Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Aging "There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning." — Simone de Beauvoir
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Iraq War "I'm not a lawyer. My impression is that what has been charged thus far is abuse, which I believe technically is different from torture." — Donald Rumsfeld, expressing his view on the rapes, beatings, and sexual humiliation in Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison.
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: On Politics "It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it." — Dan Quayle
Thought for the day: "Beware of hip and rum drivers."
{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
Cluster Crash Illuminates Dark Matter Conundrum
Credit: X-ray: NASA / CXC/ U. Victoria/ A. Mahdavi et al.
Optical/Lensing: CFHT/ U. Victoria/ A. Mahdavi et al.
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 636 - Battle of Yarmuk: Arab forces led by Khalid bin Walid take control of Syria and Palestine away from the Byzantine Empire, marking the first great wave of Muslim conquests and the rapid advance of Islam outside Arabia.
● 917 - Battle of Anchialus: Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria invades Thrace and drives the Byzantines out.
● 1000 - The foundation of the Hungarian state, Hungary is established as a Christian kingdom by Stephen I of Hungary.
● 1391 - Konrad von Wallenrode becomes the 24th Hochmeister of the Teutonic Order.
● 1553 - Protestant reformer John Calvin wrote in a letter: 'Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.'
● 1565 - Black artisans and farmers aid explorer Menendez in building of city of St. Augustine, Florida.
● 1619 - First group of 20 African slaves land at Jamestown, Virginia.
● 1641 - Scotland and Britain signed the Treaty of Pacification.
● 1741 - Danish navigator Vitus Jonas Bering discovered Alaska.
● 1745 - Birth of Francis Asbury, English Methodist missionary and circuit-riding bishop of the American colonies. During 42 years of labor, Asbury traveled 300,000 miles by horseback, ministering up and down the Eastern seaboard.
● 1781 - George Washington begins to move his troops south to fight Cornwallis
● 1794 - Battle of Fallen Timbers - American troops force a confederacy of Shawnee, Mingo, Delaware, Wyandot, Miami, Ottawa, Chippewa, and Potawatomi warriors into a disorganized retreat.
● 1804 - Lewis and Clark Expedition: The "Corps of Discovery", exploring the Louisiana Purchase, suffers its only death when Sergeant Charles Floyd dies, apparently from acute appendicitis.
● 1830 - First Negro convention held, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
● 1833 - Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd president of the United States, was born in North Bend, Ohio.
● 1852 - Steamer "Atlantic" collided with fishing boat, sinks with 250 aboard
● 1860 - National Labor Union formed.
● 1862 - Horace Greeley's "The Prayer of Twenty Millions" was published.
● 1865 - President Johnson proclaims an end to "insurrection" in Texas.
● 1866 - It was formally declared by U.S. President Andrew Johnson that the American Civil War was over. The fighting had stopped months earlier.
● 1866 - The National Labor Union in the U.S. advocated an eight-hour workday.
● 1884 - Birth of Rudolf Bultmann, German New Testament scholar. He pioneered Form Criticism with his History of the Synoptic Tradition (1921), whereby he sought to identify the devices of Hebrew speech in order to make the central Gospel message meaningful to moderns.
● 1886 - Birth of Paul Tillich, German philosophical theologian. Tillich advocated "myth" as a signpost, participating in the reality to which it points. Evangelicals generally criticize Tillich today for his pantheistic views of God.
● 1888 - Mutineers imprison Emin Pasha at Dufile.
● 1896 - Dial telephone patented.
● 1898 - Fourteen weeks after beginning a walkout, the Amalgamated Woodworkers Union of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, halts its strike. On August 3rd, the two largest mills reopened, but mass picketing continued and women's squadrons began throwing eggs, salt, and rocks. The police, once sympathetic to the strikers, quickly became less tolerant and jailed nine of the women. The union's strike fund, meanwhile, is now depleted. Today's settlement represents a defeat for the workers. Union leaders are blacklisted, and three still face charges of "conspiracy" to injure the Paine Lumber Company. Defending them, Attorney Clarence Darrow presents a seven-and-one-half-hour summary argument that wins a not-guilty verdict.
