Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Politics "In politics, an organized minority is a political majority." — Jesse Jackson
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Inanity "I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people." — Dan Quayle {H. W.'s "insurance policy"}
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: On Politics "A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven." — Jean Chrétien
Thought for the day: "Whatever you have, spend less."
{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
The Most Distant Sun
Credit & Copyright: Enrique Luque Cervigón (The Superspace)
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EVENTS
● 118 - Hadrian, Rome's new emperor, made his entry into the city.
● 455 - Roman military commander in Gaul, Avitus is proclaimed emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
● 695 - 18-Rabbit becomes high king of Copan (Maya).
● 1228 - Death of Stephen Langton (b.ca.1155), Archbishop of Canterbury. It was Langton who formulated the original division of the Bible into chapters in the late 1100s.
● 1357 - Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor assists laying the foundation stone of Charles Bridge in Prague.
● 1530 - German reformer Martin Luther wrote in a letter: 'This is a definite sign that we are God's children, because we are men of peace.'
● 1540 - England's King Henry VIII had his 6-month-old marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, annulled. {His impotence makes having a male heir impossible.}
● 1541 - Estevão da Gama departs Massawa, leaving behind 400 matchlock men and 150 slaves under his brother Christovão da Gama, with orders to assist the Emperor of Ethiopia defeat Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi who has invaded his Empire.
● 1553 - Maurice of Saxony was mortally wounded at Sievershausen, Germany, while defeating Albert of Brandenburg-Kulmbach.
● 1569(1609?) - Rudolf II, Emperor of Bohemia, grants freedom of worship in his domain.
● 1595 - Johannes Kepler inscribes geometric solid construction of universe
● 1755 - General Edward Braddock was killed when French and Indian troops ambushed his force of British regulars and colonial militia.
● 1776 - Lead statue of King George in Bowling Green, N.Y. melted down to make bullets for American Revolution.
● 1776 - The American Declaration of Independence was read aloud to Gen. George Washington's troops in New York.
● 1789 - In Versailles, the National Assembly reconstitutes itself as the National Constituent Assembly and begins preparations for a French constitution.
● 1790 - Russo-Swedish War: Second Battle of Svensksund -In the Baltic Sea, the Swedish Navy captures one third of the Russian fleet.
● 1792 - S. L. Mitchell of Columbia College in New York City became the first Professor of Agriculture.
● 1793 - Act Against Slavery passed in Upper Canada and importation of slaves into Lower Canada is prohibited.
● 1808 - The leather-splitting machine was patented by Samuel Parker.
● 1810 - Napoleon annexes the Kingdom of Holland as part of the First French Empire.
● 1815 - Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, Prince de Benevente becomes Prime Minister of France.
● 1816 - Argentina declares independence from Spain.
● 1838 - Birth of Philip P. Bliss, American gospel singer and songwriter. His best-remembered hymns include 'Wonderful Words of Life,' 'It is Well with My Soul' and 'Let the Lower Lights Be Burning.'
● 1843 - Birth of Ralph E. Hudson, sacred composer and music publisher. His most enduring hymns include 'At the Cross' and 'Blessed Be the Name.'
● 1846 - By an Act of Congress, the Washington, DC area south of the Potomac River (39 mi² or about 100 km²) is returned to Virginia.
● 1846 - Capt Montgomery claims Yerba Buena (SF) for US
● 1847 - A 10-hour work day was established for workers in the state of New Hampshire.
● 1850 - U.S. President Zachary Taylor died in office at the age of 55. He was succeeded by Millard Fillmore. Taylor had only served 16 months.
● 1860 - Temperature hits 115° F in Ft Scott & 112° F in Topeka Kansas
● 1862 - Gen John Hunt Morgan captures Tompkinsville, KY
● 1863 - American Civil War: Siege of Port Hudson ends.
● 1863 - Union troops enter Port Hudson
● 1867 - An unsuccessful expedition led by E. D. Young set out to search for Dr. David Livingstone (Scottish Missionary and explorer).
