Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On African American "It is ironic that America, with its history of injustice to the poor, especially the black man and the Indian, prides itself on being a Christian nation." — James Cone
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Iraq War "I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq." — Paul Wolfowitz, possibly overlooking the U.S. conquest and occupation of Iraq {but more likely not caring since he probably considers Iraq an U.S. colony}
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "I am a great mayor; I am an upstanding Christian man; I am an intelligent man; I am a deeply educated man; I am a humble man." — Hall of Shame Member #2, Marion Barry, former mayor of Washington, D. C.
Thought for the day: "There is as much greatness in acknowledging a good turn, as there is in doing it."
{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}
NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY
A Sonic Boom
Credit: Ensign John Gay, USS Constellation, US Navy
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 43 B.C.E. - Octavian, later known as Augustus, compels the senate to elect him Consul.
● 440 - St Sixtus III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
● 1099 - The armies of the First Crusade defeated the Saracens at the Battle of Ascalon (an historic Palestinian city on the Mediterranean), one month after they had captured Jerusalem.
● 1263 - King James I of Argon censors Hebrew writings
● 1391 - Jehenna de Brigue and a neighbor, Macette de Ruilly, are led to the Paris Pig Market and burned alive as witches. Brigue and Ruilly were convicted in Europe's first secular witchcraft trial. Macette's husband, Jean de Ruilly, accused Brigue of witchcraft because she helped him get well while he was ill. After Brigue's conviction, her execution was delayed when she claimed she was pregnant. While being tortured, she admitted she wasn't pregnant and claimed Macette hired her to kill her husband. Macette then confessed to the charges as she was being tortured on the rack. Both women are executed. {Further evidence that people under torture will confess to anything.}
● 1504 - Battle of Knockdoe.
● 1561 - An 18-year-old Mary Queen of Scots returns to Scotland, after spending 13 years in France.
● 1692 - Salem Witch Trials: In Salem, Massachusetts, Province of Massachusetts Bay five women and a clergyman are executed after being convicted of witchcraft.
● 1745 - Jacobite Rising, Prince Charles Edward Stuart lands from a French warship in Glenfinnan, raises his standard and marches on London - the start of the Second Jacobite Rebellion known as "the 45".
● 1768 - Saint Isaac's Cathedral is founded in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
● 1775 - Anglican clergyman and hymnwriter John Newton wrote in a letter: 'We are never more safe, never have more reason to expect the Lord's help, than when we are most sensible that we can donothing without Him.'
● 1782 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Blue Licks - The last major engagement of the war, almost ten months after the surrender of the British commander Lord Cornwallis following the Siege of Yorktown.
● 1787 - W Herschel discovers Enceladus, a moon of Saturn
● 1791 - Benjamin Banneker sends a copy of his just-published almanac to Secretary of State, Thomas Jefferson, along with an appeal on behalf of African-Americans' "humiliating condition (slavery)..."
● 1812 - War of 1812: American frigate USS Constitution defeats the British frigate HMS Guerrière off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada earning her nickname "Old Ironsides".
● 1813 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas joins Argentina's second triumvirate.
● 1814 - Birth of Mary Ellen Pleasant, Underground Railroad supporter and mother of California civil rights.
● 1826 - Canada Co chartered to colonize Upper Canada (Ontario)
● 1839 - Presentation of Jacque Daguerre's new photographic process to the French Academy of Sciences.
● 1848 - California Gold Rush: The New York Herald breaks the news to the East Coast of the United States of the gold rush in California (although the rush started in January).
● 1855 - YMCA World Alliance, the first international voluntary organization, founded.
● 1856 - The process of processing condensed milk was patented by Gail Borden.
● 1862 - Indian Wars: During an uprising in Minnesota, Lakota warriors decide not to attack heavily-defended Fort Ridgely and instead turn to the settlement of New Ulm, killing white settlers along the way.
● 1871 - Orville Wright was born. Orville and his brother Wilbur were the first people to have a successful sustained and controlled flight of an aircraft with a motor.
● 1883 - Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, the influential French fashion designer, was born.
● 1886 - The Christian Union was founded by Baptist clergyman Richard G. Spurling (1858-1935) in Monroe County, Tennessee. In 1923, this Pentecostal denomination changed its name to the Church of God. Headquartered today in Cleveland, Tennessee, its current membership is nearly 500,000.
● 1891 - William Huggins describes astronomical application of spectrum
● 1895 - American frontier murderer and outlaw, John Wesley Hardin, is killed by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas.
