Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Work "I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life—time—for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain." — Rita Mae Brown
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Iraq War "[The president's] task is not to educate or persuade us. It is to defeat Saddam Hussein. And that will require the president at times to mislead rather than clarify, to deceive rather then to explain." — William Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard and former chief of staff to Dan Quayle
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: On Politics "People blame me because the water main break, but I ask you, if the water mains didn't break, would it be my responsibility to fix them then? Would it?" — Hall of Shame Member #2, Marion Barry, former mayor of Washington, D. C.
Thought for the day: "Fame is proof that people are gullible."
{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
Moonless Perseid Sky
Credit & Copyright: John Chumack
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 1513 - Battle of Guinegate (Battle of the Spurs) - King Henry VIII of England defeats French Forces who beat a hasty retreat.
● 1617 - First African slaves delivered to Virginia.
● 1777 - During the American Revolutionary War, the Battle of Bennington took place. New England's minutemen routed the British regulars.
● 1780 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Camden - The British defeat the Americans near Camden, South Carolina.
● 1792 - Maximilien Robespierre presents the petition of the Commune of Paris to the Legislative Assembly, which demanded the formation of a revolutionary tribunal.
● 1812 - Imminent American attempt to invade and annex Canada fails before it begins when General William Hull, reportedly frightened into "a state of near incoherence," surrenders his entire army at Detroit without firing a shot to a lesser British and Indian force. He is court-martialed two years later.
● 1815 - Birth of St. John Bosco, Italian educator. Poverty among the children in the city of Turin led him in 1859 to establish the Society of St. Francis of Sales (the Salesians). Bosco was canonized by Pius XI in 1934.
● 1819 - Eleven people die and 400 are injured by cavalry charges at the Peterloo Massacre at a public meeting at St. Peter's Field, Manchester, England.
● 1829 - The "Siamese twins," Chang and Eng Bunker, arrived in Boston, MA. They had come to the Western world to be exhibited. They were 18 years old and joined at the waist. (The term Siamese twins became a common phrase for conjoined twins.)
● 1841 - U.S. President John Tyler vetoes a bill which called for the re-establishment of the Second Bank of the United States. Enraged Whig Party members riot outside the White House in the most violent demonstration on White House grounds in U.S. history.
● 1852 - Birth of Adolf von Schlatter, Swiss Protestant New Testament scholar. His 1921 History of Christ maintained that the success of any systematic theology had to be based on a foundation of solid biblical exegesis.
● 1858 - U.S. President James Buchanan inaugurates the new transatlantic telegraph cable by exchanging greetings with Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. However, a weak signal will force a shutdown of the service in a few weeks.
● 1861 - U.S. President Lincoln prohibited the Union states from trading with the states of the Confederacy.
● 1863 - Emancipation Proclamation signed
● 1865 - Restoration Day in the Dominican Republic: The Dominican Republic regains its independence after 4 years of fighting against the Spanish Annexation.
● 1868 - Arica, Peru (now Chile) is devastated by a tsunami which followed a magnitude 8.5 earthquake in the Peru-Chile Trench off the coast. The earthquake and tsunami killed an estimated 25,000 people in Arica and perhaps 70,000 people in all.
● 1869 - Battle of Acosta Ñu: A Paraguay battalion made up of children is massacred by the Brazilian Army during the War of the Triple Alliance.
● 1870 - Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Mars-La-Tour is fought, resulting in a Prussian victory.
● 1875 - Death of early 19th century Presbyterian revivalist Charles G. Finney, 82. Converted at 29, he led revivals for several years before affiliating with Oberlin College in 1835, where he spent the rest of his professional life.
● 1888 - T. E. Lawrence, the British soldier who gained fame as "Lawrence of Arabia," was born in Tremadoc, Wales.
● 1890 - Alexander Clark, journalist/lawyer, named minister to Liberia
● 1894 - Birth of labor leader George Meany; first president of AFL- CIO.
● 1896 - Birth of radical photographer and model Tina Modotti, Udine, Italy.
● 1896 - Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush.
● 1898 - Roller coaster patented
● 1906 - 1,500 people died in an earthquake in Valparaiso, Chile.
● 1911 - Birth of Alternative economist E. F. Schumacher ("Small is Beautiful"), Bonn, Germany.
