Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Oppression "Find out just what my people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them." — Frederick Douglass
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Absurdity "If I do not return to the pulpit this weekend, millions of people will go to Hell." — Jimmy Swaggart, televangelist caught with prostitute and defrocked by the Assemblies of God Church
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: On Politics "You know, if I were a single man, I might ask that mummy out. That's a good looking mummy!" — Bill Clinton, referring to an excavated Inca mummy {Not helping to dispel his reputation of being willing to screw anything that will hold still.}
Thought for the day: "The bigger the bankroll, the tighter the band around it."
{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
Red, White, and Blue Sky
Credit & Copyright: Chris Schur
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EVENTS
● 836 - Pactum Sicardi, peace between the Principality of Benevento and the Duchy of Naples
● 993 - Saint Ulrich of Augsburg canonized.
● 1054 - A supernova is observed by the Chinese, the Arabs and possibly Amerindians near the star ζ Tauri. For several months it remains bright enough to be seen during the day. Its remnants form the Crab Nebula.
● 1120 - Jordan II of Capua anointed as prince after his infant nephew's death
● 1187 - The Crusades: Battle of Hattin - Saladin defeats Guy of Lusignan, King of Jerusalem.
● 1253 - Battle of West-Capelle: John I of Avesnes defeats Guy of Dampierre.
● 1359 - Francesco II Ordelaffi of Forlì surrenders to the Papal commander Gil de Albornoz.
● 1585 - English colonists land on Roanoke Island.
● 1627 - Virginia colony orders "scorched earth" policy against Tanx Phwhatan, Weanocs, Appomattocx, Chicahominies, Warrisquojacke, Nansemonds and Chesapeakes.
● 1636 - City of Providence, Rhode Island forms.
● 1653 - Barebones Parliment goes into session in England
● 1712 - Twelve slaves were executed for starting a slave uprising in New York that killed nine whites.
● 1765 - English poet and hymn writer William Cowper observed in a letter: 'How naturally does affliction make us Christians!'
● 1776 - Spurred by unfair taxation issues, the U.S. Declaration of Independence from England begins first successful anti-imperialist revolution in world history. Within 30 years, the U.S. would begin its 200-year legacy of opposing similar revolutions in other countries.
● 1776 - The amended Declaration of Independence, prepared by Thomas Jefferson, was approved and signed by John Hancock, the President of the Continental Congress in America.
● 1789 - 1st US tariff act
● 1802 - At West Point, New York the United States Military Academy opens.
● 1803 - The Louisiana Purchase was announced in newspapers. The property was purchased, by the U.S. from France, was for $15 million (or 3 cents an acre). The "Corps of Discovery," led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, began the exploration of the territory on May 14, 1804.
● 1804 - Author Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in Salem, Mass.
● 1807 - Birth of Guisseepe Garibaldi, fighter for Italian freedom.
● 1810 - The French occupy Amsterdam.
● 1817 - At Rome, New York, United States, construction on the Erie Canal begins, to connect Lake Erie and the Hudson River.
● 1819 - William Herschel makes last telescopic observation of 1819 comet
● 1826 - John Adams and political adversary Thomas Jefferson, second and third presidents, die--ironically on the only birthday either claimed to celebrate - the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. Adams was 90 years old; Jefferson was 83.
● 1826 - Songwriter Stephen Foster was born in present-day Pittsburgh.
● 1827 - Slavery is abolished in New York State.
● 1828 - Construction begins on Band O (Baltimore-Ohio) 1st US passenger RR
● 1829 - Cornerstone laid for 1st US mint (Chestnut & Juniper St, Philadelphia)
● 1831 - James Monroe, the fifth president of the United States, died at age 73.
● 1831 - Baptist clergyman Samuel Francis Smith penned the American patriotic hymn, 'America' ('My Country, 'tis of Thee'). Smith was unaware that the tune, ironically, was also that of England's national anthem: 'God Save the Queen'!
● 1836 - Wisconsin Territory formed
● 1837 - Grand Junction Railway, world's first long-distance railway, opens between Birmingham and Liverpool.
● 1838 - The Iowa Territory is organized.
● 1840 - Birth of American sacred composer James McGranahan. His most enduring melodies include CHRIST RETURNETH, MY REDEEMER, NEUMEISTER ('Christ Receiveth Sinful Men') and SHOWERS OF BLESSING.
