Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Anger "In a controversy, the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves." — Thomas Carlyle
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Family Values "See, I'm not among those who think that the show ["Ellen] should be hanged, drawn and banned. If someone's idea of great comedy is a TV show based on the premise that a homosexual is just like the rest of us, then who am I not to go along with the joke? . . . But is television ready for a fully layered character who is respected for her stand against divorce or for the traditional, intact family? A reverse-Maude, who in the face of the narrow-minded bigotries of the political left, finds the courage to stand against a permissive culture that has spread the seeds of violence, substance abuse, sexually transmitted disease and moral impoverishment that afflict our society?" — Dennis Byrne, member of the editorial board of the Chicago Sun-Times, "The Deification of Ellen," 4-29-97
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "We don't necessarily discriminate. We simply exclude certain types of people." — Colonel Gerald Wellman, ROTC instructor
Thought for the day: "Beware the man who can't be bothered with details."
{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
Southern Moonscape
Credit & Copyright: Wes Higgins
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 79 - Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.
● 410 - Visigoths sack Rome.
● 1305 - William Wallace, Scottish patriot, is executed at for high treason by Edward I of England.
● 1328 - Battle of Cassel: French troops stop an uprising of Flemish farmers.
● 1500 - Christopher Columbus, accused of mistreating the natives of Haiti, is arrested and sent back to Spain in chains.
● 1541 - French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada.
● 1555 - Calvinists are granted rights in the Netherlands.
● 1572 - In France, late this night, Catholic conspirators began massacring thousands of Huguenots (French Protestants), under orders of Catherine de Medici, advisor to her son, Charles IX, King of France.
● 1595 - Michael the Brave confronts the Ottoman army in the Battle of Calugareni.
● 1614 - The University of Groningen is established.
● 1617 - 1st one-way streets established (London)
● 1651 - Charles II of England enters Worcester and starts a fight.
● 1708 - Meidingnu Pamheiba is crowned King of Manipur.
● 1754 - France's King Louis XVI was born at Versailles.
● 1775 - King George III declares that the American colonies exist in a state of open and avowed rebellion.
● 1784 - Western North Carolina (now eastern Tennessee) declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin; it wasn’t accepted into the United States, and only lasted for four years.
● 1793 - French Revolution: a levée en masse was decreed by the National Convention.
● 1799 - Napoleon leaves Egypt for France en route to seize power.
● 1813 - At the Battle of Grossbeeren, the Prussians under Von Bülow repulse the French army.
● 1823 - Karl F. A. GÀGÀtzlaff, 20, first arrived in Bangkok the first missionary ever to reach Thailand. Representing the Netherlands Missionary Society, GÀGÀtzlaff and his wife later translated the complete Bible into Siamese, and portions of it into the Lao and Cambodian languages.
● 1833 - Britain abolishes slavery in colonies; 700,000 slaves freed
● 1834 - British National Trades Union founded.
● 1838 - The first class was graduated from Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley, MA. It was one of the first colleges for women.
● 1839 - The United Kingdom captures Hong Kong as a base as it prepares to war with Qing China. The ensuing 3-year conflict will later be known as the First Opium War.
● 1864 - The Union Navy captures Fort Morgan, Alabama, thus breaking Confederate dominance of all ports on the Gulf of Mexico.
● 1866 - Treaty of Prague ends Austro-Prussian war
● 1869 - 1st carload of freight (boots & shoes) arrives in SF, from Boston
● 1872 - 1st Japanese commercial ship visits San Francisco, carrying tea
● 1876 - Canadian Assiniboine cede 121,000 square miles (twice the size of Washington state) in Treaty #6.
● 1877 - The Texas outlaw Wes Hardin was captured in near Pensacola, FL.
● 1882 - Death of Charles W. Fry, 45, English Salvation Army worker. It was Fry who penned the words to the lyric hymn, "I Have Found a Friend in Jesus" (a.k.a. "Lily of the Valley").
● 1889 - 1st ship-to-shore wireless message received in US at San Francisco.
● 1892 - The printed streetcar transfer was patented by John H. Stedman.
● 1896 - First Cry of the Philippine Revolution is made in Pugad Lawin (Quezon City), in the province of Manila.
● 1900 - Folk and protest singer Malvina Reynolds born, San Francisco, California. Was refused her diploma by Lowell High School because her parents were opposed to U.S. participation in World War I.
● 1900 - National Negro Business League organizes (Boston)
● 1902 - Fannie Merrit Farmer opened her cooking school, Miss Farmer’s School of Cookery, in Boston, MA.
