Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Racism "I got nothing against no Viet Cong. No Vietnamese ever called me a nigger." — Muhammad Ali
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Undermining Public Education "Secular schools can never be tolerated because such schools have no religious instruction, and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith. . .we need believing people." — Adolf Hitler
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: On Politics "Oftentimes, we live in a processed world; you know, people focus on the process and not results." — Hall of Shame Member #1, George W. Bush
Thought for the day: "Two wrongs do not make a right, it usually takes three lefts."
{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
The Lagoon Nebula in Gas, Dust, and Stars
Credit & Copyright: Antonio Fernandez
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 463 - Start of Lunar Cycle of Hilarius
● 622 - Muhammad begins his Hijra from Mecca to Medina. This marks the beginning of the Islamic calendar. (Muharram 1, 1 AH)
● 1054 - The 'Great Schism' between the Western and Eastern churches began over rival claims of universal pre-eminence. (In 1965, 911 years later, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I met to declare an end to the schism.)
● 1099 - Crusaders herd the Jews of Jerusalem into a synagogue and set it afire.
● 1212 - Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa; end of Moslem power in Spain
● 1439 - Kissing banned in England, in an attempt to stop the spread of pestilence and disease. The prohibitions fail as people only paid them lip service. {LOL}
● 1548 - La Paz, Bolivia is founded
● 1661 - The first banknotes in Europe are issued by the Bank of Stockholm.
● 1765 - Prime Minister of England Lord Greenville resigned and was replaced by Lord Rockingham.
● 1769 - Father Junipero Serra founds Mission San Diego de Alcalá, the first mission in California—the first permanent Spanish settlement on America's west coast. The mission later evolves into the city of San Diego.
● 1774 - Russia and the Ottoman Empire signed the treaty of Kuchuk-Kainardji, ending their six-year war.
● 1775 - John Adams graduates Harvard
● 1779 - American Revolutionary War: United States forces led by General Anthony Wayne capture Stony Point, New York from British troops.
● 1783 - Grants of land in Canada to American United Empire Loyalists are announced.
● 1787 - "Connecticut Compromise," providing for a bicameral U.S. Legislature, adopted by the Constitutional Convention. The House of Representatives it created would be elected on the basis of population, with blacks, who could not vote, counting as three-fifths of a person each.
● 1790 - The signing of the Residence Bill establishes a site along the Potomac River as the District of Columbia as the permanent seat of the United States Government.
● 1791 - Louis XVI was suspended from office until he agreed to ratify the constitution.
● 1798 - US Public Health Service established & US Marine Hospital authorized
● 1835 - Twenty-four hundred Cherokee shipped out of Montgomery, Alabama, for the Arkansas River, as part of the forced relocation of all Indians in U.S. to territories west of the Mississippi River. Basic consolidation of over a century of the theft of all Indian lands to the east, primarily through bribery, theft, murder, cheating, looting, and an unending string of broken legal treaties, and preparation for more of the same to the west in the coming decades.
● 1855 - Salish tribe cedes all lands in Montana and Idaho in Treaty of Hell's Gate.
● 1862 - American Civil War: David G. Farragut becomes the first United States Navy rear admiral.
● 1862 - Birth of Ida B. Wells, journalist, activist and anti-lynching organizer. Holly Springs, Miss.
● 1862 - Comet Swift-Tuttle is discovered by Lewis Swift.
● 1862 - Two Union soldiers and their servant ransacked a house and raped a slave in Sperryville, VA.
● 1863 - Birth of Howard E. Smith, American church organist and composer of the melody to the popular hymn, 'Love Lifted Me.'
● 1875 - The new French constitution was finalized.
● 1877 - A wildcat strike of 30 railroad firemen in Martinsburg, West Virginia, protesting wage cutbacks, escalates into two weeks of national worker rebellion against the railroad industry and federal government. Riots killed dozens in the Midwest and East Coast, and strikers briefly seized the city governments of Pittsburgh and St. Louis.
● 1880 - Dr. Emily Howard Stowe becomes the first woman licensed to practice medicine in Canada.
● 1893 - A Charlois discovers asteroid #371 Bohemia
● 1894 - Many negro miners in Alabama killed by striking white miners
● 1894 - Treaty of Aoki-Kimberley signed between Japan & England
● 1898 - A Charlois discovers asteroid #437 Rhodia
● 1904 - Islands of the Manu'a group (Samoa) ceded to US by their chiefs
● 1910 - J Helffrich discovers asteroid #702 Alauda
● 1912 - Naval torpedo launched from an airplane patented by B.A. Fiske
● 1918 - Nicholas Romanoff, former Tsar of Russia, assassinated, along with his entire immediate family. With this Lenin gets his revenge for the execution of his brother.
