Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Rebellion & Struggle "You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea." — Benazir Bhutto
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Bigotry, Chauvinism, & Theocracy "The Bible is the inerrant. . .word of the living God. It is absolutely infallible, without error in all matters pertaining to faith and practice, as well as in areas such as geography, science, history, etc." — Jerry Falwell {Now we know why Falwell couldn't find his way out of paper bag; he used the Bible as a map.}
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: On Politics "It will take time to restore chaos and order." — Hall of Shame Member #1, George W. Bush
Thought for the day: "The greatest programming project of all took six days; on the seventh day the programmer rested."
{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
Planets over Pony Express Lake
Credit & Copyright: Dan Bush (Missouri Skies)
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 552 B.C.E.- Mahavina, apostle of Jainism, born, India.
● 390 B.C.E.- Roman-Gaulish Wars: Battle of the Allia - A Roman army is defeated by raiding Gauls, leading to the subsequent sacking of Rome.
● 64 - Great fire of Rome: A fire begins to burn in the merchant area of Rome and soon burns completely out of control while Emperor Nero reportedly plays his lyre and sings while watching the blaze from a safe distance.
● 1195 - Battle of Alarcos, great victory of Almohad ruler Abu Yusuf Ya'qub al-Mansur over the Castilian King Alfonso VIII.
● 1504 - Birth of Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss reformer. He continued Zwingli's work after his death at Kappel (1531), and composed the Second Helvetic Confession in 1566.
● 1536 - The authority of the Pope is declared void in England.
● 1716 - Jews are expelled from Brussels Belgium
● 1753 - Birth of Lemuel Haynes, colonial American Congregational clergyman. In 1785, Haynes, 32, was ordained to a church in Torrington, Connecticut, making him the first African-American to pastor a white church.
● 1753 - Lemuel Haynes, escapes from slaveholder in Framingham Mass
● 1789 - Robespierre, a deputy from Arras, France, decided to back the French Revolution.
● 1812 - Great Britain signed the Treaty of Orebro, making peace with Russia and Sweden.
● 1814 - British capture Prairie du Chien (Wisconsin)
● 1830 - Uruguay adopts its first constitution.
● 1853 - 1st train to cross the US-Canada boundary, Portland, ME.-Montreal, PQ
● 1857 - Louis Faidherbe, French governor of Senegal, arrives to relieve French forces at Kayes, effectively ending El Hajj Umar Tall's war on the French.
● 1861 - American Civil War: Skirmish at Blackburn's Ford prior to First Battle of Bull Run(1st Battle of Manassas).
● 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Fort Wagner/Morris Island - The first formal African American military unit, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, unsuccessfully assaults Confederate-held Battery Wagner but their valiant fighting still proves the worth of African American soldiers during the war.
● 1870 - The Vatican I Ecumenical Council issued the proclamation 'Pastor Aeternus,' declaring the pope's primacy and infallibility in deciding faith and moral matters. (Few Protestants agree with this doctrine.)
● 1872 - The Ballot Act was passed in Great Britain, providing for secret election ballots.
● 1873 - Oscar II of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway in Trondheim.
● 1876 - American philosopher and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson noted: 'Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than material, that thoughts rule the world.'
● 1879 - Birth of Rose Pastor Stokks, radical sentenced to ten years in prison for writing an anti-war letter to the editor.
● 1881 - Birth of Jules Sellenet, known as Francis Boudoux (1881-1941), St Etienne, France. Militant, antimilitarist, and anarcho-syndicalist. Arrested numerous times for his antimilitary activities and for "offences "related to the industrial disputes." His own union denounced him as an agent provocateur, a charge that the Communists would revive following WWI.
● 1887 - Argentina - In Buenos-Aires, at the initiative of anarchist Ettore Mattei, "La Sociedad Cosmopolita de Resistancia y Colocación de Obreros Panaderos," the first organized workers' resistance society, is founded.
● 1898 - Marie and Pierre Curie announce the discovery of a new element and proposed to call it polonium. It would later be named radium.