● 1868 - 1st black cabinet member in SC (Francis L Cardozo-sect of state)
● 1868 - The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. The amendment was designed to grant citizenship to and protect the civil liberties of recently freed slaves. It did this by prohibiting states from denying or abridging the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, depriving any person of his life, liberty, or property without due process of law, or denying to any person within their jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. {This is the amendment is frequently attacked as illegal by the racist crowd.}
● 1872 - Birth of songster Gaston Montehus (1872-1962). French revolutionary socialist and antimilitarist. Author of a hundred well known songs.
● 1872 - Doughnut cutter patented by John Blondel, Thomaston, ME {Police have been cheering him ever since.}
● 1877 - Alexander Graham Bell, Gardiner Greene Hubbard, Thomas Sanders and Thomas Watson formed the Bell Telephone Company.
● 1878 - An improved corncob pipe patented by Henry Tibbe, Washington, MO
● 1879 - C H F Peters discovers asteroid #199 Byblis
● 1887 - Reportedly paper napkins were used for the first time by John Dickinson (stationery manufacturers) at the company's annual dinner.
● 1893 - Daniel H Williams performs "world's 1st successful heart operation"
● 1894 - Birth of journalist Dorothy Thompson, Lancaster, New York. The first journalist to be expelled from Germany by Hitler's Nazi regime. One of the most famous journalists of the 20th century.
● 1896 - William Jennings Bryan caused a sensation at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago with his "cross of gold" speech denouncing supporters of the gold standard. Bryan went on to win the party's nomination.
● 1896 - Birth of William Cameron Townsend, American missionary and linguist. In 1942 he established what has become the largest evangelical missionary agency in the world --Wycliffe Bible Translators (WBT).
● 1900 - Birth of Louis Simon (1900-1980). French militant pacifist and individualist anarchist, mathematician, as well as a writer and poet.
● 1900 - Queen Victoria gives royal assent to an act creating the Commonwealth of Australia thus uniting separate colonies on the continent under one federal government.
● 1902 - L Carnera discovers asteroid #487 Venetia
● 1906 - Gabriel-Constant Martin (1839-1906) dies. Teacher, elected a member of the Paris Commune and First International, Blanquist, anarchist.
● 1910 - Walter Brookins becomes 1st to pilot an airplane to 1 mile altitude
● 1914 - 1st US duplicate auction bridge championship held, Lake Placid, NY
● 1915 - Germany surrenders South West Africa to Union of South Africa
● 1916 - 1st cargo submarine to cross the Atlantic arrives in US from Germany
● 1917 - Antonio Martinez, shoemaker and anarchist, killed by the São Paulo, Brazil police at a demonstration during a textile strike. His killing sets off a three-day general strike the following week.
● 1917 - British warship "Vanguard" explodes at Scapa Flow killing 800
● 1917 - Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, charged with conspiracy to defeat military registration under the conscription law, sentenced to serve two years in prison, to pay fines of $10,000 each, and to be probably deported to Russia at the expiration of their prison terms.
● 1917 - Federal troops raid IWW hall in Yakima, Wash.
● 1918 - Great train wreck of 1918: In Nashville, Tennessee, an inbound local train collides with an outbound express killing 101 and injuring 171 people, making it the deadliest rail accident in United States history.
● 1918 - US Army's Distinguished Service Cross authorized
● 1920 - Birth of anarchist Andre Devriendt.
● 1921 - Maulana Muhammad Ali Johar delivered his famous speech at Khilafat Conference, Karachi.
● 1923 - Russia - Mollie Steimer and photographer Senya Fleshin deported after their November 1922 arrests for propagating anarchism. Steimer had earlier been arrested and deported from the US for the same crime.
● 1927 - William T Francis named minister to Liberia
● 1929 - Hassan II, who ruled Morocco from 1961 until his death on July 23, 1999, was born.
● 1929 - William Charles Owen (1854-1929) dies. Anglo-American militant and anarchist individualist propagandist. Member of the International Workmen's Association, Kropotkin's translator.