● 1920 - Gen Amos Fries appointed 1st US army chemical warfare chief
● 1920 - Martial law proclaimed in Galveston, Texas longshoreman’s strike.
● 1926 - The first underwater color photographs appeared in "National Geographic" magazine. The pictures had been taken near the Florida Keys.
● 1927 - Augusto Sandino begins 5 year war against US occupation of Nicaragua
● 1930 - Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia signs the first constitution of Ethiopia.
● 1930 - Fifty thousand French workers go out on strike.
● 1931 - Death of C. T. Studd, 69, pioneer English missionary. He was one of the 'Cambridge Seven,' and worked on the mission field in China, India and Central Africa.
● 1934 - A longshoreman's strike spreads to become a four-day general strike paralyzing the San Francisco area and leading to a successful settlement.
● 1934 - K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1334 Lundmarka
● 1935 - Oklahoma City became the first city in the U.S. to make use of parking meters.
● 1936 - 1st x-ray photo of arterial circulation, Rochester, NY
● 1936 - K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #1395 Aribeda & #1402 Eri
● 1937 - Concentration camp erected, Buchenwald, Germany.
● 1940 - Adolf Hitler ordered the preparations to begin on the invasion of England, known as Operation Sea Lion.
● 1941 - 100° F (38° C) highest temperature ever recorded in Seattle Wash
● 1941 - Hitler convened top Nazi leaders at his headquarters in East Prussia to dictate how they would rule the newly occupied eastern territories. Ukraine, the "jewel" in the Nazi empire, would become a German colony.
● 1942 - Adolf Hitler arrives in Vinnytsia, central Ukraine.
● 1942 - Holocaust: Rafle du Vel'd'Hiv: The Vichy France government orders French police officers to round up 13,000-20,000 Jews and imprison them in the Winter Velodrome. In 1995, president Jacques Chirac officially recognizes the French police's responsibility.
● 1944 - German Lutheran theologian and Nazi martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote in a letter from prison: 'One has to live for some time in a community to understand how Christ is "formed" in it (Gal 4:19).'
● 1944 - Soviet troops occupied Vilna, Lithuania, in their drive toward Germany.
● 1945 - Manhattan Project: The Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon at the Trinity site near Alamogordo, New Mexico. {Pandora escaped the box never to be controlled again.}
● 1945 - Allied leaders gather at Potsdam; Winston Churchill, Harry S Truman, Josef Stalin discuss the fate of a defeated Germany.
● 1946 - Attempt made to recall Mayor Lapham (1st time in SF history)
● 1948 - The city of Nazareth, hometown of Jesus, capitulated to Israeli troops during Operation Dekel led by Ben Dunkelman, after little more than token resistance, during 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
● 1951 - King Léopold III of Belgium abdicates in favour of his son, Baudouin I of Belgium.
● 1956 - Karelo-Finnish SSR becomes part of Russian SFSR
● 1956 - Last Ringling Bros, Barnum & Bailey Circus under a canvas tent
● 1957 - United States Marine Major John Glenn flies a F8U Crusader supersonic jet from California to New York in 3 hours, 23 minutes and 8 seconds setting a new transcontinental speed record.
● 1962 - NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,600 m
● 1964 - In accepting the Republican presidential nomination in San Francisco, Barry M. Goldwater said "extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice" and "moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."
● 1964 - Little League Baseball Incorporated was granted a Federal Charter unanimously by the United States Senate and House of Representatives.
● 1965 - The Mont Blanc Tunnel linking France with Italy opens.
● 1967 - Prison brawl ignites barracks, killing 37 (Jay, Florida)
● 1969 - Apollo program: Apollo 11 launches from Cape Kennedy, Florida and will become the first manned space mission to land on the moon.
● 1970 - State of emergency called over dock strike; Home Secretary Reginald Maudling declares a state of emergency to deal with strikes at UK ports.
● 1973 - Senate Armed Services Committee begins probe into allegations that the U.S. Air Force had made 3,500 secret B-52 raids into Cambodia in 1969 and 1970.
