It is the middle day of a non-leap year, because there are 182 days before and 182 days after. It falls on the same day of the week as New Year's Day (on non-leap years).
Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Morality "My experience has been that the people who talk the loudest about morality are the people who possess the least amount of it." — James Carville
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Terrorism "The potential of a weapon of mass destruction and a terrorist, massive, casualty-producing event somewhere in the Western world . . .[could cause] our population to question our own Constitution and to begin to militarize our country in order to avoid a repeat of another mass casualty-producing event. Which in fact, then begins to unravel the fabric of our Constitution." — Tommy "We don't do body counts" Franks, the general who led the invasion in Iraq, predicting a doomsday scenario
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: On Politics "Thanks for the poncho." — Bill Clinton, when presented with the Romanian tricolor flag during a visit to that country
Thought for the day: "I ain't broke, but I'm badly bent."
{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
Zooming in to the Pelican Nebula
Credit & Copyright: Filipe Alves
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 311 - Miltiades was elected 32nd pope of the Catholic Church. During his pontificate, Christianity was finally tolerated by Rome, following the Emperor Constantine's conversion to the Christian faith.
● 963 - The imperial army proclaims Nicephorus Phocas to be Emperor of the Romans on the plains outside Cappadocian Caesarea.
● 1298 - An army under Albert I of Habsburg Austria defeated and killed Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg in the Battle of Göllheim near Worms, Germany.
● 1489 - Birth of Thomas Cranmer, first Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury and primary author of the 'Book of Common Prayer' and 'Thirty-Nine Articles' of the Anglican Church.
● 1561 - Menas, Emperor of Ethiopia defeats a revolt in Emfraz.
● 1566 - French astrologer, physician and prophet Nostradamus died.
● 1578 - Martin Frobisher sights Baffin Island.
● 1582 - Battle of Yamazaki: Toyotomi Hideyoshi defeats Akechi Mitsuhide.
● 1613 - First English expedition from Massachusetts against Acadia - led by Samuel Argall.
● 1625 - The Spanish army took Breda, Spain, after nearly a year of siege.
● 1644 - English Civil War: Lord Cromwell crushed the Royalists at the Battle of Marston Moor near York, England.
● 1679 - Europeans first visit Minnesota and see headwaters of Mississippi - led by Daniel Greysolon de Du Luth.
● 1747 - Marshall Saxe led the French forces to victory over an Anglo-Dutch force under the Duke of Cumberland at the Battle of Lauffeld.
● 1752 - The first Bible in America printed in English was published in Boston.
● 1776 - By constitutional statute, New Jersey gave "all inhabitants" of adult age, with a net worth of $50 and residing in the county for 12 months, the right to vote in the general election. In 1790, someone realized it meant both men and women. The law was legal until 1807, when the General Assembly passed new laws, limiting the vote to "free white males."
● 1776 - Continental Congress resolves "these United Colonies are and of right ought to be Free and Independent States.", though a public Declaration of Independence is not formally printed for the masses until July 4.
● 1776 - John Hancock signs Declaration of Independence {He does so in such a fashion that the term, "your John Hancock" becomes synonymous with any person's signature.}
● 1777 - Vermont becomes the first American territory to abolish slavery.
● 1778 - Philosopher and social theorist Jean-Jacques Rousseau (The Social Contract) dies at 66 of apoplexy. In Emmonville, near Paris, France.
● 1787 - de Sade shouts from Bastille that prisoners are being slaughtered
● 1808 - Simon Fraser completes his trip down Fraser River, British Columbia, lands at Musqueam near New Westminster at the Pacific Ocean.
● 1822 - Denmark Vesey and 34 others hanged for plotting a slave uprising in Boston. Although an estimated 9,000 were involved, only 67 were convicted of any offense. As was usual in such trials, the greatest protection enjoyed by the defendants was that of their owners, who were concerned for their property. The lengthy judgment of the court reads, in part, "It is difficult to imagine what infatuation could have prompted you to attempt an enterprise so wild and visionary." New evidence suggests that Vesey and the others were actually not planning a revolt at all, but that the sensational charges were concocted by a local politician aiming to unseat South Carolina's governor, who was associated with Vesey's owner.