● 1932 - Dissastified with the actions of the federal government, the oligarchies of São Paulo initiate an insurrection to retake power from Getúlio Vargas.
● 1942 - Anne Frank, 13, goes into hiding with her family and four other Jews in the Amsterdam warehouse behind her father's business.
● 1943 - American and British forces made an amphibious landing on Sicily.
● 1943 - World War II: Operation Husky - Allied forces perform an amphibious invasion of Sicily.
● 1944 - World War II: Battle of Normandy - British and Canadian forces capture Caen, France.
● 1944 - World War II: Battle of Saipan - Americans take Saipan.
● 1944 - World's largest circus tent catches fire at Ringling Brother's, Barnum & Bailey 2nd performance. 168 die. (Hartford Conn)
● 1948 - Pakistan issued first set of Postage stamp, having image of Constituent Assembly, Jinnah International Airport (Quaid-e-Azam International Airport), Shahi Fort.
● 1950 - 13.15" (33.40 cm) of rainfall, York, Nebraska (state 24-hour record)
● 1951 - Dashiel Hammett sentenced to six months imprisonment for refusing to cooperate with anti-communist inquiry.
● 1951 - U.S. President Truman asked Congress to formally end the state of war between the United States and Germany.
● 1953 - New York Airways began the first commuter passenger service by helicopter.
● 1955 - 1st black executive on White House staff (E Frederic Morrow)
● 1955 - Russell-Einstein Manifesto on danger of nuclear war published by Bertrand Russell, London. Basis for the Pugwash Conferences of scientists two years later.
● 1957 - Discovery of element 102 (Nobelium) announced
● 1957 - Washington State Labor Council formed.
● 1958 - Giant splash caused by fall of 90 million tons of rock & ice into Lituya Bay, Alaska washes 1,800 feet up the mountain
● 1967 - A team of mountaineers successfully climb the Old Man of Hoy, the expedition is televised by BBC television in a unique live outside broadcast.
● 1968 - 39.83 cm (15.68") of rainfall, Columbus, Miss (state 24-hour record)
● 1971 - The United States turned over complete responsibility of the Demilitarized Zone to South Vietnamese units.
● 1973 - Bahamas' sun sets on British Empire; Prince Charles enjoys the Bahamas' last day as a British colony.
● 1974 - Former Chief Justice Earl Warren died at age 83.
● 1975 - The National Assembly of Senegal passes a law that will pave way for a (albeit highly restricted) multi-party system.
● 1976 - Uganda asks UN to condemn Israeli hostage rescue raid on Entebbe
● 1977 - Death of Alice Paul, 92, leading feminist and author of the Equal Rights Amendment. Founder of the National Woman's Party and an organizer of women who lobbied the U.S. Congress for passage of the Susan B. Anthony Amendment (1920) guaranteeing all women the right to vote.
● 1978 - American Nazi Party, holds a rally at Marquette Park, Chicago
● 1978 - L Chernykh discovers asteroid #2530 Shipka
● 1978 - One hundred thousand march in Washington, D.C. for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.
● 1979 - A car bomb destroys a Renault owned by famed "Nazi hunters" Serge and Beate Klarsfeld at their home in France. A note purportedly from ODESSA claims responsibility.
● 1979 - Dr Walter Massey named director of Argonne national Lab
● 1979 - Voyager 2 flies past Jupiter
● 1980 - Brazil - Seventh Heaven? Seven die in a stampede to see the Pope.
● 1980 - Thirteen Salvadorans found dead in Arizona desert.
● 1981 - Senegalese political parties Party of Independence and Work (PIT) and Democratic League - Movement for the Labour Party (LD-MPT) legally recognized.
● 1982 - A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 759 crashes in Kenner, Louisiana killing all 146 people on board and eight others on the ground.
● 1982 - Margaret Thatcher begins her 2nd term as British prime minster
● 1982 - Queen fends off bedroom intruder; A man breaks into Buckingham Palace and spends ten minutes talking to the Queen in her bedroom.