● 1904 - P Gotz discovers asteroid #538 Friederike
● 1909 - Andrey Gromyko, the Soviet foreign minister from 1957 to 1985, was born.
● 1914 - The U.S. Congress forms the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps, this gives definite status to aircraft within the U.S. Army for the first time.
● 1917 - Beginning of citywide general strike for an eight-hour day and 20 percent wage increase in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Includes furniture workers, tailors, shoemakers, bread carriers, textile workers, metal workers.
● 1918 - Birth of Nelson Mandela, father of South Africa.
● 1918 - US & French forces launch Aisne-Marne offensive in WW I
● 1919 - Thirty-five thousand multiracial stockyard workers strike in Chicago for removal of troops.
● 1923 - Having put down his arms for land and amnesty, Pancho Villa is ambushed by political enemies at Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico.
● 1923 - Magnus Johnson elected to the Senate from Minnesota. He is the candidate of a new radical party; a party saved from adopting the Moscow brand of communism only by a schism within the Moscow element.
● 1925 - Adolf Hitler publishes his personal manifesto Mein Kampf.
● 1931 - 1st air-conditioned ship (Mariposa) launched
● 1932 - The United States and Canada signed a treaty to develop the Saint Lawrence Seaway.
● 1935 - Ethiopian King Haile Selassie urged his countrymen to fight to the last man against the invading Italian army.
● 1936 - The Spanish fascist Generals Orgaz and Franco seize the Canary Islands, declare martial law, the phalange of the civil guard are raised, and they begin shooting trade unionist workers.
● 1938 - Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan arrives in Ireland-left NY for Calif
● 1939 - Birth of Hunter S. Thompson, gonzo Doktor of Journalism.
● 1940 - 1st successful helicopter flight, Stratford, Ct
● 1940 - Democratic National Convention, Chicago: President Franklin D. Roosevelt is nominated for an unprecedented third term in office.
● 1942 - World War II: The Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me-262 using only its jets for the first time.
● 1944 - German theologian and Nazi martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote from prison: 'The religious act is always something partial; "faith" is something whole, involving the whole of one's life. Jesus calls us not to new religion but to life.'
● 1944 - Hideki Tojo was removed as Japanese premier and war minister due to setbacks suffered by his country in World War II.
● 1944 - U.S. troops captured Saint-Lo, France, ending the battle of the hedgerows.
● 1947 - President Harry S. Truman signs the Presidential Succession Act into law which places the Speaker of the House and the Senate President Pro Tempore next in the line of succession after the United States Vice President
● 1947 - US receives UN trusteeship over Pacific Islands
● 1951 - Uruguay accepts its constitution
● 1955 - 1st electric power generated from atomic energy sold commercially
● 1964 - Riots break out in Harlem, New York, after a police officer shoots an unarmed black youth, in the first of a series of summer racial riots in Brooklyn, Rochester, Paterson, Elizabeth, Newark, Philadelphia and suburban Chicago.
● 1965 - Zond 3 launched to fly by Moon, enters solar orbit
● 1966 - Carl Sagan turns 1 billion seconds old
● 1966 - First of six days of black riots in Cleveland; riots also begin in Jacksonville, Florida, and east side of Oakland, Calif.
● 1966 - Gemini 10 launched
● 1966 - Nurses murder suspect charged; US police have charged a seaman with the murder of eight student nurses in their hostel in Chicago.
● 1968 - C Torres & S Cofre discovers asteroid #1973 Colocolo, #1974 Caupolican, #1992 Galvarino & #2028 Janequeo
● 1968 - C Torres discovers asteroid #2654 Ristenpart
● 1968 - Vietnam War: The two-day Honolulu Conference begins in Honolulu, Hawaii between US President Lyndon B. Johnson and South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu.
● 1969 - Hospital workers end 113-day strike that saw united action by strikers, students, and civil rights groups, Charleston, South Carolina.
● 1969 - Senator Ted Kennedy offers Mary Jo Kopechne a lift home, Chappaquidick, Massachusetts. Kennedy drives off Dike Bridge in Chappaquiddick, killing his unmarried 28-year-old passenger. Not seriously injured himself, Kennedy left the scene of the accident, and reported nothing to the police until the following day.
