Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On America "America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense . . . human rights invented America." — Jimmy Carter
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Iraq War "This is no different than what happens at the Skull and Bones initiation . . . I'm talking about people having a good time, these people, you ever hear of emotional release? You [ever] heard of need to blow off some steam off?" — Rush Limbaugh's take on the actions of guards who sexually abused and humiliated Iraqi prisoners. {This statement would be laughable since there is no way in Hell that Rush has ever been allowed to a Skull and Bones initiation except that initiates volunteer for their abuse and these prisoners had no choice.}
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: On Politics "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet." — Al Gore
Thought for the day: "Early to rise and ditto to bed, make a man healthy, but socially dead."
{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
Tentacles of the Tarantula Nebula
Credit & Copyright: WFI, MPG/ESO 2.2-m Telescope, La Silla, ESO
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 392 - Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor.
● 476 - Odoacer is named Rex italiae by his troop.
● 565 - St. Columba reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland.
● 1138 - Battle of the Standard between Scotland and England.
● 1454 - Jews are expelled from Brunn Moravia by order of King Ladislaus
● 1485 - The War of the Roses ended with the death of England's King Richard III. He was killed in the Battle of Bosworth Field. His successor was Henry VII.
● 1559 - Bartholome de Carranza, Spanish archbishop, is arrested for heresy.
● 1567 - The "Council of Blood" was established by the Duke of Alba. This was the beginning of his reign of terror in the Netherlands.
● 1572 - Earl of Northumberland was executed for treason in York, England.
● 1582 - King James VI was captured in the Ruthven raid while he was hunting. He was held captive until June of 1583.
● 1608 - Birth of Basua Makin, Sussex, England. One of the first Western feminists. In 1675, she publishes the book "Essay to Revive the Ancient Education of Gentlewomen In Religion, Manners, Arts, and Tongues--With an Answer to the Objections Against this Way of Education."
● 1639 - Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company after buying a sliver of land from local Nayak rulers.
● 1642 - The English Civil War began when Charles I called Parliament and its soldiers traitors.
● 1654 - Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam. He is the first known Jewish immigrant to America.
● 1670 - In Massachusetts, English-born colonial missionary John Eliot, 66, founded an Indian church at Martha's Vineyard, with educated Indians Hiacoomes and Tackanash appointed pastor and teacher, respectively.
● 1692 - Eight more persons hanged in Salem, Massachusetts, charged with witchcraft.
● 1717 - Spanish troops land on Sardinia.
● 1762 - Ann Franklin became the editor of the Mercury of Newport in Rhode Island. She was the first female editor of an American newspaper.
● 1770 - Australia was claimed under the British crown when Captain James Cook landed there.
● 1775 - The American colonies were proclaimed to be in a state of open rebellion by England's King George III.
● 1779 - Gen. Clinton's troops join with Gen. Sullivan's in "scorched earth" policy against Iroquois.
● 1780 - James Cook's ship HMS Resolution returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage).
● 1787 - John Fitch's steamboat completes its tests, years before Fulton
● 1791 - Slave revolt begins Haitian revolution. In 1804, Haiti becomes first free black country in the world. Due to pressure from Southern slaveholders, U.S. refuses recognition of Haiti until 1865.
● 1798 - French troops land in Kilcummin, County Mayo, Ireland to aid Wolfe Tone's United Irishmen's Irish Rebellion.
● 1800 - Birth of Edward B. Pusey, English biblical scholar and Tractarian spokesman. A devoted church leader all his life, Pusey worked to establish religious orders in Anglicanism, founding in 1845 the first Anglican sisterhood.
● 1827 - José de La Mar becomes President of Peru.
● 1831 - Birth of William H. Cummings, English musicologist. In 1855 he adapted a theme from Mendelssohn's "Festgesang," which afterward became the melody of the Christmas carol, "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing."
● 1831 - Nat Turner's slave rebellion revolt commences just after midnight in Southampton, Virginia, leading to the deaths of more than 50 whites and several hundred African Americans who were killed in retaliation for the uprising.
● 1846 - Gen. Kearney announces annexation of New Mexico by U.S.
● 1849 - First air raid in history. Austria launched pilotless balloons against the Italian city of Venice.