● 1984 - York Minster was struck by a lightning bolt, the resulting fire rampaged through most of the building. However the cathedral valuables were rescued by clergymen and the "Rose Window" was not affected.
● 1986 - The New Zealand Parliament passes the Homosexual Law Reform Act legalising homosexuality in New Zealand.
● 1986 - U.S. Attorney General Ed Meese's Commission on Pornography links hard core porn to sex crimes. Standing in front of a naked woman at the Justice Dept. (later covered up by John Ashcroft), Meese accepts the 1,960-page report from his $500,000 commission. Available in two volumes from the government for $35, the report becomes a cult hit for its 100-plus-pages of book, movie, and magazine titles and 200 pages of detailed descriptions and excerpts.
● 1989 - Two bombs explode in Mecca, killing one pilgrim and wounding 16 others.
● 1991 - Bank collapse costs taxpayers millions; The closure of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International loses about 20 local councils up to £30m in investments.
● 1991 - International Federation of Human Rights cites human rights violations committed by police and military personnel during Oka crisis in Quebec, Canada.
● 1992 - Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton tapped Sen. Al Gore of Tennessee to be his running mate.
● 1995 - The Grateful Dead played their last concert, at Soldier Field in Chicago. (Lead guitarist Jerry Garcia died the following month.)
● 1998 - Statues of Martin Luther King, Jr., and other Christian martyrs unveiled, Westminster Abbey, London.
● 1999 - Days of student protests begins after Iranian police and hardliners attack a student dormitory of University of Tehran.
● 2001 - In Columbia, South Carolina, 5,000 rally at the state capitol in support of the "Charleston Five," labor activists (four of them African- American) facing felony rioting charges from a police attack on a January, 2000 longshoremen's picket of a non-union crew unloading a port ship.
● 2001 - A court in Chile ruled that Gen. Augusto Pinochet could not be tried on human rights charges because of his deteriorating physical and mental health .
● 2001 - Scientists discover why we are here; A Californian University throws more light on why the Big Bang theory works after nearly 40 years of world-wide research.
● 2002 - The African Union was established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The first chairman was Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa.
● 2004 - A Senate Intelligence Committee report concluded the CIA had provided unfounded assessments of the threat posed by Iraq that the Bush administration relied on to justify going to war. {It failed to mention the fact the war criminal's cabal had demanded just such assessments and would not accept anything less.}
● 2004 - The International Court of Justice ruled that Israel's planned barrier in the West Bank barrier violated international law.
● 2004 - After José Manuel Barroso's appointment to the European Commission, Portuguese President Jorge Sampaio announces that he will invite the second-in-line leader of PSD, Pedro Santana Lopes to form government.
● 2005 - Danny Way, a daredevil skateboarder, rolled down a large ramp and jumped across the Great Wall of China. He was the first person to clear the wall without motorized aid.
● 2006 - At least 122 people are dead after a Sibir Airlines passenger jet Airbus A-310 with 200 people on board veered off the runway while landing at Irkutsk Airport in Siberia in wet conditions.
