Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Writers and Writing "If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it." — Anaïs Nin
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Gynephobia "I think contraception is disgusting—people using each other for pleasure." — Joe Scheidler, director of the Pro-Life Action League
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: On Politics "I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600s. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican" — Hall of Shame Member #2, Marion Barry, former mayor of Washington, D.C. {This is a good example of the ignorance of history that exists in the U.S. even among its leaders.}
Thought for the day: "We have nothing to fear but fear itself."
{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 Tail of a Wonderful Star
Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, GALEX, C. Martin (Caltech), M. Seibert(OCIW)
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 682 - St Leo II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
● 1635 - English Puritan Richard Mather, 39, first arrived in Boston. A staunch defender of the congregational form of church government, Mather is remembered today for founding the "dynasty" to which was born his son Increase Mather in 1639, and his grandson Cotton Mather in 1663.
● 1717 - George Boone, the grandfather of pioneer and American folk hero Daniel Boone sails to America from Bradninch, England
● 1761 - Birth of William Carey, pioneer English missionary to India. He taught at the newly founded Fort William College of Calcutta from 1801 until his death, and helped found the Serampore Press, which made the Bible accessible to over 300 million people.
● 1775 - Anglican clergyman and hymnwriter John Newton wrote in a letter: 'It is no great matter where we are, provided we see that the Lord has placed us there, and that He is with us.'
● 1780 - Birth of George Croly, Irish churchman and author. During his life he published writings of biographical, historical and religious importance, but is primarily remembered today as author of the hymn, "Spirit of God, Descend Upon My Heart."
● 1787 - Jews are granted permission in Budapest Hungary to pray in groups
● 1790 - The capital city of the U.S. moved to Philadelphia from New York City.
● 1807 - Robert Fulton's first American steamboat leaves New York City for Albany, New York on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world.
● 1809 - In Pennsylvania, Thomas Campbell, 46, and his son Alexander, 20, formed the American Movement for Christian Unity, which later became the Disciples of Christ Church.
● 1815 - Napoleon began serving his exile when he arrived at the island of St. Helena.
● 1835 - Solyman Merrick patented the wrench.
● 1846 - US takes Los Angeles.
● 1859 - A hot air balloon was used to carry mail for the first time. John Wise left Lafayette, IN for New York City with 100 letters. He had to land after only 27 miles.
● 1862 - Indian Wars: The Lakota (Sioux) Dakota War of 1862 begins in Minnesota as "vicious" {It seems they objected to having their land taken.} Lakota attack white settlements along the Minnesota River.
● 1863 - American Civil War: In Charleston, South Carolina, Union batteries and ships bombard Confederate-held Fort Sumter.
● 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Gainesville - Confederate forces defeat Union troops near Gainesville, Florida.
● 1870 - 1st ascent of Mt Rainier, Washington
● 1870 – Mrs. Esther Morris becomes 1st woman magistrate (South Pass, Wyoming)
● 1877 - Asaph Hall discovers Mars' moon Phobos
● 1877 - F. P. Cahill became the first person to be killed by "Billy the Kid."
● 1883 - The first public performance of the Dominican Republic's national anthem, Quisqueyanos valientes.
● 1887 - Marcus Garvey, the Jamaican-born founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, was born in Jamaica.
● 1896 - The Klondike gold rush was set off by George Carmack discovering gold on Rabbit Creek in Alaska.
● 1903 - Joseph Pulitzer donated a million dollars to Columbia University. This started the Pulitzer Prizes in his name.
● 1907 - Pike Place Market, the longest continuously-running public farmers market in the US, opened in Seattle.
● 1910 - When a New York garment factory opens in defiance of a strike, women strikers break through police lines and demolish the factory. They throw sewing machines out the window, smash tables and chairs. Garment workers these days still toil up to 15 hours a day for as little as 50 cents. The industry-wide strike started in June when the women workers of one of the most notorious New York sweatshops walked out. Only a few weeks after the walkout, 60,000 were on strike up and down the east coast. As the strike spread, so did violence against it. Pickets were assaulted and beaten; one woman was disabled for life. In September, the strike leads to an agreement that finally improves working conditions and wages. {Of course to bust unions these days jobs are shipped 'off-shore' and the abuses continue.}
● 1914 - World War I: Battle of Stalluponen - The German army of General Hermann von François defeats the Russian force commanded by Pavel Rennenkampf near modern-day Nesterov, Russia.
