Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Activism "People often say with pride, 'I'm not interested in politics.' They might as well say, 'I'm not interested in my standard of living, my health, my job, my rights, my freedoms, my future or any future.'" — Martha Gellhorn
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Ineptitude "My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes." — Ronald Reagan, said during a radio microphone test
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: On Politics "There are two kinds of truth. There are real truths, and there are made-up truths." — Hall of Shame Member #2, Marion Barry, former mayor of Washington, D. C.
Thought for the day: "No really great man every thought himself so."
{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
ISS Over Mont-Megantic Observatory
Credit & Copyright: Guillaume Poulin (Astrolab du Parc du Mont-Megantic)
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 293 B.C.E. - The oldest known Roman temple to Venus was founded, starting the institution of Vinalia Rustica.
● 1201 - The city of Riga is founded.
● 1227 - The Mongol conqueror Ghengis Khan died.
● 1541 - A Portuguese ship drifts ashore in the ancient Japanese province of Higo (modern day Kumamoto Prefecture). (Traditional Japanese date: July 27, 1541)
● 1572 - Wedding in Paris of the Huguenot King Henry IV of Navarre with Marguerite de Valois, in a supposed attempt to reconcile Protestants and Catholics.
● 1587 - Virginia Dare becoms the first English child born in America, Roanoke Island, North Carolina. Four years later, a ship bringing supplies arrives only to find no colony. The settlers, including Virginia Dare, had vanished. No trace is ever found of the lost colony.
● 1591 - The Governor of the Roanoke Island colony returns from England to find an empty fort and the word "Croatan."
● 1634 - Urbain Grandier, accused and convicted of sorcery, burned alive in Loudun, France.
● 1636 - The Covenant of the Town of Dedham, Massachusetts was first signed.
● 1686 - Cassini, the astronomer whose name 411 years later would be attached to a payload of deadly plutonium, reports seeing a satellite orbiting Venus.
● 1688 - Puritan clergyman John Bunyan, 69, preached his last sermon, before dying 13 days later. In 1678 he had authored Pilgrim's Progress, an allegory describing the difficulties encountered in the Christian life, while journeying through this world.
● 1774 - Merriwether Lewis, U.S. explorer was born. He was the leader of the Lewis & Clark Expedition.
● 1775 - The Spanish established a presidio (fort) and the town came to be called Tucson, Arizona.
● 1812 - Lady Ludd "leads" Corn Market riot of women and boys, Leeds, England.
● 1817 - Gloucester, Mass, newspapers tells of wild sea serpent seen offshore
● 1834 - Mt Vesuvius erupts
● 1835 - Last Pottawatomie Indians leave Chicago
● 1840 - The American Society of Dental Surgeons was founded in New York City, NY.
● 1846 - Gen. Stephen W. Kearney and his U.S. forces captured Sante Fe, NM.
● 1848 - Camila O'Gorman and Ladislao Gutierrez executed on orders by Argentine dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas.
● 1856 - Birth of Charles Gabriel, American sacred music artist. He edited a great number of hymnbooks, and wrote several hymns, including "More Like the Master," "I Stand Amazed in the Presence" and "Send the Light."
● 1862 - Sioux Indians, riled by a government failure to deliver promised goods, massacre over 350 whites. The whites' response - a mass hanging of 38 Indians at Mankato, Minnesota, the largest mass execution in U.S. history.
● 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Globe Tavern - Union forces try to cut a vital Confederate supply-line into Petersburg, Virginia, by attacking the Weldon Railroad.
● 1868 - Pierre Janssan discovers helium in solar spectrum during eclipse
● 1870 - Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Gravelotte is fought.
● 1873 - 1st ascent of Mount Whitney, CA (14,494 feet)
● 1877 - Asaph Hall discovers Martian moon Phobos.
● 1894 - The Bureau of Immigration was established by the U.S. Congress.
● 1903 - German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright Brothers.
● 1904 - Chris Watson resigns as Prime Minister of Australia and is succeeded by George Reid.
● 1909 - Tokyo mayor Yukio Ozaki presents Washington, D.C. with 2,000 cherry trees, which President Taft decides to plant near the Potomac River.
