Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Radical Right "Hasn't America seen enough of the exclusionary, prejudicial, vote-suppressing, racial-profiling, inner city-ignoring, confederate flag-waving, Bob Jones University-loving attitudes of the radical right?" — Patrick Kennedy
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Absurdity "I'll submit to you that George W. Bush is the closest modern president to what the Founding Fathers had in mind." — Bill O'Reilly, host of the The O'Reilly Factor on the conservative Fox News Channel
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: On Politics "The Law I sign toady directs new funds . . . to the task of collecting vital intelligence . . . on weapons of mass production." — Hall of Shame Member #1, George W. Bush
Thought for the day: "Lost interest? It's so bad I've lost apathy."
{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 Same Color Illusion
Credit: Edward H. Adelson, Wikipedia
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EVENTS
● 180 - Twelve inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa executed for being Christians. This is the earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world.
● 431 - The Council of Ephesus adjourned. This third of the 21 ecumenical councils of the Church condemned Nestorianism and Pelagianism, and defined Mary's title as 'Theotokos' ('Bearer of God').
● 561 - John III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
● 855 – St. Leo IV ends his reign as Catholic Pope
● 1048 - Damasus II appointed Pope.
● 1203 - Fourth Crusade captures Constantinople by assault; the Byzantine emperor Alexius III Angelus flees from his capital into exile.
● 1212 - The Moslems were crushed in the Spanish crusade.
● 1453 - Hundred Years' War: Battle of Castillon - The French under Jean Bureau utterly defeat the English under the Earl of Shrewsbury, who is killed in the battle in Gascony
● 1505 - Twenty-one-year-old future church reformer, Martin Luther entered the Augustinian monastic order, at Erfurt, Germany.
● 1549 - Jews are expelled from Ghent Belgium
● 1674 - Birth of Isaac Watts, innovative pioneer of modern English hymnody. Among his many beloved sacred compositions are: 'At the Cross,' 'Joy to the World,' 'Marching to Zion' and 'When I Survey the Wondrous Cross.'
● 1762 - Catherine II becomes tzar of Russia upon the accidental murder of Peter III of Russia.
● 1771 - Bloody Falls Massacre: Chipewyan chief Matonabbee traveling as the guide to Samuel Hearne on his Arctic overland journey, massacre a group of unsuspecting Inuit.
● 1775 - 1st military hospital approved
● 1785 - France limited the importation of goods from Britain.
● 1791 - Massacre at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution. 1200-1500 people were killed, including women and children - parting of the ways between the French Revolution's big bourgeoisie and the rest of the third estate.
● 1794 - African Church of St Thomas in Philadelphia, dedicated
● 1794 - Biggest rebel victory in Whiskey Rebellion. 500 armed men, protesting a new excise tax on distilleries, clashed with troops from Fort Pitt after firing on a revenue collector and burning down his home. Within the next three weeks, 15,000 uniformed militiamen entered into the fray, including Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton (whose close associates in the rum business were among the major benefactors of the tax), and the "Whiskey Rebellion" came to an end.
● 1794 - Richard Allen organizes Philadelphia's Bethel African Meth Episcopal Church
● 1815 - Napoleonic Wars: In France, Napoleon surrenders at Rochefort, Charente-Maritime to British forces.
● 1816 - The French passenger ship Medusa runs aground off the coast of Senegal.
● 1821 - Spain cedes Florida to the United States
● 1831 - Mormonism founder Joseph Smith, Jr. receives a revelation in Jackson County, Missouri on plural marriage that introduces polygamy in Mormonism.
● 1836 - Death of William White, 88, American patriarch of the Episcopalians. First bishop of American Anglicanism, it was White who coined the name 'Protestant Episcopal' for the new denomination.
● 1850 - Harvard Observatory takes 1st photograph of a star (Vega)
● 1856 - The Great Train Wreck of 1856, the worst train wreck in history, occurs in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania killing over 60 people.
● 1858 - Salving of the Lutine bell. The bell is subsequently hung in Lloyd's of London.
● 1861 - Congress authorizes paper money
● 1862 - National cemeteries were authorized by the U.S. government.
