Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Service "What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?" — George Eliot
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Racism "I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves." — John Wayne, movie icon known for playing cowboys
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: On Politics "If the King's English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me!" — Ma Ferguson, former governor of Texas
Thought for the day: "Politics is either passing the buck or passing the dough."
{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 Tidal Tail of NGC 3628
Credit & Copyright: Steve Mandel (Galaxy Images)
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 432 - St Celestine I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
● 1214 - Battle of Bouvines: In France, Philip II of France defeats John of England.
● 1245 - Frederick II of France was deposed by a council at Lyons, which found him guilty of sacrilege.
● 1501 - Copernicus formally installed as canon of Frauenberg Cathedral
● 1549 - Jesuit priest Francis Xavier's ship reached Japan.
● 1568 - Sir Walter Raleigh brings first tobacco to England from Virginia. {In this manner Raleigh began his second genocide after the killing of Native Americans.}
● 1656 - 24-year-old Benedict Spinoza excommunicated by Jewish authorities.
● 1661 - Parliament confirms the Navigation Act
● 1663 - The British Parliament passed a second Navigation Act, which required all goods bound for the colonies be sent in British ships from British ports.
● 1689 - Government forces defeated the Scottish Jacobites at the Battle of Killiecrankie.
● 1694 - The Bank of England received a royal charter as a commercial institution.
● 1714 - The first important victory of the Russian Navy - the Battle of Gangut.
● 1720 - The second important victory of the Russian Navy - the Battle of Grengam.
● 1741 - Birth of Francois H. Barthelme, French Sweden borgian composer. Two of his many works later became hymn tunes: AUTUMN (Hail, Thou Once Despised Jesus) and BALERMA (Oh, for a Closer Walk with God).
● 1775 - Benjamin Rush began his service as the first Surgeon General of the Continental Army.
● 1777 - The marquis of Lafayette arrived in New England to help the rebellious American colonists fight the British.
● 1778 - The British and French fleets fought to a standoff in the first Battle of Ushant.
● 1784 - "Courier De L’Amerique" became the first French newspaper to be published in the United States. It was printed in Philadelphia, PA.
● 1789 - The Department of Foreign Affairs was established by the U.S. Congress. The agency was later known as the Department of State.
● 1794 - French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre arrested as new tyrant in French Revolution after encouraging the execution of more than 17,000 "enemies of the Revolution." He was executed the following day.
● 1804 - The 12th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. With the amendment, Electors were directed to vote for a President and for a Vice-President rather than for two choices for President.
● 1816 - Fort Blount on Apalachicola Bay Fla, attacked by US Troops
● 1819 - Duitama is named municipality
● 1836 - Adelaide, South Australia founded
● 1837 - US Mint opens in Charlotte, NC
● 1844 - Fire destroys the US mint at Charlotte, NC
● 1861 - Birth of Cyrus H. Nusbaum, an American Methodist clergyman who penned the hymn, 'Would You Live for Jesus, and Be Always Pure and Good?' (aka 'His Way With Thee').
● 1861 - Union Gen George McClellan took command of Potomac Army
● 1862 - Steamer "Golden Gate" burns & sinks off west coast of Mexico
● 1865 - Welsh settlers arrive in Argentina at Chubut Valley.
● 1866 - Cyrus Field successfully completed the Atlantic Cable. It was an underwater telegraph from North America to Europe.
● 1868 - U.S. and Mexico in joint resolution outlaw enslavement of remaining Navajo. {I find it interesting that this was needed, since all slavery was supposed to have ended with the Civil War.}
● 1879 - C H F Peters discovers asteroid #200 Dynamene
● 1880 - Second Anglo-Afghan War: Battle of Maiwand - In a a pyrrhic victory, Afghan forces lead by Ayub Khan defeated the British Army in battle near Maiwand, Afghanistan.
● 1897 - 37.5 cm (14.75") of rainfall, Jewell, Maryland (state 24-hr record)
● 1901 - Death of B.F. Westcott, 76, English N. T. scholar. In 1881, he and colleague F. J. A. Hort published the most precise critical text of the Greek New Testament ever compiled --still in use today.