BIRTHS
● 1249 - Emperor Kameyama of Japan (d. 1305)
● 1577 - Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, English Jamestown colonist (d. 1618)
● 1578 - Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1637)
● 1654 - Emperor Reigen of Japan (d. 1732)
● 1686 - Philip Livingston, American politician (d. 1749)
● 1689 - Alexis Piron, French writer (d. 1773)
● 1721 - Johann Nikolaus Götz, German poet (d. 1781)
● 1753 - William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock, Governor of Newfoundland (d. 1825)
● 1764 - Ann Radcliffe, English writer (d. 1823)
● 1775 - Matthew Lewis, English novelist (d. 1818)
● 1786 - Sophie Hélène Béatrix, Princess of France (d. 1787)
● 1800 - Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician (d. 1885)
● 1802 - Thomas Davenport, American inventor; developed successful electric motor (d. 1851)
● 1808 - Alexander William Doniphan, American lawyer and soldier (d. 1887)
● 1819 - Elias Howe, American inventor (d. 1867)
● 1828 - Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano, Italian Catholic churchman (d. 1913)
● 1836 - Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1908)
● 1836 - Camille de Renesse, Belgian count (d. 1904)
● 1848 - Robert I, Duke of Parma, last ruling Duke of Parma (d. 1907)
● 1858 - Franz Boas, German anthropologist (d. 1942)
● 1879 - Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer (d. 1936)
● 1879 - Carlos Chagas, Brazilian physician (d. 1934)
● 1884 - Mikhail Borodin, Russian Comintern agent (d. 1951)
● 1887 - Samuel Eliot Morison, American biographer and historian (d. 1976)
● 1889 - Leo Dandurand, American-born Canadian hockey executive (d. 1964)
● 1893 - Dorothy Thompson, American journalist and writer (d. 1961)
● 1893 - George Geary, English cricketer (d. 1981)
● 1894 - Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
● 1897 - Albert Wedemeyer, American military leader during W. W. II (d. 1989)
● 1900 - Carmen Franco, Spanish consort of Francisco Franco (d. 1988)
● 1901 - Dame Barbara Cartland, English novelist (d. 2000)
● 1905 - Clarence Campbell, Canadian hockey executive (d. 1984)
● 1908 - Allama Rasheed Turabi, Pakistani scholar, orator and philosopher (d. 1973)
● 1911 - Mervyn Peake, British writer and illustrator (d. 1968)
● 1911 - John A. Wheeler, American physicist
● 1915 - David Diamond, American composer (d. 2005)
● 1916 - Sir Dean Goffin, New Zealand composer (d. 1984)
● 1916 - Edward Heath, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1970-1974) (d. 2005)
● 1918 - Jarl Wahlström, the 12th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1999)
● 1926 - Ben Roy Mottelson, American-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
● 1927 - Ed Ames, American singer and actor
● 1927 - Susan Cabot, American actress (d. 1986)
● 1927 - Red Kelly, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1928 - Federico Bahamontes, Spanish cyclist
● 1928 - Vince Edwards, American actor, director and singer (d. 1996)
● 1929 - King Hassan II of Morocco, (d. 1999)
● 1929 - Jesse McReynolds, American singer and mandolinist
● 1929 - Lee Hazelwood, American country singer, songwriter and producer
● 1930 - Buddy Bregman, American musical arranger and conductor
● 1932 - Donald Rumsfeld, 13th & 21st United States Secretary of Defense and most accomplished liar
● 1935 - Wim Duisenberg, Dutch economist and politician (d. 2005)
● 1936 - Floyd Abrams, First Amendment attorney and advocate
● 1936 - June Jordan, American writer and teacher (d. 2002)
● 1936 - Andre Pronovost, French Canadian ice hockey player
● 1936 - James Hampton, Actor
● 1937 - David Hockney, English artist
● 1938 - Brian Dennehy, American actor
● 1942 - Richard Roundtree, American actor
● 1942 - Edy Williams, American actress
● 1943 - John Casper, astronaut
● 1945 - Dean R. Koontz, American author
● 1945 - Root Boy Slim, American entertainer (d. 1993)
● 1946 - Bon Scott, Australian singer (AC/DC) (d. 1980)
● 1947 - Haruomi Hosono, Japanese musician
● 1947 - Mitch Mitchell, English drummer
● 1947 - O. J. Simpson, American football player, actor and {multiple murderer}
● 1948 - Hassan Wirajuda, Indonesian current foreign minister
● 1950 - Viktor Yanukovych, Prime Minister of Ukraine
● 1951 - Chris Cooper, American actor
● 1952 - John Tesh, American composer
● 1953 - Thomas Ligotti, American author
● 1953 - Margie Gillis, Canadian dancer and choreographer
● 1953 - David Ball, Country singer
● 1954 - Debbie Sledge, R&B singer (Sister Sledge)
● 1955 - Fred Norris, American radio personality
● 1955 - Jimmy Smits, American actor
● 1955 - Willie Wilson, American baseball player
● 1955 - Lisa Banes, Actress
● 1955 - Lindsey Graham, U.S. senator, R-S.C.