● 1862 - US army authorized to accept blacks as laborers
● 1863 - Battle of Honey Springs, largest battle of war in Indian Territory
● 1864 - CSA President Davis replaces Gen Joe Johnston with John Bell Hood
● 1866 - Authorization was given to build a tunnel beneath the Chicago River. The three-year project cost $512,709.
● 1867 - Harvard School of Dental Medicine was established in Boston, MA. It was the first dental school in the U.S.
● 1879 - 1st railroad opens in Hawaii
● 1887 - Dorothea Dix, reformer, suffragette, dies.
● 1897 - Klondike gold rush begins when first successful prospectors arrive in Seattle, Washington from the Yukon.
● 1898 - Spanish-American War: Battle of Santiago Bay - Troops under United States General William R. Shafter take the city of Santiago de Cuba from the Spanish.
● 1899 - James Cagney, the Academy-Award winning American film actor, was born.
● 1917 - King George V of the United Kingdom issues a Proclamation stating that the male line descendants of the British royal family will bear the surname Windsor instead of the German Saxe-Coburg Gotha.
● 1918 - By order of the Bolshevik Party and carried out by Cheka, Emperor Nicholas II of Russia, his immediate family, and retainers were murdered at the Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg, Russia.
● 1927 - First aerial military bombing of a civilian population, by a U.S. Marine squadron of seven airplanes at Ocatal, Nicaragua, kills 300.
● 1933 - After successfully crossing the Atlantic ocean, the Lithuanian research aircraft Lituanica crashes in Europe under mysterious circumstances.
● 1936 - Spanish Civil War: An Armed Forces rebellion led by Francisco Franco against the recently-elected leftist Popular Front government of Spain starts the Spanish civil war.
● 1938 - Douglas (Wrong Way) Corrigan leaves NY for LA, wound up in Ireland
● 1941 - Brigadier General Soervell directed Architect G. Edwin Bergstrom to have basic plans and architectural perspectives for an office building that could house 40,000 War Department employees on his desk by the following Monday morning. The building became known as the Pentagon.
● 1942 - 3' of rain falls on Pennsylvania, flooding kills 15
● 1942 - Estimated 87.5 cm (34.5") of rainfall, Smethport, Pa. (state record)
● 1942 - New Tribes Mission was organized by founder Paul W. Fleming. This interdenominational missions agency supports over 1,000 staff members in countries around the world.
● 1944 - Napalm incendiary bombs were dropped for the first time by American P-38 pilots on a fuel depot at Coutances, near St. Lô, France
● 1944 - Port Chicago disaster: Near the San Francisco Bay, two ships laden with ammunition for the war explode in Port Chicago, California, killing 320.
● 1944 - World War II: The largest convoy of the war embarks from Halifax, Nova Scotia under Royal Canadian Navy protection.
● 1945 - U.S. President Truman, Soviet leader Josef Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill began meeting at Potsdam in the final Allied summit of World War II. During the meeting Stalin made the comment that "Hitler had escaped."
● 1946 - Chinese communists opened a drive against the Nationalist army on the Yangtze River.
● 1946 - Resistance leader Mikhailovich executed by Tito regime
● 1948 - Southern Democrats opposed to the nomination of President Harry S. Truman met in Birmingham, Ala., to endorse South Carolina Gov. Strom Thurmond.
● 1948 - C A Wirtanen discovers asteroid #1685 Toro
● 1948 - Proclamation of the constitution of the Republic of (South) Korea
● 1951 - Western New England College in Springfield, Massachusetts is chartered.
● 1955 - Arco, Idaho becomes 1st US city lit by nuclear power
● 1959 - 2,000 ft long by 1,300 foot wide section of ridge falls into Madis
● 1959 - Dr Leakey discovers oldest human skull (600,000 years old)
● 1959 - River Canyon extending man-made Lake Hebgen by 5 miles. (Montana)
● 1959 - Tibet abolishes serfdom.
● 1960 - Francis Gary Powers pled guilty to spying charges in a Moscow court after his U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union.
● 1961 - Baseball Hall of Famer Ty Cobb died at age 74.
● 1962 - Nuclear testing: The "Small Boy" test shot Little Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada Test Site.
● 1962 - Robert White in X-15 sets altitude record of 108 km (354,300 ft)
● 1962 - Senate rejects medicare for the aged
● 1964 - Don Campbell sets record for turbine vehicle, 690.91 kph (429.31 mph)
● 1966 - Ho Chi Minh ordered a partial mobilization of North Vietnam forces to defend against American air strikes.