● 1903 - Death of Caroline (Lina) V. Sandell Berg, 71. Known as the 'Fanny Crosby of Sweden,' her most beloved hymns (in their English translation) include 'Day by Day' and 'Children of the Heavenly Father.'
● 1905 - J Palisa discovers asteroid #569 Misa
● 1906 - Leo Durocher, the American baseball player and manager, was born.
● 1908 - A Kopff discovers asteroid #668 Dora
● 1909 - Orville Wright set a record for the longest airplane flight. He was testing the first Army airplane and kept it in the air for 1 hour 12 minutes and 40 seconds.
● 1913 - In Oxford, PA, the first Victorious Life Conference closed. Founder Robert C. McQuilkin, inspired by England's Keswick Movement, emphasized in these meetings an attainment of spiritual freedom from the power of every known sin.
● 1914 - British troops invaded the streets of Dublin, Ireland, and began to disarm Irish rebels.
● 1914 - Felix Manalo establishes the modern-day Iglesia ni Cristo by registering it with the Filipino government.
● 1918 - The Socony 200 was launched. It was the first concrete barge and was used to carry oil.
● 1918 - United Mine Workers organizer Ginger Goodwin is shot by a hired private cop outside Cumberland, British Columbia, Canada.
● 1919 - Racial violence erupts in Chicago when a black youth crossed an unseen color line at the 29th Street Beach and was drowned by rock-throwing whites. 28 eventually killed, 537 injured.
● 1921 - Researchers at the University of Toronto led by biochemist Frederick Banting announce the discovery of the hormone insulin.
● 1932 - Two killed when U.S. Army attacks an encampment of 20,000 World War I veterans, gathered in Washington D.C. to demand bonus benefits.
● 1933 - G Van Biesbroeck discovers asteroid #1312 Vassar
● 1933 - K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1284 Latvia
● 1941 - Day of Anti-Fascist uprising of people of Bosnia and Herzegowina.
● 1941 - Japanese troops occupy French Indo-China.
● 1944 - 1st British jet fighter used in combat (Gloster Meteor)
● 1944 - U.S. troops completed the liberation of Guam.
● 1949 - Initial flight of the de Havilland Comet, the first jet-powered airliner.
● 1953 - Korean War ends: The United States, People's Republic of China, and North Korea, sign an armistice agreement. Syngman Rhee, president of South Korea, refuses to sign but pledges to observe the armistice.
● 1954 - Armistice divides Vietnam into two countries
● 1954 - Democratically elected goverment of Jacabo Arbenz overthrown by CIA-paid mercenaries. The U.S. establishes a right-wing dictatorship which has waged a genocidal war against Guatemala's indigenous rural population ever since.
● 1955 - Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #1751 Herget
● 1955 - The Allied occupation of Austria stemming from World War II, ends (started on May 9, 1945).
● 1956 - Plane crashes into nuclear store, Lakenheath, Suffolk, Britain.
● 1957 - Jimmy Wilson, a black farmhand from Marion, Alabama is sentenced to death for stealing $1.95 from a white woman.
● 1960 - Vice President Richard M. Nixon was nominated for president at the Republican National Convention in Chicago.
● 1962 - Mariner 2 launched to Venus; flyby mission
● 1962 - Martin Luther King Jr jailed in Albany Georgia
● 1964 - Vietnam War: 5,000 more American military advisers are sent to South Vietnam bringing the total number of United States forces in Vietnam to 21,000.
● 1965 - In the U.S., the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act was signed into law. The law required health warnings on all cigarette packages.
● 1965 - Heath is new Tory leader; Shadow Chancellor Edward Heath beats off his rivals in the Conservative leadership contest.
● 1967 - U.S. President Johnson appointed the Kerner Commission to assess the causes of the violence in the wake of urban rioting.
● 1968 - Race Riot in Gary Indiana
● 1969 - Pioneer 10 launched
● 1970 - A Branch of the Bank of America is bombed in Manhattan, for which the Weather Underground takes credit.
● 1972 - Death of Wilfred Wellock, Gandhian socialist, Britain.
● 1974 - Watergate Scandal: The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment against President Richard Nixon: obstruction of justice.
