Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Women & Men "If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base." — Dave Barry
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Ineptitude "I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty." — Nancy Reagan
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: On Politics "Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country." — Hall of Shame Member #2, Marion Barry, former mayor of Washington, D. C.
Thought for the day: "When all is said and done, too many people keep on saying and doing."
{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
Mysterious Streaks Over Turkey
Credit & Copyright: Tunc Tezel
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 778 - The Battle of Roncevaux Pass, in which Roland is killed.
● 927 - The Saracens are conquered and destroyed Taranto.
● 1040 - King Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth. The latter succeeds him as King of Scotland.
● 1057 – King (of Scotland) Mac Bethad (Macbeth) is killed in the Battle of Lumphanan by the forces of Máel Coluim mac Donnchada (son of King Duncan).
● 1096 - The armies of the First Crusade set out from Europe to deliver Jerusalem from the occupying forces of Islamic Turks. Championed by Peter the Hermit in 1093, Pope Urban II had sanctioned the crusade at the Council of Clermont in 1095.
● 1185 - The cave city of Vardzia is consecrated by Queen Tamar of Georgia.
● 1248 - The foundation stone of the Cologne Cathedral, built to house the relics of the Three Wise Men, was laid. Construction eventually completed in 1880.
● 1261 - Michael VIII Palaeologus is crowned Byzantine emperor in Constantinople.
● 1309 - The city of Rhodes surrenders to the forces of the Knights of St. John, completing their conquest of Rhodes. The knights establish their headquarters on the island, and rename themselves as the Knights of Rhodes.
● 1461 - The Empire of Trebizond surrenders to the forces of Sultan Mehmet II. This is the real end of the Byzantine Empire. Emperor David is exiled and later murdered.
● 1517 - Seven Portuguese armed vessels led by Fernão Pires de Andrade meet Chinese officials at the Pearl River estuary.
● 1519 - Panama City, Panama, is founded.
● 1534 - The Society of Jesus (Jesuits) was founded by Ignatius of Loyola, 43. Created to foster reform within Catholicism, and to undertake education and missionary work, this colorful religious order was formally approved by Pope Paul III in 1540.
● 1537 - Asunción, Paraguay, is founded.
● 1540 - Arequipa, Peru, is founded.
● 1549 - The first Christian missionaries to reach Japan landed at Kagoshima (on the coast of Kyushu, southernmost of the four main islands of Japan). They were a band of Spanish Jesuits, led by pioneer Catholic missionary Francis Xavier, 43.
● 1599 - Nine Years War: Battle of Curlew Pass - Irish forces led by Hugh Roe O'Donnell successfully ambush English forces, led by Sir Conyers Clifford, were sent to relieve Collooney Castle.
● 1613 - Birth of Jeremy Taylor, Anglican clergyman and devotional writer. Two of his works became classic expressions of Anglican spirituality: "The Rule and Exercise of Holy Living" (1650) and "The Rule and Exercise of Holy Dying" (1651).
● 1620 - Mayflower sets sail from Southampton with 102 Pilgrims
● 1748 - United Lutheran Church of US organized
● 1760 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Liegnitz - Frederick the Great's victory over the Austrians under Ernst von Laudon.
● 1769 - Napoleon Bonaparte was born on the island of Corsica.
● 1790 - Father John Carroll, 55, was consecrated by Pius VI as the first Roman Catholic bishop (later, in 1811, the first archbishop) of the United States.
● 1824 - Freed American slaves form Liberia.
● 1832 - Gregory XVI encyclical On liberalism & religious indifferentism
● 1843 - National black convention meets (Buffalo NY)
● 1843 - The Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace in Honolulu, Hawaii is dedicated. Now the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu, it is the oldest Roman Catholic cathedral in continuous use in the United States.
● 1843 - Tivoli Gardens, one of the oldest still intact amusement parks in the world, opens in Copenhagen, Denmark.
● 1847 - Mutiny of volunteer US regiments helping to invade Mexico.
● 1848 - The dental chair was patented by M. Waldo Hanchett.
● 1858 - Regular mail to the Pacific coast begins
● 1863 - Submarine "HL Hunley" arrives in Charleston on railroad cars
● 1863 - The Anglo-Satsuma War begins between the Satsuma Domain of Japan and the United Kingdom (Traditional Japanese date: July 2, 1863).
