Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Wisdom "God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other." — Reinhold Niebuhr
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Gynephobia "Having chicks around is the kind of thing that breaks up the intense training. It gives you relief, and then afterward you go back to the serious stuff." — Arnold Schwarzenegger, in a magazine interview on his life as a body-builder
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: On Politics "What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?" — Hall of Shame Member #2, Marion Barry, former mayor of Washington, D. C.
Thought for the day: "Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."
{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
A Spectacular Sky Over the Grand Tetons
Credit & Copyright: Wally Pacholka (Astropics.com); Image Processing: Tony Hallas
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 410 - Alaric sacks Rome
● 1183 - Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the three sacred treasures and flee to western Japan to escape pursuit by the Minamoto clan. (Traditional Japanese date: Twenty-fifth Day of the Seventh Month of the Second Year of Juei).
● 1248 - The rebuilding of the Cologne Cathedral in Cologne, Germany, began after being destroyed by fire.
● 1284 - Execution of Majd al-Mulk.
● 1385 - Portuguese Crisis of 1383–1385: Battle of Aljubarrota - Portuguese forces commanded by King João I and his general Nuno Álvares Pereira defeat the Castilian army of King Juan I, retaining independence.
● 1457 - Oldest known exactly dated printed book (about 3 years after Gutenberg)
● 1598 - Nine Years War: Battle of the Yellow Ford - Irish forces under Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, defeat an English expeditionary force under Henry Bagenal.
● 1619 - New "blue laws" enacted in Virginia.
● 1739 - English revivalist George Whitefield wrote in a letter: 'Our extremity is God's opportunity.'
● 1756 - French capture Fort Oswego, NY
● 1765 - Mass colonists challenge British rule by an Elm (Liberty Tree); Stamp Act riots begin in Boston.
● 1791 - Ceremony at Bois Caiman, Haiti; Haitian Revolution begins.
● 1805 - A peace treaty between the U.S. and Tunis was signed on board the USS Constitution.
● 1810 - Birth of Samuel S. Wesley, grandson of Methodist hymnwriter Charles Wesley. Himself a sacred composer, Samuel Wesley penned over 130 original hymn tunes. The best remembered of these today is AURELIA, to which is sung "The Church's One Foundation."
● 1813 - British warship Pelican attacks & captures US war brigantine Argus
● 1814 - During the American Revolution, American patriot Francis Scott Key (1779-1843) was held overnight as a British prisoner during their shelling of Fort McHenry in Baltimore. In the morning, Key penned what later became our national anthem "The Star-Spangled Banner."
● 1815 - Peace Society founded in New York.
● 1842 - Indian Wars: Second Seminole War (lasted eight years) ends, with the Seminoles forced from Florida to Oklahoma.
● 1846 - Henry David Thoreau jailed for tax resistance
● 1846 - The Cape Girardeau meteorite, a 2.3 kg chondrite-type meteorite strikes near the town of Cape Girardeau in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri.
● 1848 - Death of English devotional writer Sarah Flower Adams, 43. In 1845 she published The Flock at the Fountain, a catechism containing hymns for children. One of those hymns remains popular to this day: "Nearer, My God, To Thee."
● 1848 - Oregon Territory organized by Act of U.S. Congress.
● 1862 - Lincoln receives 1st group of blacks to confer with US president.
● 1876 - Prairie View State University forms.
● 1880 - The Cologne Cathedral in Cologne, Germany was completed after 632 years of rebuilding.
● 1885 - Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint.
● 1886 - Arthur J. Dempster, the American physicist who built the first device for measuring charged particles, was born.
● 1888 - A patent for the electric meter was granted to Oliver B. Shallenberger.
● 1893 - France introduces motor vehicle registration.
● 1893 - France issues 1st driving licenses, included required test
● 1893 - The L.A. Times reports, "White men and women who desire to earn a living have for some time been entering quiet protests against vinyardists and packers employing Chinese in preference to whites." The protests do not remain quiet in the next few years, as economic depression leads to violent anti-Chinese riots by unemployed white workers across California. Chinese workers suffer beatings and shootings, and are herded to railroad stations and loaded on trains. They bitterly refer to the violence and expulsion as the "driving out."
● 1896 - Gold was discovered in Canada's Yukon Territory. Within the next year more than 30,000 people rushed to the area to look for gold.
