Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Peace "Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free." — Dalai Lama
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Homophobia "Those who behave in a homosexual fashion shall not enter the kingdom of God." — Pope John Paul II
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: On Politics "You reporters should have printed what he meant, not what he said." — Earl Bush, aide to Chicago mayor Richard Daley
Thought for the day: "Better the shoulder to the wheel than the back to the wall."
{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
Shuttle Ferry
Credit: Carla Thomas, NASA
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 1099 - First Crusade: 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march in religious procession around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders mock them.
● 1283 - War of the Sicilian Vespers: Battle of Malta
● 1497 - Vasco da Gama sets sail on first direct European voyage to India.
● 1520 - Battle of Otompan (Otumba, Mexico); Spaniards slay 20,000 Aztecs.
● 1524 - Initial kidnapping of an Indian child in New World by Verrazano, Italian explorer.
● 1579 - Our Lady of Kazan, a holy icon of the Russian Orthodox Church, was discovered underground in the city of Kazan, Tatarstan.
● 1608 - The first French settlement at Quebec was established by Samuel de Champlain.
● 1663 - Following restoration of the English monarchy, a new charter was issued to the American colony of Rhode Island by Charles II. It guaranteed religious freedom regardless of 'differences in opinion in matters of religion.'
● 1680 - The first confirmed tornado in America kills a servant at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
● 1693 - New York City authorizes first police uniforms in American colonies.
● 1709 - Great Northern War: Battle of Poltava: Peter I of Russia defeats Charles XII of Sweden at Poltava thus effectively ending Sweden's role as a major power in Europe.
● 1716 - Great Northern War: Battle of Dynekilen
● 1741 - Influencing the start of New England's 'Great Awakening,' colonial American theologian Jonathan Edwards preached his classic sermon, 'Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,' at Enfield, CT.
● 1755 - Britain broke off diplomatic relations with France as their disputes in the New World intensified.
● 1758 - French and Indian War: French forces hold Fort Carillon against British at Ticonderoga, New York.
● 1760 - French and Indian War: Battle of Restigouche - British defeat French forces in last naval battle in New France.
● 1775 - The Olive Branch Petition is adopted by the Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies.
● 1776 - The Liberty Bell was rung to summon citizens of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for the reading of the Declaration of Independence by the Continental Congress. Col. John Nixon gave this first public reading of the U.S. Declaration of Independence to a crowd at Independence Square in Philadelphia.
● 1777 - VT becomes 1st state abolishing slavery, adopts male suffrage
● 1792 - Birth of Lowell Mason, Presbyterian pioneer of congregational singing. He composed over 1,000 hymn tunes, including BETHANY ('Nearer, My God, To Thee'), DENNIS ('Blest Be the Tie That Binds'), and HAMBURG ('When I Survey the Wondrous Cross').
● 1794 - French troops captured Brussels, Belgium.
● 1795 - Kent County Free School changed its name to Washington College. It was the first college to be named after U.S. President George Washington. The school was established by an act of the Maryland Assembly in 1723.
● 1796 - US State Dept issues 1st American passport
● 1797 - 1st US senator (William Blount of Tennessee) expelled by impeachment
● 1805 - American Bill Richmond knocks out Jack Holmes, Kilburn Wells, England
● 1815 - Louis XVIII returned to Paris after the defeat of Napoleon.
● 1816 - Frost in Waltham, MA
● 1822 - Chippewas turn over huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom.
● 1822 - Death of Percy Shelly, 29, radical poet. Drowns while sailing in Italy; is cremated on the beach where his body washes. Strangely, his heart will not burn. {Me thinks Keith Richards is not the first of his kind.} His widow, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (author of "Frankenstein"), carries it with her in a silken shroud for the rest of her life.
● 1835 - Liberty Bell cracks (again)
● 1839 - John D. Rockefeller, who founded the Standard Oil Co. and gave more than $500 million to charitable causes, was born.
● 1842 - First anthracite coal strike in the U.S.
● 1849 - St Paul's Place in the Bronx named
● 1853 - An expedition led by Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in Yedo Bay, Japan, on a mission to seek diplomatic and trade relations with the Japanese.
● 1859 - King Charles XV / Carl IV accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway.
● 1864 - Chehalis Indian Reservation created by Executive Order.
● 1865 - C.E. Barnes patented the machine gun.
