Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Animal Rights & Vegetarianism "When non-vegetarians say "human problems come first" I cannot but help wondering what exactly it is that they are doing for humans that compels them to continue to support the wasteful, ruthless exploitation of farm animals." — Pete Singer
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Cracks in the Melting Pot "The blacks from the low-income areas are less likely to convict. I understand it. It's an understandable proposition. There's a resentment for law enforcement. There's a resentment for authority. And as a result, you don't want those people on your jury." — Jack McMahon, Republican candidate for Philadelphia district attorney, produced this videotape in which, while working as a prosecutor, he advised prosecutors in his department on how to pick sympathetic juries. McMahon commented he did not recall details of the tape. L. Stuart Ditzen, Linda Loyd and Mark Fazlollah, "Avoid poor black jurors, McMahon said," Philadelphia Inquirer, 4-1-97
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure." — Bill Clinton
Thought for the day: "Nothing beats reading a good book when there is work to do."
{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
Astronomer's Moon
Credit & Copyright: Mikhail Abgarian, Konstantin Morozov, Yuri Goryachko (Minsk, Belarus)
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 49 B.C.E. - Julius Caesar's general Gaius Curio is defeated in the Second Battle of the Bagradas River by the Numidians under Attius Varus and King Juba of Numidia. Curio commits suicide to avoid capture.
● 79 - Mount Vesuvius erupted killing approximately 20,000 people. The cities of Pompeii, Stabiae and Herculaneum were buried in volcanic ash.
● 410 - The Visigoths overran Rome. This event symbolized the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
● 410 - The Visigoths sacked Rome, disillusioning Christians who were trusting in God's protection of this ecclesiastical center of early Christianity. St. Augustine (354-430) later tackled this religious problem in his monumental work, "City of God" (ca.413).
● 1215 - Pope Innocent III declares Magna Carta invalid.
● 1349 - Six thousand Jews are killed in Mainz after being blamed for the bubonic plague.
● 1391 - Jews massacred in Palma de Mallorca.
● 1456 - In Mainz, Germany, volume two of the famed Gutenberg Bible was bound, completing a two-year publishing project, and making it the first full-length book to be printed using movable type.
● 1511 - Alfonso de Albuquerque of Portugal conquers the Sultanate of Malacca.
● 1572 - Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre: On the orders of king Charles IX of France, a massacre of Huguenots (French Protestants) begins. The killings claimed about 70,000 people.
● 1608 - The first official English representative to India lands in Surat.
● 1662 - Act of Uniformity requires England to accept the Book of Common Prayer.
● 1680 - Colonel Thomas Blood died. He was the Irish adventurer that had stolen the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London in 1671.
● 1682 - William Penn receives the area that is now the state of Delaware, and adds it to his colony of Pennsylvania.
● 1690 - Calcutta, India is founded.
● 1751 - Thomas Colley executed in England for drowning supposed witch
● 1814 - British troops burn the Capitol and the White House after U.S. troops, fleeing so fast that only eight of them were killed, left Washington DC virtually undefended.
● 1816 - The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri.
● 1820 - Constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal.
● 1821 - The Treaty of Córdoba is signed in Córdoba, now in Veracruz, Mexico, concluding the Mexican War of Independence from Spain.
● 1831 - Charles Darwin is asked to travel on HMS Beagle.
● 1853 - 1st potato chips prepared by Chef George Crum (Saratoga Springs, NY)
● 1853 - The first convention of the American Pharmaceutical Association was held.
● 1854 - National emigration convention meets in Cleveland
● 1854 - The Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Iowa was organized by German Lutherans. In 1930, this synod merged with the synods of Ohio and Buffalo to form the American Lutheran Church.
● 1857 - The Panic of 1857 begins, setting off one of the most severe economic crises in U.S. history.
● 1858 - In Richmond, Virginia, 90 blacks are arrested for learning.
● 1867 - Johns Hopkins died. The railroad millionaire left $7.5 million in his will for the founding of a new medical school in his name.