● 1897 - The town of Anosimena is captured by French troops from Menabe defenders in Madagascar.
● 1900 - A joint European-Japanese-United States force (Eight-Nation Alliance) occupies Beijing and loots the city, as the "Boxer Rebellion" against foreign intruders in China was put down. American forces participate "to protect U.S. interests."
● 1901 - The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
● 1908 - First beauty contest held in Folkestone, England.
● 1908 - Illinois declares martial law following Springfield race riot. Riots lead to formation of NAACP.
● 1910 - 6th International Congress of Esperantists held in Washington, DC
● 1911 - United States Senate leaders agree to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the Senate among leading candidates to fill the vacancy left by William P. Frye's death.
● 1912 - United States Marines invade Nicaragua to support the U.S.-backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya resigned three years earlier. Alternatively, U.S. Marines sent to Nicaragua, which was in default of loans to the U.S. and Europe.
● 1917 - China declared war on Germany and Austria during World War I.
● 1919 - About 1 million tons of ice and rock broke off of a glacier near Mont Blanc, France. Nine people were killed in the incident.
● 1921 - Tannu Tuva, later Tuvinian People's Republic is established as a completely independent country (which is supported by Russia).
● 1925 - The original Hetch Hetchy Moccasin Powerhouse is completed and goes on line.
● 1930 - Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, betrayed by Stalinist purges, commits suicide.
● 1933 - Loggers cause a forest fire in the Coast Range of Oregon, later known as the first forest fire of the Tillamook Burn. It is extinguished on September 5, after destroying 240,000 acres (970 km²).
● 1935 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law. The act created unemployment insurance and pension plans for the elderly.
● 1936 - Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last public execution in the United States. {at least so far}
● 1937 - The beginning of air-to-air combat of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in general, when 6 Imperial Japanese Mitsubishi G3M bombers were shot down by the Nationalist Chinese Air Force while raiding Chinese air bases, hence, 14 August has thus become acknowledged and celebrated as Chinese Air Force Day.
● 1941 - The U.S. Congress appropriated the funds to construct the Pentagon (approximately $83 million). The building was the new home of the U.S. War Department.
● 1941 - World War II - Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims.
● 1944 - German Lutheran theologian and Nazi martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote in a letter from prison: 'God does not give us everything we want, but He does fulfill all His promises ... leading us along the best and straightest paths to Himself.'
● 1944 - The federal government allowed the manufacture of certain domestic appliances to resume on a limited basis.
● 1945 - Japan accepts the Allied terms of surrender in World War II and the Emperor records the Imperial Rescript on Surrender (August 15 in Japan standard time). The day becomes known as V-J (Victory over Japan) day.
● 1947 - India granted independence within British Commonwealth
● 1947 - Pakistan gains Independence from the British Indian Empire under the administration of United Kingdom and joins the British Commonwealth.
● 1951 - Newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst died at age 88.
● 1956 - Social and ideological reformer of the theater, Bertolt Brecht, dies in East Berlin.
● 1958 - KLM Superconstellation crashes west of Ireland, killing 99
● 1962 - A U.S. mail truck was held up in Plymouth, MA. The robbers got away with more that $1.5 million dollars.
● 1962 - French & Italian workers break through at Mount Blanc Vehicular Tunnel
● 1962 - NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 60,000 m
● 1962 - US mail truck in Plymouth, Mass robbed of more than $1.5 million
● 1963 - Broken by McCarthyism, left playwright Clifford Odets dies, Los Angeles.
● 1966 - 1st US lunar orbiter begins orbiting the Moon
● 1967 - Former SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) leader H. Rap Brown is indicted in Cambridge, Massachusetts for inciting to riot.
● 1967 - UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal.
● 1968 - Anti-apartheid students occupy university in Cape Town, South Africa.
● 1969 - British troops arrived in Northern Ireland to intervene in sectarian violence between Protestants and Roman Catholics.
● 1970 - City University of NY inaugurates open admissions
● 1970 - White House aide Tom Huston writes Roger Barth, a top IRS official, to see how Pres. Nixon's plan to have the agency act against leftist ideological movements was coming along.
● 1971 - Bahrain proclaims independence after 110 years of British rule
● 1971 - British begin internment without trial in Northern Ireland
● 1972 - An East German Ilyushin Il-62 crashes during takeoff from East Berlin, killing 156.