● 1823 - "Bahia Independence Day" - the end of Portuguese rule in Brazil, with the final defeat of the diehard Portuguese crown loyalists in the province of Bahia.
● 1839 - Twenty miles off the coast of Cuba, 53 rebelling African slaves led by Joseph Cinque take over the slave ship Amistad.
● 1843 - An alligator falls from the sky during a Charleston, SC thunderstorm.
● 1847 - Envelope bearing the 1st US 10 cents stamps, still exists today
● 1850 - Prussia agreed to pull out of Schlewig and Holstein, Germany.
● 1850 - The self-contained gas mask is patented by Benjamin J. Lane.
● 1853 - The Russian Army invades Turkey, beginning the Crimean War.
● 1857 - New York City’s first elevated railroad officially opened for business.
● 1858 - Czar Alexander II freed the serfs working on imperial lands.
● 1862 - U.S. Congress passed the Morrill Act for the creation of land-grant colleges. {Many state universities are a result of this act. The act requires for the grants to be valid that the military be allowed a presence on campus such as ROTC.}
● 1863 - American Civil War: Second day of the Battle of Gettysburg.
● 1864 - Gen Early & Confederate forces reach Winchester
● 1864 - Statuary Hall in US Capitol established
● 1867 - 1st US elevated railroad begins service, NYC
● 1872 - Second Colville Indian Reservation created in eastern Washington when white pressure forces original reservation, on better land, to be opened to white farmers.
● 1878 - The Brighton Beach Line (now the BMT Brighton Line) opens in the then-city of Brooklyn.
● 1881 - While waiting for a train in a Washington railway station (times change. huh?), Pres. James Garfield is shot by a disappointed office-seeker, Charles J. Guiteau. Two months later, on September 19 he dies from infection from the wounds. {Times do change—antibiotics would have saved Garfield.}
● 1885 - Canada's North-west Insurrection ends with surrender of Big Bear
● 1890 - The U.S. Congress passes the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
● 1894 - Government obtains injunction against striking Pullman Workers
● 1900 - Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin 1st airship LZ-1, flies over Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.
● 1908 - Thurgood Marshall, the leader of the legal battle against segregated schools and the first black member of the U.S. Supreme Court, was born in Baltimore.
● 1910 - Jean-Jacques Liabeuf executed. French shoemaker guilliotined despite massive protests initiated by the anarchists. Gustave Herve, the revolutionary socialist and publisher of "The Social War," got four years in prison for merely writing articles defending Liabeuf.
● 1914 - Chief Alfred Sam, leader of "Back to Africa" movement, departs with 500 black Americans, from Oklahoma to West Africa.
● 1917 - At least 40 blacks killed and hundreds wounded in three days of race riots, East St. Louis, Ill.
● 1917 - Independent Labour Party founded, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
● 1918 - Death of Washington Gladden, 82, a popular Congregational theologian of the Social Gospel. He also authored the hymn, 'O Master, Let Me Walk with Thee.'
● 1925 - Birth of Patrice Lumumba, Katako, Kombe, Belgian Congo. Widely admired across Africa after his work for independence, he is assassinated by the CIA on Pres. Eisenhower's orders because of his anti-colonialist activities.
● 1926 - US Army Air Corps created; Distinguish Flying Cross authorized
● 1930 - Pioneer linguistic educator Frank C. Laubach wrote in a letter: '[God has said to me,] If I do not speak to you in words at times, it is because the reality all about you is greater than the imperfect symbols of things which you have in words.'
● 1932 - FDR makes 1st presidential nominating convention acceptance speech
● 1935 - C Jackson discovers asteroid #1357 Khama
● 1937 - American aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart with co-pilot and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared near Howland Island in the Central Pacific during an attempt to fly around the world at the equator. They have never been located.
● 1937 - C Jackson discovers asteroids #1429 Pemba & #1456 Saldanha
● 1939 - At Mount Rushmore, Theodore Roosevelt's face was dedicated.