● 1970 - Arthur Brown arrested for stripping on stage in Palemo Sicily
● 1971 - New Zealand and Australia announced they would pull their troops out of Vietnam.
● 1974 - U.S. Justice Department orders John Lennon out of the country by September 10. INS denies him an extension of his non-immigrant visa because of his guilty plea in England to a 1968 marijuana possession charge.
● 1974 - World's tallest structure, 646-m Polish radio mast, completed
● 1975 - Jury can't decide on trial of Dave Fopbes of Boston Bruins (1st athlete indicted for excessive violence during play)
● 1976 - Thiokol conducts 2-min firing of space shuttle's SRB at Brigham, Ut
● 1977 - Vietnam joins the United Nations.
● 1978 - Egyptian & Israeli officials begin 2 days of talks
● 1980 - Rohini 1, 1st Indian satellite, launches into orbit
● 1981 - Violence erupts at Irish hunger strike protest; Nearly 200 people are in hospital in Dublin after a hunger strike demonstration turned violent.
● 1982 - 268 campesinos ("peasants" or "country people") are slain in the Plan de Sánchez massacre in Ríos Montt's Guatemala.
● 1984 - McDonald's massacre in San Ysidro, California: James Olive Huberty straps an arsenal to his body, tells his wife, "I'm going to hunt humans," and strolls down the block to the local McDonald's where he kills 21 and wounds 19 (a record body count for one man in one day) before being slain by police.
● 1984 - Walter F. Mondale won the Democratic presidential nomination in San Francisco.
● 1986 - A tornado is broadcast live on KARE television in Minnesota when the station's helicopter pilot makes a chance encounter.
● 1986 - Videotapes released showing Titanic's sunken remains
● 1987 - Molly Yard elected new pres of Natl Org for Women
● 1989 - Rebecca Schaeffer is shot by a crazed fan, prompting California to pass America's first anti-stalking law in 1990.
● 1990 - English teenagers held in Thailand over drugs; Two teenage girls from the Midlands are arrested for drug smuggling in Thailand.
● 1992 - International Network of Female Solidary Against War launched, Novi Sarl, Yugoslavia.
● 1992 - The ten victims of the La Cantuta massacre disappeared from their university in Lima.
● 1994 - In Buenos Aires, a massive car bomb killed 96 people belonging to Argentinean Jewish organizations.
● 1995 - On the Caribbean island of Montserrat, the Soufriere Hills volcano erupts. Over the course of several years, it devastates the island, destroying the capital and forcing most of the population to flee.
● 1996 - In an event very similar to the Oklahoma tornado that would occur three years later, an F5 tornado hit the town of Oakfield, Wisconsin.
● 1996 - Storms provoke severe flooding on the Saguenay River in Quebec, beginning one of Canada's costliest natural disasters ever.
● 1997 - 8000 low-caste Indians riot in Mumbai (formerly Bombay) following a funeral for 10 children who had been killed by police.
● 1998 - A 23-foot tidal wave kills nearly 3,000 people in Papua New Guinea.
● 2000 - Sarah Payne's body found; Police confirm the body they found in a West Sussex field yesterday is that of missing eight-year old Sarah Payne.
● 2001 - A train derailed, involving 60 cars, in a Baltimore train tunnel. The fire that resulted lasted for six days and virtually closed down downtown Baltimore for several days.
● 2003 - The body of British scientist David Kelly, a weapons expert at the center of a storm over British intelligence on Iraq, was found, an apparent suicide.
● 2005 - An unrepentant Eric Rudolph was sentenced in Birmingham, Ala., to life in prison for an abortion clinic bombing that killed an off-duty police officer and maimed a nurse.
● 2005 - Retired Gen. William Westmoreland, commander of U.S. forces during the Vietnam War, died at age 91.