● 1864 - Off New England coast, CSS Tallahassee captures 6 yankee schooners
● 1867 - 2nd Reform Bill extends suffrage in England
● 1869 - Meiji government establishes six ministries below Pardication (ja:民部省) in the bottom of Cabinet, officer-of-Shinto-Worship, and jurisdiction of Cabinet.
● 1870 - Transcontinental Railway actually completed
● 1877 - Thomas Edison wrote to the president of the Telegraph Company in Pittsburgh, PA. The letter stated that the word, "hello" would be a more appropriate greeting than "ahoy" when answering the telephone. {As if his opinion was the most important factor to be considered.}
● 1879 - Ethel Barrymore, who was considered the "first lady" of the American theatre, was born.
● 1893 - US no longer allowed exclusive rights in Bering Sea
● 1900 - Riots erupt in New York City as a white plainclothes policeman is killed in a fight with an African-American man. The fourth racial riot in the city's history.
● 1901 - Arch Rock, danger to Bay shipping, blasted with 30 tons of nitro
● 1906 - 1st freight delivery tunnel system begins, underneath Chicago
● 1906 - At the second meeting of the Niagara Movement at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, W.E.B. DuBois demands equal citizenship rights for African- Americans, saying, "We will not be satisfied to take one jot or little less than our full manhood."
● 1913 - Dublin (Ireland) general strike and lockout.
● 1914 - A male servant of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright set fire to the living quarters of the architect's Wisconsin home, Taliesin, murdered seven people, and burned the living quarters to the ground.
● 1915 - The Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship Ancon from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
● 1917 - Salvadoran religious leader and martyr Oscar Romero is born, Ciudad Barrios.
● 1918 - American 27th Infantry landed in Vladivostok ("to steady any efforts at self-defense in which the Russians themselves may be willing to accept assistance") and immediately spearheads a Japanese-initiated attack against Bolshevist forces.
● 1918 - Diplomatic ties between the U.S. and Russia were severed.
● 1920 - Polish-Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw - Poles defeat the Red Army.
● 1931 - Roy Wilkins joined NAACP as asst secretary
● 1935 - Willey Post and passenger Will Rogers killed in a plane crash, Point Barrow, Alaska.
● 1939 - 13 Stukas dive into the ground during a disastrous air-practice at Neuhammer. No survivors.
● 1942 - World War II: Operation Pedestal - The SS Ohio reaches the island of Malta barely afloat carrying vital fuel supplies for the island defenses.
● 1943 - Because of his special talent to use food scraps in both unusual and appetizing recipes, the U.S. War Department awarded Sgt. Edward Dzuba the Legion of Merit.
● 1944 - World War II: Operation Dragoon - Allied forces land in southern France.
● 1945 - South Korea liberated from Japanese rule
● 1945 - The Allies proclaimed V-J Day a day after Japan agreed to surrender unconditionally.
● 1945 - US wartime rationing of gasoline & fuel oil ends
● 1947 - Founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah is sworn in as first Governor General of Pakistan at Karachi.
● 1947 - India gains independence from the United Kingdom and becomes an independent nation within the Commonwealth , Jawaharlal Nehru addresses the nation with the Indian Declaration of Independence and takes office as the first Prime Minister of India. This is after decades of nonviolent activism, India becomes the first major Third World country in the 20th century to win independence from colonial rule. Dozens more countries would follow in the next twenty years.
● 1948 - The Republic of Korea is established south of the 38th parallel north.
● 1950 - 8.6 quake kills over 1,000 in Assam, India
● 1950 - Srikakulam district is formed in Andhra Pradesh, India.
● 1952 - Devon, United Kingdom a flashflood drenches the town of Lynmouth, killing 34 people.
● 1960 - Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville) declares its independence from France.
● 1960 - UFO is sighted by 3 California patrolmen
● 1961 - Conrad Schumann flees from East Germany while on duty guarding the construction of the Berlin Wall.
● 1961 - East German workers began construction of the Berlin Wall.
● 1961 - Keiyo Road is specified to be the first driveway in Japan.
● 1962 - James Joseph Dresnok defected to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, running across the Korean DMZ. Dresnok still resides in the capital, Pyongyang.