● 1869 - A patent for the waffle iron was received by Cornelius Swarthout.
● 1870 - The Wolseley Expedition reaches Manitoba to end the Red River Rebellion.
● 1875 - Captain Matthew Webb became first person to swim English Channel
● 1880 - Joshua Lionel Cowen was born. He was the inventor of the toy electric train.
● 1889 - Birth of fantasist Jorge Luis Borges, Buenos Aires.
● 1891 - Thomas Edison applied patents for the kinetoscope and kinetograph (U.S. Pats. 493,426 and 589,168).
● 1899 - Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentinian writer of poems, essays and short stories, was born.
● 1906 - Five Baptist congregations met at Jellico Creek, Whitley County, Kentucky, and formed the Church of God of the Mountain Assembly. The CGMA both Pentecostal and holiness in doctrine reports a world membership today of 7,000.
● 1909 - Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
● 1912 - A four-pound limit was set for parcels sent through the U.S. Post Office mail system.
● 1912 - Alaska becomes a United States territory.
● 1912 - Cathlamet tribe awarded $7,000, Clatsop $16,000 and Chinook $20,000 for claims from loss of aboriginal lands at mouth of Columbia River.
● 1912 - US passes Anti-gag law, federal employees right to petition the government
● 1914 - World War I: German troops capture Namur.
● 1929 - Riots in Palestine of 1929: 18 Jews in Safed, 67 in Hebron, and 22 in Jerusalem killed by Arab Palestinians.
● 1929 - Turkey and Persia sign a friendship treaty.
● 1930 - Indochina - Two killed in riots on third anniversary of Sacco and Vanzetti execution.
● 1931 - France and the Soviet Union sign a neutrality/no attack treaty.
● 1931 - Resignation of the United Kingdom's Second Labour Government. Formation of the UK National Government.
● 1932 - Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop (from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey).
● 1934 - IWW pickets attacked by capitalist farmers, Yakima, Washington.
● 1936 - The Australian Antarctic Territory is created.
● 1939 - The leader of "Murder, Incorporated", Louis "Lepke" Buchalter, gave himself up to columnist Walter Winchell. Winchell then turned him over to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.
● 1939 - The Nazi-Soviet Pact is signed between Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin.
● 1942 - World War II: The Battle of the Eastern Solomons. Japanese aircraft carrier Ryūjō is sunk and US carrier Enterprise heavily damaged.
● 1943 - Danes from Odensa riot against government compliance with the Nazis.
● 1943 - Simone Weil dies, Ashford, Kent, England. Seven people attend her funeral. Mystic and anarchist sympathizer.
● 1944 - World War II: Allied troops start the attack on Paris.
● 1949 - North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) established by the U.S., Canada, and ten Western European nations. It established that an armed attack against one or more of them would be considered an attack against all.
● 1950 - Edith Sampson becomes the first black U.S. delegate to the UN.
● 1950 - Operation Magic Carpet-45,000 Yemenite Jews move to Israel
● 1954 - Brazilian president found dead; Brazilian president Getulio Vargas resigns under pressure from the military and then commits suicide just hours later and is succeeded by João Café Filho.
● 1954 - The Communist Party was virtually outlawed in the U.S. when the Communist Control Act went into effect.
● 1956 - 1st non-stop transcontinental helicopter flight arrived Wash DC
● 1958 - Six thousand in the sparsely populated Central American colony of British Honduras (now Belize) march for self-government.
● 1959 - Three days after Hawaiian statehood, Hiram L. Fong was sworn in as the first Chinese-American U.S. senator while Daniel K. Inouye was sworn in as the first Japanese-American U.S. representative.
● 1960 - 60 people die when bus plunges off bridge into Turvo River, Brazil
● 1960 - A temperature of −88°C (−127°F) is measured in Vostok, Antarctica — a world-record low. Still stands.
● 1961 - Former NAZI leader Johannes Vorster becomes South Africa's minister of justice (if the shoe fits...)