● 1914 - The "Proclamation of Neutrality" was issued by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson. It was aimed at keeping the U.S. out of World War I.
● 1916 - Abraham Lincoln's, the 16th president of the U.S., birthplace was made into a national shrine.
● 1917 - A Great Fire in Thessaloniki, Greece destroys 32% of the city leaving 70,000 individuals homeless.
● 1919 - The "Anti-Cigarette League of America" was formed in Chicago IL.
● 1920 - Tennessee ratified the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The Amendment guaranteed the right of all American women to vote.
● 1927 - At age 20, Christian radio pioneer Theodore Epp was converted to a living faith. In 1939 he founded Back to the Bible Broadcast, an evangelistic radio program with outlets today on over 600 stations around the world.
● 1930 - English apologist C. S. Lewis wrote in a letter: 'One creeps home, tired and bruised, into a state of mind that is really restful, when all ambitions have been given up. Then one can really for the first time say, "Thy Kingdom come."
● 1934 - Roberto Clemente, one of major league baseball's top outfielders was born.
● 1936 - 106.5° F-Hottest afternoon ever in Iowa
● 1937 - The first FM radio construction permit was issued in Boston, MA. The station went on the air two years later.
● 1938 - The Thousand Islands Bridge, connecting New York State, United States with Ontario, Canada over the St. Lawrence River, is dedicated by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
● 1940 - Canada and the U.S. established a joint defense plan against the possible enemy attacks during World War II.
● 1941 - Adolf Hitler orders a temporary halt to Nazi Germany's systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and handicapped due to protests. {The execution of Jews and other racial groups continues unabated.}
● 1943 - Final convoy of Jews from Salonika Greece arrive at Auschwitz
● 1946 - Around 70 people died in the Vergarolla explosion.
● 1947 - Naval torpedo and mine factory explodes at Cadiz, Spain, killing 300.
● 1950 - Four-month-old kitten, following a climbing party, scales the Matterhorn in three days.
● 1950 - Julien Lahaut, the chairman of the Communist Party of Belgium is assassinated by far-right elements.
● 1954 - Assistant Secretary of Labor James Wilkins became 1st black to attend cabinet
● 1958 - Fidel Castro makes a speech on Cuban pirate radio Rebelde
● 1958 - Great Britain issues regional stamps (N Ireland, Scotland & Wales)
● 1958 - Vladimir Nabokov's highly publicized Lolita is published in the United States to widespread demands for censorship.
● 1960 - 1st photograph bounced off a satellite, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
● 1961 - Construction on Berlin Wall completed
● 1962 - Five arrested attempting to disrupt launching of Polaris submarine, Groton, Connecticut.
● 1963 - James Meredith, the first African-American to attend the University of Mississippi, is the first to graduate. His enrollment in the university a year earlier was met with deadly riots, and he subsequently attended class under heavily-armed guard.
● 1963 - Swiss Reformed theologian Karl Barth wrote in a letter: 'Even if there is cause for great dissatisfaction with one's church, one should stay in it in the hope that new movements will come.... Only in this way could I continue to be a member of the Evangelical Reformed Church.'
● 1964 - South Africa banned from Olympics; South Africa are barred from taking part in the 18th Olympic Games in Tokyo over its refusal to condemn apartheid.
● 1965 - The first major U.S. ground operation of the Vietnam War begins with Operation Starlite Starbright, on the Van Tuong Peninsula, south of Chu Lai.
● 1966 - "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution" begins. Mao summons Red Guards to Beijing. One million arrive in paramilitary fashion to hear Lin Piao explain the big character poster "Bombard the Headquarters."
● 1966 - The first pictures of earth taken from moon orbit were sent back to the U.S.
● 1966 - Vietnam War: The Battle of Long Tan occurs, when a patrol of Royal Australian Regiment encounter the Viet Cong.
● 1969 - Woodstock music festival ends; Three days and nights of sex, drugs and rock and roll come to a peaceful end as the Woodstock music festival winds down. The Woodstock Music and Art Fair near Bethel, N.Y., concluded with a mid-morning set by Jimi Hendrix.