● 1867 - Birth of Kathe Kollwitz, social protest artist.
● 1870 - Congress authorizes registration of trademarks
● 1870 - Gov Holden of NC declares Casswell County in a state of insurrection
● 1874 - The Mounties begin their March West.
● 1875 - Birth of Marxist utopianist Ernst Bloch, Ludwigshafen, Rhineland-Palatinate.
● 1876 - Whites and blacks stage a pitched battle in Hamburg, South Carolina. The whites were the clear winners, killing five blacks while suffering no fatalities of their own.
● 1879 - The first ship to use electric lights departed from San Francisco, CA.
● 1881 - Edward Berner, druggist in Two Rivers, WI, poured chocolate syrup on ice cream in a dish. To this time chocolate syrup had only been used for making ice-cream sodas.
● 1886 - Rain of snails in Cornwall, England.
● 1891 - 61° F, the highest temp for July 1891, in Baltimore & Philadelphia
● 1892 - American Psychological Association organized, Worcester, Mass
● 1892 - St. John's, Newfoundland was devastated in the Great Fire of 1892.
● 1896 - William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetalism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
● 1897 - First U.S. senator (William Blount of Tennessee) expelled by impeachment.
● 1897 - Harbor Hospital formally opens
● 1898 - A colony is founded in the Paris suburbs by anarchist Georges Butaud.
● 1898 - May Picqueray (1893-1983), militant anarchist, born in Bretagne, France.
● 1898 - The shooting death of crime boss Soapy Smith releases Skagway, Alaska from his iron grip.
● 1905 - Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.) founding convention concludes in Chicago. Charles O. Sherman, a former AFL organizer, is elected president.
● 1905 - Part of Angel Island allocated for Immigration Detention Center (will become Ellis Island)
● 1911 - Nan Aspinwall is 1st woman to make solo transcontinental trip by horse
● 1914 - England - Supplementing inadequate wages through systematic theft, members of the all-women Harrow Road "Check Skirt Gang" strike again by gaining employment at a West End pattern makers then proceeding to make off with everything that is not nailed down.
● 1919 - President Woodrow Wilson received a tumultuous welcome in New York City after his return from the Versailles Peace Conference in France.
● 1923 - Harding becomes 1st sitting president to visit Alaska (Metlakahtla)
● 1932 - Depression low point of Dow Jones Industrial Average, 41.22
● 1932 - G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1255 Schilowa
● 1933 - Public Works Administration becomes effective
● 1936 - C Jackson discovers asteroid #1949 Messina
● 1937 - Britain sends 13,000 troops to Palestine, and martial law is declared, in an attempt to crush Arab fight for land.
● 1943 - Esteban Pallarols Xirgu (aka Riera), dies, shot in Barcelona. Militant Spanish anarcho-trade unionist. Involved in clandestine activities; first secretary on the national Committee of the C.N.T. One among so many others, known or anonymous, victim of pro-Franco fascist repression.
● 1945 - Two months after Hitler's defeat, eight German POW's shot to death and 20 wounded in Salina, Utah, when prison guard Private Clarence W. Pertucci sprayed the tents of the sleeping prisoners with machine gun fire "for no apparent reason."
● 1947 - Demolition work began in New York City for the new permanent headquarters of the United Nations.
● 1947 - Reports are broadcast that a UFO has crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico.
● 1948 - The Moscow Conference convened to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the independence of the Russian Orthodox Church from control of the Eastern Orthodox Patriarchate of Constantinople.
● 1950 - General Douglas MacArthur was named commander-in-chief of United Nations forces in Korea.
● 1950 - Leroy Deans awarded 1st Order of Purple Heart in Korea
● 1953 - Notre Dame announced that the next five years of its football games would be shown in theatres over closed circuit TV.
● 1957 - CDC incorporates
● 1958 - U.S./South Africa nuclear cooperation treaty signed.
● 1959 - Meeting in Oberlin, OH, the Congregational Christian and the Evangelical and Reformed churches adopted a united statement of faith. (The two groups merged to form the United Church of Christ in 1961.)
● 1959 - Vietnamese guerillas ambush two U.S. "advisers," making them the first U.S. casualties since 1946 in Vietnam.
● 1960 - The Soviet Union charged Gary Powers with espionage. He was shot down in a U-2 spy plane.
