Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Open-Mindedness "I call that mind free, which sets no bounds to its love, which is not imprisoned in itself or in a sect, which recognizes in all human beings the image of God." — William Ellery Channing
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Undermining Public Education "The public school system is damned. Let me tell you how radical I am. Christian students should be in Christian schools. If you have to sell your car, live in a smaller house, or work a night job, put your child in Christian schools. If you can't afford it, home school." — Jerry Falwell
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: On Politics "It has not worked. No one can say it has worked, so I decided we're either going to do what we said we're going to do with the UN, or we're going to something else." — Bill Clinton, on the UN operation in Bosnia
Thought for the day: "The best government teaches us to govern ourselves."
{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
At the Edge of Victoria Crater
Credit: Mars Exploration Rover Mission, Cornell, JPL, NASA
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 324 - Battle of Adrianople: Constantine I defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium.
● 683 - St. Leo II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
● 987 - Hugh Capet was crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty which ruled France till the French Revolution in 1792.
● 1187 - The army of Outremer marches towards Tiberias.
● 1250 - Louis IX of France is captured by Baibars' Mamluk army at the Battle of Fariskur while he is in Egypt conducting the Seventh Crusade; he later has to ransom himself.
● 1518 - France - A drunken soldier strikes an image of the Virgin Mary, in La Rue aux Ours, Paris, & the image bleeds. {Probably wine spilled by drunken soldier.} The soldier was burned for sacrilege.
● 1607 - Indians bring maize, beans, squash, fresh and smoked meat to Jamestown colony. As at Plymouth years later, the colonists and their diseases would eventually exterminate them.
● 1608 - Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain.
● 1754 - French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French forces.
● 1756 - English founder of Methodism John Wesley wrote in a letter: 'One who lives and dies in error, or in dissent from our Church, may yet be saved; but one who lives and dies in sin must perish.'
● 1767 - Norway's oldest newspaper still in print, Adresseavisen, is founded (first edition published this date).
● 1767 - Pitcairn Island is discovered by Midshipman Robert Pitcairn on an expeditionary voyage commanded by Philip Carteret.
● 1775 - American Revolutionary War: George Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
● 1778 - Four hundred rebel American militia and regulars from Forty Fort, New York, attack 250 Seneca Indians and Tories; 340 Americans, five Seneca die. In counterattack the next day, Forty Fort surrenders and all white settlements in Wyoming Valley, N.Y. are abandoned.
● 1778 - Prussia declares war on Austria.
● 1790 - In Paris, the marquis of Condorcet proposed granting civil rights to women.
● 1797 - U.S. Senator William Blount of Tennessee impeached by the House for having led an expedition, on behalf of the British, to conquer Florida and Louisiana.
● 1806 - Michael Keens exhibits 1st cultivated strawberry
● 1814 - Americans capture Fort Erie, Canada
● 1816 - French frigate "Medusa" runs aground off Cape Blanc. Gross incompetence kills 150 in calm seas
● 1819 - 1st savings bank in US (Bank of Savings in NYC) opens its doors
● 1832 - Opium exempted from federal tariff duty.
● 1835 - Children strike at Paterson, New Jersey for eleven hour day and six day week. With the help of adults, they win a compromise settlement of a 69 hour work week.
● 1839 - The first state normal school in the United States, the forerunner to today's Framingham State College, opens in Lexington, Massachusetts with 3 students.
● 1841 - John Couch Adams decides to determine the position of an unknown planet by irregularities it causes in the motion of Uranus.
● 1844 - Ambassador Caleb Cushing successfully negotiated a commercial treaty with China that opened five Chinese ports to U.S. merchants and protected the rights of American citizens in China.
● 1844 - The last pair of Great Auks is killed.
● 1848 - Slaves are freed in the Danish West Indies (now U.S. Virgin Islands).
● 1849 - The French entered Rome in order to restore Pope Pius IX to power. This would prove a major obstacle to Italian unification.
● 1850 - Birth of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, feminist author of Yellow Wallpaper and Herland.
● 1852 - Congress establishes the United States' 2nd mint in San Francisco, California.
● 1861 - Pony Express arrives in SF with overland letters from NY
● 1863 - The U.S. Civil War Battle of Gettysburg, PA, ended after three days. It was a major victory for the North as Confederate troops retreated.
● 1865 - Birth of Auguste Garnery (1865-1935), Haute Safne. French jeweler, anarchist militant, revolutionary trade unionist, and antimilitarist.