● 1911 - Bystanders pursued African American Zacharia Walker after he shot and killed a guard in a Coatesville, Pennsylvania robbery. Under gunfire, Walker tried unsuccessfully to kill himself. The good citizens of Coatesville took him to a hospital for his wound. Then they tied him to an iron bedstead in his cot, put him on a pyre, and burned him to death. A short distance from Walker's execution, local children made a game of kicking his scorched torso down the road.
● 1913 - Tōhoku Imperial University of Japan (modern day Tōhoku University) admits its first female students.
● 1913 - Menachem Begin, the prime minister of Israel from 1977 to 1983, was born in Brest-Litovsk in present-day Belarus.
● 1914 - Three thousand anti-war socialists demonstrate against WWI in Buffalo, N.Y.
● 1914 - World War I: Battle of Cer begins.
● 1915 - World War I: Should victory be achieved over the Central Powers, the Triple Entente promises the Kingdom of Serbia: the Austro-Hungarian territories of Baranja, Srem, Slavonia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina; and the eastern two-thirds of Dalmatia (from the river of Krka to the city of Bar).
● 1920 - Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians is hit in the head by a fastball thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees, and dies early the next day. To date, Chapman is the only player to die from injuries sustained in a Major League Baseball game.
● 1920 - The congress of the Communist Party of Bukhara opens. The congress would call for armed revolution.
● 1923 - Carnegie Steel Corporation put into place the eight-hour workday for its employees.
● 1928 - Murderer Carl Panzram is arrested in Washington, DC after killing 20 people.
● 1934 - US ends occupation of Haiti (been there since 1915)
● 1934 - US explorer William Beebe descends 3,028' (1922 m) in Bathysphere
● 1937 - Harvard University became the first school to have graduate courses in traffic engineering and administration.
● 1938 - Revolutionary blues singer Robert L. Johnson dies a mysterious death in Greenwood, Miss. A revival of interest in his music occurs in the 1990s when a boxed set of 41 of his recording is issued to critical and popular acclaim.
● 1940 - World War II: The Communist Party is banned in German-occupied Norway.
● 1942 - Birth of Don Wyrtzen, contemporary Christian songwriter. Among his most enduring sacred compositions are "Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow" and "Worthy is the Lamb."
● 1942 - Residents of Dr. Janusz Korczak's children's home in Warsaw, Poland, deported to Treblinka concentration camp.
● 1942 - World War II: The two-person crew of the U.S. naval blimp L-8 disappears without a trace on a routine anti-submarine patrol over the Pacific Ocean. The blimp drifts without her crew and crash-lands in Daly City, California.
● 1943 - Bialystok Jewish ghetto is “liquidated” by Nazis.
● 1945 - An assassination attempt was made on Japan's prime minister, Kantaro Suzuki.
● 1945 - Puyi, the last Chinese emperor and ruler of Manchukuo, was captured by Soviet troops.
● 1948 - Babe Ruth died at the age of 53.
● 1948 - The Israeli pound becomes legal tender
● 1949 - Margaret Mitchell, 48, dies in Atlanta shortly after being struck down by a taxi. Wrote one novel, a glorification of slave- owning culture called "Gone With the Wind."
● 1952 - Flood devastates Devon village; Twelve bodies are recovered and 24 people are missing feared dead in the flood which has swept through Lynmouth in north Devon.
● 1955 - Fiat Motors orders first private atomic reactor.
● 1956 - Adlai E. Stevenson was nominated for president at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
● 1959 - USSR introduces installment buying
● 1960 - Cyprus gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
● 1960 - Joseph Kittinger parachutes from a balloon over New Mexico at 102,800 feet (31,330 m), setting three records that still stand today: High-altitude jump, free-fall, and fastest speed by a human without an aircraft.
● 1960 - Republic of the Congo (Zaire) forms
● 1962 - Anarchist publications and public activities banned in Cuba. As part of a concerted drive against political and social dissenters, the Cuban government force the Libertarian Association of Cuba to cease publishing its journal "El Libertario" and suspend public activity because they had voiced minor criticisms of the Communist role in the government and their domination of the labor unions.