● 1966 - Pioneer 7 launched
● 1967 - Race riots in Cairo Illinois
● 1967 - Jazz musician and composer John Coltrane died at age 40.
● 1968 - The date of the July 17th Revolution in Iraq when Abdul Rahman Arif was overthrown and the Ba'ath Party installed as the governing power in Iraq with Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr as the new Iraqi President.
● 1972 - 1st 2 women begin training as FBI agents at Quantico
● 1974 - Bomb blast at the Tower of London; An explosion in the Tower of London leaves one person dead and 41 injured.
● 1974 - 1st quadraphonic studio in UK is open by the Moody Blues
● 1974 - John Lennon is ordered to leave the US in 60 days
● 1975 - Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations.
● 1976 - History of East Timor: East Timor was annexed, and became the 27th province of Indonesia.
● 1976 - Viking 1 successfully lands on Mars.
● 1979 - Sandinista rebels take Nicaraguan capital; The left-wing Sandinistas take control of the Nicaragua after 46 years of dictatorial rule by the Somoza family. Nicaraguan president {dictator} General Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns and flees to Miami.
● 1980 - 28 female members of Canadian Parliament of all parties announce they will fight for repeal of section of Indian Act that denies Indian status to Indian women marrying non-Indians.
● 1980 - E Bowell discovers asteroids #2554 Skiff, #2555 Thomas, #2587 Gardner, #3341 Hartmann, #3452 Hawke & #3696 Herald
● 1980 - Ronald Reagan formally accepts Republican nomination for president
● 1981 - First land titles distributed to Nicaraguan peasants under land reform.
● 1981 - Fulton County (Atlanta) grand jury indicts Wayne B William 23 year old photographer, for murder of 2 of 28 blacks killed in Atlanta
● 1981 - Humbar Estuary Bridge, UK, world's longest span (1.4 km), opens
● 1981 - Two skywalks suspended from the ceiling over the atrium lobby at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, MO, collapsed. 114 people were killed. Five years later two design engineers were convicted for their negligence.
● 1982 - Syracuse Cultural Workers founded.
● 1983 - End of a 500-person occupation against nuclear waste dumping, Gorleben, West Germany.
● 1984 - Soyuz T-12 carries 3 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 7
● 1986 - The largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history took place when LTV Corporation asked for court protection from more than 20,000 creditors. LTV Corp. had debts in excess of $4 billion.
● 1987 - 10 teens die in Guadalupe River flood (Comfort, Tx)
● 1987 - Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and rear Admiral John Poindexter begin testifying to Congress at the "Iran-Contra" hearings.
● 1988 - Highest temperature ever recorded in San Francisco, 103° F (39° C)
● 1989 - First flight of the B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber.
● 1990 - Hussein's Revolutionary Day speech claims Kuwait stole oil from Iraq
● 1995 - The Midwestern heat wave in the United States reaches its peak. Chicago and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, among other cities, set all-time high temperature records. The heat claims over 400 lives on this day alone.
● 1996 - Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound Boeing 747 carrying TWA flight 800 explodes, killing all 230 on board.
● 1998 - Biologists report in the journal Science how they sequenced the genome of the bacterium that causes syphilis, Treponema pallidum.
● 1998 - In St. Petersburg, Nicholas II of Russia and his family are buried in St. Catherine Chapel exactly 80 years after he and his family were killed by Bolsheviks.
● 1998 - Papua New Guinea earthquake: A tsunami triggered by an undersea earthquake destroys 10 villages in Papua New Guinea killing an estimated 3,183, leaving 2,000 more unaccounted for and thousands more homeless.
● 2000 - Bashar Assad, son of Hafez Assad, became Syria's 16th head of state.
● 2004 - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger mockingly used the term "girlie men" during a rally as he claimed Democrats were delaying the state budget by catering to special interests.
● 2005 - The Iraqi Special Tribunal filed its first criminal case against Saddam Hussein for a 1982 massacre of Shiites.