● 1962 - Shady Grove Baptist Church burned in Leesburg Georgia
● 1963 - Governor Ross Barnett attempts to bar the graduation of James Meredith on grounds that the Univ. of Mississippi's first black had violated a school order against inflammatory remarks.
● 1963 - One hundred seventy women sit-in to protest employment discrimination by bank, East St. Louis, Illinois.
● 1964 - Race riot in Dixmoor (Chicago suburb) Ill
● 1965 - Los Angeles riot toll keeps rising; At least 28 people die and hundreds are injured after a weekend of rioting in Los Angeles.
● 1966 - Radio Free Asia (South Korea) begins radio transmission
● 1967 - Martin Luther King, Jr. urges a civil disobedience drive in northern cities and support of a peace candidate in the 1968 presidential elections (at Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Atlanta).
● 1968 - Pirate Radio Free London, begins transmitting
● 1969 - The Woodstock Music and Art Fair opens for three days on Max Yasgur's farm in Bethel, Sullivan County, New York. Things that helped make Woodstock a unique event included, but were not limited to, rampant drug use, not enough food or sanitation, three deaths, two births, and four miscarriages. Oh, and lack of cops.
● 1971 - Bahrain gains independence from Britain
● 1971 - President Richard Nixon completes the break from the gold standard by ending convertibility of the United States dollar into gold by foreign investors.
● 1971 - U.S. President Nixon announced a 90-day freeze on wages, rents and prices.
● 1973 - Black September kills 3 wounds 55 Athens
● 1973 - Vietnam War: The United States bombing of Cambodia ends.
● 1974 - Seoul Subway Line 1 opened, between Seoul Station and Cheongnyangni Station
● 1974 - Turkish invasion of Cyprus continues, and the 37% of the island is now under Turkish control.
● 1974 - Yuk Young-soo, First Lady of South Korea is killed amid an apparent assassination attempt upon President of South Korea, Park Chung-hee, during the anniversarial ceremony of the Liberation day.
● 1975 - Joanne Little--accused of murder in killing her jailer, in self-defense against rape--acquitted.
● 1975 - Miki Takeo makes the first official pilgrimage to Yasukuni Shrine by a sitting prime minister on the anniversary of the end of World War II.
● 1975 - Military coup in Bangladesh. Sheikh Mujibur Rehman killed along with all family members, except Haseena Wajid.
● 1977 - The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by The Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "Wow! signal" for notation made by a volunteer on the project.
● 1978 - House of Reps approves (233-169), 39-month extension for ERA ratification. Effort in vain since states like Utah refuse to ratify and women remain legal second-class citizen in the United States.
● 1979 - Andrew Young resigns as UN ambassador
● 1982 - Members of 7th International Nonviolent March swim across "closed" border between Spain and Gibraltar.
● 1984 - PKK, Kurdish people in Turkey gain arms and start a Guerilla warfare campaign against the Turkish military
● 1985 - Virgin voyage ends in disaster; The speedboat Virgin Atlantic Challenger capsizes off the south-west of England scuppering Richard Branson's attempt at the fastest-ever Atlantic crossing.
● 1986 - Pres Reagan decides to support a replacement for the Challenger
● 1986 - The U.S. Senate approved a package of economic sanctions against South Africa. The ban included the importing of steel, uranium, textiles, coal, and produce from South Africa.
● 1987 - $100 million in damage was done in the Chicago area when 13 1/2 inches of rain fell.
● 1988 - NYC begins $70 million program to rebuild 900 Bronx apartments
● 1991 - Guerillas bomb McDonald's and IBM in Mexico City.
● 1992 - Four people were killed and 20 were injured in a shooting spree outside a club in Miami, FL.
● 1992 - Vietnam blamed Hollywood for creating the "myth" concerning the issue of U.S. servicemen still being held prisoner in Indochina.
● 1994 - Ilich Ramirez Sanchez was jailed in France. He was the international terrorist known as "Carlos the Jackal."
● 1994 - The U.S. Social Security Administration became an independent government agency. It had been a part of the Department of Health and Human Services agency.
● 1995 - In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet matriculated at The Citadel, but drops out in less than a week.
● 1996 - Frederick Martin Davidson shot and killed three engineering professors. He was later convicted and sentenced to three life terms in prison.