● 1961 - Portuguese steamer "Save" breaks up off Mozambique, 227 die
● 1963 - All Cuban-owned assets in the United States were frozen.
● 1965 - Roy Wilkins becomes director of NAACP.
● 1965 - Ronald Biggs escapes from jail; Ronald Biggs who was serving a 30-year prison sentence for his part in the Great Train Robbery escapes from Wandsworth prison.
● 1966 - King Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi was deposed by his son Prince Charles Ndizi.
● 1969 - Thor Heyerdahl & reed raft Ra II land in Barbados 57 days from Morocco
● 1969 - US troop withdrawal begins in Vietnam
● 1970 - Taos Pueblo recover sacred Blue Lake from Federal government.
● 1971 - British troops shoot Londonderry rioters; Two men are killed by the British army in Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
● 1972 - Lebanon - Ghassan Kanafani assassinated. Member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and editor of its paper, "Al-Hadaf" (The Target).
● 1973 - French government declares an illegal "exclusion zone" in international waters around nuclear test site, Mururoa Atoll, South Pacific.
● 1975 - Pres Ford announced he'll seek Republican nomination for pres
● 1975 - Quake damages over 2,000 temples in Pagan, Burma. 20-foot-high seated Buddha of Thandawgya decapitated
● 1977 - Sabra Starr finishes longest recorded belly dance (100 hrs)
● 1977 - The ashes of Ahn Eak-tai, a Korean composer and conductor, were transferred from the island of Majorca to the Korean National Cemetery.
● 1978 - Pioneer-Venus 2 Multi-probe launched to Venus
● 1979 - Voyager 2 takes 1st ever photo of Jupiter's satellite Adrastea (J14)
● 1980 - Congress enacts the Hopi-Navajo [forced] Relocation Act to "solve" the problem of impeded access to coal deposits at Big Mountain, Arizona. Nine (Navajo) families at Big Mountain have continued their resistance to this day.
● 1981 - Regional Council demands removal of all nuclear weapons and bases, Strathclyde, Scotland.
● 1981 - Senate confirms Sandra Day O'Conner to Supreme Court (99-0)
● 1982 - Assassination attempt against Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in Dujail.
● 1982 - Porn star John Homes convicted of receiving stolen property
● 1982 - Senegalese Trotskyist political party LCT is legally recognized.
● 1986 - Kurt Waldheim was inaugurated as president of Austria despite controversy over his alleged ties to Nazi war crimes.
● 1986 - NASA establishes Safety, Reliability Maintain & Quality Assurance
● 1987 - Kitty Dukakis, revealed addiction to amphetamines for 26 years
● 1988 - Stevie Wonder announces he will run for mayor of Detroit in 1992
● 1990 - 12:34:56 on 7/8/90 (1234567890)
● 1992 - Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe creates the office of High Commissioner on National Minorities.
● 1993 - Charles Keating, chief of Lincoln Savings & Loan Association, was sentenced to 12 years and seven months in prison for violating California security and fraud laws.
● 1994 - Beginning of ten-day "Festival of Art and Culture Without Frontiers and Libertarian Education" held in Florianopolis, Brazil. In addition, the second southern conference of anarchist groups and individuals was held.
● 1994 - North Korean Stalinist leader Kim Il Sung dies; his son, unfortunately, takes over.
● 1996 - International Court Of Justice declares that in almost all circumstances use of nuclear weapons is illegal.
● 1996 - Seven slashed in school machete attack; Three young children and four adults are attacked by a man with a machete at an infant school in Wolverhampton.
● 1997 - NATO invites the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland to join the alliance in 1999.
● 1997 - The Mayo Clinic and the U.S. government warned that the diet-drug combination known as "fen-phen" could cause serious heart and lung damage.
● 1998 - First arrests in Britain for pulling up genetically engineered crops. Five women pull up almost 200 plants at Model Farm, Watlington in Oxfordshire. Thames Valley Police later released the women as the owners, Monsanto, did not press charges, a public relations policy of minimum unfavorable press coverage.
● 1998 - Three days of protests follow the assassination of Nigerian opposition leader Abiola.
● 1999 - Allen Lee Davis is executed by electrocution by the state of Florida, the last use of the electric chair for capital punishment in Florida.
