Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On The Sixties "People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around—the music and the ideas." — Bob Dylan
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Inanity "Government is not the solution to our problems. Government is the problem." — Ronald Reagan, helping to create the stereotype of the big-government liberal
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: On Politics "A zebra cannot change its spots." — Al Gore
Thought for the day: "The hardest thing to do is to disquise your feelings when sending a large crowd of visiting relatives home."
{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
Unusual Cratering on Saturn's Dione
Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 3 B.C.E.- Octavian (later known as Augustus) enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman Republic.
● 527 - Justinian I becomes the only ruler of the Byzantine Empire.
● 607 - Ono no Imoko is dispatched as envoy to the Sui court in China (Traditional Japanese date: July 3, 607).
● 902 - Taormina, the last Byzantine stronghold in Sicily, is captured by the Aghlabid army.
● 1203 - Isaac II Angelus, restored Eastern Roman Emperor, declares his son Alexius IV Angelus co-emperor after pressure from the forces of the Ciaran Fourth Crusade.
● 1291 - Everlasting League forms, basis of Swiss Confederation (National Day)
● 1461 - Edward IV is crowned king of England.
● 1492 - Ferdinand and Isabella drive the Jews out of Spain. {This gave them more to import American Indian slaves.}
● 1498 - Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit Venezuela.
● 1521 - German reformer Martin Luther wrote in a letter: 'Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly, for He is victorious over sin, death, and the world.'
● 1619 - First African slaves arrive in Jamestown, Virginia.
● 1664 - The Ottoman Empire is defeated in the Battle of Saint Gotthard by an Austrian army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli, resulting in the Peace of Vasvár.
● 1758 - First Indian reservation in North America established by New Jersey Colonial Assembly.
● 1774 - The element oxygen is discovered for the third (and last) time; Oxygen was isolated from air successfully by chemist Carl Wilhelm and scientist Joseph Priestly.
● 1779 - Francis Scott Key was born. He was an American composer, attorney, poet, and social worker. He was the composer of the poem "Defence of Fort McHenry" which later became known as the "Star-Spangled Banner."
● 1785 - Caroline Herschel becomes 1st woman discoverer of a comet
● 1789 - US Customs begins enforcing Tariff Act
● 1790 - Spaniards under Quimper first sight Neah Bay, Washington.
● 1790 - The first U.S. census was completed. The population of the 17 states was 3,929,214.
● 1794 - Whiskey Rebellion begins
● 1798 - French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay) - Battle begins when a British fleet engages the French Revolutionary Navy fleet in an unusual night action.
● 1800 - The Act of Union 1800 is passed in which merges the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
● 1812 - A rare tornado hits Westchester County, NY
● 1818 - Maria Mitchell was born. She was the first female professional astronomer and the first women to be elected into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
● 1819 - Herman Melville was born, the author of "Moby Dick."
● 1820 - London's Regent's Canal opens.
● 1831 - A new London Bridge opens.
● 1832 - The Black Hawk War ends.
● 1834 - Death of Robert Morrison, 52, the first English Protestant missionary to reach China. Sent by the London Missionary Society in 1807, in 1823 he completed a Chinese translation of the Bible - it filled 23 volumes!
● 1834 - Slavery abolished in British Empire, although slave trade outlawed in 1772.
● 1838 - Emancipation of British slaves on Bahamas
● 1852 – San Francisco Methodists establish 1st black church, Zion Methodist
● 1861 - Brazil recognizes Confederacy
● 1863 - Cavalry action near Brandy Station-End of Gettysburg Campaign
● 1867 - Blacks vote for 1st time in a state election in South (Tennessee)
● 1869 - 1st voyage down Colorado River
● 1873 - Andrew S. Hallidie successfully tested a cable car. The design was done for San Francisco, CA.
● 1874 - Charles Spaulding, the insurance man who built one of America's largest black-owned businesses, was born.
● 1876 - Colorado became the 38th state to join the United States.
