Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Soul "To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground." — Stephen Covey
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Ineptitude "Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts." — Dan Quayle, at the twentieth anniversary of the moon landing
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: On Politics "I tell you, that Michael Jackson is unbelievable, isn't he? Three plays in twenty seconds!" — Al Gore, commenting on basketball star Michael Jordon
Thought for the day: "The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue."
{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
M64: The Black Eye Galaxy
Credit & Copyright: Andrea Tamanti
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 338 B.C.E.- A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean.
● 216 B.C.E.- Second Punic War: Battle of Cannae - The Carthaginian army lead by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army under command of consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro.
● 257 St Stephen I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
● 320 - Yat-Balam founds dynasty that rules Yaxchilan (Mayan Empire) throughout its 500-year recorded history.
● 640 Severinus ends his reign as Catholic Pope
● 686 John V ends his reign as Catholic Pope
● 1375 - 1st roller skating rink opens (London)
● 1492 - Jews are expelled from Spain by King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella {Any possessions are confiscated to help pay for Columbus' voyages.}
● 1610 - Henry Hudson sails into what it is now known as Hudson Bay, thinking he had made it through the Northwest Passage and reached the Pacific Ocean.
● 1776 - Delegates to the Continental Congress begin signing the United States Declaration of Independence.
● 1776 - English founder of Methodism John Wesley wrote in a letter: 'Use all the ability which God gives, and He will give you more.'
● 1782 - George Washington invented the Honorary Badge of Distinction.
● 1790 - The first US Census is conducted.
● 1791 - Samuel Briggs and his son Samuel Briggs, Jr. received a joint patent for their nail-making machine. They were the first father-son pair to receive a patent.
● 1798 - French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay) concludes in an British victory
● 1819 - 1st parachute jump in US
● 1832 - Sauk-Fox tribe, under a flag of truce, massacred at Bad Axe River in Vernon County, Wis. by Illinois militia. The State of Wisconsin apologized for the massacre in 1990.
● 1849 - Reconvened session of the woman's rights convention is held at the Unitarian Church in Rochester, N.Y. Amelia Bush is chosen chair, and is the first woman to preside over a meeting attended by both men and women.
● 1855 - Black River band of Chippewa sign treaty to compensate Chippewa for destruction of their homes by construction of the 500 Locks (Great Lakes). The Chippewa have yet to be paid.
● 1858 - In Boston and New York City the first mailboxes were installed along streets.
● 1861 - The United States Congress passed the first income tax. The revenues were intended for the war effort against the South. The tax was never enacted.
● 1869 - Japan's samurai, farmer, artisan, merchant class system (Shinōkōshō) is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese date: June 25, 1869).
● 1870 - Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London.
● 1873 - 1st trial run of SF cable car, Clay Street between Kearny & Jones
● 1876 - "Wild Bill" Hickok was killed (shot from behind) while playing poker in Deadwood, SD. Jack McCall was later hanged for the shooting.
● 1877 - SF Public Library opens with 5,000 volumes
● 1877 - Sixty striking miners wounded by police in Scranton, Penn.
● 1887 - Rowell Hodge patented barbed wire.
● 1892 - Charles A. Wheeler patented the first escalator.
● 1903 - Fall of the Ottoman Empire: Unsuccessful uprising of the Bulgarians in the region of Macedonia from the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization against Ottoman Turkey, also known as the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising.
● 1907 - The Vatican issued the decree "Ne temere," declaring that marriages of Catholics were valid only if celebrated before a duly qualified priest and at least two witnesses.
● 1909 - 1st Lincoln head pennies minted
● 1909 - Army Air Corps formed as Army takes 1st delivery from Wright Brothers
● 1916 - World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.
● 1918 - Japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I.
● 1921 - Opera singer Enrico Caruso died in Naples, Italy.