● 1997 - The U.S. Justice Department decided not to prosecute FBI officials in connection with the deadly 1992 Ruby Ridge siege in Idaho. The investigation dealt with an alleged cover-up.
● 1998 - A car bomb in Omagh, Northern Ireland, killed 29 people and injured 370, becoming the worst terrorist incident of The Troubles. It was the single deadliest act of violence in 30 years of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland.
● 1999 - Beni Ounif massacre in Algeria; some 29 people killed at a false roadblock near the Moroccan border, leading to temporary tensions with Morocco.
● 2000 - A group of 100 people from North Korea arrived in South Korea for temporary reunions with relatives they had not seen for half a century. Also, a group of 100 South Koreans visited the North.
● 2001 - Astronomers announced the discovery of the first solar system outside our own. They had discovered two planets orbiting a star in the Big Dipper.
● 2001 - Chandra Levy's parents appeared on CNN's "Larry King Live." They discussed Levy's disappearance on April 30, 2001.
● 2005 - Iraqi leaders failed to meet a key deadline for finishing a new constitution.
● 2005 - Settlers protest at Gaza pullout; Israeli troops meet peaceful resistance as they deliver the first eviction notices to settlers in the Gaza Strip.
● 2006 - Israel began withdrawing its forces from southern Lebanon.
● 2007 - An 8.0-magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast devastates Ica and various regions of Peru; over 500 dead and 1500 injured (as of August 18).
BIRTHS
● 1171 - King Alfonso IX of Leon (d. 1230)
● 1195 - Anthony of Padua, Portuguese saint (d. 1231)
● 1250 - Matteo Visconti I, Italian head of the Milanese Visconti dynasty (d. 1322)
● 1432 - Luigi Pulci, Italian poet (d. 1484)
● 1575 - Bartol Kašić, Croatian writer and linguist (d. 1650)
● 1613 - Gilles Ménage, French scholar (d. 1692)
● 1717 - Blind Jack, English roadbuilder (d. 1810)
● 1740 - Matthias Claudius, German poet (d. 1815)
● 1769 - Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French (d. 1821)
● 1771 - Sir Walter Scott, Scottish novelist and poet (d. 1832)
● 1785 - Thomas De Quincey, English author (d. 1859)
● 1813 - Jules Grévy, 2nd President of the French Third Republic (d. 1891)
● 1844 - Thomas-Alfred Bernier, Canadian journalist and politician (d. 1908)
● 1856 - Ivan Franko, Ukrainian writer (d. 1916)
● 1857 - Albert Ballin, German shipping tycoon (d. 1918)
● 1858 - E. Nesbit, English author (d. 1924)
● 1859 - Charles Comiskey, American baseball owner (d. 1931)
● 1860 - Henrietta Vinton Davis, American elocutionist (d. 1941)
● 1860 - Florence Harding, American First Lady (d. 1924)
● 1863 - Alexei Krylov, Russian engineer and mathematician (d. 1945)
● 1865 - Usui Mikao, founder of Reiki (d. 1926)
● 1872 - Sri Aurobindo, Indian writer and philosopher (d. 1950)
● 1875 - Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, English composer (d. 1912)
● 1878 - Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, Russian counter-revolutionary (d. 1928)
● 1879 - Ethel Barrymore, American actress (d. 1959)
● 1883 - Ivan Meštrović, Croatian sculptor (d. 1962)
● 1885 - Edna Ferber, American novelist (d. 1968)
● 1887 - Edna Ferber, American novelist and short-story writer (d. 1968)
● 1890 - Elizabeth Bolden, American Supercentenarian (d. 2006)
● 1890 - Jacques Ibert, French composer (d. 1962)
● 1892 - Louis, 7th duc de Broglie, French physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1987)
● 1893 - Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer and computing pioneer (d. 1950)
● 1896 - Gerty Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1957)
● 1896 - Catherine Doherty, Russian-born Canadian activist (d. 1985)
● 1896 - Paul Outerbridge, American photographer (d. 1958)
● 1896 - Leon Theremin, Russian inventor (d. 1993)
● 1898 - Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet (d. 1966)
● 1901 - Pyotr Sergeyevich Novikov, Russian mathematician (d. 1975)