● 1903 - Birth of Muhammad Yamin. Indonesian writer and politician, member of the leftist Murba Party. One of the pioneers of modern poetry in Indonesia.
● 1904 - Hard D. Weed patented the grip-tread tire chain for cars.
● 1909 - Battle between police and IWW strikers at the Pressed Steel Car Plant in McKees Rock, Pennsylvania, leaves 11 people dead. The strikers held solid and kept public opinion on their side, eventually forcing the company to concede.
● 1911 - "Discovery" of Ishi, last member of the Yahi Yana, his Native American tribe in Northern California. He would surrender five days later. He had escaped from settlers who exterminated the rest of the Yahis, along with the elk they had hunted, only to spend his last years in captivity, studied by anthropoligists as a freakish curiosity.
● 1912 - Gene Kelly, the American dancer and choreographer, was born.
● 1914 - World War I: Japan declares war on Germany and bombs Qingdao, China.
● 1914 - World War I: the Battle of Mons; the British Army begins withdrawal.
● 1917 - Riot occurs in Houston, Texas, when the 24th Infantry seeks revenge on the city's white police after the brutal beating of two of the regiment's soldiers. After two hours of violence, 15 whites, including four policemen, are killed, and 12 more injured. Four soldiers die. 118 soldiers are charged in connection with the riots and 19 executed, most in almost total secrecy, in one of the most infamous court-martials ever involving African-Americans.
● 1921 - Faisal I crowned King of Iraq.
● 1923 - Capt. Lowell Smith and Lt. John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling on De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours.
● 1924 - Mars' closest approach to Earth since the 10th century
● 1926 - Rudolph Valentino died. He was 31 and had been a silent film star.
● 1927 - Nicola Sacco and Bartolemeo Vanzetti were executed in Boston, MA, for the murder of two men during a 1920 robbery.
● 1929 - Hebron Massacre: Arab attack of the Jewish community in the British Mandate of Palestine resulted in 133 Jews killed, 67 in Hebron.
● 1933 - British rulers release Mohandas Gandhi from Indian jail after a one-week fast.
● 1933 - Vigilantes assault 200 migrant workers in Yakima, Washington.
● 1939 - World War II: Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression treaty, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. In a secret addition to the pact, Baltic states, Finland and Poland are divided between the two nations.
● 1940 - World War II: The Germans start bombing London.
● 1942 - World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad.
● 1943 - World War II: Kharkov liberated.
● 1944 - During World War II, Romanian prime minister Ion Antonescue was dismissed. Soon after the country would abandon the Axis and join the Allies.
● 1944 - Freckleton Air Disaster - A United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into a school in Freckleton, England killing 71 people, including 51 children.
● 1944 - Marseilles was captured by Allied troops during World War II.
● 1944 - World War II King Michael of Romania dismisses the pro-Nazi government of General Antonescu, who is arrested. Romania switches sides from the Axis to the Allies. (National Day 1944-1990)
● 1946 - Ordinance No. 46 of the British Military Government constitutes the German Land (state) of Schleswig-Holstein.
● 1947 - Margaret Truman, U.S. President Truman's daughter, gave her first public performance as a singer. The event was at the Hollywood Bowl and had an audience of 15,000.
● 1948 - During its Amsterdam Assembly (Aug 22-Sept 4), the newly-formed World Council of Churches officially ratified its Constitution. Formed by 147 churches from 44 countries
● 1950 - West Germany and Japan readmitted to Intl Amateur Athletic Federation.
● 1952 - Death of Frederick George Kenyon, 89, British archaeologist and language scholar. Kenyon devoted his life to discovering biblical parallels in ancient Greek papyri, convincing critics that science does not disprove the Bible.
● 1952 - The security pact of the Arab League went into effect.
● 1958 - Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army's bombardment of Quemoy.
● 1960 - Broadway librettist Oscar Hammerstein II died at age 65.
● 1960 - World's largest frog (3.3 kg) caught (Equatorial Guinea)
● 1961 - US lunar probe Ranger 1 reaches 190 km from Earth, falls back
● 1961 - Couple found shot in A6 lay-by; Police launch a murder hunt after a man is found shot dead and his companion seriously wounded in a lay-by in Bedfordshire.
● 1962 - First live television connection between the United States and Europe, via the Telstar satellite. {I actually remember watching this, it was a ballet dancer performing.}
● 1966 - Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
● 1972 - Republican convention (Miami Beach, Fla) renominates VP Agnew but not unanimously, one vote went to NBC newsman David Brinkley
● 1973 - The Intelsat communication satellite is launched.
