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Monday, August 13, 2007

August 13......

August 13 is the 225th (226th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 140 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Wealth "That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest." — Henry David Thoreau

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Iraq War "We don't do body counts." — Tommy Franks, U.S. Central Command General, explaining America's attitude toward Iraqi war deaths (by estimates, at least 1,000,000 (one million) Iraqi civilians have now been killed by U.S. forces)

Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: On Politics "I am making this trip to Africa because Washington is an international city, just like Tokyo, Nigeria, or Israel. As mayor, I am an international symbol. Can you Deny that to Africa?" — Hall of Shame Member #2, Marion Barry, former mayor of Washington, D. C.

Thought for the day: "Some men are discovered; others are found out."

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}


NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY

The Trifid Nebula in Stars and Dust


Credit & Copyright: R. Jay GaBany (Cosmotography.com)
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation


EVENTS

● 3114 B.C.E. - According to the Lounsbury correlation, the Maya calendar starts. (The world is remade, the First Day of Creation of the world of human beings according to the Mayan calendar.)

● 523 - St. John I succeeds Hormisdas as Pope.

● 1099 - Paschal II elected Pope.

● 1315 - Louis X of France marries Clemence d'Anjou.

● 1326 - Aradia de Toscano, according to legend/folklore, is initiated into a Dianic witchcraft cult, subsequently founds the tradition of Stregheria later known as the Malandanti.

● 1415 - Hundred Years' War: Henry V of England lands at Chef-en-Caux, France with 8000 men.

● 1516 - Treaty of Noyon between France and Spain signed. In it, Francis recognises Charles's claim to Naples, and Charles recognises Francis's claim to Milan.

● 1521 - Cuauhtemoc, last monarch of the Aztec, "fights rooftop to rooftop" before surrendering his starved and besieged city of Tenochtitlan; Cortes received him with honors, then later had him hanged.

● 1536 - Buddhist monks from Kyōto's Enryaku Temple set fire to 21 Nichiren temples throughout Kyoto in the Tenbun Hokke Disturbance. (Traditional Japanese date: July 27, 1536).

● 1553 - Michael Servetus arrested by John Calvin in Geneva as a heretic.

● 1587 - In Roanoke, Virginia, Manteo became the first American Indian converted to Protestantism, and was baptized into the Church of England by members of Sir Walter Raleigh's expedition to the New World.

● 1642 - Christiaan Huygens discovers Martian south polar cap

● 1651 - Litchfield, CT founded

● 1673 - Rhode Island colony, founded by persons fleeing religious persecution in Puritan-controlled Massachusetts, exempts religious pacifists from military duty.

● 1682 - The first Welsh immigrants to the American colonies arrived in Pennsylvania. They were Quakers, and settled near modern Philadelphia.

● 1704 - War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of Blenheim - English and Austrians victorious over French and Bavarians.

● 1727 - In the German village of Herrnhut, religious reformer Count Nicolaus von Zinzendorf, 27, organized a group of Bohemian Protestant refugees into the first Moravian community of "Unitas Fratrum" (united brotherhood).

● 1784 - The United States Legislature met for the final time in Annapolis, MD.

● 1792 - French revolutionaries took the entire French royal family and imprisoned them.

● 1814 - The Convention of London, a treaty between the United Kingdom and the United Provinces, is signed in London.

● 1818 - Birth of Lucy Stone, feminist theorist, suffragist who supported African-American women's rights.

● 1831 - Nat Turner leads uprising of slaves in Virginia

● 1846 - The American Flag was raised for the first time in Los Angeles, CA.

● 1868 - Quakes kill 25,000 & causes $300 million damages (Peru & Ecuador)

● 1876 - The Reciprocity Treaty between the U.S. and Hawaii was ratified.

● 1889 - A patent for a coin-operated telephone was issued to William Gray.

● 1889 - London Dock Workers' Strike begins, headed by Ben Tillett and John Burns, with Eleanor Marx-Aveling as secretary of the strike committee.