● 1866 - Austro-Prussian War is decided at the Battle of Königgratz, resulting in Prussia taking over as the prominent German nation from Austria.
● 1871 - The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company introduced the first narrow-gauge locomotive. It was called the "Montezuma."
● 1878 - Broadway song-and-dance man George M. Cohan was born in Providence, R.I. (Cohan claimed to have been - as he wrote in one of his patriotic songs, "Yankee Doodle Dandy" - "born on the Fourth of July.")
● 1878 - John Wise flew the first dirigible in Lancaster, PA.
● 1880 - "Science" began publication. Thomas Edison had provided the principle funding.
● 1883 - Birth of Franz Kafka, Czech Jewish novelist who portrayed alienation, state bureaucracy, and the banality of evil.
● 1884 - Dow Jones published its 1st stock average.
● 1886 - The New York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, vastly reducing typesetting by hand. {Headlines and specialty type faces are still done by hand.}
● 1890 - Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.
● 1894 - Birth of Don R. Falkenberg, founder in 1923 of the Mid-West Businessmen's Council of the Pocket Testament League. In 1967 the name of this evangelical agency was changed to Bible Literature International.
● 1898 - During the Spanish American War, a fleet of Spanish ships in Cuba's Santiago Harbor attempted to run a blockade of U.S. naval forces. Nearly all of the Spanish ships were destroyed in the battle that followed.
● 1898 - Joshua Slocum completes 1st solo circumnavigation of the globe
● 1898 - Spanish fleet, led by Pascual Cervera y Topete, destroyed by the U.S. Navy in Santiago, Cuba during the Spanish-American War.
● 1901 - The Wild Bunch, led by Butch Cassidy, committed its last American robbery near Wagner, MT. They took $65,000 from a Great Northern train.
● 1903 - The first cable across the Pacific Ocean was spliced between Honolulu, Midway, Guam and Manila.
● 1907 - Pope St. Pius X, in his encyclical 'Lamentabili,' formally condemned the 'modernist' intellectual movement, as it exhibited itself in the Catholic Church.
● 1913 - Common tern banded in Maine; found dead in 1919 in Africa (1st bird known to have crossed the Atlantic on its own.)
● 1915 - US military forces occupy Haiti, remain until 1934
● 1916 - 1st of 3 fatal shark attacks occurred near NJ shore (4 die)
● 1917 - In the "July Days," workers and soldiers in Petrograd, Russia demand the Soviet take power. Sporadic fighting results, and the Soviet restores order with troops brought back from the front. Trotsky is arrested. Lenin goes into hiding. A new provisional government is set up with Kerensky at its head.
● 1920 - Royal Air Force holds an air display at Hendon, England
● 1930 - The U.S. Congress created the U.S. Veterans Administration.
● 1934 - C Jackson discovers asteroid #1367 Nongoma
● 1934 - FDIC pays off 1st insured depositors, Fon du Lac Bank, East Peoria IL
● 1939 - Ernst Heinkel demonstrates 800-kph rocket plane to Hitler
● 1939 - Lou Gehrig day; Gehrig makes "luckiest man" speech
● 1940 - British Royal Navy sinks French fleet in North Africa
● 1944 - The U.S. First Army opened a general offensive to break out of the hedgerow area of Normandy, France.
● 1944 - World War II: Minsk was liberated from Nazi control by Soviet troops during Operation Bagration.
● 1945 - The first civilian passenger car built since February 1942 was driven off the assembly line at the Ford Motor Company plant in Detroit, MI. Production had been diverted due to World War II.
● 1945 - U.S. troops landed at Balikpapan and take Sepinggan airfield on Borneo in the Pacific.
● 1950 - 1st time US & North Korean forces clash in the Korean War
● 1950 - U.S. carrier-based planes attacked airfields in the Pyongyang-Chinnampo area of North Korea in the first air-strike of the Korean War.
● 1951 - Ridgway agrees to ceasefire talks; Talks to end the Korean war will begin later in July after terms were accepted by General Matthew Ridgway, supreme commander to the UN in the Far-East.
● 1952 - Puerto Rico's Constitution is approved by the Congress of the United States.
● 1954 - Food rationing ended in Great Britain almost nine years after the end of World War II.
● 1956 - Commonwealth heads honoured; The prime ministers of India and New Zealand are made Freemen of the City of London.