● 1900 - Japan's primary school law is amended to provide for four years of mandatory schooling.
● 1904 - Miners seize town of Cripple Creek, Colorado, deport officials.
● 1908 - Congo Free State becomes the Belgian Congo
● 1909 - IWW free-speech fight, Fresno, California.
● 1912 - Plant Quarantine Act goes into effect
● 1914 - World War I: German forces occupy Brussels.
● 1918 - The British opened its Western Front offensive during World War I.
● 1920 - Charles Ponzi, who guaranteed investors "double your money back in 90 days," admitted he could not pay his liabilities and was sent to bankruptcy court. Claims against him amounted to $4,308,874.73. {His form of fraud becomes known of the still used "Ponzi Scheme."}
● 1923 - The first American dirigible, the "Shenandoah," was launched in Lakehurst, NJ.
● 1926 - Japan's public broadcasting company, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK) is established.
● 1929 - 1st airship flight around the Earth flying eastward completed
● 1940 - British PM Churchill says of the Royal Air Force, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few"
● 1940 - Exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded in Mexico City by an assassin's ice axe. He dies the next day.
● 1940 - France fell to the Germans during World War II.
● 1942 - Dim-out regulations implemented in San Francisco
● 1944 - The Battle of Romania begins with a major Soviet offensive.
● 1947 - Turner Caldwell in D-558-I sets aircraft speed record, 1131 kph
● 1948 - US expels Soviet Consul General in New York, Jacob Lomakin
● 1949 - Hungary (Magyar People's Republic) accepts constitution
● 1953 - The Soviet Union publicly acknowledged it had tested a hydrogen bomb.
● 1955 - 1st airplane to exceed 1800 mph (2897 kph)-HA Hanes, Palmdale Ca
● 1955 - In Morocco and Algeria hundreds of people were killed in anti-French rioting.
● 1955 - In Morocco, a force of Berbers from the Atlas Mountains region of Algeria raid two rural settlements and kill 77 French nationals.
● 1956 - Republicans convene at Cow Palace for their national presidential nominating convention.
● 1958 - A Pentecostal sect, formed by Grady R. Kent out of the Church of God of Prophecy, formally adopted as its name "The Church of God of All Nations." The denomination is headquartered today in Cleveland, Tennessee.
● 1960 - Senegal breaks from the Mali federation, declaring independence.
● 1960 - USSR recovers 2 dogs; 1st living organisms to return from space
● 1964 - A $1 billion anti-poverty measure was signed by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, the Economic Opportunity Act.
● 1965 - Johnathan Daniels, seminary student and civil rights activist, is shot and killed at point-blank range in Nayneville, Ala. His killer is acquitted by an all-white jury. {Reference Simon and Garfunkel song, "He Was My Brother."}
● 1967 - The New York Times reported about a noise reduction system for album and tape recording developed by technicians R. and D. W. Dolby. Elektra Record's subsidiary, Checkmate Records became the first label to use the new Dolby process in its recordings.
● 1968 - 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000 tanks invade Czechoslovakia to end the "Prague Spring" of political liberalization.
● 1969 - Bobby Seale, National Chairman of the Black Panther Party, arrested for New Haven murder of former Panther Alex Rachey (suspected black informer). Charges eventually dropped.
● 1970 - Bobby Moore cleared of stealing; The England soccer captain, Bobby Moore, is cleared of charges of stealing in a trial in Colombia.
● 1971 - FBI begins covert investigation of journalist Daniel Schorr.
● 1974 - Congress votes to reduce aid to South Vietnam from $1 Billion to $700 Million. Majority of the cuts were for military supplies.
● 1974 - U.S. House of Representatives votes 412-3 {twenty cowards don't vote} to recommend three articles of impeachment against Pres. Dick M Nixon. The first charges him with taking part in a criminal conspiracy to obstruct justice in the Watergate cover-up; the second charges he "repeatedly" failed to carry out his constitutional oath in a series of alleged abuses of power; and the third accuses him of unconstitutional defiance of committee subpoenas.
● 1975 - Il-62 crashes south of Damascus, Syria, killing 126
● 1975 - Viking Program: NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars.