● 1892 - Striking miners at Tracy City, Tenn., capture their mines and free 300 convict strikebreakers.

● 1898 - Admiral Dewey captures Manila; U.S. takes possession of the Philippines for next 50 years.

● 1899 - Alfred Hitchcock, the English movie director of suspense film, was born.

● 1904 - Lightning strikes the belltower of the Kirtland Temple. A bucket brigade barely saves the historic structure.

● 1905 - Norway holds referendum in favour of dissolving the union with Sweden.

● 1906 - Black soldiers raid Brownsville Texas

● 1907 - The first taxicab started on the streets of New York City.

● 1908 - Death of Ira D. Sankey, 68. He was Dwight Moody's song evangelist from 1870. During their revival crusades, Sankey penned many hymn tunes, of which the most enduring today are HIDING IN THEE ("O Safe to the Rock That is Higher Than I") and SANKEY ("Faith is the Victory").

● 1913 - Invention of stainless steel by Harry Brearley.

● 1913 - Otto Witte, an acrobat, is crowned King of Albania.

● 1918 - Women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time. Opha Mae Johnson is the first woman to enlist.

● 1919 - Birth of Rex Humbard, pioneer radio and television evangelist. In 1958 Humbard established the Cathedral of Tomorrow in Akron, Ohio, from which he afterward based his television ministry.

● 1919 - Man o'War's only defeat (Upset {I love the name of this horse.} wins at Saratoga)

● 1920 - Polish-Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw begins, lasts till August 25. The Red Army is defeated.

● 1923 - First major sea-going ship arrives at Gdynia, newly constructed Polish seaport.

● 1923 - Mustapha Kemal elected president of Turkey

● 1925 - Journalist H. L. Mencken is accused by the Baltimore Chamber of Commerce of damaging the city's trade with the South due to the nature of his dispatches covering the Scopes Trial. {Obviously, the Baltimore Chamber is ahead of its time by putting profit in front of truth.}

● 1931 - The first community hospital in the U.S. was dedicated in Elk City, OK.

● 1931 - U.S. Customs closes border to keep citizens from gambling in Mexico.

● 1932 - Adolf Hitler refused to take the post of vice-chancellor of Germany. He said he was going to hold out "for all or nothing."

● 1936 - Newspaper Guild members begin strike of Hearst-owned Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

● 1937 - Battle of Shanghai begins.

● 1939 - Sabotage suspected in crash of the 'City of San Francisco' which fell into the Humboldt River killing 24. (Elko, Nevada)

● 1940 - World War II: Battle of Britain begins - The Luftwaffe launches a series of attacks on British fighter bases and radar installations.

● 1942 - Manhattan Project to make atomic bomb begins, Los Alamos, New Mexico.

● 1945 - 35 Jews sacrifice their lives to blow up Nazi rubber plant in Silesia

● 1945 - H.G. Wells dies. Author, socialist, alien lover.

● 1946 - Britain transfers illegal immigrants bound to Palestine, to Cyprus

● 1953 - Pres Eisenhower establishes Govt Contract Compliance Committee

● 1954 - Radio Pakistan broadcasts National Anthem of Pakistan for the first time.

● 1954 - U.S. terminates trust relationship with Klamath tribe.

● 1955 - Lamar Smith, a WWII vet who organized black voters in Brookhaven, Mississippi, is shot to death in front of the Lincoln County Courthouse. Three men--Noah Smith, Mack Smith and Charles Falvey--are charged, but a grand jury finds no witnesses to testify against them, despite a large number of people near the courthouse during the shooting.

● 1956 - Grande Ronde reservation, Oregon, terminated.

● 1959 - In New York, ground was broken on the $320 million Verrazano Narrows Bridge.

● 1960 - "Echo I," a balloon satellite, allowed the first two-way telephone conversation by satellite to take place.