● 1959 - Pope John XXIII, in his encyclical 'Ad Petri Cathedram,' expressed the hope that non-Catholic Christians would see in the upcoming Vatican II Ecumenical Council 'a warm invitation to seek and find unity.'
● 1962 - Algerian Revolution against French ends (Algeria gains independence two days later)
● 1966 - Race riots in Omaha Nebraska
● 1966 - Arrests in London after Vietnam rally; Demonstrators in London are arrested after their protest against the Vietnam War turns violent.
● 1969 - Rent strike and occupation, Nichelino section of Turin, Italy; first coordination with ongoing factory struggles.
● 1970 - A British Dan-Air De Havilland Comet chartered jetliner crashes into mountains north of Barcelona, Spain killing 113 people.
● 1970 - L Chernykh discovers asteroid #3702
● 1970 - Simultaneous bomb attacks in Paris and London against Spanish State Tourist offices, and the Spanish and Greek Embassies.
● 1971 - Singer, songwriter and poet for the Doors, Jim Morrison, 27, dies of a drug-induced heart attack. Found in his bathtub in Paris. News of his death wasn't made public until days after his burial.
● 1974 - Soyuz 14 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3
● 1974 - The Threshold Test Ban Treaty was signed, prohibiting underground nuclear weapons tests with yields greater than 150 kilotons.
● 1976 - Israeli commandos rescue 105 hostages at Entebbe Airport, Uganda during Operation Yonatan. {Cannibal and Dictator Idi Amin had "welcomed" the hostages as his guests. An ill hostage supposedly taken to hospital was never seen or heard from again.}
● 1977 - The Senegalese Republican Movement (MRS) is founded.
● 1978 - Supreme Court rules 5-4, FCC had a right to reprimand NY radio station WBAI for broadcasting George Carlin's "Filthy Words"
● 1979 - Thirty-four years after the end of World War II, the West German government voted to continue prosecution of Nazi war criminals by removing the statute of limitations on murder.
● 1979 - US President Jimmy Carter signs the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.
● 1981 - 195 demonstrators arrested in series of White House sit-downs against Reagan administration cuts and involvement with El Salvador.
● 1981 - Beginning of 12 days of Neo-Nazi Front riots in London and a dozen other English cities.
● 1981 - NYC transit fare rises from 60 cents to 75 cents, new brass Y-cut-out token
● 1981 - The Associated Press ran its first story about two rare illnesses afflicting homosexual men. One of the diseases was later named AIDS.
● 1981 - The Center for Disease Control in Atlanta issues a report documenting 26 cases -- eight of them fatal -- of a rare skin cancer called Kaposi's sarcoma. All the patients are male. It is the first official federal recognition of what would soon be identified as the AIDS epidemic.
● 1982 - One day after his conviction for the shooting of a policeman, black journalist and activist Mumia Abu-Jamal is sentenced to death, on the basis of his teenage membership in the Black Panther Party, by a Philadelphia jury anxious to go home for the holiday weekend.
● 1984 - Dolphin rocket launched off San Clemente Island
● 1984 - Supreme Court rules Jaycees may be forced to admit women as members
● 1986 - Mikhail Baryshnikov became a U.S. citizen at Ellis Island, New York Harbor.
● 1986 - U.S. President Reagan presided over a ceremony in New York Harbor that saw the relighting of the renovated Statue of Liberty.
● 1987 - Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie gets life; The former chief of Gestapo in Lyon, Klaus Barbie, is sentenced to life imprisonment in a Lyon court.
● 1987 - 2 men became 1st hot-air balloon travelers to cross Atlantic
● 1988 - U.S. warship U.S.S. Vincennes "accidentally" shoots down commercial Iranian airliner over Persian Gulf, killing all 290 aboard. Navy personnel claim they mistook the airliner for an Iranian F-14 jet fighter. The Pentagon refused to discipline any personnel. Claimed the jet was outside its commercial air corridor and descending toward the Vincennes--but it is reported on 5 July that it was well within its commercial air corridor, and was ascending. {We were still buddies with the Iranians deadly enemy, Saddam, who had not taken profit away from US oil companies yet.}
● 1989 - Fitzgerald Inquiry released in Queensland.
● 1989 - Supreme Court rules states do not have to provide funds for abortions
● 1991 - U.S. President George H. W. Bush formally inaugurated the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota.
● 1994 - The deadliest day in Texas traffic history, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. Forty six people were killed in crashes. {Almost as bad as the war criminal's record as chief death warrant signer in Texas.}
● 1997 - Poland abolishes death penalty.
