Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Parenting "There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots; the other, wings." — Hodding Carter
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Christians Against Pluralism "We are approaching a time when Christians, especially, may have to declare the social contract between Enlightenment rationalists and Biblical believers—which formed the basis of the constitution written at our nation's founding—null and void." — Cal Thomas, conservative columnist
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: On Politics "It's not true the Congressman was sleeping during the debate. He was taking a few moments for deep reflection." — aide to Representative Martin Hoke, who was spotted on the House of Representatives' floor with eyes closed during a debate
Thought for the day: "Blessed are the peacemakers, they will never want for work."
{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
Bright Galaxy NGC 2903
Credit & Copyright: R. Jay GaBany (Cosmotography.com)
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 1253 - Mindaugas is crowned king of Lithuania.
● 1348 - Papal bull of Pope Clement VI protecting Jews during the Black Death.
● 1415 - Martyrdom of Jan Hus, Czech reformer, who was condemned for heresy and burned at the stake because of his outspoken appeals for church reform and for political and religious rights for the common people.
● 1483 - Richard III is crowned king of England.
● 1484 - Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of Congo River.
● 1495 - First Italian War: Battle of Fornovo Charles VIII defeats the Holy League, but ultimately ends his attempted conquest of Italy.
● 1535 - Sir Thomas More{"A Man for All Seasons"}, author of Utopia and one time Lord Chancellor of England, is executed for treason by King Henry VIII after refusing to agree to Henry's decision to separate the English church from the Roman Catholic church. {The reason for this move was to allow Henry to divorce so he could remarry in the search of a male heir, also he was one horny SOB.}
● 1560 - The Treaty of Edinburgh is signed by Scotland and England.
● 1573 - Córdoba, Argentina is founded by Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera.
● 1609 - Bohemia is granted freedom of religion.
● 1630 - Thirty-Years War: 4,000 Swedish troops under Gustavus Adolphus land in Pomerania, Germany.
● 1699 - Besieged for three years, Acoma Pueblo (New Mexico) finally submits to the Spanish, who attempt to change its name to something more Christian and tasteful.
● 1699 - Captain William Kidd, the pirate, was captured in Boston, MA, and deported back to England.
● 1757 - Birth of William McKendree, colonial American church leader. In 1808 he was ordained the first American-born bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
● 1776 - Declaration of Independence announced on front page of the "PA Evening Gazette"
● 1777 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Ticonderoga: Due to a bombardment by British artillery under General John Burgoyne, American forces retreat from Fort Ticonderoga, New York.
● 1785 - Congress resolves US currency named "dollar" & adopts decimal coinage
● 1798 - US law makes aliens "liable to be apprehended, restrained, & removed as alien enemies"
● 1799 - Ranjit Singh's 25,000 men start their march towards Lahore.
● 1801 - Battle of Algeciras: The French navy are defeated by the British Royal Navy.
● 1835 - John Marshall, the fourth chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, died at age 79.
● 1846 - Birth of John H. Sammis, American Presbyterian clergyman and author of the hymn, 'Trust and Obey.'
● 1849 - Battle of Fredericia, Denmark, Danish Army under Generals Bülow and Rye beat the Army of Schleswig-Holstein, thereby keeping the Prussians from any victory over Denmark until 1864.
● 1853 - National Black convention meets (Rochester NY)
● 1853 - William Wells Brown publishes "Clotel," 1st novel by black American
● 1854 - 1st Republican state convention, Ripon, Wisconsin
● 1854 - In Jackson, Michigan, the first convention of the U.S. Republican Party is held.
● 1858 - Lyman Blake patented the shoe manufacturing machine.
● 1863 - Northern Territory passes from New South Wales to South Australia
● 1869 - Black candidate for lieutenant governor of VA, Dr J H Harris, defeated
● 1885 - Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies. The patient is Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog later became the director of the Pasteur Institute.
● 1886 - Horlick's of Wisconsin offers 1st malted milk to public
● 1887 - David Kalakaua, monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, is forced at gunpoint, at the hands of Americans, to sign the Bayonet Constitution giving Americans more power in Hawaii while stripping Hawaiian citizens of their rights.