● 1840 - The Cunard Line's 700 ton wooden paddle steamer RMS Britannia departs from Liverpool bound for Halifax, Nova Scotia on the first transatlantic crossing with a scheduled end.
● 1845 - American writer Henry David Thoreau began his two-year experiment in simple living at Walden Pond, near Concord, MA.
● 1845 - Texas Congress votes for annexation to US
● 1848 - In Washington, DC, the cornerstone for the Washington Monument was laid.
● 1859 - Austro-Sardinian War: The Battle of Magenta.
● 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Vicksburg - Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant after 47 days of siege. 150 miles up the Mississippi River, a Confederate Army is repulsed at the Battle of Helena, Arkansas.
● 1863 - Boise, Idaho founded (now capital of Idaho)
● 1865 - Confederate General Joseph O. Shelby led a force of 1,000 defeated Southerners, (including the governors of Texas, Kentucky, and Louisiana) into Mexico, to help Emperor Maximilian maintain his throne. Maximilian refused their aid, but gave the Americans land to start a colony, which fell when he was overthrown and executed in 1867.
● 1870 - Birth of James Moffatt, Scottish New Testament scholar. Moffatt translated the New (1913) and Old (1924) Testaments into the colloquial English of his day. They were first published together in 1935.
● 1872 - Calvin Coolidge, the 30th president of the United States, was born Plymouth, VT.
● 1874 - Social Democratic Workmen's Party of North America formed
● 1875 - White Democrats kill several blacks in terrorist attacks in Vicksburg
● 1876 - 1st public exhibition of electric light in San Francisco at Centennial celebration
● 1881 - Booker T. Washington founds The Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. Washington becomes a nationally recognized leader in African-American education.
● 1882 - Telegraph Hill Observatory opens in SF
● 1883 - Buffalo Bill Cody presents 1st wild west show, North Platte, NE
● 1884 - Statue of Liberty presented to US in Paris
● 1886 - First scheduled Canadian transcontinental train arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia.
● 1887 - Founder of Pakistan, Qauid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah joined Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam, Karachi.
● 1889 - Washington state constitutional convention holds 1st meeting
● 1892 - The first double-decked street car service was inaugurated in San Diego, CA.
● 1892 - Western Samoa changes the International Date Line, so that year there were 367 days in this country, with two occurrences of Monday, July 4.
● 1893 - A Borrelly discovers asteroid #369 Aeria
● 1894 - Elwood Haynes successfully tests one of 1st US autos at 6 MPH
● 1894 - The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole. {Dole was a white planter not one of the natives that ruled peacefully for centuries before the coming of the white man.}
● 1898 - "La Bourgogne" collides with "Cromartyshire", 560 drown
● 1898 - US flag hoisted over Wake Island (Spanish-American War)
● 1901 - William H. Taft became the American governor of the Philippines.
● 1903 - Pacific Cable (SF, Hawaii, Guam, Phil) opens, Pres Teddy Roosevelt sends message
● 1918 - Altar dedicated at full-scale replica of Stonehenge at Maryhill, Wa
● 1918 - Bolsheviks kill Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family (Julian calendar date).
● 1918 - Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI ascends to the throne.
● 1919 - M Wolf discovers asteroid #914 Palisana
● 1925 - 44 die when the Dreyfus Hotel in Boston collapses
● 1927 - First flight of the Lockheed Vega.
● 1933 - Work begins on Oakland Bay Bridge
● 1934 - At Mount Rushmore, George Washington's face was dedicated.
● 1934 - Leo Szilard patents the chain-reaction design for the atomic bomb.
● 1936 - League of Nations discontinues sanctions against Italy over its invasion and annexation of Abyssinia.
● 1939 - Lou Gehrig, recently diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, later commonly called Lou Gehrig's disease), tells a crowd at Yankee Stadium that he considered himself "The luckiest man on the face of the earth" as he announces his retirement from major league baseball.
● 1941 - Howard Florey & Norman Heatley meet for the 1st time, 11 days later they successfully recreate pencillin
● 1941 - Mass murder of Polish scientists and writers, committed by Nazi Germans in the captured Polish city of Lwów.
