Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Security "The only real security is not insurance or money or a job, not a house and furniture paid for, or a retirement fund, and never is it another person. It is the skill and humor and courage within, the ability to build your own fires and find your own peace." — Andrey Sutherland
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Neo-Fascism "If Christian people work together, they can succeed during this decade in winning back control of the institutions that have been taken from them over the past seventy years. Expect confrontations that will be not only unpleasant, but at times physically bloody." — Pat Robertson
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: On Politics "The Internet is a gateway to get on the Net." — Bob Dole, former senator {and Republican Presidential nominee}
Thought for the day: "Don't need a new religion, haven't used the old one up yet."
{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
Global Dust Storms Threaten Mars Rovers
Credit: Mars Exploration Rover Mission, Cornell, JPL, NASA
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 306 - Constantine I proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
● 325 - The Council of Nicea closed. Regarded as the first 'ecumenical council,' its 300 attending bishops drafted the Nicene Creed and fixed the formula for Easter Sunday.
● 326 - Constantine refused to carry out the traditional pagan sacrifices. {Not the religious move as usually claimed but a political one aimed at consolidating his power with the support of the then large group of Christians in the Roman Empire.}
● 864 - Edict of Pistres of Charles the Bald orders defensive measures against the Vikings
● 1261 - The city of Constantinople is recaptured by Nicaean forces under the command of Michael VIII Palaeologus, thus re-establishing the Byzantine Empire. The Byzantines also succeed in capturing Thessalonica and the rest of the Latin Empire.
● 1360 - Jews are expelled from Breslau Silesia
● 1394 - Charles VI of France issued a decree for the general expulsion of Jews from France.
● 1536 - Sebastián de Belalcázar on his search of El Dorado found the City of Santiago de Cali
● 1547 - Henry II (France) crowned
● 1564 - Maximillian II became emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
● 1567 - Don Diego de Losada founds the city of Santiago de Leon de Caracas, modern-day Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela.
● 1570 - Ivan IV, "the Terrible" Czar of Russia, attends public execution of most all of his advisers and ministers.
● 1587 - Japanese strong-man Hideyoshi banned Christianity in Japan and ordered all Christians to leave.
● 1593 - France's King Henry IV converted from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.
● 1603 - James VI of Scotland is crowned first king of Great Britain
● 1648 - York county court upholds authority of colonists to kill on sight any free Indian they saw in settled area. {There was a fine for killing an Indian slave as they were someone's else property.}
● 1670 - Jews are expelled from Vienna Austria
● 1693 - Ignacio de Maya founds the Real Santiago de las Sabinas, actual Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo León, México.
● 1722 - Three Years War begins along Maine and Massachusetts border.
● 1728 - Bering (Russian) "discovers" Bering Sea.
● 1729 - North Carolina becomes royal colony
● 1741 - English revivalist George Whitefield wrote in a letter: 'Your extremity shall be God's opportunity.'
● 1755 - The decision to deport the Acadians takes place in Halifax, Thousands of Acadians are sent to the British Colonies in America, France and England. Some later moved to Louisiana, while others later resettled in New Brunswick.
● 1758 - Seven Years' War: The island battery at Fortress Louisbourg in Nova Scotia is silenced and all French warships are destroyed or taken.
● 1759 - French and Indian War: In Western New York, British forces capture Fort Niagara from French, who subsequently abandon Fort Rouillé.
● 1775 - Maryland issues currency depicting George III trampling Magna Carta
● 1792 - The Brunswick Manifesto is issued to the population of Paris promising vengeance if the French Royal Family is harmed.
● 1797 - Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of Tenerife Island (Spain).
● 1799 - At Aboukir in Egypt, Napoleon I of France defeats 10,000 Ottomans under Mustafa Pasha.
● 1805 - Aaron Burr visited New Orleans with plans to establish a new country, with New Orleans as the capital city.
● 1806 - Birth of Maria Chapman, abolitionist and co-editor of The Liberator.
● 1814 - War of 1812: Battle of Lundy's Lane - Reinforcements arrive near Niagara Falls for General Riall's British and Canadian force, and bloody, all-night battle with Jacob Brown's Americans commences at 18:00; Americans retreat to Fort Erie.