● 1973 - Watergate Scandal: Former White House aide Alexander P. Butterfield informs the United States Senate that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially-incriminating conversations.
● 1974 - Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #2964
● 1979 - Saddam Hussein became president of Iraq after forcing Hasan al-Bakr to resign.
● 1980 - Ronald Reagan won the Republican presidential nomination at the party's convention in Detroit.
● 1982 - NASA launches Landsat 4 to thematic map the Earth
● 1983 - 20 killed in Britain's worst helicopter accident
● 1983 - In anti-nuclear protest, 10,000 form human chain linking U.S. and Soviet embassies. London, England.
● 1983 - Sikorsky S-61 disaster: helicopter crash off the Isles of Scilly, causing 20 fatalities.
● 1990 - An earthquake measuring 7.7 on the Richter Scale devastated the Philippines, killing over 1600 people.
● 1990 - NYC's Empire State Building catches fire-No fatalities
● 1993 - Secret Service goes public; Britain's internal security service, MI5, holds the first photocall in its 84-year history.
● 1994 - The civil war in Rwanda ends.
● 1994 - The planet Jupiter is hit by fragments of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet.
● 1995 - May Sarton, lesbian and feminist poet, dies at 83 of breast cancer. York, Maine.
● 1999 - The plane of John F. Kennedy Jr. crashed off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, MA. His wife, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, were also on board the plane. The body of John Kennedy was found on July 21, 1999.
● 2001 - Rebel MPs defeat the government; The Labour Government is defeated in the House of Commons for the first time since it came to power in 1997.
● 2001 - The FBI arrests Dmitry Sklyarov at a convention in Las Vegas, Nevada for violating a provision of the DMCA.
● 2001 - The People's Republic of China and the Russian Federation sign the Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation.
● 2003 - The Corsicans reject a referendum for increased autonomy from France by a very thin majority: 50.98 percent against, and 49.02 percent for.
● 2004 - A fire at a private school in Kumbakonam, India kills over 90 children.
● 2004 - Retired Air Force Gen. Charles W. Sweeney, who piloted the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki in the final days of World War II, died at age 84.
● 2004 - Barclays Bank freezes the bank accounts of the British National Party.
● 2004 - Martha Stewart was sentenced to five months in prison for lying about a stock sale. She was also ordered to spend five months confined to her home and fined $30,000. She was allowed to remain free pending her appeal.
● 2004 - Millennium Park, considered the first and most ambitious architectural project in the early 21st century for Chicago, is opened to the public by Mayor Richard M. Daley.
● 2005 - The sixth book in the popular Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J K Rowling is released to record sales of 287,564 books per hour in its first 24 hours, making it the fastest selling book in history until the release of the seventh a little over two years later.
BIRTHS
● 1194 - Clare of Assisi {Sister Moon}, Italian follower of Francis of Assisi {Brother Sun} Italian founder of the order of Poor Clares; canonized in 1255 (d. 1253)
● 1486 - Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter (d. 1530)
● 1611 - Archduchess Cecilia Renata of Austria, Queen of Poland
● 1714 - Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, French military engineer (d. 1800)
● 1722 - Joseph Wilton, English sculptor (d. 1803)
● 1723 - Sir Joshua Reynolds, English painter (d. 1792)
● 1731 - Samuel Huntington, Continental Congress president (d. 1796)
● 1796 - Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, French painter (d. 1875)
● 1821 - Mary Baker Eddy, American religious leader (d. 1910)
● 1858 - Eugène Ysaÿe, Belgian violinist (d. 1931)
● 1862 - Ida B. Wells, American civil rights activist (d. 1931)
● 1863 - Fannie Zeisler, Austrian-born American pianist (d. 1927)