● 1904 - Bil Baird, American puppeteer (d. 1987)
● 1909 - Hugo Winterhalter, American composer, arranger and bandleader (d. 1973)
● 1910 - Signe Hasso, Swedish actress (d. 2002)
● 1912 - Julia Child, American cook (d. 2004)
● 1912 - Dame Wendy Hiller, English actress (d. 2003)
● 1914 - Paul Rand, American graphic designer (d. 1996)
● 1916 - Aleks Çaçi, Albanian writer
● 1917 - Jack Lynch, fourth Taoiseach (d. 1999)
● 1917 - Oscar Romero, El Salvador Roman catholic priest (d. 1980)
● 1919 - Huntz Hall, American actor (d. 1999)
● 1919 - Benedict Kiely, Irish author
● 1922 - Lukas Foss, German-born composer
● 1923 - Rose Marie, American actress ("The Dick Van Dyke Show")
● 1924 - Robert Bolt, English playwright and Oscar-winning screenwriter (d. 1995)
● 1924 - Phyllis Schlafly, Conservative activist
● 1925 - Mike Connors, American actor
● 1925 - Oscar Peterson, Canadian jazz pianist
● 1926 - Costis Stephanopoulos, Greek politician
● 1927 - John Cranko, South African-born dancer and director of the Stuttgart Ballet (d. 1973)
● 1928 - Nicolas Roeg, English film director
● 1930 - Ageeda Paavel, Estonian freedom fighter
● 1933 - Jim Lange, American game show host
● 1933 - Bobby Helms, American pop singer (d. 1997)
● 1933 - Lori Nelson, Actress
● 1934 - Nino Ferrer, French-Italian singer (d. 1998)
● 1934 - Bobby Byrd, American soul/funk singer (d. 2007)
● 1935 - Vernon Jordan Jr., American presidential advisor
● 1935 - Lionel Taylor, American football player
● 1935 - Jim Dale, Actor
● 1936 - Pat Priest, Actress ("The Munsters")
● 1938 - Stephen Breyer, Supreme Court Justice
● 1938 - Maxine Waters, American politician
● 1938 - Janusz A. Zajdel, Polish writer
● 1940 - Gudrun Ensslin, German terrorist
● 1942 - Larry Hartsell, American martial arts instructor (d. 2007)
● 1942 - Pete York, Rock musician (Spencer Davis Group)
● 1943 - María Rojo, Mexican actress and politician
● 1944 - Linda Ellerbee, American journalist
● 1944 - Sylvie Vartan, Bulgarian pop singer
● 1945 - Mahamandaleshwar Paramhans Swami Maheshwarananda, Indian guru
● 1945 - Begum Khaleda Zia, Bangladeshi politician
● 1945 - Gene Upshaw, American NFL executive and Hall of Fame member
● 1946 - Tony Robinson, English actor and television presenter
● 1946 - Jimmy Webb, American musician and composer
● 1947 - Raakhee Gulzar, Indian actress
● 1947 - Jenny Hanley, British TV presenter
● 1948 - Uschi Digard, American pornographic actress and model
● 1948 - Patsy Gallant, Canadian pop singer
● 1949 - Richard Deacon, Welsh sculptor
● 1950 - Tommy Aldridge, American musician
● 1950 - Princess Anne, Princess Royal of the United Kingdom
● 1950 - Tom Kelly, Minnesota Twins manager
● 1950 - Tess Harper, Actress
● 1951 - Daba Diawara, Malian politician
● 1951 - Bobby Caldwell, American singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
● 1954 - Mary Jo Salter, American poet
● 1955 - Larry Mathews, Actor ("The Dick Van Dyke Show")
● 1956 - Lorraine Desmarais, French Canadian jazz pianist and composer
● 1957 - Željko Ivanek, Slovenian-American actor
● 1958 - Victor Shenderovich, Russian satirist
● 1958 - Craig MacTavish, Canadian ice hockey player/coach
● 1958 - Rondell Sheridan, American actor and comedian
● 1961 - Matt Johnson, Rock singer, musician
● 1962 - Tom Colicchio, American chef
● 1962 - Paraskevas Karasoulos, Greek lyricist
● 1963 - Alejandro González Iñárritu, Mexican film director (Babel)
● 1964 - Melinda French Gates, American wife of Bill Gates
● 1964 - Debi Mazar, American actress ("Entourage," "L.A. Law")
● 1965 - Rob Thomas, American writer
● 1966 - Scott Brosius, American baseball player
● 1966 - Shirley Kwan, Hong Kong singer
● 1966 - Angela Rae, Country singer (Wild Horses)
● 1967 - Peter Hermann German-born American actor
● 1968 - Debra Messing, American actress ("Will and Grace")
● 1969 - Kevin Cheng, Hong Kong actor and singer
● 1970 - Anthony Anderson, American comedian and actor
● 1970 - Maddie Corman, American actress
● 1970 - Ben Silverman, American TV executive
● 1972 - Ben Affleck, American actor