● 1940 - Indian independence leader Subhas Chandra Bose arrested and detained in Calcutta.
● 1940 - Lake Washington (Seattle) Floating bridge dedicated
● 1941 - Nazi massacre of Jews in Lutsk, Ukraine. Jewish men were summoned for work, about 2000 of them were taken to the Lubart Fortress and murdered. German soldiers from rearguard units stationed in the city participated in the murder. {Another dispelling fact that only radical SS troops participated in the Holocaust.}
● 1943 - Lt Charles Hall, becomes 1st black pilot to shoot down Nazi plane
● 1944 - American bombers, as part of Operation Gardening, dropped land mines, leaflets and bombs on German-occupied Budapest.
● 1945 - England - In their first action, the Vigilantes (Secret Committee of ex-Servicemen) squat a house in Roundhill Crescent, Brighton. It is used to house a homeless sailor's wife and her two children. The group attracts hundreds of members; thousands are housed and the idea spreads to London and other parts of the country. Squats include luxury hotels and army camps.
● 1947 - An object crashed near Roswell, NM. The U.S. Army Air Force insisted it was a weather balloon, but eyewitness accounts led to speculation that it might have been an alien spacecraft.
● 1950 - Henri Queuille becomes Prime Minister of France.
● 1956 - Nine injured when two explosions destroy a portion of Sylvania Electric Products' Metallurgy Atomic Research Center in Bayside, Queens, New York City.
● 1957 - 1st sub powered by liquid metal cooled reactor completed-The Seawolf
● 1957 - 1st submarine designed to fire guided missiles launched, Grayback
● 1958 - Protest ship "Phoenix" is seized by U.S. Navy two days after entering U.S. nuclear test zone in South Pacific.
● 1959 - "Plan 9 From Outer Space," one of the worst films ever, premieres. Quickly followed up by the sequel, "Windows 95."
● 1961 - Great Britain dispatches troops to protect Kuwait from "aggression" from Iraq.
● 1961 - Iconic American writer Ernest Hemingway, alleging CIA persecution, blows his brains out with a shotgun in Ketchum, Idaho.
● 1964 - U.S. President Johnson signed the "Civil Rights Act of 1964" into law. The act made it illegal in the U.S. to discriminate against others because of their race.
● 1966 - The French military explode their nuclear test bomb codenamed Aldébaran in Mururoa, their first nuclear test in the Pacific.
● 1967 - Congress passes Selective Service Act reform - ends graduate student deferments, placing them instead them in a pool to be drafted in June '68. {Unless of course you have enough money and/or connections, like Dick Cheney and G W Bush.}
● 1967 - Floyd Turner is convicted of flag desecration & sentenced to six months in jail and a $500 fine in Seattle. Credible witnesses, including sculptor Richard Beyer and publisher Stan Stapp, testified that Turner was not the culprit, and anarchist Stan Iverson willingly confessed that he had incinerated the flag with another man (later identified as Michael Travers). Judge Manolides was not persuaded, declaring that, "anarchists cannot tell right from wrong and cannot be trusted."
● 1967 - The U.S. Marine Corps launched Operation Buffalo in response to the North Vietnamese Army's efforts to seize the Marine base at Con Thien.
● 1968 - Thirty students arrested in protest against draft, Sydney, Australia.
● 1970 - Exposure of "tiger cages" at Con Son Prison, used by U.S.-backed South Vietnamese government to torture political prisoners. {Yes Virginia, we have done it before.}
● 1970 - Police snatch London gun cache; Police seize a large cache of arms in west London in one of the biggest raids in Britain for years.
● 1976 - North and South Vietnam, divided since 1954, reunite to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
● 1976 - U.S. Supreme Court rules death penalty not inherently cruel or unusual. In short, nothing is.
● 1979 - The first U.S. coin to honor a woman, the Susan B. Anthony dollar, is introduced.
● 1980 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter reinstated draft registration for males 18 years of age.
● 1981 - L E Gonzalez discovers asteroid #3495 Colchagua
● 1982 - First European Nuclear Disarmament convention begins, Brussels, Belgium.
