Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Voting "Vote. Get out and register other people to vote." — Molly Ivins & Lou Dubose
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Inanity "Trees cause more pollution than automobiles do." — Ronald Reagan {The real problem with this inane statement is that he really believed it and thus made others believe it as well. By the way, any particulate pollution produced by trees is more than made up for with their removal of carbon dioxide and production of oxygen.}
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: On Politics "The contagious people of Washington have stood firm against diversity during this long period of increment weather." — Hall of Shame Member #2, Marion Barry, former mayor of Washington, D. C.
Thought for the day: "No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting."
{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
Cosmic Tornado HH49/50
Credit: J. Bally (Univ. of Colorado) et al., JPL-Caltech, NASA
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 3114 B.C.E. - On this date in the proleptic Gregorian calendar begins our current era in the Maya Long Count Calendar.
● 2492 B.C.E. - Traditional date of the defeat of Bel by Hayk, progenitor and founder of the Armenian nation.
● 586 B.C.E. - The First Temple (originally built by King Solomon) is destroyed by the Babylonians in Jerusalem.
● 480 B.C.E. - Greco-Persian Wars: Battle of Artemisium - The Persians achieve a naval victory over the Greeks in an engagement fought near Artemisium, a promontory on the north coast of Euboea. The Greek fleet holds its own against the Persians in three days of fighting but withdraws southward when news comes of the defeat at Thermopylae.
● 70 - The Second Temple is destroyed by the Roman army in Jerusalem.
● 355 - Claudius Silvanus, accused of treason, proclaims himself Roman Emperor against Constantius II.
● 1492 - Alexander VI is elected Pope.
● 1772 - Explosive eruption blows 4,000 feet off Papandayan Java, kills 3,000.
● 1775 - Anglican clergyman and hymnwriter John Newton wrote in a letter: 'Scriptural faith is a very different thing from a rational assent to the Gospel. Christ is not only the object, but the Author and Finisher of faith.'
● 1775 - The Nestuccas, a branch of the Tillamook tribe, conduct trade warily with American ship Lady Washington off the coast of Oregon.
● 1780 - Barbados hurricane begins
● 1786 - Captain Francis Light established the British colony of Penang in Malaysia
● 1804 - Francis II assumed title of first Emperor of Austria
● 1828 - First labor party in U.S. formed in Philadelphia.
● 1828 - William Corder is hanged at Bury St. Edmunds, England, for the murder of Maria Marten at the Red Barn a year ago.
● 1834 - A mob led by Protestant truckmen and brickmakers ransacked and burned the Ursuline Convent in Charlestown, Massachusetts.
● 1835 - George B Airy begins 46-year reign as England's Astronomer Royal
● 1858 - First ascent of the Eiger.
● 1860 - The first silver mill in America to be successful began. The mill was in Virginia City, NV.
● 1861 - The New York Daily News has its postal privileges revoked, and was suspended for 18 months, as a consequence of its hostility to the Civil War, an action taken by the U.S. president with by far the worst record on trampling civil liberties and ignoring the Bill of Rights, Abraham Lincoln.
● 1874 - A patent for the sprinkler head was given to Harry S. Parmelee.
● 1877 - The two moons of Mars were discovered by Asaph Hall, an American astronomer. He named them Phobos and Deimos.
● 1882 - Birth of Voline, Russian revolutionary and anarchist historian.
● 1894 - Federal troops drive some 1,200 jobless workers from Washington DC across the Potomac River. Led by an unemployed activist, Charles "Hobo" Kelley, the jobless group's "soldiers" include a young journalist named Jack London and also William Haywood, a young miner-cowboy called "Big Bill."
● 1896 - Harvey Hubbell received a patent for the electric light bulb socket with a pull-chain.
● 1898 - Spanish-American War: American troops enter the city of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
● 1909 - The American ship Arapahoe became the first to ever use the SOS distress signal off the coast of Cape Hatteras, NC.
● 1914 - Birth of Lee Shelley, missions pioneer. In 1957 he founded Christians in Action Missions in Huntington Park, California an interdenominational agency working overseas in evangelism, church planting and missionary training.