● 1963 - Buddhists stage protests across South Vietnam; a Buddhist monk immolates himself in Hue.
● 1963 - Independence is restored to Dominican Republic
● 1964 - Vietnam War: A coup d'état replaces Duong Van Minh with General Nguyen Khanh as President of South Vietnam. A new constitution is established with aid from the U.S. Embassy.
● 1966 - Vietnam War: The House Un-American Activities Committee begins investigations of Americans who have aided the Viet Cong. The committee intends to introduce legislation making these activities illegal. Anti-war demonstrators disrupt the meeting and 50 people are arrested.
● 1967 - Broadcasting from Cuba, Stokely Carmichael tells black Americans to prepare for "total revolution."
● 1968 - Riots erupt in Cincinnati, Ohio, after police kill a black youth.
● 1969 - Police raid on Spahn Ranch; Charles Manson arrested.
● 1970 - Electoral reform group Common Cause founded with the goal of trying to end the undue influence of money in U.S. politics. {Still trying and like steers not succeeding.}
● 1971 - Prisoner strike at San Quentin prison, California, to end indeterminate sentencing.
● 1972 - African-American Methodist clergyman from Dominica, West Indies, Philip A. Potter, 51, was named general secretary of the World Council of Churches. Serving until 1984, Potter gave strong spiritual guidance to the work of the WCC.
● 1972 - The Royal Moroccan Air Force fires upon, in an unsuccessful coup d'état attempt, Hassan II of Morocco's plane while he is traveling back to Rabat.
● 1973 - United Farm Workers begin second boycott of commercially grown grapes, California.
● 1975 - Serial killer Ted Bundy originally arrested for suspicion of burglary, only to later escape twice.
● 1977 - Elvis Presley does the world (but not his pharmacist) a tremendous favor and dies...or so we're told! Memphis, Tennessee.
● 1979 - Seven hundred textile workers occupy building, hold managers hostage in El Salvador.
● 1984 - Carmaker John De Lorean is acquitted of all eight counts of possessing and distributing cocaine. {The real purpose of the charges are achieved however as his car manufacturing business is totally destroyed.}
● 1984 - NASA launches Ampte
● 1987 - A McDonnell Douglas MD-82 carrying Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes on take-off from Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Romulus, Michigan (Detroit), killing 155 passengers and crew. The sole survivor is four-year-old Cecelia Cichan.
● 1987 - Thousands of people worldwide began a two-day celebration of the "harmonic convergence," which believers called the start of a new, purer age of humankind. {Reagan/Bush war cabal ignores the memo.}
● 1987 - Charles Wesley dies in Washington, D.C. Noted historian, wrote over a dozen books on African-American life, including The Negro in the Americas' The Quest for Equality; Negro Labor in the U.S. 1850-1925; Richard Allen, Apostle of Freedom; and The History of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, published when he was 92 years old.
● 1988 - Jailed black nationalist Nelson Mandela struck with tuberculosis
● 1988 - New York's Mayor Koch says he plans to wipe out street-corner windshield washers.
● 1988 - San Francisco's Mayor Agnos starts arresting Food Not Bombs volunteers.
● 1988 - Vice President George H.W. Bush tapped Indiana Sen. Dan Quayle to be his running mate on the Republican ticket.
● 1989 - Solidarity-led government elected to power, Poland.
● 1990 - Iraq orders 4000 Britons & 2500 Americans in Kuwait to Iraq
● 1991 - Pres Bush declares the recession is near an end
● 1992 - In response to an appeal by President Fernando Collor de Mello to wear green and yellow as a way to show support for him, thousands of Brazilians take to the streets dressed in black.
● 1993 - Harvey Weinstein was rescued from a 14-foot-deep pit by New York Police. He had been there for nearly two weeks while being held for ransom.
● 1995 - Voters in Bermuda rejected independence from Great Britain.
● 1996 - Firing of 737 Mexican police for inadequate “ethical profiles.”
● 1997 - Seven Greenpeace activists suspend themselves from Seattle's Aurora Bridge for 48 hours to block outgoing ocean factory trawlers and draw attention to the depletion of fish populations by Seattle-based corporate fleets.
● 1999 - In Russia, Vladimir V. Putin was confirmed as prime minister by the lower house of parliament.
