The term "the 10th of August" is widely used by historians as a shorthand for the Storming of the Tuileries Palace on the 10th of August, 1792, the effective end of the French monarchy until it was restored in 1814.
Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Truth "Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth." — Henry Ward Beecher
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Homophobia "I think gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman." — Arnold Schwarzenegger
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: On Politics "What we here is an egregemous miscarriagement of taxitude." — Hall of Shame Member #2, Marion Barry, former mayor of Washington, D. C.
Thought for the day: "Some rise by sin and some by virtue fall."
{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
Star Factory Messier 17
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EVENTS
● 612 B.C.E. - Killing of Sinsharishkun, King of Assyrian Empire. Destruction of Nineveh.
● 610 - In Islam, the traditional date of the Laylat al-Qadr, when Muhammed began to receive the Qur'an.
● 654 – St. Eugene I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
● 955 - Battle of Lechfeld: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor defeats Magyars, ending 50 years of Magyar invasion of the West.
● 991 - Battle of Maldon: English, led by Bryhtnoth, confront a band of inland-raiding Vikings near Maldon in Essex. The English are defeated and the story is immortalised in a well-known poem.
● 1316 - Second Battle of Athenry
● 1519 - Ferdinand Magellan's five ships set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe.
● 1557 - Battle of St. Quentin Spanish victory over the French in the Habsburg-Valois Wars
● 1628 - The Swedish warship Vasa sinks in the Stockholm harbour after only about 20 minutes on her maiden voyage.
● 1675 - The foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London was laid.
● 1680 - Pueblo Revolt. Pope (San Juan tribe) leads attacks on New Mexican capital of Santa Fe, killing 400; 11 days later, the Spanish abandon Santa Fe and begin a long retreat to El Paso, Texas.
● 1742 - English revivalist George Whitefield observed in a letter: 'It is a very uncommon thing to be rooted and grounded in the love of Jesus. I find persons may have the idea, but are far from having the real substance.'
● 1743 - Earliest recorded prize fighting rules formulated
● 1760 - Philip Embury (1728-1773) arrived in New York the first Methodist clergyman to come over from England.in America.
● 1776 - American Revolutionary War: Word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London.
● 1790 - Robert Gray's Columbia, completes 1st American around world voyage
● 1792 - King Louis XVI was taken into custody by mobs during the French Revolution. He was executed the following January after being put on trial for treason.
● 1809 - Ecuador declares independence from Spain (National Day)
● 1821 - Missouri is admitted as the 24th U.S. state. {It is admitted as a slave state.}
● 1827 - Race riots in Cincinnati (1,000 blacks leave for Canada)
● 1831 - Former slave Nat Turner led violent insurrection against slavery
● 1833 - Chicago incorporates as a village of about 200
● 1835 - Mob of whites & oxen pulled black school to a swamp out of Canaan NH
● 1841 - Birth of Mary A. Lathbury, American Sunday School leader and poet. Daughter of a Methodist preacher, two of Lathbury's poems later became popular hymns: "Break Thou the Bread of Life" and "Day is Dying in the West."
● 1846 - The Smithsonian Institution was chartered by the U.S. Congress. The "Nation's Attic" was made possible by $500,000 given by scientist Joseph Smithson.
● 1855 - Birth of Frederick J. Foakes-Jackson, Anglican theologian. His numerous publications centered around church history. His best-remembered work is "The Beginnings of Christianity, Part I: The Acts of the Apostles" (5 volumes, 1919-33).
● 1856 - In Last Island, Louisiana, the 1856 Last Island Hurricane kills between 200 and 400 people.
● 1859 - In Boston, MA, the first milk inspectors were appointed.
● 1861 - American Civil War: Battle of Wilson's Creek - The war enters Missouri when a band of raw Confederate troops defeat Union forces in the southwestern part of the state.
● 1866 - Transatlantic cable laid - Former President Buchanan communicates over it to Queen Victoria
● 1869 - The motion picture projector was patented by O.B. Brown.
● 1874 - Herbert Hoover, 31st president of the United States, was born in West Branch, Iowa. He would outlive JFK dying at 90 on 20 October 1964.
● 1877 - U.S. Army troops under a Col. Gibbon attack a sleeping Nez Perce encampment at Big Hole, Idaho, killing over fifty women and children.
● 1885 - The first electric streetcar, to be used commercially, was operated in Baltimore, MD, by Leo Daft.