BIRTHS
● 1487 - Ismail I, Shah of Persia (d. 1524)
● 1674 - Isaac Watts, English hymnwriter (d. 1748)
● 1698 - Pierre Louis Maupertuis, French mathematician (d. 1759)
● 1714 - Alexander Baumgarten, German philosopher and educator (d. 1762)
● 1744 - Elbridge Gerry, 5th Vice President of the United States (1813-14) (d. 1814)
● 1745 - Petr Alekseevich Pahlen, Russian general (d. 1826)
● 1763 - John Jacob Astor, German-born American founder of the Astor dynasty (d. 1848)
● 1797 - Hippolyte Delaroche, French painter (d. 1856)
● 1831 - Xianfeng, Emperor of China (d. 1861)
● 1835 - Sir Erskine Holland, English legal scholar (d. 1926)
● 1839 - Ephraim Shay, American inventor (d. 1916)
● 1859 - Ernest Rhys, English editor (d. 1946)
● 1888 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Israeli writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
● 1889 - Erle Stanley Gardner, American lawyer and author (Perry Mason) (d. 1970)
● 1893 - Marvin Pierce, women's magazine publisher (d. 1969)
● 1894 - Georges Lemaitre, Belgian astronomer and cosmologist (d. 1966)
● 1899 - Osmond Borradaile, WW1 veteran and Canadian cinematographer (d. 23 March 1999)
● 1899 - James Cagney, American actor (d. 1986)
● 1901 - Bruno Jasieński, Polish poet (d. 1938)
● 1902 - Christina Stead, Australian novelist (d. 1983)
● 1905 - William Gargan, American motion-picture and television actor (d. 1979)
● 1911 - Ted Anderson, English footballer (d. 1979)
● 1913 - Bertrand Goldberg, American architect (d. 1997)
● 1912 - Art Linkletter, Canadian television host
● 1917 - Phyllis Diller, American comedian
● 1917 - Red Sovine, American country music singer (d. 1980)
● 1917 - Lou Boudreau, Major League baseball player and manager (d. 2001)
● 1918 - Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, President of Guatemala (d. 2003)
● 1920 - Juan Antonio Samaranch, Spanish chairman of the International Olympic Committee
● 1920 - Kenneth Wolstenholme, English sports commentator (d. 2002)
● 1920 - Gordon Gould, inventor of the laser (d. 2005)
● 1921 - František Zvarík, Slovakian actor
● 1925 - Jimmy Scott, Jazz singer
● 1928 - Vince Guaraldi, American musician and composer (d. 1976)
● 1929 - Sergei K. Godunov, Russian mathematician
● 1935 - Diahann Carroll, American actor
● 1935 - Peter Schickele, American composer, author, and radio host
● 1935 - Donald Sutherland, Canadian actor
● 1939 - Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran
● 1940 - Tim Brooke-Taylor, English comedian
● 1941 - Spencer Davis, British singer and guitarist (Spencer Davis Group)
● 1941 - Jürgen Flimm, German theatre director and manager
● 1941 - Daryle Lamonica, American football player
● 1942 - Spencer Davis, Rock singer, musician
● 1942 - Connie Hawkins, Basketball Hall of Famer
● 1942 - Don Kessinger, baseball player
● 1944 - Carlos Alberto, Brazilian football player
● 1944 - Catherine Schell, Hungarian born British actress
● 1945 - Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia
● 1946 - Alun Armstrong, English actor
● 1947 - Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, current wife of Britain's Prince Charles and downright ugly
● 1948 - Ron Asheton, American musician and composer (Iggy Pop & The Stooges)
● 1948 - Luc Bondy, Swiss theatre and opera director
● 1949 - Terence "Geezer" Butler, British musician and lyricist (Black Sabbath)
● 1949 - John Wetton, British musician (King Crimson)
● 1949 - Snyder Rini, Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands for eight days
● 1949 - Charlie Steiner, American sports broadcaster
● 1951 - Lucie Arnaz, American actress
● 1952 - David Hasselhoff, American actor and musician ("Baywatch," "America's Got Talent")
● 1952 - Phoebe Snow, singer and songwriter
● 1952 - Nicolette Larson, American singer (d. 1997)
● 1954 - Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany
● 1954 - J. Michael Straczynski, American author
● 1955 - Paul Stamets, American mycologist and environmentalist
● 1956 - Bryan Trottier, Canadian ice hockey player and Hall of Fame member
● 1957 - Fern Britton, British television presenter
● 1958 - Wong Kar-wai, Chinese film director
● 1960 - Mark Burnett, English-born television producer ("Survivor," "The Apprentice")
● 1960 - Robin Shou, Hong Kong actor
● 1960 - Jan Wouters, Dutch football player and manager
● 1960 - Nancy Giles, Actress
● 1963 - Regina Belle, R&B singer
● 1963 - Matti Nykänen, Finnish ski jumper
● 1963 - Letsie III, King of Lesotho
● 1965 - Craig Morgan, American singer
● 1966 - Lou Barlow, Rock musician
● 1966 - Guru, Hip-hop singer (Gang Starr)
● 1966 - Sten Tolgfors, Swedish politician
● 1967 - Susan Ashton, Contemporary Christian singer
● 1967 - Stokley, R&B singer (Mint Condition)
● 1968 - Andre Royo, Actor
● 1968 - Bitty Schram, American actress
● 1969 - Jason Clarke, Actor
● 1971 - Jarrett Cordes, American hip-hip artist (P.M. Dawn)
● 1971 - Cory Doctorow, Canadian author and activist
● 1972 - Jason Rullo, American drummer (Symphony X and formerly Redemption)
● 1972 - Jaap Stam, Dutch footballer
● 1973 - Solé, Rapper
● 1973 - Eric Moulds, American football player
● 1973 - Tony Dovolani, Albanian ballroom dancer
● 1974 - Laura Macdonald, Scottish jazz musician
● 1975 - Konnie Huq, English television presenter
● 1975 - Cécile de France, Belgian actress
● 1975 - Terence Tao, Australian Chinese mathematician
● 1977 - M.I.A., British rapper
● 1977 - Marc Savard, Canadian hockey player
● 1978 - Mike Hettinga, American professional wrestler
● 1980 - Ryan Miller, NHL hockey player
● 1980 - Craig Hughes, minor Welsh rugby player
● 1980 - Javier Camuñas, Spanish footballer
● 1981 - Elpida Romantzi, Greek archer
● 1982 - Natasha Hamilton, British singer (Atomic Kitten)
● 1983 - Ryan Guettler, professional Australian BMX rider
● 1983 - Adam Lind, American baseball player
● 1984 - Sotiris Leontiou, Greek footballer
● 1985 - Neil McGregor, Scottish footballer
● 1985 - Tom Fletcher, British singer (McFly)
● 1986 - Dana (Korea), Korean singer/dancer/actress (TSZX)
● 1988 - Kat DeLuna, Spanish-American singer
● 1989 - Marko Todorović, Swiss swimmer
● 1998 - Felipe Juan Froilán de Marichalar y de Borbón, Spanish royal
DEATHS
● 521 - Magnus Felix Ennodius, bishop and Latin poet (b. 474)
● 656 - Uthman ibn Affan, Third Caliph, assassinated.
● 924 - King Edward the Elder of England
● 1070 - Baldwin VI, Count of Flanders (b. 1030)
● 1105 - Rashi, French rabbi and commentator (b. 1040)
● 1453 - John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, English military leader
● 1531 - Hosokawa Takakuni, Japanese military commander (b. 1484)
● 1566 - Bartolomé de Las Casas, Spanish priest (b. 1484)
● 1571 - Georg Fabricius, German poet and historian (b. 1516)
● 1588 - Sinan, Ottoman architect (b. 1489)
● 1645 - Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, Scottish politician
● 1704 - Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, French fur trader and explorer
● 1709 - Robert Bolling, English settler in Virginia (b. 1646)
● 1790 - Adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher (b. 1723)
● 1791 - Martin Dobrizhoffer, Austrian Jesuit missionary (b. 1717)
● 1793 - Charlotte Corday, French aristocrat and murderer (b. 1768)
● 1794 - John Roebuck, British inventor (b. 1718)
● 1845 - Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1764)
● 1878 - Aleardo Aleardi, Italian poet (b. 1812)
● 1881 - Jim Bridger, American mountain man, Indian fighter, and explorer (b. 1804)
● 1885 - Jean-Charles Chapais, Canadian politician (b. 1811)
● 1887 - Dorothea Dix, American social activist (b. 1802)
● 1893 - Frederick A. Johnson, American politician (b. 1833)
● 1894 - Josef Hyrtl, Austrian anatomist (b. 1810)