● 1822 - Gen Agust¡n de Iturbide crowned Agust¡n I, 1st emperor of Mexico
● 1824 - Guanacaste annexes Costa Rica from Nicaragua.
● 1832 - 1st railroad accident in US, Granite Railway, Quincy, Mass-1 dies
● 1845 - Canadian-born Catholic missionary Francois Blanchet was consecrated bishop of the Pacific Northwest. He devoted 45 years to planting churches, and is remembered today as the 'Apostle of Oregon.'
● 1845 - China granted Belgium equal trading rights with Britain, France and the United States.
● 1848 - Arthur James Balfour, the British statesman best remembered for issuing the British declaration of support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine, was born.
● 1850 - Gold was discovered in the Rogue River in Oregon.
● 1853 - Joaquin Murietta, famous Californian bandit known as "Robin Hood of El Dorado", is killed.
● 1854 - The paper collar was patented by Walter Hunt.
● 1856 - George Bernard Shaw born. Irish dramatist, literary critic, a socialist spokesman, and leading figure in the 20th century theater. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925. He accepted the honor but refused the money.
● 1861 - American Civil War: The Crittenden-Johnson Resolution is passed by the U.S. Congress stating that the war is being fought to preserve the Union and not to end slavery.
● 1866 - The U.S. Congress passes legislation authorizing the rank of General of the Army (now called "5-star general") Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant becomes the first to have this rank.
● 1867 - Karl Marx's "Das Kapital" first appears in Germany.
● 1868 - The U.S. Congress passed an act creating the Wyoming Territory.
● 1869 - The Japanese daimyō begin returning their land holdings to the emperor as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 17, 1869)
● 1871 - Carrousel patented by Wilhelm Schneider, Davenport, Iowa
● 1871 - Seth Wheeler patented perforated wrapping paper.
● 1875 - Carl Jung born. Swiss psychiatrist, a founding father of modern depth psychology.
● 1890 - N.Y. garment workers win closed shop and firing of scabs after seven month strike.
● 1894 - The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.
● 1897 - Writer Jack London, novelist/socialist, bitten by gold fever, heads for the Klondike aboard the steamer Umatilla where he will write his first successful stories.
● 1898 - United States invades and colonizes Puerto Rico, overthrowing the autonomous government and re-colonizing the island as one of the spoils of the Spanish-American War. This begins with U.S. troops landing at harbor of Guánica, Puerto Rico (the land invasion, proper, began that day; nevertheless, sea-based bombardment and shelling of the capital city of San Juan had occurred since May of 1898). We continue to hold this island as a spoil of war to this day.
● 1899 - Birth of Stuart K. Hine. While an English missionary to the Ukraine, Hine penned the English words to an oft-sung Swedish hymn, known today as 'How Great Thou Art.'
● 1903 - Castle on top of Telegraph Hill closes
● 1904 - Twenty-five thousand textile workers strike in Fall River, Mass.
● 1907 - Korea becomes a protectorate of Japan.
● 1908 - Ajinomoto is born. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in Konbu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG) and patents a process for manufacturing it.
● 1909 - French aviator Louis Bleriot flew across the English Channel in a monoplane. He traveled from Calais to Dover in 37 minutes. He was the first man to fly across the channel.
● 1912 - Comoros proclaimed a French colonies
● 1914 - Russia declared that it would act to protect Serbian sovereignty.
● 1916 - Explosion at Lake Erie & Cleveland Waterworks
● 1917 - Sir Thomas Whyte introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
● 1918 - Annette Adams sworn in as 1st woman district attorney of US, California
● 1918 - Race riot in Chester Pennsylvania (3 blacks & 2 whites killed)
● 1920 - Telecommunications: first transatlantic two-way radio broadcast.
● 1924 - Greece announced the deportation of 50,000 Armenians.
● 1925 - Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established.
● 1934 - Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.
● 1935 - C Jackson discovers asteroid #1641 Tana
● 1936 - 115 acre Orchard Beach opens in the Bronx
● 1936 - G Neujmin discovers asteroid #3761
● 1939 - George, 2nd Earl Jellicoe first sat in Parliament.