● 1969 - President Nixon nominates Clement Haynsworth, Jr. to the U.S. Supreme Court. Haynsworth was widely criticized as a segregationist, but he failed to win Congressional approval only after it was revealed he bought 1,000 shares of Brunswick Corp. stock after he voted on a decision affecting the company, but before the decision was announced.
● 1971 - British Army shot 'unarmed' disabled man; The British Army is accused of shooting dead an unarmed, disabled man during disturbances in Northern Ireland.
● 1971 - Vietnam War: Australia and New Zealand decide to withdraw their troops from Vietnam.
● 1976 - In the Korean Demilitarized Zone at Panmunjeom, the Axe Murder Incident results in the death of two US soldiers.
● 1976 - USSR's Luna 24 soft-lands on Moon
● 1977 - Steve Biko was arrested at a police roadblock under the Terrorism Act No 83 of 1967 in King William's Town, South Africa. He would later die of the injuries sustained during this arrest bringing attention to apartheid.
● 1978 - Memphis, Tennessee, settles with striking police officers & firefighters
● 1980 - Alabama Creek regain ownership of "Hickory Grounds," headquarters of the entire Creek Nation before forced removal of all tribes from the Southeast U.S. in 1830s.
● 1982 - Japanese election law is amended to allow for proportional representation.
● 1982 - Thirteen members of 7th International Nonviolent March deported from Spain after climbing over gate from Gibraltar in their return after having crossed the "closed" border.
● 1983 - Hurricane Alicia hits the Texas coast, killing 22 people and causing over USD $1 billion in damage (1983 dollars).
● 1984 - Triangle Oil Corp, above-ground storage tank at Jacksonville Fla, spills 2.5 m gallons of oil burned after lightning sparked a fire
● 1988 - FDA approves Minoxidil as a hair loss treatment
● 1988 - Indiana Sen. Dan Quayle was nominated as George H. W. Bush's running mate during the Republican National Convention in New Orleans.
● 1989 - In retaliation for the Colombian government's increased activity against local drug traffickers, Luis Carlos Galan, the ruling party's presidential hopeful, is assassinated. In the following year two more presidential candidates are murdered.
● 1990 - The first shots were fired by the U.S. in the Persian Gulf Crisis when a U.S. frigate fired rounds across the bow of an Iraqi oil tanker.
● 1991 - Eight senior Soviet officials, opposed to sweeping reforms of recent years, stage a coup against Mikhail Gorbachev. He is detained, troops are sent to Moscow, Leningrad, and the Baltics. But the conspirators fail to arrest the popularly elected President of the Russian Republic, Boris Yeltsin, who rallied the opposition.
● 1992 - Serbian prison camps condemned; Conditions in two Serbian detention camps are condemned as "hell on earth" by the man leading a delegation to inspect them.
● 1997 - Beth Ann Hogan became the first coed in the Virginia Military Institute's 158-year history.
● 1998 - Sam Bowers', ex-Klansman, fifth trial began. Bowers was being tried again for the 1966 firebombing death of Vernon Dahmer, a civil right activist.
● 2000 - Federal jury found the US EPA guilty of discrimination against Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, later inspiring passage of the No FEAR Act.
● 2004 - In Dublin, Ireland the Dublin Port Tunnel excavation works are completed.
● 2005 - Pope Benedict XVI began his first foreign trip as pontiff in low-key style, returning to his German homeland.
● 2005 - Dennis Rader is sentenced to 175 years in prison for the BTK serial killings.
● 2005 - Massive power blackout hits the Indonesian island of Java, affecting almost 100 million people.