● 1915 - Charles F. Kettering patented the electric, automobile self-starter.
● 1915 - Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old girl in Marietta, Georgia. {The lynching was in response to his "light" sentence of life in prison instead of execution. The real murderer would confess decades later.}
● 1918 - Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated.
● 1918 - IWW War Trials in Chicago; 95 go to prison for up to 20 years.
● 1923 - Birth in Ohio of Juanita Nelson, Massachusetts farmer and conscientious objector who has refused income tax payments for over fifty years.
● 1940 - FDR & Canadian PM William M King agree to joint defense commission
● 1942 - U.S. Marines raid the Japanese-held Pacific island of Makin (Butaritari).
● 1942 - US bombers staged 1st independent raid on Europe attack Rouen, France
● 1943 - World War II: First Québec Conference of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and William Lyon Mackenzie King begins.
● 1943 - World War II: The U.S. Eighth Air Force suffers the loss of 60 bombers on the Schweinfurt-Regensburg mission.
● 1943 - World War II: The U.S. Seventh Army under General George S. Patton arrive in Messina, Italy, followed several hours later by the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery, thus completing the Allied conquest of Sicily.
● 1945 - Indonesia declares independence from Netherlands (National Day)
● 1948 - Former State Department official Alger Hiss faced his chief accuser, Whittaker Chambers, during a closed-door meeting of the House Un-American Activities Committee in New York. Hiss repeated his denial that he'd ever been a Communist agent.
● 1950 - Indonesia gains independence from the Netherlands
● 1951 - Hurricane winds drive 6 ships ashore, Kingston, Jamaica
● 1953 - Addiction: First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous in Southern California.
● 1955 - Hurricane Diane, following hurricane Connie floods Connecticut River killing 190 & doing $1.8 billion damage
● 1958 - World's 1st Moon probe, US's Thor-Able, explodes at T +77 sec
● 1959 - Quake Lake: Quake Lake was formed by a 7.5 rated earthquake in Yellowstone National Park, Montana.
● 1960 - Francis Gary Powers U-2 spy trial opens in Moscow
● 1960 - Gabon gains independence from France (National Day)
● 1961 - Kennedy administration establishes Alliance for Progress
● 1961 - The Communist East German government completed the construction of the Berlin Wall.
● 1962 - East German border guards kill 18-year-old Peter Fechter as he attempts to cross the Berlin Wall into West Berlin becoming the first victim of the wall.
● 1963 - A ferry linking remote islands off the coast of Okinawa sinks, killing 112.
● 1966 - Beatle John Lennon expresses his admiration for American draft dodgers. Toronto, Canada.
● 1966 - Pioneer 7 launched into solar orbit
● 1968 - Riots break out in black section of St. Petersburg, Florida.
● 1969 - A large bomb causes serious damage to the federal building in Minneapolis-St. Paul.
● 1969 - Category 5 Hurricane Camille hits the Mississippi coast, killing 248 people and causing $1.5 billion in damage.
● 1969 - The Woodstock Music and Art Fair concluded near Bethel, N.Y.
● 1969 - Hippie leader Abbie Hoffman is knocked offstage by Pete Townshend while attempting to make a political statement during the Who's set at Woodstock. Later, Townshend claims he didn't know it was Hoffman.
● 1970 - Venera Program: Venera 7 launched. It will later become the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the surface of another planet (Venus).
● 1971 - Operation Omega brings food and medicine to war victims across closed India-East Pakistan (Bangladesh) border.
● 1973 - 94 of CBS's 186 affiliates refuse to telecast Tony award-winning drama "Sticks and Bones," by David Rabe, about a blind, embittered Vietnam veteran's homecoming. The defection of the affiliates, the largest in the history of network TV, made it virtually impossible to sell commercial spots for the telecast; the 100-minute program was shown in many cities without ads. Stations feared the play might offend relatives of POW's in North Vietnam.
● 1978 - Double Eagle II becomes first balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean when it lands in Miserey near Paris, 137 hours after leaving Presque Isle, Maine. Maxie Anderson, Ben Abruzzo and Larry Newman were aboard.