● 1887 - Excursion train crashes killing 101. (Chatsworth, Illinois)
● 1893 - At Augsburg, Rudolf Diesel's prime model runs on its own power for the first time. Because of this, August 10 is the International Biodiesel Day.
● 1893 - Chinese are deported from San Francisco under the Exclusion Act. {Of course, the railroad work is finished and they are no longer needed for what is essentially slave labor.}
● 1901 - The U.S. Steel Recognition Strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers begins.
● 1904 - The Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets.
● 1905 - Russian and Japanese peace negotiations begin in Portsmouth.
● 1911 - Parliament Act reduces power of House of Lords
● 1913 - Second Balkan War ends: Delegates from Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece sign the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the war.
● 1914 - Austria-Hungary invaded Russia.
● 1914 - Samar Ranjan Sen, pacifist writer, born, India.
● 1919 - Ukranian National Army massacres 25 Jews in Podolia Ukrane
● 1920 - World War I: Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI's representatives sign the Treaty of Sèvres which divides up the Ottoman Empire between the Allies.
● 1921 - FDR stricken with polio at summer home on Canadian island of Campobello
● 1923 - US: Carlo Tresca, Italian-American anarchist, arrested.
● 1927 - Mount Rushmore was formally dedicated. The individual faces of the presidents were dedicated later.
● 1932 - A 5.1-kg (11.2-pound) chondrite-type meteorite breaks into at least seven pieces and lands near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri.
● 1934 - US: Anarchist conference at Stelton, N.J., August 10-11
● 1938 - 119° F (48° C), Pendleton, Oregon (state record)
● 1942 - Forty thousand Jews deported from the ghetto in Lodz, Poland to concentration camps.
● 1944 - Race riots in Athens Alabama
● 1944 - World War II: American forces defeat the last Japanese troops on Guam.
● 1945 - The day after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan announced they would surrender. The only condition was that the status of Emperor Hirohito would remain unchanged.
● 1948 - English apologist C.S. Lewis wrote in a letter: 'We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.
● 1948 - Gay rights activist Harry Hay organizes what later becomes the Mattachine Society, a groundbreaking 1950's gay rights organization.
● 1949 - US President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act Amendment, streamlining the defense agencies of the United States government, and replacing the National Military Establishment with the United States Department of Defense.
● 1954 - At Massena, New York, the groundbreaking ceremony for the St. Lawrence Seaway is held.
● 1960 - Discoverer 13 launched into orbit; returned 1st object from space
● 1961 - England applies for membership in the European Common Market
● 1964 - Guns fall silent in Cyprus; The United Nations brokers another ceasefire in Cyprus, defusing a growing military crisis and heading off the threat of invasion by Turkey.
● 1965 - In Austin, TX, a fire burned part of the 20th floor of the 27-story University of Texas main building. A collection that contained items once owned by escape artist Harry Houdini and circus magnate P. T. Barnum were damaged by smoke and water.
● 1965 - Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 82 km
● 1966 - 1st lunar orbiter launched by US
● 1966 - Daylight meteor seen from Utah to Canada. Only known case of a meteor entering the Earth's atmosphere & leaving it again
● 1968 - Eight GIs killed by U.S. strafing error in Vietnam.
● 1969 - A day after murdering Sharon Tate and four others, members of Charles Manson's cult kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca.
● 1969 - Leno and Rosemary LaBianca were murdered. Members of the Charles Manson cult committed the crimes one day after the killing of Sharon Tate and four other people.
● 1970 - U.S. House of Representatives passes the Equal Rights Amendment by a vote of 350 to 15. {Seventy members are too cowardly to vote at all. This effort is eventually stifled when the required number of states fail to ratify.}
● 1973 - 1st BART train travels thru transbay tube to Montgomery St Station
● 1973 - Birth of Rosebud Abigail Donovo, (Berkeley, Calif.) People's Park radical killed by police.
● 1975 - David Frost purchases exclusive rights to interview Nixon
● 1976 - Irish women start Peace People organization (founder Mairead Corrigan later wins Nobel Prize).
● 1977 - In Yonkers, New York, 24-year-old postal employee David Berkowitz ("Son of Sam") is arrested for a series of killings in the New York City area over a year's period.
● 1977 - Tight security for Queen's Irish visit; The Queen visits Northern Ireland for the first time in 11 years as part of her Silver Jubilee tour.