● 1870 - Lambert McKenna, Irish scholar (d. 1956)
● 1872 - Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer (d. 1928)
● 1876 - Eugene Octave Sykes, first chairman of the FCC (d. 1941)
● 1883 - Charles Sheeler, American photographer and artist (d. 1965)
● 1884 - Anna Vyrubova, Russian memoirist (d. 1964)
● 1888 - Percy Kilbride, American actor (d. 1964)
● 1888 - Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1966)
● 1889 - Shoeless Joe Jackson, American baseball player (d. 1951)
● 1889 - Larry Semon, American comedian (d. 1928)
● 1896 - Trygve Lie, Norwegian politician, first United Nations Secretary General (d. 1968)
● 1896 - Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, German eugenicist and nazi physician (d. 1969)
● 1896 - Evelyn Preer, American actress (d. 1932)
● 1902 - Alexander Luria, Russian psychologist (d. 1977)
● 1903 - Carmen Lombardo, Canadian musician (d. 1971)
● 1903 - Mary Philbin, American actress (d. 1993)
● 1903 - Fritz Bauer, German judge (d. 1968)
● 1906 - Vincent Sherman, American film director (d. 2006)
● 1907 - Frances Horwich, aka "Miss Frances" of "Ding Dong School", American educator and television personality (d. 2001)
● 1907 - Orville Redenbacher, American farmer and businessman (d. 1995)
● 1907 - Barbara Stanwyck, American actress (d. 1990)
● 1911 - Ginger Rogers, American actress and dancer (d. 1995)
● 1911 - Sonny Tufts, American actor (d. 1970)
● 1912 - Milt Bocek, American baseball player (d. 2007)
● 1915 - Barnard Hughes, American actor (d. 2006)
● 1919 - Choi Kyuha, President of South Korea (d. 2006)
● 1919 - Hermine Braunsteiner, Nazi war criminal (d. 1999)
● 1921 - Guy Laroche, French couturier (d. 1989)
● 1923 - Chris Argyris, Greek Professor Emeritus at Harvard Business School
● 1924 - Bess Myerson, American beauty queen
● 1925 - Cal Tjader, American musician (d. 1982)
● 1926 - Irwin Rose, American biologist, Nobel laureate
● 1928 - Anita Brookner, English novelist
● 1928 - David C. Treen, ex-Governor of Louisiana
● 1930 - Michael Bilirakis, American politician
● 1932 - Dick Thornburgh, American politician
● 1934 - Katherine D. Ortega, 38th Treasurer of the United States
● 1934 - Don Payne, American politician
● 1936 - Buddy Merrill, American musician (The Lawrence Welk Show)
● 1937 - Richard Bryan, American politician
● 1939 - Corin Redgrave, English actor
● 1939 - Mariele Ventre, Italian choir director (d. 1995)
● 1939 - William Bell, Soul singer
● 1941 - Desmond Dekker, Jamaican musician (d. 2006)
● 1942 - Margaret Smith Court, Australian tennis player and Hall of Fame member
● 1943 - Reinaldo Arenas, Cuban poet (d. 1990)
● 1945 - Victor Sloan, Irish visual artist
● 1945 - Ross Dunkerton, Australian rally driver
● 1946 - Barbara Lee, American politician
● 1946 - Richard LeParmentier, American actor
● 1946 - Ron Yary, American football player
● 1947 - Alexis Herman, 23rd U.S. Secretary of Labor
● 1947 - Assata Shakur, American activist
● 1947 - Robert Lieberman, Director
● 1948 - Rubén Blades, Panamanian singer and actor
● 1948 - Pinchas Zukerman, Israeli violinist
● 1950 - Dennis Priestley, English darts player
● 1952 - Stewart Copeland, American drummer (The Police)
● 1952 - Robert David Steele, American spy
● 1953 - Douglas J. Feith, American Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
● 1954 - Jeanette Mott Oxford, American politician
● 1956 - Jerry Doyle, American actor
● 1956 - Tony Kushner, American playwright
● 1957 - Alexandra Marinina, Russian writer
● 1958 - Michael Flatley, Irish-born American dancer ("Lord of the Dance")
● 1958 - Pierre Roland Renoir, Canadian artist
● 1958 - Mike D. Rogers, American politician
● 1959 - Gary Anderson, American football player
● 1960 - Terry Pendleton, American baseball player
● 1963 - Phoebe Cates, American actress
● 1963 - Srečko Katanec, Slovenian footballer and coach
● 1964 - Phil Hellmuth, American poker player
● 1964 - Miguel Indurain, Spanish cyclist
● 1965 - Tina Tyler, Canadian porn star
● 1965 - Craig Morgan, Country singer
● 1966 - Johnny Vaughan, English writer and broadcaster
● 1967 - Will Ferrell, American comedian