● 1979 - Two Soviet Aeroflot jetliners collide in mid-air over Ukraine, killing 156
● 1980 - Azaria Chamberlain disappears, likely taken by a dingo, leading to what was then the most publicized trial in Australian history.
● 1982 - First draft resister since Viet Nam era convicted. Enten Eller given three years probation in Roanoke, Va., for refusing to register for the draft. Support demonstrations occur all over U.S.
● 1982 - South Bend, Indiana jury acquits self-avowed racist Joseph Paul Franklin
● 1982 - The first Compact Discs (CD's) were released to the public in Germany.
● 1985 - Hormel meat-packing strike begins in Austin, Minn. The Hormel strike, generally regarded as labor's first major grass roots revolt against corporate downsizing, is suppressed after nearly a year by Hormel in cooperation with both the state and the workers' own national union.
● 1985 - Nine hundred partiers loot "The Gap" store on Telegraph Ave. in Berkeley, Calif., after a party on the Univ. of California-Berkeley campus.
● 1985 - Rajiv Gandhi announces Punjab state elections in India
● 1986 - Bronze pig statue unveiled at Seattle's Pike Place Market.
● 1987 - Charles Glass, American journalist, escaped his kidnappers and was rescued after being held for 62 days in Lebanon.
● 1987 - Rudolf Hess, the last member of Adolf Hitler's inner circle, died at Spandau prison in West Berlin at age 93, having apparently committed suicide by strangling himself with an electrical cord. Hess had been the only inmate at Spandau for 21 years.
● 1988 - LIRR says Penn station will get air conditioning in 1991
● 1988 - NYC 1st case of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (9 year old Bronx boy)
● 1988 - Pakistani President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel are killed in a plane crash.
● 1991 - Wade Frankum starts his killing spree at a shopping mall in Strathfield, Australia, an event that was later dubbed the Strathfield Massacre. He killed seven people before killing himself. He had been armed with a rifle and a machete.
● 1992 - Woody Allen admitted to being romantically involved with Soon-Yi Previn. The girl was the adopted daughter of Mia Farrow, Allen's longtime companion.
● 1993 - First of 350 B-52 bombers destroyed by U.S., as called for in START I treaty.
● 1993 - Jack Kevorkian was charged in Wayne County, MI with assisting in the suicide of Thomas Hyde. Kevorkian was later acquitted.
● 1996 - A military cargo plane crashed in Wyoming killing eight crewmembers and a Secret Service employee. The plane was carrying gear for U.S. President Clinton.
● 1996 - Ross Perot was announced to be the Reform Party's presidential candidate. It was the party's first-ever candidate.
● 1998 - Monica Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an "improper physical relationship" with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. On the same day he admits before the nation that he "misled people" about his relationship.
● 1998 - Russia devalued the ruble.
● 1998 - The FBI announced that it was questioning a suspect concerning the bombings of the U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya on August 7th, 1998.
● 1998 - Two killed by police firing on pro-democracy demonstrators, Maseru, Lesotho.
● 1999 - A 7.4-magnitude earthquake strikes İzmit, Turkey, killing more than 17,000 and injuring 44,000.
● 2000 - The Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles nominated Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman for vice president.
● 2002 - Pope John Paul II arrived in Krakow, Poland, for the ninth and final visit to his native country during his papacy.
● 2002 - In Santa Rosa, CA, the Charles M. Schulz Museum opened to the public.
● 2002 - Soham murders: The bodies of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman are found 13 days after their disappearance at the perimeter fence of RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk.
● 2004 - MD5 collision found by Chinese researchers.
● 2004 - The National Assembly of Serbia unanimously adopts new state symbols for Serbia: Boze Pravde becomes the new anthem and the coat of arms is adopted for the whole country.
● 2005 - The first forced evacuation of settlers, as part of the Israel unilateral disengagement plan, starts.
● 2007 - The level of Arctic ice hits its lowest ever recorded mark.
BIRTHS
● 1473 - Richard, Duke of York (d. 1483?)