● 1975 - Successful Communist coup in Laos.
● 1977 - The Gossamer Condor wins the Kremer prize for human powered flight of one mile or more.
● 1979 - Kurdish revolt grows in Iran; Kurds in Iran oust government troops from a large area near the Iraqi border.
● 1979 - Soviet dancer Alexander Godunov defected while the Bolshoi Ballet was on tour in New York City.
● 1979 - UN's Vienna office opens
● 1981 - Five hundred attend naming of the Pacific Peacemaker, Sydney Opera House, Australia.
● 1982 - The parliament of Lebanon elected Bashir Bemayel president. He was assassinated three weeks later.
● 1983 - Back-to-the-Earth advocate Scott Nearing dies, Maine.
● 1984 - South Fork Ranch, the home of the fictitious Ewing clan of the CBS-TV show, "Dallas," was sold. The ranch was to be transformed from a tourist site into a hotel.
● 1985 - Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany.
● 1985 - Paul Hornung awarded $1,160,000 by a Louisville court against NCAA who barred him as a college football analyst for betting on games
● 1986 - Gennady Zakharov was arrested by the FBI and charged with espionage. Zakharov was a physicist that had been assigned by the United Nations.
● 1987 - Heavy rains and floods in Bangladesh kill hundreds of victims.
● 1989 - Yusuf Hawkins, a black teenager, was shot dead after he and his friends were confronted by white youths in a Brooklyn neighborhood.
● 1989 - All of Australia's 1,645 domestic airline pilots resign after the airlines threaten to fire them and sue them over a dispute.
● 1989 - R.D. Laing, radical anti-psychiatrist, dies.
● 1989 - Singing Revolution: two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania stand on the Vilnius-Tallinn road, holding hands (Baltic Way).
● 1990 - Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
● 1990 - President Saddam Hussein appeared on Iraqi state television with a group of Western detainees that he referred to as "guests." He told the group that they were being held "to prevent the scourge of war."
● 1990 - West Germany and East Germany announce that they will unite on October 3.
● 1991 - Gorbachev punishes coup plotters; Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev begins his purge of cabinet members and officials involved in the failed coup four days ago.
● 1992 - An Amtrak passenger train in Wallingford, CT, hit a truck at a crossing. Three people were killed in the accident.
● 1992 - Hurricane Andrew hit the Bahamas with 120 mile per hour winds.
● 1993 - Larry Nevers and Walter Budzyn were convicted in the beating death of Malice Green. Both former Detroit police officers received prison terms.
● 1996 - Osama bin Laden issues message entitled 'A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places.' {Of course after 9/11, the Bush administration meets the demands of this declaration and American troops are removed from Saudi Arabia. Newest demands want us out of Iraq, will it take another 3,000 American civilian deaths for this to happen?}
● 1996 - U.S. President Clinton imposed limits on peddling cigarettes to children.
● 1998 - Boris Yeltsin dismissed the Russian government again.
● 1998 - Kathryn Schoonover was arrested when she was caught stuffing envelopes with cyanide and preparing to send them to people around the U.S.
● 1998 - Michael Jones, a 16-year old boy, was shot when he refused to drop a water gun that appeared real to police officers. In New York City it was illegal to carry or to possess a toy gun that looks real or is painted black.
● 1998 - Protestors in Sudan carried a sign that bore the resemblance of Monica Lewinsky and the words "No War for Monika." The anti-U.S. demonstration was in Khartoum, Sudan.
● 1999 - Rescuers in Turkey found a young boy that had been buried in rubble from an earthquake for about a week.
● 1999 - Robert Bogucki was rescued after getting lost in the Great Sandy Desert of Australia on July 11. During the 43 day ordeal Bogucki lost 44 pounds.
● 2000 - A Gulf Air Airbus A320 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143.
● 2000 - Nicaragua becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. This essentially deprecated the Buenos Aires Convention treaty, because as of this date, all members of the BA Convention were also signatories to Berne.
● 2001 - California Congressman Gary Condit gave an interview to ABC's Connie Chung. Condit denied involvement in Chandra Levy's disappearance and avoided directly answering questions about whether they had an affair.
● 2002 - New York publicist Lizzie Grubman pleaded guilty in a hit-and-run crash that injured 16 people outside a Hamptons nightclub.