BIRTHS
● 1013 - Hermannus Contractus, learned monk (d. 1054)
● 1501 - Isabella of Burgundy, wife of Christian II of Denmark (d. 1526)
● 1504 - Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss religious reformer (d. 1575)
● 1552 - Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1612)
● 1634 - Johannes Camphuys, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (d. 1695)
● 1635 - Robert Hooke, English scientist (d. 1703)
● 1670 - Giovanni Bononcini, Italian composer (d. 1747)
● 1718 - Saverio Bettinelli, Italian writer (d. 1808)
● 1720 - Gilbert White, English ornithologist (d. 1793)
● 1757 - Royall Tyler, American lawyer, teacher and dramatist (d. 1826)
● 1797 - Immanuel Hermann Fichte, German philosopher (d. 1879)
● 1811 - William Makepeace Thackeray, English author (d. 1863)
● 1818 - Louis De Geer, 1st Swedish Prime Minister (d. 1896)
● 1821 - Pauline Garcia-Viardot, French mezzo-soprano and composer (d. 1910)
● 1837 - Vasil Levski, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1873)
● 1845 - Tristan Corbière, French poet (d. 1875)
● 1848 - W. G. Grace, English cricketer (d. 1915)
● 1853 - Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1928)
● 1862 - Nikolai Nikolaevich Yudenich, Russian general (d. 1933)
● 1864 - Phillip Snowden, British politician (d. 1937)
● 1867 - Margaret Brown, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Titanic survivor (d. 1932)
● 1881 - Larry McLean, baseball player (d. 1921)
● 1884 - Alberto di Jorio, former head of the Vatican Bank and secretary of the 1958 conclave (d. 1979)
● 1887 - Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian politician and traitor (d. 1945)
● 1890 - Frank Forde, 15th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1983)
● 1892 - Arthur Friedenreich, Brazilian football player (d. 1969)
● 1894 - Isaac Babel, Ukrainian writer (d. 1940)
● 1895 - George Machine Gun Kelly, American gangster (d. 1954)
● 1897 - E. A. D. Eldridge, British racing driver (d. 1935)
● 1900 - Nathalie Sarraute, French writer (d. 1999)
● 1902 - Jessamyn West, American writer (d. 1984)
● 1902 - Chill Wills, American actor (d. 1978)
● 1903 - Victor Gruen, Austrian-born American architect and city planner (d. 1980)
● 1906 - S. I. Hayakawa, American semanticist and politician (d. 1992)
● 1906 - Clifford Odets, American writer (d. 1963)
● 1908 - Lupe Vélez, Mexican actress (d. 1944)
● 1909 - Andrei Gromyko, Soviet diplomat and President (d. 1989)
● 1909 - Mohammed Daoud Khan, President of Afghanistan (d. 1978)
● 1911 - Hume Cronyn, Canadian actor (d. 2003)
● 1913 - Red Skelton, American actor and comedian (d. 1997)
● 1914 - Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist (d. 2000)
● 1916 - Johnny Hopp, baseball player (d. 2003)
● 1917 - Henri Salvador, French singer
● 1918 - Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
● 1920 - Eric Brandon, British racing driver (d. 1982)
● 1921 - John Glenn, Mercury Seven astronaut and United States Senator from Ohio
● 1922 - Thomas Kuhn, American philosopher (d. 1996)
● 1923 - Jerome H. Lemelson, American inventor (d. 1997)
● 1924 - Inge Sørensen, Danish swimmer
● 1925 - Shirley Strickland, Australian athlete
● 1926 - Robert Sloman, writer (d. 2005)
● 1927 - Kurt Masur, Silesian-born conductor
● 1929 - Dick Button, American figure skater
● 1929 - Screamin' Jay Hawkins, American singer (d. 2000)
● 1930 - Burt Kwouk, English actor
● 1933 - Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian poet
● 1933 - Syd Mead, American industrial and conceptual designer
● 1934 - Darlene Conley, American actress (d. 2007)
● 1935 - Jayendra Saraswathi, Hindu religious leader
● 1937 - Roald Hoffman, Polish-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