● 1921 - A jury in Chicago acquitted several former members of the Chicago White Sox and two others of conspiring to defraud the public by throwing the World Series. {Baseball would still ban all the players involved for life.}
● 1922 - Alexander Graham Bell died.
● 1923 - The 29th president of the United States, Warren G. Harding, died in San Francisco. Calvin Coolidge took the oath of office as President of the United States.
● 1924 - Birth of radical black gay author and playwright James Baldwin.
● 1931 - Einstein urges all scientists to refuse military work.
● 1932 - The positron (antiparticle of the electron) was discovered by Carl D. Anderson.
● 1934 - 1st airplane train, plane tows 3 mail gliders behind it
● 1934 - Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany when German President Paul von Hindenburg die.
● 1937 - Forty thousand West Coast maritime workers call work stoppage to join anti-fascist demonstration.
● 1937 - The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, essentially rendering marijuana and all its by-products illegal. {This ignores the fact that until this day the Navy still specifies that their ropes be made of hemp.}
● 1939 - Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt urging him to begin the Manhattan project to develop a nuclear weapon.
● 1939 - U.S. President Roosevelt signed the Hatch Act. The act prohibited civil service employees from taking an active part in political campaigns.
● 1941 - Jews are expelled from Hungarian Ruthenia
● 1942 - Press in Los Angeles whips up racism, sheriff arrests over 600 Mexican-Americans for one murder.
● 1943 - Jewish revolt and attempted mass escape at Treblinka is crushed.
● 1943 - World War II: PT-109 rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri and sinks. Lt. John F. Kennedy, future US President, saves all but two of his crew.
● 1945 - World War II: President Harry S. Truman, Soviet leader Josef Stalin and British Prime Minister Clement Attlee concluded the Potsdam conference.
● 1946 - English literary scholar and Christian apologist C. S. Lewis wrote in a letter: 'Apologetic work is so dangerous to one's faith. A doctrine never seems dimmer to me than when I have just successfully defended it.'
● 1948 - American missionary and martyr Jim Elliot penned this prayer in his journal: 'Father, teach me the speed of eternity. Synchronize my movements with the speed of Thine Own heart then, hasting or halting, I shall be in good time.'
● 1962 - NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,600 m
● 1964 - Race riot in Jersey City NJ
● 1964 - U.S. destroyer Maddox reports, falsely, it had been attacked by North Vietnamese torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin. {This gives LBJ the legal justification for sending combat troops to South Vietnam.}
● 1965 - Morley Safer sends 1st Vietnam report indicating we are losing
● 1965 - Riviera fires force campers to flee; Thousands of British holiday makers abandon their tents as forest fires devastate the south of France
● 1967 - The second Blackwall Tunnel opens in Greenwich, London.
● 1967 - US's Lunar Orbiter 5 launched; enters lunar orbit Aug 5
● 1968 - Bolivia - Student demonstrations in Cochabamba confronted by the army--hundreds arrested, two killed, ten injured.
● 1972 - Anarchist/pacifist cultural critic Paul Goodman dies.
● 1972 - Gold hits record $70 an ounce in London
● 1973 - Dozens die in resort fire; More than 30 people die in a fire which gutted the Summerland leisure resort on the Isle of Man.
● 1974 - John Dean was sentenced to 1-4 years in prison for his involvement in the Watergate cover-up.
● 1979 - New York Yankees catcher Thurman Munson died in the crash of his private plane in Canton, Ohio.
● 1980 - A bomb explodes at the railway station in Bologna, Italy, killing 85 people and wounding more than 200.
● 1982 - Presbyterian apologist Francis Schaeffer wrote in a letter: 'There is the constant danger of slipping into the idea that if a person has sufficient faith, he will always be healed. This is clearly not what the Bible teaches.'
● 1983 - STS-8 vehicle moves to launch pad
● 1983 - U.S. House of Representatives approved a law that designated the third Monday of January would be a federal holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The law was signed by President Reagon on November 2.