● 2000 - Delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles nominated Vice President Al Gore for president.
● 2002 - Terrorist mastermind Abu Nidal was found shot to death in Baghdad, Iraq.
● 2003 - Idi Amin, the former dictator of Uganda, died in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia.
● 2003 - U.S. Representative from South Dakota Bill Janklow hits and kills a motorcyclist with his car at a rural intersection near Trent, South Dakota; he will eventually be convicted of manslaughter and will resign from Congress.
● 2004 - Dozens stranded in Cornish floods; Flash floods devastate a north Cornwall coastal village after the area's average August rainfall fell in just two hours.
● 2005 - West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 crashes near Machiques, Venezuela, killing the 160 aboard.
● 2006 - John Mark Karr was arrested in Thailand as a suspect in the slaying of child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey. (Karr's confession that he had killed JonBenet was later discredited.) {However the then current Bush scandal gets ignored.}
BIRTHS
● 1355 - Philippa Plantagenet, Countess of Ulster
● 1378 - Hongxi Emperor of China (d. 1425)
● 1557 - Agostino Carracci, Italian artist (d. 1602)
● 1596 - Frederick V, Elector Palatine (d. 1632)
● 1637 - Emilie Juliane of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, German countess and poet (d. 1706)
● 1645 - Jean de La Bruyère, French writer (d. 1696)
● 1650 - Vincenzo Coronelli, Italian cartographer and encylopedist (d. 1718)
● 1682 - Louis, duc de Bourgogne, heir-apparent to the French throne (d. 1712)
● 1761 - Yevstigney Fomin, Russian composer (d. 1800)
● 1813 - Sarah Porter, American educator (d. 1900)
● 1815 - John Bosco, Italian priest and educator (d. 1888)
● 1820 - Andrew Rainsford Wetmore, Canadian politician (d. 1892)
● 1831 - John Jones Ross, Quebec politician (d. 1901)
● 1832 - Wilhelm Wundt, German psychologist (d. 1920)
● 1842 - Jakob Rosanes, German mathematician (d. 1922)
● 1845 - Gabriel Lippmann, French physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1921)
● 1858 - Arthur Achleitner, German writer (d. 1927)
● 1860 - Jules Laforgue, French poet (d. 1887)
● 1862 - Amos Alonzo Stagg, American coach (d. 1965)
● 1868 - Bernarr McFadden, American publisher (d. 1955)
● 1876 - Ivan Bilibin, Russian illustrator (d. 1942)
● 1884 - Hugo Gernsback, Luxembourg-born editor and publisher (d. 1967)
● 1884 - Walther von Reichenau, German field marshal (d. 1942)
● 1888 - T. E. Lawrence, English writer and soldier (d. 1935)
● 1888 - Armand J. Piron, American musician (d. 1943)
● 1892 - Otto Messmer, American cartoonist (d. 1983)
● 1894 - George Meany, American labor union leader (d. 1980)
● 1895 - Albert Cohen, Swiss novelist (d. 1981)
● 1895 - Liane Haid, Austrian actress (d. 2000)
● 1902 - Georgette Heyer, English novelist (d. 1974)
● 1902 - Wallace Henry Thurman, African-American editor, critic, novelist and playwright (d. 1934)
● 1904 - Wendell Meredith Stanley, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1971)
● 1908 - William Maxwell, American novelist and editor (d. 2000)
● 1911 - E. F. Schumacher, German economist and statistician (d. 1977)
● 1912 - Ted Drake, English footballer (d. 1995)
● 1913 - Menachem Begin, 6th Prime Minister of Israel, Nobel laureate (d. 1992)
● 1915 - Al Hibbler, American singer (d. 2001)
● 1916 - Iggy Katona, American race car driver (d. 2003)
● 1920 - Charles Bukowski, American poet (d. 1994)
● 1922 - Ernie Freeman, American pianist and arranger (d. 2001)
● 1923 - Shimon Peres, Israeli politician
● 1923 - Millôr Fernandes, Brazilian playwright