● 1851 - Gold fields discovered in Australia
● 1864 - Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention. The Red Cross is formed.
● 1865 - A patent for liquid soap was received by William Sheppard.
● 1875 - The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands.
● 1893 - Author, poet, critic and wit Dorothy Parker was born in West Bend, N.J.
● 1902 - In Hartford, CT, President Theodore Roosevelt became the first president of the United States to ride in an automobile.
● 1904 - Deng Xiaoping, the powerful leader of the People's Republic of China from the late 1970's until his death in 1997, was born in Szechwan province.
● 1906 - The Victor Talking Machine Company of Camden, NJ began to manufacture the Victrola. The hand-cranked unit, with horn cabinet, sold for $200.
● 1910 - Japan illicitly annexes Korea with the signing of the Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty. The name Korea was abolished and replaced with the ancient name Joseon.
● 1911 - It was announced that Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" had been stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris. The painting reappeared two years later in Italy.
● 1914 - World War I: In Belgium, British and German troops clash for the first time in the war.
● 1916 - IWW begins free speech fight in Everett. Wash.
● 1922 - Michael Collins, Commander-in-Chief of the Irish Free State Army is shot dead during an Anti-Treaty ambush at Beal na mBlath, County Cork, during the Irish Civil War.
● 1926 - Gold discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa.
● 1941 - World War II: German troops reach Leningrad, leading to the siege of Leningrad.
● 1942 - World War II: Brazil declares war on the Axis powers (Germany, Italy and Japan).
● 1944 - World War II: Romania captured by the Soviet Union.
● 1944 - World War II: Thirty-two Spaniards & four French Maquis tackle a German column (1,300 men in 60 lorries, with 6 tanks & 2 self-propelled guns), at La Madeiline, France. Three Maquis are wounded, with 110 Germans killed and 200 wounded.
● 1947 - Start of two-month strike Canadian by United Packing Workers.
● 1948 - The Amsterdam Assembly of the World Council of Churches convened (through Sept 4) to ratify the Constitution for this newly-formed experiment in organizational and global Christian unity.
● 1950 - Althea Gibson becomes the first black competitor in international tennis.
● 1950 - Canadian national railway strike.
● 1952 - Four major American oil companies are sued by the Justice Department for overcharging on Middle East oil shipped to Europe under the Marshall Plan. {Acts like this today earn accolades for the profits generated rather than indictments.}
● 1953 - Last prisoners leave Devil's Island.
● 1955 - Ten killed, 31 injured when a freight train plows into a bus full of schoolchildren in Spring City, Tennessee.
● 1956 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Vice President Richard M. Nixon were nominated for second terms by the Republican National Convention in San Francisco.
● 1962 - An attempt to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle fails.
● 1962 - The NS Savannah, the world's first nuclear-powered cargo ship, completes its maiden voyage.
● 1963 - Joe Walker in X-15 test plane reaches altitude of 106 km (67 miles).
● 1966 - ICI announces big nylon job losses; Britain's largest manufacturing company Imperial Chemical Industries announces 1,000 redundancies at its nylon-fibre producing factories.
● 1966 - Labor movements NFWA and AWOC merge to become the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), predecessor of the United Farm Workers.
● 1968 - Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America.
● 1969 - Hurricane Camille strikes U.S. Gulf Coast kills 255
● 1971 - FBI arrests twenty in Camden, New Jersey, and five in Buffalo, New York, for attempting to steal and destroy draft records.
● 1972 - Due to its racial policies, Rhodesia was asked to withdraw from the 20th Olympic Summer Games.
● 1972 - Police arrest 891 over two days as thousands of anti-war protesters disrupt the Miami Beach convention of Republican Party.
● 1973 - Henry Kissinger was named Secretary of State by U.S. President Nixon. Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize in the same year.
● 1976 - 179 arrested at anti-nuke rally, Seabrook, New Hampshire.
● 1978 - Kenya's founding father dies; The Kenyan president, Jomo Kenyatta, dies aged 89 at his home in Mombasa.
● 1978 - Sandanista's capture of Nicaraguan National Palace starts revolution.