● 1881 - US Quarantine Station authorized for Angel Island, San Francisco Bay
● 1890 - Birth of Walther Eichrodt, German Reformed Old Testament scholar. He taught at Basel and Erlangen universities, and is highly regarded among Christian evangelicals today for his Theology of the Old Testament (1933-39).
● 1893 - Shredded wheat was patented by Henry Perky and William Ford.
● 1894 - The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.
● 1896 - George Samuelson completes rowing the Atlantic (NY to England)
● 1901 - Burial within San Francisco City limits prohibited
● 1902 - The United States buys the rights to the Panama Canal from France.
● 1903 - 1st coast-to-coast automobile trip (SF-NY) completed
● 1907 - Bank of Italy opens 1st branch at 3433 Mission Street, SF
● 1907 - First Scout camp opens on Brownsea Island.
● 1907 - The U.S. Army Signal Corps established an aeronautical division that later became the U.S. Air Force.
● 1909 - Revolt in Catalonia leaves over 1,000 dead.
● 1914 - Germany declares war on Russia at the opening of World War I. The Swiss Army mobilizes because of World War I
● 1916 - Hawaii National Park established
● 1917 - IWW organizer Frank Little lynched in Butte, Montana. During a prolonged conflict between miners and copper companies, a vigilante group drags Little--broken leg and all--from his boarding house and hangs him from a railroad trestle. Authorities make no attempt to find the assailants.
● 1920 - Gandhi begins Indian non-cooperation movement.
● 1920 - National convention of Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association opens in Harlem, New York City.
● 1927 - The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Communist Party of China. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army.
● 1932 - Canada - Co-Operative Commonwealth Federation founded, Calgary.
● 1933 - NRA (National Recovery Administration) established
● 1936 - 100,000 saluted Adolf Hitler on his entrance at the opening of the Berlin Olympics.
● 1936 - Benjamin E Mays named president of Morehouse College
● 1937 - Tito reads the resolution "Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH" to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor.
● 1938 - Hilo Massacre - 51 racially mixed longshoremen and union supporters in Hilo, Hawaii are gassed, hosed, bayoneted, and shot in the back by police.
● 1941 - The first Jeep is produced.
● 1943 - Several deaths occurred in a race-related riot in Harlem, New York City.
● 1944 - Adam Clayton Powell elected 1st black congressman from East
● 1944 - Anne Frank makes the last entry in her diary.
● 1944 - In Warsaw, Poland, an uprising against Nazi occupation began. The revolt only lasted two months.
● 1946 - Pres Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)
● 1946 - The Japanese Federation of Trade Unions is formed.
● 1946 - President Harry S. Truman signed the Fulbright Program into law, establishing the scholarships named for Sen. J. William Fulbright.
● 1948 - The U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations is founded.
● 1950 - King Leopold of Belgium abdicates, Baudouin becomes king
● 1950 - Territory of Guam created
● 1953 - California introduces sales tax (for education)
● 1953 - English apologist C.S. Lewis wrote in a letter: 'How little people know who think that holiness is dull. When one meets the real thing, it is irresistible.'
● 1953 - House Concurrent Resolution 108 ends the status of certain Indian tribes, called "termination."
● 1953 - Northern Rhodesia becomes part of Federation of Rhodesia & Nyasaland
● 1953 - The first aluminum-faced building was completed. It was the first of this type in America.
● 1955 - 1st microgravity research begins
● 1956 - The Social Security Act was amended to provide benefits to disabled workers aged 50-64 and disabled adult children.
● 1957 - 1st coml building heated by Sun (Albuquerque NM)
● 1957 - The United States and Canada form the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD).
● 1958 - 1st class postage up to $0.04 (had been $0.03 for 26 years)
● 1960 - Communist Party of Independence and Work is banned in Senegal.
● 1960 - Dahomey (later renamed Benin) declares independence from France.
● 1960 - Islamabad declared as the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.
● 1961 - New SF Hall of Justice opens
● 1961 - Whitney Young Jr named executive director of National Urban League
● 1964 - The Belgian Congo is renamed the Republic of the Congo.
