● 1789 - The electors of Paris set up a "Commune" to live without the authority of the government.
● 1799 - Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta, by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard.
● 1806 - Pike expedition: Near St. Louis, Missouri, United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike begins an expedition from Fort Belle Fountaine to explore the west.
● 1813 - Napoleon Bonaparte's representatives met with the Allies in Prague to discuss peace terms.
● 1814 - Birth of Edward Caswall, English clergyman and hymn translator. Today we still sing Caswall's English versions of the hymns 'Jesus, The Very Thought of Thee' and 'When Morning Gilds the Skies.'
● 1815 - Napoléon Bonaparte surrenders from aboard HMS Bellerophon.
● 1823 - In Rome, the church known as St Paul's Outside the Walls was destroyed by a fire. Its original edifice was erected in AD 324 by the Roman emperor Constantine.
● 1834 - Lord Napier of England arrived in Macao, China as the first chief superintendent of trade.
● 1837 - Smallpox epidemic reached the Mandan in Dakota Territory; out of 1,600 people, only 125 survive.
● 1856 - Natal established as a British colony separate from Cape Colony
● 1857 - British women and children were murdered in the second Cawnpore Massacre during the Indian Mutiny.
● 1862 - American Civil War: Confederates break naval blockade of Vicksburg, Mississippi.
● 1863 - Confederate raider Bill Anderson and his Bushwhackers attacked Huntsville, MO, where they stole $45,000 from the local bank.
● 1863 - New York anti-draft riots end after three days. Over 1,000 died in the riots, including many free blacks attacked and murdered by Confederate sympathizers. {This is the real life "Gangs of New York" story.}
● 1864 - Troop train loaded with Confederate prisoners collided with a coal train killing 65 and injuring 109 of 955 aboard
● 1869 - Margarine is patented in Paris, for use by French Navy
● 1870 - Georgia became the last of the Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.
● 1870 - Post-American-Civil-War Reconstruction: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.
● 1870 - Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory are transferred to Canada from the Hudson's Bay Company, and the province of Manitoba and the North-West Territories are established from these vast territories.
● 1888 - "Printers’ Ink" was first sold.
● 1888 - Bandai volcano (Japan) erupts for 1st time in 1,000 years
● 1890 - A Charlois discovers asteroid #294 Felicia
● 1893 - Commodore Perry arrives in Japan
● 1895 - Ex-prime minister of Bulgaria, Stephen Stambulov, was murdered by Macedonian rebels.
● 1901 - Over 74,000 Pittsburgh steel workers went on strike.
● 1904 - The first Buddhist temple in the U.S. was established in Los Angeles, CA.
● 1911 - 46" of rain (begining 7/14) falls in Baguio, Phillipines
● 1912 - British National Health Insurance Act goes into effect
● 1916 - 22.22" of rain falls in Altapass NC
● 1917 - Alexander Berkman, Emma Goldman and many others indicted under new Espionage Act for their anti-draft activities - they will get two years prison and $10,000 fines in the land of the free.
● 1917 - Fifty thousand lumberjacks strike for eight-hour day.
● 1918 - World War I: Second Battle of the Marne - The battle begins near the River Marne with a German attack.
● 1919 - The U.S. War Department announces that it has classified more than 337,000 American men as "draft dodgers."
● 1919 - Dame Iris Murdoch, the British writer and philosopher, was born.
● 1921 - In Aberdeen, Wash., a businessman mob drives 103 IWW members out of town.
● 1926 - BEST buses make its début in Mumbai.
● 1927 - Massacre of July 15, 1927: 89 protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.
● 1933 - Wiley Post began 1st solo flight around the world
● 1937 - Japanese attack Marco Polo Bridge, invade China
● 1940 - 1st betatron placed in operation, Urbana, Il
● 1940 - Robert Wadlow died at the age of 22. At that time he was 8 feet, 11-1/10 inches tall and weighed 439 pounds.
● 1941 - Florey & Heatley present freeze dried mold cultures (Pencillin)
● 1942 - The first supply flight from India to China over the 'Hump' was carried to help China's war effort.