● 2003 - Former priest John Geoghan, the convicted child molester whose prosecution sparked the sex abuse scandal that shook the Roman Catholic Church nationwide, died after another inmate attacked him in a Massachusetts prison.
● 2005 - Israeli forces evicted militant holdouts from two Jewish settlements, completing a historic withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and part of the West Bank.
● 2005 - TANS Peru Flight 204 crashes near Pucallpa, Peru, killing 41.
● 2006 - Natascha Kampusch, who was abducted at the age of 10, managed to escape from her captor Wolfgang Priklopil, after 8 years of captivity.
BIRTHS
● 686 - Charles Martel, grandfather of Charlemagne (d. 741)
● 1486 - Sigismund von Herberstein, Austrian diplomat and historian (d. 1566)
● 1524 - François Hotman, French lawyer and writer (d. 1590)
● 1623 - Stanisław Lubieniecki, Polish astronomer (d. 1675)
● 1724 - Abraham Yates, American Continental Congressman (d. 1796)
● 1741 - Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse, French explorer (d. 1788)
● 1754 - King Louis XVI of France (d. 1793)
● 1769 - Georges Cuvier, French biologist and statesman (d. 1832)
● 1783 - William Tierney Clark, English civil engineer (d. 1852)
● 1785 - Oliver Hazard Perry, U.S. naval officer (d. 1819)
● 1805 - Anton von Schmerling, Austrian statesman (d. 1893)
● 1814 - James Roosevelt Bayley, first Bishop of Newark, New Jersey, and the eighth Archbishop of Baltimore (d. 1877)
● 1829 - Moritz Cantor, German mathematician (d. 1920)
● 1843 - William Southam, Canadian newspaper publisher (d. 1932)
● 1847 - Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (d. 1927)
● 1849 - William Ernest Henley, British poet, critic, and editor (d. 1903)
● 1852 - Arnold Toynbee, English economist and social reformer (d. 1883)
● 1854 - Moritz Moszkowski, Polish/German composer (d. 1925)
● 1864 - Eleftherios Venizelos, Prime Minister of Greece (d.1936)
● 1868 - Edgar Lee Masters, American poet and novelist (d. 1950)
● 1869 - Edgar Lee Masters, American author (d. 1950)
● 1871 - Jack Butler Yeats, Irish painter (d. 1957)
● 1875 - William Eccles, English radio pioneer (d. 1966)
● 1875 - Eugene Lanceray, Russian artist (d. 1946)
● 1880 - Alexander Grin, Russian writer (d. 1932)
● 1883 - Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV, U.S. general (d. 1953)
● 1884 - Will Cuppy, American humorist (d. 1949)
● 1884 - Ogden L. Mills, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1927-1932 (d. 1937)
● 1900 - Ernst Krenek, Austrian-born composer (d. 1991)
● 1900 - Malvina Reynolds, American folk singer/songwriter (d. 1978)
● 1901 - John Sherman Cooper, U.S. Senator from Kentucky (d. 1991)
● 1903 - William Primrose, Scottish violist (d. 1982)
● 1905 - Constant Lambert, British composer (d. 1951)
● 1908 - Hannah Frank, Scottish Artist and Sculptor
● 1910 - Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer (d. 1979)
● 1911 - Birger Ruud, Norwegian athlete (d. 1998)
● 1912 - Gene Kelly, American dancer and actor (d. 1996)
● 1917 - Tex Williams, American singer (d. 1985)
● 1919 - Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin, Russian mathematician (d. 1984)
● 1921 - Kenneth Arrow, American economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner
● 1922 - George Kell, baseball player
● 1922 - Jean Darling, American child actress
● 1922 - Pierre Gauvreau, Quebec painter, television writer and producer
● 1923 - Edgar F. Codd, English computer scientist (d. 2003)
● 1924 - Ephraim Kishon, Israeli writer (d. 2005)
● 1924 - Robert Solow, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
● 1925 - Robert Mulligan, American movie and television director ("To Kill a Mockingbird")
● 1927 - Dick Bruna, Dutch illustrator
● 1928 - Marian Seldes, American actress
● 1929 - Vera Miles, American actress
● 1930 - Michel Rocard, Prime Minister of France
● 1931 - Hamilton O. Smith, American microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
● 1932 - Houari Boumedienne, President of Algeria (d. 1978)