● 1973 - The U.S. bombing of Cambodia ended. The halt marked the official end to 12 years of combat in Indochina by the U.S.
● 1974 - Congress authorizes US citizens to own gold
● 1976 - The Senegalese political party PAI-Rénovation is legally recognized. PAI-Rénovation thus becomes the third legal party in the country.
● 1979 - Rainbow seen in Northern Wales for a 3 hour duration
● 1979 - Freak storm hits yacht race; Dozens of yachts are lost and at least three people killed after a freak storm blows during the Fastnet yacht race.
● 1979 - Disgraced ex-MP released from jail; John Stonehouse, the former government minister who faked his own death, has been freed from prison.
● 1980 - President Jimmy Carter and Vice President Walter Mondale were nominated for a second term at the Democratic National Convention in New York.
● 1980 - After two months of labor turmoil, 16,000 Polish workers seize the Lenin Shipyard, Gdansk.
● 1980 - People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) was incorporated.
● 1981 - Pope John Paul II left a Rome hospital. He had been there for three months following an assassination attempt.
● 1986 - U.S. officials announced that a U.S. Drug Enforcement agent had been abducted, interrogated and tortured by Mexican police.
● 1990 - One in five yet to pay British poll tax; Many people have yet to pay anything towards the new community charge - or poll tax, a survey reveals.
● 1992 - The U.S. announced that emergency airlifts of food to Somalia would begin. The action was being taken to stop mass deaths due to starvation.
● 1994 - Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, the terrorist known as "Carlos the Jackal", is captured in Sudan. The next day he was extradited to France.
● 1995 - Shannon Faulkner became the first female cadet in the history of The Citadel, South Carolina's state military college. She quit the school less than a week later.
● 1996 - The Republican National Convention in San Diego nominated Bob Dole for president and Jack Kemp for vice president.
● 1996 - In Peru, 35 people were electrocuted when a high extension line was knocked down by a rocket during a fireworks show.
● 1997 - An unrepentant Timothy McVeigh was formally sentenced to death for the Oklahoma City bombing.
● 1998 - A U.S. federal appeals court in Richmond, VA, ruled that the Food and Drug Administration had no authority to regulate tobacco. The FDA had established rules to make it harder for minors to buy cigarettes.
● 2000 - A Russian submarine Kursk sank to the bottom of the Barrent Sea. There were 118 sailors on the nuclear-powered vessel. All of the crew were pronounced dead on August 22.
● 2000 - Valujet was ordered to pay $11 million in fines and restitution for hazardous waste violations in the crash that killed 110 people in 1996.
● 2001 - Setback for Northern Ireland peace process; The IRA says it is withdrawing a proposal it made last week on putting its weapons beyond use.
● 2003 - Widespread power blackout in the northeast United States and Canada.
● 2005 - Helios Airways Flight 522 crashes north of Athens, killing the 121 on board.
● 2006 - Israel halted its offensive against Hezbollah guerrillas as a U.N.-imposed cease-fire went into effect after a month of warfare that killed more than 900 people.
● 2006 - Cuban state television aired the first video of Fidel Castro since he stepped down as president to recover from surgery, showing the bedridden Cuban leader talking with his brother Raul and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
● 2007 - The 2007 Kahtaniya bombings kills at least 400 people.