BIRTHS
● 1414 - Jami, Persian poet (d. 1492)
● 1450 - Marko Marulić, Croatian poet (d. 1524)
● 1579 - Charlotte Flandrina of Nassau, Roman Catholic nun (died 1640)
● 1587 - Virginia Dare, first English child born in North America (assumed d. 1588)
● 1596 - Jean Bolland, Flemish Jesuit writer (d. 1665)
● 1605 - Henry Hammond, English churchman (d. 1660)
● 1657 - Ferdinando Galli Bibiena, Italian architect/designer (d. 1743)
● 1685 - Brook Taylor, English mathematician (d. 1731)
● 1692 - Louis Henri, Duc de Bourbon, Prime Minister of France (d. 1740)
● 1720 - Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, English murderer (d. 1760)
● 1750 - Antonio Salieri, Italian composer (d. 1825)
● 1754 - François, marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat, French general (d. 1833)
● 1774 - Meriwether Lewis, American explorer (d. 1809)
● 1792 - John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1878)
● 1803 - Nathan Clifford, American statesman, diplomat, and Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1881)
● 1822 - Isaac P. Rodman, American Union general (d. 1862)
● 1830 - Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria, German emperor of Austria (1848-1916) and king of Hungary (1867-1916) (d. 1916)
● 1835 - Marshall Field, American department-store owner (d. 1906)
● 1841 - William Halford, American naval officer (d. 1919)
● 1855 - Alfred Wallis, English artist and mariner (d. 1942)
● 1857 - Libert H. Boeynaems, Belgian Catholic prelate (d. 1926)
● 1870 - Lavr Georgevich Kornilov, Russian general (d. 1918)
● 1871 - Francis John McConnell, American Methodist bishop, college president and reformer (d. 1953)
● 1873 - Leo Slezak, Austrian opera singer and film comedian (d. 1946)
● 1879 - Aleksandr Rodzyanko, Russian general (d. 1970)
● 1890 - Walther Funk, German Nazi politician (d. 1960)
● 1893 - Ernest MacMillan, Canadian musician (d. 1973)
● 1893 - Burleigh Grimes, baseball player (d. 1985)
● 1896 - Jack Pickford, Canadian-born actor (d. 1933)
● 1900 - Glenn Albert Black, American archaeologist (d. 1964)
● 1901 - Arne Borg, Swedish champion swimmer (d. 1987)
● 1902 - Adamson-Eric, Estonian painter (d. 1968)
● 1903 - Lucienne Boyer, French singer (d. 1983)
● 1904 - Max Factor, Polish-born cosmetics entrepreneur (d. 1996)
● 1906 - Marcel Carné, French film director (d. 1996)
● 1908 - Edgar Faure, French politician and historian (d. 1988)
● 1909 - Gérard Filion, French Canadian businessman and journalist (d. 2005)
● 1913 - Romain Maes, Belgian cyclist (d. 1983)
● 1915 - Max Lanier, baseball player (d. 2007)
● 1916 - Dame Moura Lympany, British pianist (d. 2005)
● 1917 - Caspar Weinberger, American politician (d. 2006)
● 1918 - Walter Joseph Hickel, American politician
● 1920 - Bob Kennedy, baseball player (d. 2005)
● 1920 - Shelley Winters, American actress (d. 2006)
● 1921 - Zdzisław Żygulski, Jr., Polish art historian
● 1922 - Alain Robbe-Grillet, French writer
● 1925 - Brian Aldiss, English writer
● 1925 - Pierre Grondin, French Canadian cardiac surgeon (d. 2006)
● 1927 - Rosalynn Carter, First Lady of the United States
● 1928 - Marge Schott, baseball team owner (d. 2004)
● 1929 - Hugues Aufray, French singer
● 1930 - Liviu Librescu, Israeli professor, killed in the Virginia Tech massacre
● 1931 - Bramwell Tillsley, Canadian Salvation Army general
● 1931 - Dick White, English footballer
● 1932 - William R. Bennett, Premier of British Columbia
● 1933 - Roman Polanski, French-born director and actor
● 1933 - Just Fontaine, French footballer
● 1934 - Vincent Bugliosi, American attorney
● 1934 - Roberto Clemente, Puerto Rican baseball player and humanitarian (d. 1972)
● 1934 - Ronnie Carroll, British singer