● 1914 - Jews are expelled from Mitchenick Poland
● 1918 - Battle of Amiens ends in WW I, Allies beat Germans
● 1919 - Constitution of Weimar Republic adopted
● 1920 - The Latvia-Bolshevist Russia peace treaty, which relinquished Russia's authority and pretenses {at least for a while} to Latvia, is signed.
● 1921 - Alex Haley, who chronicled generations of struggles and accomplishments of American blacks, was born. He also wrote the autobiography of Malcom X.
● 1924 - Newsreel pictures were taken of U.S. presidential candidates for the first time.
● 1930 - In Toledo, Ohio, three Lutheran synods merged to form the American Lutheran Church. (In 1960 the ALC merged with two other branches of Evangelical Lutheranism, and in 1988 joined with a third Lutheran group to form the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America ELCA.)
● 1933 - Birth of Jerry Falwell, U.S. Baptist clergyman. Pastor of Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia, he has also been an active political lobbyist and once headed the Liberty Federation (formerly called Moral Majority), a {allegedly} Christian lobby which Falwell founded in 1979.
● 1933 - Temp reaches 136° F (58° C) at San Luis Potos¡, Mex (world record)
● 1934 - Alcatraz, in San Francisco Bay, received federal prisoners for the first time.
● 1937 - ILWU receives CIO charter.
● 1941 - The Atlantic Charter was signed by U.S. President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
● 1942 - During World War II, Pierre Laval publicly announced "the hour of liberation for France is the hour when Germany wins the war."
● 1945 - Striking Mexican filmworkers bar distribution of U.S. films.
● 1945 - The Allies informed Japan that they would determine Emperor Hirohito's future status after Japan's surrender.
● 1952 - Hussein proclaimed king of Jordan
● 1952 - Philip Morrison, a Cornell Professor of Physics, expresses doubts about atomic warfare, resulting in his forced appearance before a Congressional committee investigating communists.
● 1954 - Seven years of fighting came to an end in Indochina. A formal peace was in place for the French and the Communist Vietminh.
● 1956 - Abstract artist Jackson Pollack died in an automobile accident in East Hampton, NY.
● 1960 - Chad declares independence.
● 1961 - Berlin Wall completed.
● 1962 - Andrian Nikolayev, of the Soviet Union, was launched on a 94-hour flight. He was the third Russian to go into space.
● 1964 - Race riot in Paterson NJ
● 1964 - Scottish anarchist Stuart Christie arrested with explosives under his kilt trying to cross into Spain to assassinate the dictator Franco.
● 1965 - Arrest of Marquette Frye triggers a week of rioting in the Watts section of Los Angeles; 34 dead, $200 million in damage.
● 1965 - The U.S. conducted a second launch of "Surveyor-SD 2" for a landing on the Moon surface test.
● 1968 - Presbyterian apologist Francis Schaeffer wrote in a letter: 'We live in an abnormal world and all kinds of things do exist, but this does not make them right.'
● 1968 - The last steam passenger train service ran in Britain. A British Rail steam locomotive made the 314-mile journey from Liverpool to Carlisle and returned to Liverpool before being dispatched to the Wrecking yard.
● 1970 - United Farm Workers leader Cesar Chavez begins a hunger strike to protest union harassment by Teamsters officials.
● 1972 - "Cheech & Chong Day" in San Antonio Texas
● 1972 - Vietnam War: The last United States ground combat unit depart South Vietnam.
● 1974 - Head-on collision between two buses kills 21 (Ankara, Turkey)
● 1975 - East Timor: Governor Mário Lemos Pires of Portuguese Timor abandons the capital Dili, following a coup by the Timorese Democratic Union (UDT) and the outbreak of civil war between UDT and Fretilin.
● 1975 - The U.S. vetoed the proposed admission of North and South Vietnam to the United Nations. The Security Council had already refused to consider South Korea's application.
● 1978 - American Indian Religious Freedom Act passed. Significant portions of the bill have since been eroded by conservative court rulings.