● 1979 - 200 black leaders, meet in NY, to support Andrew Young
● 1982 - Gen Ariel Sharon urges Palestinians to discuss peaceful coexistence
● 1984 - Rep convention in Dallas renominates Pres Reagan & VP Bush
● 1984 - The last Volkswagen Rabbit rolled off the assembly line in New Stanton, PA.
● 1985 - 55 people were killed in a fire aboard a British Airtours charter jet on a runway in England.
● 1986 - Police chief cleared of misconduct; Deputy chief constable of Greater Manchester police John Stalker is cleared of misconduct.
● 1986 - Kerr-McGee Corp. agreed to pay the estate of the late Karen Silkwood $1.38 million to settle a 10-year-old nuclear contamination lawsuit.
● 1986 - NASA announces tests designed to verify ignition pressure dynamics
● 1988 - Australia unveils 1st platinum coin (Koala)
● 1989 - 1st complete ring around Neptune discovered
● 1989 - Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panthers, was shot to death in Oakland, CA. Tyrone Robinson was later convicted and sentenced to 32 years to life in prison for the killing.
● 1990 - Angry smokers blocked a street in Moscow to protest the summer-long cigarette shortage.
● 1990 - The U.S. State Department announced that the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait would not be closed under President Saddam Hussein's demand.
● 1990 - U.S. President Bush signed an order for calling reservists to aid in the build up of troops in the Persian Gulf.
● 1991 - It was announced by Yugoslavia that a truce ordered on August 7th with Croatia had collapsed.
● 1991 - Mikhail S. Gorbachev returned to Moscow after the collapse of the hard-liners' coup. On the same day he purged the men that had tried to oust him.
● 1992 - FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
● 1992 - In Rostock, Germany, neo-Nazi violence broke out against foreigners.
● 1995 - Congressman Mel Reynolds of Illinois was convicted in Chicago of criminal sexual assault, sexual abuse, child pornography and obstruction of justice for having sex with a former campaign worker who had been underage at the time.
● 1996 - U.S. President Clinton signed legislation that ended guaranteed cash payments to the poor and demanded work from recipients.
● 1998 - Mark David Chapman said that he did not want any of the money that would be made from the sale of the signed "Double Fantasy" album that John Lennon signed for him the same day he was killed. Chapman was currently serving sentence for the December 8, 1980 murder.
● 1999 - Man in custody after burglary shooting; A 54-year-old farmer is arrested after a suspected burglar was killed at a farmhouse in Norfolk.
● 2000 - It was announced that all 118 crewmembers aboard the Kursk submarine were dead. The Russian vessel had sunk on August 4.
● 2003 - Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore was suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building.
● 2004 - In Oslo, Norway, a version of Edvard Munch's "The Scream" and his work "Madonna" were stolen from the Munch Museum. This version of "The Scream," one of four different versions, was a tempera painting on board.
● 2005 - The last Jewish settlers left the Gaza Strip, ending decades of Israel's turbulent occupation.
● 2006 - Pulkovo Airlines Flight 612 crashes, killing 170 people.
BIRTHS
● 1601 - Georges de Scudéry, French writer (d. 1667)
● 1624 - Jean Renaud de Segrais, French writer (d. 1701)
● 1647 - Denis Papin, French physicist and inventor (d. c. 1712)
● 1679 - Pierre Guérin de Tencin, French cardinal (d. 1758)
● 1760 - Pope Leo XII (d. 1829)
● 1764 - Charles Percier, French architect (d. 1838)
● 1771 - Henry Maudslay, English inventor (d. 1831)
● 1773 - Aimé Bonpland, French explorer (d. 1858)
● 1779 - James Kirke Paulding, American author (d. 1860)
● 1800 - William S. Harney, U.S. general (d. 1889)
● 1800 - Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian-Jewish scholar (d. 1865)
● 1811 - William Kelly, American inventor (d. 1888)
● 1822 - Virginia Clemm Poe, wife of Edgar Allan Poe (d. 1847)
● 1827 - Ezra Butler Eddy, Canadian businessman, industrialist and politician (d. 1906)
● 1834 - Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer (d. 1906)
● 1836 - Archibald MacNeal Willard, American artist (d. 1918)
● 1848 - Melville E. Stone, American newspaper publisher (d. 1929)
● 1854 - Milan I, King of Serbia (d. 1901)