● 1966 - Fifteen people were shot and killed and 31 others were injured by Charles Joseph Whitman from a tower at the University of Texas at Austin. Whitman was killed in the tower by Texas Rangers. {Comments at the time were "They sure saved us the trouble of a trial."
● 1966 - Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official People's Republic of China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
● 1967 - Israel annexes East Jerusalem.
● 1968 - Court acquits sanctuary activist and reporter Demetria Martinez of conspiracy to smuggle aliens for her part in helping bring two Salvadoran women to the U.S. to give birth.
● 1968 - The coronation is held of Hassanal Bolkiah, the 29th Sultan of Brunei.
● 1969 - 110,000 attend Atlantic City Pop Festival
● 1970 - EAA Convention moves from Rockford Ill to Oshkosh, Wi
● 1970 - Powder Ridge Rock Festival.
● 1970 - Puyallup Indians set up camp on Puyallup River and begin fishing to re-establish tribal fishing rights.
● 1971 - Apollo 15 finds rock from birth of Moon; Astronauts uncover a rock which may date back to the origin of the Moon.
● 1971 - George Harrison's concert for Bangladesh takes place in NYC
● 1972 - 1st article exposing Wategate scandal (Bernstein-Woodward)
● 1975 - CSCE Final Act creates the Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
● 1975 - Helsinki Accords on human rights and East-West relations formed.
● 1976 - First occupation of Seabrook, New Hampshire nuclear reactor site; 18 arrested.
● 1976 - Lauda fights for life after Grand Prix crash; F1 racing driver Niki Lauda is in a critical condition in hospital after crashing at the German Grand Prix.
● 1977 - Frank H. T. Rhodes is elected President of Cornell University, a post he would hold for 18 years.
● 1979 - Following her graduation from rabbinical college in Philadelphia, Linda Joy Holtzman was appointed spiritual leader of the Conservative Beth Israel congregation in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, making her the first female rabbi to head a Jewish congregation in America.
● 1980 - Buttevant Rail Disaster kills 18 and injures dozens of train passengers in Ireland.
● 1981 - MTV begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its first video, "Video Killed The Radio Star" by the Buggles. {One can wonder what killed the videos on MTV?}
● 1982 - Australian Coalition for Disarmament and Peace founded, Canberra.
● 1982 - Blockade of nuclear missile site begins, Grossenstringen, West Germany.
● 1983 - U.S. resumes making chemical weapons after 14 year's suspension.
● 1988 - Deep Rover 1-man research submarine unveiled at Crater Lake, Oregon
● 1989 - Britain's oldest person turns 112; Charlotte Marion Hughes from Cleveland celebrates her birthday - and enters the record books.
● 1990 - Iraq pulls out of talks with Kuwait
● 1991 - Actress Hedy Lamarr, 77, arrested for shoplifting in Florida
● 1991 - Berkeley (Calif.) police fire rubber bullets at protest over the installation of volleyball courts at People's Park.
● 1994 - Library fire wipes out historic records; Thousands of historic documents and more than 100,000 books are destroyed in a blaze which ripped through Norwich Central Library early today.
● 1995 - Westinghouse Electric Corp. struck a deal to buy CBS for $5.4 billion.
● 2001 - Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has a Ten Commandments monument installed in the judiciary building, leading to a lawsuit to have it removed and his own removal from office.
● 2001 - An agreement is reached on the position of the minority Albanian language in the Republic of Macedonia.
● 2001 - Bulgaria, Cyprus, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia and Slovakia join the European Environment Agency.
● 2001 - Pro Bowl tackle Korey Stringer died of heat stroke, a day after collapsing at the Minnesota Vikings' training camp.
● 2001 - Boy 'held prisoner for eight years'; Officers from Scotland Yard's Child Protection Team are investigating a boy's claims he was held captive in his own home for eight years.
● 2003 - Hutton inquiry begins; The judge investigating the death of weapons expert Dr. David Kelly says his first task is to flesh out "a fuller picture of the facts".