● 1977 - Voyager 2 was launched by the United States. The spacecraft was carrying a 12 inch copper phonograph record containing greetings in dozens of languages, samples of music and sounds of nature.
● 1978 - Two dead after El Al crew ambushed; Two people die during an attack on a bus carrying Israeli airline staff in central London.
● 1979 - The East Coast Main Line rail route between England and Scotland is restored when the Penmanshiel Diversion opens.
● 1980 - Reinhold Messner of Italy is 1st to solo ascent Mt Everest
● 1980 - UN Security Council condemns (14-0, US abstains) Israeli declaration that all of Jersualem is its capital
● 1981 - Crow Indians barricade Hwy. 313 near Hardin, Montana, to protest non-Indian fishing on Bighorn River in Crow Reservation.
● 1981 - Tenth and last hunger striker dies, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
● 1982 - Lebanese Civil War: A multinational force lands in Beirut to oversee the PLO withdrawal from Lebanon.
● 1985 - Hanspeter Beck of South Australia, finishes a 3,875 mile, 51 day trip from Western Australia to Melbourne on a unicycle
● 1985 - Israel ships 96 TOWs (missiles) to Iran on behalf of the US
● 1985 - The original Xerox 914 copier was presented to the Smithsonian Institute's Museum of American History. Chester Carlson was the man who invented the machine.
● 1986 - In Edmond, Oklahoma, U.S. Postal employee Patrick Sherrill guns down 14 of his co-workers and then commits suicide.
● 1988 - "Black Saturday" of the Yellowstone fire in Yellowstone National Park
● 1988 - Eight British soldiers were killed by a landmine while in a military bus in Northern Ireland. The mine belonged to the Irish Republican Army.
● 1988 - Iran-Iraq War: A cease-fire is agreed to after almost eight years of war.
● 1988 - Peru becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
● 1989 - British conservationist George Adamson was killed by bandits in Kenya. Adamson was 83.
● 1989 - In London, a pleasure boat sank in the Thames River killing 51 people.
● 1989 - Jose and Kitty Menendez were shot to death by their sons Lyle and Erik. The first trials ended in hung juries. {The juries hung over the severity of the crimes not guilt.}
● 1990 - Iraq moves Western hostages to military installations (human shields)
● 1991 - Collapse of the Soviet Union, August Coup: More than 100,000 people rally outside the Soviet Union's parliament building protesting the coup aiming to depose President Mikhail Gorbachev.
● 1991 - Estonia secedes from the Soviet Union.
● 1982 - Iraq jails 'lost' Briton; Iraq sentences a British man to seven years in jail for what it calls "illegal entry" into the country.
● 1992 - The Republican National Convention in Houston nominated President George H.W. Bush and Vice President Dan Quayle for a second term.
● 1993 - After rounds of secret negotiations in Norway, the Oslo Peace Accords were signed, followed by a public ceremony in Washington, D.C. the next month.
● 1994 - Female white buffalo calf born in Wisconsin.
● 1995 - 348 people were killed in a train incident in northern India.
● 1995 - On two days' notice, hundreds of civil rights activists rally in Seattle outside a Rainier Club campaign appearance for reactionary presidential candidate Pete Wilson {Governor of California and general all around putz.}.
● 1997 - Britain began voluntary evacuation of its Caribbean island of Montserrat due to the volcanic activity of the Soufriere Hills.
● 1997 - NATO troops seized six police stations in Banja Luka that had been held by troops controlled by former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic.
● 1997 - Souhane massacre in Algeria; over 60 people killed, 15 kidnapped.
● 1998 - The Supreme Court of Canada states Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government's approval.
● 1998 - The U.N. Security Council extended trade sanctions against Iraq for blocking arms inspections.
● 1998 - U.S. embassy bombings: The United States military launches cruise missile attacks against alleged al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical plant in Sudan in retaliation for the August 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum is destroyed in the attack.
● 2002 - A group of Iraqis opposed to the regime of Saddam Hussein took over the Iraqi Embassy in Berlin for five hours before releasing their hostages and giving up.