● 1972 - Chris Morrissey, American film director/actor
● 1972 - Mikey Graham, Singer (Boyzone)
● 1974 - Natasha Henstridge, Canadian actress
● 1975 - Kara Wolters, American basketball player
● 1976 - Boudewijn Zenden, Dutch football player
● 1977 - Nicole Paggi, American actress
● 1977 - Igor Cassina, Italian gymnast
● 1977 - Martin Biron, professional ice hockey goaltender
● 1978 - Tim Foreman, American bassist (Switchfoot)
● 1978 - Lilia Podkopayeva, Ukrainian gymnast
● 1978 - Stavros Tziortziopoulos, Greek footballer
● 1979 - Carl Edwards, American NASCAR driver
● 1980 - Nathalie Press, English actress
● 1981 - Brendan Hansen, American swimmer
● 1981 - Oliver Perez, American baseball player
● 1981 - Sung Ji Hyo, South Korean actress
● 1989 - Belinda, Mexican singer
● 1989 - Joe Jonas, American singer in band Jonas Brothers
DEATHS
● 423 - Flavius Honorius, Western Roman Emperor (b. 384)
● 778 - Roland, Frankish commander
● 1038 - King Stephen I of Hungary
● 1040 - King Duncan I of Scotland
● 1057 - King Macbeth of Scotland
● 1118 - Alexius I Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1048)
● 1196 - Conrad II, Duke of Swabia (b. 1173)
● 1274 - Robert de Sorbon, French theologian and founder of the Sorbonne (b. 1201)
● 1369 - Philippa of Hainault, Queen consort of Edward III of England
● 1528 - Odet de Foix, Vicomte de Lautrec, French military leader (b. 1485)
● 1552 - Hermann of Wied, German Catholic archbishop (b. 1477)
● 1621 - John Barclay, Scottish writer (b. 1582)
● 1666 - Johann Adam Schall von Bell, German Jesuit missionary (b. 1591)
● 1714 - Constantin Brâncoveanu, Prince of Wallachia (b. 1654)
● 1728 - Marin Marais, French composer and viol player (b. 1656)
● 1758 - Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician (b. 1698)
● 1799 - Giuseppe Parini, Italian poet (b. 1729)
● 1852 - Johan Gadolin, Finnish scientist (b. 1760)
● 1907 - Joseph Joachim, Austrian violinist (b. 1831)
● 1909 - Euclides da Cunha, Brazilian writer and sociologist (b. 1866)
● 1917 - Thomas J. Higgins, decorated Union Army soldier (b. 1831)
● 1925 - Konrad Mägi, Estonian artist (b. 1878)
● 1935 - Wiley Post, American pilot (airplane crash) (b. 1898)
● 1935 - Will Rogers, American humorist and actor (airplane crash) (b. 1879)
● 1936 - Grazia Deledda, Italian writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1871)
● 1945 - Korechika Anami, Japanese War Minister (b. 1887)
● 1951 - Artur Schnabel, Polish pianist (b. 1882)
● 1953 - Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist (b. 1875)
● 1959 - Blind Willie McTell, American singer (b. 1901)
● 1962 - Lei Feng, Chinese revolutionary (b. 1940)
● 1967 - René Magritte, Belgian painter (b. 1898)
● 1971 - Paul Lukas, Hungarian-born actor (b. 1887)
● 1974 - Yuk Young-soo, wife of the president of the Republic of Korea Park Chung-hee (b. 1925)
● 1975 - Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, President of Bangladesh (b. 1920)
● 1975 - Clay Shaw, alleged John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracist & businessman (b. 1913)
● 1982 - Hugo Theorell, Swedish scientist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1903)
● 1990 - Viktor Tsoi, Russian musician (b. 1962)
● 1995 - John Cameron Swayze, American journalist (b. 1906)
● 1999 - Sir Hugh Casson, British architect and artist (b. 1910)
● 2001 - Richard Chelimo, Kenyan athlete (b. 1972)
● 2003 - Gösta Sundqvist, Finnish songwriter and singer (heart attack) (b. 1957)
● 2004 - Semiha Berksoy, first Turkish opera singer (b. 1910)
● 2004 - Sune Bergström, Swedish biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1916)
● 2004 - Amarsinh Chaudhary, Indian politician (b. 1941)
● 2006 - Te Atairangi Kaahu, Māori queen (b. 1931)
● 2007 - John Gofman, American Manhattan Project scientist and advocate (b. 1918)
● 2007 - Geoffrey Orbell, New Zealand bush walker (b. 1908)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● Feast day of the Assumption of Mary, the mother of Jesus, Holy Day of Obligation.