● 1976 - 8.2 Tangshan earthquake kills estimated 240,000 Chinese
● 1976 - Former Japanese prime minister Kakuei Tanaka is arrested on suspicion of violating foreign exchange and foreign trade laws in connection with the Lockheed scandal.
● 1977 - Ipatiev House at Ekaterinburg, Russia is destroyed.
● 1977 - John Lennon is granted a green card for permanent residence in US
● 1978 - Transatlantic balloonists in trouble; Two British balloonists battling to be the first to cross the Atlantic are in difficulties half way across the ocean.
● 1979 - U.S. Supreme Court upholds Boldt Decision, affirming the right of Washington tribes to half the salmon catch. State legislators have been seeking ways to circumvent the decision ever since.
● 1980 - The deposed shah of Iran, Muhammad Riza Pahlavi, died in a hospital near Cairo, Egypt.
● 1982 - Indian PM Indira Gandhi 1st visit to US in almost 11 years
● 1982 - Seychelles coup leader guilty of hijack; Mercenary leader Colonel 'Mad Mike' Hoare is found guilty of hijacking a plane to escape from a failed coup in the Seychelles.
● 1987 - John Demjanjuk, accused Nazi "Ivan the Terrible" testifies in Israel
● 1988 - Boston's worst traffic jam in 30 years
● 1989 - New York state police close all roads to the New York portion of the St. Regis Mohawk reservation, in dispute over freedom of Mohawk to cross international border between U.S. and Canada.
● 1990 - The Jamaat al Muslimeen stage a coup d'état attempt in Trinidad and Tobago, occupying Parliament and the studios of Trinidad and Tobago Television, holding Prime Minister A. N. R. Robinson and most of his Cabinet, as well as the staff at the television station hostage for 6 days.
● 1990 - The Supreme Soviet of the Belarusian Soviet Republic declares independence of Belarus from the Soviet Union. Until 1996 the day was celebrated as the Independence Day of Belarus. After a referendum held that year the celebration of Independence day was transferred to June 3.
● 1992 - Boston Celtics star Reggie Lewis died after collapsing on a Brandeis University basketball court during practice. He was 27 years old.
● 1995 - President Clinton signs into law the salvage logging rider, which mandates clear-cutting of federal forests regardless of any environmental laws. He later claims he "didn't know what he was doing," but takes no action to slow the resulting devastation (and profits).
● 1995 - The Korean War Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington, DC, by U.S. President Clinton and South Korean President Kim Young-sam.
● 1996 - Centennial Olympic Park bombing: In Atlanta, Georgia, a pipe bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics, killing one and injuring 111.
● 1996 - Four women are arrested for a Plowshares action, pouring their own blood on weaponry at the Naval Submarine Base at Groton, Conn. the morning of the launch of the last new Trident submarine, the U.S.S. Louisiana.
● 1997 - Si Zerrouk massacre in Algeria; about 50 people killed.
● 1998 - Over a thousand Indians blockade highway between Venezuela and Brazil to protest power line.
● 1999 - The U.S. space shuttle Discovery completed a five-day mission commanded by Air Force Col. Eileen Collins. It was the first shuttle mission to be commanded by a woman.
● 1999 - Twenty-one die in a canyoning disaster near Interlaken, Switzerland.
● 2000 - Labour publishes plans to revolutionise NHS; The Labour Government announces the most radical re-organisation of the NHS since it was founded in 1948.
● 2002 - Ukraine airshow disaster: A Sukhoi Su-27 fighter crashes during an air show at Lviv, Ukraine killing 85 and injuring more than 100 others, the largest air show disaster in history.
● 2003 - Comic legend Bob Hope dies; American icon and legendary comedian Bob Hope dies just two months after celebrating his 100th birthday.
● 2003 - It was reported by the BBC (British Broadcasting Corp.) that there was no monster in Loch Ness. The investigation used 600 separate sonar beams and satellite navigation technology to trawl the loch. Reports of sightings of the "Loch Ness Monster" began in the 6th century.
● 2005 - STS-114: NASA grounds the Space shuttle, pending an investigation of the external tank's continued foam-shedding problem. During ascent, the external tank of the Space Shuttle Discovery sheds a piece of foam slightly smaller than the piece that caused the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster; this foam does not strike the spacecraft.