● 1956 - Marc Almond, British singer
● 1956 - Tom Hanks, American actor
● 1957 - Marc Almond, Rock singer (Soft Cell)
● 1957 - Kelly McGillis, American actress
● 1959 - Jim Kerr, Scottish singer (Simple Minds)
● 1959 - Kevin Nash, American professional wrestler
● 1959 - Clive Stafford Smith, British human rights lawyer
● 1960 - Marc Mero, American professional wrestler
● 1964 - Courtney Love, American musician
● 1964 - Gianluca Vialli, Italian football player
● 1965 - Frank Bello, American musician (Anthrax)
● 1965 - David O'Hara, Irish-Scottish actor
● 1967 - Gunnar Axén, Swedish politician
● 1968 - Paolo Di Canio, Italian football player
● 1969 - Mark Lui, Hong Kong composer and producer
● 1970 - Trent Green, American football player
● 1970 - Masami Tsuda, manga author
● 1971 - Scott Grimes, Actor
● 1971 - Marc Andreessen, American software developer
● 1973 - Enrique Murciano, Actor ("Without a Trace")
● 1973 - Kelly Holcomb, American football player
● 1974 - Nikola Sarcevic, Swedish bassist and singer (Millencolin)
● 1975 - Jack White, American musician (The White Stripes}
● 1976 - Shelton Benjamin, American professional wrestler
● 1976 - Dan Estrin, Rock musician (Hoobastank)
● 1976 - Fred Savage, Actor ("The Wonder Years")
● 1976 - Jochem Uytdehaage, Dutch speed skater
● 1977 - Isaac Brock, American musician
● 1978 - Linda Park, Korean-born actress
● 1978 - Mark Medlock, German singer
● 1978 - Pat Allingham, Country musician
● 1979 - Ella Koon, Hong Kong singer and actress
● 1980 - Megan Parlen, Actress
● 1982 - Sakon Yamamoto, Japanese race car driver
● 1982 - Ashly DelGrosso, American ballroom dancer
● 1982 - Maggie Ma, Canadian actress
● 1983 - Lucia Micarelli, American musician
● 1984 - Jacob Hoggard, singer of Canadian band Hedley (band)
● 1985 - Ashley Young, English football player
● 1986 - Kiely Williams, American singer and actress
● 1991 - Mitchel Musso, American actor
● 1994 - Akiane Kramarik, American painter and poet
● 1995 - Georgie Henley, English actress
DEATHS
● 518 - Anastasius I, Byzantine Emperor
● 1228 - Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury
● 1386 - Leopold III of Austria (b. 1351)
● 1553 - Maurice, Elector of Saxony (b. 1521)
● 1654 - Ferdinand IV of Germany (b. 1633)
● 1706 - Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, French Canadian sailor and explorer (b. 1661)
● 1737 - Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1671)
● 1742 - John Oldmixon, English historian (b. 1673)
● 1746 - Philip V of Spain (b. 1683)
● 1747 - Giovanni Bononcini, Italian composer (b. 1670)
● 1766 - Jonathan Mayhew, American minister (b. 1720)
● 1795 - Henry Seymour Conway, British general and statesman (b. 1721)
● 1797 - Edmund Burke, British philosopher and statesman (b. 1729)
● 1850 - Báb, Persian founder of the Bábi Faith (b. 1819)
● 1850 - Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States (b. 1784)
● 1852 - Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan, American politician (b. 1794)
● 1856 - Amedeo Avogadro, Italian chemist (b. 1776)
● 1856 - James Strang, Mormon splinter group leader (b. 1813)
● 1880 - Paul Broca, French physician and anatomist (b. 1824)
● 1882 - Ignacio Carrera Pinto, Chilean war hero
● 1903 - Alphonse François Renard, Belgian geologist (b. 1842)
● 1927 - John Drew Jr., American actor (b. 1853)
● 1932 - King C. Gillette, American inventor (b. 1885)
● 1937 - Oliver Law, first African-American commander of U.S. troops (b. 1899)