● 1935 - Rafer Johnson, American athlete
● 1935 - Howard Morrison, New Zealand entertainer
● 1936 - Robert Redford, American actor
● 1939 - Robert Horton, British businessman
● 1939 - Johnny Preston, American singer
● 1941 - Christopher Jones, Actor
● 1942 - Henry G. Sanders, Actor
● 1943 - Martin Mull, American comedian
● 1943 - Gianni Rivera, Italian footballer and politician
● 1943 - Carl Wayne, English singer (d. 2004)
● 1945 - Barbara Harris, American singer (Toys)
● 1948 - Joseph Marcell, British actor
● 1952 - Elayne Boosler, American comedian
● 1952 - Patrick Swayze, American actor
● 1952 - Ricky Villa, Argentine former footballer
● 1953 - Louie Gohmert, American politician
● 1955 - Taher ElGamal, Egyptian scientist
● 1955 - Steve Wilkinson, Country singer (The Wilkinsons)
● 1956 - John Debney, American composer
● 1956 - Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz, American musician
● 1957 - Carole Bouquet, French actress
● 1957 - Denis Leary, American comedian and actor
● 1958 - Madeleine Stowe, American actress
● 1959 - Tom Prichard, American wrestler
● 1960 - Fat Lever, American basketball player
● 1960 - Mike LaValliere, baseball player
● 1961 - Bob Woodruff, American journalist, anchor
● 1962 - Felipe Calderón, President of Mexico
● 1962 - Geoff Courtnall, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1964 - Edith Frost, American singer/songwriter
● 1964 - Craig Bierko, Actor
● 1965 - Koji Kikkawa, Japanese singer
● 1965 - Jim Florentine, American comedian
● 1966 - Gustavo Charif, Argentine artist
● 1966 - Kang Soo-yeon, South Korean actress
● 1967 - Brian Michael Bendis, American comic book writer
● 1967 - Daler Mehndi,Indian bhangra/pop singer
● 1968 - Lee Seung-yeon, South Korean actress
● 1968 - Dan Peters, American musician
● 1968 - Zac Maloy, Rock singer, musician (The Nixons)
● 1969 - Masta Killa, American rapper (Wu-Tang Clan)
● 1969 - Everlast, American musician
● 1969 - Edward Norton, American actor
● 1969 - Christian Slater, American actor
● 1970 - Jessica Hsuan, Hong Kong actress
● 1970 - Malcolm-Jamal Warner, American actor ("The Cosby Show")
● 1971 - Richard D James, Irish-born musician
● 1972 - Keiko Yamada, Japanese singer
● 1972 - Leo Ku, Hong Kong singer
● 1972 - Shaun Wilson, Australian artist
● 1974 - Shivnarine Chanderpaul, West Indian cricketer
● 1975 - Kaitlin Olson, Actress
● 1976 - Daphnee Duplaix Samuel, American actress, Playboy Playmate
● 1976 - Dirk Lance, Rock musician
● 1978 - Andy Samberg, American comedian
● 1979 - Selena Silver, pornographic actress
● 1980 - Esteban Cambiasso, Argentine footballer
● 1980 - Preeti Jhangiani, Indian actress
● 1980 - Rob Nguyen, Australian racing driver
● 1980 - Athina Papayianni, Greek race walker
● 1980 - Jeremy Shockey, American football Tight End
● 1981 - Jonathan Schneck, American musician (Relient K)
● 1981 - César Delgado, Argentine footballer
● 1983 - Daniel Keith Swain (Danny!), American record producer/hip-hop artist
● 1983 - Mica Penniman (Mika), Lebanese-born musician
● 1983 - Kris Boyd,Scottish footballer
● 1984 - Robert Huth, German footballer
● 1987 - Mika Boorem, American actress
● 1992 - Frances Bean Cobain, daughter Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love
● 1992 - Riko Narumi, Japanese actress
● 1994 - Jessie Flower, American actress and voice actress
● 1995 - Parker McKenna Posey, American actress ("My Wife and Kids")
DEATHS
● 353 - Decentius, Roman usurper
● 472 - Ricimer, Roman general
● 849 - Walafrid Strabo, German monk and theologian
● 1227 - Genghis Khan, Khagan of Mongol Empire
● 1258 - Theodore II Lascaris, Emperor of the Empire of Nicaea
● 1276 - Pope Adrian V
● 1318 - Clare of Montefalco, Italian Abbess and religious leader (born c. 1268)