● 1982 - Larry Walters using lawn chair & 42 helium balloons, rose to 16,000'
● 1982 - Soyuz T-6 returns to Earth
● 1984 - National Flag and Anthem day in Curacao
● 1985 - Andrei Gromyko is appointed the chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.
● 1985 - European Space Agency launches Giotto to Halley's Comet
● 1985 - Proto launched to Halley's Comet
● 1986 - U.S. Supreme Court upholds affirmative action as a corrective measure for past discrimination in two separate rulings.
● 1987 - Brady to help search for Moors victims; Moors murderer Ian Brady offers to assist police searches of Saddleworth Moor for the first time since his conviction.
● 1990 - A stampede inside a pedestrian tunnel leads to the deaths of 1,426 pilgrims in Mecca during hajj.
● 1990 - Australia - Two citizens divert war taxes as "rent" for aboriginal lands.
● 1990 - Former dictator's wife Imelda Marcos, along with notorious arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi, found not guilty of racketeering. {However she is still guilty of excessive bad taste in shoes.}
● 1991 - Women in Black demand return of soldiers and conscripts from war in Slovenia, Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
● 1992 - IRA murders 'informers'; The IRA admits killing three men found by the army at different roadsides in south Armagh.
● 1994 - Colombian soccer player Andres Escobar was shot to death in Medellin. 10 days earlier he had accidentally scored a goal against his own team in World Cup competition.
● 1995 - "Forbes" magazine reported that Microsoft's chairman, Bill Gates, was the worth $12.9 billion, making him the world's richest man. In 1999, he was worth about $77 billion. {Making good on a statement in his autobiography he has donated at least 50% of his personal wealth to charity as of 2007.}
● 1997 - Actor James Stewart died at age 89.
● 1998 - Cable News Network (CNN) retracted a story that alleged that U.S. commandos had used nerve gas to kill American defectors during the Vietnam War.
● 2000 - In Mexico, Vicente Fox Quesada of the National Action Party (PAN) defeated Francisco Labastida Ochoa of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in the presidential election. The PRI had controlled the presidency in Mexico since the party was founded in 1929.
● 2001 - Robert Tools received the world's first self-contained artificial heart in Louisville, Ky. (He lived 151 days with the device.)
● 2001 - Dando killer jailed for life; Barry George is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of television presenter Jill Dando.
● 2002 - Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.
● 2004 - ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) accepts Pakistan as the 24th member.
● 2005 - Live 8, a marathon concert designed to pressure world leaders into fighting African poverty, was held at 10 sites worldwide and broadcast around the globe on TV and the Internet.
BIRTHS
● 419 - Valentinian III, Roman Emperor (d. 455)
● 1029 - Caliph Al-Mustansir of Cairo (d. 1094)
● 1262 - Arthur II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1312)
● 1489 - Thomas Cranmer, first Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1556)
● 1647 - Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, English privy councilor (d. 1730)
● 1665 - Samuel Penhallow, English-born American colonist and historian (d. 1726)
● 1667 - Pietro Ottoboni, Italian cardinal (d. 1740)
● 1714 - Christoph Willibald von Gluck, German composer (d. 1787)
● 1724 - Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet (d. 1803)
● 1820 - George Law Curry, Newspaper publisher and Governor of Oregon (d. 1878)
● 1821 - Charles Tupper, sixth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1915)
● 1825 - Richard Henry Stoddard, American poet, critic and editor (d. 1903)