● 1562 - Hans Leo Hassler (baptized), German composer (d. 1612)
● 1578 - Francesco Albani, Italian painter (d. 1660)
● 1601 - Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (d. 1665)
● 1629 - King John III of Poland (d. 1696)
● 1686 - Nicola Porpora, Italian composer and voice teacher (d. 1768)
● 1755 - Thomas Stothard, English painter, designer and illustrator (d. 1834)
● 1768 - Louis Charles Antoine Desaix, French general (d. 1800)
● 1786 - Davy Crockett, American frontiersman and soldier (d. 1836)
● 1794 - Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, German priest (d. 1849)
● 1798 - Thomas Hodgkin, English physician (d. 1866)
● 1828 - Jules Bernard Luys, French neurologist (d. 1897)
● 1844 - Menelek II of Ethiopia (d. 1913)
● 1863 - Gene Stratton-Porter, American author and naturalist (d. 1924)
● 1866 - Mir Mahboob Ali Khan, 6th Nizam of Hyderabad (d. 1911)
● 1866 - Julia Marlowe, English actress (d. 1950)
● 1873 - John A. Sampson, American gynecologist (d. 1946)
● 1882 - Samuel Goldwyn, Hollywood producer (d. 1974)
● 1887 - Marcus Garvey, Jamaican-born Black separatist leader and organizer of the American black nationalist movement (1919-26) (d. 1940)
● 1887 - Charles I of Austria (d. 1922)
● 1888 - Monty Woolley, American actor (d. 1963)
● 1890 - Harry Hopkins, 8th United States Secretary of Commerce (d. 1946)
● 1890 - Stefan Bastyr, Polish aviator (d. 1920)
● 1893 - Mae West, American actress (d. 1980)
● 1896 - Leslie Groves, American military engineer (d. 1970)
● 1904 - Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist (d. 1991)
● 1904 - Mary Cain, American newspaper editor and politician (d. 1984)
● 1904 - John Hay Whitney, American sportsman, publisher, financier and philanthropist (d. 1982)
● 1906 - Hazel Bishop, American chemist; founded pioneering cosemtics business (d. 1998)
● 1909 - Larry Clinton, American trumpeter and bandleader (d. 1985)
● 1911 - Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player (d. 1995)
● 1913 - W. Mark Felt, American Watergate informant
● 1913 - Rudy York, American baseball player (d. 1970)
● 1913 - Oscar Alfredo Gálvez, Argentine racing driver (d. 1989)
● 1914 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., son of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (d. 1988)
● 1919 - Georgia Gibbs, American singer (d. 2006)
● 1920 - Maureen O'Hara, Irish actress
● 1921 - Geoffrey Rudolph Elton, British historian (d. 1994)
● 1926 - Jiang Zemin, Chinese politician
● 1926 - George Melly, British jazz & blues singer (d. 2007)
● 1926 - Jean Poiret, French actor, director and screenwriter (d. 1992)
● 1929 - Francis Gary Powers, American U-2 pilot and POW that was shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960 (d. 1977)
● 1930 - Glenn Corbett, American actor (d. 1993)
● 1930 - Ted Hughes, English poet (d. 1998)
● 1932 - V. S. Naipaul, West Indian writer, Nobel Laureate
● 1933 - Eugene F. Kranz, American space exploration executive
● 1933 - Mark Dinning, American singer (d. 1986)
● 1935 - Oleg Tabakov, Russian actor
● 1938 - Abu Bakar Bashir, Indonesian Muslim cleric
● 1939 - Luther Allison, American musician
● 1939 - Anthony Valentine, British actor
● 1940 - Eduardo Mignogna, Argentinian film director (d. 2006)
● 1941 - Jean Pierre Lefebvre, French Canadian film director
● 1941 - Boog Powell, American baseball player
● 1943 - Robert De Niro, American actor
● 1943 - Dave "Snaker" Ray, American musician (d. 2002)
● 1944 - Lawrence Joseph Ellison, CEO of Oracle Corporation, Billionaire
● 1946 - Martha Coolidge, American film director
● 1947 - Gary Talley, American guitarist (Box Tops)
● 1948 - Rod MacDonald, American musician
● 1949 - Sib Hashian, American drummer (Boston)
● 1949 - Norm Coleman, U.S. senator, R-Minn.