● 2004 - The federal government warned of possible al-Qaida terrorist attacks against specific financial institutions in New York City, Washington and Newark, N.J.
● 2004 - Alexandra Scott, a young cancer patient who started a lemonade stand to raise money for cancer research, sparking a nationwide fund-raising campaign, died at her home in Wynnewood, Pa., at age 8.
● 2004 - A supermarket fire kills 396 people and injures 500 in Asunción, Paraguay.
● 2005 - Saudi Arabia's ruler, King Fahd, died; Crown Prince Abdullah, the king's half brother, became the country's new monarch.
● 2005 - President George W. Bush used a recess appointment to install John Bolton as ambassador to the United Nations, bypassing the Senate after a testy standoff with Democrats.
● 2005 - German spelling reform of 1996 is formally implemented.
● 2006 - Cuban leader Fidel Castro turned over absolute power when he gave his brother Raul authority while he underwent an intestinal surgery.
● 2007 - The I-35W Mississippi River Bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapsed during the evening rush hour.
BIRTHS
● 10 B.C.E.- Claudius, Roman Emperor (d. 54)
● 126 - Pertinax, Roman Emperor (d. 193)
● 1313 - Emperor Kogon of Japan (d. 1364)
● 1377 - Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (d. 1433)
● 1545 - Andrew Melville, Scottish theologian and religious reformer (d. 1622)
● 1555 - Edward Kelley, English spirit medium (d. 1597)
● 1579 - Luís Vélez de Guevara, Spanish writer (d. 1644)
● 1630 - Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman (d. 1673)
● 1713 - Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1780)
● 1714 - Richard Wilson, Welsh painter (d. 1782)
● 1738 - Jacques François Dugommier, French general (d. 1794)
● 1744 - Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French scientist (d. 1829)
● 1770 - William Clark, American explorer (d. 1838)
● 1779 - Francis Scott Key, American lawyer and lyricist (d. 1843)
● 1779 - Lorenz Oken, German naturalist (d. 1851)
● 1815 - Richard Henry Dana, Jr., American lawyer, politician, and author (d. 1882)
● 1818 - Maria Mitchell, American astronomer (d. 1889)
● 1819 - Herman Melville, American writer (d. 1891)
● 1837 - Mother Jones, American labor organizer (d. 1930)
● 1843 - Robert Todd Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln; United States Secretary of War (d. 1926)
● 1858 - Hans Rott, Austrian composer (d. 1884)
● 1858 - Gaston Doumergue, French President (d. 1937)
● 1871 - John Lester, American cricketer (d. 1969)
● 1874 - Charles Spaulding, American pioneering business executive (d. 1952)
● 1885 - George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1966)
● 1881 - Otto Toeplitz, German mathematician (d. 1940)
● 1889 - Walter Gerlach, German physicist (d. 1979)
● 1891 - Karl Kobelt, Swiss politician (d. 1968)
● 1893 - King Alexander I of Greece (d. 1920)
● 1894 - Ottavio Bottecchia, Italian cyclist (d. 1927)
● 1910 - James Henry Govier, British artist (d. 1974)
● 1910 - Walter Scharf, American composer (d. 2003)
● 1912 - Henry Jones, American actor (d. 1999)
● 1914 - J. Lee Thompson, British film director (d. 2002)
● 1916 - Anne Hébert, French Canadian author and poet (d. 2000)
● 1921 - Jack Kramer, American tennis player and Hall of Fame member
● 1922 - Pat McDonald, Australian actress (d. 1990)
● 1924 - Georges Charpak, Ukrainian-born physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate
● 1924 - Marcia Mae Jones, American actress (d. 2007)
● 1925 - Ernst Jandl, Austrian writer (d. 2000)
● 1927 - Raymond Leppard, English conductor
● 1930 - Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (d. 2002)
