It is the peak of the Perseid meteor shower. It is also known as the "Glorious Twelfth" in the UK, as it marks the traditional start of the grouse shooting season.
Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On War "Lying and war are always associated. Pay attention to war-makers when they try to defend their current war . . . if they move their lips, they're lying." — Phil Berrigan
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Ineptitude "What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is." — Dan Quayle, mangling the slogan from the United Negro College Fund, "A mind is a terrible thing to waste"
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: On Politics "I promise you a police car on every sidewalk." — Hall of Shame Member #2, Marion Barry, former mayor of Washington, D. C.
Thought for the day: "Too much of a good thing is wonderful."
{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
Raining Perseids
Credit & Copyright: Fred Bruenjes
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 490 B.C.E. - the Battle of Marathon, in which Athens defeated an invading army of Persians, may have been fought on this date in the proleptic Julian calendar - see also 12 September.
● 30 B.C.E. - Cleopatra commits suicide after her defeat and Mark Antony's defeat at the battle of Actium.
● 1099 - First Crusade: Battle of Ascalon - Crusaders under the command of Godfrey of Bouillon defeat Fatimid forces under Al-Afdal Shahanshah. Considered the last engagement of the First Crusade.
● 1121 - Battle of Didgori: The Georgian army under King David the Builder won a decisive victory over the famous Seljuk commander Ilghazi.
● 1164 - Battle of Harim: Nur ad-Din defeats the Crusader armies of the County of Tripoli and the Principality of Antioch.
● 1281 - The fleet of Qubilai Khan is destroyed by a typhoon while approaching Japan.
● 1323 - Treaty of Nöteborg - Sweden and Novgorod (Russia) regulates the border for the first time.
● 1332 - Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Dupplin Moor - Scots under Domhnall II, Earl of Mar routed by Edward Balliol.
● 1480 - Battle of Otranto - Ottoman troops behead 800 Christians for refusing to convert to Islam.
● 1499 - First act of the Battle of Zonchio between Venetian and Ottoman fleets.
● 1508 - Ponce de Leon arrives in Puerto Rico
● 1553 - Pope Julius III orders confiscation & burning of the Talmud
● 1591 - Death of Dick, a cat, in Leith, Scotland.
● 1656 - "King Phillip's War" came to an end with the killing of Indian chief King Phillip. The war between the Indians and the Europeans lasted for two years.
● 1658 - First police force in North America is organized in New Amsterdam (New York).
● 1665 - In London during the great plague, Samuel Pepys writes in his diary - "The people die so, that now it seems they are fain to carry the dead to be buried by daylight, the nights not sufficing to do it in."
● 1676 - Wampanoag tribe leader Metacom, known as "King Philip" to the English, is shot to death by white settlers, and his wife and child sold to West Indian slave traders. The previous year, his brother's wife, Squaw Sachem of Pocasset (known to the English as Wetamoo), was cornered and shot by the English while she was trying to escape. After the English arrested and poisoned Sachem's husband--Wamsutta, the chief of the Wampanoag--she helped raise a guerrilla army of 20,000 to fight the white intruders. After killing Squaw Sachem, the Christian civilizers mounted her head on a pole for a display in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
● 1687 - Charles of Lorraine defeats the Ottomans at the Battle of Mohács.
● 1793 - The Rhône department was created when the former département of Rhône-et-Loire was split into two departments: Rhône and Loire (Lêre).
● 1806 - Santiago de Liniers re-takes the city of Buenos Aires after the first British invasion.
● 1812 - Lady Ludd "leads" women in Knottingly, England, in riots over high bread prices.
● 1833 - Chicago was founded.
● 1838 - Birth of Joseph Barnby, English organist and choirmaster. He composed nearly 250 hymn tunes during his life. Of these the most enduring include LAUDES DOMINI ("When Morning Gilds the Skies"), LONGWOOD ("Spirit of God, Descend Upon My Heart"), MERRIAL ("Now the Day is Over") and ST. ANDREW ("We Give Thee But Thine Own").
● 1843 - First North American phalanx founded, commune based on the ideas of Charles Fourier.
● 1851 - Isaac Singer was issued a patent on the double-headed sewing machine.