● 2003 - Conjoined twins die in separation operation; Conjoined Iranian twins who volunteered to go ahead with a major operation to separate them both die during surgery.
● 2003 - Sudan Airways Flight 39, with 117 people on board, crashes in Sudan; the only survivor is a two-year-old child.
● 2004 - Enron founder and former chairman Kenneth Lay pleaded innocent to charges related to the energy company's collapse. (Lay was later convicted on 10 counts, including fraud and conspiracy. He {allegedly} died of heart disease in July 2006 while his case was on appeal.)
● 2004 - Adelphia Communications Corp. founder John Rigas and his son Timothy were convicted in New York of looting the cable company and deceiving investors.
● 2004 - Michael Brown Okinawa assault incident. United States Marine Corps officer Michael Brown is convicted on Okinawa for "attempting an indecent act" and "destruction of property" and is sentenced to one year in prison, suspended for three years.
● 2005 - G8 leaders agree $50 billion aid boost; The G8 summit in Gleneagles ends with a deal to boost aid for developing countries by $50 billion.
● 2006 - Four more U.S. soldiers were charged with rape and murder and a fifth with dereliction of duty in the alleged rape-slaying of a young Iraqi woman and the killings of her relatives in Mahmoudiya.
● 2007 - Boeing 787 rolled out.
BIRTHS
● 1528 - Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (d. 1580)
● 1545 - Don Carlos of Spain (d. 1568)
● 1593 - Artemisia Gentileschi, Italian painter (d. 1653)
● 1621 - Jean de la Fontaine, French writer (d. 1695)
● 1760 - Christian Kramp, French mathematician (d. 1826)
● 1766 - Dominique Jean Larrey, French surgeon (d. 1842)
● 1805 - Samuel Gross, American surgeon, teacher and author (d. 1884)
● 1819 - Francis Leopold McClintock, British naval officer and explorer (d. 1907)
● 1830 - Frederick William Seward, United States Assistant Secretary of State (d. 1915)
● 1836 - Joseph Chamberlain, British politician (d. 1914)
● 1838 - Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin, German inventor (d. 1917)
● 1839 - John D. Rockefeller, American businessman (d. 1937)
● 1851 - Arthur Evans, English archaeologist (d. 1941)
● 1857 - Alfred Binet, French psychologist (d. 1911)
● 1867 - Käthe Kollwitz, German artist (d. 1945)
● 1878 - Jimmy Quinn, Scottish footballer (d. 1945)
● 1882 - Percy Grainger, Australian composer (d. 1961)
● 1885 - Ernst Bloch, German philosopher (d. 1977)
● 1892 - Richard Aldington, English poet (d. 1962)
● 1892 - Pavel Korin, Russian painter (d. 1967)
● 1895 - Igor Tamm, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)
● 1898 - Alec Waugh, English novelist and travel writer (d. 1981)
● 1899 - David Lilienthal, American businessman and government official (d. 1981)
● 1904 - Henri Cartan, French mathematician
● 1906 - Philip Johnson, American architect (d. 2005)
● 1907 - George W. Romney, chairman of the American Motors Corporation (1954-62) (d. 1995)
● 1908 - Louis Jordan, American saxophonist (d. 1975)
● 1908 - Nelson A. Rockefeller, New York governor (1959-73) and U.S. vice president (1974-77) (d. 1979)
● 1914 - Jyoti Basu, Indian politician
● 1914 - Billy Eckstine, American jazz singer (d. 1993)
● 1917 - Faye Emerson, American actress (d. 1983)
● 1918 - Craig Stevens, American actor (d. 2000)
● 1919 - Walter Scheel, German politician
● 1920 - Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, Danish industrialist (Lego Group) (d. 1995)
● 1923 - Harrison Dillard, American athlete
● 1924 - Johnnie Johnson, American blues musician (d. 2005)
● 1926 - John Dingell, Congressman, D-Mich.