● 1909 - First edition of IWW's "Little Red Songbook" published.
● 1915 - World War I: The Battle of Van begins
● 1917 - Team managers John McGraw and Christy Matthewson were arrested for breaking New York City's blue laws. The crime was their teams were playing baseball on Sunday. {The game was played for charity.}
● 1919 - Afghanistan gains full independence from the United Kingdom.
● 1921 - Gene Roddenberry was born in El Paso, Texas. Roddenberry's first career was as an airline pilot. Later, he created the TV series Star Trek.
● 1927 - Metropolitan Sergius proclaimed the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet state.
● 1934 - English Bible expositor Arthur W. Pink wrote in a letter: 'It is not words which God pays attention to, but heart-groans and tears!'
● 1934 - A plebiscite in Germany approved the vesting of sole executive power in Adolf Hitler as Fuhrer with 89.9% of the popular vote.
● 1936 - Federico Garcia Lorca dies. Andalusian poet/dramatist/artist. Murdered by Franco's fascists. Accused of subversive activity, however, evidence today suggests that it was a hate crime in response to his homosexuality. His writings remained censored until Franco died in 1975. Despite this, Lorca became one of the most widely read writers in the world.
● 1940 - The new Civil Aeronautics Administration awarded honorary license #1 to Orville Wright.
● 1942 - 1st American offensive in Pacific in WW2, Guadalcanal, Solomon Is
● 1942 - Canadian and British troops suffer disastrous losses during a raid against the Germans at Dieppe, France. Of the 6,000 Allied troops that set out, less than half return.
● 1944 - World War II: Liberation of Paris - Paris rises against German occupation with the help of Allied troops.
● 1945 - Vietnam War: Viet Minh led by Ho Chi Minh take power in Hanoi, Vietnam.
● 1946 - Birth of Bill Clinton, initiator of most U.S. military attacks of any president in over a generation.
● 1948 - Birth of Tipper Gore, whose mid-'80s demagoguery demanding censorship of "harmful" rock lyrics propelled her husband, Sen. Al, into national prominence.
● 1953 - Iranian Royalist troops overthrew Premier Mohammed Mossadegh and restored the pro-Western Shah Mohammed Pahlevi to power in a coup allegedly directed by Kermit Roosevelt on behalf of the CIA.
● 1953 - Israel's parliament conferred Israeli citizenship posthumously on all Jews killed by the Nazis during the years of the Holocaust (1933-45) in Europe.
● 1954 - Ralph J Bunche named undersecretary of UN
● 1955 - In the Northeast United States, severe flooding caused by Hurricane Diane, claims 200 lives.
● 1958 - NAACP youth council begins sit-ins to desegregate lunch counters in Oklahoma.
● 1960 - Cold War: In Moscow, downed American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Soviet Union for espionage.
● 1960 - Sputnik program: Sputnik 5 - The Soviet Union launches the satellite with the dogs Belka and Strelka, 40 mice, 2 rats and a variety of plants. They were later recovered alive.
● 1965 - Japanese prime minister Eisaku Sato becomes the first post-World War II sitting prime minister to visit Okinawa.
● 1969 - Black Panther Party leader Bobby Seale is arrested in San Francisco and charged with murder.
● 1970 - U.S. deploys Minuteman III, the first missile with multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles (MIRVs).
● 1971 - H.R. Haldeman ordered an FBI investigation of CBS News correspondent Daniel Schorr, who had analyzed a presidential speech "unfavorably." Ironically, Schorr himself would go on to violate basic tenets of ethical journalism by feeding U.S. audiences disinformation regarding the Soviet Union on behalf of the CIA.
● 1974 - U.S. Ambassador Rodger P. Davies was fatally wounded by a bullet that penetrated the American embassy in Nicosia, Cyprus, during a protest by Greek Cypriots.
● 1975 - Davis campaigners stop Test match; Campaigners calling for the release of robber George Davis from prison vandalise the pitch at Headingley cricket ground in Leeds.
● 1976 - President Gerald R. Ford won the Republican presidential nomination at the party's national convention in Kansas City. Ronald felt he was cheated out of the nomination and will block out Ford and his supporters at the 1980 Convention.
● 1977 - Film and TV comedian, and anti-authoritarian Groucho Marx dies.
● 1978 - 400 people were killed in a theater in Abadan, Iran. Moslem extremist set the fire.