● 1944 - Greenwich Observatory damaged by WW II flying bomb
● 1945 - President Harry Truman disembarks the heavy cruiser the USS Augusta (CA-31) in Antwerp en route to Potsdam for the Potsdam Conference.
● 1946 - British North Borneo Co transfers rights to British crown
● 1948 – President Harry S Truman was nominated for another term by the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
● 1949 - Czech tennis stars Jaroslav Drobny & Vladimir Cernik, defect to US
● 1950 - K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1750 Eckert
● 1951 - The First Southern Baptist Church to be constituted in the state of Wyoming was formed in Casper by a group of families principally related to the oil industry.
● 1952 - 1st transatlantic helicopter flight begins
● 1953 - John Reginald Christie, British serial killer executed.
● 1954 - First flight of the Boeing 707, the first American jet passenger airliner.
● 1955 - Eighteen Nobel laureates signed the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons and force as an act of policy, later co-signed by thirty-four others.
● 1958 - Fourteen thousand U.S. Marines, armed with nuclear-tipped rockets, land in Lebanon to protect elected pro-Western government officials there from a threatened overthrow. The troops withdrew October 25, 1958.
● 1959 - The steel strike of 1959 begins, leading to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history. The strike would last though Jan. 1960.
● 1962 - ND flag placed on nuclear submarine. Weymouth, Britain.
● 1964 - Senator Barry M. Goldwater of Arizona was nominated for president at the Republican National Convention in San Francisco.
● 1965 - US scientists display close-up photos of Mars from Mariner IV
● 1966 - Euston staff 'colour bar' ended; A West Indian refused a job at Euston Station will now be employed there after managers overturn a ban on black workers.
● 1968 - Commercial air travel began between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., when the first plane, a Soviet Aeroflot jet, landed at Kennedy International Airport in New York.
● 1970 - Oglala Sioux seize area on Sheep Mountain, North Dakota, demanding its return.
● 1971 - Seals shot by government decree; The British Government endorses a cull of baby seals in the Wash.
● 1971 - U.S. President Nixon announced he would visit the People's Republic of China to seek a "normalization of relations."
● 1974 - Appearing live on a Florida TV station, newswoman Christine Chubbock reaches into a shopping bag behind her desk, pulled out a revolver, and shot herself in the head. Died the following day, becoming the first person to commit suicide on-air.
● 1974 - In Nicosia, Cyprus, Greek-sponsored nationalists launch a coup d'état, deposing President Makarios and installing Nikos Sampson as Cypriot president.
● 1975 - Apollo Soyuz Test Project: Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft take off for U.S.-Soviet link-up in space.
● 1976 - A 36-hour kidnap ordeal began for 26 schoolchildren and their bus driver when they were abducted by three gunmen near Chowchilla, CA. All of the captives escaped unharmed.
● 1978 - The Longest Walk, transcontinental walk for Native American justice, arrives in Washington D.C. from Alcatraz Island, Calif., with 30,000 marchers.
● 1979 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter gives his famous "malaise" speech, where he characterizes the greatest threat to the country as "this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation."
● 1980 - Johnny Bench hits his 314th HR as a catcher breaks Yogi Berra's record
● 1982 - Body of Wendy Caulfield, 1st Green River victim, found near Seattle
● 1982 - Columbia flies to Kennedy Space Center via Dyess AFB, Texas
● 1982 - Senate confirms George Shultz as 60th sec of state by vote of 97-0
● 1983 - 8 killed, 54 wounded, by Armenian extremists bomb at Orly, France
● 1985 - Animal Rights activists begin sit-in at National Institutes of Health to protest funding of the Experimental Head Injury Lab at the University of Pennsylvania.
● 1987 - John Poindexter testifies at Iran-Contra hearings
● 1991 - Center for Anti-War Action founded, Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
● 1991 - US troops leave northern Iraq
● 1992 - Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton claimed the Democratic presidential nomination at the party's convention in New York City.
● 1992 - "Yellow ribbon" rally against ethnic cleansing, Belgrade.