● 1942 - 1st American bombing mission over enemy-occupied Europe (WW II)
● 1946 - After 381 years of near-continuous colonial rule, the Philippines is granted full independence by the United States.
● 1947 - "Indian Independence Bill" is presented before British House of Commons, suggesting bifurcation of British India into two sovereign countries - India and Pakistan.
● 1950 - Truman signs public law 600 (Puerto Ricans write own constitution)
● 1954 - Housewives celebrate end of rationing; Fourteen years of food rationing in Britain is over as restrictions on the sale and purchase of meat, and bacon in particular, are lifted.
● 1954 - Dr. Sam Sheppard is a suspect in the murder of his wife Marilyn
● 1956 - US most intense rain fall (1.23" in 1 minute) at Unionville Maryland
● 1957 - The U.S. Postal Service issued the 4¢ Flag stamp.
● 1958 - Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, was appointed auxiliary bishop of Krakow, Poland, by Pope Pius XII.
● 1959 - Cayman Islands separated from Jamaica, made a crown colony
● 1959 - With the admission of Alaska as the 49th U.S. state earlier in the year, the 49-star flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
● 1960 - Due to the post-Independence Day admission of Hawai'i as the 50th U.S. state on August 21, 1959, the 50-star flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania almost ten and a half months later.
● 1962 - Crew of nuclear disarmament ship Everyman I arrested on second sailing attempt, San Francisco.
● 1963 - Baltimore police arrest 283 civil rights demonstrators.
● 1966 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act into United States law. The act goes into effect the next year.
● 1967 - British House of Lords votes to decriminalize homosexual acts between consulting adults. Such acts are, today, still illegal in a majority of U.S. states.
● 1967 - Freedom of Information Act goes into effect
● 1968 - Alec Rose sails home; Round-the-world yachtsman Alec Rose receives a hero's welcome as he sails into Portsmouth after his 354-day trip.
● 1969 - National antiwar conference in Cleveland, Ohio, mapping activities against the Vietnam War, results in the founding of New Mobe.
● 1969 - Thousands demonstrate against Vietnam War in five major Australian cities.
● 1970 - 100 injured in race rioting in Asbury Park NJ
● 1970 - American Presbyterian missionary Francis Schaeffer observed in a letter: 'If standards are raised which are not really scriptural,... it can only lead to sorrow. If we try to have a spirituality higher than the Bible sets forth, it will always turn out to be lower.'
● 1970 - Chartered Dan-Air Comet crashes into mountains north of Barcelona, Spain killing 112 vacationing Britons
● 1971 - American Indian Movement activists occupy and reclaim Mount Rushmore, South Dakota.
● 1973 - In audience with Italian cyclists, Pope Paul VI praises athletes who "offer the magnificent show of a healthy, strong, generous youth"
● 1975 - Bundy victim (?) Nancy Baird disappears from Layton, Utah
● 1976 - Coalition brings together 60,000 marchers to demand women's rights, jobs for all, independence for Puerto Rico, and gay right under the slogan "A Bicentennial Without Colonies." Philadelphia.
● 1976 - Israeli commandos raid Entebbe airport in Uganda, rescuing all of the passengers and crew of an Air France jetliner seized by Palestinian terrorists.
● 1976 - The U.S. celebrated its Bicentennial.
● 1978 - L Chernykh discovers asteroid #3332
● 1978 - Memphis firefighters halt 3-day strike under a court order
● 1981 - Unprecedented interracial rioting in Liverpool, which spreads to London and 10 other British cities. Three days of rioting began in the Toxteth section of Liverpool, with youths fighting off police, forcing them to retreat. Stores are looted and burned. Mostly West Indians are involved, but also some white kids joined in. Some, armed with axe handles, beset a BBC film crew and abscond with equipment valued at $23,000.
● 1982 - 4th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 4 lands at Edwards AFB
● 1982 - Iranian diplomats kidnapping (1982):Four Iranian diplomats kidnapped by Lebanese militia in Lebanon.
● 1982 - Two hundred Israeli army reservists march against Israeli invasion of Lebanon.
● 1983 - Women's Encampment For a Future of Peace and Justice begins in Romulus, New York, near Seneca Army Depot.
● 1985 - Teenage genius gets a first; Child prodigy Ruth Lawrence achieves a starred first in Mathematics at Oxford University.