● 1853 - Frederick Gates, American philanthropist and businessman (d. 1929)
● 1855 - Clarence Barron, American financial editor and publisher (d. 1928)
● 1862 - William Henry Bragg, English physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1942)
● 1865 - Lily Braun, German writer (d. 1916)
● 1876 - Wilhelm Cuno, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1933)
● 1877 - Hermann Hesse, German-born writer, awarded Nobel Prize for Literature (1946) (d. 1962)
● 1881 - Royal H. Weller, American politician (d. 1929)
● 1884 - Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist (d. 1931)
● 1893 - Ralph Hancock, Welsh garden designer (Rockefeller Center) (d. 1950)
● 1896 - Lydia Mei, Estonian artist (d. 1965)
● 1898 - Hugh Dryden, American physicist and deputy administrator of NASA (1958-65) (d. 1965)
● 1900 - Sir Tyrone Guthrie, English actor (d. 1971)
● 1903 - Sir Alec Douglas-Home, British prime minister (1963-64) and foreign secretary (1960-63, 1970-74) (d. 1995)
● 1903 - King Olav V of Norway (d. 1991)
● 1904 - René Lacoste, French tennis player (d. 1996)
● 1906 - Hans Bethe, German-born nuclear physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2005)
● 1908 - Thurgood Marshall, American civil rights lawyer and first African-American Supreme Court justice (d. 1993)
● 1914 - Frederick Fennell, American conductor (d. 2004)
● 1914 - Mário Schenberg, Brazilian physicist (d. 1990)
● 1916 - Ken Curtis, American actor and singer (d. 1991)
● 1916 - Hans-Ulrich Rudel, German pilot (d. 1982)
● 1917 - Murry Wilson, American musician and producer (The Beach Boys) (d. 1973)
● 1918 - Wibo, Dutch cartoonist (d. 2005)
● 1923 - Wisława Szymborska, Polish writer, Nobel laureate
● 1925 - Medgar Evers, American civil rights activist assassinated in 1963 (d. 1963)
● 1925 - Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (d. 1961)
● 1925 - Marvin Rainwater, Country singer
● 1926 - Octavian Paler, Romanian writer, journalist, (d. 2007)
● 1927 - Brock Peters, American actor (d. 2005)
● 1929 - Imelda Marcos, former First Lady of the Philippines and excessive shoe collector
● 1929 - John A. Cade, American politician
● 1930 - Carlos Menem, President of Argentina
● 1930 - Ahmad Jamal, Jazz pianist
● 1931 - Robert Ito, Actor ("Quincy")
● 1932 - Dave Thomas, American fast food entrepreneur (d. 2002)
● 1933 - Kenny Wharram, Canadian hockey player
● 1934 - Tom Springfield, British singer and songwriter (The Springfields)
● 1937 - Polly Holliday, American actress
● 1937 - Richard Petty, American race car driver
● 1939 - John H. Sununu, White House Chief of Staff under George HW Bush and current Senator from NH by virtue of cheating on election day {supporters convicted of "phone slamming" on election day}
● 1939 - Alexandros Panagoulis, Greek politician and poet
● 1939 - Paul Williams, American singer (The Temptations) (d. 1973)
● 1940 - Kenneth Harry Clarke, British politician
● 1941 - Stéphane Venne, French Canadian songwriter
● 1942 - Vicente Fox, Former Mexican president
● 1943 - Walter Godefroot, Belgian cyclist
● 1946 - Richard Axel, American scientist, Nobel laureate
● 1946 - Ron Silver, American actor
● 1947 - Larry David, American television producer ("Curb Your Enthusiasm," "Seinfeld")
● 1947 - Luci Baines Johnson, Daughter of President Lyndon B. Johnson
● 1948 - Saul Rubinek, Canadian film actor
● 1949 - Roy Bittan, American musician (E Street Band)
● 1949 - Hanno Pöschl, Austrian actor
● 1949 - Robert Paquette, French Canadian singer and songwriter
● 1952 - Gene Taylor, Rock musician (The Blasters)
● 1953 - Mark Hart, British musician (Crowded House and Supertramp)
● 1953 - Tony Armas, Venezuelan baseball player
● 1954 - Pete Briquette, Irish musician (Boomtown Rats)
● 1955 - Andrew Divoff, Venezuelan actor
● 1955 - Kevin Michael Grace, Canadian journalist