● 1994 - Cease-fire agreed to in Rwanda after genocidal levels of tribal violence.
● 1995 - Serbs force Muslims out of Srebrenica; Thousands of Muslim refugees flee the captured "safe area" of Srebrenica - forced out by the Bosnian Serbs.
● 1996 - A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport.
● 1997 - Gianni Versace was shot to death by Andrew Phillip Cunanan outside his home in Miami, FL. Cunanan was found dead eight days later.
● 1999 - The government acknowledged for the first time that thousands of workers were made sick while making nuclear weapons and announced a plan to compensate many of them.
● 2000 - Police camera action violates human rights; Two men caught on camera for dangerous driving escape prosecution in a landmark case.
● 2002 - Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan awarded death sentence to British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and life term to three other suspects in murdering Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
● 2002 - John Walker Lindh plead guilty to two felonies. The crimes were supplying services to Afghanistan's former Taliban government and for carrying explosives during the commission of a felony. Lindh agreed to spend 10 years in prison for each of the charges.
● 2003 - the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention removed its SARS-related travel advisory for Taiwan, the last area to have such a travel alert.
● 2004 - Monorail service begins in Las Vegas.
● 2004 - The BBC airs the documentary The Secret Agent, exposing racism by members of the British National Party.
● 2005 - the EPA approves a 70 parts per million addition of fluoride to all processed foods.
● 2006 - Mogadishu Int'l Airport in Somalia's capital of Mogadishu re-opens after an eleven-year closure mainly due to the Somali civil war.
BIRTHS
● 1273 - Ewostatewos, Ethiopian monk and religious leader (d. 1352)
● 1353 - Vladimir the Bold, Russian prince (d. 1410)
● 1471 - Eskender, Emperor of Ethiopia (d. 1494)
● 1553 - Archduke Ernest of Austria (d. 1595)
● 1573 - Inigo Jones, English architect (d. 1652)
● 1606 - Rembrandt, Dutch artist (d. 1669)
● 1631 - Jens Juel, Danish diplomat (d. 1700)
● 1704 - August Gottlieb Spangenberg, German religious leader (d. 1792)
● 1779 - Clement Clarke Moore, American educator, author, and poet who wrote "The Night Before Christmas" (d. 1863)
● 1796 - Thomas Bulfinch, American mythologist (d. 1867)
● 1808 - Sir Henry Cole, English art patron and educator (d. 1882)
● 1808 - Henry Edward Cardinal Manning, English Catholic archbishop (d. 1892)
● 1812 - James Hope-Scott, English barrister (d. 1873)
● 1848 - Vilfredo Pareto, Italian economist and sociologist (d. 1923)
● 1850 - Mother Cabrini, Italian-born American Catholic saint (d. 1917)
● 1851 - Eduardo Gutiérrez, Argentinian author (d. 1889)
● 1864 - Marie Tempest, English singer and actress (d. 1942)
● 1865 - Alfred Northcliffe, English newspaper publisher (d. 1922)
● 1865 - Wilhelm Wirtinger, Austrian mathematician (d. 1945)
● 1870 - Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov, Russian publisher and politician (d. 1922)
● 1871 - Kunikida Doppo, Japanese writer (d. 1908)
● 1886 - Jacques Riviere, French writer, critic and editor (d. 1925)
● 1892 - Walter Benjamin, German literary critic and writer (d. 1940)
● 1894 - Tadeusz Sendzimir, a Polish-American engineer and inventor (d. 1989)
● 1899 - Seán Lemass, Irish leader (d. 1971)
● 1900 - Thomas Francis, Jr., American microbiologist and epidemiologist (d. 1969)
● 1902 - Jean Rey, Belgian politician and President of the European Commission {d. 1983)
● 1903 - Kumaraswami Kamaraj, Indian politician (d. 1975)