● 1859 - Birth of Katherine Lee Bates, American English teacher. She published over 20 books, but is best remembered today for writing the patriotic hymn, "America, the Beautiful" (a.k.a. "O Beautiful for Spacious Skies").
● 1862 - Gen John Hunt Morgan & his raiders capture Gallatin, TX
● 1863 - 1st cargo of lumber leaves Burrard Inlet (Vancouver, BC area)
● 1865 - Disinfectant was used for the first time during surgery by Joseph Lister.
● 1867 - U.S. President Andrew Johnson sparked a move to impeach him when he defied Congress by suspending Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.
● 1877 - Thomas Edison invents the Edisonphone, a sound recording device
● 1880 - Baseball Hall of Famer Christy Mathewson was born in Factoryville, Pa.
● 1881 - United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America formed.
● 1881 - Cecil B. DeMille, a leading American movie producer and director for over 40 years, was born.
● 1883 - The last quagga dies at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam.
● 1888 - Bertha, wife of inventor Karl Benz, makes 1st motor tour
● 1890 - Mississippi constitutional convention begins systematic exclusion of blacks from politics.
● 1898 - Coal company guards kill seven, wound 40 miners trying to stop scabs, Virden, Illinois.
● 1898 - The Hawaiian flag is lowered from Iolani Palace in an elaborate annexation ceremony and replaced with the American flag to signify the transfer of sovereignty from the Republic of Hawai`i to the United States.
● 1898 - The Spanish-American War was ended with the signing of the peace protocol. The U.S. acquired Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. Hawaii was also annexed.
● 1908 - First Model T Ford built. {"You can have it in any color, as long as it is black."—Henry Ford}
● 1914 - World War I - Britain declares war on Austria-Hungary; British Empire countries automatically included.
● 1918 - Regular airmail service began between Washington, DC, and New York City.
● 1923 - Enrico Tiraboschi is 1st to swim English Channel westward
● 1932 - Voters of Arkansas make populist Democrat Hattie Carraway first woman elected to U.S. Senate.
● 1936 - 120° F (49° C), Seymour, Texas (state record)
● 1941 - French Marshal Henri Petain gave full support to Nazi Germany
● 1943 - Alleged date of the first Philadelphia Experiment test on United States Navy ship USS Eldridge.
● 1944 - Alençon liberated by General Leclerc, the first city in France to be liberated from the Nazis by the Allied forces.
● 1944 - In France, Pierre Laval released Edouard Herriot.
● 1944 - Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. was killed with his co-pilot when their Navy plane exploded over England. Joseph Kennedy was the oldest son of Joseph and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy.
● 1944 - Waffen SS troops massacre more than 500 civilians in Sant'Anna di Stazzema.
● 1952 - American missionary and martyr Jim Elliot wrote in his journal: 'I must come to be aware of Satan. He may never get me into hell, but he may cause God shame in defeating me. Preserve me from the lion, Lord. Let him not swallow me up.'
● 1952 - The Night of the Murdered Poets - Thirteen most prominent Jewish intellectuals were murdered in Moscow.
● 1953 - Ann Davidson, 1st woman to sail solo across Atlantic, arrives Miami
● 1953 - Nuclear testing: The Soviet atomic bomb project proceeded with the detonation of Joe 4, the first Soviet (H-bomb) thermonuclear weapon.
● 1955 - Pres Eisenhower raises minimum wage from $0.75 to $1 an hour
● 1959 - 1st ship firing of a Polaris missile, Observation Island
● 1959 - Black students admitted to Little Rock High School, Arkansas.
● 1960 - The balloon satellite Echo One was launched by the U.S. from Cape Canaveral, FL. It was the first communications satellite.
● 1960 - USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 41,600 m
● 1962 - The Soviet Union launched Pavel Popovich into orbit. Popovich and Andrian Nikolayev, who was launch a day before, both landed on August 15.
● 1964 - Charlie Wilson, one of the Great Train Robbers escapes from Winson Green Prison in Birmingham, England.
● 1964 - Race riot in Elizabeth NJ
● 1964 - South Africa is banned from the Olympic Games due to its racist policy.
