The terms 7th July, July 7th, and 7/7 (pronounced "Seven-seven") have been widely used in the Western media as a shorthand for the 7 July 2005 bombings on London's transport system.
Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Patriot Act "For the first time in our history, American citizens have been seized by the executive branch of government and put in prison without being charged with a crime, without having the right to a trial, without being able to see a lawyer, and without even being able to contact their families." — Al Gore
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Gynephobia "I prefer to call the most obnoxious feminists what they really are: feminazis . . . . I often use it to describe women who are obsessed with perpetuating a modern-day holocaust: abortion." — Rush "I must be sedated" Limbaugh
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: On Politics "I think we're on the road to coming to answers that I don't think any of us in total feel we have the answers to." — Kim Anderson, mayor of Naples, Florida
Thought for the day: "Bachelor's wives and spinster's children are always perfect."
{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
Infrared Trifid
Credit: J. Rho (SSC/Caltech), JPL-Caltech, NASA
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 175 - Commodus is proclaimed emperor in Rome.
● 1456 - A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death. {Thus showing the most obvious flaw in the death penalty, there is NO hope for the wrongfully executed.}
● 1534 - European colonization of the Americas: First known exchange between Europeans and natives of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in New Brunswick.
● 1540 - Spanish storm Hawikuh (Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico). Francisco Vasquez de Coronado believes it one of the Seven Cities of Gold; first skirmish between Indians and Europeans in what is now western U.S.
● 1543 - French troops invade Luxembourg.
● 1585 - Peace of Nemours abolishes tolerance to Protestants in France.
● 1586 - Birth of Thomas Hooker, colonial American pastor and an originator of the earliest system of federal government in America.
● 1668 - Isaac Newton receives MA from Trinity College, Cambridge
● 1754 - Kings College in NYC opens (renamed Columbia College)
● 1754 - Kings College opened in New York City. It was renamed Columbia College 30 years later.
● 1768 - Firm of Johann Buddenbrook founded, in Thomas Mann's novel
● 1777 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Hubbardton
● 1798 - Quasi-War: The U.S. Congress rescinds treaties with France sparking the 'war.'
● 1799 - Ranjit Singh's men take up their positions outside Lahore.
● 1807 - Napoleonic Wars: Peace of Tilsit between France, Prussia and Russia ends the Fourth Coalition.
● 1838 - Central American federation is dissolved
● 1844 - Irish Catholics and Philadelphia Nativist Protestants stage a cannon battle at the Church of St. Philip de Neri. Thirteen killed.
● 1846 - Mexican-American War: American troops occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena, thus beginning the United States annexation of California.
● 1851 - Birth of Charles A. Tindley, African-American Methodist preacher and song writer. His most enduring gospel hymns include 'Stand By Me,' 'Nothing Between,' 'Leave It There' and 'By and By.'
● 1862 - Land Grant Act endows state colleges with federal land
● 1862 - The first railroad post office was tested on the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad in Missouri.
● 1863 - United States begins first military draft; exemptions cost $100 {This was the true cause of the riots depicted in the movie, "The Gangs of New York."}
● 1865 - Four Lincoln assassination conspirators, including Mary Surratt, hanged. Surratt is the first woman hanged in the U.S. Women hung previously were in the colonies before the creation of the country.
● 1867 - C H F Peters discovers asteroid #92 Undina
● 1883 - Chief Moses of the Sinkiuses (Chelan tribe) forced to move from their Columbia River reservation to the Colville reservation; the former is "restored to public domain."
● 1885 - G. Moore Peters patented the cartridge-loading machine.
● 1890 - Birth of Marius Paul Metge, French anarchist, individualist, and illegaliste, a member of the Bonnot Gang.
● 1891 - Travelers cheque patented
● 1898 - History of United States overseas expansion: President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.
● 1903 - "March of the Mill Children" begins. Labor organizer Mary Harris ("Mother") Jones leads the "March of the Mill Children" from Philadelphia to Pres. Theodore Roosevelt's summer home in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York (over 100 miles) to publicize the harsh conditions of child labor and to demand a 55 hour work week. It is during this march, on about the 24th, she delivers her famed "The Wail of the Children" speech. Roosevelt refuses to see them.