● 1904 - Rudolf Arnheim, German-born author
● 1911 - Edward Shackleton, English explorer (d. 1994)
● 1914 - Akhtar Hameed Khan, pioneer of Microcredit in developing countries (d. 1999)
● 1914 - Hammond Innes, English writer (d. 1998)
● 1914 - Howard Vernon, Swiss actor (d. 1996)
● 1918 - Bertram N. Brockhouse, Canadian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003)
● 1919 - Dame Iris Murdoch, Irish writer (d. 1999)
● 1921 - Robert Bruce Merrifield, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
● 1922 - Leon M. Lederman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
● 1923 - Philly Joe Jones, American jazz percussionist (d. 1985)
● 1923(25? NYT) - Philip Carey, American actor ("One Life To Live")
● 1926 - Driss Chraïbi, Moroccan author
● 1926 - Leopoldo Galtieri, Argentine dictator (d. 2003)
● 1928 - Carl Woese, American microbiologist
● 1930 - Jacques Derrida, French philosopher (d. 2004)
● 1930 - Stephen Smale, American mathematician
● 1931 - Clive Cussler, American author
● 1933 - Julian Bream, English guitarist and lutenist
● 1933 - Guido Crepax, Italian comics artist (d. 2003)
● 1934 - Harrison Birtwistle, English composer
● 1934 - Risto Jarva, Finnish filmmaker (d. 1977)
● 1935 - Alex Karras, Actor and Pro football player
● 1935 - Ken Kercheval, Actor
● 1935 - Donn Clendenon, baseball player (d. 2005)
● 1936 - George Voinovich, U.S. senator, R-Ohio
● 1939 - Patrick Wayne, Actor
● 1939 - Aníbal Cavaco Silva, President of Portugal and former Prime Minister
● 1942 - Mil Mascaras, Mexican professional wrestler
● 1943 - Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Irish astrophysicist
● 1944 - Millie Jackson, American singer
● 1944 - Jan-Michael Vincent, American actor
● 1945 - Jürgen Möllemann, German politician (d. 2003)
● 1945 - Peter Lewis, Rock singer, musician (Moby Grape)
● 1946 - Linda Ronstadt, American singer
● 1946 - Hassanal Bolkiah, Sultan of Brunei
● 1947 - Peter Banks, British guitarist (Yes)
● 1948 - Alicia Bridges, American singer
● 1948 - Artimus Pyle, Rock musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
● 1949 - Carl Bildt, Swedish politician
● 1949 - Trevor Horn, British music producer, bassist and vocalist (Buggles, Art of Noise, Seal, Yes)
● 1950 - Arianna Huffington, Greek-born newspaper columnist
● 1951 - Jesse Ventura, professional wrestler and former Governor of Minnesota
● 1952 - Johnny Thunders, American guitarist and singer (The New York Dolls, Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers) (d. 1991)
● 1952 - Terry O'Quinn, American actor ("Lost")
● 1952 - John Stallworth, Football Hall of Famer
● 1953 - Jean-Bertrand Aristide, former President of Haiti
● 1953 - John Denham, British politician
● 1954 - Mario Kempes, Argentine football player
● 1956 - Ian Curtis, British musician, singer, and lyricist (Joy Division) (d. 1980)
● 1956 - Barry Melrose, Canadian hockey player, coach, and commentator
● 1956 - Marky Ramone, American musician (The Ramones)
● 1956 - Joe Satriani, American guitarist
● 1957 - Mac McAnally, Country singer, songwriter
● 1958 - Mac Thornberry, American politician
● 1959 - Vincent Lindon, French actor
● 1959 - Shep Pettibone, American record producer
● 1960 - Kim Alexis, American supermodel and actress
● 1960 - Willie Aames, American actor ("Eight is Enough")
● 1961 - Scott Ritter, UN weapons inspector in Iraq
● 1961 - Forest Whitaker, American actor ("The Last King of Scotland" "The Crying Game")
● 1961 - Lolita Davidovich, Canadian-born actress
● 1963 - Steve Thomas, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1963 - Brigitte Nielsen, Actress
● 1966 - Irène Jacob, French-born Swiss actress