● 1965 - Race riot in West Side of Chicago
● 1966 - John Lennon apologizes at a news conference in Chicago for remarking "the Beatles are more popular than Jesus."
● 1966 - Massacre of Braybrook Street as three policemen are shot dead in East Acton, London.
● 1969 - Battle of the Bogside, Catholic community of Derry engage in two-day battle with the Royal Ulster Constabulary
● 1970 - Postal reform measure signed, creating an independent U.S. Postal Service, thus relinquishing government control of the U.S. mails after almost two centuries.
● 1972 - Colombian Bari Indian leader Maurico Cobaira Bobrichora is killed by white settlers on the Venezuelan border.
● 1972 - The last American combat ground troops leave Vietnam.
● 1976 - 1st approach & lands test (ALT) of orbiter Enterprise
● 1977 - High Energy Astronomy Observatory 1 launched into Earth orbit
● 1977 - Space shuttle Enterprise makes 1st atmospheric flight
● 1978 - Forty arrested for scaling fence at nuclear plant site, Shoreham, Long Island, N.Y.
● 1978 - ICE is launched
● 1978 - In Rome, the first papal funeral ever held outdoors was conducted for Pope Paul VI in St. Peter's Square.
● 1978 - Japan and the People's Republic of China sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and the People's Republic of China.
● 1978 - South Korean police storm YH Industrial Wig factory sit-in. One hundred eighty arrested and one killed.
● 1980 - Signing of the Montevideo Treaty, which established the Latin American Integration Association.
● 1981 - Release of the IBM PC or Personal Computer
● 1982 - Members of 7th International March beaten by police for leafleting arms factory workers, San Fernando, Spain.
● 1982 - Mexico announces it is unable to pay its enormous external debt, marking the beginning of a debt crisis that spread to all of Latin America and the Third World.
● 1982 - Twelve arrested in sea blockade of first Trident submarine at Hood Canal, Washington.
● 1983 - Chilean air force commander refuses to help government repress protests.
● 1985 - Japan Airlines Flight 123, a Boeing 747 jumbo jet, crashes into Mount Ogura in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, killing 520 in the world's worst single-plane air disaster. Four people miraculously survive.
● 1986 - It was announced by NASA that they had selected a new rocket design for the space shuttle. The move was made in an effort at correcting the flaws that were believed to have been responsible for the Challenger disaster.
● 1988 - In Hollywood, the controversial religious movie "The Last Temptation of Christ" was released, sparking protests from evangelical church groups across the nation.
● 1988 - Nelson Mandela is treated for tuberculosis at the hospital
● 1988 - Richard Thornburgh becomes US Attorney General
● 1990 - Iraq President Saddam Hussein says he is ready to resolve the Gulf crisis if Israel withdraws from occupied territories
● 1990 - Sue, the most complete skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex, is discovered near Faith, South Dakota.
● 1990 - The first U.S. casualty occurred during the Persian Gulf crisis when Air Force Staff Sergeant John Campisi died after being hit by a military truck.
● 1990 - Violence erupts between Xhosa and Zulu factions in South Africa.
● 1990 - Briton shot by Iraqis; A British man attempting to escape in a convoy from Iraqi-occupied Kuwait is shot by Iraqi soldiers.
● 1992 - Anarchist composer and musician John Cage dies, New York City.
● 1992 - Canada, Mexico, and the United States announce completion of negotiations for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) after 14 months of negotiations.
● 1993 - U.S. President Clinton lifted the ban on rehiring air traffic controllers that had been fired for going on strike in 1981.
● 1993 - U.S. President Clinton signed a relief package for the flooded areas of the Midwest United States.
● 1995 - Thousands demonstrate in Philadelphia and other cities in support of journalist and former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal (on death row since 1982) in the largest anti-death penalty demonstrations in the U.S. to date.
● 1998 - Swiss banks agree to pay $1.25 billion as restitution to Holocaust survivors to settle claims for their assets.
● 2000 - The Oscar class submarine K-141 Kursk of the Russian Navy exploded and sank in the Barents Sea during a military exercise, killing all members of 118-man crew.
● 2000 - Murdered schoolgirl's life celebrated; The family of murdered schoolgirl Sarah Payne is joined by friends and hundreds of members of the public for a memorial service.