● 1980 - Allen, the most powerful hurricane in Caribbean hits Brownsville, Tx
● 1981 - Pres. Reagan approves work order for the neutron bomb, which kills people but leaves private property intact, thus avoiding costly "takings" litigation.
● 1981 - The head of John Walsh's son Adam is found in Hollywood, Florida. This event will later prompt the U.S. Congress to pass the Missing Children's Act to give the Federal Bureau of Investigation greater authority to track the disappearance of children, as well as the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. It also makes Walsh a national spokesman against crime and eventually leads to the establishment of America's Most Wanted.
● 1981 - The Richard Nixon Museum in San Clemente closes
● 1982 - Six Greenpeace protesters chain themselves to nuclear waste dumping ship The Gem.
● 1984 - Two Plowshares activists, Barb Katt and John LaForge, damage a Trident submarine guidence system with hammers at a Sperry plant in Minnesota. In sentencing them later to six months' probation, the judge in the case commented - "Why do we condemn and hang individual killers, while extolling the virtues of warmongers?"
● 1987 - Flight Readiness Firing of Discovery's main engines is successful
● 1988 - Japanese American Internment: US President Ronald Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, providing $20,000 payments to Japanese-Americans who were either interned or relocated by in the United States during World War II. {In the intervening 43 plus years, most have died and thus the government looks good for doing too little, too late. Many NeoCons object saying the interments were justified by Pearl Harbor.}
● 1988 - Mysterious seal disease spreads; Scientists fear a disease which has killed more than 6,000 seals in the North Sea and the Baltic has now reached British waters.
● 1988 - UN estimates Asia's population hit 3 billion
● 1990 - Magellan starts mapping Venus; The Nasa space probe Magellan arrives at Venus after a 15-month journey from Earth and starts its mission to map the global warming "hell-hole".
● 1990 - The Massacre of more than 127 Muslims in the North East Sri Lanka by the paramilitaries.
● 1991 - In Phoenix, AZ, nine Buddhists were found slain in their temple. Two teenagers were arrested for the crime.
● 1993 - 1993, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sworn in as the second female Supreme Court justice.
● 1993 - A massive deficit-reduction bill was signed into law by U.S. President Bill Clinton.
● 1993 - Three hundred arrested in protest against clearcutting of temperate rainforest. Clayoquot Sound, Vancouver Island.
● 1994 - In Germany, three men were arrested after being caught smuggling plutonium into the country.
● 1994 - U.S. President Clinton claimed presidential immunity when he asked a federal judge to dismiss, at least for the time being, a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by Paula Corbin Jones.
● 1995 - Norma McCorvey, "Jane Roe" of the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, announced that she had joined the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue.
● 1995 - Oklahoma City bombing: Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols are indicted for the bombing. Michael Fortier pleads guilty in a plea-bargain agreement for his testimony.
● 1997 - Nine activists detained but not charged after throwing red paint on the Trident nuclear submarine U.S.S. Ohio at Seattle's waterfront.
● 1998 - Formation of the Minnehaha Free State in suburban Minneapolis to prevent a freeway extension, in the country's first major anti-road blockade.
● 1998 - The Royal Proclamation of HRH Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah as the Crown Prince of Brunei.
● 1999 - Near an India-Pakistan border area an Indian fighter jet shot down a Pakistani naval aircraft. Sixteen people were killed.
● 2000 - World Population reaches 6 billion according to www.ibiblio.org world population tracker.
● 2001 - The Hudson River Way is opened to traffic.
● 2001 - Hamiltons condemn 'sex assault' arrest; Former Conservative MP Neil Hamilton and wife Christine strenuously deny allegations they carried out a serious sexual assault.
● 2003 - The highest temperature ever is recorded in the UK, 38.5°C (101.3°F), occurs in Kent. It is the first time the UK has recorded a temperature over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Britain swelters in record heat; Britain records its hottest-ever day with temperatures above 100F, jamming roads and packing beaches across the country.
● 2005 - Lee Seung Seop dies from exhaustion in South Korea after playing the computer game StarCraft continuously for 49 hours.