● 1960 - Central African Republic & Chad proclaim independence from France

● 1961 - Construction on Berlin Wall begins in East Germany (Dark day)

● 1961 - The German Democratic Republic (East Germany) closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin, to thwart its inhabitants' attempts to escape to the West. Berlin was divided by a barbed wire fence to halt the flight of refugees. Two days later work on the Berlin Wall began. The wall stood until November 9, 1989.

● 1963 - A. Philip Randolph, noted civil rights and labor leader, strongly protests the AFL-CIO Executive Council's failure to endorse the August 28 "March on Washington."

● 1963 - Custom agents confiscate 21 gold coins from Witte Museum

● 1966 - South Vietnamese Premier Nguyen Cao Ky predicts - "In two or three years, or even before, the Communists will accept defeat."

● 1966 - China announces Cultural Revolution; China announces plans for a "new leap forward" after the first meeting in four years of the Communist Party's Central Committee.

● 1968 - Alexandros Panagoulis attempts to assassinate the Greek dictator Colonel G. Papadopoulos in Varkiza, Athens.

● 1971 - U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell announces there will be no federal grand jury investigation of the May 4, 1970 Kent State shootings. {This is after the FBI's investigation showed a grand jury would probably in end in indictments and Mitchell could ill afford that to happen politically.}

● 1973 - Zulfikar Ali Bhutto elected Prime Minister of Pakistan.

● 1977 - Violent clashes at NF march; More than 200 protesters are arrested after demonstrations in Lewisham against a National Front march.

● 1977 - 1st test glide of the shuttle

● 1977 - Aircraft crashes at nuclear weapons store, Machrihanish, Argyllshire, Scotland.

● 1979 - The roof of the uncompleted Rosemont Horizon near Chicago, Illinois collapses, killing 5 workers and injuring 16.

● 1981 - President Ronald Reagan signed a historic package of tax and budget reductions in a ceremony at his California ranch.

● 1985 - Heart-lung transplant makes history; A three-year-old boy from Dublin becomes the world's youngest heart and lung transplant patient.

● 1987 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan assumes responsibility for his role in the Iran-Contra scandal. {without admitting it was the impeachable offense it was}

● 1989 - New York state returns 12 wampum belts to Onandaga.

● 1989 - The wreckage of Texas Congressman Mickey Leland's plane was found a week after disappearing in Ethiopia. There were no survivors of the 16 passengers.

● 1989 - US space shuttle STS-28 lands

● 1990 - Iraq transferred $3-4 billion in bullion, currency, and other goods seized from Kuwait to Baghdad.

● 1991 - Prince quits in museum design row; The Prince of Wales resigns as the patron of Scotland's national museum over a competition to design a new building.

● 1992 - A gunmen dressed in military fatigues shot and killed three people and wounded four others before killing himself. The shootings took place in a plant nursery in Watsonville, CA.

● 1993 - Long Haul Infoshop, anarchist bookstore and community center, opens, Berkeley, Calif.

● 1994 - It was reported that aspirin not only helps reduce the risk of heart disease, but also helps prevent colon cancer.

● 1995 - Baseball Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle died of liver cancer at age 63.

● 1996 - Marc Dutroux, his wife Michelle Martin, and Michel Lelièvre are arrested on suspicion of kidnapping. All are found guilty on June 22, 2004, with sentences of life, 30, and 25 years, respectively.

● 2003 - Libya agreed to set up a $2.7 billion fund for families of 270 people killed in the 1988 Pan Am bombing.

● 2004 - 156 Congolese Tutsi refugees massacred at the Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi.

● 2004 - Black Friday crackdown by NSS on a peaceful protest in the capital city of Maldives, Malé.

● 2004 - Hurricane Charley, a Category 4 storm, strikes Punta Gorda, Florida and devastates the surrounding area.