● 1983 - US District Court begins trying Yonkers accused of race discrimination
● 1984 - Euro Court condemns phone-tapping; A Surrey businessman who accused the police of illegally tapping his phone is celebrating after a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights.
● 1985 - 137 people were killed when a jumbo jet crashed at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. The Delta jet was attempting to land at the time of the crash.
● 1985 - 5 die in a train crash in Westminster Colo
● 1985 - NASA launches space vehicle S-209
● 1986 - Fire in nuclear power plant kills two workers, Johannesburg, South Africa.
● 1988 - U.S. military investigators concluded that "crew errors" were the cause of the shooting down of an Iranian passenger jet on July 3, 1988.
● 1989 - NASA confirmed Voyager 2's discovery of 3 more moons of Neptune designated temporarily 1989 N2, 1989 N3 & 1989 N24
● 1990 - Iraq invades Kuwait, after discussing plans with U.S. Ambassador April Glaspie. Iraq claimed that Kuwait had driven down oil prices by exceeding production quotas set by OPEC.
● 1991 - Funk singer Rick James, arrested on sexual torture charges
● 1991 - Hedy Lamaar is arrested for shoplifting in LA
● 1991 - Space shuttle STS 43 (Atlantis 9) launched
● 1992 - One hundred two killed in attack by Hutu rebels, Rwanda.
● 1995 - China ordered the expulsion of two U.S. Air Force officers. The two were said to have been caught spying on military sights.
● 1997 - Author William S. Burroughs died at age 83.
● 1999 - In eastern India, at least 278 people were killed when two trains collided at a station.
● 2000 - Republicans nominated Texas Gov. George W. Bush for president and Dick Cheney for vice president at the party's convention in Philadelphia.
● 2003 - Liberian President Charles Taylor agreed to cede power.
BIRTHS
● 1533 - Theodor Zwinger, Swiss scholar (d. 1588)
● 1672 - Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (d. 1733)
● 1674 - Philip II, Duke of Orléans, Regent of France (d. 1723)
● 1696 - Mahmud I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1754)
● 1703 - Lorenzo Ricci, Italian Jesuit leader (d. 1775)
● 1721 - John Manners Granby, English army officer; hero of the Seven Years' War (d. 1770)
● 1754 - Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French-born architect and city planner (d. 1825)
● 1788 - Leopold Gmelin, German chemist (d. 1853)
● 1815 - Adolf Friedrich von Schack, German writer (d. 1894)
● 1834 - Frédéric Bartholdi, French sculptor (d. 1904)
● 1835 - Elisha Gray, American inventor and entrepreneur (d. 1901)
● 1865 - Irving Babbitt, American literary critic (d. 1933)
● 1865 - John Radecki, Australian stained glass artist (d. 1955)
● 1866 - Charles Francis Adams, American lawyer, businessman and government official (d. 1954)
● 1867 - Ernest Dowson, British poet (d. 1900)
● 1868 - King Constantine I of Greece (d. 1923)
● 1871 - John French Sloan, American artist (d. 1951)
● 1875 - Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian artist (d. 1957)
● 1878 - Georg Hackenschmidt, Estonian wrestler (d. 1968)
● 1882 - Red Ames, baseball player (d. 1936)
● 1884 - Romulo Gallegos, Venezuelan novelist and president (1948) (d. 1969)
● 1890 - Marin Sais, American actress (d. 1971)
● 1891 - Viktor Maksimovich Zhirmunsky, Russian literary historian, linguist (d. 1971)
● 1892 - Jack Warner, Canadian film producer (d. 1978)
● 1896 - Lorenzo Herrera, Venezuelan singer and composer (d. 1960)
● 1897 - Max Weber, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1974)
● 1897 - Karl Otto Koch, German SS-officer (d. 1945)
● 1899 - Charles Bennett, British screenwriter (d. 1995)
● 1900 - Helen Morgan, American actress (d. 1941)
● 1905 - Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer (d. 1963)
● 1905 - Myrna Loy, American actress (d. 1993)
● 1907 - Mary Hamman, American writer (d. 1984)
● 1910 - Roger MacDougall, writer (d. 1993)
● 1912 - Vladimir Zerjavic, Croatian statistician (d. 2001)
● 1912 - Ann Dvorak, American actress (d. 1979)
● 1914 - Beatrice Straight, American actress (d. 2001)
● 1914 - Félix Leclerc, Quebec singer, songwriter and writer (d. 1988)
● 1915 - Gary Merrill, American actor (d. 1990)
● 1922 - Paul Laxalt, Former U.S. senator, R-Nevada
● 1923 - Shimon Peres, Israeli politician.