BIRTHS
● 1297 - Emperor Hanazono, Emperor of Japan (d. 1348)
● 1473 - Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury, daughter of George, Duke of Clarence (d. 1541)
● 1552 - Paolo Sarpi, Venetian patriot and scholar (d. 1623)
● 1575 - Robert Hayman, English-born poet (d. 1629)
● 1586 - William Hutchinson, Rhode Island colonist (d. 1642)
● 1599 - Méric Casaubon, English classical scholar (d. 1671)
● 1625 - François de Harlay de Champvallon, Archbishop of Paris (d. 1695)
● 1642 - Cosimo III de' Medici, 6th Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1723)
● 1653 - Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English statesman (d. 1688)
● 1688 - Frederick William I of Prussia (d. 1740)
● 1714 - Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter (d. 1789)
● 1727 - Henriette-Anne of France, daughter of king Louis XV (d.1752)
● 1727 - Louise-Elisabeth of France, daughter of king Louis XV (d. 1759)
● 1740 - Pope Pius VII (d. 1823)
● 1758 - Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, French painter (d. 1835)
● 1777 - Francis I of the Two Sicilies (d. 1830)
● 1777 - Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish physicist (d. 1851)
● 1802 - Letitia Landon, English poet and novelist (d. 1838)
● 1817 - Alexander H. Bailey, American politician (d. 1874)
● 1840 - Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German psychologist (d. 1902)
● 1847 - Robert Comtesse, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1922)
● 1851 - Doc Holliday, American gambler and dentist (d. 1887)
● 1857 - Max Wagenknecht, German composer (d. 1922)
● 1860 - Ernest Thompson Seton, British/Canadian naturalist and writer; helped found the Boy Scouts of America (d. 1946)
● 1863 - Ernest Thayer, American poet; wrote "Casey at the Bat" (d. 1940)
● 1865 - Guido Castelnuovo, Italian mathematician (d. 1952)
● 1866 - Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin, Belgian mathematician (d. 1962)
● 1867 - John Galsworthy, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1933)
● 1867 - Cupid Childs, American baseball player (d. 1912)
● 1869 - Daniel Jackling, American mining engineer and metallurgist (d. 1956)
● 1876 - Aleksandar Obrenović, King of Serbia (d. 1903)
● 1881 - Francis Ford, American actor (d. 1953)
● 1882 - Gisela Richter, English art historian (d. 1972)
● 1886 - Arthur J. Dempster, American physicist, inventor of the first mass spectrometer (d. 1950)
● 1903 - Eduardo Mallea, Argentine novelist, essayist and short-story writer (d. 1982)
● 1909 - Manos Katrakis, Greek actor (d. 1984)
● 1910 - Pierre Schaeffer, French composer (d. 1955)
● 1911 - Vethathiri, Indian yogi (d. 2006)
● 1913 - Paul Dean, American baseball player (d. 1981)
● 1915 - Max Klein, American painter; invented "paint by numbers" (d. 1993)
● 1916 - Wellington Mara, Co-Owner of the New York Giants (d. 2005)
● 1924 - Georges Prêtre, French conductor
● 1925 - Russell Baker, American columnist
● 1926 - René Goscinny, French comic-strip author (d. 1977)
● 1926 - Lina Wertmüller, Italian film director
● 1926 - Alice Ghostley, Actress
● 1926 - Buddy Greco, Singer
● 1929 - Dick Tiger, Nigerian boxer (d. 1971)
● 1930 - Earl Weaver, American baseball manager and Hall of Fame member
● 1933 - Richard R. Ernst, Swiss chemist and Nobel Prize Laureate
● 1935 - John Brodie, American football player
● 1940 - Dash Crofts, American musician (Seals and Crofts)
● 1941 - David Crosby, American musician (Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young)
● 1941 - Connie Smith, American singer
● 1943 - Jimmy Johnson, American football coach
● 1945 - Steve Martin, American comedian
● 1945 - Wim Wenders, German-born film director
● 1946 - Antonio Fargas, American actor
● 1946 - Susan Saint James, American actress
● 1946 - Larry Graham, American musician
● 1947 - Danielle Steel, American novelist
● 1950 - Bob Backlund, American wrestler
● 1950 - Gary Larson, American cartoonist ("Far Side")
● 1950 - Terry Adams, Rock singer, musician (NRBQ)
● 1952 - Carl Lumbly, American actor
● 1952 - Debbie Meyer, American swimmer
● 1953 - James Horner, American composer