● 2003 - Gilligan: language 'wasn't perfect'; BBC journalist Andrew Gilligan answers questions from the Hutton Inquiry over his report that the government "sexed up" a weapons dossier on Iraq.
● 2004 - The California Supreme Court voided the nearly 4,000 same-sex marriages sanctioned in San Francisco earlier in the year.
● 2004 - New Jersey Gov. James E. McGreevey announced his resignation and acknowledged that he had had an extramarital affair with a man.
● 2005 - An F1 tornado strikes Glen Cove, New York, a rare event on Long Island
● 2005 - An F2 tornado strikes the coal mining town of Wright, Wyoming, destroying nearly 100 homes and killing two people.
● 2005 - Civil unrest provoked in the Maldives
● 2005 - Sri Lanka's foreign minister, Lakshman Kadirgamar, is fatally shot by a sniper at his home.
● 2007 - Bulk carrier M/V New Flame collides with oil tanker Torm Gertrud at the southernmost tip of Gibraltar, ending up partially submerged.
BIRTHS
● 1503 - Christian III of Denmark and Norway (d. 1559)
● 1566 - Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain (d. 1633)
● 1604 - Tokugawa Iemitsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1651)
● 1629 - Tsar Alexei I of Russia (d. 1676)
● 1643 - King Afonso VI of Portugal (d. 1683)
● 1644 - Heinrich Ignaz Biber, Bohemian composer (d. 1704)
● 1647 - Johann Heinrich Acker, German writer (d. 1719)
● 1686 - John Balguy, English philosopher (d. 1748)
● 1696 - Maurice Greene, English composer (d. 1755)
● 1720 - Konrad Ekhof, German actor (d. 1778)
● 1762 - King George IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1830)
● 1774 - Robert Southey, English poet and biographer (d. 1843)
● 1781 - Robert Mills, American architect (d. 1855)
● 1833 - Lillie Devereux Blake, American novelist and activist for women's suffrage (d. 1913)
● 1856 - "Diamond Jim" Brady, American financier (d. 1917)
● 1859 - Katharine Lee Bates, American poet (d. 1929)
● 1866 - Jacinto Benavente y Martinez, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1954)
● 1867 - Edith Hamilton, German classicist (d. 1963)
● 1876 - Mary Roberts Rinehart, American author (d. 1958)
● 1880 - Radclyffe Hall, British author (d. 1943)
● 1880 - Christy Mathewson, American baseball player (d. 1925)
● 1881 - Cecil B. DeMille, American director (d. 1959)
● 1882 - Vincent Bendix, American inventor and industrialist (d. 1945)
● 1882 - George Bellows, American painter and lithographer (d. 1925)
● 1883 - Pauline Frederick, American actress (d. 1938)
● 1885 - Jean Cabannes, French physicist (d. 1959)
● 1885 - Marion Lorne, American actress (d. 1968)
● 1886 - Sir Keith Murdoch, Australian journalist and newspaper owner (d. 1952)
● 1887 - Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1961)
● 1889 - Zerna Sharp, American writer and educator (Dick and Jane) (d. 1981)
● 1892 - Alfred Lunt, American actor (d. 1977)
● 1898 - Oscar Homolka, Austrian-born American stage and screen actor (d. 1978)
● 1902 - Mohammad Hatta, Vice President of Indonesia 1945-1956 (d. 1980)
● 1904 - Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich of Russia, only son of Emperor Nicholas II of Russia (d. 1918)
● 1906 - Harry Hopman, Australian-born tennis player and coach (d. 1985)
● 1906 - Tedd Pierce, American animator (d. 1972)
● 1907 - Joe Besser, American actor and comedian (d. 1988)
● 1909 - Richard Bare, American Director
● 1910 - Jane Wyatt, American actress (d. 2006)
● 1911 - Cantinflas, Mexican actor (d. 1993)
● 1912 - Samuel Fuller, American film director (d. 1997)
● 1914 - Gerd Buchdahl, German philosopher (d. 2001)
● 1914 - Ruth Lowe, Canadian pianist and composer (I'll Never Smile Again) (d. 1981)
● 1918 - Guy Gibson, British aviator, awarded Victoria Cross (d. 1944)
● 1919 - Michael Kidd, Choreographer
● 1919 - Vikram Sarabhai, Indian physicist (d. 1971)
● 1924 - Derek Shackleton, English cricketer
● 1924 - Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, leader of Pakistan (d. 1988)
● 1925 - Dale Bumpers, Former U.S. senator, D-Ark.