● 1926 - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-born psychiatrist (d. 2004)
● 1927 - Maurice Hayes, Irish politician
● 1932 - Jerry Vale, American singer
● 1933 - Marty Feldman, English comedian and actor (d. 1982)
● 1933 - Antonio Lamer, French Canadian lawyer and chief justice
● 1934 - Ed Lumley, Canadian corporate executive and former politician
● 1935 - Steve Lawrence, American entertainer and singer
● 1935 - Vitali Sevastyanov, cosmonaut
● 1941 - Dario Gradi, Italian-born football manager
● 1942 - Phil Gramm, American politician
● 1944 - Jeffrey Tambor, Actor ("Arrested Development")
● 1944 - Jai Johanny Johanson, American musician (The Allman Brothers Band)
● 1945 - Micheline Calmy-Rey, Swiss female politician, president in 2007
● 1947 - Kim Darby, American actress
● 1947 - Luis Fernando Figari, Peruvian founder of Sodalitium Christianae Vitae
● 1948 - Raffi, Canadian children's entertainer
● 1949 - Frank Delima, American comedian
● 1949 - Wolfgang Puck, Austrian-born celebrity chef
● 1951 - Anjelica Huston, American actress
● 1952 - Jack Lambert, American NFL player and Hall of Fame member
● 1952 - Anna Quindlen, Writer
● 1956 - Terry Puhl, Canadian baseball player
● 1957 - Aleksandr Gurnov, Russian television personality
● 1958 - Kevin Bacon, American actor
● 1958 - Andreas Carlgren, Swedish politician
● 1959 - Robert Knepper, American actor
● 1960 - Mal Meninga, Australian rugby league footballer
● 1961 - Toby Keith, American singer
● 1961 - Graham Jones, Rock musician (Haircut 100)
● 1961 - Andrew Fletcher, English musician (Depeche Mode)
● 1962 - Joan Osborne, American singer and songwriter
● 1962 - Rob Burnett, Writer, producer
● 1964 - Linda de Mol, Dutch actress and host
● 1965 - Corey Parker, Actor
● 1967 - Jordan Chan, Hong Kong actor and singer
● 1968 - Akio Suyama, Japanese seiyu
● 1968 - Billy Crudup, American actor
● 1968 - Michael Weatherly, American actor ("NCIS")
● 1970 - Beck, American singer
● 1970 - Drew Womack, Country singer (Sons of the Desert)
● 1972 - Saurav Ganguly, Indian cricketer
● 1972 - Karl Dykhuis, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1973 - Kathleen Robertson, Canadian actress
● 1974 - Zhanna Friske, Russian actress and singer
● 1974 - Tami Erin, American actress and model
● 1975 - Stephen Mason, Rock musician (Jars of Clay)
● 1976 - Talal El Karkouri, Moroccan footballer
● 1977 - Wang Zhizhi, Chinese basketball player
● 1977 - Milo Ventimiglia, American actor ("Heroes," "Gilmore Girls")
● 1977 - Tavis Werts, Rock musician (Reel Big Fish)
● 1979 - Ben Jelen, Rock singer
● 1980 - Robbie Keane, Irish footballer
● 1981 - Anastasia Myskina, Russian tennis player
● 1982 - Hakim Warrick, American basketball player
● 1982 - Joshua Alba, American actor
● 1982 - Sophia Bush, American actress ("One Tree Hill")
● 1983 - Jaroslav Janiš, Czech racing car driver
● 1983 - Elizabeth Del Mar, American pornographic actress
● 1985 - Jamie Cook, Guitarist for Arctic Monkeys
● 1987 - Vlada Roslyakova, Russian supermodel
● 1998 - Jaden Smith, American actor
DEATHS
● 810 - Pepin, King of Italy (b. 773)
● 975 - King Edgar of England
● 1153 - Pope Eugene III
● 1538 - Diego de Almagro, Spanish explorer (b. 1475)
● 1623 - Pope Gregory XV (b. 1554)
● 1689 - Edward Wooster, English Connecticut pioneer (b. 1622)
● 1695 - Christiaan Huygens, Dutch scientist (b. 1629)
● 1716 - Robert South, English churchman (b. 1634)
● 1721 - Elihu Yale, American benefactor of Yale University (b. 1649)
● 1726 - John Ker, Scottish spy (b. 1673)
● 1784 - Torbern Bergman, Swedish chemist (b. 1735)
● 1822 - Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (b. 1792)
● 1826 - Luther Martin, American statesman (b. 1748)
● 1850 - Prince Adolphus, 1st Duke of Cambridge (b. 1774)
● 1855 - Sir William Edward Parry, English Arctic explorer (b. 1790)
● 1859 - King Oscar I of Sweden and Norway (b. 1799)
● 1895 - Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian scientist (b. 1821)