● 1978 - Funeral of Pope Paul VI
● 1979 - 28° F in Embarrass Minnesota
● 1980 - Reggie Jackson hits his 400th homer
● 1982 - South African army kills 314 in an incursion into Angola.
● 1982 - Krays let out for mother's funeral; The notorious East End gangsters Ronnie and Reggie Kray have been allowed out of prison for their mother's funeral.
● 1983 - Soviet nuclear-powered submarine reported sunk, North Pacific.
● 1984 - During a radio voice test for which the speakers were inadvertantly left on, Pres. and Idiot-in-Chief Ronald Reagan jokes, "My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes".
● 1985 - Challenger flies to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz
● 1987 - Alan Greenspan becomes Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve.
● 1988 - Dick Thornburgh was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate to be the next attorney general. He succeeded Edwin Meese III.
● 1988 - Meir Kahane renounced US citizenship to stay in Israeli Parliament
● 1989 - Voyager 2 discovers 2 partial rings of Neptune
● 1990 - Egyptian and Moroccan troops joined U.S. forces in Saudia Arabia to help protect from a possible Iraqi attack.
● 1991 - Edward Tracey, an American, was released by Shiite Muslim kidnappers. He had been held for nearly five years. Jerome Leyraud was also released. Leyraud, a Frenchman, had been kidnapped three days earlier.
● 1991 - The space shuttle Atlantis ended its nine-day journey by landing safely.
● 1992 - In Bloomington, MN, the Mall of America opened. It was the largest shopping mall in the United States.
● 1994 - A U.S. federal jury awarded $286.8 million to about 10,000 commercial fishermen for losses as a result of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill.
● 1994 - The Tenth International Conference on AIDS ended in Japan.
● 1995 - A federal investigation was opened concerning the deadly siege at Ruby Ridge, ID, in 1992. The investigation was to find out whether FBI officials approved a "shoot on sight" order.
● 1995 - All U.S. nuclear tests were banned by President Clinton.
● 1996 - Warner Creek road occupation, near old growth forests southeast of Eugene, Oregon, broken up by police after 11 months.
● 1997 - President Bill Clinton made the first use of the line-item veto approved by Congress, rejecting three items in spending and tax bills. (However, the Supreme Court later struck down the line-item veto as unconstitutional.)
● 1999 - Millions marvel at total eclipse; Up to 350 million people in Europe and Asia witness the last total solar eclipse of the century.
● 1999 - The exceptional Salt Lake City Tornado tears through the downtown district of the city, killing one.
● 2000 - Pat Buchanan won the Reform Party presidential nomination in a victory bitterly disputed by party founder Ross Perot's supporters, who chose their own nominee in a rival convention.
● 2000 - Air rage pair jailed; Two men are jailed after an incident of "air rage" on board a holiday jet bound for Jamaica.
● 2003 - A big heat wave in Paris had temperatures up to 112°F (44° C), with about 144 people dead.
● 2003 - Charles Taylor, President of Liberia, flew into exile after ceding power to his vice president, Moses Blah.
● 2003 - Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.
● 2003 - NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history.
● 2006 - The largest string of firecrackers ever assembled is ignited in Buchanan, Wisconsin. It contains an estimated 10,500,000 firecrackers.
BIRTHS
● 1667 - Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, last of the Medicis (d. 1743)
● 1673 - Richard Mead, English physician (d. 1754)
● 1718 - Sir Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-born British colonial governor (d. 1791)
● 1722 - Richard Brocklesby, English physician (d. 1797)
● 1778 - Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, German known as the "father of gymnastics" (d. 1852)
● 1794 - James Barton Longacre, American engraver (d. 1869)
● 1801 - Eduard Devrient, German dramatist (d. 1877)
● 1807 - David Rice Atchison, American politician (d. 1886)
● 1833 - Robert G. Ingersoll, American politician and soldier (d. 1899)
● 1833 - Kido Takayoshi, Japanese politician (d. 1877)
● 1836 - Warren Brown, American politician (d. 1919)
● 1837 - Marie François Sadi Carnot, French statesman (d. 1894)
● 1858 - Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1930)
● 1861 - James Bryan Herrick, American cardiologist; studied sickle-cell anemia (d. 1954)
● 1863 - Gaston Doumergue, President of the French Third Republic (d. 1937)
● 1867 - Joe Weber, American comedian (d. 1942)
● 1870 - Tom Richardson, English cricketer (d. 1912)
● 1870 - Walter Bowman, Canadian soccer player (d. ?)