● 1940 - General Guisan orders the Swiss Army to resist German invasion and make surrender illegal.
● 1941 - The U.S. government froze all Japanese and Chinese assets.
● 1942 - Manifesto of nonviolent resistance to Nazi occupation, Norway.
● 1943 - World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by his own Italian Grand Council and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio.
● 1944 - 1st jet fighter used in combat (Messerschmitt 262)
● 1944 - World War II: Operation Spring - One of the bloodiest days for Canadians during the war: 18,444 casualties, including 5,021 killed.
● 1946 - 1st bikini is shown at a Paris fashion show
● 1946 - The U.S. detonated an atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific. It was the first underwater test of the device. (5th atomic explosion)
● 1947 - US Air Force, Navy & War Dept form US Dept of Defense
● 1947 - US Deptartment of the Army created
● 1950 - Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroids #1799 Koussevitzky, #1822 Waterman & #2842
● 1951 - L Boyer discovers asteroid #1714 Sy
● 1952 - Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #1788 Kiess
● 1952 - Joint Declaration of European Coal and Steel Community comes into force.
● 1952 - The U.S. non-incorporated colonial territory of Puerto Rico adopts a "constitution" of local-limited powers, approved by the United States Congress in contravention of then-current International Law.
● 1953 - NYC transit fare rises from 10 cents to 15 cents, 1st use of subway tokens
● 1956 - 45 miles south of Nantucket Island, the Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria collides with the MS Stockholm in heavy fog and sinks the next day, killing 51.
● 1956 - Jordanians attack UN Palestine truce
● 1957 - Monarchy in Tunisa abolished in favor of a republic
● 1958 - The African Regroupment Party (PRA) holds its first congress in Cotonou.
● 1963 - Limited nuclear test ban treaty agreed upon by the U.S., Great Britain, the U.S.S.R., barring all but underground nuclear tests.
● 1963 - Police arrest 23 young blacks in a sit-in at Seattle City Council chambers protesting appointment of only two blacks to the city's new Human Rights Commission.
● 1964 - Race riot in Rochester NY
● 1967 - Construction begins on SF MUNI METRO (Market Street subway)
● 1968 - H Wroblewski discovers asteroid #1993 Guacolda
● 1968 - Pope Paul VI published the encyclical 'Humanae Vitae.' It restated the Catholic position on the family, and condemned all artificial methods of birth control.
● 1969 - Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the driver of the car in which Mary Jo Kopechne was killed on July 18, received a two-month suspended sentence a week later for leaving the scene of an accident.
● 1969 - Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. This was the start of the "Vietnamization" of the war.
● 1972 - US health officials concede blacks were used as guinea pigs in 40 year syphilis experiment
● 1973 - George Harrison pays £1,000,000 tax on his Bangladesh concert & album
● 1973 - Soviet Mars 5 space probe launched.
● 1974 - T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2345 Fucik
● 1977 - A supposed thunderbird is reported attacking a boy named Marlon Lowe.
● 1978 - Louise Joy Brown, the first test-tube baby, was born in Oldham, England. She had been conceived through in-vitro fertilization. (born under the sign of Pyrex).
● 1978 - Motability gets moving in the UK; A new scheme providing cars for disabled people is launched in Earl's Court, London.
● 1981 - Voyager 2 encounters Saturn
● 1983 - Due to enormous costs of an extensive proposed nuclear plant system, State of Washington Public Power Supply System defaulted on $2.25 billion in loans. The reason WPPSS is commonly referred to as "Whoops."
● 1983 - First nonhuman primate (baboon) conceived in a lab dish, San Antonio. They name her Petri.
● 1984 - Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space. She was aboard the orbiting space station Salyut 7.
● 1987 - USSR launches Kosmos 1870, 15-ton Earth-study satellite
● 1989 - Diana opens Landmark AIDS Centre;
The Princess of Wales opens a new AIDS centre in south-east London.
● 1990 - U.S. Ambassador April Gillespie tells Iraq that U.S. won't take sides in Iraq-Kuwait dispute. {An invitation to Saddam to invade Kuwait thus giving the US the chance to invade Iraq in return.}
● 1991 - March for Peace, Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
● 1993 - Israel launches a massive attack against Lebanon in what the Israelis call Operation Accountability and the Lebanese call Seven-Day War.