● 1997 - U.S. President Clinton made his first formal response to the charges of sexual harassment from Paula Jones. He denied all the charges and asked that the judge dismiss the case.
● 1999 - Paul Wulf (1921-1999) dies. German antifascist much influenced by the work of the anarchist author Erich Mühsam. Placed in an orphanage at age seven, Wulf was a victim of Nazi eugenics, forcibly sterilized in 1938. Following WWII he was an active Nazi-hunter, flushing out and revealing those seeking to hide and integrate themselves in the community. Due to his obstinacy, in 1981 Wulf received compensation for his sterilization.
● 2000 - Livingstone to take on government; In his first speech as Mayor of London Ken Livingstone announces that he will stand up to the government.
● 2001 - Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic refused to enter a plea on war crimes charges in his first appearance before a U.N. tribunal at The Hague.
● 2001 - A Vladivostok Avia Tupolev TU-154 jetliner crashes on approach to landing at Irkutsk, Russia killing 145 people.
● 2001 - Over 100 Greenpeace activists break into and occupy Menwith Hill, a notorious U.S. spy base in Britain.
● 2004 - Official opening of Bangkok's subway system.
● 2005 - A NASA space probe, Deep Impact, hit its comet target as planned in a mission to learn how the solar system formed.
● 2005 - The national law legalizing same-sex marriage takes effect in Spain.
● 2006 - Asteroid labeled as 2004 XP14 flies 432,308 km (268,624 miles) by Earth.
● 2007 - Ghana introduces new Ghanaian cedi currency.
BIRTHS
● 1423 - King Louis XI of France (d. 1483)
● 1442 - Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1500)
● 1530 - Claude Fauchet, French historian (d. 1601)
● 1676 - Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1747)
● 1683 - Edward Young, English poet (d. 1765)
● 1685 - Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, British cavalry officer (d. 1768)
● 1728 - Robert Adam, Scottish architect (d. 1792)
● 1731 - Samuel Huntington, American colonial leader; signed the Declaration of Independence (d. 1796)
● 1738 - John Singleton Copley, American painter (d. 1815)
● 1844 - Dankmar Adler, German-born American architect and engineer (d. 1900)
● 1851 - Charles Bannerman, Australian cricketer (d. 1930)
● 1854 - Leoš Janáček, Czech composer (d. 1928)
● 1860 - Charlotte Gilman, American writer and women's rights advocate (d. 1935)
● 1870 - Richard Bedford Bennett, 11th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1947)
● 1875 - Ferdinand Sauerbruch, German surgeon (d. 1951)
● 1878 - George M. Cohan, American actor, director, singer and dancer (d. 1942)
● 1879 - Alfred Korzybski, Polish linguist (d. 1950)
● 1883 - Franz Kafka, Czech writer (d. 1924)
● 1900 - Alessandro Blasetti, Italian film director (d. 1987)
● 1903 - Ace Bailey, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1992)
● 1906 - George Sanders, Russian-born actor (d. 1972)
● 1908 - M. F. K. Fisher, American writer (d. 1992)
● 1908 - Robert B. Meyner, American politician (d. 1990)
● 1909 - Stavros Spyros Niarchos, Greek shipping magnate and art collector (d. 1996)
● 1913 - Dorothy Kilgallen, American columnist (d. 1965)
● 1916 - John Kundla, Basketball Hall of Famer
● 1918 - S. V. Ranga Rao, Versatile Telugu Cinema Actor (d. 1974)
● 1920 - Paul O'Dea, Baseball player (d. 1978)
● 1921 - Susan Peters, American actress (d. 1952)
● 1924 - S. R. Nathan, 6th president of Singapore
● 1927 - Ken Russell, British director
● 1930 - Carlos Kleiber, Austrian conductor (d. 2004)
● 1930 - Tommy Tedesco, American musician (d. 1997)
● 1930 - Pete Fountain, American clarinetist
● 1935 - Harrison Schmitt, American astronaut and politician
● 1937 - Tom Stoppard, Czech-born, British playwright
● 1938 - Bolo Yeung, Hong Kong actor
● 1939 - Jay Tarses, Writer, producer
● 1939 - László Kovács, Hungarian politician and diplomat