● 1987 - Discovery moves to Launch Pad 39B for STS-26 mission
● 1987 - Klaus Barbie, the former Gestapo chief known as the "Butcher of Lyon," was convicted by a French court of crimes against humanity and sentenced to life in prison.
● 1992 - USS George Washington (CVN-73), a Nimitz Class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy is commissioned at Norfolk, Virginia.
● 1995 - Major wins Conservative leadership; The Prime Minister, John Major, wins his battle to remain leader of the Conservative party.
● 1997 - Ferry service between Manhattan and Staten Island was made free of charge. Previously, the charge had ranged from 5 cents to 50 cents.
● 1997 - The Mars Pathfinder, an unmanned spacecraft, landed on Mars. A rover named Sojourner was deployed to gather data about the surface of the planet.
● 2004 - A 20-ton slab of granite, inscribed to honor "the enduring spirit of freedom," was laid at the World Trade Center site as the cornerstone of the Freedom Tower in New York City. (This was largely a symbolic event; actual construction would not start for several weeks)
● 2005 - NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft took pictures as a space probe smashed into the Tempel 1 comet. The mission was aimed at learning more about comets that formed from the leftover buidling blocks of the solar system. The Deep Impact mission launched on January 12, 2005.
● 2006 - North Korea tests four short-range missiles, one medium-range missile, and a long-range Taepodong-2. The long-range Taepodong-2 reportedly fails in mid-air over the Sea of Japan.
● 2006 - Space Shuttle program: STS-121 Mission - Space Shuttle Discovery launches at 18:37:55 UTC.
● 2007 - Alan Johnston is released by the Army Of Islam from the Gaza Strip, where he was held captive for 114 days.
BIRTHS
● 1330 - Ashikaga Yoshiakira, Japanese shogun (d. 1367)
● 1546 - Murat III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1595)
● 1694 - Louis-Claude Daquin, French composer (d. 1772)
● 1715 - Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, German poet (d. 1769)
● 1719 - Michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (d. 1797)
● 1753 - Jean-Pierre Blanchard, French balloonist; made first English Channel aerial crossing (d. 1809)
● 1790 - George Everest, Welsh surveyor and namesake of Mt. Everest (d. 1866)
● 1799 - King Oscar I of Sweden, French general (d. 1859)
● 1804 - Nathaniel Hawthorne, American writer (d. 1864)
● 1807 - Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian patriot (d. 1882)
● 1816 - Hiram Walker, American grocer and distiller (d. 1899)
● 1819 - E. R. Squibb, American pharmaceutical manufacturer (d. 1900)
● 1826 - Stephen Foster, American songwriter (d. 1864)
● 1845 - Thomas Barnardo, Irish humanitarian (d. 1905)
● 1847 - James Anthony Bailey, American circus impresario (d. 1906)
● 1854 - Victor Babeş, Romanian bacteriologist (d. 1926)
● 1872 - Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States (d. 1933)
● 1881 - Ulysses S. Grant III, American soldier (d. 1968)
● 1882 - Louis B. Mayer, American film producer (d. 1957)
● 1883 - Rube Goldberg, American cartoonist (d. 1970)
● 1885 - Louis B. Mayer, Russian-born American movie executive (d. 1957)
● 1895 - Irving Caesar, American lyricist and composer (d. 1996)
● 1896 - Mao Dun, Chinese writer (d. 1981)
● 1898 - Dr. Pilar Barbosa, Puerto Rican historian (d. 1997)
● 1898 - Gertrude Lawrence, British-born actress (d. 1952)
● 1902 - Meyer Lansky, Russian-born gangster (d. 1983)
● 1902 - George Murphy, American entertainer (d. 1992)
● 1904 - Angela Baddeley, English actress (d. 1976)
● 1905 - Lionel Trilling, American literary critic and teacher
● 1905 - Irving Johnson, American adventurer (d. 1991)