● 1892 - 3,800 striking steelworkers engage in a day-long battle with Pinkerton agents during the Homestead Strike, leaving 10 dead and dozens wounded.
● 1892 - Dadabhai Naoroji elected as first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain.
● 1893 - The small town of Pomeroy, Iowa is nearly destroyed by a tornado that kills 71 people and injures 200.
● 1894 - Cleveland sends 2,000 troops to Chicago to suppress Pullman strike
● 1894 - U.S. troops intervene in Nicaragua.
● 1903 - George Wyman arrives in NYC by motorcycle 51 days out of SF
● 1905 - Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the second time.
● 1905 - Fingerprints were exchanged for the first time between officials in Europe and the U.S. The person in question was John Walker.
● 1907 - Frida Kahlo, the Mexican painter and communist famous for her surrealist and expressionist work, was born.
● 1908 - Robert Peary sets sail for the Arctic on the expedition on which he later reaches the North Pole.
● 1917 - World War I: Arabian troops led by (T. E.) Lawrence of Arabia and Auda ibu Tayi capture Aqaba from the Turks during the Arab Revolt.
● 1919 - A British dirigible landed in New York at Roosevelt Field. It completed the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by an airship.
● 1923 - The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was established.
● 1924 - 1st photo sent experimentally across Atlantic by radio, US-England
● 1928 - The world's ten largest hailstones fall in Potter, Nebraska.
● 1932 - The postage rate for first class mail in the U.S. went from 2-cents to 3-cents.
● 1936 - 114° F (46° C), Moorhead, Minnesota (state record)
● 1936 - 121° F (49° C), Steele, North Dakota (state record)
● 1939 - Holocaust: The last remaining Jewish enterprises in Germany are closed.
● 1941 - English Bible expositor Arthur W. Pink observed in a letter: 'It is those who walk the closest with God who are most conscious of their sins.'
● 1942 - Anne Frank and her family went into hiding in the "Secret Annexe" above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse.
● 1944 - The Hartford Circus Fire, one of America's worst fire disasters, kills approximately 168 people and injures over 700 in Hartford, Connecticut.
● 1945 - Nicaragua became the first nation to formally accept the United Nations Charter.
● 1945 - U.S. President Truman signed an order creating the Medal of Freedom.
● 1948 - Frieda Hennok became the first woman to serve as the commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission.
● 1952 - Death of Marian Parmour, pacifist activist, Britain.
● 1952 - London's trams trundle into history; After nearly a century of service the tram has made its final appearance in London.
● 1953 - J Churms discovers asteroid #1701 Okavango
● 1957 - Althea Gibson became the first black tennis player to win a Wimbledon singles title, defeating fellow American Darlene Hard 6-3, 6-2.
● 1957 - Harry S Truman Library established in Independence, Missouri
● 1958 - Alaska becomes the 49th state
● 1959 - Saar becomes part of German Federal Republic
● 1960 - Dr Barbara Moore completes a 3,207 mile walk from LA to NYC
● 1964 - Malawi (then Nyasaland) gains independence from Britain (National Day)
● 1966 - Malawi became a republic within the Commonwealth with Dr. Hastings Banda as its first president.
● 1967 - Biafran War: Nigerian forces invade Biafra, beginning the war. The war lasted two-and-a-half years. About 600,000 people died.
● 1968 - Mohammad Ali (formerly known as Cassius Clay, boxer) asks U.S. Supreme Court to void conviction for draft evasion.
● 1971 - White House Plumbers unit formed to plug news leaks
● 1973 - Cherry Venture beached in Queensland due to bad weather.
● 1975 - Comoros declare independence from France (most of them)
● 1976 - Ninety-six arrested for trespassing at Trojan Nuclear Power Plant near Rainier, Oregon.
● 1976 - Soyuz 21 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 5 space station
● 1975 - Eleven die in sleeper train inferno; A blaze on the Penzance to Paddington sleeper train leaves 11 dead and 17 injured.