● 1979 - Crew of Soyuz 32 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 34 after 175 days in orbit.
● 1980 - Saudia Flight 163, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar burns after making an emergency landing at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killing 301 people.
● 1981 - Gulf of Sidra Incident: United States fighters intercept and shoot down two Libyan Sukhoi Su-22 fighter jets over the Gulf of Sidra.
● 1982 - Soyuz T-7 launched, Svetlana Savtiskaya 2nd woman in space
● 1985 - Japan launches its 2nd probe of Halley's Comet, Suisei
● 1986 - 20 people were killed in a car bomb explosion in Tehran. Iran initially accused "American agents", however they later executed an "Iraqi agent."
● 1987 - 16 people were killed by gunman Michael Ryan in Britain. It was the countries worst mass killing.
● 1987 - David Horowitz, consumer reporter in Burbank, CA, was held at gunpoint while on camera and forced to read the assailants note. The program went off the air while police removed the gunman.
● 1988 - Iran-Iraq begin a cease-fire in their 8-year-old war (11 PM EDT)
● 1988 - Report released by Admiral William Crowe, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci which concludes that "Stress, task fixation and unconscious distortion of data may have played a major role" in the accidental downing of an Iranian commercial jet liner by a U.S. warship.
● 1989 - Nobel Peace Prize winner Bishop Desmond Tutu is among hundreds of black demonstrators who are whipped and sandblasted from helicopters as they attempt to picnic on a "whites-only" beach near Cape Town, South Africa.
● 1989 - Polish president Wojciech Jaruzelski nominates Solidarity activist Tadeusz Mazowiecki to be the first non-communist Prime Minister in 42 years.
● 1991 - On the second day of the coup against Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, coup leader and Soviet Vice President Gennady Yanayev announces that Gorbachev is suffering from "serious health problems" and is unfit to govern. Meanwhile, at the Parliament Building, Boris Yeltsin presides over a huge crowd of protesters that includes defecting government troops. Gorbachev returned to power two days later.
● 1993 - Sixteen Yanomami Indians massacred by gold miners in Amazon jungle, Brazil.
● 1994 - President Bill Clinton halted the nation's three-decade open-door policy for Cuban refugees.
● 1995 - Three U.S. diplomats were killed in an accident in their armored vehicle in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
● 1996 - A judge sentenced former Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker to four years probation for his Whitewater crimes.
● 1997 - The Teamsters end their 15-day walkout against United Parcel Service.
● 1998 - Daniel Arizmenid Lopez, known as the "ear lopper", was arrested in Mexico. Lopez was accused of heading a gang of kidnappers that are responsible for 21 kidnappings.
● 1998 - The first piece of the 351 foot bronze statue of Christopher Columbus arrived in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
● 1999 - In Belgrade, tens of thousands of Serbians rally to demand the resignation of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia President Slobodan Milošević.
● 2002 - A Russian Mi-26 helicopter carrying troops is hit by a Chechen missile outside of Grozny, killing 118 soldiers.
● 2003 - A car-bomb attack on United Nations headquarters in Iraq kills the agency's top envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello and 21 other employees.
● 2003 - A Hamas planned suicide attack on a bus in Jerusalem kills 23 Israelis, 7 of them children in the Jerusalem bus massacre.
● 2005 - A series of strong storms lash Southern Ontario spawning several tornadoes as well as creating extreme flash flooding within the city of Toronto and its surrounding communities.
● 2005 - A Texas jury found pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. liable for the death of a man who'd taken the once-popular painkiller Vioxx, awarding his widow $253.4 million in damages. (The award was reduced to about $26 million by state caps on punitive damages.)
● 2005 - The first-ever joint military exercise between Russia and China, called Peace Mission 2005 begins.