BIRTHS

● 582 - Arnulf of Metz, French bishop and saint (d. 640)

● 1311 - King Alfonso XI of Castile and Leon (d. 1350)

● 1313 - Aradia de Toscano, Italian insurrectionist, teacher, and witch

● 1584 - Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician (d. 1640)

● 1625 - Erasmus Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and physicist (d. 1698)

● 1662 - Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician (d. 1748)

● 1666 - William Wotton, English scholar (d. 1727)

● 1700 - Heinrich, count von Brühl, German statesman (d. 1763)

● 1717 - Louis François I, Prince of Conti, French military leader (d. 1776)

● 1752 - Marie Caroline of Austria, queen of the Two Sicilies (d. 1814)

● 1764 - Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers, French general (d. 1816)

● 1790 - William Wentworth, Australian explorer and politician (d. 1872)

● 1792 - Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, Queen consort of William IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1849)

● 1803 - Vladimir Odoevsky, Russian philosopher and writer (d. 1869)

● 1814 - Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist (d. 1874)

● 1818 - Lucy Stone, American suffragette (d. 1893)

● 1819 - George Gabriel Stokes, Irish physicist (d. 1903)

● 1820 - Sir George Grove, English music historian (d. 1900)

● 1823 - Goldwin Smith, English-born historian and journalist (d. 1910)

● 1851 - Felix Adler, German-born educator (d. 1933)

● 1860 - Annie Oakley, American sharpshooter (d. 1926)

● 1866 - Giovanni Agnelli, Italian industrialist (d. 1945)

● 1867 - George Luks, American painter (d. 1933)

● 1872 - Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1942)

● 1879 - John Ireland, English composer (d. 1962)

● 1887 - Julius Freed, American inventor and banker (d. 1952)

● 1888 - John Logie Baird, Scottish television pioneer (d. 1946)

● 1888 - Gleb W. Derujinsky, Russian-American sculptor (d. 1975)

● 1889 - Camillien Houde, Quebec politician, mayor of Montreal (d. 1958)

● 1890 - Ellen Osiier, Danish Olympic champion fencer (d. 1962)

● 1895 - Bert Lahr, American actor (d. 1967)

● 1899 - Alfred Hitchcock, English film director (d. 1980)

● 1902 - Felix Wankel, German engineer and inventor (d. 1988)

● 1904 - Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, American actor (d. 1999)

● 1907 - Sir Basil Spence, Scottish architect (d. 1976)

● 1908 - Gene Raymond, American actor (d. 1998)

● 1911 - William Bernbach, Famous Advertiser (d. 1982)

● 1912 - Ben Hogan, American golfer (d. 1997)

● 1912 - Salvador Luria, Italian-born biologist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1991)

● 1913 - Fred Davis, English snooker player (d. 1998)

● 1913 - Makarios III, Archbishop and first President of Cyprus (d.1977)

● 1914 - Luis Mariano, Basque operetta singer (d. 1970)

● 1917 - Sid Gordon, American baseball player (d. 1975)

● 1918 - Frederick Sanger, English chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate

● 1919 - George Shearing, British musician

● 1920 - Neville Brand, American actor (d. 1992)

● 1926 - Fidel Castro, Cuban revolutionary and politician

● 1929 - Pat Harrington, Actor ("One Day At A Time")

● 1930 - Don Ho, American musician (d. 2007)

● 1930 - Wilmer David Mizell, American baseball player (d. 1999)

● 1930 - Bernard Manning, English comedian (d. 2007)

● 1933 - Doctor Joycelyn Elders, American physician, 15th Surgeon General of the United States

● 1935 - Mudcat Grant, American baseball player

● 1935 - Rod Hull, British television entertainer (d. 1999)

● 1938 - Dave "Baby" Cortez, American pop keyboardist

● 1940 - Tony Cloninger, American baseball player

● 1941 - Erin Fleming, Canadian actress (d. 2003)

● 1944 - Kevin Tighe, American actor ("Emergency")

● 1944 - Divina Galica, British athlete and racing driver

● 1945 - Lars Engqvist, Swedish politician

● 1947 - Margareta Winberg, Swedish politician

● 1947 - Gretchen Corbett, Actress

● 1948 - Kathleen Battle, American soprano

● 1949 - Bobby Clarke, Canadian ice hockey player and Hall of Fame member

● 1951 - Dan Fogelberg, American singer (d. 2007)