● 1925 - Norris McWhirter, Scottish co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (d. 2004)
● 1925 - Ross McWhirter, Scottish co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (d. 1975)
● 1925 - George Wetherill, American scientist (d. 2006)
● 1926 - John Derek, American actor (d. 1998)
● 1926 - Joe Jones, American R&B singer (d. 2005)
● 1926 - Wallace Markfield, American writer (d. 2002)
● 1927 - Porter Wagoner, American singer
● 1928 - Charles Blackman, Australian artist
● 1928 - Bob Buhl, American baseball player (d. 2001)
● 1928 - Dan Curtis, film and television producer and director
● 1929 - Buck Owens, American singer (d. 2006)
● 1930 - George Soros American businessman
● 1930 - Jacques Tits, Belgian mathematician
● 1931 - William Goldman, American screenwriter
● 1932 - Charlie O'Donnell, American game show announcer
● 1932 - Somdej Phra Nangchao Sirikit Phra Boromarajininat HM Queen Sirikit of Thailand
● 1933 - Parnelli Jones, American race car driver
● 1935 - John Cazale, Italian-American actor (d. 1978)
● 1937 - Walter Dean Myers, African-American author
● 1938 - Jean-Paul L'Allier, Canadian Mayor of Quebec
● 1939 - George Hamilton, American actor
● 1939 - Roy Romanow, Canadian politician
● 1941 - Jennifer Warren, Actress
● 1941 - Réjean Ducharme, Quebec novelist and playwright
● 1943 - Deborah Walley, American actress (d. 2001)
● 1947 - Sam Rosen, American sportscaster
● 1949 - Mark Knopfler, British guitarist (Dire Straits)
● 1950 - Kid Creole, Singer
● 1950 - Jim Beaver, American actor and writer
● 1951 - Willie Horton, American murderer and rapist
● 1952 - Chen Kaige, Chinese film director
● 1954 - Sam J. Jones, American actor
● 1954 - Pat Metheny, American guitarist
● 1955 - Ann M. Martin, American author
● 1955 - Terry Taylor, American retired professional wrestler
● 1956 - Bruce Greenwood, Canadian actor
● 1956 - Danny Shirley, Country singer
● 1960 - Laurent Fignon, French cyclist
● 1961 - Roy Hay, British guitarist and keyboardist (Culture Club)
● 1962 - Miss Cleo, American psychic
● 1963 - Sir Mix A Lot, American Rapper
● 1965 - Peter Krause, American actor ("Six Feet Under")
● 1967 - Regilio Tuur, Dutch boxer
● 1967 - Andrey Plotnikov, Russian race walker
● 1967 - Andy Hui, Hong Kong actor and singer
● 1968 - Andras Jones, American actor
● 1970 - Anthony Swofford, American novelist
● 1970 - Jim Schlossnagle, baseball coach
● 1970 - Charles Mesure, British actor
● 1971 - Michael Ian Black, American comedian and actor ("Ed")
● 1971 - Pete Sampras, American tennis player
● 1972(71? NYT) - Rebecca Gayheart, actress
● 1972 - Mark Kinsella, Irish footballer
● 1972 - Takanohana, Sumo yokozuna
● 1973 - Joseba Beloki, Spanish cyclist
● 1973 - Jonathan Coachman, American professional wrestler and executive
● 1973 - Todd Marchant, American ice hockey player
● 1973 - Richard Reid (shoe bomber)
● 1973 - Yvette Nicole Brown, American actress
● 1973 - Sayyed Muqtada al-Sadr - son of Ayatollah Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr
● 1973 - Grey DeLisle, American voice actress/American singer
● 1974 - Matt Clement, American baseball player
● 1975 - Casey Affleck, American actor
● 1975 - David Filmore, American actor/director
● 1975 - Bill Uechi, Rock musician (Save Ferris)
● 1976 - Mikko Viljami "Linde" Lindström, Finnish guitarist
● 1976 - Antoine Walker, American basketball player
● 1976 - Wednesday 13, American musician (Wednesday 13, Murderdolls)
● 1976 - Brad Lukowich, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1976 - Richard McCourt, English childrens television presenter