● 1907 - Gordon Griffith, American director (d. 1958)
● 1910 - Gloria Stuart, American actress ("Titanic")
● 1911 - Mitch Miller, American entertainer ("Sing Along with Mitch")
● 1912 - Viviane Romance, French actress (d. 1991)
● 1916 - Iva Toguri D'Aquino, American thought to be Tokyo Rose in World War II (d. 2006)
● 1917 - Manolete, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1947)
● 1918 - Ann Landers, American advice columnist (d. 2002)
● 1918 - Pauline Phillips (a.k.a. Abigail Van Buren), American advice columnist ("Dear Abby") {She and Anne Landers were twin sisters.}
● 1918 - King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV of Tonga (d. 2006)
● 1920 - Norm Drucker, American basketball referee
● 1921 - Gerard Debreu, French economist, Nobel laureate (d. 2004)
● 1921 - Tibor Varga, Hungarian violinist (d. 2003)
● 1923 - Rudolf Friedrich, Swiss Federal Councilor
● 1924 - Eva Marie Saint, American actress
● 1926 - Alfredo Di Stéfano, Argentine footballer
● 1927 - Gina Lollobrigida, Italian actress
● 1927 - Neil Simon, American playwright
● 1929 - Bill Tuttle, American baseball player (d. 1998)
● 1929 - Al Davis, American football team owner (Oakland Raiders)
● 1929 - Chuck Tanner, baseball player
● 1930 - George Steinbrenner, American businessman & baseball team owner (New York Yankees)
● 1930 - Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Armenian actor
● 1930 - Yuri Tyukalov, Soviet Olympic rower
● 1931 - Stephen Boyd, Northern Irish actor (d. 1977)
● 1931 - Sébastien Japrisot, French author, film director and sreenwriter (d. 2003)
● 1934 - Colin Welland, British actor
● 1935 - Paul Scoon, Governor General of Grenada
● 1937 - Sonja Haraldsen, Queen of Norway (spouse of King Harald V of Norway)
● 1937 - Ray Pillow, Country singer
● 1938 - Bill Withers, American singer and songwriter
● 1939 - Ed Bernard, Actor
● 1940 - Karolyn Grimes, Actress ("It's a Wonderful Life")
● 1942 - Floyd Little, American football player
● 1942 - Stefan Meller, Polish foreign minister
● 1942 - Hal Lanier, baseball player
● 1943 - Konrad "Conny" Bauer, German musician
● 1943 - Geraldo Rivera, American reporter
● 1943 - Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson, American musician (Canned Heat) (d. 1970)
● 1943 - Emerson Boozer, American football player
● 1946 - Ron Kovic, American peace activist
● 1946 - Ed O'Ross, American actor
● 1946 - Michael Milken, American financier
● 1946 - Tish Howard, American model
● 1947 - Morganna Roberts, American personality (kissing bandit)
● 1948 - Tommy Körberg, Swedish singer and actor
● 1948 - Ed Armbrister, baseball player
● 1948 - Jeremy Spencer, British musician
● 1948 - René Arnoux, French race car driver
● 1950 - David Jensen, British radio DJ
● 1951 - Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, American politician
● 1951 - Ralph Johnson, Rock musician (Earth, Wind and Fire)
● 1952 - Domingo Ortiz, Rock musician (Widespread Panic)
● 1952 - Álvaro Uribe Vélez, Colombian politician
● 1954 - Jim Beattie, American baseball player
● 1955 - John Waite, British singer (The Babys)
● 1958 - Kirk Pengilly, Australian musician (INXS)
● 1959 - Victoria Abril, Spanish actress
● 1960 - Sid Eudy, American professional wrestler
● 1960 - Roland Ratzenberger, Austrian racing driver (d. 1994)
● 1960 - Teddy Carr, Country musician
● 1961 - Richard Garriott, English video game designer
● 1962 - Pam Shriver, American tennis player and Hall of Fame member
● 1962 - Zonka, Rock D.J. (Big Audio Dynamite)
● 1963 - José Oquendo, Puerto Rican baseball player
● 1963 - Matt Malley, American musician (Counting Crows)
● 1964 - Mark Slaughter, American singer (Slaughter)
● 1964 - Cle Kooiman, American Soccer Player
● 1965 - Horace Grant, Basketball player