● 1978 - Israeli jet fighters swooped over mostly Moslem West Beirut
● 1978 - Yana Mintoff hurled horse manure onto the floor of the British House of Commons.
● 1980 - Pope John Paul II prays in Salvador, Brazil
● 1983 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that retirement plans could not pay women smaller monthly payments solely because of their gender.
● 1985 - The submarine Nautilus arrived in Groton, Connecticut. The vessel had been towed from Mare Island Naval Shipyard.
● 1987 - Sikh extremists made their first of three attacks over a two day period. The gunmen attacked a bus loaded with Hindu passengers. Over the two day period a total of 72 people were killed by the extremists.
● 1988 - 167 North Sea oil workers were killed by explosions and fires that destroyed the Piper Alpha drilling platform.
● 1988 - Carlos Salinas de Gortari elected president of Mexico
● 1988 - Several popular beaches were closed in New York City due to medical waste and other debris began washing up on the seashores.
● 1989 - The Israeli 405 Bus slaughter in which 14 bus passengers were killed as an Arab assaulted the bus driver as the bus was driving by the edge of a cliff.
● 1989 - The U.S. Army destroyed its last Pershing 1-A missiles at an ammunition plant in Karnack, TX. The dismantling was under the terms of the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty.
● 1992 - Riot police confront French truckers; The French Government mobilises the army and police to remove the lorries blocking the nation's major roads.
● 1993 - Women For A Nuclear Test Ban climb over wall, Buckingham Palace, London.
● 1994 - On Storm King Mountain, in Colorado, 14 firefighters were killed while fighting a several-day-old fire.
● 1995 - In Los Angeles, the prosecution rested at the O.J. Simpson murder trial.
● 1997 - Huge international blockade at Temelin nuclear plant in Czech Republic.
● 1997 - In Cambodia, Second Prime Minister Hun Sen ousted First Prime Minister Norodom Ranariddh and claimed to have the capital under his control.
● 1997 - The Mars Pathfinder released Sojourner, a robot rover on the surface of Mars. The spacecraft landed on the red planet on July 4th.
● 1998 - International blockade at Temelin, an unfinished nuclear power plant under construction in southern Czech Republic. Using barrels, concrete tubes, their bodies.
● 1998 - Protestants rioted in many parts of Northern Ireland after British authorities blocked an Orange Order march in Portadown.
● 1998 - Singing cowboy star Roy Rogers died at age 86. {No, they didn't stuff him and put him the stuffed body of Trigger.}
● 1999 - US Army private Barry Winchell dies from baseball-bat injuries inflicted in his sleep the previous day by fellow soldiers for his relationship with transgendered showgirl and former Navy combat medic, Calpernia Addams.
● 2000 - A jury awarded former NHL player Tony Twist $24 million for the unauthorized use of his name in the comic book Spawn and the HBO cartoon series. Co-defendant HBO settled with Twist out of court for an undisclosed amount.
● 2000 - In Orlando, FL, the body of Cory Erving was found in his vehicle in a pond near his family's home. Julius "Dr. J" Erving had reported his son missing on June 4, 2000.
● 2000 - Prime Minister's son arrested for drunkenness; The Prime Minister Tony Blair's eldest son, Euan, is arrested for being drunk and incapable.
● 2001 - Former FBI agent Robert Hanssen pleaded guilty to 15 criminal counts.
● 2003 - Liberian leader Charles Taylor accepted an offer of asylum in Nigeria.
● 2003 - The Corsicans rejected a referendum for increased autonomy from France by a very thin majority: 50.98 percent against, and 49.02 percent for.
● 2004 - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry chose former rival John Edwards, a North Carolina senator, to be his running mate.
● 2005 - Bob Geldof and Bono meet with the G8 in Gleneagles to discuss increasing aid to Africa. Afterwards, both make appearances at the Edinburgh 50,000 concert, a last concert in the Live 8 series.
● 2005 - New York Times reporter Judith Miller was jailed after refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating the leak of an undercover CIA operative's name. (Miller was jailed for 85 days before agreeing to testify.)