BIRTHS
● 1398 - Marqués de Santillana, Spanish poet (d. 1458)
● 1557 - Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1608)
● 1590 - Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, English soldier (d. 1649)
● 1596 - Elizabeth Stuart (d. 1662)
● 1621 - Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter (d. 1674)
● 1631 - John Dryden, English poet (d. 1700)
● 1646 - John Flamsteed, English astronomer (d. 1719)
● 1686 - Eustace Budgell, English writer (d. 1737)
● 1686 - Nicola Porpora, Italian composer (d. 1768)
● 1689 - Samuel Richardson, English writer (d. 1761)
● 1711 - Edward Boscawen, British admiral (d. 1761)
● 1743 - Madame du Barry, French courtesan (d. 1793)
● 1785 - Seth Thomas, American clock manufacturer; pioneered mass production (d. 1859)
● 1846 - Luis Martín, Spanish Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1906)
● 1853 - Aleksei Brusilov, Russian general (d. 1926)
● 1870 - Bernard Baruch, American financier (d. 1965)
● 1871 - Orville Wright, American aviation pioneer (d. 1948)
● 1875 - Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (d. 1936)
● 1878 - Manuel Quezon, President of the Philippines (d. 1944)
● 1881 - George Enescu, Romanian composer (d. 1955)
● 1883 - Coco Chanel, French clothing designer (d. 1971)
● 1883 - Elsie Ferguson, American film actress (d. 1961)
● 1888 - Ton Duc Thang, Vietnamese communist leader; succeeded Ho Chi Minh (d. 1980)
● 1892 - Alfred Lunt, American actor (d. 1977)
● 1896 - Olga Baclanova, Russian-born actress (d. 1974)
● 1899 - Charlie Hall, English comedian actor (d. 1959)
● 1900 - Gilbert Ryle, British philosopher (d. 1976)
● 1900 - Colleen Moore, American actress (d. 1988)
● 1902 - Ogden Nash, American poet (d. 1971)
● 1903 - James Gould Cozzens, American novelist (d. 1978)
● 1906 - Philo Farnsworth, American inventor (d. 1971)
● 1907 - Thruston B. Morton, American politician (d. 1982)
● 1912 - Austin Dobson, British racing driver (d. 1963)
● 1913 - Richard Simmons, American actor (d. 2003)
● 1913 - John Argyris, Greek aeronautical engineer, one of the creators of the Finite Element Method (d. 2004)
● 1914 - Lajos Baróti, Hungarian footballer (d. 2005)
● 1915 - Ring Lardner Jr, American journalist and screenwriter (d. 2000)
● 1915 - Alfred Rouleau, French Canadian businessman and administrator (Desjardins Group) (d. 1985)
● 1919 - Malcolm Forbes, American publisher (d. 1990)
● 1921 - Gene Roddenberry, American television producer, creator of Star Trek (d. 1991)
● 1925 - Claude Gauvreau, Canadian playwright (d. 1971)
● 1926 - Arthur Rock, American venture capitalist
● 1927 - L.Q. Jones, Actor
● 1928 - Bernard Levin, English journalist, author, and broadcaster (d. 2004)
● 1928 - Norman Brooks, Canadian singer (d. 2006)
● 1930 - Frank McCourt, Irish-American author
● 1931 - Willie Shoemaker, American jockey (d. 2003)
● 1933 - Debra Paget, Actress
● 1934 - Renee Richards, American physician
● 1935 - Bobby Richardson, American baseball player
● 1938 - Diana Muldaur, American actress
● 1939 - Ginger Baker, English musician (Cream, Blind Faith)
● 1940 - Johnny Nash, American singer
● 1940 - Jill St. John, American actress
● 1942 - Fred Thompson, American politician and actor
● 1943 - Billy J. Kramer, British singer
● 1944 - Eddy Raven, Country singer-songwriter
● 1944 - Bodil Malmsten, Swedish writer
● 1944 - Charles Wang, Chinese-born philanthropist
● 1945 - Ian Gillan, English singer (Deep Purple)
● 1946 - Bill Clinton, Former American president
● 1946 - Beat Raaflaub, Swiss conductor
● 1946 - Dawn Steel, American film producer (d. 1997)
● 1947 - Gerard Schwarz, American conductor
● 1947 - Terry Hoeppner, American football coach (d. 2007)
● 1948 - Gerald McRaney, American actor ("Major Dad")
● 1948 - Tipper Gore, Second Lady of the United States
● 1950 - Jennie Bond, British journalist
● 1951 - John Deacon, English musician (Queen)
● 1952 - Jonathan Frakes, American actor and director
● 1953 - Nanni Moretti, Italian film actor, director and producer
● 1953 - Mary Matalin, US political consultant and commentator
● 1954 - Oscar Larrauri, Argentine racing driver
● 1955 - Peter Gallagher, American actor ("The O.C.")