● 1977 - Plaxico Burress, American football player
● 1977 - Jesper Grønkjær, Danish footballer
● 1977 - Park Yong-ha, South Korean actor and singer
● 1978 - Hayley Wickenheiser, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1978 - Chris Chambers, American Football player
● 1979 - Cindy Klassen, Canadian speed skater
● 1980 - Maggie Lawson, American actress
● 1980 - Dominique Swain, American actress
● 1980 - Matt Thiessen, Canadian-born musician (Relient K)
● 1980 - Jade Villalon, American Singer/Songwriter
● 1981 - Djibril Cissé, French footballer
● 1982 - Alexandros Tzorvas, Greek footballer
● 1988 - Leah Pipes, American actress
● 1993 - Imani Hakim, Actress ("Everybody Hates Chris")
DEATHS
● 30 B.C.E. - Cleopatra (b. 69 B.C.E.)
● 875 - Louis II Holy Roman Emperor (b. 825)
● 1424 - Yongle, Emperor of China (b. 1460)
● 1484 - George of Trebizond, Greek philosopher (b. 1395)
● 1484 - Pope Sixtus IV (b. 1414)
● 1512 - Alessandro Achillini, Italian philosopher (b. 1463)
● 1577 - Thomas Smith, English diplomat and scholar (b. 1513)
● 1588 - Alfonso Ferrabosco (I), Italian composer (b. 1543)
● 1612 - Giovanni Gabrieli, Italian composer
● 1633 - Jacopo Peri, Italian composer (b. 1561)
● 1638 - Johannes Althusius, German writer (b. 1557)
● 1648 - Ibrahim I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1615)
● 1674 - Philippe de Champaigne, French painter (b. 1602)
● 1689 - Pope Innocent XI (b. 1611)
● 1778 - Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, British general and politician (b. 1714)
● 1809 - Mikhail Kamensky, Russian field marshal (b. 1738)
● 1810 - Etienne Louis Geoffroy, French pharmacist and entomologist (b. 1725)
● 1822 - Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, English politician and statesman (b. 1769)
● 1827 - William Blake, English poet and artist (b. 1757)
● 1848 - George Stephenson, British locomotive designer (b. 1781)
● 1857 - Rufus Wilmot Griswold, American editor and critic (b. 1815)
● 1861 - Eliphalet Remington, American inventor, designer of the Remington rifle (b. 1793)
● 1864 - Sakuma Shōzan, Japanese reformer (b. 1811)
● 1865 - William Jackson Hooker, English botanist (b. 1785)
● 1891 - James Russell Lowell, American poet and essayist (b. 1819)
● 1896 - Thomas Chamberlain, officer of the 20th Maine at the Battle of Gettysburg
● 1900 - Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian chess player (b. 1836)
● 1901 - Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Finnish-Swedish explorer (b. 1832)
● 1914 - John Philip Holland, Irish submarine designer (b. 1840)
● 1918 - Anna Held, Polish-born actress and singer (b. 1872)
● 1922 - Arthur Griffith, President of Ireland (b. 1871)
● 1928 - Leoš Janáček, Czech composer (b. 1854)
● 1934 - Hendrik Petrus Berlage, Dutch architect (b. 1856)
● 1935 - Friedrich Schottky, German mathematician (b. 1851)
● 1943 - Bobby Peel, English cricketer (b. 1857)
● 1948 - Harry Brearley, English inventor (b. 1871)
● 1952 - David Bergelson, Yiddish language writer (b. 1884)
● 1955 - Thomas Mann, German writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1875)
● 1955 - James B. Sumner, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1887)
● 1959 - Mike O'Neill, Irish-born American baseball player (b. 1877)
● 1964 - Ian Fleming, English novelist (James Bond) (b. 1908)
● 1973 - Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1881)
● 1973 - Karl Ziegler, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1898)