● 1430 - Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros, English soldier and politician (drowned) (b. 1406)
● 1503 - Pope Alexander VI (b. 1431)
● 1559 - Pope Paul IV (b. 1476)
● 1563 - Étienne de La Boétie, French judge and writer (b. 1530)
● 1613 - Giovanni Artusi, Italian composer
● 1620 - Wanli, Emperor of China (b. 1563)
● 1634 - Urbain Grandier, French priest (b. 1590)
● 1642 - Guido Reni, Italian painter (b. 1575)
● 1645 - Eudoxia Streshneva, Tsarina of Mikhail I of Russia (b. 1608)
● 1683 - Charles Hart, English actor (b. 1625)
● 1707 - William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English soldier and statesman (b. 1640)
● 1712 - Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers, English soldier
● 1765 - Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1708)
● 1809 - Matthew Boulton, English manufacturer and engineer (b. 1728)
● 1815 - Chauncey Goodrich, American politician (b. 1759)
● 1842 - Louis de Freycinet, French explorer (b. 1779)
● 1850 - Honoré de Balzac, French writer (b. 1799)
● 1919 - Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian distillery founder (b. 1841)
● 1940 - Walter P. Chrysler, American automobile executive (b. 1875)
● 1943 - Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Russian-Azerbaijani general (b. 1865)
● 1949 - Paul Mares, American musician (b. 1900)
● 1963 - Clifford Odets, American playwright (b. 1906)
● 1981 - Anita Loos, American screenwriter (b. 1889)
● 1983 - Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born art historian (b. 1902)
● 1990 - Grethe Ingmann, Danish singer (b. 1938)
● 1990 - B.F. Skinner, American psychological theorist (b. 1904)
● 1992 - John Sturges, American film director (b. 1911)
● 1994 - Martin Cahill, The General, infamous Dublin criminal (b. 1949)
● 1998 - Persis Khambatta, Indian actress (b. 1950)
● 2001 - David Peakall, British scientist (b. 1931)
● 2002 - Dean Riesner, American film and television writer (b. 1918)
● 2003 - Tony Jackson, English musician (The Searchers) (b. 1938)
● 2004 - Elmer Bernstein, American composer (b. 1922)
● 2005 - Christopher Bauman, American wrestler (b. 1982)
● 2005 - Gao Xiumin, Chinese comedy actress (b. 1959)
● 2006 - Fernand Gignac, Canadian singer and actor (b. 1934)
● 2006 - Jamie Astaphan, Caribbean-born physician (b. 1946)
● 2007 - Michael Deaver, Reagan Administration Deputy White House Chief of Staff (b. 1938)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Agapitus, martyr
● St. Alberto Hurtado
● St. Daig Maccairaill
● St. Evan
● St. Firminus of Metz
● Sts. Florus & Laurus
● St. Helena of Constantinople, mother of Constantine the Great
● St. Hugh the Little
● St. James Guengoro, Blessed
● Sts. John & Crispus
● Sts. Leo & Juliana
● Bl. Mary Guengoro
● Bl. Raynald of Ravenna
● Bl. Thomas Guengoro
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for August 5 (Civil Date: August 18)
● Forefeast of the Transfiguration.
● Martyr Eusignius of Antioch.
● Martyrs Cantidius, Cantidian and Sibelius (Sobel) of Egypt.
● Martyr Pontius at Cimella in France.
● Hieromartyrs Fabian and Antherus (Antheros), popes of Rome.
● Righteous Nonna, mother of St. Gregory the Theologian.
● Buhe in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church
● Anglican:
● Commemoration of William Porcher DuBose, priest
● Australia - Long Tan Day (also called Vietnam Veterans' Day) named after the Battle of Long Tan
● International Lighthouse Day
● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Hawaii : Admission Day (1959) - ( Friday )
● Mich : Montrose-Blueberry Festival - ( 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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