● 1924 - James Baldwin, American author (d. 1987)
● 1924 - Carroll O'Connor, American actor (d. 2001)
● 1925 - John Dexter, English stage director of opera and drama (d. 1990)
● 1925 - Jorge Rafael Videla, Argentinian dictator
● 1925 - Alan Whicker, British journalist and broadcaster
● 1930 - Vali Myers (artist), Australian painter (d. 2003)
● 1931 - Pierre DuMaine, Catholic bishop
● 1931 - Viliam Schrojf, Slovakian football goalkeeper (d. 2007)
● 1932 - Lamar Hunt, American sports executive (d. 2006)
● 1932 - Peter O'Toole, Irish-born actor
● 1934 - Valery Bykovsky, cosmonaut
● 1935 - Hank Cochran, American country music singer and songwriter
● 1937 - Garth Hudson, Canadian musician (The Band)
● 1938 - Pierre de Bané, French Canadian politician
● 1939 - John Snow, Former secretary of treasury
● 1939 - Wes Craven, American film director
● 1941 - Doris Coley, American singer (Shirelles) (d. 2000)
● 1942 - Isabel Allende, Chilean author
● 1943 - Kathy Lennon, Singer (The Lennon Sisters)
● 1943 - Max Wright, American actor
● 1943 - Tom Burgmeier, American baseball player
● 1944 - Jim Capaldi, British musician and songwriter (Traffic) (d. 2005)
● 1945 - Joanna Cassidy, American actress
● 1945 - Alex Jesaulenko, Australian footballer
● 1947 - Massiel, Spanish singer
● 1948 - Andy Fairweather Low, British guitarist
● 1948 - Dennis Prager, American radio talk show host and author
● 1949 - James Fallows, American journalist
● 1950 - Kathryn Harrold, Actress
● 1950 - Lance Ito, American judge
● 1950 - Sue Rodriguez, Canadian assisted suicide advocate (d. 1994)
● 1951 - Andrew Gold, American musician and songwriter
● 1951 - Per Westerberg, Swedish politician
● 1951 - Joe Lynn Turner, American Singer (Deep Purple and Rainbow (band))
● 1953 - Butch Patrick, American actor ("The Munsters")
● 1953 - Marjo, Quebec singer
● 1954 - Sammy McIlroy, Northern Irish footballer and manager
● 1954 - James Charles Kopp, American citizen who murdered Barnett Slepian
● 1955 - Caleb Carr, American novelist and military historian
● 1956 - Fulvio Melia, Italian-American physicist/astrophysicist and author
● 1956 - Jim Neidhart, American professional wrestler
● 1956 - Isabel Pantoja, Spanish singer
● 1957 - Mojo Nixon, American musician and actor
● 1959 - Victoria Jackson, American comedian ("Saturday Night Live")
● 1959 - Apollonia Kotero, American singer and actress ("Purple Rain")
● 1960 - Neal Morse, American musician (Spock's Beard and Transatlantic)
● 1961 - Linda Fratianne, American figure skater
● 1962 - Cynthia Stevenson, Actress
● 1964 - Mary-Louise Parker, American actress ("Weeds")
● 1966 - Tim Wakefield, American baseball player
● 1967 - Aaron Krickstein, American tennis player
● 1967 - Aline Brosh McKenna, American screenwriter
● 1968 - John Stanier, Rock musician
● 1968 - Stefan Effenberg, German footballer
● 1969 - Fernando Couto, Portuguese footballer
● 1969 - Jan Axel Blomberg (Hellhammer), drummer for the band Dimmu Borgir
● 1969 - Richard Hallebeek, Dutch guitarist
● 1970 - Tony Amonte, American ice hockey player
● 1970 - Kevin Smith, American director and screenwriter ("Clerks" movies)
● 1971 - Michael Hughes, Irish footballer