● 2005 - Ahmed Ressam, an Algerian who'd plotted to bomb the Los Angeles airport on the eve of the millennium, was sentenced to 22 years in prison by a judge in Seattle.
● 2006 - The Federal Republic of Germany is deemed guilty in the loss of Bashkirian 2937 and DHL Flight 611, because it is illegal to outsource flight surveillance.
BIRTHS
● 1452 - Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan (d. 1508)
● 1667 - Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1748)
● 1733 - Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer (d. 1779)
● 1740 - Jeanne Baré, French explorer (d. 1803)
● 1752 - Samuel Smith, U.S. Senator, 1803-1815.
● 1768 - Charlotte Corday, French aristocrat who killed Jean-Paul Marat (d. 1793)
● 1773 - Jakob Aall, Norwegian journalist and statesman (d. 1844)
● 1781 - Mauro Giuliani, Italian composer (d. 1828)
● 1784 - Denis Davydov, Russian general and poet (d. 1839)
● 1812 - Thomas Clingman, American Confederate general (d. 1897)
● 1824 - Alexandre Dumas, fils, French author (d. 1895)
● 1833 - Thomas George Bonney, English geologist (d. 1923)
● 1835 - Giosuè Carducci, Italian writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1907)
● 1848 - Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist (d. 1919)
● 1853 - Vladimir Korolenko, Russian writer (d. 1921)
● 1857 - José Celso Barbosa, Puerto Rican politician (d. 1921)
● 1867 - Enrique Granados, Spanish composer (d. 1916)
● 1870 - Hilaire Belloc, English writer (d. 1953)
● 1877 - Ernő Dohnányi, Hungarian composer and conductor (d. 1960)
● 1881 - Hans Fischer, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1945)
● 1882 - Geoffrey de Havilland, British aircraft designer (d. 1965)
● 1886 - Ernst May, German architect (d. 1970)
● 1889 - Vera Karalli, Russian ballerina and actress (d. 1972)
● 1900 - Charles Vidor, Hungarian-born motion-picture director (d. 1959)
● 1903 - Nikolai Cherkasov, Russian actor (d. 1966)
● 1903 - Michail Stasinopoulos, Greek politician (d. 2002)
● 1905 - Leo Durocher, American baseball player and manager (d. 1991)
● 1908 - Joseph Mitchell, American writer (d. 1996)
● 1911 - Rayner Heppenstall, British novelist (d. 1981)
● 1913 - George L. Street III American Navy Submariner (d. 2000)
● 1915 - Mario Del Monaco, Italian singer (d. 1982)
● 1916 - Keenan Wynn, American actor (d. 1986)
● 1917 - Bourvil, French actor (d. 1970)
● 1918 - Leonard Rose, American cellist (d. 1984)
● 1922 - Norman Lear, American television writer and producer
● 1922 - Adolfo Celi, Italian actor (d. 1986)
● 1923 - Masutatsu Oyama, Japanese Kyokushin founder
● 1924 - Vincent Canby, American film critic (d. 2000)
● 1927 - Sat Mahajan, Indian poltician
● 1929 - Harvey Fuqua, R&B singer (The Moonglows)
● 1930 - Shirley Williams, British politician
● 1931 - Jerry Van Dyke, American actor
● 1931 - Khieu Samphan, Cambodian politician
● 1933 - Ted Whitten, Australian rules footballer (d. 1995)
● 1935 - Billy McCullough, Northern Irish footballer
● 1936 - J. Robert Hooper, American politician
● 1937 - Don Galloway, American actor
● 1938 - Isabelle Aubret, French singer
● 1938 - Gary Gygax, American role-playing game creator
● 1939 - Michael Longley, Northern Irish poet
● 1940 - Pina Bausch, German dancer
● 1942 - Dennis Ralston, American tennis player
● 1942 - John Pleshette, American actor
● 1944 - Bobbie Gentry, Country singer
● 1944 - Tony Capstick, English comedian (d. 2003)
● 1944 - Jean-Marie Leblanc, French cyclist
● 1946 - Rade Šerbedžija, Croatian-born Serbian actor
● 1948 - Betty Thomas, American actor and film director
● 1948 - Peggy Fleming, American figure skater