● 1872 - Shidehara Kijuro, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1951)
● 1873 - Bertram Mills, English circus entrepreneur (d. 1938)
● 1882 - Rodolfo Graziani, Italian field marshal; adherent of Mussolini (d. 1955)
● 1892 - Eiji Yoshikawa, Japanese novelist (d. 1962)
● 1892 - Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poet (d. 1978)
● 1897 - Louise Bogan, American poet (d. 1970)
● 1897 - Enid Blyton, English author (d. 1968)
● 1900 - Philip Phillips, American archaeologist (d. 1994)
● 1902 - Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist (d. 1986)
● 1902 - Lloyd Nolan, American actor (d. 1985)
● 1905 - Erwin Chargaff, Austrian biochemist (d. 2002)
● 1907 - Ted a'Beckett, Australian cricketer (d. 1989)
● 1912 - Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, German astronomer (d. 1954)
● 1912 - Thanom Kittikachorn, Prime Minister of Thailand (d. 2004)
● 1913 - Angus Wilson, British novelist (d. 1991)
● 1913 - Paul Dupuis, French Canadian actor (d. 1976)
● 1914 - José Silva, American parapsychologist (d. 1999)
● 1916 - Johnny Claes, Belgian racing driver (d. 1956)
● 1919 - Ginette Neveu, French violinist (d. 1949)
● 1920 - Chuck Rayner, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2002)
● 1921 - Alex Haley, American historian (d. 1992)
● 1925 - Mike Douglas, American entertainer (d. 2006)
● 1925 - Floyd Curry, National Hockey League player (d. 2006)
● 1926 - Aaron Klug, Lithuanian-born chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate
● 1928 - Arlene Dahl, American actress
● 1932 - Fernando Arrabal, Spanish writer
● 1932 - Israel Asper, Canadian tax lawyer (d. 2003)
● 1932 - John Gorrie, English director
● 1933 - Jerry Falwell, American preacher (d. 2007)
● 1936 - Andre Dubus, American short-story writer (d. 1999)
● 1937 - Anna Massey, Actress
● 1938 - Branko Stanovnik, Slovenian chemist
● 1939 - Ronnie Dawson, American rockabilly performer (d. 2003)
● 1942 - Mike Hugg, British musician (Manfred Mann)
● 1943 - Kenny Gamble, Songwriter, producer
● 1943 - Jim Kale, Rock musician (Guess Who)
● 1943 - Abigail Folger, American coffee heiress and Manson murder victim (d. 1969)
● 1944 - Ian McDiarmid, Scottish actor
● 1944 - Fred Smith, American entrepreneur
● 1946 - Marilyn vos Savant, American newspaper columnist
● 1946 - John Conlee, American country music singer
● 1948 - Jan Palach, Czechoslovakian student protester
● 1949 - Ian Charleson, English actor of stage, screen and television (d. 1990)
● 1949 - Eric Carmen, American musician
● 1950 - Gennidy Nikonov, Russian weapons inventor
● 1950 - Steve Wozniak, American computer pioneer
● 1951 - Vincent Bilodeau, Quebec actor and comedian
● 1953 - Hulk Hogan, American wrestler
● 1954 - Joe Jackson, English singer
● 1954 - Juan Maria Solare, Argentine composer
● 1955 - Sylvia Hermon, British politician
● 1955 - Marc Bureau, French Canadian politician
● 1956 - Pierre-Louis Lions, French mathematician