● 1972 - Jacinda Barrett, Australian model and actress
● 1972 - Jimmy Pop, American musician (The Bloodhound Gang)
● 1972 - Justyna Steczkowska, Polish singer
● 1973 - Hiroyuki Goto, Japanese game designer
● 1974 - Jeremy Castle, American singer and songwriter
● 1974 - Angie Cepeda, Colombian actress
● 1975 - Mineiro, Brazilian footballer
● 1975 - Xu Huaiwen, Chinese-born badminton player
● 1976 - Sam Worthington, Australian actor
● 1977 - Edward Furlong, American actor
● 1980 - Devon Glenn, Rock musician (Buckcherry)
● 1982 - Hélder Postiga, Portuguese footballer
● 1982 - Grady Sizemore, American baseball player
● 1983 - Nick Diaz, American MMA fighter
● 1984 - Giampaolo Pazzini, Italian footballer
● 1985 - Harry Smith, Canadian professional wrestler
● 1986 - Mathieu Razanakolona, Malagasy skier
● 1988 - Brittany Hargest, American singer (Jump5)
● 1992 - Hallie Kate Eisenberg, American actress
DEATHS
● 686 - Pope John V
● 924 - Ælfweard of Wessex
● 1100 - King William II of England
● 1222 - Count Raymond VI of Toulouse (b. 1156)
● 1511 - Andrew Barton, Scottish naval leader
● 1589 - King Henry III of France (b. 1551)
● 1611 - Kato Kiyomasa, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1562)
● 1696 - Robert Campbell of Glenlyon, Scottish military commander (b. 1630)
● 1769 - Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea, English politician (b. 1689)
● 1776 - Louis François I, Prince of Conti, French military leader (b. 1717)
● 1788 - Thomas Gainsborough, English artist (b. 1727)
● 1815 - Guillaume Marie Anne Brune, French marshal (b. 1763)
● 1823 - Lazare Carnot, French general, politician, and mathematician (b. 1753)
● 1849 - Governor Muhammad Ali of Egypt (b. 1769)
● 1859 - Horace Mann, American educator and abolitionist (b. 1796)
● 1876 - James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok, American gunfighter (b. 1837)
● 1889 - Eduardo Gutiérrez, Argentinian author (b. 1851)
● 1890 - Louise-Victorine Ackermann, French poet (b. 1813)
● 1903 - Edmond Nocard, French veterinarian (b. 1850)
● 1920 - Ormer Locklear, American stunt pilot (b. 1891)
● 1921 - Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (b. 1873)
● 1922 - Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-born inventor (b. 1847)
● 1923 - Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States (b. 1865)
● 1934 - Paul von Hindenburg, German field marshal and President of Germany (b. 1847)
● 1936 - Louis Blériot, French aviation pioneer (b. 1872)
● 1939 - Harvey Spencer Lewis, American Rosacrucian mystic (b. 1883)
● 1945 - Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer (b. 1863)
● 1955 - Alfred Lépine, French Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1901)
● 1972 - Helen Hoyt, American poet (b. 1887)
● 1972 - Brian Cole, American bass player (The Association) (b. 1942)
● 1973 - Jean-Pierre Melville, French film director (b. 1917)
● 1974 - W. Douglas Hawkes, British racing driver (b. 1893)
● 1976 - Fritz Lang, Austrian film director (b. 1890)
● 1978 - Carlos Chávez, Mexican composer (b. 1899)
● 1979 - Thurman Munson, American baseball player (b. 1947)
● 1986 - Roy Cohn, American politician (b. 1927)