● 1956 - Jerry Hall, American actress
● 1957 - Bret "Hitman" Hart, Canadian wrestler
● 1958 - Thomas Bickerton, American Methodist bishop
● 1959 - Mike Hallett, English snooker player
● 1960 - Terry Rossio, American screenwriter
● 1961 - Jimmy McNichol, Actor
● 1964 - José Canseco, Cuban baseball player
● 1964 - Ozzie Canseco, Cuban baseball player
● 1964 - Joe Magrane, Amerian baseball player
● 1964 - Charles Robinson, American wrestling referee
● 1965 - Dave Parsons, Rock musician (Bush)
● 1969 - Matthew Cox, American convicted felon
● 1970 - Yancy Butler, American actress
● 1970 - Colin Edwin, Australian musician (Porcupine Tree)
● 1970 - Scotty 2 Hotty, American wrestler
● 1970 - Monie Love, English rapper
● 1970 - Steve Morrow, Irish footballer
● 1971 - Evelyn Lau, Canadian author
● 1971 - Troy Brown, American football player
● 1973 - Peter Kay, British comedian
● 1974 - Sean Casey, American baseball player
● 1974 - Moon So-ri, South Korean actress
● 1974 - Matthew Reilly, Australian author
● 1974 - Rocky Gray, American musician
● 1975 - Erik Ohlsson, Swedish guitarist (Millencolin)
● 1975 - Eric Daze, French Canadian ice hockey player
● 1976 - Krisztián Lisztes, Hungarian footballer
● 1976 - Tomáš Vokoun, Czech hockey player
● 1978 - Jüri Ratas, Estonian politician
● 1979 - Sam Hornish, Jr., American race car driver
● 1979 - Joe Thornton, Canadian hockey player
● 1981 - Alex Koroknay-Palicz, American youth rights activist
● 1981 - Angel Pagán, Puerto Rican baseball player
● 1983 - Michelle Branch, American musician
● 1984 - Johnny Weir, American figure skater
● 1984 - Vanessa Lee Chester, Actress
● 1985 - Rhett Bomar, American football player
● 1985 - Chad Henne, American football player
● 1985 - Ashley Tisdale, American actress ("High School Musical")
● 1986 - Lindsay Lohan, American actress
● 1986 - Choi Dae Hyun, South Korean model
● 1988 - Kenny Clarke, Canadian comedian
DEATHS
● 862 - St. Swithun, Bishop of Winchester
● 1298 - Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg, King of the Romans
● 1504 - Ştefan cel Mare, Prince of Moldova (b. 1434)
● 1566 - Nostradamus, French astrologer (b. 1503)
● 1582 - Akechi Mitsuhide, Japanese samurai (b. 1528)
● 1591 - Vincenzo Galilei, Italian composer (b. 1520)
● 1621 - Thomas Harriot, English astronomer
● 1656 - François-Marie, comte de Broglie, Italian-born French commander (b. 1611)
● 1674 - Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1614)
● 1684 - John Rogers, president of Harvard University (b. 1630)
● 1743 - Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, second Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
● 1746 - Thomas Baker, English antiquarian (b. 1656)
● 1778 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher (b. 1712)
● 1778 - Bathsheba Spooner, American murderer
● 1822 - Denmark Vesey, American who planned slave revolt, hanged (b. ca. 1767)
● 1833 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine politician (b. 1757)
● 1843 - Samuel Hahnemann, German physician (b. 1755)
● 1850 - Robert Peel, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1788)
● 1903 - Ed Delahanty, American Hall of Fame baseball player (b. 1867)
● 1912 - Tom Richardson, English cricket player (b. 1870)
● 1914 - Joseph Chamberlain, Mayor of Birmingham and Father of Neville (b. 1836)
● 1915 - Porfirio Díaz, President of Mexico (b. 1830)
● 1920 - William Louis Marshall, American general and engineer (b. 1846)
● 1926 - Émile Coué, French psychologist (b. 1857)
● 1929 - Gladys Brockwell, American actress (b. 1893)
● 1932 - Manuel II of Portugal (b. 1889)
● 1934 - Ernst Röhm, Nazi official (b. 1887)
● 1937 - Amelia Earhart, American aviator (b. 1897)
● 1955 - Edward Lawson, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1873)