● 1967 - Christopher Rocancourt, French con artist
● 1968 - Dhanraj Pillay, Indian field hockey player
● 1968 - Barry Sanders, American football player and Hall of Fame member
● 1968 - Larry Sanger, American co-founder of Wikipedia
● 1969 - Kathryn Harby-Williams, Australian netballer
● 1969 - Rain Pryor, Actress
● 1970 - Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thai film director
● 1971 - Edward Kowalczyk, American singer (Live)
● 1971 - Corey Feldman, American actor
● 1973 - Stefano Garzelli, Italian cyclist
● 1973 - Shaun Pollock, South African cricketer
● 1973 - Tim Ryan, American politician
● 1974 - Chris Pontius, American actor and Jackass cast member
● 1975 - Bas Leinders, Belgian racing car driver
● 1975 - Ana Paula Arósio, Brazilian actress
● 1975 - Jamie Oliver, Welsh keyboardist
● 1976 - Anna Smashnova, Israeli tennis player
● 1976 - Franklin Lashley, American professional wrestler
● 1976 - Carlos Humberto Paredes, Paraguyan soccer player
● 1979 - Jayma Mays, American actress
● 1980 - Jesse Jane, American pornographic actress
● 1980 - Adam Scott, Australian golfer
● 1982 - Michael Umaña, Costa Rican footballer
● 1984 - Katrina Kaif, Indian Actress
● 1986 - Calum Gittins, New Zealand actor
● 1989 - Gareth Bale, Welsh footballer
● 1991 - Randall Bentley, American actor
● 1994 - Mark Indelicato, American singer and actor ("Ugly Betty")
DEATHS
● 1324 - Emperor Go-Uda of Japan (b. 1267)
● 1342 - King Charles I of Hungary
● 1546 - Anne Askew, English Protestant (burned at the stake) (b. 1521)
● 1557 - Anne of Cleves, fourth wife of Henry VIII of England (b. 1515)
● 1594 - Thomas Kyd, author of The Spanish Tragedy (b. 1558)
● 1630 - Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy (b. 1562)
● 1647 - Masaniello, Neapolitan rebel (b. 1622)
● 1664 - Andreas Gryphius, German writer (b. 1616)
● 1686 - John Pearson, English theologian (b. 1612)
● 1691 - François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, French war minister (b. 1641)
● 1729 - Johann David Heinichen, German composer (b. 1683)
● 1747 - Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Italian painter (b. 1665)
● 1770 - Francis Cotes, English painter (b. 1726)
● 1796 - George Howard, British field marshal (b. 1718)
● 1831 - Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron, Russian general (b. 1763)
● 1879 - Edward Deas Thomson, Australian politician (b. 1800)
● 1882 - Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States (b. 1818)
● 1886 - Ned Buntline, American pulp novelist (b. 1823)
● 1915 - Ellen White, cofunder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (b. 1827)
● 1916 - Ilya Mechnikov, Russian microbiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1845)
● 1917 - Philipp Scharwenka, Polish-German composer (b. 1847)
● 1947 - Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish humanitarian (exact date of death uncertain) (b. 1912)
● 1949 - Vyacheslav Ivanov, Russian poet (b. 1866)
● 1953 - Hilaire Belloc, English writer (b. 1870)
● 1960 - Albert Kesselring, German field marshal (b. 1881)
● 1960 - John P. Marquand, American novelist (b. 1893)
● 1979 - Alfred Deller, English countertenor (b. 1912)
● 1981 - Harry Chapin, American musician (b. 1942)
● 1985 - Heinrich Böll, German writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1917)
● 1989 - John Dempsey, Governor of Connecticut (b. 1915)
● 1989 - Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor (b. 1908)
● 1990 - Sidney Torch, British composer, conductor and organist (b. 1908)
● 1991 - Robert Motherwell, American painter (b. 1915)
● 1991 - Frank Rizzo, American politician (b. 1920)
● 1992 - Buck Buchanan, American football player (b. 1940)
● 1994 - Julian Schwinger, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1918)
● 1995 - May Sarton, Belgian-born American poet (b. 1912)
● 1995 - Stephen Spender, English poet (b. 1909)
● 1996 - John Panozzo, American musician (Styx) (b. 1948)
● 1996 - Adolf von Thadden, German politician, (b. 1921)
● 1998 - John Henrik Clarke, American historian and scholar (b. 1915)