● 1993 - Failed Bosnian ceasefire threatens peace; The latest UN ceasefire in Bosnia is broken with shelling from both sides in Sarajevo.
● 1993 - The St James Church massacre - Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa
● 1994 - Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Jordan's King Hussein signed a declaration at the White House ending their countries' 46-year-old state of war.
● 1995 - A U.N. war crimes tribunal indicted Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, army commander Gen. Ratko Mladic, and 22 other Serbs for war crimes.
● 1995 - A gas bottle exploded in station Saint Michel of line B of the RER (Paris regional train network). 8 were killed and 80 wounded.
● 1997 - In defiance of a mayoral order, 5,000 ride on a Critical Mass bicycle protest in San Francisco; 110 arrested.
● 1997 - K. R. Narayanan is sworn-in as India's 10th president and the first Dalit— formerly called "untouchable"— to hold this office.
● 1998 - The United States Navy commissions the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman and puts her into service.
● 1998 - U.S. President Clinton was subpoenaed to appear before a federal grand jury regarding the Monica Lewinsky case. The subpoena was withdrawn when Clinton agreed to give videotaped testimony with his lawyers present.
● 2000 - Texas Gov. George W. Bush selected Dick Cheney to be his running mate on the Republican presidential ticket.
● 2000 - Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde supersonic passenger jet, F-BTSC, crashes just after takeoff from Paris killing all 109 aboard and 4 on the ground.
● 2006 - Israeli troops sealed off a Hezbollah stronghold and widened their control of southern Lebanon; an Israeli airstrike hit a U.N. border outpost, killing four observers.
BIRTHS
● 1016 - Casimir I, Duke of Poland (d. c. 1058)
● 1109 - Afonso I of Portugal (d. 1185)
● 1336 - Albert, Count of Holland (d. 1404)
● 1404 - Philip I, Duke of Brabant (d. 1430)
● 1421 - Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (d. 1461)
● 1562 - Kiyomasa Kato, Japanese warlord (d. 1611)
● 1653 - Agostino Steffani, Italian diplomat (d. 1728)
● 1658 - Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll, Scottish privy councillor (d. 1703)
● 1750 - Henry Knox, American general (d. 1806)
● 1799 - David Douglas, Scottish botanist (d. 1834)
● 1806 - Maria Weston Chapman, American abolitionist (d. 1885)
● 1824 - Richard Oglesby, American governor of Illinois (1865-69, 1873, 1885-89) and U.S. senator (1873-79) (d. 1899)
● 1839 - Francis Garnier, French explorer (d. 1873)
● 1844 - Thomas Eakins, American artist (d. 1916)
● 1848 - Arthur Balfour, 33rd Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1930)
● 1853 - David Belasco, American theatrical producer and playwright (d. 1931)
● 1867 - Alexander Rummler, American painter (d. 1959)
● 1867 - Max Dauthendey, German writer (d. 1918)
● 1870 - Maxfield Parrish, American illustrator (d. 1966)
● 1883 - Alfredo Casella, Italian composer (d. 1947)
● 1884 - Davidson Black, Canadian anthropologist (d. 1934)
● 1886 - Bror von Blixen-Finecke, Swedish big-game hunter (d. 1946)
● 1894 - Walter Brennan, American actor (d. 1974)
● 1894 - Gavrilo Princip, Serbian assassin (d. 1918)
● 1901 - Lila Lee, American actress (d. 1973)
● 1902 - Eric Hoffer, American philosopher (d. 1983)
● 1905 - Denys Watkins-Pitchford, writer and illustrator (d. 1990)
● 1905 - Elias Canetti, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1994)
● 1906 - Johnny Hodges, American saxophonist (d. 1970)
● 1907 - Varlam Shalamov, Russian writer (d. 1982)
● 1908 - Bill Bowes, English cricketer (d. 1987)
● 1908 - Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Indian musician (d. 2003)