● 1924 - Fess Parker, American actor
● 1925 - Willie Jones, American baseball player (d. 1983)
● 1928 - Ann Blyth, American actress
● 1929 - Bill Evans, American jazz pianist (d. 1980)
● 1929 - Helmut Rahn, German footballer (d. 2003)
● 1929 - Fritz Von Erich, American professional wrestler (d. 1997)
● 1930 - Robert Culp, American actor
● 1930 - Frank Gifford, American football player, announcer and Hall of Fame member
● 1930 - Tony Trabert, American tennis player and Hall of Fame member
● 1931 - Eydie Gormé, American singer
● 1933 - Julie Newmar, American actress
● 1933 - Stuart Roosa, American astronaut (d. 1994)
● 1934 - Diana Wynne Jones, British author
● 1934 - Ketty Lester, American singer
● 1934 - Pierre Richard, French actor
● 1934 - John Standing, Actor
● 1935 - Andreas Stamatiadis, Greek footballer and coach
● 1935 - Cliff Fletcher, Canadian National Hockey League executive
● 1936 - Gary Clarke, Actor
● 1936 - Anita Gillette, Actress
● 1937 - David Anderson, Canadian politician
● 1939 - Sir Trevor Mcdonald, Trinidadian-born British television newsreader
● 1939 - Billy Joe Shaver, Country singer
● 1939 - Carole Shelley, Actress
● 1940 - Bruce Beresford, Australian film director
● 1942 - Barbara George, American singer and songwriter (d. 2006)
● 1942 - Robert Lester, R&B singer (The Chi-Lites)
● 1945 - Bob Balaban, Actor
● 1945 - Suzanne Farrell, ballet dancer
● 1946 - Massoud Barzani, Iraqi Kurdish politician
● 1946 - Lesley Ann Warren, American actress
● 1946 - Dick Murdoch, American professional wrestler (d. 1996)
● 1947 - Carol Moseley Braun, American politician and lawyer
● 1947 - Katharine Hamnett, English fashion designer
● 1947 - Marc Messier, Quebec actor
● 1948 - Mike Jorgensen, American baseball player
● 1948 - Pierre Reid, Quebec politician and teacher
● 1949 - Scott Asheton, American musician (The Stooges)
● 1950 - Hasely Crawford, Trinidadian athlete
● 1950 - Marshall Manesh, Iranian-born American actor
● 1950 - Stockwell Day, Canadian politician
● 1950 - Joey Spampinato, Rock singer, musician (NRBQ)
● 1950 - Jeff Thomson, Australian cricketer
● 1951 - Richard Hunt, American puppeteer (d. 1992)
● 1952 - Reginald VelJohnson, American actor
● 1953 - Kathie Lee Gifford, American singer and actress
● 1953 - James "JT" Taylor, American singer (Kool & The Gang)
● 1954 - Joshua Bolten, White House chief of staff
● 1954 - James Cameron, Director ("Titanic")
● 1955 - Jeff Perry, Actor
● 1957 - Tim Farriss, Australian musician (INXS)
● 1958 - Angela Bassett, American actress
● 1958 - Madonna, American singer and actress
● 1958 - José Luis Clerc, Argentine tennis player
● 1959 - Laura Innes, Actress ("ER")
● 1960 - Timothy Hutton, American actor
● 1962(63? NYT) - Steve Carell, American actor and comedian ("The Office")
● 1964 - Jimmy Arias, American tennis player
● 1966 - Barry Lather, American choreographer, musician and actor
● 1967 - Ulrika Jonsson, Swedish television personality
● 1967 - Pamela Smart, American convicted murderess
● 1968 - Mateja Svet, Slovenian alpine skier
● 1968 - Donovan Leitch, Actor
● 1970 - Bonnie Bernstein, American sportscaster
● 1970 - Fabio Casartelli, Italian cyclist (d. 1995)
● 1970 - Saif Ali Khan, Indian actor
● 1971 - Stefan Klos, German footballer
● 1972 - Stan Lazaridis, Australian soccer player
● 1972 - Emily Robison, American country singer, instrumentalist and songwriter (Dixie Chicks)
● 1973 - Damian Jackson, American baseball player
● 1974 - Krisztina Egerszegi, Hungarian swimmer
● 1974 - Iván Hurtado, Ecuadorian footballer
● 1974 - Roger Cedeño, Venezuelan baseball player
● 1975 - Didier Agathe, French footballer
● 1975 - George Stults, American actor ("7th Heaven")