● 1966 - USSR launches Luna 11 for orbit around Moon
● 1967 - Led by Abbie Hoffman, a group of hippies temporarily disrupt trading at the NYSE by throwing 300 dollar bills from the viewing gallery, causing a cease in trading as the brokers scramble to grab them up.
● 1967 - Liberian flag designed
● 1967 - Penguins cool off in heat wave; Two penguins from Chessington Zoo are taken on a day trip to a local ice-rink to cool off during sweltering London temperatures.
● 1968 - France became the 5th thermonuclear power when they exploded a hydrogen bomb in the South Pacific.
● 1970 - A bomb went off at the University of Wisconsin's Army Math Research Center in Madison, WI. The bomb that killed Robert Fassnacht was set by anti-war extremists.
● 1970 - UFW lettuce strike begins.
● 1971 - State Attorney Edward Hanrihan of Illinois indicted in Chicago for attempting to block the prosecution of a policeman who raided a Black Panther apartment, killing two activists.
● 1976 - Soyuz 21 returns to Earth
● 1979 - UN's Vienna office begins issuing postage stamps
● 1981 - Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for murdering John Lennon.
● 1981 - South Africa invades Angola.
● 1985 - Sleeping boy killed in police raid; A five-year-old boy is shot dead in a police raid on his home in Birmingham.
● 1985 - 27 anti-apartheid leaders were arrested in South Africa as racial violence rocked the country.
● 1985 - STS 51-I mission scrubbed at T -5m because of bad weather
● 1986 - Eruption of a volcano in northwestern Cameroon kills over 1,700 people.
● 1986 - Frontier Airlines shut down. Thousands of people were left stranded.
● 1987 - Announcement of possible Martian tornadoes
● 1987 - Bayard Rustin, prominent civil rights and anti-military activist in 1950s and 1960s, dies.
● 1987 - Sergeant Clayton Lonetree was sentenced to 30 years in prison by a military jury for giving U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union.
● 1989 - Colombian drug barons declare "total war" on the Colombian government.
● 1989 - The U.S. space probe, Voyager 2, sent back photographs of Neptune.
● 1989 - Voyager 2 flies past Neptune
● 1990 - A judge rules that Judas Priest are not responsible for the deaths of two youths who committed suicide after listening to the band's music.
● 1990 - Iraqi troops surround US & other embassies in Kuwait City
● 1990 - Irish hostage Brian Keenan was released. He had been held in Lebanon for 1,597 days.
● 1990 - Sinéad O'Connor refuses to perform at the Garden State Arts Plaza in Holmdel, New Jersey if "The Star-Spangled Banner" is played before her show, as is customary.
● 1991 - Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
● 1991 - Ukraine declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
● 1992 - Diplomatic relations are established between the People's Republic of China and South Korea.
● 1992 - Hurricane Andrew hit southern Florida causing 55 deaths in the Bahamas, Florida, and Louisiana.
● 1993 - Michael Jackson accused of child abuse; Police in Los Angeles are investigating allegations of child abuse made against singer Michael Jackson.
● 1994 - Initial accord between Israel and the PLO about partial self-rule of the Palestinians on the West Bank.
● 1995 - Harry Wu, human rights activist, was expelled by China after he was convicted of spying.
● 1998 - A donation of 24 beads was made, from three parties, to the Indian Museum of North America at the Crazy Horse Memorial. The beads are said to be those that were used in 1626 to buy Manhattan from the Indians.
● 1998 - The Netherlands is selected as the site for the trial of the two Libyan suspects of the 1988 Pan Am bombing.
● 1998 - U.S. officials cited a soil sample as part of the evidence that a Sudan plant was producing precursors to the VX nerve gas. And, therefore made it a target for U.S. missiles on August 20, 1998.
● 2001 - Air Transat Flight 236 runs out of fuel over the Atlantic Ocean (en route to Lisbon from Toronto) and makes an emergency landing in the Azores.
● 2001 - In McAllen, TX, Bridgestone/Firestone agreed to settle out of court and pay a reported $7.5 million to a family in a rollover accident in their Ford Explorer.