● 1894 - Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle, French poet (b. 1818)
● 1912 - Henri Poincaré, French mathematician (b. 1854)
● 1917 - Hector Malot, French writer (b. 1830)
● 1918 (N.S.) - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Family (b. 1868)
● Tsaritsa Alexandra Fyodorovna (b. 1872)
● Grand Duchess Olga (b. 1895)
● Grand Duchess Tatiana (b. 1897)
● Grand Duchess Maria (b. 1899)
● Grand Duchess Anastasia (b. 1901)
● Tsarevich Alexei (b. 1904)
● 1928 - Giovanni Giolitti, Italian statesman (b. 1842)
● 1935 - George William Russell, Irish nationalist, poet and artist (b. 1867)
● 1944 - William James Sidis, gifted mathematician and child prodigy (b. 1898)
● 1945 - Ernst Busch, German field marshal (b. 1885)
● 1946 - General Dragoljub Mihailović, commandant of the Yugoslav Royal Army in the Fatherland (b. 1893)
● 1950 - Evangeline Booth, the 4th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1865)
● 1959 - Billie Holiday, American singer (b. 1915)
● 1959 - Eugene Meyer, American businessman and newspaper publisher (b. 1875)
● 1961 - Ty Cobb, baseball player (b. 1886)
● 1967 - John Coltrane, American musician (b. 1926)
● 1974 - Dizzy Dean, Major League baseball pitcher (b. 1910)
● 1975 - Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer and public benefactor (b. 1893)
● 1980 - Boris Delaunay, Russian mathematician (b. 1890)
● 1987 - Yujiro Ishihara, Japanese actor (b. 1934)
● 1988 - Bruiser Brody, professional wrestler (b. 1946)
● 1995 - Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1911)
● 1996 - Chas Chandler, bass guitarist (The Animals), record producer and manager (b. 1938)
● 2001 - Katharine Graham, American publisher (b. 1917)
● 2003 - David Kelly, Welsh UN weapons inspector (b. 1944)
● 2003 - Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and harpsichordist (b. 1914)
● 2004 - Pat Roach, British professional wrestler and actor (b. 1937)
● 2005 - Laurel Aitken, Jamaican singer (b. 1927)
● 2005 - Geraldine Fitzgerald, Irish-born actress (b. 1913)
● 2005 - Edward Heath, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1916)
● 2005 - Joe Vialls, Australian writer (b. 1944)
● 2006 - Sam Myers, American musician and songwriter (b. 1936)
● 2006 - Mickey Spillane, American author (b. 1918)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● Holy Carmelite Nuns of Compiegne, martyrs
● St. Alexius, confessor
● Sts. Andrew and Benedict, martyrs
● St. Andrew Zorard
● St. Ansueris
● St. Clement of Okhrida
● St. Cynllo
● St. Ennodius, bishop of Pavia
● St. Frances de Croissy
● St. Fredegaudus, bishop, confessor
● St. Generosus
● St. Hyacinth
● St. Kenelmus, king, martyr
● St. Madeleine Brideau
● St. Madeleine Lidoine
● St. Marcellina, virgin
● St. Marie Claude Brard
● St. Marie Croissy
● St. Marie Dufour
● St. Marie Hanisset
● St. Marie Meunier
● St. Marie Trezelle
● St. Marina virgin, martyr
● St. Nerses Lambronazi
● Sts. Nicholas, Alexandra, and Companions
● St. Piatus, bishop of Tournai
● Sts. Quiricus and Julitta, martyrs
● St. Speratus and companions 'the Sicilian Martyrs'
● St. Theodosius, bishop of Auxerre
● St. Theodota
● St. Turninus, monk
● Bl. Antoinette Roussel
● Bl. Ceslaus
● Bl. Charlotte and companions (died 1794).
● Bl. Frances Brideau
● Bl. Juliette Verolot
● Bl. Rose Chretien
● 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).
● Lutheran: Commemoration of Bartolom‚ de Las Casas, missionary
● Anglican: Commemoration of William White, bishop of Pennsylvania
● Iraq : Revolution Day/National Day (1968)
● Kyoto, Japan - Gion Matsuri.
● Mexico : Day of National Mourning (Alvaro Obregon, Benito Juarez)
● Puerto Rico : Mu¤oz Rivera Day (1859)
● South Korea : Constitution Day (1948)
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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