BIRTHS
● 1517 - Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, French church leader (d. 1586)
● 1561 - Jacopo Peri, Italian composer (d. 1633)
● 1625 - Thomas Corneille, French dramatist (d. 1709)
● 1632 - Louis Bourdaloue, French Jesuit preacher (d. 1704)
● 1710 - Thomas Simpson, British mathematician (d. 1761)
● 1719 - Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer (d. 1783)
● 1719 - Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec, French soldier and diplomat (d. 1791)
● 1745 - Francis Asbury, English-born bishop of the American Methodist Episcopal Church (d. 1816)
● 1776 - Bernardo O'Higgins, South American revolutionary (d. 1842)
● 1779 - Jöns Jakob Berzelius, Swedish chemist (d. 1848)
● 1833 - Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States (d. 1901)
● 1845 - St. Albert Chmielowski, Polish Catholic Saint (d. 1916)
● 1847 - Bolesław Prus, Polish writer (d. 1912)
● 1856 - Jakub Bart-Ćišinski, Sorbian writer (d. 1909)
● 1860 - Raymond Poincaré, French statesman (d. 1934)
● 1873 - Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen, Finnish architect (d. 1950)
● 1881 - Edgar Guest, English poet (d. 1959)
● 1897 - Tarjei Vesaas, Norwegian writer (d. 1970)
● 1898 - Vilhelm Moberg, Swedish author and historian (d. 1973)
● 1890 - H. P. Lovecraft, American writer (d. 1937)
● 1901 - Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
● 1905 - Jean Gebser, German-born author, linguist, and poet (d. 1973)
● 1905 - Jack Teagarden, American musician (d. 1964)
● 1908 - Al Lopez, baseball player and manager (d. 2005)
● 1908 - Valentin Glushko, Soviet rocket scientist (d. 1989)
● 1908 - Kingsley Davis, American sociologist and demographer (d. 1997)
● 1910 - Eero Saarinen, Finnish architect (d. 1961)
● 1913 - Roger Wolcott Sperry, American neurobiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1994)
● 1916 - Paul Felix Schmidt, Estonian–German chess player (d. 1984)
● 1918 - Jacqueline Susann, American novelist (d. 1974)
● 1919 - Walter Bernstein, Writer, director
● 1923 - Jim Reeves, American singer (d. 1964)
● 1926 - Nobby Wirkowski, American and Canadian football player and coach
● 1930 - Mario Bernardi, Canadian conductor
● 1932 - Anthony Ainley, British actor (d. 2004)
● 1932 - Vasily Aksyonov, Russian novelist
● 1933 - George Mitchell, Former Senate majority leader
● 1934 - Armi Kuusela, Finnish beauty queen
● 1935 - Ron Paul, American politician
● 1936 - Hideki Shirakawa, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
● 1937 - Andrei Konchalovsky, Russian film director
● 1937 - El Fary, Spanish singer and actor (d. 2007)
● 1937 - Jim Bowen, English comedian
● 1938 - Alain Vivien, French politician
● 1939 - Fernando Poe Jr., Filipino actor and presidential candidate (d. 2004)
● 1940 - Rubén Hinojosa, American politician
● 1941 - Slobodan Milošević, President of Serbia and of Yugoslavia (d. 2006)
● 1941 - Rich Brooks, American football coach
● 1941 - Robin Oakley, British journalist
● 1942 - Isaac Hayes, American singer, songwriter, and actor
● 1942 - Fred Norman, American baseball player
● 1943 - Sylvester McCoy, Scottish actor
● 1944 - Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (d. 1991)
● 1946 - Connie Chung, American journalist
● 1946 - N.R. Narayana Murthy, Indian businessman
● 1947 - Jimmy Pankow, Rock musician (Chicago)
● 1947 - Alan Lee, English conceptual artist
● 1948 - Robert Plant, English singer (Led Zeppelin)
● 1948 - John Noble, Australian actor
● 1949 - Phil Lynott, Irish musician (d. 1986)
● 1949 - Nikolas Asimos, Greek composer and singer (d. 1988)
● 1951 - Greg Bear, American author
● 1952 - John Hiatt, American musician
● 1952 - Doug Fieger, American musician (The Knack)