● 1976 - Jonatan Johansson, Finnish footballer
● 1976 - Dave Ockun, American concert producer
● 1978 - Eddie Gill, American basketball player
● 1979 - Michael Stahlman, American rower and coach
● 1980 - Vanessa Carlton, American singer/songwriter
● 1980 - Robert Hardy, English bassist (Franz Ferdinand)
● 1981 - Roque Santa Cruz, Paraguayan footballer
● 1981 - Taylor Rain, American pornographic actress
● 1982 - Joleon Lescott, English footballer
● 1983 - Colin Griffiths, English TV presenter and DJ
● 1983 - Nikos Zisis, Greek basketball player
● 1983 - Colt Brennan, University of Hawai'i Quarterback
● 1985 - Agnes Bruckner, American actress
● 1986 - Shawn Pyfrom, American actor ("Desperate Housewives")
● 1987 - Kyal Marsh, Australian actor
● 1988 - Kevin Schmidt, American actor
● 1988 - Rumer Willis, American actress
● 1991 - Evanna Lynch, Irish actress
● 1991 - Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse, Canadian actress
● 2006 - Princess Luisa of Savoy
DEATHS
● 1027 - Giorgi I, King of Georgia (b. 998)
● 1297 - John II of Trebizond (b. 1262)
● 1327 - Roch, French saint (b. 1295)
● 1358 - Duke Albert II of Austria (b. 1298)
● 1419 - Wenceslaus, King of the Romans, King of Bohemia (b. 1361)
● 1443 - Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, Japanese shogun (b. 1434)
● 1445 - Margaret of Scotland (Dauphine of France), wife of the future King Louis XI (b. 1424)
● 1518 - Loyset Compère, French composer
● 1532 - John, Elector of Saxony (b. 1468)
● 1661 - Thomas Fuller, English churchman and historian (b. 1608)
● 1678 - Andrew Marvell, English poet (b. 1621)
● 1705 - Jakob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician and scientist (b. 1654)
● 1733 - Matthew Tindal, English deist (b. 1657)
● 1791 - Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec, French soldier and diplomat (b. 1719)
● 1836 - Marc-Antoine Parseval, French mathematician (b. 1755)
● 1855 - Henry Colburn, British publisher (b. ?)
● 1886 - Sri Ramakrishna, Bengali saint, guru of Swami Vivekananda (b. 1836)
● 1888 - John Pemberton, American druggist and inventor of Coca-Cola (b. 1831)
● 1893 - Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist (b. 1825)
● 1899 - Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, German chemist (b. 1811)
● 1900 - Eça de Queirós, Portuguese writer (b. 1845)
● 1907 - James Hector, Scottish geologist (b. 1834)
● 1921 - King Peter I of Serbia (b. 1844)
● 1938 - Robert Johnson, American singer and guitarist (b. 1911)
● 1938 - Andrej Hlinka, Slovak politician and priest (b. 1864)
● 1948 - Babe Ruth, American baseball player (b. 1895)
● 1949 - Margaret Mitchell, American novelist (b. 1900)
● 1951 - Louis Jouvet, French actor and producer (b. 1887)
● 1952 - Lydia Field Emmet, American painter (b. 1866)
● 1956 - Bela Lugosi, Hungarian actor (b. 1882)
● 1957 - Irving Langmuir, American chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1881)
● 1959 - Wanda Landowska, Polish harpsichordist (b. 1879)
● 1961 - Maulvi Abdul Haq, Father of Modern Urdu (b. 1870)
● 1971 - Spyros Skouras, Greek-American movie executive, chairman of the Twentieth Century Fox (b. 1893)
● 1972 - Pierre Brasseur, French actor (b. 1905)
● 1973 - Selman Waksman, Ukrainian-born biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1888)
● 1975 - Vladimir Kuts, Ukrainian-born runner (b. 1927)
● 1977 - Elvis Presley, American singer and actor (b. 1935)
● 1978 - Alidius Warmoldus Lambertus Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, Dutch lawyer and politician (b. 1888)
● 1979 - John Diefenbaker, 13th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1895)
● 1983 - Earl Averill, American baseball player (b. 1902)