● 2006 - Felipe Calderon is confirmed as President of Mexico after a very close election.
● 2006 - The Nathula Pass between India and China, sealed during the Sino-Indian War, re-opens for trade after 44 years.
BIRTHS
● 1686 - Antoine de Jussieu, French naturalist (d. 1758)
● 1747 - John Paul Jones, American naval commander (d. 1792)
● 1766 - Alexander Wilson, Scottish-born naturalist (d. 1813)
● 1785 - Sir William Jackson Hooker, English botanist (d. 1865)
● 1796 - Tsar Nicholas I of Russia (d. 1855)
● 1817 - Albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist (d. 1905)
● 1818 - Adolf Anderssen, German chess player (d. 1879)
● 1832 - Maximilian, Austrian archduke and emperor of Mexico (1864-67) (d. 1867)
● 1837 - Ramakrishna Gopal Bhandarkar, Indian scholar (d. 1925)
● 1838 - Vatroslav Jagic, Croatian scholar (d. 1923)
● 1859 - Verner von Heidenstam, Nobel laureate (d. 1940)
● 1878 - Eino Leino, Finnish poet (d. 1926)
● 1883 - Godfrey Malvern, English-born prime minister of Southern Rhodesia (1933-53) (d. 1971)
● 1884 - Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, member of the Vanderbilt family (d. 1970)
● 1885 - Ernst Busch, German field marshal (d. 1945)
● 1886 - Marc Bloch, French historian and educator; leader in Resistance (d. 1944)
● 1887 - Annette Kellerman, Australian swimmer (d. 1975)
● 1898 - Hanns Eisler, German composer (d. 1962)
● 1903 - Hugo Axel Theorell, Swedish biochemist; awarded Nobel Prize (1955) (d. 1982)
● 1904 - Erik Wickberg, Salvation Army general (d. 1996)
● 1907 - Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (d. 1954)
● 1907 - George Stanley, Canadian politician and designer of Canada's Flag (d. 2002)
● 1910 - Dorothy Kirsten, American opera singer (d. 1992)
● 1912 - Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer (d. 2006)
● 1917 - Arthur Lydiard, New Zealand running coach (d. 2004)
● 1918 - Sebastian Cabot, English actor (d. 1977)
● 1919 - Ernst Haefliger, Swiss singer (d. 2007)
● 1921 - Nancy Reagan, former First Lady of the United States and B-movie actress
● 1922 - William Schallert, Actor ("The Patty Duke Show")
● 1923 - Wojciech Jaruzelski, President of Poland
● 1925 - Merv Griffin, American television show host
● 1925 - Bill Haley, American singer (d. 1981)
● 1927 - Alan Freeman, British DJ known by his nickname 'Fluff' (d. 2006)
● 1927 - Jan Hein Donner, Dutch chess player
● 1927 - Janet Leigh, American actress (d. 2004)
● 1927 - Pat Paulsen, American comedian (d. 1997)
● 1931 - Donal Donnelly, Actor
● 1931 - Della Reese, Singer, actress ("Touched by an Angel")
● 1931 - Jean Campeau, French Canadian businessman and politician
● 1933 - Frank Austin, English footballer
● 1935 - Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
● 1936 - Dave Allen, Irish comedian (d. 2005)
● 1937 - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Russian-born pianist and conductor
● 1937 - Ned Beatty, American actor
● 1937 - Gene Chandler, American singer
● 1940 - Jeannie Seely, American singer
● 1940 - Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Kazakhstan
● 1945 - Burt Ward, American actor ("Batman")
● 1946 - George W. "War Criminal" Bush, 43rd President of the United States
● 1946 - Fred Dryer, Actor
● 1946 - Sylvester Stallone, American actor
● 1946 - Peter Singer, Australian philosopher
● 1947 - Lance Clemons, baseball player
● 1948 - Brad Park, Canadian hockey player
● 1948 - Jean-Pierre Blackburn, French Canadian politician
● 1948 - Nathalie Baye, French actress
● 1949 - Phyllis Hyman, American singer (d. 1995)