● 1966 - Lee Reherman, American actor
● 1967 - Vinny Castilla, Mexican baseball player
● 1967 - Andy Walker, Canadian television personality
● 1967 - Rick Wilkins, American baseball player
● 1971 - Koko, signing gorilla
● 1971 - Andrew Murray, English entrepreneur
● 1971 - Andy Creeggan, Former Barenaked Lady
● 1971 - Brendan Donnelly, American baseball player
● 1971 - David Alexander Nytko, American actor
● 1973 - Michael Johnson, English-born Jamaican footballer
● 1973 - Jan Magnussen, Danish racing driver
● 1973 - Tony Popović, Australian soccer player
● 1974 - La'Roi Glover, American football player
● 1974 - Vince Spadea, American tennis player
● 1974 - Jenica Bergere, Actress
● 1975 - Tania Davis, Australian violist (bond)
● 1976 - Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer (d. 2003)
● 1977 - Katia Zygouli, Greek super model, winner of Elite Model Look contest 1996
● 1978 - Becki Newton, American actress
● 1978 - Emile Mpenza, Belgian footballer
● 1978 - Stephen "Ste" McNally, Singer (BBMak)
● 1979 - J. R. VanHoose, American basketball player
● 1983 - Isabeli Fontana, Brazilian model
● 1983 - Ben Jorgensen, American musician
● 1984 - Gina Glocksen, American Idol finalist
● 1984 - Akanishi Jin, Japanese Idol (member of KAT-TUN)
DEATHS
● 907 - Luitpold, Margrave of Bavaria
● 965 - Pope Benedict V
● 973 - Ulrich of Augsburg, German bishop (b. 890)
● 1187 - Raynald of Chatillon, Prince of Antioch
● 1541 - Pedro de Alvarado, Spanish explorer (b. 1495)
● 1546 - Hayreddin Barbarossa, Admiral of the Ottoman Navy (b. 1478)
● 1603 - Philippe de Monte, Flemish composer (b. 1521)
● 1623 - William Byrd, English composer
● 1648 - Antoine Daniel, French Jesuit missionary, one of the Canadian Martyrs (b. 1601)
● 1742 - Guido Grandi, Italian mathematician (b. 1671)
● 1754 - Philippe Néricault Destouches, French dramatist (b. 1680)
● 1761 - Samuel Richardson, English writer (b. 1689)
● 1780 - Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine, Austrian military leader (b. 1712)
● 1787 - Charles de Rohan, prince de Soubise, Marshal of France (b. 1715)
● 1821 - Richard Cosway, English artist (b. 1742)
● 1826 - John Adams, 2nd President of the United States (b. 1735)
● 1826 - Thomas Jefferson 3rd President of the United States (b. 1743)
● 1831 - James Monroe, 5th President of the United States (b. 1758)
● 1848 - François-René de Chateaubriand, French writer (b. 1768)
● 1850 - William Kirby, English entomologist (b. 1759)
● 1854 - Karl Friedrich Eichhorn, German jurist (b. 1781)
● 1857 - William L. Marcy, American statesman (b. 1786)
● 1881 - Johan Vilhelm Snellman, Finnish statesman (b. 1806)
● 1882 - Joseph Brackett, American composer (b. 1797)
● 1891 - Hannibal Hamlin, U.S. Vice President (b. 1809)
● 1898 - Youssuf Ishmaelo, Turkish professional wrestler (b. 1857)
● 1901 - Johannes Schmidt, German linguist (b. 1843)
● 1902 - Swami Vivekananda, Indian spiritual leader (b. 1863)
● 1905 - Élisée Reclus, French anarchist (b. 1830)
● 1910 - Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (b. 1835)
● 1916 - Alan Seeger, American war poet (b. 1888)
● 1922 - Lothar von Richthofen, German pilot (b. 1894)
● 1926 - Pier Giorgio Frassati, Italian mountaineer (b. 1901)
● 1931 - Buddie Petit, American jazz musician (b. 1895)
● 1931 - Emanuele Filiberto, 2nd Duke of Aosta, Italian aristocrat (b. 1869)
● 1934 - Maria Sklodowska-Curie, Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Physics (b. 1867)
● 1938 - Otto Bauer, Austrian Social Democratic politician (b. 1881)
● 1938 - Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player (b. 1899)
● 1941 - Antoni Łomnicki, Polish mathematician (b. 1881)
● 1946 - Gerda Steinhoff, Nazi concentration camp overseer (b. 1922)