● 1999 - Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, wife of John F. Kennedy Jr. (b. 1966)
● 1999 - John F. Kennedy Jr., American publisher (b. 1960)
● 2001 - Maurice De Bevere, Belgian cartoonist (b. 1923)
● 2001 - Terry Gordy, American professional wrestler (b. 1961)
● 2002 - John Cocke, American computer scientist (b. 1925)
● 2003 - Celia Cruz, Cuban musician (b. 1924)
● 2003 - Carol Shields, Canadian author (b. 1935)
● 2004 - George Busbee, Governor of Georgia (b. 1927)
● 2005 - Pietro Consagra, Italian sculptor (b. 1920)
● 2005 - Prince Gu of Korea (b. 1931)
● 2005 - Camillo Felgen, Luxembourgish singer, lyricist, and entertainer (b. 1920)
● 2006 - Robert H. Brooks, American founder of Hooters (b. 1937)
● 2006 - Bob Orton, Sr., American professional wrestler (b. 1929)
● 2006 - Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas (b. 1948)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● Our Lady of Mount Carmel
● Virgen del Carmen Colombia
● St. Alexius
● Sts. Andrew and Benedict, martyrs
● St. Anthony, bishop of Carpentras
● St. Athenogenes
● St. Bertin, abbot, confessor
● St. Carmen
● St. Domninus, martyr
● St. Elvira
● St. Eustathius, bishop of Antioch, confessor
● St. Faustus
● St. Fulrad
● St. Generosus, confessor
● Sts. Gondulf and Monulf, bishops, confessors
● St. Helier (Elier, Helerius), hermit, martyr
● St. Hilarinus, bishop and martyr
● St. Justinian, confessor
● St. Marie St. Henry
● St. Mary Magdalen Postel
● St. Milo
● Sts. Monulph and Gondulph, bishops of Tongeren, confessors
● St. Osmund, bishop of Salisbury, confessor
● St. Reineldis
● St. Reinhilde of Kontich
● St. Swithun, bishop of Winchester, confessor
● St. Tenenanus, bishop of Léon, confessor
● St. Valentine, bishop of Trier, martyr
● St. Vitalian
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for July 3 (Civil Date: July 16)
● Martyr Hyacinth of Caesarea in Cappadocia.
● Translation of the Relics of Hieromartyr Philip, Metropolitan of Moscow.
● Martyrs Mocius (Mucian) and Mark.
● Martyrs Diomedes, Eulampius, Asclepiodotus and Golinduch, who suffered with Hyacinth.
● St. Anatolius, Patriarch of Constantinople.
● St. Alexander, founder of the Unsleeping Ones.
● Holy Princes Basil and Constantine of Yaroslav.
● St. Anatolius, recluse of the Kiev Caves.
● St. Anatolius (another) of the Kiev Caves.
● Saints John and Longinus, Wonderworkers of Yarensk (Solovki).
● Blessed John of Moscow, fool-for-Christ.
● St. Nicodemus, abbot of Kazhe-ezersk.
● Blessed Michael and Thomas, fools-for-Christ of Solvychegodsk (Vologda).
● Greek Calendar:
● Martyrs Theodotus and Theodota, martyred with St. Hyacinth.
● Monk-martyr Gerasimus the New of Carpenision.
● Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos the "Milk-Giver" of Chilandar Monastery on Mt. Athos.
● Repose of Righteous Nun Euphrosyne the "Unknown" (1855).
● St. Andrew, Archbishop of Crete
● St. Martha, mother of St. Symeon Stylites the Younger.
● Holy Royal Martyrs of Russia: Tsar Nicholas II, Tsaritsa Alexandra, Crown Prince Alexis, and Grand-duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia, and those martyred with them (1918)
● Hieromartyr Theodore, Bishop of Cyrene in Libya, and with him Martyrs Cyprilla, Aroa and Lucia.
● Martyrs Theodotus and Theodota at Caesarea in Cappadocia.
● Opening of the Relics of St. Euthymius, archimandrite of Suzdal.
● Burial of St. Andrew, prince of Bogoliubsk.
● Saints Tychon, Basil, and Nicon, monks of Solovki.
● St. Andrew the Russian of Cairo.
● St. Andrew Rublev, iconographer.
● New-Martyr Hieromonk Nilus of Poltava (1918).
● St. Asclepias the Wonderworker.
● Hieromartyr Theophilus.
● St. Menignus, monk.
● Hieromartyr Theodotus.
● St. Donatus of Libya, Bishop
● Repose of Schema-hieromonk John, founder of Sarov Monastery (1737).
● Bolivia : La Paz Day (1548)
● Botswana - President's Day (2nd day).
● Washington DC : District of Columbia Day (1790)
● United States - National Ice Cream Day, as made official by President Ronald Reagan.
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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