● 1898 - Soapy Smith, American con artist (b. 1860)
● 1905 - Walter Kittredge, American musician (b. 1834)
● 1913 - Louis Hémon, French-born writer (b. 1880)
● 1917 - Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (b. 1877)
● 1930 - Sir Joseph Ward, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1856)
● 1933 - Anthony Hope, British author (b. 1863)
● 1934 - Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer (b. 1848)
● 1939 - Havelock Ellis, British physician (b. 1859)
● 1941 - Moses Schorr, Polish rabbi, senator, historian and orientalist (b. 1874)
● 1943 - Jean Moulin, French Resistance leader (b. 1899)
● 1950 - Othmar Spann, Austrian philosopher (b. 1878)
● 1956 - Giovanni Papini, Italian essayist (b. 1881)
● 1957 - Grace Coolidge, First Lady of the United States (b. 1879)
● 1967 - Fatima Jinnah, Pakistani Mother of the Nation (b. 1893)
● 1967 - Vivien Leigh, English actress (b. 1913)
● 1971 - Charlie Shavers, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1920)
● 1973 - Wilfred Rhodes, English cricketer (b. 1877)
● 1979 - Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1906)
● 1979 - Robert B. Woodward, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1917)
● 1979 - Michael Wilding, English actor (b. 1912)
● 1981 - Wild Bill Hallahan, American baseball player (b. 1902)
● 1986 - Skeeter Webb, American baseball player (b. 1909)
● 1987 - Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet (b. 1896)
● 1987 - Lionel Chevrier, Canadian politician (b. 1903)
● 1988 - Ray Barbuti, American athlete (b. 1905)
● 1990 - Howard Duff, American actor (b. 1913)
● 1991 - James Franciscus, American actor (b. 1934)
● 1994 - Kim Il-sung, North Korean leader (b. 1912)
● 1994 - Dick Sargent, American actor (b. 1930)
● 1999 - Pete Conrad, American astronaut (b. 1930)
● 2001 - John O'Shea, New Zealand film director (b. 1920)
● 2002 - Ward Kimball, American animator (b. 1914)
● 2004 - Paula Danziger, American author (b. 1944)
● 2004 - Jean Lefebvre, French actor (b. 1922)
● 2006 - June Allyson, American actress (b. 1917)
● 2006 - Peter Hawkins, British actor/voice actor (b. 1924)
● 2006 - Sabine Dünser, lead singer for band Elis (b. 1977)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Abda and Sabas
● Sts. Abrahamites
● St. Adrian Fortescue, martyr
● St. Adrian III
● St. Albert of Genoa
● St. Apollonius
● St. Aquila and Priscilla, martyrs
● St. Arnold
● St. Auspicius, bishop of Trier
● St. Barbara
● St. Bosilus, abbot
● St. Claudius and companions
● St. Edgar (died 975)
● St. Elizabeth, queen of Portugal
● St. Evodius, bishop of Rouen, confessor
● St. Grimbald, abbot, confessor
● St. Kilian
● Sts. Kilian of Würzburg, bishop, and companions: Olman, priest, and Totnam, deacon, martyrs 689
● St. Landrada, virgin
● St. Morwenna
● St. Nummius, confessor
● St. Priscilla
● St. Procopius, martyr
● St. Quintinus, martyr
● St. Raymond of Toulouse
● St. Robertus
● St. Sunniva and companions, virgins
● St. Theobald or Thibaut, abbot
● St. Withburge, virgin
● Bl. Mancius Araki
● Bl. Peter the Hermit
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for June 26 (Civil Date: July 8)
● St. David of Thessalonica.
● St. John, Bishop of the Goths in Crimea.
● St. Dionysius, Archbishop Suzdal.
● Translation of the Relics of St. Tikhon of Luchov.
● New-Martyr David of St. Anne's Skete, martyred in Thessalonica.
● St. Serapion of Kozha Lake.
● Greek Calendar:
● St. Anthion, monk.
● Appearance of the Tikhvin Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos; Kazan Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Of the Seven Lakes".
● US : Liberty Bell Day [1835]
● Annual Soapy Smith wake, held each year in Skagway, Alaska in the Gold Rush Cemetery and in Hollywood, California at the Magic Castle
● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● South Africa : Family Day - ( Monday )
● Swaziland : Reed Dance Day - ( Monday )
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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