● 1904 - A Charlois discovers asteroid #537 Pauly
● 1905 - 127° F (53° C), Parker, Arizona (state record)
● 1906 - Satchel Paige, the pitching star of Negro League and major-league baseball, was born.
● 1908 - Great White Fleet leaves SF Bay
● 1913 - English Suffragette Edith Rigby firebombs Lord Leverhulme's bungalow in Rivington, Lancashire; it burns to the ground.
● 1915 - A Great Gorge and International Railway trolley with an extreme overload of 157 passengers crashed near Queenston, Ontario, killing 15.
● 1915 - World War I: End of First Battle of the Isonzo.
● 1916 - Steel mill workers in East Youngstown, Ohio, strike and burn business section of town.
● 1917 - Russian Revolution: Prince Georgy Yevgenyevich Lvov forms Provisional Government in Russia after the deposing of the Tsar Nicholas II.
● 1919 - Birth of radical lawyer William Kuntsler, New York City.
● 1920 - A device known as the radio compass was used for the first time on a U.S. Navy airplane near Norfolk, VA.
● 1921 - Thirteen thousand dock yard workers in Kobe, Japan, strike for higher wages.
● 1923 - University of Delaware invents the "junior year abroad" (at Sorbonne)
● 1924 - E Hertzsprung discovers asteroid #1702 Kalahari
● 1930 - Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of the Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam).
● 1937 - Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Lugou Bridge - Japanese forces invade Beijing, China.
● 1941 - World War II: American forces land in Iceland to forestall an invasion by Germany.
● 1941 - World War II: Beirut is occupied by Free France and British troops.
● 1946 - Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 spy plane prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.
● 1946 - Italian-American educator, Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini (1850-1917) became the first American citizen to be made a saint in the Catholic Church. She arrived in the U.S. in 1889, and was naturalized in 1909.
● 1947 - Downed UFO believed to be found in the Roswell UFO incident.
● 1948 - 6 female reservists become 1st women sworn into regular US Navy
● 1950 - The UN Security Council authorized military aid for South Korea.
● 1952 - Six churches met to form the Southern Baptist Association of Colorado, the first organization of this denomination in the state.
● 1954 - T.A.N.U. party founded in Tanzania
● 1956 - 7 Army trucks loaded with dynamite explode in the middle of Cali, Columbia killing 1,100-1,200, destroyimg 2,000 buildings
● 1956 - Fritz Moravec reaches the peak of Gasherbrum II (8,035 m).
● 1957 - Pugwash scientists hold first peace conference.
● 1958 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into United States law.
● 1959 - 14:28 UT Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event was used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere.
● 1959 - English apologist C.S. Lewis wrote in a letter: 'I "believed" theoretically in the divine forgiveness for years before it really came home to me. It is a wonderful thing when it does.'
● 1960 - USSR shoots down a US aircraft over Barents sea
● 1963 - Seven perish as a disabled Marine jet crashes into a day camp near Willow Grove, Penn. The pilot parachuted to safety.
● 1967 - Beginning of the civil war in Biafra.
● 1969 - In Canada, the Official Languages Act is adopted making the French language equal to the English language throughout the Federal government.
● 1969 - In Fayette, Charles Ever sworn in as first black mayor of bi-racial town in Mississippi since Reconstruction.
● 1969 - Brian Jones died of 'drink and drugs'; Former Rolling Stones guitarist, Brian Jones, drowned after taking a cocktail of drink and drugs, an inquest is told.
● 1970 - England - Army recruiting office in South London and the Officer Training Centre in Holborn are firebombed.
● 1973 - 78 drown as flash flood sweeps a bus into a river (India)
● 1976 - British grandmother missing in Uganda; Ugandan authorities deny knowledge of the whereabouts of missing British-Israeli citizen Dora Bloch. {She was ill passenger on hijacked airliner "taken" to hospital never to seen or heard from again..}
● 1976 - Viking 2 goes into orbit around Mars
● 1977 - Labor Party declares moratorium on uranium mining, Australia.