● 1951 - Robert Joy, Canadian actor
● 1951 - Alan Minter, British boxer
● 1952 - Nelson Piquet, Brazilian race car driver
● 1952 - Guillermo Vilas, Argentinian tennis player and Hall of Fame member
● 1953 - Judith Regan, American book publisher
● 1953 - Kevin Rowland, English musician (Dexy's Midnight Runners)
● 1954 - Eric Johnson, American guitarist
● 1955 - Colin Moulding, Rock musician (XTC)
● 1955 - Kevin Welch, Country singer-songwriter
● 1955 - Richard Hilton, American heir
● 1956 - Gail Berman, American film executive
● 1956 - Álvaro Pino, Spanish cyclist
● 1957 - Robin Cousins, British figure skater
● 1958 - Belinda Carlisle, American singer (The Go-Gos)
● 1958 - Kirk Stevens, Canadian snooker player
● 1959 - David Koresh, American cult leader (d. 1993)
● 1959 - Jonathan Franzen, American author
● 1960 - Sean Penn, American actor and director
● 1960 - Stephan Eicher, Swiss singer
● 1961 - Everette Harp, Jazz saxophonist
● 1962 - Gilby Clarke, American musician (Guns N' Roses)
● 1963 - S. Shankar, Indian film director.
● 1963 - Jon Gruden, Football coach
● 1964 - Maria McKee, Country singer
● 1964 - Colin James, Canadian musician
● 1965 - Steve Gorman, Rock musician (The Black Crowes)
● 1966 - Jill Cunniff, Rock musician (Luscious Jackson)
● 1966 - Rodney Mullen, American skateboarder
● 1966 - Don Sweeney, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1967 - David Conrad, Actor
● 1968 - Ed McCaffrey, American football player
● 1968 - Helen McCrory, English actress
● 1969 - Donnie Wahlberg, American actor and singer
● 1969 - Posdnuos, Rapper (De La Soul)
● 1970 - Jim Courier, American tennis player
● 1970 - Rupert Degas, English actor and voice artist
● 1970 - Oyvind Leonhardsen, Norwegian footballer
● 1971 - Jorge Posada, Puerto Rican baseball player
● 1971 - Uhm Jung-hwa, South Korean singer and actress
● 1972 - Ken Ryker, American pornographic actor
● 1974 - Tony Hajjar, Lebanese drummer (At the Drive-In, Sparta)
● 1975 - Giuliana DePandi, Italian-born American television personality
● 1976 - Scott Halberstadt, American actor
● 1977 - Thierry Henry, French footballer
● 1977 - Tarja Turunen, Finnish singer
● 1977 - William Gallas, French footballer
● 1978 - Vibeke Stene, Norwegian singer (Tristania)
● 1979 - Antwaan Randle El, American football player
● 1979 - Marcus Patric, British actor
● 1980 - Lene Marlin, Norwegian singer
● 1980 - Keith Dabengwa, Zimbabwean cricketer
● 1980 - Jan Kromkamp, Dutch footballer
● 1982 - Melissa Anderson, American professional wrestler
● 1982 - Phil Jagielka, English footballer
● 1983 - Dustin Pedroia, American baseball player
● 1984 - Dee Brown, American basketball player
● 1986 - Rudy Gay, American basketball player
● 1986 - Tyrus Thomas, American basketball player
● 1986 - Bryton McClure, Actor
● 1988 - Brady Corbet, Actor
● 1988 - Erika Toda, Japanese actress
● 1989 - Alexandra Levine, Jewish american scarsdalinian
● 1990 - Rachel Hurd-Wood, British actress
● 1990 - Colin Bates, American actor
● 1996 - Ella Cruz, Filipina actress
DEATHS
● 1153 - Eustace IV of Boulogne, son of Stephen of England (b. 1130)
● 1304 - Emperor Go-Fukakusa of Japan (b. 1243)
● 1510 - Edmund Dudley, English statesman (b. 1462)
● 1657 - Robert Blake, British admiral (b. 1599)
● 1673 - Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (b. 1641)
● 1676 - Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen, German novelist (b. 1621)
● 1720 - Anne Lefèvre, French scholar (b. 1654)
● 1723 - Joseph Bingham, English scholar (b. 1668)
● 1768 (N. S.) - Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky, Russian poet (b. 1703)
● 1785 - Jonathan Trumbull, Governor of the Colony and the state of Connecticut (b. 1710)
● 1786 - King Frederick II of Prussia (b. 1712)
● 1834 - Husein Gradaščević, Bosnian rebel leader (b. 1802)
● 1850 - Don José de San Martín, Argentine general (b. 1778)