● 1860 - Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, German inventor (d. 1940)
● 1861 - Mary Elizabeth Wood, American librarian and missionary (d. 1931)
● 1862 - Claude Debussy, French composer (d. 1918)
● 1867 - Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and nutritionist (d. 1939)
● 1868 - Willis Whitney, American chemist; founded General Electric research laboratory (d. 1958)
● 1873 - Alexander Bogdanov, Russian physician and philosopher (d. 1928)
● 1874 - Max Scheler, German philosopher (d. 1928)
● 1880 - George Herriman, American cartoonist (d. 1944)
● 1880 - Gorch Fock, German author and poet (d. 1916)
● 1887 - Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, German minister of finance (d. 1977)
● 1891 - Jacques Lipchitz, Lithuanian-born American sculptor (d. 1973)
● 1893 - Dorothy Parker, American writer (d. 1967)
● 1893 - Wilfred Kitching, British Salvation Army general (d. 1977)
● 1895 - Paul Comtois, French Canadian politician (d. 1966)
● 1900 - Sergei Ozhegov, Russian lexicographer (d. 1964)
● 1900 - Elizabeth Bergner, Austrian motion-picture and stage actress (d. 1986)
● 1902 - Leni Riefenstahl, German film director (d. 2003)
● 1902 - Thomas Pelly, American politician (d. 1973)
● 1904 - Deng Xiaoping, Premier of the People's Republic of China (d. 1997)
● 1908 - Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (d. 2004)
● 1909 - Julius J. Epstein, American screenwriter (d. 2000)
● 1909 - Mel Hein, American football player (d. 1992)
● 1909 - Lucille Ricksen, American actress (d. 1925)
● 1913 - Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist (d. 1993)
● 1913 - Arthur M. Sackler, American physician, publisher and art collector (d. 1987)
● 1915 - Hugh Paddick, British actor (d. 2000)
● 1915 - James Hillier, Co-inventor of the electron microscope (d. 2007)
● 1915 - Edward Szczepanik, former Polish Prime Minister (d. 2005)
● 1917 - John Lee Hooker, American guitarist and singer (d. 2001)
● 1918 - Mary McGrory, American journalist (d. 2004)
● 1920 - Ray Bradbury, American writer
● 1920 - Denton Cooley, American heart surgeon
● 1922 - Micheline Presle, French actress
● 1924 - James Kirkwood, American librettist, actor and playwright (d. 1989)
● 1925 - James Kirkwood, Jr., American playwright and author (d. 1989)
● 1928 - Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer
● 1930 - Gilmar, Brazilian football player
● 1932 - Gerald P. Carr, American astronaut
● 1934 - Norman Schwarzkopf, U.S. general
● 1935 - E. Annie Proulx, American author
● 1935 - Morton Dean, Broadcast journalist
● 1936 - Dale Hawkins, American singer and songwriter
● 1938 - Paul Maguire, American football commentator
● 1939 - George Reinholt, American actor
● 1939 - Carl Yastrzemski, baseball player and Hall of Fame member
● 1940 - Valerie Harper, American actress ("The Mary Tyler Moore Show," "Rhoda")
● 1940 - Bill McCartney, former college football coach
● 1941 - Bill Parcells, American football coach
● 1943 - Masatoshi Shima, Japanese computer scientist
● 1945 - Ron Dante, American songwriter and record producer (The Archies)
● 1945 - Erol Gelenbe, Turkish computer scientist, electrical engineer and applied mathematician
● 1945 - Steve Kroft, Broadcast journalist ("60 Minutes")
● 1947 - Cindy Williams, American actress ("Laverne and Shirley")
● 1947 - Donna Godchaux, singer (Grateful Dead)
● 1948 - Eleonora Brown, Italian actress
● 1949 - Diana Nyad, American swimmer, world record holder
● 1949 - Doug Bair, baseball player
● 1949 - Þórarinn Eldjárn, an Icelandic writer
● 1949 - Alfred Musema, Rwandan genocidaire
● 1950 - Ray Burris, baseball player
● 1953 - Paul Ellering, American wrestling manager
● 1955 - Will Shetterly, writer
● 1955 - Chiranjeevi, Telugu film actor
● 1956 - Paul Molitor, baseball player and Hall of Fame member
● 1957 - Holly Dunn, Country singer
● 1957 - Steve Davis, English snooker player
● 1958 - Colm Feore, American-born actor
● 1958 - Lane Huffman, American professional wrestler
● 1958 - Vernon Reid, American musician (Living Colour)
● 1959 - Juan Croucier, American musician
● 1959 - Pia Gjellerup, Danish politician
● 1959 - Ricky Lynn Gregg, Country singer
● 1959 - Collin Raye, Country singer
● 1960 - Regina Taylor, actress
● 1961 - Roland Orzabal, British musician (Tears for Fears)
● 1961 - Debbi Peterson, American singer (The Bangles).