● 2006 - Scotland Yard disrupts a {supposed} major terrorist plot to destroy aircraft travelling from the United Kingdom to the United States. {Premature arrests due to US political pressure make convictions doubtful if not impossible in the case.}
BIRTHS
● 1267 - King James II of Aragon (d. 1327)
● 1296 - John I, Count of Luxemburg (d. 1346)
● 1360 - Francesco Zabarella, Italian jurist (d. 1417)
● 1397 - Albert II of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1439)
● 1489 - Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German statesman and reformer (d. 1553)
● 1520 - Madeleine de Valois, wife of James V of Scotland (d. 1537)
● 1560 - Hieronymus Praetorius, German composer (d. 1629)
● 1602 - Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (d. 1675)
● 1645 - Eusebio Kino, Italian Catholic missionary (d. 1711)
● 1716 - Eugenius Bulgaris, Greek Orthodox theologian and scholar (d. 1806)
● 1737 - Anton Losenko, Russian painter (d. 1773)
● 1744 - Alexandrine-Jeanne d'Étiolles (nicknamed "Fanfan"), daughter of the courtesan Madame de Pompadour (d. 1754)
● 1810 - Camillo Benso, conte di Cavour, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia
● 1814 - Henri Nestlé, Swiss industrialist (d. 1890)
● 1821 - Jay Cooke, American financier (d. 1905)
● 1823 - Charles Keene, English artist and illustrator for Punch magazine (d. 1891)
● 1823 - Hugh Stowell Brown, Manx preacher (d.1886)
● 1839 - Aleksandr Grigorievich Stoletov, Russian physicist (d. 1896)
● 1843 - Joseph McKenna, American Supreme Court justice (1898-1925) (d. 1926)
● 1845 - Abai Kunanbaev, Kazakh poet (d. 1904)
● 1856 - William Willett, English inventor of Daylight Saving Time (d. 1915)
● 1860 - Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian musician (d. 1936)
● 1865 - Alexander Glazunov, Russian composer (d. 1936)
● 1869 - Laurence Binyon, British poet (d. 1943)
● 1874 - Herbert Clark Hoover, 31st President of the United States (d. 1964)
● 1874 - Bill Johnson, American musician (d. 1972)
● 1877 - Frank Marshall, American chess player (d. 1944)
● 1878 - Alfred Döblin, German writer (d. 1957)
● 1880 - Robert L. Thornton, American businessman, philanthropist, and Mayor of Dallas, Texas (d. 1964)
● 1884 - Panait Istrati, Romanian writer (d. 1935)
● 1890 - Angus L. MacDonald, Canadian politician (d. 1954)
● 1893 - Douglas Stuart Moore, American composer of folk operas (d. 1969)
● 1894 - Dorothy Jacobs Bellanca, Latvian-born American labor leader (d. 1946)
● 1894 - Varahagiri Venkata Giri, Fourth President of India (d. 1980)
● 1898 - Jack Haley, American actor (d. 1979)
● 1900 - Arthur Espie Porritt, New Zealand politician and athlete (d. 1994)
● 1902 - Norma Shearer, Canadian actress (d. 1983)
● 1902 - Curt Siodmak, German-born author (d. 2000)
● 1902 - Arne Tiselius, Swedish chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1971)
● 1903 - Ward Moore, American author (d. 1978)
● 1905 - Eugene Dennis, American Communist Party leader and labor organizer (d. 1961)
● 1905 - Era Bell Thompson, American journalist (d. 1986)
● 1909 - Leo Fender, American luthier (d. 1991)
● 1912 - Jorge Amado, Brazilian novelist (d. 2001)
● 1913 - Wolfgang Paul, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1993)
● 1913 - Noah Beery, Jr., American actor (d. 1994)
● 1914 - Jeff Corey, American actor (d. 2002)
● 1914 - Carlos Menditéguy, Argentine racing driver (d. 1973)
● 1919 - Sacha Vierny, French cinematographer (d. 2001)
● 1922 - Al Alberts, Singer (Four Aces)
● 1923 - Rhonda Fleming, American actress
● 1927 - Vernon Washington, American actor (d. 1988)
● 1928 - Jimmy Dean, American singer
● 1928 - Gus Mercurio, American-born Australian actor
● 1928 - Eddie Fisher, American singer
● 1933 - Doyle Brunson, American poker player
● 1933 - Rocky Colavito, American baseball player
● 1937 - Anatoly Sobchak, Russian politician
● 1939 - Kate O'Mara, British actress
● 1940 - Bobby Hatfield, American singer (Righteous Brothers) (d. 2003)
● 1942 - Betsey Johnson, American Fashion Designer
● 1943 - Ronnie Spector, American singer (Ronettes)
● 1943 - Louise Forestier, French Canadian singer, songwriter and actress
● 1943 - Jimmy Griffin, American guitarist (Bread) (d. 2005)
● 1943 - Pervez Musharraf, is the President of Pakistan, the Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army.