● 1930 - Lionel Bart, English song-writer (d. 1999)
● 1930 - Julie Bovasso, American actor and writer (d. 1991)
● 1930 - Geoffrey Holder, Actor, director
● 1931 - Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Singer
● 1931 - Tom Wilson, Cartoonist ("Ziggy")
● 1932 - Meir Kahane, American founder of the Jewish Defense League (d. 1990)
● 1932 - Meena Kumari, Indian film actress (d. 1972)
● 1933 - Dom DeLuise, American actor and comedian
● 1933 - Dušan Třeštík, Czech historian (d. 2007)
● 1936 - Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer
● 1937 - Alfonse D'Amato, United States Senator from New York
● 1941 - Ron Brown, American politician and Commerce secretary (1993-96) (d. 1996)
● 1941 - Étienne Roda-Gil, French songwriter and screenwriter (d. 2004)
● 1942 - Jerry Garcia, American musician (The Grateful Dead) (d. 1995)
● 1942 - André Gagnon, Quebec pianist and composer
● 1942 - Giancarlo Giannini, Italian actor
● 1945 - Douglas D. Osheroff, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate
● 1945 - Sandi Griffiths, American singer, The Lawrence Welk Show
● 1946 - Fiona Stanley, Australian epidemiologist
● 1946 - Boz Burrell, British bass guitarist (King Crimson - Bad Company) (d. 2006)
● 1949 - Kurmanbek Bakiyev, President of Kyrgyzstan
● 1950 - Roy Williams, collegebasketball coach
● 1950 - Jim Carroll, American poet and actor
● 1951 - Tommy Bolin, American guitarist (Deep Purple) (d. 1976)
● 1951 - Pete Mackanin, American baseball player
● 1952 - Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia (d. 2003)
● 1953 - Robert Cray, American singer
● 1953 - Charles Gilpin, American Scientist (d. 1998)
● 1955 - Trevor Berbick, Jamaican boxer
● 1956 - Tom Leykis, American radio personality
● 1958 - Adrian Dunbar, Northern Irish actor
● 1958 - Rob Buck, American musician (10,000 Maniacs) (d. 2000)
● 1958 - Tor Håkon Holte, Norwegian cross country skier
● 1958 - Michael Penn, American singer/songwriter
● 1959 - Joe Elliott, English musician (Def Leppard)
● 1960 - Chuck D, American rapper (Public Enemy)
● 1960 - Richard Roeper, American newspaper columnist and film critic
● 1960 - Suzi Gardner, Rock singer, musician (L7)
● 1962 - Jesse Borrego, Actor
● 1962 - Robert Clift, British field hockey player
● 1962 - Jacob Matlala, South African boxer
● 1963 - Coolio, American rapper
● 1963 - Demián Bichir, Mexican actor
● 1963 - John Carroll Lynch, American actor
● 1964 - Adam Duritz, American musician (Counting Crows)
● 1965 - Sam Mendes, British stage and film director
● 1966 - George Ducas, Country singer
● 1967 - Gregg Jefferies, American baseball player
● 1968 - Dan Donegan, American musician (Disturbed)
● 1968 - Charlie Kelley, Country musician (Buffalo Club)
● 1969 - Kevin Jarvis, American baseball player
● 1969 - David Wain, American actor
● 1970 - David James, English footballer
● 1972 - Devon Hughes, American professional wrestler
● 1972 - Nicke Royale, Swedish musician (The Hellacopters)
● 1972 - Tanya Reid, Canadian actress
● 1973 - Tempestt Bledsoe, American actress ("The Cosby Show")
● 1973 - Eduardo Noriega, Spanish actor
● 1974 - Beckie Scott, Canadian cross-country skiing athlete
● 1976 - Nwankwo Kanu, Nigerian footballer
● 1976 - Kevin Joseph, American baseball player
● 1977 - Marc Denis, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1977 - Damien Saez, French Musician, Songwriter, & Author
● 1978 - Edgerrin James, American football player
● 1978 - Dhani Harrison, British musician
● 1979 - Junior Agogo, Ghanan footballer
● 1979 - Jason Momoa, American actor
● 1980 - Alessandro Faiolhe Amantino Mancini, Brazilian footballer
● 1981 - Stephen Hunt, Irish footballer