● 1977 - U.S. conducts first test of neutron bomb. {Designed to kill people but leave structures intact.}
● 1978 - Solomon Is gains independence from Britain (National Day)
● 1979 - Two thousand Indian activists and anti-nuclear demonstrators march through the Black Hills (South Dakota) to protest the development of uranium mines in sacred lands.
● 1980 - Institution of Shari in Iran.
● 1980 - Spanish anarchist Juan Garcia Oliver dies.
● 1981 - First solar-powered aircraft, Solar Challenger, crosses English Channel.
● 1981 - Solar Challenger powered only by solar energy crosses English Channel
● 1981 - U.S. President Reagan announced he was nominating Arizona Judge Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. {She is pleasant surprise on the court turning out to be a moderate.}
● 1983 - Eleven-year-old Samantha Smith of Manchester, Maine, left for a visit to the Soviet Union at the personal invitation of Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov.
● 1984 - 5 die in a train crash in Williston Vt
● 1986 - Supreme Court struck down Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction law
● 1987 - Kiwanis Clubs end men-only tradition, vote to admit women
● 1987 - Lt. Col. Oliver North began his public testimony at the Iran-Contra hearing, telling Congress that he had "never carried out a single act, not one" without authorization. His later proud admission of lying to Congress would form the basis of his subsequent career as a politician, pundit, and hero among right wing "moral" zealots {zeroes}.
● 1988 - Soviet Union launches Phobos 1 to probe Martian moon (unsuccessful)
● 1988 - The first of many syringes, blood vials and other hospital souvenirs -- some contaminated with the AIDS virus -- washes ashore on Long Island, forcing the closing of miles of beaches in the midst of the worst East Coast heat wave of the decade. Officials downplay the risk to bathers, pointing out that these items make up only a small percentage of beach debris.
● 1991 - Yugoslav Wars: Brioni Agreement ended ten-day independence war in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
● 1992 - Argentinian anarchist Mika Etchebehere (1902-1992) dies. Militant Marxist and anarchist, fought in the Spanish Revolution.
● 1992 - Peace march to Presidential residence blockaded by police, Belgrade, Serbia.
● 1993 - Singer Mia Zapata, 27, a member of the Seattle band The Gits, is strangled while walking home in the late evening from a Seattle pub. Her unsolved murder spurs local musicians and feminists to found the self-defense collective "Home Alive." Ten years later, DNA evidence would lead police to arrest a homeless drifter in connection with her murder.
● 1994 - Aden is occupied by troops from North Yemen, completing the reunification of Yemen.
● 1994 - Cambodian parliament outlaws Khmer Rouge. {Thus locking the barn door after all the animals have escaped.}
● 1998 - Chief's death sparks turmoil in Nigeria; At least 19 people are killed in riots in Nigeria's biggest city, Lagos, following the death of the opposition leader.
● 1998 - A jury in Santa Monica, CA, convicted Mikail Markhasev of murdering Ennis Cosby, Bill Cosby's only son, during a roadside robbery.
● 1998 - Puerto Rico - Half a million people participate when a general strike called by over 60 trade unions and a large number of civic, religious, student, and cultural organizations, against privatization. Largest ever protest in Puerto Rico. Strike brings the country, er, American colony to a halt.
● 1998 - Two anti-racist skinheads killed in Las Vegas.
● 1999 - In Sierra Leone, President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah and rebel leader Foday Sankoh signed a pact to end the nation's civil war.
● 1999 - A jury in Miami held cigarette makers liable for making a defective product that causes emphysema, lung cancer and other illnesses.
● 2001 - Two stabbed in Bradford race riots; Two people are stabbed and many more injured in running battles between white and Asian gangs in Bradford.
● 2002 - A scandal broke out in the United Kingdom when news reports alleged MI6 of sheltering Abu Qatada, the supposed European Al Qaeda leader.
● 2003 - A federal judge approved a settlement fining WorldCom $750 million for its $11 billion accounting scandal.
● 2003 - In Liberia, a team of U.S. military experts arrived at the U.S. embassy compound to assess whether to deploy troops as part of a peacekeeping force in the country.
● 2003 - The United Communist Party of Armenia was formed.
● 2004 - Former Enron chairman Kenneth Lay was indicted on criminal charges related to the energy company's collapse.