● 1945 - Harriet Miers, White House counsel
● 1946 - James Reynolds, Actor ("Days of Our Lives")
● 1947 - Ian Anderson, Scottish musician (Jethro Tull)
● 1947 - Anwar Ibrahim, Former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia
● 1948 - Patti Austin, American singer
● 1949 - Gene Johnson, Country musician (Diamond Rio)
● 1950 - Rémy Girard, Canadian actor
● 1952 - Daniel Hugh Kelly, American actor
● 1956 - Fred Ottman, American wrestler
● 1959 - Rosanna Arquette, American actress
● 1959 - Florent Vollant, Innu-Canadian musician (Kashtin)
● 1960 - Antonio Banderas, Spanish actor
● 1960 - Todd David Hess, First USAF Member to receive Military Medical Merit.
● 1961 - Jon Farriss, Australian musician (INXS)
● 1962 - Julia Fordham, Rock singer
● 1963 - Andrew Sullivan, English-born journalist
● 1964 - Aaron Hall, R&B singer
● 1965 - Claudia Christian, American actress
● 1965 - Mike E. Smith, American jockey
● 1965 - John Starks, American basketball player
● 1966 - Hansi Kürsch, German singer
● 1967 - Riddick Bowe, American boxer
● 1967 - Mart Sander, Estonian singer and actor
● 1967 - Todd Nichols, Rock musician (Toad The Wet Sprocket)
● 1967 - Lorraine Pearson, R&B singer (Five Star)
● 1968 - Michael Bivins, American singer (New Edition & Bell Biv DeVoe)
● 1968 - Greg Hawgood, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1968 - Peter Docter, American film director
● 1970 - Bret Hedican, American ice hockey player
● 1971 - Roy Keane, Irish footballer
● 1971 - Mario César Kindelán Mesa, Cuban boxer
● 1971 - Justin Theroux, American actor
● 1971 - Sal Fasano, American baseball player
● 1972 - Angie Harmon, American model and actress
● 1972 - Christofer Johnsson, Swedish musician
● 1972 - Lawrence Dallaglio, English Rugby Union Player
● 1973 - Lisa Raymond, American tennis player
● 1973 - Javier Zanetti, Argentinian footballer
● 1973 - Jennifer Hanson, Country singer
● 1974 - David Sommeil, French footballer
● 1974 - Luis Marín, Costa Rican footballer
● 1976 - Michael Depoli, American wrestler
● 1977 - Danny Griffin, Northern Irish footballer
● 1977 - Aaron Kamin, American musician (The Calling)
● 1977 - Matt Morgan, British comedian
● 1978 - Chris Read, English cricketer
● 1979 - Yannick Schroeder, French racing driver
● 1979 - Joanna Garcia, Cuban actress
● 1980 - Nikki Bratcher, R&B singer (Divine)
● 1980 - Kaysar Ridha, Iraqi-American reality TV contestant
● 1981 - Natsumi Abe, Japanese singer
● 1981 - Dimitris Salpigidis, Greek footballer
● 1982 - Devon Aoki, American supermodel and actress
● 1983 - Alexander Perezhogin, Russian ice hockey player
● 1983 - Mathieu Roy, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1985 - John Paul Itoe, French-Cameroonian born Peace Advocate
● 1985 - Roy O'Donovan, Irish footballer
● 1989 - Ben Sahar, Israeli footballer
● 1992 - Ko Ah-seong, South Korean actress
DEATHS
● 612 B.C.E. - Sinsharishkun, Assyrian king
● 258 - Saint Lawrence, martyr
● 1535 - Ippolito de' Medici, ruler of Florence (poisoned) (b. 1509)
● 1633 - Anthony Munday, English writer (b. 1553)
● 1637 - Johann Gerhard, German Lutheran leader (b. 1582)
● 1653 - Maarten Tromp, Dutch admiral (b. 1598)
● 1655 - Alfonso de la Cueva, marqués de Bedmar, Spanish cardinal and diplomat (b. 1572)
● 1723 - Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1656)
● 1759 - King Ferdinand VI of Spain (b. 1713)
● 1784 - Allan Ramsay, Scottish painter (b. 1713)
● 1802 - Franz Aepinus, German scientist (b. 1724)
● 1806 - Michael Haydn, Austrian composer (b. 1737)
● 1839 - John St Aubyn, British fossil collector (b. 1758)
● 1862 - Shusaku Honinbo, Japanese Go player (b. 1829)