● 1955 - Ned Yost, American baseball player and manager
● 1956 - Adam Arkin, American actor
● 1957 - Li-Young Lee, Indonesia-born American poet
● 1957 - Gary Chapman, Country singer-songwriter
● 1957 - Martin Donovan, Actor
● 1958 - Anthony Muñoz, American football player
● 1958 - Gary Gaetti, American baseball player
● 1960 - Morten Andersen, American football player
● 1961 - Jonathan Coe, British author
● 1962 - Tammy Bruce, American political commentator
● 1962 - Valérie Kaprisky, French actress
● 1962 - Eric Lutes, Actor
● 1963 - John Stamos, American actor ("Full House')
● 1963 - Yip Sai Wing, Hong Kong musician (Beyond)
● 1963 - Joey Tempest, Swedish singer (Europe)
● 1964 - Whitney Prescott, American model
● 1965 - Kyra Sedgwick, American actress
● 1965 - Kevin Dillon, American actor ("Entourage")
● 1965 - Maria de Medeiros, Portuguese actress and director
● 1966 - Lee Ann Womack, American musician
● 1966 - Kyra Sedgwick, Actress ("The Closer")
● 1967 - Tabitha Soren, MTV reporter
● 1968 - Nikolaos Kaklamanakis, Greek windsurfer, gold medalist
● 1968 - Mark McGuinn, Country singer, songrwriter
● 1969 - Matthew Perry, Canadian actor ("Friends")
● 1969 - Nate Dogg, American rapper
● 1969 - Clay Walker, American singer
● 1969 - Patrick Van Horn, American actor
● 1969 - Kirk Herbstreit, American football analyst (College GameDay)
● 1970 - Fat Joe, American rapper
● 1971 - João Vieira Pinto, Portuguese football player
● 1972 - Roberto Abbondanzieri, Argentine footballer
● 1972 - Sammi Cheng Sau Man, Hong Kong singer and actress
● 1973 - Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway
● 1973 - Callum Blue, British actor
● 1973 - Marco Materazzi, Italian footballer
● 1973 - Lilian Garcia, wrestling announcer
● 1975 - Tracie Thoms, American actress ("Cold Case")
● 1977 - Iban Mayo, Spanish cyclist
● 1978 - Chris Capuano, American baseball player
● 1979 - Dave Douglas, American musician (Relient K)
● 1979 - Oumar Kondé, Swiss footballer
● 1980 - Jun Jin, Korean rapper (Shinhwa)
● 1980 - Darius Danesh, Scottish singer-songwriter & actor
● 1981 - Rissi Palmer, Country singer
● 1982 - Erika Christensen, American actress
● 1982 - J.J. Hardy, American baseball player
● 1983 - Missy Higgins, Australian singer-songwriter
● 1983 - Tammin Sursok, Australian actress & singer
● 1983 - Mike Conway, British racing driver
● 1984 - Micah Alberti, American actor
● 1984 - Ryan Taylor, English footballer
● 1984 - Karli Osborn, Country singer (SHeDAISY)
● 1985 - J. Evan Bonifant, Actor
● 1985 - Megan Rochell, American singer
● 1986 - Saori Kimura, Japanese volleyball player
● 1987 - Anaïs Lameche, Swedish singer (Play)
● 1987 - Ileana D'Cruz, Indian actress
● 1987 - Richard Stearman, English footballer
● 1988 - Travis Tedford, American actor
● 1989 - Lil Romeo, American rapper and actor
● 1998 - Ella Guevara, Filipino child actress
DEATHS
● 14 - Augustus, Roman Emperor (b. 63 B.C.E.)