● 1940 - César Tovar, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player (d. 1994)
● 1940 - Lamar Alexander, American politician
● 1940 - Jerzy Buzek, Prime Minister of Poland
● 1940 - Fontella Bass, American soul singer
● 1942 - Eddy Mitchell, French singer and actor
● 1942 - Paco Stanley, a mexican TV personality (d. 1999)
● 1943 - Kurtwood Smith, American actor ("That 70s Show")
● 1944 - Michel Polnareff, French singer and songwriter
● 1945 - Michael Cole, American TV actor ("The Mod Squad")
● 1946 - Johnny Lee, Country singer
● 1946 - Leszek Miller, Prime Minister of Poland
● 1947 - Dave Barry, American writer
● 1947 - Betty Buckley, American actress ("Eight is Enough," "Cats")
● 1948 - Paul Barrere, Rock singer, musician (Little Feat)
● 1949 - Jan Smithers, American actress ("WKRP In Cincinnati")
● 1949 - Johnnie Wilder, Jr., American singer (Heatwave) (d. 2006)
● 1950 - Sandra Lee, American writer and TV presenter
● 1950 - James Hahn, American politician
● 1951 - Richard Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer
● 1951 - Jean-Claude Duvalier, Haitian politician
● 1952 - Alan Autry, American football player and politician
● 1955 - Sanma Akashiya, Japanese television performer
● 1956 - Montel Williams, Talk show host
● 1956 - Don Vito, American Viva La Bam castmember
● 1957 - Laura Branigan, American singer (d. 2004)
● 1958 - Matthew Fraser, Canadian-British journalist
● 1958 - Aaron Tippin, American singer
● 1959 - Julie Burchill, British journalist and author
● 1959 - Stephen Pearcy, American singer (Ratt)
● 1960 - Vince Clarke, British songwriter (Depeche Mode, Yazoo, and Erasure)
● 1961 - Pedro Romeiras, Portuguese dancer
● 1961 - Tim Smith, English musician (Cardiacs)
● 1962 - Thomas Gibson, Actor ("Dharma and Greg" "Criminal Minds")
● 1962 - Tom Cruise, American actor
● 1962 - Hunter Tylo, American actress ("The Bold and the Beautiful")
● 1964 - Joanne Harris, British author
● 1964 - Connie Nielsen, (Actress)
● 1964 - Yeardley Smith, French-born American actress ("The Simpsons")
● 1965 - Shinya Hashimoto, Japanese wrestler (d. 2005)
● 1965 - Connie Nielsen, Danish actress
● 1966 - Moises Alou, baseball player
● 1969 - Ishmael Butler, Singer
● 1969 - Kevin Hearn, Canadian musician (Barenaked Ladies)
● 1970 - Audra McDonald, Singer, actress
● 1970 - Teemu Selänne, Finnish ice hockey player
● 1970 - Shawnee Smith, American actress
● 1970 - Serhiy Honchar, Ukrainian cyclist
● 1973 - Johnny Terris, Canadian-born actor and director
● 1973 - Patrick Wilson, American actor
● 1976 - Andrea Barber, American actress
● 1976 - Wanderlei Silva, Brazilian mixed martial artist
● 1976 - Shane Lynch, Singer (Boyzone)
● 1979 - Ludivine Sagnier, French actress
● 1979 - Sotirios Kyrgiakos, Greek footballer
● 1979 - Tonia Tash, R&B singer (Divine)
● 1980 - Roland Mark Schoeman, South African swimmer
● 1982 - Kanika, Indian actress
● 1984 - Corey Sevier, Canadian actor
● 1987 - Sebastian Vettel, German racing driver
● 1991 - Grant Rosenmeyer, Actor
● 1996 - Kelsey Batelaan, Actress ("Nip/Tuck")
DEATHS
● 683 - Pope Leo II
● 1570 - Aonio Paleario, Italian humanist
● 1642 - Maria de' Medici, wife of Henry IV of France (b. 1573)
● 1672 - Francis Willughby, English biologist (b. 1635)
● 1704 - Sophia Alekseyevna, regent of Russia (b. 1657)
● 1749 - William Jones, Welsh mathematician (b. 1675)
● 1778 - Anna Maria Walburga Mozart née Pertl, mother of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1720)
● 1790 - Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle, French chemist (b. 1736)
● 1795 - Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, French historian (b. 1714)
● 1795 - Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish general and governor of Louisiana (b. 1716)
● 1809 - Joseph Quesnel, French Canadian composer, poet and playwright (b. 1746)
● 1858 - Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, Russian painter (b. 1806)
● 1863 - George Hull Ward, American general (b. 1826)