● 2004 - The last patent on the LZW compression algorithm (in Canada) expired.
● 2005 - Influenced by Live 8, the G8 leaders pledged to double 2004 levels of aid to Africa from US$25 to US$50 billion by the year 2010.
● 2005 - In London, at least 66 people were killed and at least 700 were injured when several bombs were set off in subway cars and double-decker buses.
BIRTHS
● 1053 - Emperor Shirakawa of Japan (d. 1129)
● 1119 - Emperor Sutoku of Japan (d. 1164)
● 1586 - Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, English statesman (d. 1646)
● 1746 - Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian astronomer (d. 1826)
● 1752 - Joseph-Marie Jacquard, French inventor (d. 1834)
● 1766 - Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, French general (d. 1815)
● 1843 - Camillo Golgi, Italian physician and Nobel laureate (d. 1926)
● 1848 - Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, Brazilian politician (d. 1919)
● 1855 - Ludwig Ganghofer, German writer (d. 1920)
● 1860 - Abraham Cahan, Russian-born American editor of the Jewish Daily Forward (1903-51) (d. 1951)
● 1860 - Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer (d. 1911)
● 1874 - Erwin Bumke, German jurist (d. 1945)
● 1884 - Lion Feuchtwanger, German dramatist (d. 1958)
● 1887 - Marc Chagall, Russian painter (d. 1985)
● 1893 - Miroslav Krleža, Croatian writer (d. 1981)
● 1899 - George Cukor, American director (d. 1983)
● 1901 - Vittorio De Sica, Italian director (d. 1974)
● 1901 - Sam Katzman, American film producer (d. 1973)
● 1901 - Eiji Tsuburaya, Japanese film producer (d. 1970)
● 1902 - Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe, American baseball player (d. 2005)
● 1904 - Simone Beck, French chef (d. 1991)
● 1906 - William Feller, Croatian mathematician (d. 1970)
● 1906 - Satchel Paige, American baseball player (d. 1982)
● 1906 - Anton Karas, Viennese musician (d. 1985)
● 1907 - Robert A. Heinlein, American writer, Science Fiction Grand Master ("Stranger in a Strange Land") (d. 1988)
● 1908 - Revilo P. Oliver, American professor (d. 1994)
● 1911 - Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian-born composer (d. 2007)
● 1913 - Pinetop Perkins, Blues pianist
● 1917 - Lawrence O'Brien, American politician and N.B.A. commissioner (1975-84) (d. 1990)
● 1917 - Fidel Sánchez Hernández, Salvadorian politician (d. 2003)
● 1919 - Jon Pertwee, British actor (d. 1996)
● 1921 - Adolf von Thadden, German politician (d. 1996)
● 1921 - Ezzard Charles, American boxer, Heavyweight champion (1950-51) (d. 1975)
● 1922 - Pierre Cardin, French fashion designer
● 1924 - Mary Ford, American singer (d. 1977)
● 1927 - Charlie Louvin, Country singer
● 1927 - Doc Severinsen, American composer and musician
● 1929 - Hasan Abidi, Pakistani journalist and poet (d. 2005)
● 1931 - David Eddings, American author
● 1932 - Josef Zawinul, Austrian composer and musician
● 1933 - Murray Halberg, New Zealand runner
● 1933 - David McCullough, American historian and author
● 1936 - Nikos Xilouris, Greek singer (d. 1980)
● 1937 - Tung Chee-Hwa, Hong Kong administrator
● 1940 - Ringo Starr, English drummer and singer (The Beatles)
● 1941 - Michael Howard, British politician
● 1941 - Bill Oddie, English comedian and ornithologist
● 1942 - Carmen Duncan, Australian actress
● 1943 - Toto Cutugno, Italian singer
● 1943 - Joel Siegel, American film critic (d. 2007)
● 1944 - Warren Entner, Singer-musician (The Grass Roots)
● 1945 - Jim Rodford, Rock musician
● 1945 - Michael Ancram, British politician
● 1946 - Joe Spano, Actor ("Hill Street Blues" "NCIS")
● 1947 - Linda Williams, Country singer
● 1947 - Howard Rheingold, American author
● 1947 - Rob Townsend, English drummer (Family)