● 1986 - Jaime Saenz, Bolivian poet, novelist, and short story writer (b. 1921)
● 1989 - Amanda Blake, American actress (b. 1929)
● 1990 - Pat O'Connor, New Zealand professional wrestler (b. 1925)
● 1991 - Shamu, One of the famous whales that star at SeaWorld (b. 1975)
● 1991 - Luigi Zampa, Italian film director (b. 1905)
● 1993 - Stewart Granger, British film actor (b. 1913)
● 1995 - J.P. McCarthy, American radio personality (b. 1933)
● 1997 - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Pakistani musician (b. 1948)
● 1997 - Gerard McLarnon, Irish playwright and actor (b. 1915)
● 1999 - Pee Wee King, American country musician and songwriter (b. 1914)
● 2002 - Jeff Corey, American actor (b. 1914)
● 2002 - Abu Nidal, Palestinian political leader (b. 1937)
● 2002 - John Roseboro, American baseball player and coach (b. 1933)
● 2003 - Idi Amin, Ugandan dictator (b. 1928)
● 2004 - Ivan Hlinka, Czech ice hockey coach (b. 1950)
● 2004 - Carl Mydans, American photographer (b. 1907)
● 2004 - Robert Quiroga, American boxer (b. 1969)
● 2005 - Joe Ranft, American animator (b. 1960)
● 2005 - Frère Roger, Swiss monk and mystic (b. 1915)
● 2005 - Vassar Clements, American musician (b. 1928)
● 2005 - Vicky Moscholiou, Greek singer (b. 1943)
● 2006 - Alex Buzo, Australian playwright and author (b. 1944)
● 2006 - Herschel Green, American pilot (b. 1920)
● 2006 - Jon Nödtveidt, Swedish musician (b. 1975)
● 2006 - Alfredo Stroessner, President of Paraguay (b. 1912)
● 2007 - Max Roach, American percussionist, drummer, and composer (b. 1924)
● 2007 - Bahaedin Adab, Iranian MP (b. 1945)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Anne, by tradition Mother of Mary and wife of St. Joachim
● St. Armagillus
● St. Arnulph, bishop of Metz, Soissons, confessor
● St. Arsacius
● St. Audomar, bishop of Thérouanne
● St. Balsemius, martyr
● St. Beatrix da Silva
● St. Bernward, bishop of Hildesheim
● St. Brinolph, bishop of Skara
● St. Diomedes
● St. Eleutherius
● St. Eonius, bishop of Arles
● St. Frambald, abbot, confessor
● St. Fructuosus
● St. Hyacinth, confessor
● St. Maurilius, bishop of Angers, confessor
● St. Roch, confessor, patron saint of pilgrims, plague victims, skin diseases and dogs
● St. Serena
● St. Simplician, bishop
● St. Stephen I, the Great (Apostle) of Hungary
● St. Titus
● St. Uguzo
● Bl. John of Saint Martha
● Bl. Mary Magdalen Kiota
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for August 3 (Civil Date: August 16)
● Saints Isaac, Dalmatus and Faustus, ascetics of the Dalmatian Monastery at Constantinople.
● St. Anthony the Roman, abbot of Novgorod.
● St. Cosmas, eunuch and hermit of Palestine.
● Holy Myrrhbearer Salome.
● Martyr Razhden of Georgia.
● Greek Calendar:
● St. John, confessor, an abbot of the Monastery of Patalaria.
● St. Theoctistus the Wonderworker of Optimaton.
● Repose of Schemahieromonk Ignatius of Harbin (1958).
● Eastern Orthodox:
● Commemoration of the translation of the Acheiropoietos icon which means "Not made by hands", (also known as the Mandelion; now lost) from Edessa to Constantinople on 16 August 944
● old Roman Catholic:
● St. Joachim by tradition Father of Mary
● Roman Empire - Portunalia in honor of Portunes.
● Bennington Battle Day - legal holiday in Vermont, USA, for the Battle of Bennington in 1777 (which actually took place in the state of New York)
● Cyprus - Independence Day (1960)
● Dominican Republic - Restoration Day (1963)
● Liechtenstein - Prince Franz-Josef II Day
● Siena - Palio dell'Assunta (on the day after the Assumption of Mary)
● 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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