● 1957 - Richie Ramone, American musician (The Ramones)
● 1957 - Ian Stuart Donaldson, British singer (Skrewdriver)
● 1959 - Gustavo Cerati, Argentinian musician (Soda Stereo)
● 1964 - Jim Lee, Korean-born comic book artist
● 1964 - Miguel A. Núñez Jr., American actor
● 1965 - Marc Bergevin, professional ice hockey player
● 1965 - Viola Davis, American actress
● 1966 - Nigel Martyn, English footballer
● 1966 - Embeth Davidtz, American actress
● 1967 - Enrique Bunbury, Spanish singer
● 1967 - Collin Chou, Taiwanese actor
● 1967 - Joe Rogan, American television host ("Fear Factor")
● 1968 - Chris Dave, R&B musician (Mint Condition)
● 1968 - Lorenzo Bernardi, Italian volleyball player
● 1968 - Charlie Sexton, American musician
● 1968 - Alan Kelly, England-born Irish footballer
● 1968 - Veda Hille, Canadian singer
● 1968 - Princess Mabel of Orange-Nassau
● 1969 - Jonah Matranga, American singer
● 1969 - Ashley Jensen, Scottish actress
● 1970 - Andy Bell, English musician (Oasis)
● 1970 - Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Rap DJ
● 1971 - Tommy Mooney, English football player
● 1971 - Alejandra Barros, Mexican actress
● 1972 - Jonathon Prandi, American model
● 1973 - Nigel Harman, British actor
● 1974 - Audrey Mestre, French diver
● 1974 - Will Friedle, American actor
● 1974 - Hadiqa Kiyani, Pakistani pop star
● 1974 - Marie-France Dubreuil, French Canadian figure skater
● 1975 - Davey von Bohlen, American musician (The Promise Ring, Maritime)
● 1976 - Ben Gibbard, American musician (Death Cab for Cutie, The Postal Service)
● 1976 - Ľubomir Visnovsky, Slovak ice hockey player
● 1976 - Bubba Crosby, American baseball player
● 1976 - Erick Lindgren, American poker player
● 1976 - Will Friedle, Actor
● 1978 - Chris Kelly, Rapper (Kris Kross)
● 1978 - Jermain Taylor, American boxer
● 1978 - Amber Brkich, American reality television personality
● 1980 - Lee Suggs, American football player
● 1981 - Sandi Thom, Scottish born singer
● 1981 - Fiona Sit, Hong Kong singer and actress
● 1982 - Alan Halsall, British actor
● 1984 - Melky Cabrera, Dominican baseball player
● 1984 - Katie Rees, American Miss Nevada USA
● 1984 - Lucas di Grassi, Brazilian racing driver
● 1985 - J-Boog, Singer
● 1993 - Alyson Stoner, American actress
DEATHS
● 480 B.C.E. - Leonidas, King of Sparta
● 353 - Magnentius, Roman usurper
● 449 - Flavian, Patriarch of Constantinople
● 897 - Wilfred the Hairy, Count of Barcelona
● 1204 - King Guttorm of Norway (b. 1199)
● 1253 - St. Clare of Assisi (sister moon), Italian follower of St. Francis of Assisi (brother sun) (b. 1194)
● 1456 - John Hunyadi, regent of Hungary (b. 1387)
● 1464 - Nicholas of Cusa, German philosopher and mathematician (b. 1401)
● 1519 - Johann Tetzel, German opponent of the Reformation (b. 1465)
● 1563 - Bartolomé de Escobedo, Spanish composer
● 1578 - Pedro Nunes, Portuguese mathematician (b. 1502)
● 1596 - Hamnet Shakespeare, dies at age 11.