● 1948 - Jean Leclerc, French Canadian actor
● 1949 - Shelley Duvall, American actress ("The Shining" "Popeye")
● 1951 - Roz Ryan, Actress
● 1955 - Len Barker, American baseball player
● 1959 - Billy Campbell, Actor
● 1959 - Jessica Hahn, American model
● 1959 - Ben Linder, American engineer (d. 1987)
● 1960 - Kevin A. Ford, American astronaut
● 1962 - Mark White, Rock musician (Spin Doctors)
● 1963 - Vonda Shepard, American singer ("Ally McBeal")
● 1965 - Paula Devicq, Canadian actress
● 1965 - Mo Collins, American actress
● 1965 - Jeremy Kyle, English television presenter
● 1966 - Jim Gaffigan, Actor, comedian
● 1966 - Ricky Kinchen, R&B musician (Mint Condition)
● 1966 - Gundula Krause, German folk violinist
● 1967 - Jackie Neal, American singer (d. 2005)
● 1968 - Jorja Fox, American actress ("CSI")
● 1968 - Jeff VanderMeer, American writer
● 1969 - Joe Sakic, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1969 - Robin Weigert, American actress
● 1969 - Cree Summer, Canadian voice actress
● 1969 - Nathalie Simard, French Canadian singer
● 1970 - Wayne McCullough, Irish boxer
● 1970 - Erik Zabel, German cyclist
● 1970 - Robia LaMorte, American actress and dancer
● 1971 - Alistair Potts, British rower
● 1972 - Lisa Leslie, American basketball player
● 1972 - Manfred Stohl, Austrian rally driver
● 1973 - José Jiménez, Dominican baseball player
● 1973 - Troy Garity, Actor
● 1974 - Kārlis Skrastiņš, Latvian ice hockey player
● 1974 - Patrick Lalime, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1975 - Michael Voss, Australian rules footballer
● 1976 - Hamish Linklater, Actor
● 1979 - Anastasios Gousis, Greek sprinter
● 1979 - Carl Breeze, British racing driver
● 1980 - Deidre Downs, American beauty queen
● 1980 - Michelle Kwan, American figure skater
● 1981 - Synyster Gates, American musician (Avenged Sevenfold)
● 1981 - Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Indian cricketer
● 1982 - Cassidy, American rapper
● 1982 - Gabbie Nolen, Country singer
● 1982 - Mike Glita, American bassist (Senses Fail)
● 1983 - Justin Davies, Australian rules footballer
● 1984 - Minas Alozidis, Greek hurdler
● 1988 - Kaci Brown, American singer
● 1989 - Giannoulis Fakinos, Greek footballer
● 1992 - Sophie Simmons, American reality show star and daughter of Gene Simmons.
DEATHS
● 1304 - Pope Benedict XI (b. 1240)
● 1307 - King Edward I of England (b. 1239)
● 1537 - Madeleine de Valois, queen of James V of Scotland (b. 1520)
● 1572 - King Sigismund II Augustus of Poland (b. 1520)
● 1573 - Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Italian architect (b. 1507)
● 1647 - Thomas Hooker, Connecticut colonist (b. 1586)
● 1663 - Thomas Baltzar, German violinist
● 1701 - William Stoughton, American judge at the Salem witch trials (b. 1631)
● 1713 - Henry Compton, Bishop of Oxford and privy councillor (b. 1632)
● 1764 - William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, English politician (b. 1683)
● 1776 - Jeremiah Markland, English classical scholar (b. 1693)
● 1790 - François Hemsterhuis, Dutch philosopher (b. 1721)
● 1816 - Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish playwright and politician (b. 1751)
● 1855 - Konstantin Batyushkov, Russian poet (b. 1787)
● 1865 - Mary Surratt, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1823)
● 1865 - Lewis Paine, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1844)
● 1865 - David Herold, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1842)
● 1865 - George Atzerodt, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1833)
● 1878 - Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Russian mathematician (b. 1847)
● 1890 - Henri Nestlé, Founder of Nestlé S.A. (b. 1814)