● 1937 - Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist and author (d. 2005)
● 1938 - Paul Verhoeven, Dutch film director
● 1938 - Ian Stewart, British pianist for the Rolling Stones
● 1939 - Dion DeMucci, American singer (Dion and the Belmonts)
● 1939 - Brian Auger, British musician
● 1940 - James Brolin, American actor
● 1940 - Joe Torre, baseball player and manager
● 1941 – Lonnie Mack, Blues guitarist
● 1941 – Martha Reeves, R&B singer (Martha and the Vandellas)
● 1942 - Adolf Ogi, member of the Swiss Federal Council
● 1942 - Giacinto Facchetti, Italian footballer (d. 2006)
● 1946 - Leo Madder, Belgian actor
● 1947 - Steve Forbes, American entrepreneur and politician
● 1947 - Steven W. Mahoney, Canadian politician
● 1948 - Hartmut Michel, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
● 1950 - Sir Richard Branson, British entrepreneur
● 1950 - Jack Layton, Canadian politician
● 1950 - Kostas Eleftherakis, Greek footballer
● 1951 - Elio Di Rupo, Belgian politician
● 1954 - Ricky Skaggs, American country/bluegrass musician
● 1955 - Bernd Fasching, Austrian painter and sculptor
● 1956 - Razor Shines, Major and Minor league baseball player, manager and coach
● 1957 - Nick Faldo, English golfer
● 1958 - Nigel Twist, Rock musician (The Alarm)
● 1960 - Anne-Marie Johnson, American actress
● 1961 - Elizabeth McGovern, American-born actress
● 1962 - Lee Arenberg, American actor
● 1962 - Jack Irons, American drummer (Pearl Jam, Red Hot Chili Peppers)
● 1962 - John Hermann, Rock musician (Widespread Panic)
● 1963 - Martín Torrijos Espino, President of Panama
● 1963 - Mike Greenwell, baseball player
● 1963 - Al Snow, American professional wrestler
● 1967 - Vin Diesel, American actor
● 1969 - Masanori Murakawa, Japanese professional wrestler
● 1971 - Penny Hardaway, American basketball player
● 1974 - Alan Morrison, British poet
● 1975 - Torii Hunter, baseball player
● 1975 - Daron Malakian, American guitarist (System of a Down)
● 1976 - Elsa Pataky, Spanish actress
● 1977 - Dylan Lane, American television host
● 1977 - Alfian bin Sa'at, Singaporean writer, poet and playwright
● 1978 - Ben Sheets, baseball player
● 1978 - Melissa Theuriau, French newscaster
● 1978 - Verónica Romeo, Spanish singer
● 1978 - Tony Fagenson, Rock musician (Eve 6)
● 1979 - Jared Hess, Director ("Napoleon Dynamite")
● 1979 - Jason Weaver, Actor
● 1979 - Rick Baxter, American politician
● 1979 - Deion Branch, football player
● 1979 - Joey Mercury, American professional wrestler
● 1979 - Jermaine Paul, American musician
● 1980 - Kristen Bell, American actress
● 1980 - Bobby Henderson, American writer, founded the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
● 1982 - Priyanka Chopra, Indian actress and Miss World 2000
● 1982 - Ryan Cabrera, American musician and TV host
● 1983 - Aaron Gillespie, American drummer (Underoath)
● 1985 - Panagiotis Lagos, Greek footballer
● 1998 - Nixzmary Brown, child abuse victim (d. 2006)
DEATHS
● 1100 - Godfrey of Bouillon, French crusader
● 1488 - Alvise Cadamosto, Italian explorer (b. 1432)
● 1591 - Jacobus Gallus, Slovenian composer (b. 1550)
● 1608 - Joachim Friedrich, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1546)
● 1610 - Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Italian artist (b. 1573)
● 1623 - Pope Gregory XV (b. 1554)
● 1639 - Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar, German general (b. 1604)
● 1665 - Stefan Czarniecki, Polish general (b. 1599)
● 1695 - Johannes Camphuys, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1634)
● 1698 - Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian (b. 1633)
● 1721 - Antoine Watteau, French painter (b. 1684)