● 1950 - John Byrne, American comic book author & artist
● 1950 - Hélène Scherrer, Canadian politician
● 1951 - Geoffrey Rush, Australian actor
● 1952 - John Bazz, Rock musician (The Blasters)
● 1952 - Grant Goodeve, Actor ("Eight is Enough")
● 1952 - Shelley Hack, Actress
● 1953 - Nanci Griffith, American singer
● 1954 - Allyce Beasley, Actress
● 1954 - Willie Randolph, New York Mets manager
● 1955 - Rick Braun, Jazz trumpeter
● 1955 - Frank Sontag, Jr., American radio personality, spiritual teacher
● 1955 - William Wall, Irish writer
● 1956 - John Jorgenson, Country musician
● 1956 - Casey Sander, American actor
● 1957 - Ron Duguay, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1959 - Richard Dacoury, French basketball player
● 1963 - Todd Burns, baseball player
● 1963 - Lance Johnson, baseball player
● 1966 - Brian Posehn, American actor
● 1967 - Heather Nova, Bermudian singer
● 1967 - Omar Olivares, baseball player
● 1969 - Fernando Redondo, Argentine footballer
● 1970 - Inspectah Deck, American rapper (Wu-Tang Clan)
● 1970 - Martin Smith, English singer (Delirious?)
● 1972 - D-Styles, American scratch DJ
● 1972 - Greg Norton, American baseball player
● 1972 - Isabelle Boulay, French Canadian singer
● 1974 - Ze Roberto, Brazilian footballer
● 1975 - Amir-Abbas Fakhravar, Iranian writer, journalist and student leader
● 1975 - Sebastián Rulli, Argentine actor
● 1975(76? NYT) - 50 Cent, American rapper
● 1977 - Craig Handley, British film director
● 1978 - Tia Mowry and Tamera Mowry, American actresses
● 1978 - Kevin Senio, New Zealand rugby player
● 1978 - Tia Mowry, Actress
● 1978 - Tamera Mowry, Actress
● 1979 - Nic Cester, Australian musician (Jet)
● 1981 - Nnamdi Asomugha, American football player
● 1983 - Gregory Smith, Canadian actor ("Everwood")
● 1984 - Lauren Harris, British rock singer
● 1986 - Derrick Williams, American football player
● 1987 - Caroline Trentini, Brazilian model
● 1987 - Matt O'Leary, American actor
● 1990 - Jeremy Suarez, Actor ("The Bernie Mac Show")
● 1994 - Rebecca Rosso and Camilla Rosso, twin British-born actresses
DEATHS
● 1189 - King Henry II of England (b. 1133)
● 1218 - Eudes III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1166)
● 1249 - King Alexander II of Scotland (b. 1198)
● 1415 - Jan Hus, Bohemian reformer (b. 1369)
● 1476 - Regiomantus, German astronomer (b. 1436)
● 1480 - Antonio Squarcialupi, Italian composer (b. 1416)
● 1533 - Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet (b. 1474)
● 1535 - Sir Thomas More, English philosopher (b. 1478)
● 1553 - King Edward VI of England (b. 1537)
● 1583 - Edmund Grindal, Archbishop of Canterbury
● 1585 - Thomas Aufield, English Catholic martyr (b. 1552)
● 1684 - Peter Gunning, English royalist churchman (b. 1614)
● 1758 - George Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe, British general
● 1762 - Tsar Peter III of Russia (b. 1728)
● 1768 - Conrad Beissel, German-born religious leader (b. 1690)
● 1809 - Antoine Charles Louis Lasalle, French cavalry general (b. 1775)
● 1813 - Granville Sharp, British abolitionist (b. 1735)
● 1835 - John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1755)
● 1854 - Georg Ohm, German physicist (b. 1789)
● 1868 - Sanosuke Harada, Shinsengumi Captain (b. 1840)
● 1893 - Guy de Maupassant, French author (b. 1850)
● 1901 - Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1819)
● 1902 - St. Maria Goretti, Italian saint (b. 1890)
● 1907 - August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein, German Linguist, Theologian (b. 1826)