● 1875 - Karl Andree, German geographer (b. 1808)
● 1896 - Otto Lilienthal, German aviation pioneer (b. 1848)
● 1915 - Henry Moseley, English physicist (b. 1887)
● 1920 - Ádám Politzer, Austrian physician (b. 1835)
● 1928 - Rex Cherryman, American actor (b. 1897)
● 1929 - Pierre Fatou, French mathematician (b. 1878)
● 1932 - Rin Tin Tin, German shepherd dog (b. 1918)
● 1945 - Robert Goddard, American rocket scientist (b. 1882)
● 1948 - Montague Summers, English writer (b. 1880)
● 1958 - Frank Demaree, baseball player (b. 1910)
● 1963 - Estes Kefauver, American politician, United States Congressman & Senator from Tennessee (b. 1903)
● 1963 - Ernst Wetter, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1877)
● 1969 - Leno LaBianca, American businessman (murdered) (b. 1925)
● 1969 - Rosemary LaBianca, American housewife (murdered) (b. 1930)
● 1976 - Bert Oldfield, Australian test cricketer (b. 1894)
● 1979 - Walter Gerlach, German physicist (b. 1889)
● 1979 - Dick Foran, American actor (b. 1910)
● 1980 - Yahya Khan, President of Pakistan (b. 1917)
● 1993 - Øystein Aarseth, Norwegian musician (Mayhem) (b. 1968)
● 1997 - Conlon Nancarrow, American composer (b. 1912)
● 1997 - Jean-Claude Lauzon, Quebec film director (b. 1953)
● 1999 - Padma Bhushan Acharya Baldev Upadhyaya, Eminent Sanskrit Scholor in India (b. 1899)
● 2001 - Lou Boudreau, American baseball player and manager (b. 1917)
● 2002 - Michael Houser, American guitarist (Widespread Panic) (b. 1962)
● 2002 - Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian computer scientist (b. 1926)
● 2003 - Carmita Jiménez, Puerto Rican singer
● 2007 - James E. Faust, Second Councelor of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (b. 1920)
● 2007 - Tony Wilson, British music personality and broadcaster (b. 1950)
● 2007 - Henry Cabot Lodge Bohler, American member of Tuskegee Airmen and civil rights activist (b. 1925)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● Our Lady of Good Success of Parañaque, Patroness of Parañaque, Philippines
● St. Acrates (Aragawi)
● St. Agilberta
● St. Aredius
● St. Arigius, bishop of Lyon, confessor
● St. Asteria
● St. Blane, bishop of Ceann-Garadh
● St. Deusdedit
● St. Geraint of Dumnonia
● St. Lawrence, deacon, martyr 258, patron saint of accountants, cooks and local history
● St. Thiento & Companions
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for July 27 (Civil Date: August 10)
● Holy Great-martyr and Healer Panteleimon
● St. Anthusa, abbess of Mantinea in Asia Minor.
● Blessed Nicholas Kochanov, fool-for-Christ at Novgorod.
● St. Ioasaph, Metropolitan of Moscow.
● New-Martyr Christodulus.
● St. Clement of Ochrida, Bishop of Greater Macedonia, and Saints Angelar, Gorazd, Nahum and Sabbas, disciples of Saints Cyril and Methodius.
● Greek Calendar:
● The blind man who confessed Christ and was martyred with St. Pantileimon.
● 853 Martyrs of Thrace who were drowned.
● St. Manuel, monk.
● Repose of Abbess Pulcheria of Viatka Nativity Convent (1890).
● Commemoration of the Canonization of St. Herman of Alaska (1970).
● Anglican & Lutheran:
● St. Lawrence, deacon, martyr in Rome
● Roman festivals - Opalia, festival in honor of Ops
● Ancient Latvia - Labrenca Diena held
● Ecuador : Independence Day Movement began in Quito in 1809. Independence not achieved till May 1822.
● Missouri : Admission Day (1821)
● United States - National S'mores Day.
● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Italy : Palio Del Golfo (2nd Sunday) - ( Sunday )
● Zambia : Youth 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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