● 1875 - Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist (b. 1827)
● 1880 - Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist (b. 1810)
● 1896 - Bridget Driscoll, world's first automobile fatality
● 1901 - Edmond Audran, French composer (b. 1842)
● 1918 - Moisei Uritsky, Russian revolutionary (b. 1873)
● 1920 - Ray Chapman, American baseball player (b. 1891)
● 1925 - Ioan Slavici, Transylvanian writer of Romanian origin (b. 1848)
● 1940 - Billy Fiske, American aviator and Olympic athlete (b. 1911)
● 1954 - Billy Murray, American recording artist (b. 1877)
● 1962 - Peter Fechter trying to cross the Berlin Wall (b. 1944)
● 1969 - Otto Stern, German physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1888)
● 1970 - Rattana Pestonji, Thai filmmaker (b. 1908)
● 1971 - Wilhelm List, German field marshal (b. 1880)
● 1973 - Jean Barraqué, French composer (b. 1928)
● 1973 - Paul Williams, American singer (The Temptations) (b. 1939)
● 1973 - Conrad Aiken, American author (b. 1889)
● 1979 - Vivian Vance, American actress (b. 1909)
● 1983 - Ira Gershwin, American lyricist (b. 1896)
● 1987 - Rudolf Hess, Nazi deputy (b. 1894)
● 1988 - Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, 6th President of Pakistan (b. 1924)
● 1988 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., son of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States (b. 1914)
● 1988 - Victoria Shaw, Australian-born American actress (b. 1935)
● 1990 - Pearl Bailey, American singer and actress (b. 1918)
● 1992 - Al Parker, American adult film actor (b. 1952)
● 1993 - Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician (b. 1920)
● 1994 - Jack Sharkey, American boxer (b. 1902)
● 1995 - Howard Koch, American screenwriter (b. 1902)
● 1995 - Ted Whitten, Australian rules footballer (b. 1933)
● 2004 - Thea Astley, Australian writer (b. 1925)
● 2004 - Gérard Souzay, French baritone (b. 1918)
● 2005 - John Bahcall, American astrophysicist (b. 1934)
● 2007 - Bill Deedes, British journalist and politician (b. 1913)
● 2007 - Eddie Griffin, American basketball player (b. 1982)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Amor of Amorbach
● St. Anastasius IX
● St. Clare of Montefalco
● St. Clare of the Cross
● St. Donatus
● St. Drithelm
● St. Elias of Calabria
● St. Ethelred
● St. Frances Bizzocca
● St. Hiero (Jeron), martyr
● St. Hyacinth of Silesia Poland, confessor
● St. James the Deacon
● St. John of Monte Marano
● Octave of St. Lawrence
● St. Liberatus, abbot, and companions, martyrs
● St. Luke Kiemon
● St. Mamas, martyr
● St. Myron
● Sts. Paul and Juliana
● St. Theodulus
● Bl. Bartholomew
● Bls. Caspar and Mary Vaz
● Bl. Francis Kuloi
● Bl. Francis Kurobiove
● Bl. Louis Someyon
● Bl. Martin Gomez
● Bl. Michael Kiraiemon
● Bl. Thomas Vinyemon
● Victory of French king Philip IV the Fair at Mons-en-Pévèle
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for August 4 (Civil Date: August 17)
● Holy Seven Youths (the "Seven Sleepers") of Ephesus: Maximilian, Jamblicus, Martinian, John, Dionysius, Exacustodian (Constantine), and Antoninus.
● Martyr Eudocia of Persia.
● Martyr Eleutherius of Constantinople.
● New Hieromartyr Cosmas of Aitolia, Equal-to-the-Apostles
● Greek Calendar:
● Martyr Thathuil.
● Martyr Ia and 9,000 with her.
● Argentina - Día del Libertador, the day when José de San Martín died (1850).
● Gabon - Independence Day (1960)
● India - Janmashtami
● Indonesia - Independence Day (1945).
● Rastafari movement - celebration of the birth of Marcus Garvey, considered a prophet (1887).
● Slovenia - Slovenians in Prekmurje Incorporated into the Mother Nation Day
● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Hawaii : Admission Day (1959) - ( Friday )
● Michigan : 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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