● 1614 - Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter (b. 1552)
● 1656 - Prince Octavio Piccolomini, Duke of Amalfi, Austrian field marshal (b. 1599)
● 1774 - Tiphaigne de la Roche, French writer (b. 1722)
● 1813 - Henry James Pye, English poet (b. 1745)
● 1851 - Lorenz Oken, German naturalist (b. 1779)
● 1854 - Macedonio Melloni, Italian physicist (b. 1798)
● 1886 - Lydia Koidula, Estonian poet (b. 1843)
● 1890 - John Henry Cardinal Newman, English Catholic cardinal (b. 1801)
● 1892 - Enrico Betti, Italian mathematician (b. 1813)
● 1919 - Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-born industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1835)
● 1937 - Edith Wharton, American author (b. 1862)
● 1939 - Jean Bugatti, Italian automobile designer (b. 1909)
● 1953 - Tazio Nuvolari, Italian race car driver (b. 1892)
● 1956 - Jackson Pollock, American artist (b. 1912)
● 1961 - Antanas Škėma, Lithuanian writer, stage actor and director (b. 1910)
● 1972 - Max Theiler, South African virologist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1899)
● 1974 - Jan Tschichold, German typographer (b. 1902)
● 1980 - Paul Robert, French lexicographer and publisher (b. 1910)
● 1982 - Tom Drake, American actor (b. 1918)
● 1984 - Alfred A. Knopf, American publisher (b. 1892)
● 1984 - Paul Felix Schmidt, Estonian–German chess player (b. 1916)
● 1988 - Anne Ramsey, American actress (b. 1929)
● 1991 - J. D. McDuffie, NASCAR driver (b. 1939)
● 1994 - Peter Cushing, British actor (b. 1913)
● 1995 - Phil Harris, American singer, songwriter, and comedian (b. 1904)
● 1996 - Rafael Kubelík, Czech-born conductor and composer (b. 1914)
● 1996 - Mel Taylor, American drummer (The Ventures) (b. 1933)
● 2000 - Jean Papineau-Couture, Canadian composer (b. 1916)
● 2001 - Percy Stallard, English racing cyclist (b. 1909)
● 2002 - Galen Rowell, photographer and climber (b. 1940)
● 2003 - Armand Borel, Swiss mathematician (b. 1923)
● 2003 - Herb Brooks, American ice hockey coach (b. 1937)
● 2005 - James Booth, English actor (b. 1927)
● 2006 - Mike Douglas, American singer and talk show host (b. 1925)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● Feast of the Crown of Thorns
● St. Alexander of Comana
● St. Attracta
● St. Blane
● St. Callistus, pope, martyr
● St. Clare, virgin, Abbess at Assisi
● St. Digna
● St. Equitius, abbot
● St. Fiacre
● St. Francis of St. Mary
● St. Gaugericus (Géry), bishop of Cambrai, confessor, martyr
● St. Gilberte
● St. Hippolytus, martyr
● St. Lelia
● St. Philomena
● St. Radegundis, virgin
● St. Rufinus
● St. Rusticola, abbess at Arles, virgin
● St. Susanna, virgin, martyr in 295
● St. Taurinus
● St. Taurinus, bishop of Evreux, confessor
● Sts. Tiburtius and Chromatius, martyrs
● Bl. Lawrence Nerucci
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for July 28 (Civil Date: August 11)
● Holy Apostles of the Seventy and Deacons: Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, and Parmenas.
● Martyr Eustathius (Eustace) the soldeir of Ancyra.
● Martyr Acacius of Apamea.
● Martyr Julian of Dalmatia.
● St. Pitirim, Bishop of Tambov.
● St. Irene of Cappadocia.
● St. Paul of Xeropotamou Monastery on Mt. Athos.
● St. Moses, Wonderworker of the Kiev Caves.
● Greek Calendar:
● Martyr Drosida.
● Appearance of the "Smolensk" Hodigitria Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos.
● Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Of Tender Feeling-Diveyevo", before which St. Seraphim of Sarov reposed.
● Repose of Abbess Daria of Sezenovo (1858).
● Anglican:
● St. Clare, virgin, Abbess at Assisi
● Brazil - Student's Day, Lawyer's Day, Foundation of the Law Studies in Brazil
● Central African Republic, Chad - Independence Day (1960)
● Jordan - Coronation Day/Accession of King Hussein
● Taiwan - Valentine's Day
● Zimbabwe - Heroes' Day
● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Italy : Palio Del Golfo (2nd Sunday) - ( Sunday )
● Zambia : Youth Day - ( Monday )
● Yukon : Klondike Gold Day (1896) - ( 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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