● 1949 - Maury Chaykin, Actor
● 1949 - Maureen McGovern, American singer
● 1951 - Janet Eilber, Dancer
● 1952 - Roxanne Hart, Actress
● 1952 - Hannu-Pekka Hänninen, Finnish sports commentator
● 1953 - Yahoo Serious, Australian comedian
● 1954 - G.S. Bali, Indian politician
● 1954 - Philippe Alliot, French racecar driver
● 1955 - Allan Border, Australian cricketer
● 1956 - Duncan Cameron, Country musician (Sawyer Brown)
● 1957 - Bill Engvall, American comedian ("Blue Collar TV")
● 1957 - Matt Osborne, American professional wrestler
● 1958 - Christopher Dean, English figure skater
● 1959 - Hugh Green, American football player
● 1959 - Joe DeSa, American baseball player (d. 1986)
● 1960 - Tron Guy, American internet celebrity
● 1962 - Karrin Allyson, Jazz singer
● 1962 - Karl Mueller, American bassist (Soul Asylum) (d. 2005)
● 1964 - Rex Brown, American bassist (Pantera)
● 1965 - José Luis Chilavert, Paraguayan footballer
● 1967 - Stacy Dean Campbell, Country singer
● 1967 - Juliana Hatfield, American musician
● 1967 - Kellie Waymire, American actress (d. 2003)
● 1968 - Cliff Curtis, New Zealand actor
● 1968 - Michael Campbell, American artist
● 1968 - Tom Goodwin, American baseball player
● 1968 - Julian McMahon, Australian actor ("Nip/Tuck")
● 1968 - Cress Williams, Actor
● 1968 - Ricardo Rosset, Brazilian Formula One driver
● 1969 - Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Italian actress
● 1969 - Triple H, American professional wrestler
● 1969 - Jonty Rhodes, South African cricketer
● 1970 - Nikolaj Coster Waldau, Danish actor
● 1972 - Maya Rudolph, Comedian ("Saturday Night Live")
● 1972 - Jill Arrington, American sports reporter
● 1972 - Takako Fuji, Japanese actress
● 1973 - Abe Cunningham, American musician (Deftones)
● 1973 - Natsuki Takaya, Japanese manga artist
● 1974 - Eason Chan, Hong Kong singer
● 1974 - Pete Yorn, American musician
● 1975 - Shea Hillenbrand, American baseball player
● 1975 - Fred Mascherino, American musician (Taking Back Sunday)
● 1975 - Alex Rodriguez, American baseball player
● 1975 - Alessandro Pistone, Italian footballer
● 1976 - Scott Mason, Australian cricketer (d. 2005)
● 1977 - Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Irish actor
● 1979 - Shannon Moore, American wrestler
● 1979 - Jorge Arce, Mexican boxer
● 1980 - Julia Haworth, English actress
● 1980 - Nick Nemeth, American professional wrestler
● 1980 - Allan Davis, Australian cyclist
● 1981 - Susan King Borchardt, American basketball player
● 1985 - Lou Taylor Pucci, American actor
● 1986 - Courtney Kupets, American gymnast
● 1989 - Charlotte Arnold, Canadian actress
● 1990 - Cheyenne Kimball, American musician ("Cheyenne")
● 1990 - Indiana Evans, Australian actress
● 1990 - Nick Hogan, American television personality
DEATHS
● 1101 - Conrad, King of Germany and Italy (b. 1074)
● 1276 - King James I of Aragon (b. 1208)
● 1365 - Duke Rudolf IV of Austria (b. 1339)
● 1564 - Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1503)
● 1656 - Salomo Glassius, German theologian (b. 1593)
● 1675 - Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, Marshal of France (b. 1611)
● 1759 - Pierre Louis Maupertuis, French mathematician (b. 1698)
● 1770 - Robert Dinwiddie, British colonial governor of Virginia (b. 1693)
● 1841 - Mikhail Lermontov, Russian author (b. 1814)
● 1844 - John Dalton, English physicist and chemist (b. 1776)
● 1863 - William Lowndes Yancey, American Confederate leader (b. 1813)
● 1876 - Albertus van Raalte, Dutch-American religious leader (b. 1811)
● 1883 - Montgomery Blair, American politician (b. 1813)