● 2001 - NASA announced that operation of the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite would end by September 30th due to budget restrictions. Though the satellite is best known for monitoring a hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica, it was designed to provide information about the upper atmosphere by measuring its winds, temperatures, chemistry and energy received from the sun.
● 2001 - The remains of nine American servicemen killed in the Korean War were returned to the U.S. The bodies were found about 60 miles north of Pyongyang. It was estimated that it would be a year before the identities of the soldiers would be known.
● 2001 - U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly was randomly picked to take over the Microsoft monopoly case. The judge was to decide how Microsoft should be punished for illegally trying to squelch its competitors.
● 2004 - 89 passangers die after two airliners explode after flying out of Domodedovo International Airport, near Moscow. The explosions were caused by suicide bombers (reportedly female) from the Russian Republic of Chechnya.
● 2004 - Salim Ahmed Hamdan was formally charged in the first U.S. military tribunal since World War II. Hamdan, Osama bin Laden's former chauffer, was charged with conspiracy as an al-Qaida member to commit war crimes, including murder.
● 2005 - The planet Pluto was reclassified as a "dwarf planet" by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). Pluto's status was changed due to the IAU's new rules for an object qualifying as a planet. Pluto met two of the three rules because it orbits the sun and is large enough to assume a nearly round shape. However, since Pluto has an oblong orbit and overlaps the orbit of Neptune it disqualified Pluto as a planet.
BIRTHS
● 1113 - Geoffrey of Anjou, Count of Anjou (d. 1151)
● 1198 - King Alexander II of Scotland (d. 1249)
● 1358 - King John I of Castile (d. 1390)
● 1393 - Arthur III, Duke of Brittany (d. 1458)
● 1552 - Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter (d. 1614)
● 1580 - John Taylor, English poet (d. 1654)
● 1591 - Robert Herrick, English poet (d. 1674)
● 1635 - Peder Griffenfeld, Danish statesman (d. 1699)
● 1669 - Alessandro Marcello, Italian composer (d. 1747)
● 1707 - Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, English Evangelical Revivalist (d. 1791)
● 1724 - George Stubbs, English painter and draftsman (d. 1806)
● 1759 - William Wilberforce, English abolitionist (d. 1833)
● 1772 - King William I of the Netherlands (d. 1840)
● 1787 - James Weddell, Antarctica explorer (d. 1834)
● 1816 - Sir Daniel Gooch, English railway pioneer and mechanical engineer (d. 1889)
● 1817 - Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian writer (d. 1875)
● 1837 - Théodore Dubois, French composer and teacher (d. 1924)
● 1845 - James C. Calhoun, brother-in-law of George Armstrong Custer (d. 1876)
● 1847 - Charles Follen McKim, American architect (d. 1909)
● 1852 - Deacon White, American baseball player (d. 1919)
● 1863 - Dragutin Lerman, Croatian explorer (d. 1918)
● 1865 - King Ferdinand I of Romania (d. 1927)
● 1872 - Sir Max Beerbohm, British caricaturist (d. 1956)
● 1880 - Joshua Lionel Cowen, American entrepreneur (d. 1965)
● 1884 - Earl Derr Biggers, American author (d. 1933)