● 1917 - Whipper Billy Watson, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 1990)
● 1918 - Jane Frank, American artist (d. 1986)
● 1920 - Rosalind Franklin, English scientist (d. 1958)
● 1923 - Estelle Getty, American actress ("The Golden Girls")
● 1923 - Maria Gripe, Swedish writer (d. 2007)
● 1926 - Whitey Lockman, American baseball player
● 1927 - Sadiq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani politician (d. 2000)
● 1928 - Keter Betts, American jazz bassist (d. 2005)
● 1929 - Somnath Chatterjee, Indian communist leader
● 1930 - Maureen Forrester, Canadian contralto
● 1935 - Lars Werner, Swedish communist leader
● 1935 - Barbara Harris, American actress
● 1936 - Glenn Murcutt, Australian architect
● 1936 - Gerry Ashmore, British racing driver
● 1937 - Colin Renfrew, English archeologist
● 1941 - Nate Thurmond, Basketball Hall of Famer
● 1941 - Emmett Till, American murder victim (d. 1955)
● 1941 - Peter Suschitzky, Polish-British cinematographer
● 1943 - Jim McCarty, English musician
● 1946 - Rita Marley, Jamaican-Cuban singer
● 1951 - Verdine White, American bassist (Earth, Wind and Fire)
● 1953 - Robert Zoellick, World Bank President
● 1954 - Walter Payton, American football player (d. 1999)
● 1955 - Iman Abdulmajid, Somali model
● 1955 - Kike Elomaa, Finnish bodybuilder
● 1955 - Jem Finer, Rock musician (The Pogues)
● 1957 - Ray Billingsley, Cartoonist
● 1958 - Thurston Moore, American musician (Sonic Youth)
● 1960 - Alain Robidoux, Canadian snooker player
● 1963 - Julian Hodgson, English chess player
● 1965 - Illeana Douglas, American actress
● 1965 - Marty Brown, Country singer
● 1965 - Bobbie Eakes, Actress, singer ("All My Children")
● 1966 - Christine C. Quinn, American politician
● 1967 - Matt LeBlanc, American actor ("Joey," "Friends")
● 1967 - Wendy Raquel Robinson, American actress
● 1967 - Tommy Skjerven, Norwegian football referee
● 1969 - D.B. Woodside, Actor
● 1971 - Billy Wagner, Baseball player
● 1971 - Roger Creager, American country music singer-songwriter
● 1973 - Dani Filth, British singer (Cradle of Filth)
● 1973 - Kevin Phillips, English footballer
● 1973 - Michael C. Williams, American actor
● 1974 - Kenzo Suzuki, Japanese professional wrestler
● 1976 - Tera Patrick, American pornographic actress
● 1976 - Jovica Tasevski-Eternijan, Macedonian poet
● 1977 - Kenny Thomas, American basketball player
● 1978 - Louise Brown, World's first test tube baby
● 1978 - Gerard Warren, American football player
● 1979 - Amy Adams, American singer
● 1979 - Allister Carter, professional snooker player
● 1980 - Diam's, French female rapper
● 1980 - Toni Vilander, Finnish racing driver
● 1980 - Shawn Riggans, American baseball player
● 1981 - Jani Rita, Finnish ice hockey player
● 1982 - Brad Renfro, American actor
● 1984 - Loukas Mavrokefalidis, Greek basketball player
● 1985 - Nelson Angelo Piquet, Brazilian race car driver
● 1985 - James Lafferty, American actor
● 1987 - Michael Welch, American actor
● 1988 - Heather Marks, Canadian model
● 1988 - Anthony Stokes, Irish footballer
● 1989 - Noel Callahan, Canadian actor
DEATHS
● 306 - Constantius Chlorus, Roman Emperor (b. 250)
● 1409 - King Martin I of Sicily
● 1492 - Pope Innocent VIII (b. 1432)
● 1616 - Andreas Libavius, German physician and chemist (b. 1550)
● 1643 - Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull, English statesman (b. 1584)
● 1676 - François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French writer (b. 1604)
● 1681 - Urian Oakes, English-born President of Harvard University (b. 1631)
● 1790 - Johann Bernhard Basedow, German education reformer (b. 1723)
● 1790 - William Livingston, Governor of New Jersey (b. 1723)
● 1791 - Isaac Low, American Continental Congressman (b. 1735)