● 1948 - Monteiro Lobato, Brazilian writer (b. 1882)
● 1963 - Bernard Freyberg, Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1889)
● 1970 - Barnett Newman, American artist (b. 1905)
● 1970 - Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, member of the Vanderbilt family (b. 1884)
● 1971 - August Derleth, American writer and editor (b. 1909)
● 1975 - Georgette Heyer, English author (b. 1902)
● 1976 - Antoni Slonimski, Polish poet (b. 1895)
● 1977 - Gersh Budker, Russian physicist (b. 1918)
● 1980 - Maurice Grevisse, Belgian grammarian (b. 1895)
● 1982 - Terry Higgins, early British AIDS death (b. 1945)
● 1984 - Jimmie Spheeris, American singer-songwriter (b. 1949)
● 1986 - Oscar Zariski, Russian mathematician (b. 1899)
● 1988 - Adrian Adonis, American artist (b. 1954)
● 1991 - Victor Chang, Australian physician (b. 1936)
● 1992 - Ástor Piazzolla, Argentinian composer (b. 1921)
● 1993 - Bona Arsenault, French Canadian politician and historian (b. 1903)
● 1994 - Joey Marella, American professional wrestling referee (b. 1964)
● 1995 - Eva Gabor, Hungarian actress (b. 1919)
● 1995 - Bob Ross, American artist and television host (b. 1942)
● 1997 - Charles Kuralt, American television presenter (b. 1934)
● 1997 - John Zachary Young, English zoologist (b. 1907)
● 1999 - Leo Garel, American artist and cartoonist (b.1917)
● 2000 - Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski, Polish writer (b. 1919)
● 2002 - Benjamin O. Davis Jr., American general (b. 1912)
● 2002 - Mansoor Hekmat, Iranian politician (b. 1951)
● 2003 - Barry White, American singer (b. 1944)
● 2003 - André Claveau, French singer (b. 1915)
● 2004 - Jean-Marie Auberson, Swiss conductor (b. 1920)
● 2004 - Frank Robinson (Xylophone Man), an eccentric street entertainer in Nottingham, England (b. 1932)
● 2005 - Hank Stram, American football coach (b. 1923)
● 2007 - Barış Akarsu, Turkish rock musician (b. 1979)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Aurelian
● St. Bertha, widow, abbess of Blangy in Artois
● St. Bolcan
● St. Elizabeth Lusitania, Queen of Portugal
● St. Finbar, abbot
● St. Flavian
● St. Florent
● St. Henry Abbot, Blessed
● St. Jucundian
● St. Laurianus, bishop, martyr
● St. Martin, bishop of Tours, confessor
● St. Namphanion
● St. Odo the Good, bishop of Canterbury
● St. Othelric, bishop, confessor
● St. Peter of Luxembourg
● St. Procopius, abbot (at Prague), confessor
● St. Sisoes, anchorite
● St. Theodore of Cyrene
● St. Ulric, bishop of Augsburg, confessor (died 973)
● Bl. Anthony Fantosat
● Bl. Edward Fulthrop
● Bl. John Carey
● Bl. John Cornelius
● Bl. Patrick Salmon
● Bl. Thomas Bosgrave
● Bl. Thomas Warcop
● Bl. William Andleby
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for June 22 (Civil Date: July 4)
● Hieromartyr Eusebius, Bishop of Samosota.
● Martyrs Galacteon, Juliana, and Satruninus of Constantinople.
● Martyrs Zeno and his servant Zenas of Philadelphia.
● St. Alban, Protomartyr of Britain.
● St. Anastasius the Serbian.
● Greek Calendar:
● Martyr Pompian.
● Repose of Righteous Mary the Cave-digger of White Mountain Monastery near Voronezh (1822) and of Schemamonk Theoktist of Valaam (1863).
● Muslim-Libya : Mohammed's Ascension
● In astronomy, the approximate date of Earth's aphelion.
● Bahamas : Queen's Birthday
● Cayman Islands : Constitution Day
● Hannibal Missouri : Tom Sawyer Fence painting Day
● Italy : Garibaldi Day (1807)
● Philippines : Philippine-American Friendship Day (1946)
● Rhode Island : Providence Day (1636)
● Tonga : King's Birthday
● US & Possessions : Independence Day (1776)
● Yugoslavia : Fighter's Day
● 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 )
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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