● 1938 - Benjamin Cardozo, American jurist (b. 1870)
● 1947 - Lucjan Żeligowski, Polish general (b. 1865)
● 1949 - Fritz Bennicke Hart, English-born Australian composer (b. 1874)
● 1951 - Harry Heilmann, baseball player (b. 1894)
● 1955 - Don Beauman, British racing driver (b. 1928)
● 1967 - Eugen Fischer, Nazi physician (b. 1874)
● 1974 - Earl Warren, 14th Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1891)
● 1979 - Cornelia Otis Skinner, American actress and author (b. 1899)
● 1980 - Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian poet and lyricist (b. 1913)
● 1985 - Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (b. 1896)
● 1985 - Jimmy Kinnon, Scottish founder of Narcotics Anonymous (b. 1911)
● 1992 - Eric Sevareid, American reporter (b. 1912)
● 1994 - Bill Mosienko, professional ice hockey player (b. 1921)
● 1996 - Melvin Belli, American attorney (b. 1907)
● 1999 - Robert de Cotret, Canadian politician (b. 1944)
● 2002 - Laurence Janifer, American writer (b. 1933)
● 2002 - Rod Steiger, American actor (b. 1925)
● 2004 - Chuck Cadman, Canadian politician (b. 1948)
● 2004 - Paul Klebnikov, American journalist (b. 1963)
● 2004 - Isabel Sanford, American actress (b. 1917)
● 2005 - Yevgenij Grishin, Russian speed skater (b. 1931)
● 2005 - Alex Shibicky Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1914)
● 2006 - Milan Williams, American musician (The Commodores) (b. 1948)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● Feast of Our Lady of Peace; Octave of the Visitation
● St. Adrian Van Hilvarenbeek
● St. Agilulf, bishop of Cologne, martyr
● St. Alberic Crescitelli
● St. Anatolia
● St. Andrew Wouters
● St. Brictius, bishop, confessor
● St. Cornelius
● St. Cyril, bishop and companions, martyrs
● St. Eleutherius, bishop of Tournai, confessor
● St. Ephrem the Deacon, confessor, Doctor of the Church
● St. Everildis, virgin
● St. Francis Rod
● St. Godfrey
● St. Golvinus
● Holy Martyrs of Gorcum (died 1572)
● St. Heraclius, bishop of Sens
● St. James Lacop
● St. Jerome of Werden
● St. John of Cologne
● St. John of Osterwick
● St. Justus of Poland
● St. Leonard Wegel
● St. Nicasius Jonson
● St. Nicholas Pieck
● St. Nicholas Poppel
● St. Nicholas, bishop, confessor
● St. Patermuthius
● St. Pavacius, bishop of Le Mans
● St. Peter of Asche
● St. Procopius, martyr
● St. Sabinus, bishop, martyr
● St. Sevo or Gevo
● St. Theobald, abbot, confessor
● St. Veronica de Julianis, virgin
● St. Willehad of Denmark
● St. Zeno, martyr
● Bl. Adrian Fortescue
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for June 27 (Civil Date: July 9)
● St. Sampson the Hospitable of Constantinople
● St. Severus, presbyter of Interocrea in Italy.
● St. Joanna the Myrrh-bearer.
● Martyr Anectus of Caesarea in Cappadocia.
● Blessed Martin of Turov.
● New-Martyr priest Gregory Nikolsky (1918).
● Greek Calendar:
● St. Luke the hermit.
● Martyrs Mark and Marcia.
● Hieromartyr Pierius, presbyter of Antioch.
● Old Catholic: Feast of St Maria Goretti, virgin/martyr
● Christian: St. Thomas More, humanist/martyr
● Bahá'í Faith - Holy Day: Martyrdom of the Báb.
● Roman festival - Caprotinia, or feasts of Juno Caprotina.
● Argentina : Independence Day (1816)
● Morocco : Youth Day/King Hassan II's Birthday
● Palau - Constitution Day.
● US : National POW/MIA Recognition Day
● 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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