● 1794 - André Chénier, French writer (b. 1762)
● 1826 - Kondraty Fyodorovich Ryleyev, Russian poet and revolutionary (b. 1795)
● 1834 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet (b. 1772)
● 1842 - Dominique Jean Larrey, French surgeon (b. 1766)
● 1843 - Charles Macintosh, Scottish chemist and inventor (b. 1766)
● 1853 - Joaquin Murieta, California outlaw
● 1861 - Jonas Furrer, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1805)
● 1887 - John Taylor, American religious leader (b. 1808)
● 1934 - François Coty, French perfume manufacturer (b. 1874)
● 1934 - Engelbert Dollfuss, Chancellor of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1892)
● 1934 - Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist (b. 1889)
● 1952 - Herbert Murrill, English composer (b. 1909)
● 1963 - Ugo Cerletti, Italian neurologist (b. 1877)
● 1971 - Leroy Robertson, American composer (b. 1896)
● 1973 - Louis Stephen St. Laurent, 12th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1882)
● 1980 - Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian poet, singer, and actor (b. 1938)
● 1986 - Vincente Minnelli, American film director (b. 1903)
● 1988 - Judith Barsi, American actress (b. 1978)
● 1989 - Steve Rubell, Owner of Night Club Studio 54
● 1992 - Charlie Rich, American rock/soul/country musician (b. 1932)
● 1996 - Howard Vernon, Swiss actor (b. 1914)
● 1997 - Ben Hogan, American golfer (b. 1912)
● 1998 - Tal Farlow, American jazz guitar virtuoso. (b. 1921)
● 2002 - Abdur Rahman Badawi, Egyptian existentialist philosopher(b. 1917)
● 2003 - Ludwig Bölkow, German aeronautical engineer (b. 1912)
● 2003 - John Schlesinger, British film director (b. 1926)
● 2005 - Albert Mangelsdorff, German jazz trombonist (b. 1928)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Chlodesindis, virgin
● St. Christopher, martyr patron of travelers
● St. Cucufas/Cougat, martyr
● St. Ebrulf, abbot at Beauvais
● Sts. Florentius & Felix
● St. Germanus, bishop of Paris, confessor
● St. Glodesind
● St. James the Great, Apostle, died 44 AD, patron St. of Spain
● St. Julian of Le Mans, bishop of Le Mans, confessor
● St. Magnericus, bishop of Trier, confessor
● St. Nissen
● St. Paul of Gaza
● Sts. Rusticus and Florentius, martyrs
● Sts. Thea & Valentina
● St. Theodemir
● St. Ursus, bishop of Troyes
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for July 12 (Civil Date: July 25)
● Martyrs Proclus and Hilary of Ancyra.
● St. Michael, monk of Maleinus.
● Martyr Golindukha, in holy baptism Mary, of Persia.
● Martyrs Theodore and his son John of Kiev.
● St. Veronica, the woman with the issue of blood who was healed by the Savior.
● Blessed Serapion, abbot of Volomsk.
● Saints John and Gabriel of Svyatagorsk.
● St. Anthony, abbot of Leokhnov (Novgorod).
● Greek Calendar:
● Martyrs Andrew the Soldier, Heraclius, Taustus, Menas, and others.
● Martyr Mamas near Sigmata.
● Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Of the Three Hands".
● Commemoration of the Holy Fathers of the First Six Ecumenical Councils:
● Inca festival in honor of the thunder god Ilyap'a
● Roman festival - Furinalia
● Costa Rica - Anniversary of the Annexation of Guanacaste Province
● Cuba - Eve of Revolution Day
● Ebernoe Horn Fair in Sussex, southern England
● Mexico - Anniversary of the Foundation of Santiago de Querétaro and Santiago de Saltillo
● Netherlands : Independence Day
● Puerto Rico : Constitution Day (1952)
● Galicia (Spain) - National Day, Saint James Day (Día da Pátria Galega).
● Tunisia : Republic Day (1957)
● This Holiday is only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Virgin Islands : Hurricane Supplication Day - ( Monday )
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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