● 1979 - Ernst Boris Chain, German-born biochemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1906)
● 1982 - Henry Fonda, American actor (b. 1905)
● 1982 - Salvador Sanchez, Mexican boxer (b. 1959)
● 1982 - Varlam Shalamov, Russian writer (b. 1907)
● 1985 - Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer (plane crash) (b. 1941)
● 1985 - Manfred Winkelhock, German race car driver (b. 1951)
● 1988 - Jean-Michel Basquiat, Haitian-American artist (b. 1960)
● 1988 - Bhakti Raksaka Sridhara Deva Gosvami Maharaja, religious Guru from India (b. 1895)
● 1989 - William Shockley, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)
● 1989 - Samuel Okwaraji, Nigerian footballer (b. 1964)
● 1990 - B. Kliban, American cartoonist (b. 1935)
● 1990 - Dorothy Mackaill, British-born American actress (b. 1903)
● 1992 - John Cage, American composer (b. 1912)
● 1996 - Robert Gravel, French Canadian actor and theatrical director (b. 1945)
● 1996 - Mark Gruenwald, American comic book writer and editor (b. 1953)
● 1997 - Luther Allison, American musician (b. 1939)
● 1999 - Jean Drapeau, Quebec politician, mayor of Montreal (b. 1916)
● 2000 - Loretta Young, American actress (b. 1913)
● 2002 - Enos Slaughter, American baseball player (b. 1916)
● 2004 - Sir Godfrey Hounsfield, English electrical engineer and inventor, Nobel laureate (b. 1919)
● 2004 - Peter Woodthorpe, British actor (b. 1931)
● 2005 - John Loder, co-founder of the anarcho-punk band CRASS (b. 1946)
● 2007 - Merv Griffin, American television host and game show creator (b. 1925)
● 2007 - Mike Wieringo, American comic book artist (b. 1962)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● Feast of the Crown of Thorns
● St. Andeolus, martyr
● St. Anicetus
● St. Anthony Peter Dich
● St. Cassian of Benevento
● Sts. Chrysanthus and Daria, martyrs
● St. Clare, virgin
● St. Claudius, martyr
● St. David, martyr
● St. Euplus, deacon, martyr
● St. Eusebius of Milan
● St. Hilaria and companions, martyrs
● St. Jambert
● St. James Nam
● St. Just
● Sts. Macarius & Julian
● St. Merewenna
● St. Michael My
● St. Muredach, bishop of Killala
● St. Murtagh
● St. Thomas Percy, earl of Northumberland, martyr
● St. Tiburtius, martyr
● St. Waldetrudis, virgin
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for July 29 (Civil Date: August 12)
● Martyr Callinicus of Gangra in Asia Minor.
● Virgin Martyr Seraphima (Serapia) of Antioch.
● Martyr Theodota and her three sons in Bithynia.
● St. Constantine, Patriarch of Constantinople.
● St. Theodosius the New, emperor.
● St. Romanus, abbot of Kirzhach, disciple of St. Sergius of Radonezh.
● Saints Constantine and Cosmas, abbots of Kosinsk (Pskov).
● Martyr Eustace of Mtskhet in Georgia.
● Martyr Michael, St. Lupus the Confessor, Bishop of Troyes.
● Martyr Mamas in Darii.
● St. Bogolep, Schemamonk-child of Black Ravine near Astrakhan.
● St. Olaf, Enlightener of Norway.
● Greek Calendar:
● Martyr Basiliscus the Elder.
● Martyrs Benjamin and Berius of Constantinople.
● Feast for the First Night of the Prophet and His Bride (Thelema)
● Zaraday (Discordianism)
● Brazil - Father's Day (August second Sunday)
● Cuba - People's Victory Against Machado Tyranny
● Texas - Pioneers' Day
● Thailand - The Queen's Birthday, Mother's Day
● United Nations - International Youth Day (since 1999)
● United States: Massachusetts, Oklahoma - Indian Day
● World - Ponce de Leon Day (1508)
● Zimbabwe - Defence Force Day
● Glorious Twelfth at the Yorkshire Dales
● 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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