● 1953 - Cliff Johnson, American computer game author
● 1954 - Mark Fidrych, American baseball player
● 1956 - Rusty Wallace, American race car driver
● 1956 - Luther Wamble, American guitarist
● 1956 - Jackee Harry, Actress
● 1957 - Gino Hernandez, American wrestler (d. 1986)
● 1957 - Peter Costello, Australian politician
● 1959 - Marcia Gay Harden, American actress
● 1959 - Magic Johnson, American basketball player and Hall of Fame member
● 1960 - Sarah Brightman, English soprano
● 1960 - Cecilia Gasdia, Italian soprano
● 1961 - Susan Olsen, American actress ("The Brady Bunch")
● 1961 - "Hot Stuff" Eddie Gilbert, American wrestler (d. 1995)
● 1964 - Brannon Braga, American scriptwriter
● 1965 - Emmanuelle Béart, French actress
● 1966 - Halle Berry, American actress
● 1968 - Catherine Bell, American actress ("Army Wives," "JAG")
● 1968 - Darren Clarke, Northern Irish golfer
● 1968 - Adrian Lester, English actor
● 1968 - Billy Mavreas, Greek-Canadian cartoonist
● 1968 - Cody McCarver, Country musician (Confederate Railroad)
● 1969 - Stig Tøfting, Danish footballer
● 1970 - Ctislav Doseděl, Czech tennis player
● 1970 - Kevin Cadogan, Rock musician
● 1971 - Scott Michael Campbell, Actor
● 1971 - Raoul Bova, Italian actor
● 1972 - Lalanya Masters, Actress
● 1972 - Jay Manuel, Canadian make-up artist
● 1973 - Jared Borgetti, Mexican footballer
● 1973 - Daisuke Ishiwatari, Japanese game developer and composer
● 1973 - Jay-Jay Okocha, Nigerian footballer
● 1973 - Kieren Perkins, Australian swimmer
● 1974 - Chucky Atkins, American basketball player
● 1974 - Christopher Gorham, American actor
● 1974 - Ana Matronic, American singer (Scissor Sisters).
● 1976 - Alex Albrecht, American actor
● 1976 - Steve Braun, Canadian actor
● 1977 - Juan Pierre, American baseball player
● 1978 - Anastasios Kyriakos, Greek footballer
● 1978 - Kate Ritchie, Australian actress
● 1979 - Paul Burgess, Australian athlete
● 1980 - Roy Williams, American football player
● 1981 - Matthew Etherington, English footballer
● 1981 - Julius Jones, American football player
● 1983 - Elena Baltacha, Ukrainian-born tennis player
● 1983 - Mila Kunis, Ukrainian-born actress ("That 70's Show")
● 1984 - Clay Buchholz, American baseball player
● 1984 - Josh Gorges, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1985 - Christian Gentner, German footballer
● 1986 - Terin Humphrey, American gymnast
● 1988 - Shahd Barmada, Syrian singer
DEATHS
● 582 - Tiberius II Constantine, Byzantine Emperor
● 1167 - Rainald of Dassel, Archbishop of Cologne
● 1204 - Minamoto no Yoriie, Japanese shogun (b. 1182)
● 1390 - John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, English soldier (b. 1364)
● 1430 - Philip I, Duke of Brabant (b. 1404)
● 1433 - King John I of Portugal (b. 1357)
● 1464 - Pope Pius II (b. 1405)
● 1573 - Saito Tatsuoki, Japanese warlord (b. 1548)
● 1691 - Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnel, Irish rebel (b. 1630)
● 1704 - Roland Laporte, French Protestant leader (b. 1675)
● 1727 - William Croft, English composer (b. 1678)
● 1774 - Johann Jakob Reiske, German physician (b. 1716)
● 1784 - Nathaniel Hone, Irish-born painter (b. 1718)
● 1856 - Constant Prévost, French geologist (b. 1787)
● 1860 - André Marie Constant Duméril, French zoologist (b. 1774)
● 1874 - Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, American politician (b. 1821)
● 1905 - Simeon Solomon, British artist (b. 1840)
● 1928 - Alfred Henschke, ps. Klabund, German writer, poet (b. 1890)
● 1926 - John H. Moffitt, American politician (b. 1843)
● 1938 - Hugh Trumble, Australian cricketer (b. 1876)
● 1941 - Paul Sabatier, French chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1854)
● 1941 - Saint Maximilian Kolbe, Polish martyr (b. 1894)
● 1943 - Joe Kelley, American baseball player (b. 1871)
● 1951 - William Randolph Hearst, American newspaper magnate (b. 1863)
● 1955 - Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress (b. 1861)
● 1956 - Bertolt Brecht, German writer (b. 1898)
● 1958 - Frédéric Joliot, French physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1900)