● 1966 - Kristoff St. John, Actor ("The Young and the Restless")
● 1967 - Phillip Fisher, Rock musician (Fishbone)
● 1967 - Adam Savage, American actor
● 1968 - Eddie Griffin, American comedian
● 1968 - Stan Kirsch, American actor
● 1969 - Reggie Hayes, Actor
● 1970 - Chi Cheng, American musician
● 1971 - Danijela, Croatian singer
● 1972 - Scott Foley, Actor ("The Unit," "Felicity")
● 1972 - Beth Ostrosky, American model
● 1973 - John Dolmayan, Lebanese-born drummer (System of a Down)
● 1973 - Brian Austin Green, American actor ("Beverly Hills 90210")
● 1973 - W. Lane Startin, American author and politician
● 1974 - Chot Ulep, Filipino musician
● 1975 - Ben Pepper, Australian basketball player
● 1976 - Jim Jones, African Puerto Rican American rapper
● 1976 - Diane Kruger, German actress and former fashion model
● 1977 - Ray Toro, American musician (My Chemical Romance)
● 1977 - Faraz Anwar, Pakistani guitarist (Mizraab)
● 1977 - Lana Parrilla, American actress
● 1979 - Charles Zwolsman, Dutch racing driver
● 1979 - Laura Benanti, American musical theatre actress
● 1980 - Jonathan Cheechoo, professional ice hockey player
● 1980 - Jasper Pääkkönen, Finnish actor and film producer
● 1981 - Kia Thornton, R&B singer (Divine)
● 1982 - Vice Cooler, American musician
● 1982 - Haley Scarnato, American singer and former American Idol contestant
● 1983 - Nelson Merlo, Brazilian racing driver
● 1989 - Tristan Wilds, American actor
● 1992 - Koharu Kusumi, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
● 1997 - Prince Lukás of Bulgaria, titular Bulgarian royal family
● 1998 - Camille Gottlieb, daughter of Princess Stephanie of Monaco
DEATHS
● 518 - Roman Emperor Anastasius I
● 1085 - Robert Guiscard, French adventurer
● 1262 - Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, English soldier (b. 1222)
● 1274 - Bonaventure, Italian theologian and saint (b. 1221)
● 1291 - Rudolph I of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1218)
● 1381 - John Ball, English priest
● 1406 - Duke William of Austria
● 1410 - Ulrich von Jungingen, German Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (killed in battle) (b. 1360)
● 1544 - René of Châlon, Prince of the House of Orange (b. 1519)
● 1571 - Shimazu Takahisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1514)
● 1609 - Annibale Carracci, Italian painter (b. 1560)
● 1614 - Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme, French historian and biographer
● 1655 - Girolamo Rainaldi, Italian architect (b. 1570)
● 1685 - James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, illegitimate son of Charles II of England (b. 1649)
● 1750 - Vasily Tatishchev, Russian statesman (b. 1686)
● 1765 - Charles-André van Loo, French painter (b. 1705)
● 1767 - Michael Bruce, Scottish poet (b. 1746)
● 1782 - Farinelli, Italian castrato (b. 1705)
● 1789 - Jacques Duphly, French composer (b. 1715)
● 1828 - Jean Antoine Houdon, French sculptor (b. 1741)
● 1839 - Winthrop Mackworth Praed, English poet (b. 1802)
● 1844 - Claude Charles Fauriel, French historian (b. 1772)
● 1857 - Carl Czerny, Austrian composer (b. 1791)
● 1890 - Gottfried Keller, Swiss writer (b. 1819)
● 1898 - Jean Baptiste Salpointe, second Archbishop of Santa Fe (d. 1825)
● 1904 - Anton Chekhov, Russian writer (b. 1860)
● 1919 - Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
● 1929 - Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian writer (b. 1874)
● 1930 - Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist and composer (b. 1845)
● 1931 - Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian economist (b. 1868)
● 1933 - Irving Babbitt, American literary critic (b. 1865)
● 1933 - Freddie Keppard, American musician (b. 1890)