● 1886 - William Gibbs, American naval architect; designed the World War ll Liberty ships (d. 1967)
● 1887 - Harry Hooper, American baseball player (d. 1974)
● 1890 - Duke Kahanamoku, American swimmer and surfer (d. 1968)
● 1890 - Jean Rhys, British writer (d. 1979)
● 1895 - Richard Cardinal Cushing, archbishop of Boston (d. 1970)
● 1897 - Fred Rose, American songwriter and publishing executive (d. 1954)
● 1898 - Malcolm Cowley, American literary critic (d. 1989)
● 1899 - Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer (d. 1986)
● 1899 - Gaylord DuBois, American comic book writer (d. 1993)
● 1899 - Albert Claude, Belgian biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1983)
● 1901 - Preston Foster, American actor (d. 1970)
● 1902 - Carlo Gambino, Sicilian-born American mafioso (d. 1976)
● 1902 - Fernand Braudel, French historian (d. 1985)
● 1903 - Graham Sutherland, English Surrealistic painter (d. 1980)
● 1904 - Alice White, American actress (d. 1983)
● 1905 - Siaka Stevens, President of Sierra Leone (d. 1988)
● 1905 - Arthur Crudup, American singer and guitarist (d. 1976)
● 1912 - Durward Kirby, American television personality (d. 2000)
● 1915 - James Tiptree, Jr., American writer (d. 1987)
● 1916 - Hal Smith, American actor (d. 1994)
● 1916 - Léo Ferré, French composer and singer (d. 1993)
● 1917 - Dennis James, American game show host (d. 1997)
● 1918 - Sikander Bakht, Governor of Kerala (d. 2004)
● 1922 - René Lévesque, Premier of Quebec (d. 1987)
● 1922 - Howard Zinn, American historian and activist
● 1923 - Arthur Jensen, American psychologist
● 1927 - Harry Markowitz, American economist, Nobel laureate
● 1929 - Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader (d. 2004)
● 1934 - Kenny Baker, English actor (R2D2 in "Star Wars")
● 1936 - A. S. Byatt, English novelist
● 1937 - Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, Nigerian politician (d. 1998)
● 1938 - Halldór Blöndal, Icelandic politician
● 1938 - David Freiberg, American bassist (Quicksilver Messenger Service and Jefferson Starship)
● 1938 - Mason Williams, American guitarist and composer
● 1940 - Francine Lalonde, Quebec politician
● 1942 - Max Cleland, American politician
● 1942 - Howard Jacobson, British novelist and newspaper columnist
● 1942 - Marshall Thompson, R&B singer (The Chi-Lites)
● 1943 - John Cipollina, American guitarist (Quicksilver Messenger Service) (d. 1989)
● 1944 - Bill Goldsworthy, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1996)
● 1944 - Gregory Jarvis, American astronaut (d. 1986)
● 1945 - Ken Hensley, English musician (Uriah Heep)
● 1945 - Vince McMahon, American professional wrestling promoter
● 1947 - Paulo Coelho, Brazilian author
● 1947 - Roger De Vlaeminck, Belgian cyclist
● 1947 - Vladimir Masorin, Russian admiral
● 1947 - Anne Archer, American Actress
● 1947 - Joe Manchin, Governor of West Virginia
● 1948 - Jean-Michel Jarre, French musician
● 1948 - Kim Sung-Il, Chief of Staff of Republic of Korea Air Force
● 1949 - Joe Regalbuto, American actor ("Murphy Brown")
● 1949 - Charles Rocket, American actor (d. 2005)
● 1950 - Tim White, American anthropologist
● 1951 - Orson Scott Card, American writer
● 1951 - Oscar Hijuelos, Pulitzer Prize winning author
● 1952 - Mike Shanahan, American football coach
● 1952 - Bob Corker, U.S. senator, R-Tenn.