● 1981 - Ashley Parker Angel, Singer
● 1981 - Taylor Fry, Actress
● 1984 - Valery Ortiz, Puerto Rican actress
● 1984 - Bastian Schweinsteiger, German footballer
● 1986 - Andrew Taylor, English footballer
● 1989 - James Francis Kelly, Actor ("Rocky Balboa")
● 1998 - Khamani Griffin, American child actor
DEATHS
● 371 - St Eusebius of Vercelli, Italian bishop (b. c. 283)
● 527 - Emperor Justin I (b. c. 450)
● 1137 - King Louis VI of France (b. 1081)
● 1227 - Shimazu Tadahisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1179)
● 1402 - Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of Edward III of England (b. 1341)
● 1457 - Lorenzo Valla, Italian humanist (bc. 1406)
● 1464 - Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1386)
● 1541 - Simon Grynaeus, German theologian (b. 1493)
● 1546 - Peter Faber, French Jesuit theologian (b. 1506)
● 1557 - Olaus Magnus, Swedish writer (b. 1490)
● 1580 - Albrecht Giese, German politician and diplomat (b. 1524)
● 1589 - Jacques Clément, French assassin of Henry III of France (b. 1567)
● 1675 - Weetamoo, sachem of Pocasetts, a band of the Wampanoag Indians her death winding up the end of King Philip's War
● 1714 - Queen Anne of Great Britain (b. 1665)
● 1787 - Alphonsus Liguori, Italian founder of the Redemptionist order (b. 1696)
● 1796 - Robert Pigot, British army officer (b. 1720)
● 1798 - François-Paul Brueys D'Aigalliers, French admiral (killed in battle) (b. 1753)
● 1812 - Yakov Kulnev, Russian general (killed in battle) (b. 1763)
● 1851 - William Joseph Behr, German writer (b. 1775)
● 1866 - John Ross (aka. Kooweskoowe), Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation (b. 1790)
● 1903 - Calamity Jane, American frontierswoman (b. 1853)
● 1917 - Frank Little, American labor organizer (lynched) (b. 1879)
● 1918 - John Riley Banister, American cowboy and Texas Ranger (b. 1854)
● 1920 - Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian nationalist leader (b. 1856)
● 1929 - Syd Gregory, Australian cricketer (b. 1870)
● 1964 - Johnny Burnette, American singer (b. 1934)
● 1966 - Charles Whitman, American mass murderer (shot by police) (b. 1941)
● 1967 - Richard Kuhn, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1900)
● 1970 - Frances Farmer, American actress (b. 1913)
● 1970 - Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1883)
● 1973 - Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer (b. 1882)
● 1973 - Walter Ulbricht, German communist statesman (b. 1893)
● 1974 - Ildebrando Antoniutti, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1898)
● 1977 - Gary Powers, American spy plane pilot (b. 1929)
● 1980 - Patrick Depailler, French Formula 1 driver (b. 1944)
● 1980 - Strother Martin, American actor (b. 1919)
● 1981 - Paddy Chayefsky, American writer (b. 1923)
● 1989 - John Ogdon, English pianist (b. 1937)
● 1990 - Norbert Elias, German sociologist (b. 1897)
● 1990 - Graham Young, British serial killer (b. 1947)
● 1996 - Frida Boccara, French singer (b. 1940)
● 1996 - Tadeus Reichstein, Polish chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1897)
● 1996 - Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian physician and international aid worker (b. 1929)
● 1997 - Sviatoslav Richter, Ukrainian pianist (b. 1915)
● 1998 - Eva Bartok, Hungarian-born actress (b. 1927)
● 1999 - Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Indian-born writer (b. 1897)
● 2001 - Korey Stringer, American football player (b. 1974)
● 2003 - Guy Thys, Belgian football coach (b. 1922)
● 2003 - Marie Trintignant, French actress (b. 1962)
● 2004 - Philip Abelson American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1913)