● 1952 - Rudy Gatlin, Country singer (The Gatlin Brothers)
● 1953 - Peter Horton, Actor, director
● 1954 - Al Roker, American television broadcaster ("Today")
● 1954 - Don Stark, American actor
● 1955 - Agnes Chan, Hong Kong singer and writer
● 1955 - Jay Acovone, Actor
● 1956 - Joan Allen, American actress
● 1957 - Finlay Calder, Scottish rugby player
● 1961 - Greg Egan, Australian author
● 1961 - Joe Pasquale, English comedian
● 1962 - Sophie Aldred, English actress
● 1962 - James Marsters, American actor ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer," "Angel")
● 1962 - Dong-Wook Song, South Korean tennis player
● 1965 - KRS-One, American rapper
● 1966 - Dimebag Darrell, American guitarist (Pantera and Damageplan) (d. 2004)
● 1967 - Andy Benes, baseball player
● 1967 - Colin Cunningham, American actor
● 1968 - Yuri Shiratori, Japanese voice actress and singer
● 1969 - Duke Droese, American professional wrestler
● 1970 - John Carmack, American computer game programmer
● 1970 - Fred Durst, American singer (Limp Bizkit)
● 1971 - Steve Stone, English footballer
● 1971 - Jonathan Ke Quan, Vietnamese American actor
● 1971 - David Walliams, British comedian
● 1971 - Brad Avery, Rock musician (Third Day)
● 1973 - Todd Helton, baseball player
● 1974 - Maxim Vengerov, Russian violinist
● 1975 - Monique Powell, Rock singer (Save Ferris)
● 1975 - Amy Adams, American actress
● 1975 - Andy Strachan, Australian musician (The Living End)
● 1976 - Chris Drury, American hockey player
● 1977 - Felipe Contepomi, Argentine rugby player
● 1977 - Manuel Contepomi, Argentine rugby player
● 1977 - Ivar Ingimarsson, Icelandic footballer
● 1977 - Mayra Veronica, Cuban model and actress
● 1979 - Cory Sullivan, baseball player
● 1980 - Rochelle Gadd, British actress
● 1980 - Corey Carrier, American actor
● 1981 - Bernard Mendy, French footballer
● 1982 - Joshua Kennedy, Australian footballer
● 1982 - Youssouf Hersi, Ethiopian footballer
● 1982 - Cléber Luis Alberti, Brazilian footballer
● 1984 - Mirai Moriyama, Japanese actor
● 1986 - Robert Clark, Canadian actor
● 1987 - Cătălina Ponor, Romanian gymnast
● 2003 - Prince Gabriel of Belgium
DEATHS
● 535 - Mochta of Louth, disciple of St. Patrick
● 984 - Pope John XIV
● 1384 - Geert Groote, Dutch founder of the Brethren of the Common Life (b. 1340)
● 1572 - Miguel López de Legazpi, Spanish conquistador (b. 1502)
● 1580 - Jeronymo Osorio, Portuguese historian (b. 1506)
● 1611 - Tomás Luis de Victoria, Spanish composer (b. 1548)
● 1639 - Martin Opitz von Boberfeld, German poet (b. 1597)
● 1643 - Anne Hutchinson, English Puritan preacher (b. 1591)
● 1648 - Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, English diplomat, poet, and philosopher (b. 1583)
● 1672 - Johan de Witt, Dutch politician (b. 1625)
● 1672 - Cornelis de Witt, Dutch politician (b. 1623)
● 1680 - William Bedloe, English informer (b. 1650)
● 1701 - Charles Sedley, English playwright (b. 1639)
● 1707 - Nicolas Gigault, French organist and composer (b. 1627)
● 1773 - Enrique Florez, Spanish historian (b. 1701)
● 1811 - Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French explorer (b. 1729)
● 1823 - Pope Pius VII (b. 1740)
● 1825 - William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock, Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1753)
● 1887 - Jules Laforgue, French poet (b. 1860)
● 1904 - René Waldeck-Rousseau, French statesman (b. 1846)
● 1912 - William Booth, English founder of the Salvation Army (b. 1829)
● 1914 - Pope Pius X (b. 1835)
● 1915 - Paul Ehrlich, German scientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1854)
● 1917 - Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1835)