● 1916 - Odilon Redon, French painter (b. 1840)
● 1922 - Maria Theresa Ledochowska, Polish-Austrian Catholic nun (b. 1863)
● 1932 - Kenneth Grahame, English author (b. 1859)
● 1952 - Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, French Canadian politician (b. 1867)
● 1960 - Aneurin Bevan, British politician (b. 1897)
● 1961 - Scott LaFaro, American musician (b. 1936)
● 1961 - Woodall Rodgers, American politician (b. 1890)
● 1962 - William Faulkner, American writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1897)
● 1962 - Archduke Joseph August of Austria, Austrian field marshal (b. 1872)
● 1966 - Sad Sam Jones, American baseball player (b. 1892)
● 1971 - Louis Armstrong, American musician (b. 1901)
● 1972 - Brandon De Wilde, American actor (b. 1942)
● 1973 - Otto Klemperer, German conductor (b. 1885)
● 1975 - Otto Skorzeny, Famous WWII German Operative (b. 1908)
● 1976 - Fritz Lenz, German geneticist (b. 1887)
● 1979 - Van McCoy, American music producer, musician, songwriter and orchestra leader (b. 1940)
● 1982 - Bob Johnson, American baseball player (b. 1905)
● 1986 - Jagjivan Ram, Indian politician (b. 1908)
● 1989 - János Kádár, Hungarian politician (b. 1912)
● 1992 - Buddy Rogers, professional wrestler (b. 1921)
● 1994 - Cameron Mitchell, American actor (b. 1918)
● 1995 - Aziz Nesin, Turkish humorist and author (b. 1915)
● 1996 - Kathy Ahern, American golfer (b. 1949)
● 1998 - Roy Rogers, American actor (b. 1911)
● 1999 - Carl Gunter Jr, American politician (b. 1938)
● 1999 - Joaquin Rodrigo, Spanish composer (b. 1901)
● 1999 - Barry Winchell, American soldier (b. 1977)
● 2002 - Dhirubhai Ambani, Indian businessman (b. 1932)
● 2002 - John Frankenheimer, American film director (b. 1930)
● 2003 - Buddy Ebsen, American actor (b. 1908)
● 2004 - Thomas Klestil, President of Austria (b. 1932)
● 2004 - Syreeta Wright, American singer (b. 1946)
● 2005 - Bruno Augenstein, German-born mathematician (b. 1923)
● 2005 - L. Patrick Gray III, American FBI director (b. 1916)
● 2005 - Evan Hunter, American novelist (b. 1926)
● 2005 - Claude Simon, French writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1913)
● 2005 - Richard Verreau, Canadian tenor (b. 1926)
● 2006 - Kasey Rogers, American actress (b. 1926)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● San Fermín, a Spanish Roman Catholic festival centered in Pamplona, begins today.
● St. Dominica
● St. Goar
● St. Maria Goretti.
● St. Merryn
● St. Modwenna
● St. Monennaa
● St. Noyala
● St. Rixius Varus
● St. Romulus and Companions
● St. Tranquillinus
● Bl. Thomas Alfield
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for June 24 (Civil Date: July 6)
● Nativity of St. John the Baptist Martyrs Orentius, Pharnacius, Eros, Firmus, Firminus, Cyriacus, and Longinus, in Georgia.
● St. Anthony, abbot of Dymsk (Novgorod).
● St. Michael, Great Prince of Tver.
● New-Martyr Panagiotes of Caesaria in Cappadocia.
● Greek Calendar:
● Synaxis of Righteous Zachariah and Elizabeth.
● Old Catholic: Commemoration of St. Thomas More, humanist/martyr
● Lutheran: Commemoration of Jan Hus, martyr
● Roman festivals: Ludi Apollinares, games in honour of Apollo (since 208 BCE) began today.
● Comoros - Independence Day (1975).
● Czech Republic - Jan Hus Day (1415).
● Lithuania - Statehood Day.
● Malawi : Independence Day (1964)/Republic Day (1966)
● Music festival EXIT begins today in the Serbian town of Novi Sad.
● 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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