● 1958 - Konstantin von Neurath, German diplomat (b.1873)
● 1964 - Johnny Burnette, American Rockabilly singer (b. 1934)
● 1967 - Bob Anderson, British racing driver (b. 1931)
● 1972 - Pierre Brasseur, French actor (b. 1905)
● 1972 - Oscar Levant, American actor (b. 1906)
● 1972 - Jules Romains, French author (b. 1885)
● 1978 - Nicolas Bentley, British writer (b. 1907)
● 1980 - Dorothy Stratten, Canadian actress and model (b. 1960)
● 1981 - Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor (b. 1894)
● 1984 - Spud Davis, American baseball player (b. 1904)
● 1984 - J. B. Priestley, English playwright (b. 1894)
● 1985 - Gale Sondergaard, American actress (b. 1899)
● 1988 - Robert Calvert, South African singer (Hawkwind) (b. 1945)
● 1988 - Enzo Ferrari, Italian car maker (b. 1898)
● 1991 - Alberto Crespo, Argentine racing driver (b. 1920)
● 1992 - John Sirica, American judge (b. 1904)
● 1992 - Tony Williams, American singer (The Platters) (b. 1928)
● 1994 - Elias Canetti, British-Austrian novelist (b. 1905)
● 1996 - Tom Mees, American sportscaster (b. 1949)
● 1999 - Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player (b. 1918)
● 2000 - Alain Fournier, French-born computer graphics researcher (b. 1943)
● 2002 - Dave Williams, American singer (Drowning Pool) (b. 1972)
● 2003 - Helmut Rahn, German footballer (b. 1929)
● 2004 - Czesław Miłosz, Polish-born writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1911)
● 2005 - Coo Coo Marlin, American race car driver (b. 1932)
● 2006 - Bruno Kirby, American actor (b. 1949)
● 2007 - Tikhon Khrennikov, Russian composer (b. 1913)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● Vigil of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary Mother of Jesus
● St. Anastasius
● St. Anthony Primaldi
● St. Athanasia
● St. Demetrius
● St. Eusebius, priest, martyr
● St. Fachanan
● Sts. Felix and Fortunatus, martyrs
● St. Maximilian Kolbe, Polish Franciscan priest martyred by Nazis at Auschwitz in 1941.
● St. Ursicius
● St. Werenfrid
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for July 31 (Civil Date: August 14)
● Forefeast of the Procession of the Precious and Life-giving Cross of the Lord.
● Righteous Eudocimus of Cappadocia
● Righteous Joseph of Arimathea.
● Martyr Julitta at Caesarea.
● St. Germanus, Bishop of Auxerre.
● Greek Calendar:
● Consecration of the Church of the Most Holy Theotokos of Blachernae.
● Twelve Martyrs of Rome.
● Translation of the Relics of Apostle Philip to Cyprus.
● Repose of Elder Gerasim the Younger of Kaluga's St. Sergius Skete (1918).
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for August 1 (Civil Date: August 14)
● Procession of the Precious Wood of the Life-giving Cross of the Lord.
● Holy Seven Maccabees: Martyrs Abimus, Antoninus, Gurias, Eleazar, Eusabonus, Alimus, and Marcellus; their mother Solomonia; and their teacher Eleazar
● Nine Martyrs of Perge in Pamphylia: Leontius, Attius, Alexander, Cindeus, Minsitheus (Mnesitheus), Cyriacus, Mineon (Menaeus), Catanus, and Eucleus.
● Greek Calendar:
● Martyr Papas the New.
● Martyr Eleazar.
● Martyr Cyricus.
● Martyrs Theodore and Polyeuctus.
● Martyrs Menas, Menais, and others of England.
● Martyr Elessa of Cythera.
● St. Timothy the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Priconissus of Peloponnesus.
● Archbishop Nicholas (Kassatki), Enlightener of Japan (1912).
● Arkansas - World War II Memorial Day (1945)
● Bahrain - Independence Day (1971)
● Chicago - Bud Billiken Day-honors children (1923)
● Liechtenstein - Prince Franz-Joseph Day
● Massachusetts - Liberty Tree Day (1765)
● Morocco - Allegiance of Oued Eddahab or Río de Oro.
● Pakistan - Independence Day (From the Indian Empire and from the British colonialist and imperialists under the foreign control of the United Kingdom, 1947).
● Paraguay - Flag Day.
● Portugal - Independence Day (1385)
● Rhode Island, Michigan - V-J Day (1945)
● United States - National Creamsicles Day.
● United States - Atlantic Charter Day; US & UK agree on war aims (1941)
● 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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