● 1988 - Raymond Carver, American writer (b. 1938)
● 1988 - Joe Carcione, American consumer advocate (b. 1914)
● 1990 - Norman Mclean, American writer (b. 1902)
● 1992 - Michel Berger, French singer and songwriter (b. 1947)
● 1996 - Michel Debré, French politician (b. 1912)
● 1997 - William S. Burroughs, American writer (b. 1914)
● 1998 - Shari Lewis, American puppeteer (b. 1933)
● 2001 - Ron Townson, American singer (The Fifth Dimension) (b. 1933)
● 2003 - Don Estelle, British actor (b. 1933)
● 2003 - Mike Levey, American television personality (b. 1948)
● 2003 - Peter Safar, Austrian physician (b. 1924)
● 2004 - Don Tosti, American musician (b. 1923)
● 2004 - François Craenhals, Belgian comics artist (b. 1926)
● 2007 - Chauncey Bailey, American journalist and editor (b. 1950)
● 2007 - Holden Roberto, Angolan founder and leader of the FNLA (b. 1923)
● 2007 - Kay Dotrice, English repertory actress (b. 1929)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Alban, martyr (proto-martyr of England)
● St. Alfreda
● St. Alphonsus Mary de Ligouri
● St. Auspicius, bishop of Apt, martyr
● St. Betharius
● St. Boetharius
● St. Etheldritha/Alfrida
● St. Eusebius, bishop of Vercelli
● St. Gaudentius, bishop of Chur, martyr
● St. Maximus of Padua
● St. Peter Julian Eymard
● St. Peter of Osma
● St. Plegmund
● St. Rutilius
● St. Stephen I, pope, martyr
● St. Theodota
● St. Thomas of Dover
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for July 19 (Civil Date: August 2)
● St. Macrina, sister of St. Basil the Great.
● St. Dius, abbot of Antioch.
● Blessed Romanus, prince of Ryazan.
● Opening of the Relics of St. Seraphim of Sarov Blessed Stephen, king of Serbia, and his mother St. Militsa.
● St. Paisius of the Kiev Caves.
● New-Martyr Victor, Bishop of Glazov (1934).
● Greek Calendar:
● Abba Diocles of The Paradise.
● Repose of Blessed Abbot Nilus (1870)
● Repose of Elder John of St. Nilus of Sora Monastery (1903)
● Repose of Hieroschemamonk Anthony of Valaam (1862).
● Day of Azerbaijani cinema
● Bulgaria/Republic of Macedonia - Ilinden (St. Ilya Day), a day of remembrance of the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising.
● Costa Rica : Virgin of Angels feast
● Grenada : Emancipation Day
● Lesotho : National Tree Planting Day
● Malawi : Bank Holiday
● Day of Airborne Forces in Russia.
● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Arizona, Michigan : American Family Day - ( Sunday )
● Italy : Joust of the Quintana (1st Sunday) - ( Sunday )
● Bahamas, Barbados, Turks & Caicos Island : Emancipation Day (1838) - ( Monday )
● British Commonwealth : Bank Holiday - ( Monday )
● Canada : Civic Holiday (1st Monday) - ( Monday )
● Colorado : Colorado Day (1876) - ( Monday )
● Jamaica : Independence Day (1962) - ( Monday )
● St Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla : August Monday - ( Monday )
● US : National Smile Week begins - ( Monday )
● Grasmere England : Rush-Bearing Day - ( Saturday )
IN FICTION
● 1914 - Sherlock Holmes Adventure "His Last Bow" takes place
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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