● 1932 - Mark Russell, American comedian, musician, and political commentator
● 1933 - Robert Curl, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
● 1933 - Pete Wilson, former Governor of California
● 1934 - Barbara Eden, American actress ("I Dream of Jeannie")
● 1934 - Sonny Jurgensen, American football player and Hall of Fame member
● 1936 - Henry Lee Lucas, American serial killer (d. 2001)
● 1940 - Richard Sanders, Actor ("WKRP in Cincinnati")
● 1943 - Nelson DeMille, American novelist
● 1944 - Antonia Novello, former United States Surgeon General
● 1946 - Keith Moon, English singer and drummer (The Who) (d. 1978)
● 1947 - Willy Russell, British playwright
● 1947 - David Robb, British actor
● 1947 - Rex Allen Jr., Country singer
● 1948 - Andrei Pleşu, Romanian writer, essayist
● 1948 - Daniel Ruettiger "Rudy", University of Notre Dame football legend
● 1948 - Linda Thompson, Rock singer
● 1949 - Shelley Long, American actress ("Cheers")
● 1949 - Geoff Capes, English Strongman
● 1949 - Rick Springfield, Australian singer and actor
● 1949 - Woody Paul, Country singer, musician (Riders in the Sky)
● 1951 - Akhmad Kadyrov, President of Chechnya (d. 2004)
● 1951 - Queen Noor of Jordan
● 1951 - Jimi Jamison, American singer (Survivor)
● 1951 - Mark Hudson, Actor, producer
● 1952 - Vicky Leandros, Greek singer and politician
● 1953 - Bobby G, British singer (Bucks Fizz)
● 1954 - Charles Busch, American director, writer, actor and drag queen
● 1956 - Andreas Floer, German mathematician (d. 1991)
● 1956 - Valgerd Svarstad Haugland, Norwegian politician
● 1957 - Tasos Mitropoulos, Greek footballer and politician
● 1958 - Julio Franco, Atlanta Braves, oldest regular position player in MLB history
● 1959 - George Kalovelonis, Greek tennis player
● 1960 - Rodney Alan Greenblat, American graphic artist
● 1960 - Chris Potter, Canadian actor
● 1961 - Dean DeLeo, American musician (Stone Temple Pilots)
● 1962 - Martin Cauchon, Canadian politician
● 1963 - Hans-Henning Fastrich, German field hockey player
● 1963 - Kenny Wallace, American race car driver
● 1963 - Park Chan-wook, Korean director and screenwriter
● 1965 - Roger Avary, Canadian-born screenwriter, director, and producer
● 1966 - Rik Smits, Dutch-American basketball player
● 1968 - Chris DiMarco, American golfer
● 1969 - Keith Tyson, English artist
● 1969 - Jeremy Schaap, American sportswriter
● 1969 - Geneviève Brouillette, Quebec television and film actress
● 1969 - Ira Dean, Country musician (Trick Pony)
● 1970 - Jay Mohr, American actor and comedian
● 1970 - River Phoenix, American actor (d. 1993)
● 1971 - Demetrio Albertini, Italian footballer
● 1972 - Martin Grainger, English footballer
● 1972 - Raul Casanova, Puerto Rican baseball player
● 1974 - Ray Park, British actor
● 1974 - Shifty, American musician (Crazy Town)
● 1975 - Eliza Carthy, English singer and fiddler
● 1976 - Scott Caan, American actor
● 1977 - Douglas Sequeira, Costa Rican footballer
● 1977 - Shelly Fairchild, Country singer
● 1978 - Kobe Bryant, American basketball player
● 1978 - Julian Casablancas, American musician (The Strokes)
● 1979 - Edgar Sosa, Mexican boxer
● 1980 - Rex Grossman, American football player
● 1981 - Ozzy Lusth, American Survivor contestant
● 1982 - Natalie Coughlin, American swimmer
● 1982 - YTCracker, American musician
● 1984 - Glen Johnson, English footballer
● 1986 - Neil Cicierega, American cartoonist and musician
● 1996 - Eliza Pineda, Filipina child actress
DEATHS
● 93 - Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman Governor of Britain (b. 40)
● 634 - Abu Bakr, Arabian caliph
● 1106 - Magnus, Duke of Saxony
● 1176 - Emperor Rokujo of Japan (b. 1164)
● 1305 - William Wallace, Scottish patriot
● 1387 - King Olav IV of Norway (b. 1370)
● 1507 - Jean Molinet, French writer (b. 1435)
● 1519 - Philibert Berthelier, Swiss patriot
● 1540 - Guillaume Budé, French scholar
● 1591 - Luis Ponce de León, Spanish poet and mystic (b. 1527)
● 1618 - Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero, Dutch writer (b. 1585)