● 1952 - Herb Ritts, American photographer (d. 2004)

● 1954 - Nico Assumpção, Brazilian bass player (d. 2001)

● 1955 - Paul Greengrass, English film director

● 1955 - Keith Ahlers, British racing driver

● 1958 - Fergal Sharkey, musician

● 1958 - Sgt. First Class Randall Shughart, posthumous Congressional Medal of Honor recipient for actions during the Battle of Mogadishu (d. 1993)

● 1959 - Danny Bonaduce, American actor ("The Partridge Family")

● 1959 - Tom Niedenfuer, American baseball player

● 1960 - Phil "The Power" Taylor, English darts player

● 1960 - Koji Kondo, Japanese composer

● 1960 - Dawnn Lewis, American actress

● 1961 - Tom Perrotta, American novelist

● 1963 - John Slattery, American actor

● 1964 - Jay Buhner, American baseball player

● 1964 - Hank Cheyne, American actor

● 1965 - Hayato Matsuo, Japanese composer

● 1966 - Shayne Corson, Canadian ice hockey player

● 1967 - Amélie Nothomb, Belgian writer

● 1967 - Quinn Cummings, Actress

● 1969 - Midori Ito, Japanese figure skater

● 1970 - Will Clarke, American novelist

● 1970 - Matt Hyson, American professional wrestler

● 1970 - Alan Shearer, English footballer

● 1971 - Moritz Bleibtreu, German actor

● 1971 - Patrick Carpentier, Quebec race car driver

● 1971 - Rolando Molina, Salvadoran-born actor

● 1973 - Brittany Andrews, American pornographic actress

● 1973 - Molly Henneberg, American journalist

● 1973 - Eric Medlen, American drag racer and rodeo star (d. 2007)

● 1973 - Andy Griggs, Country singer

● 1974 - Jarrod Washburn, American baseball pitcher

● 1975 - Joe Perry, English snooker player

● 1975 - Marty Turco, Canadian ice hockey player

● 1975 - Shoaib Akhtar, Pakistani cricketer

● 1977 - Michael Klim, Australian swimmer

● 1978 - Mike Melancon, Country musician (Emerson Drive)

● 1978 - Benjani Mwaruwari, Zimbabwean footballer

● 1979 - Taizō Sugimura, Japanese politician

● 1979 - Corey Patterson, American baseball player

● 1982 - Shani Davis, American speed skater

● 1983 - Ales Hemsky, Czech ice hockey player

● 1983 - Ľubomír Michalík, Slovakian footballer

● 1983 - Sebastian Stan, Romanian-born actor

● 1984 - Niko Kranjčar, Croatian footballer

● 1984 - Boone Logan, American baseball player

● 1984 - Baby Blue, American rapper (Pretty Ricky)

● 1992 - Katharine Close, Scripps National Spelling Bee champion


DEATHS

● 586 - Radegund, wife of Clotaire I

● 900 - Zwentibold, last King of Lotharingia (b. 870)

● 1134 - Piroska of Hungary, Empress consort of John II Comnenus

● 1382 - Eleanor of Aragon, wife of John I of Castile (b. 1358)

● 1523 - Gerard David, Flemish painter

● 1617 - Johann Jakob Grynaeus, Swiss Protestant clergyman (b. 1540)

● 1667 - Jeremy Taylor, Irish author and bishop (b. 1613)

● 1686 - Louis Maimbourg, French-born historian (b. 1610)

● 1721 - Jacques Lelong, French bibliographer (b. 1665)

● 1744 - John Cruger, Dutch-born Mayor of New York (b. 1678)

● 1749 - Johann Elias Schlegel, German critic and poet (b. 1719)

● 1755 - Francesco Durante, Italian composer (b. 1684)

● 1826 - René Laënnec, French physician (b. 1781)

● 1863 - Eugène Delacroix, French painter (b. 1798)

● 1865 - Ignaz Semmelweis, Austro-Hungarian physician (b. 1818)