● 1186 - Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1158)
● 1245 - Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence (b. 1195)
● 1284 - Alphonso, Earl of Chester, son of Edward I of England (b. 1273)
● 1297 - Saint Louis of Toulouse, French Catholic bishop (b. 1274)
● 1493 - Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1415)
● 1580 - Andrea Palladio, Italian architect (b. 1508)
● 1646 - Alexander Henderson, Scottish theologian
● 1662 - Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (b. 1623)
● 1680 - Jean Eudes, French catholic priest, founder of the Eudists (b. 1601)
● 1753 - Balthasar Neumann, German architect (b. 1687)
● 1819 - James Watt, Scottish inventor (b. 1736)
● 1822 - Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, French mathematician (b. 1749)
● 1883 - Jeremiah S. Black, American statesman (b. 1810)
● 1889 - Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, French writer (b. 1838)
● 1895 - John Wesley Hardin, American gunfighter (b. 1853)
● 1900 - Jean-Baptiste Accolay, Belgian composer (b. 1833)
● 1914 - Franz Xavier Wernz, German Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1844)
● 1923 - Vilfredo Pareto, Italian sociologist and economist (b. 1845)
● 1929 - Sergei Diaghilev, Russian ballet impresario (b. 1872)
● 1936 - Federico García Lorca, Spanish author (b. 1898)
● 1944 - Günther von Kluge, German field marshal (b. 1882)
● 1945 - Tomas Burgos, Chilean philanthropist (b.1875)
● 1950 - Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist (b. 1871)
● 1954 - Alcide De Gasperi, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1881)
● 1957 - David Bomberg, English painter (b. 1890)
● 1957 - Carl-Gustaf Rossby, Swedish meteorologist (b. 1898)
● 1959 - Jacob Epstein, American-born sculptor (b. 1880)
● 1967 - Hugo Gernsback, Luxembourg-born editor and publisher (b. 1884)
● 1968 - George Gamow, Ukrainian-born physicist (b. 1904)
● 1969 - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German architect (b. 1886)
● 1970 - Paweł Jasienica, Polish historian (b. 1909)
● 1975 - Jim Londos, wrestler (b. 1897)
● 1976 - Alastair Sim, Scottish actor and rector of Edinburgh University (b. 1900)
● 1977 - Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor (b. 1890)
● 1979 - Dorsey Burnette, American singer (b. 1932)
● 1980 - Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank (b. 1889)
● 1982 - August Neo, Estonian wrestler (b. 1908)
● 1994 - Linus Pauling, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Peace (b. 1901)
● 1995 - Pierre Schaeffer, French composer (b. 1910)
● 2000 - Antonio Pugliese, Italian professional wrestler (b. 1941)
● 2001 - Donald Woods, South African journalist and anti-apartheid activist (b. 1933)
● 2000 - Bineshwar Brahma, Bodo literateur and religious figure (birth date unknown)
● 2001 - Betty Everett, American singer and pianist (b. 1939)
● 2003 - Carlos Roberto Reina, President of Honduras (b. 1926)
● 2003 - Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Brazilian diplomat (b. 1948)
● 2005 - Bueno de Mesquita, Dutch comedian and actor (b. 1918)
● 2005 - Mo Mowlam, British politician (b. 1949)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Andrew the Tribune
● St. Badulfus
● St. Bertulf
● St. Calminius
● St. Credan
● St. Donatus
● St. Elaphius
● St. Guenninus
● St. James Denshi, Blessed
● St. Jean-Eudes de Mézeray
● St. Joachim Firayama Diz, Blessed
● St. John Eudes, confessor and priest
● St. John Yano
● St. Julius
● St. Louis of Toulouse
● St. Magnus
● St. Marinus
● St. Mochta
● St. Namadia
● St. Rufinus
● St. Sebald
● Sts. Timothy, Thecla, & Agapius
● Bl. Anthony
● Bl. Bartholomew Monfiore
● Bl. Emily Bicchieri
● Bl. John Foyamon
● Bl. John Nangata
● Bl. Lawrence Rokuyemon
● Bl. Leo Suchiemon
● Bl. Louis Flores
● Bl. Michael Diaz
● Bl. Paul Sanchiki
● Bl. Peter Zuniga
● Bl. Thomas Koyanangi
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for August 6 (Civil Date: August 19)
● THE HOLY TRANSFIGURATION OF OUR LORD, GOD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST.
● St. Theoctistus, Bishop of Chernigov.
● St. Job the Gorge-dweller on the Mezen River (Solovki).
● New-Martyrs Dimitry, Archbishop of Gdov (1938) and Priest Nicholas (Prozorov) (1930).
● Repose of Hieroschemamonk Nikon the Cave-dweller of Valaam (1822)
● Repose of Righteous Priest Basil (Shoustin), disciple of Optina (1968)
● Repose of Martyr Priest Maxim Sandovich of Carpatho-Russia, by the Latins
● Russian and Georgian Orthodox:
● Saviour's Transfiguration, popularly known in Russia as the "Apples Feast" (it's the first day of the year when eating apples is allowed).
● Roman festivals - Vinalia Rustica celebrated in honor of Venus Libitina commemorating the founding of the oldest known temple to her, on the Esquiline Hill, in 293 BC on this date.
● Afghanistan - Afghan Independence Day (1919)
● Ethiopia - Buhe
● Philippines - National Day of the Filipino Language - Holiday for Quezon City, Quezon Province and other municipalities named after Manuel Quezon.
● United States - National Aviation Day (1939)
● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Hawaii : Admission Day (1959) - ( Friday )
● Michigan : 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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