● St. Alfred (died 874)
● St. Alipius, bishop
● St. Altfrid
● St. Arduinus
● St. Arnulph, bishop of Soissons
● St. Limbania
● St. MacCartan/Ard/Aed/Mac-Cartan (Ard), Bishop of Clogher, Ireland
● St. Napoleon (born on 15 August 1769), formerly celebrated in the First French Empire (1804-1814)
● St. Stanislaus Kostka
● St. Tarcisius
● Bl. Rupert (died 1145)
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for August 2 (Civil Date: August 15)
● Translation of the Relics of Protomartyr and Archdeacon Stephen
● Translation of the Relics of Righteous Nicodemus, Gamaliel, and Abibus.
● Blessed Basil of Moscow, fool-for-Christ.
● Blessed Basil of Kubensk.
● Hieromartyr Stephen, pope of Rome.
● St. Marco of Belavinsk (Vologda).
● St. Friardus of Vindumitta (Gaul).
● Greek Calendar:
● Martyr Phocas.
● Translation of the Relics of Martyrs Maximus, Dada, and Quinctilian at Dorostulum in Bulgaria.
● Eastern Orthodox:
● Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos, the commemoration of the death of Mary, the mother of Jesus.
● Anglican and Lutheran:
● Commemoration of St. Mary, virgin, mother of Our Lord
● Feast day of the Assumption of Mary, the mother of Jesus. Public Holiday in: Austria, Belgium, Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Chile, Côte d'Ivoire, Croatia, Cyprus, East Timor, France, Greece, Guatemala, India, Italy, Lebanon, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mauritius, Poland, Portugal, Seychelles, Slovenia and Spain.
● Ancient Latvia – Māras.
● Acadie – National Day.
● Austria - Maria Himmelfahrt day.
● Bangladesh – National Mourning Day
● Belgium - Assumption (of Blessed Virgin Mary) day.
● Chad - Independence Day (1960)
● Congo - Independence Day (1960)
● Corsica - National Day
● Costa Rica– Mother's Day.
● Egypt – Flooding of the Nile Day.
● France - Assumption Day.
● Greece - Dormition ('Falling Asleep' of Virgin Mary.)
● Grenada - National Day
● Hawaii – Toro Nagashi (Floating Lanterns Ceremony) to commemorate the end of the second world war.
● India – Independence Day (from the United Kingdom, 1947).
● Italy – " Assumption Day. And Ferragosto", remembrance of an ancient Roman holiday in honor of Augustus (Feriae Augusti).
● Japan – Day of End of the War / The day which mourns for war dead, and prays for peace "National War-Dead Memorial Ceremony" is performed on that day every year after 1963.
● Japan – Dutch Tray
● Korea – Gwangbokjeol(Liberation Day).
● Laos - Memorial Day
● Liechtenstein - National Day
● Paraguay – Assumption Day, and anniversary of the founding of Asunción
● Poland – Polish Armed Forces Day.
● Portugal– Our Lady of Angels Feast, Azores.
● Spain Assumption Day.
● Tuva – Tuva Republic Day, Naadym.
● VJ (Victory over Japan) Day / VP (Victory in the Pacific) Day
● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Hawaii : Admission Day (1959) - ( Friday )
● Mich : Montrose-Blueberry Festival - ( Friday )
● 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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