● 1962 - Gary Lee Conner, Rock musician (Screaming Trees)
● 1963 - Tori Amos, American singer/songwriter
● 1963 - Terry Catledge, American basketball player
● 1963 - James DeBarge, R&B musician
● 1963 - Mila Mason, Country singer
● 1964 - Mats Wilander, Swedish tennis player and Hall of Fame member
● 1965 - Tom Gibis, American voice actor
● 1966 - GZA, American rapper (Wu-Tang Clan)
● 1966 - Eric Andolsek, American football player (d. 1992)
● 1967 - Layne Staley, American musician (Alice in Chains) (d. 2002)
● 1967 - Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, British actor
● 1967 - Ty Burrell, American actor
● 1967 - Alfred Gough, American screenwriter
● 1967 - Yukiko Okada, Japanese singer (d. 1986)
● 1968 - Paul Colman, Australian guitarist (Newsboys)
● 1968 - Anthony "Ant" Kalloniatis, Greek-American comedian
● 1968 - Alexander Mostovoi, Russian footballer
● 1968 - Horst Skoff, Austrian tennis player
● 1970 - Charlie Connelly, English writer
● 1970 - Giada De Laurentiis, chef and television host
● 1971 - Richard Armitage, English actor
● 1971 - Rick Yune, Korean American actor
● 1972 - Steve Kline, baseball player
● 1972 - Okkert Brits, South African pole vaulter
● 1972 - Max Wilson, Brazilian racing driver
● 1972 - Paul Doucette, Rock musician (Matchbox Twenty)
● 1973 - Howie Dorough, American singer (Backstreet Boys)
● 1973 - Beenie Man, Rapper, reggae singer
● 1974 - William Kucmierowski, American professional wrestler
● 1974 - Agustín Pichot, Argentine rugby player
● 1975 - Clint Bolton, Australian footballer
● 1974 - Jenna Leigh Green, Actress
● 1975 - Sheree Murphy, British actress
● 1975 - Rodrigo Santoro, Brazilian actor
● 1977 - Heiðar Helguson, Icelandic footballer
● 1977 - Keren Cytter, artist, filmmaker, and writer
● 1978 - Jeff Stinco, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
● 1980 - Christi Shake, American model and actress
● 1980 - Roland Benschneider, German footballer
● 1980 - Nicolas Macrozonaris, Quebec 100m sprinter
● 1981 - Alex Holmes, American football player
● 1983 - Theo Bos, Dutch cyclist
● 1983 - Laura Breckenridge, American actress
DEATHS
● 408 - Stilicho, Roman general (b. 359)
● 1155 - Konoe, Emperor of Japan (b. 1139)
● 1188 - Ferdinand II, King of Leon (b. 1137)
● 1241 - Gregory IX, Italian religious leader, 178th Pope (b. c. 1143)
● 1280 - Nicholas III, Italian religious leader, 188th Pope (b. c. 1216)
● 1304 - John II, Count of Hainaut (b. 1247)
● 1350 - Philip VI, King of France (b. 1293)
● 1485 - Richard III, King of England (b. 1452)
● 1553 - John Dudley, English admiral and politician (b. 1501)
● 1572 - Thomas Percy, Earl of Northumberland (b. 1528)
● 1584 - Jan Kochanowski, Polish writer (b. 1530)
● 1599 - Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman (b. 1577)
● 1599 - Luca Marenzio, Italian composer (b. c. 1553)
● 1607 - Bartholomew Gosnold, English explorer and privateer (b. 1572)
● 1609 - Maharal of Prague, Jewish mystic and philosopher (b. 1525)
● 1652 - Jacob De la Gardie, Swedish soldier and statesman (b. 1583)
● 1680 - John George II, Elector of Saxony (b. 1613)
● 1701 - John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (b. 1628)
● 1711 - Louis François, duc de Boufflers, French marshal (b. 1644)
● 1752 - William Whiston, English mathematician (b. 1667)
● 1773 - George Lyttelton, English writer and politician (b. 1709)