● 1940 - Robert Wadlow, American--at 8 ft. 11.1 in, the tallest human ever known (b. 1918)
● 1946 - Razor Smith, English cricketer (b. 1877)
● 1947 - Walter Donaldson, American songwriter (b. 1893)
● 1948 - John J. Pershing, U.S. general (b. 1860)
● 1957 - James M. Cox, American politician (b. 1870)
● 1958 - Julia Lennon, mother of John Lennon (b. 1914)
● 1959 - Ernest Bloch, Swiss composer (b. 1880)
● 1960 - Lawrence Tibbett, American actor (b. 1896)
● 1960 - Set Persson, Swedish communist politician (b. 1897)
● 1961 - John E. Brownlee, Canadian politician (b. 1884)
● 1965 - Francis Cherry, American politician (b. 1908)
● 1974 - Christine Chubbuck, television news reporter (b.1944)
● 1979 - Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, President of Mexico (b. 1911)
● 1986 - Billy Haughton, American harness driver and trainer (b. 1923)
● 1991 - Bert Convy, American actor (b. 1933)
● 1992 - Chingiz Mustafayev, Azerbaijan's most noted journalist (b. 1960)
● 1992 - Hammer DeRoburt, first President of Nauru (b. 1922)
● 1996 - Dana Hill, American actress (b. 1964)
● 1997 - Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer (b. 1946)
● 2003 - Roberto Bolaño, Chilean writer (b. 1953)
● 2003 - Tex Schramm, American football team president and general manager (b. 1920)
● 2006 - Robert H. Brooks, founder of Hooters of America (b. 1937)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● Division of the Apostles
● Holy Nine virgins of Scotland
● St. Abhai
● St. Abudimus
● St. Andrew Nam-Thuong
● St. Apronia
● St. Athanasius
● St. Baldwin
● St. Benedict, bishop of Angers, confessor
● St. Bertin, monk at Luxeuil abbey
● St. Bonaventure, bishop, Doctor of the Church
● St. Catulinus
● Sts. Ciriaca and Juliata, martyrs
● St. David of Sweden, abbot
● St. Donald
● St. Edith of Polesworth
● St. Egino
● St. Esternus
● St. Eutropius
● St. Felix of Pavia
● St. Gumpert, confessor
● St. Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor
● St. Jacob of Nisibis
● St. James Andrade, Blessed
● St. Margaret, virgin, martyr
● St. Peter Tuan
● St. Philip
● St. Plechelm, bishop, confessor (died 713)
● St. Pompeius Maria Pirotti
● Sts. Quiricus and Julitta, martyrs [Teutonic Knights]
● St. Reginswindis, virgin, martyr
● St. Rivalus, confessor
● Sts. Secundinus, Agrippinus, Maximus, Fortunatus, & Martialis
● St. Swithun, bishop of Winchester, confessor
● St. Vedast, bishop of Arras
● St. Vladimir the Great
● St. Zosima
● Bl. Alphonsus de Vaena
● Bl. Angelina
● Bl. Anne Mary Jahouvey, French virgin
● Bl. Anthony Francisco
● Bl. Joanninus de San Juan
● Bl. John Fernandez
● Bl. Mark Caldeira
● Bl. Nicholas Dinnis
● Bl. Peter Berna
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for July 2 (Civil Date: July 15)
● The Placing of the Honorable Robe of the Most Holy Theotokos at Blachernae
● St. Juvenal, Patriarch of Jerusalem.
● St. Photius, Metropolitan of Kiev.
● St. Juvenal, Proto-martyr of America and Alaska.
● St. Monegunda of Chartres (Gaul).
● "Akhtyrka" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos.
● Repose of Elder Zachariah of Moscow (1936).
● Anglican Church:
● St. Swithun, bishop of Winchester, confessor
● Lutheran: Commemoration of Vladimir, 1st Christian ruler of Russia
● Muslim-Pakistan : Mohammed's Ascension
● Confuflux (Discordianism).
● Botswana - President's Day.
● Brazil - International Men's Day.
● Brunei - Birthday of the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam.
● Japan : Bon Festival/Feast of Lanterns/Black Ship Day (1853)
● Palermo, Sicily - Festival of Santa Rosalia.
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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