● 1904 - Theodor Herzl, Austrian Zionist (b. 1860)
● 1904 - Edouard Beaupré, Canadian giant and strongman (b. 1881)
● 1914 - Joseph Chamberlain, British politician (b. 1836)
● 1916 - Hetty Green, American Businesswoman (b. 1834)
● 1918 - Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1844)
● 1933 - Hipólito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina (b. 1852)
● 1935 - André Citroën, French automobile pioneer (b. 1878)
● 1942 - Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, French general (b. 1856)
● 1954 - Siegfried Handloser, German physician (b. 1895)
● 1957 - Dolf Luque, baseball player (b. 1890)
● 1969 - Brian Jones, English musician (The Rolling Stones) (drowned) (b. 1942)
● 1971 - Jim Morrison, American singer (The Doors) (b. 1943)
● 1977 - Alexander M. Volkov, Russian novelist and mathematician (b. 1891)
● 1979 - Louis Durey, French composer (b. 1888)
● 1981 - Ross Martin, Polish-American actor (b. 1920)
● 1985 - Frank Selke, Canadian ice hockey manager (b. 1893)
● 1986 - Rudy Vallee, American singer (b. 1901)
● 1989 - Jim Backus, American actor (b. 1913)
● 1993 - Joe DeRita, American actor and comedian (b. 1909)
● 1993 - Don Drysdale, baseball player (b. 1936)
● 1994 - Lew Hoad, Australian tennis player (b. 1934)
● 1995 - Pancho Gonzales, American tennis player (b. 1928)
● 1995 - Eddie Mazur, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)
● 1998 - Danielle Bunten Berry, American software developer (b. 1949)
● 1999 - Mark Sandman, American musician (b. 1952)
● 2000 - Kemal Sunal, Turkish actor (b. 1944)
● 2001 - Mordecai Richler, Canadian author (b. 1931)
● 2001 - Johnny Russell, American country singer and songwriter (b. 1940)
● 2003 - Gaetano Alibrandi, Papal diplomat (b. 1914)
● 2004 - Andrian Nikolayev, cosmonaut (b. 1929)
● 2005 - Alberto Lattuada, Italian film director (b. 1914)
● 2005 - Gaylord Nelson, U.S. Senator from Wisconsin (b. 1916)
● 2006 - Joseph Goguen, American computer scientist (b. 1941)
● 2006 - Benjamin Hendrickson, American actor (b. 1950)
● 2007 - Alice Timander, Swedish dentist (b. 1915)
● 2007 - Boots Randolph, American saxophonist (b. 1927)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● Sts. Aaron and Julius
● St. Anatolius
● St. Appolin
● St. Bertran, bishop of Le Mans
● St. Bladus
● St. Byblig
● St. Cillene
● St. Dathus
● St. Eulogius and Companions
● St. Gunthiern, abbot
● St. Guthagon, recluse
● St. Hyacinth
● St. Joseph Peter Uyen
● St. Leo II, 80th Pope (681-83) (died 683)
● St. Maelmuire O' Gorman
● St. Marinus, bishop, martyr
● St. Mark
● St. Mucian
● St. Philip Minh
● St. Phocas, martyr
● St. Raymond, confessor at Toulouse
● St. Sidronius, martyr
● St. Thomas, apostle
● St. Thomas of Kerala, Syria
● St. Tryphon & Companions
● Bl. Raymond Lull
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for June 21 (Civil Date: July 3)
● Martyr Julian of Tarsus in Cilicia.
● Hieromartyr Terence (Tertius), Bishop of Iconium.
● St. Julius, presbyter of Novara, and his brother St. Julian the deacon.
● New-Martyr Nicetas of Nisyros near Rhodes.
● Martyrs Archil II and Luarsab II, kings of Georgia.
● Martyr Aphrodisius in Cilicia.
● Greek Calendar:
● Martyr Julian of Libya.
● Hieromartyr Anthony, Anastasius who was raised from the dead, Celsius and his mother Vasilissa, 20 prison guards and 7 brothers, martyred with St. Julian.
● Algeria : Independence Day (1962)
● Idaho : Admission Day (1890)
● Start of the Dog Days
● National holiday in Belarus
● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Iowa : Independence Sunday - ( Sunday )
● Caribbean Common Market : Caribbean Day (1973) - ( Monday )
● Lesotho : Family Day - ( Monday )
● Zambia : Heroes Day - ( Monday )
● Zambia : Unity Day - ( Tuesday )
IN FICTION
● 1895 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of Black Peter"
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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