● 1901 - Johanna Spyri, Swiss author (b. 1827)
● 1913 - Edward Burd Grubb, American Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General (b.1841)
● 1922 - Cathal Brugha, Chief of Staff of Irish Republican Army (b.1874)
● 1927 - Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician (b. 1846)
● 1930 - Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish writer (b. 1859)
● 1932 - Alexander Grin, Russian novelist (b. 1880)
● 1932 - Henry Eyster Jacobs, American Lutheran theologian (b. 1844)
● 1949 - Bunk Johnson, American musician (b. 1879 or 1889)
● 1956 - Gottfried Benn, German poet (b. 1886)
● 1964 - Lillian Copeland, American athlete (b. 1904)
● 1965 - Moshe Sharett, 2nd Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1894)
● 1971 - Claude Gauvreau, Canadian writer (b. 1925)
● 1971 - Ub Iwerks, American artist, director, and cartoonist (b1901)
● 1972 - Athenagoras, Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 1886)
● 1972 - King Talal of Jordan (b. 1909)
● 1973 - Max Horkheimer, German philosopher and sociologist (b. 1895)
● 1973 - Veronica Lake, American actress (b. 1919)
● 1975 - Ruffian, American thoroughbred racehorse (b. 1972)
● 1980 - Dore Schary, American film producer and writer (b. 1905)
● 1984 - Carl Boenish, American father of BASE jumping (b. 1941)
● 1990 - Bill Cullen, American game show host (b. 1920)
● 1990 - Cazuza, Brazilian poet, singer and composer (b. 1958)
● 1993 - Mia Zapata, American singer with The Gits (b. 1965)
● 2000 - Kenny Irwin, Jr., American race car driver (b. 1969)
● 2001 - Fred Neil, American singer-songwriter (b. 1936)
● 2002 - Bison Dele, American basketball player (b. 1969)
● 2003 - Izhak Graziani, Bulgarian-born conductor (b. 1924)
● 2006 - Juan de Ávalos, Spanish sculptor (b. 1911)
● 2006 - Tom Weir, Scottish climber, author and broadcaster (b. 1914)
● 2006 - Syd Barrett, British musician, co-founder and former member of Pink Floyd (b. 1946)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Ampelius of Milan
● St. Angelelmus of Auxerre
● St. Apollonius of Brescia
● St. Astius
● St. Benedict XI, Pope
● St. Bonitus
● St. Bonitus of Monte Cassino
● Sts. Claudius, Nicostratus & Companions
● St. Ercongota of Faremoutiers
● St. Ethelburga of Faremoutiers
● St. Felix of Nantes
● St. Hedda of Winchester
● St. Humphrey Lawrence
● St. Illidius of Clermont
● St. Laurence Humphrey
● St. Maolruain of Tallaght
● Sts. Medran & Odran
● St. Merryn
● St. Odo of Urgell
● St. Palladius of Ireland
● St. Pantaenus of Alexandria
● St. Peregrinus, Lucian, Pompeius, & Companions
● Sts. Roger Dickenson and Ralph Milner
● St. Sethrida
● Bl. Lawrence Humphrey
● Bl. Ralph Milner
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for June 25 (Civil Date: July 7)
● Virgin Martyr Febronia of Nisibis.
● Prince and Princess Febronia (tonsured David and Euphrosyne), Wonderworkers of Murom.
● Virgin Martyrs Leonis, Libye, and Eutropia of Syria.
● St. Symeon of Sinai.
● Saints Dionysius and Dometius of the Monastery of the Forerunner on Mt. Athos.
● New-Martyr Procopius of Mt. Athos. who suffered at Smyrna.
● New-Martyr George of Attalia.
● Repose of Hiero-deacon Serapion (1859) and Schema-archimandrite Heliodorus of Glinsk Hermitage (1879).
● Old Catholic: St. Methodius (Cyril), devised Cyrillic alphabet
● Orthodox Church:
● Nativity of St John the Forerunner (6/24 OS)
● St. Job of Maniava
● Bhutan : Guru Rinbochy
● Equatorial Guinea : P.U.N.T. Anniversary
● Japan : Star Festival/Tanabata
● Pamplona, Spain : Fiesta de San Fermin-running of the Bulls
● Russia, Ukraine: Ivan Kupala Day
● Tanzania : Saba-Saba Day-founding of TANU party (1954)
● 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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