● 1793 - Louis, 4th duc de Noailles, Marshal of France (b. 1713)
● 1797 - Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, Alsatian-born Austrian general (b. 1724)
● 1806 - Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French artist (b. 1732)
● 1818 - Warren Hastings, British Governor-General of India (b. 1732)
● 1828 - Franz Joseph Gall, Austrian neuroscientist (b. 1758)
● 1850 - Nikolaus Lenau, Austrian poet (b. 1802)
● 1861 - Xianfeng, Emperor of China (b. 1831)
● 1891 - Jan Neruda, Czech author (b. 1834)
● 1903 - Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1830)
● 1914 - Giacomo Radini-Tedeschi bishop of Bergamo
● 1918 - Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist (b. 1868)
● 1922 - Michael Collins, Irish revolutionary (b. 1890)
● 1926 - Charles W. Eliot, American President of Harvard University (b. 1834)
● 1940 - Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, English physicist, spiritualist, pioneer in wireless telegraphy (b. 1851)
● 1942 - Michel Fokine, Russian choreographer and dancer (b. 1880)
● 1950 - Kirk Bryan, American geologist (b. 1888)
● 1953 - Jim Tabor, baseball player (b. 1916)
● 1958 - Roger Martin du Gard, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
● 1965 - Ellen Church, First American airline stewardess (b. 1904)
● 1967 - Gregory Goodwin Pincus, American endocrinologist (b. 1903)
● 1974 - Jacob Bronowski, Polish-English mathematician & TV presenter (b. 1908)
● 1976 - Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, President of Brazil (b. 1902)
● 1976 - Gina Bachauer, Greek pianist (b. 1913)
● 1977 - Sebastian Cabot, English-born actor (b. 1918)
● 1978 - Jomo Kenyatta, first Prime Minister of Kenya (b. c. 1892)
● 1979 - James T. Farrell, American novelist (b. 1904)
● 1980 - James Smith McDonnell, American aircraft manufacturer (b. 1899)
● 1989 - Huey P. Newton, American activist (b. 1942)
● 1991 - Colleen Dewhurst, Canadian actress (b. 1924)
● 1994 - Gilles Groulx, French Canadian film director (b. 1931)
● 2003 - Arnold Gerschwiler, Swiss-born figure skating trainer (b. 1914)
● 2003 - Generosa Ammon, widow of Ted Ammon (b. 1956)
● 2003 - Imperio Argentina, Argentinian singer and actress (b. 1906)
● 2004 - Konstantin Aseev, Russian chess player (b. 1960)
● 2004 - Daniel Petrie, Canadian-born television and movie director (b. 1920)
● 2004 - Al Dvorin, American announcer on Elvis Presley's shows (b. c.1923)
● 2005 - Luc Ferrari, French composer (b. 1929)
● 2006 - Bruce Gary, American rock drummer, producer (The Knack) (b. 1951)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● Mary, Immaculate Heart
● Mary, Queen of Angels
● St. Andrew the Scot
● St. Antoninus
● St. Arnulf
● St. Athanasius
● St. Ethelgitha
● Sts. Fabrician and Philibert
● St. Gunifort
● St. Hippolytus of Porto
● St. John Kemble
● St. John Wall
● St. Martial
● St. Maurus & Companions
● St. Sigfrid
● Bl. Richard Kirkman
● Bl. William Lacey
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for August 9 (Civil Date: August 22)
● Afterfeast of the Transfiguration.
● Apostle Matthias.
● Martyr Anthony of Alexandria.
● Martyrs Julian, Marcian, John, James, Alexius, Demetrius, Photius (Phocas), Peter, Leontius and Mary of Constantinople.
● St. Psoes of Egypt.
● St. Macarius, abbot of Oredezh.
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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