● 1628 - George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (b. 1592)
● 1652 - John Byron, 1st Baron Byron, English royalist politician (b. 1600)
● 1723 - Increase Mather, New England Puritan minister (b. 1639)
● 1806 - Charles Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist (b. 1736)
● 1813 - Alexander Wilson, Scottish-born ornithologist (b. 1766)
● 1819 - Oliver Hazard Perry, American naval officer (b. 1785)
● 1853 - Alexander Calder, first mayor of Beaumont, Texas (b. 1806)
● 1867 - Auguste-Marseille Barthélemy, French poet (b. 1796)
● 1926 - Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (b. 1895)
● 1927 - Nicola Sacco, Italian anarchist (b. 1891)
● 1927 - Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchist (b. 1888)
● 1937 - Albert Roussel, French composer (b. 1869)
● 1955 - Reginald Tate, British actor (b. 1896)
● 1960 - Oscar Hammerstein II, American lyricist (b. 1895)
● 1962 - Walter Anderson, German folklorist (b. 1885)
● 1962 - Hoot Gibson, American actor (b. 1892)
● 1963 - Glen Gray, American jazz musician and leader of the Casa Loma Orchestra (b. 1900)
● 1966 - Francis X. Bushman, American actor (b. 1883)
● 1967 - Georges Berger, Belgian racing driver (b. 1918)
● 1971 - The original Shamu, Sea World orca
● 1974 - Roberto Assagioli, Italian psychiatrist (b. 1888)
● 1982 - Stanford Moore, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
● 1987 - Didier Pironi, French racing car driver (b. 1952)
● 1989 - Mohammed Abed Elhai, Sudanese writer and academic (b. 1944)
● 1989 - R. D. Laing, Scottish psychiatrist (b. 1927)
● 1990 - David Rose, American composer and orchestra leader (b. 1910)
● 1995 - Dwayne Goettel, Canadian musician (Skinny Puppy)(b. 1964)
● 1997 - John Kendrew, British molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1917)
● 1999 - Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (b.1926)
● 1999 - James White, Northern Irish writer (b. 1928)
● 2001 - Kathleen Freeman, American actress (b. 1919)
● 2001 - Peter Maas, American novelist (b. 1929)
● 2002 - Hoyt Wilhelm, American baseball player (b. 1922)
● 2003 - Bobby Bonds, American baseball player and manager (b. 1946)
● 2003 - Jack Dyer, Australian rules footballer (b. 1913)
● 2003 - John Geoghan, American Catholic priest (b. 1935)
● 2005 - Brock Peters, American actor (b. 1927)
● 2005 - Ninjalicious, Canadian author and urban explorer (b. 1973)
● 2006 - Maynard Ferguson, Canadian jazz trumpeter and bandleader (b. 1928)
● 2007 - Robert Symonds, American actor (b. 1926)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Apollinaris
● St. Ascelina
● St. Astericus and Companions
● St. Ebba
● St. Eugene
● St. Flavian of Autun
● St. Lupicinus
● St. Lupus
● St. Minervius
● St. Philip Benizi
● St. Quiriacus
● St. Restitutus
● St. Rose of Lima, patron of Latin America
● St. Theonas
● St. Tydfil
● St. Victor of Vita
● St. Zacchaeus
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for August 10 (Civil Date: August 23)
● Afterfeast of the Transfiguration.
● Holy Martyr and Archdeacon Laurence of Rome
● Hieromartyr Sixtus, Bishop of Rome, and Martyrs Felicissimus and Agapitus, deacons.
● Martyr Romanus, soldier, of Rome.
● Blessed St. Laurence, fool-for-Christ at Kaluga.
● Greek Calendar:
● with St. Laurence, Martyr Hippolytus of Rome.
● Six Martyrs of Bizin.
● St. Heron the Philosopher.
● Roman festivals - Vulcanalia.
● Romania - Liberation Day (celebrated 1944 to 1990)
● Swaziland - Umhlanga Day.
● Ukraine - Flag Day.
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
Liberal Quotes of the Day taken from The Best Liberal Quotes Ever: Why the Left Is Right Compiled by William P. Martin ©2004
Quotes from the Right of the Day taken from Take Them at Their Words: Startling, Amusing and Baffling Quotations from the GOP and Their Friends, 1994-2004 Compiled by Bruce J. Miller with Diana Maio ©2004
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day taken from 1001 Dumbest Things Ever Said Edited by Steven D. Price ©2004
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