● 1961 - Ernest Hemingway, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
● 1964 - Glenn "Fireball" Roberts, American race car driver (b. 1929)
● 1966 - Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet (b. 1900)
● 1969 - Michael DiBiase, wrestler (b. 1923)
● 1972 - Joseph Fielding Smith, tenth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1876)
● 1973 - Betty Grable, American actress (b. 1916)
● 1973 - Chick Hafey, baseball player (b. 1903)
● 1973 - George McBride, baseball player (b. 1880)
● 1973 - Ferdinand Schörner, German field marshal (b. 1892)
● 1975 - James Robertson Justice, British actor (b. 1907)
● 1977 - Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-born writer (b. 1899)
● 1978 - Aris Alexandrou, Greek novelist, poet and translator (b. 1922)
● 1985 - David Purley, British Formula 1 driver (b. 1945)
● 1986 - Peanuts Lowrey, baseball player (b. 1917)
● 1989 - Franklin Schaffner, American film director (b. 1920)
● 1989 - Andrei Gromyko, Soviet politician (b. 1909)
● 1991 - Lee Remick, American actress (b. 1935)
● 1991 - Camarón de la Isla, Spanish flamenco singer (b. 1950)
● 1993 - Fred Gwynne, American actor (b. 1926)
● 1994 - Andrés Escobar, Colombian footballer (murdered) (b. 1967)
● 1995 - Krissy Taylor, American model (b. 1978)
● 1997 - Jimmy Stewart, American actor (b. 1908)
● 1999 - Mario Puzo, American author (b. 1920)
● 2000 - Joey Dunlop, Irish motorcycle racer (b. 1952)
● 2002 - Ray Brown, American jazz bassist (b. 1926)
● 2004 - Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Portuguese writer (b. 1919)
● 2004 - John Cullen Murphy, American comic strip artist (b. 1919)
● 2005 - Ernest Lehman, American screenwriter (b. 1915)
● 2006 - Jan Murray, American comedian (b. 1916)
● 2006 - Cho Namchul, South Korean professional Go player (b. 1923)
● 2007 - Git Gay, Swedish actress and singer (b. 1921)
● 2007 - Beverly Sills, American opera singer (b. 1929)
● 2007 - Hy Zaret, American lyricist and composer (b. 1907)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● Feast of the Visitation was originally celebrated on this day (Old Catholic), although it has since been transferred to May 31
● St. Aberoh and Atom
● St. Acestes
● Sts. Ariston and Companions
● St. Bernardino Realino (died 1616)
● St. John Regis
● St. Lidan
● St. Lidanus
● St. Martial
● St. Monegundes, matron, recluse
● St. Otto, bishop of Bamberg (died 1139)
● St. Oudoceus, bishop of Landaff
● Sts. Processus and Martinianus, martyrs
● St. Swithun, bishop of Winchester, confessor
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for June 20 (Civil Date: July 2)
● Hieromartyr Methodius, Bishop of Patara.
● Martyrs Aristocleus presbyter, Demetrian deacon, and Athanasius reader, of Cyprus.
● Martyrs Inna, Pinna, and Rimma, disciples of Apostle Andrew in Scythia.
● St. Leucius, Bishop of Brindisi.
● Holy Prince Gleb Andreevich.
● St. Nahum of Ochrida.
● Translation of the Relics of St. Gurias, Archbishop of Kazan.
● St. Callistus, Patriarch of Constantinople.
● Translation of the Relics and garments of Apostles Luke, Andrew and Thomas, the Prophet Elisha, and Martyr Lazarus, to the Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople.
● Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Odigitria" ("Directress") at the Monastery of Xenophon on Mt. Athos.
● Italy : Corso de Palio, horse-race
● Palio di Provenzano in Siena, Italy
● Norway : King's Birthday
● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Iowa : Independence Sunday - ( Sunday )
● Canada : Dominion Day/Canada Day (1867) - ( Monday )
● Caribbean Common Market : Caribbean Day (1973) - ( Monday )
● Lesotho : Family Day - ( Monday )
● Zambia : Heroes Day - ( Monday )
● Zambia : Unity Day - ( Tuesday )
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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