● 2005 - Al Aronowitz, American music journalist (b. 1928)
● 2005 - King Fahd of Saudi Arabia (b. 1923)
● 2005 - Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (b. 1920)
● 2005 - Wibo, Dutch cartoonist (b. 1918)
● 2006 - Bob Thaves, American cartoonist (b. 1924)
● 2006 - Iris Marion Young, American feminist and political scientist (b. 1949)
● 2007 - Tommy Makem, Irish folk singer (b. 1932)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Almedha
● St. Alphonso Maria de' Liguori, bishop, Doctor of the Church (died 1787)
● St. Arcadius
● St. Bernard Due
● St. Charity
● St. Dominic Van Honh Dieu
● St. Elined
● St. Ethelwold of Winchester, bishop of Winchester, confessor
● St. Eusebius, bishop of Vercelli, martyr Geneva, Lausanne, France; Paris
● St. Exuperius, bishop of Bayeux northern France; Paris
● St. Felix, martyr at Gerona southern France
● St. Friard
● St. Hope
● St. Jonatus
● St. Justin
● St. Leontius
● St. Leus
● St. Mary the Consoler
● St. Peregrinus
● St. Peter in Chains
● St. Peter Julian Eymard (Pierre-Julien Eymard, died 1868)
● St. Peter of Alcantara
● St. Rioch
● St. Secundel
● St. Sofia
● St. Verus
● Bl. Thomas Welourne
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for July 18 (Civil Date: August 1)
● Martyr Emilian of Silistria in Bulgaria.
● Martyr Hyacinth of Amastris.
● St. John the Long-suffering of the Kiev Caves.
● St. Pambo, hermit of Egypt.
● St. Pambo, recluse of the Kiev Caves.
● St. Leontius, abbot of Karikhov (Novgorod).
● Greek Calendar:
● Martyr Marcel.
● Martyrs Dasius and Maron.
● Saints Stephen, Archbishop of Constantinople, and John, Metropolitan of Chalcedon.
● "Tolga" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos.
● Orthodox:
● Procession of the Cross.
● Abgar V of Edessa
● Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Kamál (Perfection) - First day of the eighth month of the Bahá'í Calendar.
● Lammas - Neopagan festival of Lammas.
● Angola - Armed Forces Day.
● Botswana : August Holiday
● Benin - National Day.
● People's Republic of China - Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Liberation Army.
● Democratic Republic of Congo - Parent's Day
● Dominica : Queen's Birthday
● Ghana : Homowo
● Guyana : Commonwealth Day
● Iran : 12th Imam's Birthday
● Lebanon - Army's Day (Eid al-Jaysh).
● Lughnasadh - Lá Lúnasa, the traditional first day of Autumn in Ireland.
● Nicaragua : Fiesta Day
● Rastafari movement - Celebration of the liberation of Haile Selassie from slavery.
● Scotland : Lammas Day, term day
● Switzerland : Confederation Day (1291)
● Trinidad & Tobago, St Lucia : Emancipation Day/Caribbean Day
● United States - Colorado statehood day (1876)
● US : Sports Day-good sportsmanship
● Yorkshire, England - Yorkshire Day.
● World Scout Day - anniversary of the first day of the Brownsea Island Camp in 1907, where Robert Baden-Powell began scouting.
● Zaire : Parents Day
● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Arizona, Michigan : American Family Day - ( Sunday )
● Italy : Joust of the Quintana (1st Sunday) - ( Sunday )
● Bahamas, Barbados, Turks & Caicos Island : Emancipation Day (1838) - ( Monday )
● British Commonwealth : Bank Holiday - ( Monday )
● Canada : Civic Holiday (1st Monday) - ( Monday )
● Colorado : Colorado Day (1876) - ( Monday )
● Jamaica : Independence Day (1962) - ( Monday )
● St Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla : August Monday - ( Monday )
● US : National Smile Week begins - ( Monday )
● Gilroy, Calif : Start of Garlic Festival - ( Friday )
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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