● 1910 - Florence Nightingale, English nurse (b. 1820)

● 1912 - Jules Massenet, French composer (b. 1842)

● 1917 - Eduard Buchner, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1860)

● 1937 - Arthur Plunkett, Australian civil engineer (b. unknown)

● 1946 - H. G. Wells, English writer (b. 1866)

● 1948 - Elaine Hammerstein, American actress (b. 1897)

● 1958 - Otto Witte, acrobat and King of Albania (b. 1868)

● 1965 - Ikeda Hayato, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1899)

● 1982 - Joe Tex, American singer and songwriter (b. 1933)

● 1984 - Tigran Petrosian, Soviet/Armenian chess player (b. 1929)

● 1989 - Tim Richmond, American race car driver (b. 1955)

● 1991 - Jack Ryan, American designer (Barbie) (b. 1926)

● 1995 - Jan Křesadlo, Czech-born writer (b. 1926)

● 1995 - Mickey Mantle, American baseball player (b. 1931)

● 1996 - David Tudor, American pianist and composer (b. 1926)

● 1998 - Julien Green, American novelist ((b. 1900)

● 1998 - Nino Ferrer, French-Italian singer and composer (b. 1934)

● 1999 - Jaime Garzón, Colombian journalist and comedian, murdered (b. 1960)

● 2001 - Otto Stuppacher, Austrian racing driver (b. 1947)

● 2003 - Ed Townsend, American songwriter and producer (b. 1929)

● 2004 - Julia Child, American chef and television personality (b. 1912)

● 2005 - David Lange, 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1942)

● 2006 - Payao Poontarat, Thai Olympic boxer (b. 1957)

● 2006 - Tony Jay, English actor (b. 1933)

● 2007 - Brian Adams, aka Demolition Crush, American professional wrestler (b. 1964)

● 2007 - Brooke Astor, American philanthropist (b. 1902)

● 2007 - Yone Minagawa, Japanese woman, oldest person (b. 1893)

● 2007 - Phil Rizzuto, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1917)


HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Benilde Romancon
● St. Cassian (Cassianus of Imola), bishop of Brescia, martyr, patron saint of shorthand-writers (stenographers), and of Mexico City
● St. Cassian of Todi
● Sts. Centolla & Helen
● St. Clare
● St. Francis of Pesaro
● St. Herulph
● St. Hippolytus and companions, martyrs
● St. John Berchmans
● St. John Bosco
● St. Junian, abbot
● St. Laudulf, bishop of Evreux
● St. Maximus the Confessor
● St. Nerses Glaietsi
● St. Pontianus, pope, martyr
● St. Radegunde / Radegundis, help against the pox, virgin
● St. Simplicianus, bishop, confessor
● St. Tikhon of Zadonsk
● St. Wigbert, prior, confessor
● St. William Freeman
● St. Zwentibold
● Bl. Gertrudis

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for July 30 (Civil Date: August 13)
● Apostles Silas and Silvanus of the Seventy and those with them: Crescens, Epenetus, and Andronicus.
● Hieromartyr Valentine, Bishop of Interamna (Terni) in Italy, and Martyrs Proculus, Ephebus, Apollonius, and Abundius, youths.
● Martyr John the soldier at Constantinople.
● Hieromartyr Polychronius, Bishop of Babylon, and Martyrs Permenius, Helimenas (Elimas) and Chrysotelus, presbyters; Luke and Mocius, deacons; and Abdon, Sennen, Maximus and Olympius.
● Opening of the Relics of St. Herman (Germanus) of Solovki.
● St. Angelina, princess of Serbia.
● Birthday of New-Martyr Crown Prince Alexis.
● New-Martyr Anatole of Optina (1922).

● Roman festivals - Vertumnalia in honor of Vertumnus and Diana, on the Aventine hill.

● In Brazil, Friday 13 August (agosto) is considered to be especially filled with sorrow (desgosto).

● Laos - Lao Issara, Day of the Free Laos.

● Tunisia : International Women's Day

● International Lefthanders 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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