● 1917 - Emil Theodor Kocher, Swiss surgeon, Nobel laureate (b. 1841)
● 1924 - Ferruccio Busoni, Italian pianist (b. 1866)
● 1931 - Auguste-Henri Forel, Swiss entomologist (b. 1848)
● 1941 - Alfred Henry O'Keeffe, New Zealand artist (b. 1858)
● 1946 - Gertrude Stein, American writer (b. 1874)
● 1948 - Woolf Barnato, British racing driver (b. 1898)
● 1958 - Claire Chennault, American military leader (b. 1893)
● 1960 - Hans Albers, German actor and singer (b. 1891)
● 1962 - Richard Aldington, English poet (b. 1892)
● 1968 - Babe Adams, baseball player (b. 1882)
● 1971 - Charlie Tully, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1924)
● 1980 - Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (b. 1919)
● 1981 - William Wyler, French-born film director (b. 1902)
● 1984 - James Mason, English actor (b. 1909)
● 1987 - Travis Jackson, baseball player (b. 1903)
● 1988 - Frank Zamboni, American inventor (b. 1901)
● 1992 - Max Dupain, Australian photographer (b. 1911)
● 1993 - Reggie Lewis, American basketball player (b. 1965)
● 1995 - Miklós Rózsa, Hungarian-born composer (b. 1907)
● 1999 - Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Russian mathematician (b. 1912)
● 2000 - Gordon Solie, American wrestling commentator (b. 1929)
● 2001 - Leon Wilkeson, American guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (b. 1952)
● 2001 - Rhonda Singh, professional wrestler (b. 1961)
● 2003 - Vance Hartke, American politician (b. 1919)
● 2003 - Bob Hope, English-born entertainer (b. 1903)
● 2005 - Marten Toonder, Dutch comic writer (b. 1912)
● 2006 - Maryann Mahaffey, American politician (b. 1925)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● Seven Sleepers, Sts.
● St. Anthusa
● Sts. Aurelius and Natalia and companions of the Martyrs of Córdoba
● St. Bartholomea Capitanjo
● St. Congall
● St. Constantine
● St. Dionysius
● St. Ecclesius
● St. Etherius
● St. Felix
● St. Hermolaus
● St. John Serapion
● St. Luican
● St. Malchus
● St. Martinian
● St. Maurus
● St. Maximaian
● Sts. Natalie & Aurelius
● St. Pantaleon, martyr, patron of medicine
● St. Theobald of Marly
● Bl. Rudolf Acquaviva
● Bl. Titus Brandsma
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for July 14 (Civil Date: July 27)
● Apostle Aquila of the Seventy, and St. Priscilla.
● St. Ellius (Hellius) of Egypt.
● St. Onesimus, monk of Magnesia.
● St. Stephen, abbot of Makhrishche (Vologda).
● Martyr Justus at Rome.
● St. Nicodemus of Mt. Athos. (spiritual writer).
● Greek Calendar:
● Martyrs Aquila, Hilary, Peter the New, and Heraclius.
● Service to Saints Cyricus and Julitta transferred to this day from July 15.
● Anglican: Commemoration of William Reed Huntington, priest
● Ancient Latvia - Septinu Guletaju Diena held.
● Cuba - Revolution Day, 2nd Day.
● Philippines - Iglesia Ni Cristo Foundation Day, 27th Day.
● Maldives - Independence Day, 2nd Day.
● Puerto Rico : José Celso Barbosa Birthday (1857)
● Vietnam - Memorial Day for War Martyrs.
● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Virgin Islands : Hurricane Supplication Day - ( Monday )
● Gilroy, California : Garlic Festival - ( Friday )
IN FICTION
● 1880 - Battle of Maiwand, at which Dr. Watson was wounded, breaks out. The battle really occurred; the wounding of Dr. Watson is fiction.
● 1898 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of The Dancing Men"
● 1981 - British television: On Coronation Street, Ken Barlow marries Deirdre Langton, which proves to be a national event, with massive viewer numbers earned for the show.
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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