● 1730 - François de Neufville, duc de Villeroi, French soldier (b. 1644)
● 1792 - John Paul Jones, American naval commander (b. 1747)
● 1817 - Jane Austen, English novelist (b. 1775)
● 1863 - Robert Gould Shaw, American military officer (b. 1837)
● 1872 - Benito Juárez, President of Mexico (b. 1806)
● 1884 - Ferdinand von Hochstetter, Austrian geologist (b. 1829)
● 1892 - Thomas Cook, English travel agent (b. 1808)
● 1899 - Horatio Alger, Jr., American writer (b. 1832)
● 1916 - Benjamin C. Truman, American journalist and author
● 1918 - Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna (b. 1864)
● 1937 - Julian Bell, British poet, killed in the Spanish Civil War (b. 1908)
● 1944 - Thomas Sturge Moore, English poet, author and artist (b. 1870)
● 1948 - Herman Gummerus, Finnish historian and politician (b. 1877)
● 1949 - Vítězslav Novák, Czech composer (b. 1870)
● 1952 - Paul Saintenoy, Belgian architect (b. 1862)
● 1953 - Lucy Booth, the fifth daughter of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1868)
● 1952 - Paul Saintenoy, Belgian architect (b. 1862)
● 1954 - George Machine Gun Kelly, American gangster (b. 1895)
● 1968 - Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
● 1969 - Mary Jo Kopechne, American aide to Robert F. Kennedy (b. 1940)
● 1985 - Shahnawaz Bhutto, son of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto
● 1988 - Nico, German-born model and singer (b. 1938)
● 1989 - Donnie Moore, baseball player (suicide) (b. 1954)
● 1990 - Yoon Boseon, President of South Korea (b. 1897)
● 1990 - Karl Menninger, American psychiatrist (b. 1896)
● 1995 - Fabio Casartelli, Italian cyclist (b. 1970)
● 1997 - Eugene Merle Shoemaker, American astronomer (b. 1928)
● 2001 - James Hatfield, American author (b. 1958)
● 2001 - Fabio Taglioni, Italian automotive engineer (b. 1920)
● 2002 - Victor Emery, British theoretical physicist (b. 1933)
● 2004 - Paul Foot, British journalist (b. 1937)
● 2005 - William Westmoreland, U.S. Army general (b. 1914)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Ansuerus and companions, martyrs
● St. Aquilinus, bishop of Evreux, confessor
● St. Arnulph, bishop of Metz, Soissons, and Tours, confessor, martyr
● St. Blasius, bishop, martyr
● St. Bruno, bishop of Segni, confessor
● St. Camillus de Lellis
● St. Clarus, priest, martyr
● St. Dominic Nicholas Dat
● St. Edburga of Bicester, virgin
● St. Emilian
● Sts. Euphrosyne and Florentia, virgins
● St. Frederick of Utrecht, bishop of Utrecht, martyr 838
● St. Goneri
● St. Gundenis
● St. Henry II, emperor, confessor
● St. Julian
● Sts. Justin and Stateus, martyrs
● St. Justus, bishop
● St. Mammas, martyr
● St. Marina
● St. Maternus, bishop of Milan
● St. Minnborinus
● St. Nicholas, bishop, confessor (Ordination)
● St. Odulph, canon of Utrecht
● St. Pambo
● St. Philastrius, bishop of Brescia
● St. Rufillus
● St. Symphorosa and her seven sons, martyrs (d. 138)
● St. Theneva, mother of Kentigern
● Bl. Bertha of Maarbeke
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for July 5 (Civil Date: July 18)
● St. Athanasius of Mt. Athos. and his six disciples Uncovering of the Relics of St. Sergius of Radonezh
● St. Lampadus, monk of Hirenopolis.
● Martyr Anna at Rome.
● Martyr Cyrilla of Cyrene in Libya, widow.
● Saints Athanasius and Theodosius of Cherepovetsk, disciples of St. Sergius of Radonezh.
● New-Martyr Cyprian of Koutloumousiou monastery on Mt. Athos.
● Greek Calendar:
● Synaxis of 23 Saints of Lesbos.
● Spain : Labor Day/National Day
● Uruguay : Constitution Day/Jura de la Constitucion (1951)
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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