● 1930 - Charles Bannerman, Australian cricketer (b. 1851)
● 1961 - Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1882)
● 1965 - Jonathan Myrick Daniels, Civil Rights Martyr (b. 1939)
● 1971 - Rashid Minhas, Pakistani Air Force pilot (b. 1951)
● 1980 - Joe Dassin, American singer (b. 1938)
● 1980 - Marguerite Walls, twelfth victim of the Yorkshire Ripper
● 1982 - Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish actress (b. 1929)
● 1986 - Milton Acorn, Canadian poet (b. 1923)
● 1989 - George Adamson, India-born English game warden and lion expert (b. 1906)
● 1993 - Bernard Delfgaauw, Dutch philosopher (b. 1912)
● 1997 - Norris Bradbury, American physicist (b. 1909)
● 1997 - Léon Dion, French-Canadian political scientist (b. 1922)
● 1998 - Raquel Rastenni, Danish singer (b. 1915)
● 2001 - Sir Fred Hoyle, English astronomer and science fiction writer (b. 1915)
● 2001 - Kim Stanley, American actress (b. 1925)
● 2005 - Thomas Herrion, American football player (b. 1981)
● 2005 - Krzysztof Raczkowski, Polish drummer (b. 1970)
● 2006 - Claude Blanchard, French-Canadian singer, comedian and actor (b. 1932)
● 2006 - Joe Rosenthal, American photographer (b. 1911)
● 2007 - Leona Helmsley, American hotel operator{, convicted felon} and real estate investor (b. 1920) {"Only poor people pay taxes."}
● 2007 - Larry Hartsell, American martial artist, bodyguard, trainer, student of Bruce Lee and Dan Inosanto (b. 1942)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Amadour
● St. Bernard, abbot at Clairvaux, doctor
● St. Bernard of Valdeiglesias
● St. Edbert
● St. Haduin
● St. Heliodorus
● St. Herbert Hoscam
● Sts. Leovigild and Christopher
● St. Lucius
● St. Maximus
● St. Philibert
● St. Ronald
● Martyrs of Thrace
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for August 7 (Civil Date: August 20)
● Afterfeast of the Transfiguration.
● Martyr Dometius of Persia and two disciples
● Martyrs Marinus the soldier and Asterius the senator at Caesaria in Palestine.
● St. Poemen (Pimen) the Much-ailing of the Kiev Caves.
● St. Hor (Horus) of the Thebaid.
● St. Pimen, faster of the Kiev Caves.
● Translation of the Relics of St. Metrophanes, first Bishop of Voronezh.
● Virgin Potamia.
● St. Dometius of Philotheou Monastery on Mt. Athos.
● St. Mercurius, Bishop of Smolensk (Kiev Caves).
● Elder Anthony of Optina (1865).
● Greek Calendar:
● Holy Ten Thousand Ascetics of Thebes.
● Hieromartyr Narcissus of Jerusalem.
● St. Hyperechius of the Paradise.
● St. Sozon of Nicomedia.
● St. Theodosius the New, healer of Peloponnesus.
● St. Nicanor, Wonderworker of Mt. Calistratus.
● Repose of Elder Adrian of South Dorotheus Monastery (1853)
● Repose of Schemamonk John the Blind of Valaam (1894).
● Repose of Elder Callinicus the Hesychast of Mt. Athos. (1930).
● Anglican and Lutheran:
● St. Bernard, abbot at Clairvaux, doctor
● Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Asmá (Names) - First day of the ninth month of the Bahá'í Calendar.
● Unification Church: The Day of Total Victory
● Argentina - San Martin Day.
● Estonia - Restoration of Estonian Independence.
● Hungary - St. Stephen's day, the main national holiday in Hungary also known as Constitution Day (1949)
● Morocco - Revolution of the King and the People Day.
● Senegal : Independence Day (1960)
● World Union - World Union Day.
● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Hawaii : Admission Day (1959) - ( Friday )
● Michigan : Montrose-Blueberry Festival - ( Friday )
IN FICTION
● 1895 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Norwood Builder"
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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