● 1954 - Alain Daigle, French Canadian ice hockey player
● 1955 - Mike Huckabee, Former governor of Arkansas {religious nut running for president}
● 1956 - John Culberson, American politician
● 1956 - Dick Lee, Singaporean singer-songwriter
● 1956 - Gerry Cooney, Boxer
● 1957 - Stephen Fry, English comedian and actor
● 1958 - Steve Guttenberg, American actor
● 1958 - Tracy Harris, American artist
● 1960 - Cal Ripken, Jr., American baseball ironman and Hall of Fame member
● 1960 - Kim Christofte, Danish footballer
● 1960 - Takashi Miike, Japanese filmmaker
● 1962 - Craig Kilborn, American talk show host
● 1962 - David Koechner, American actor
● 1963 - John Bush, American singer (Anthrax)
● 1963 - Hideo Kojima, Japanese video game director
● 1963 - Greg Glienna, American screenwriter and director
● 1964 - Salizhan Sharipov, cosmonaut
● 1965 - Marlee Matlin, American actress
● 1965 - Brian Rajadurai, Sri Lankan cricketer
● 1965 - Reggie Miller, American basketball player
● 1968 - Shoichi Funaki, Japanese professional wrestler
● 1968 - Andreas Kisser, Brazilian guitarist (Sepultura)
● 1968 - Benoit Brunet, French Canadian ice hockey player
● 1970 - Tugay Kerimoğlu, Turkish footballer
● 1970 - Kristyn Osborn, Country singer (SHeDAISY)
● 1971 - Pierfrancesco Favino, Italian actor
● 1972 - Jean-Luc Brassard, Canadian freestyle skier
● 1973 - Dave Chappelle, American actor and comedian ("Chappelle's Show")
● 1973 - Inge de Bruijn, Dutch swimmer
● 1973 - Carmine Giovinazzo, American actor ("CSI: NY")
● 1973 - Andrew Brunette, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1974 - Jennifer Lien, American actress
● 1975 - Mark de Vries, Surinamese-Dutch footballer
● 1977 - Robert Enke, German footballer
● 1977 - Per Gade, Danish footballer
● 1977 - Denílson, Brazilian footballer
● 1978 - Rafael Furcal, Dominican baseball player
● 1979 - Elva Hsiao, Taiwanese singer
● 1980 - Sonja Bennett, Canadian actress
● 1981 - Chad Michael Murray, American actor ("One Tree Hill")
● 1981 - Wang Dong Cheng, Taiwanese singer
● 1983 - Christopher Parker, British actor
● 1983 - Carolina Klüft, Swedish heptahlete
● 1983 - Marcel Goc, German ice hockey player
● 1987 - Jon Scheyer, American basketball player
● 1988 - Rupert Grint, English actor ("Harry Potter" movies)
● 1995 - Runa Tsukishima, Japanese child model
● 2003 - Alexandre Coste, son of Albert II, Prince of Monaco
DEATHS
● 79 - Pliny the Elder, Roman writer and naturalist (b. 23)
● 1042 - Michael V, Byzantine Emperor) (b. 1015)
● 1103 - King Magnus III of Norway (b. 1073)
● 1217 - Eustace the Monk, French mercenary and pirate (bc. 1170)
● 1540 - Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, Italian painter (b. 1503)
● 1542 - Gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (b. 1483)
● 1572 - Victims of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre:
● 1572 - Gaspard de Coligny, French Huguenot leader (b. 1519)
● 1572 - Pierre de la Ramée, French humanist (b. 1515)
● 1572 - Charles de Téligny, French Huguenot soldier (bc. 1535)
● 1595 - Thomas Digges, English astronomer (b. 1546)
● 1647 - Nicholas Stone, English sculptor and architect (b. 1586)
● 1664 - Maria Cunitz, Silesian astronomer (bc. 1610)
● 1679 - Jean François Paul de Gondi, cardinal de Retz, French churchman and agitator (b. 1614)
● 1680 - Thomas Blood, Irish-born thief of the British crown jewels (b. 1618)
● 1683 - John Owen, English non-conformist theologian (b. 1616)
● 1759 - Ewald Christian von Kleist, German poet (b. 1715)
● 1779 - Saint Cosmas of Aetolia, Greek Orthodox martyr (b. 1714)
● 1798 - Thomas Alcock, English clergyman (b. 1709)
● 1831 - August von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (b. 1760)
● 1832 - Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French mathematician (b. 1796)
● 1841 - Theodore Edward Hook, English author (b. 1788)
● 1888 - Rudolf Clausius, German physicist (b. 1822)
● 1921 - Nikolay Gumilyov, Russian poet (b. 1886)
● 1940 - Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, German television pioneer (b. 1860)
● 1943 - Simone Weil, French philosopher and social activist (b. 1909)
● 1946 - James Clark McReynolds, U.S. Supreme Court justice (b. 1862)
● 1954 - Getúlio Vargas, President of Brazil (b. 1882)
● 1956 - Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese film director (b. 1898)
● 1958 - Paul Henry, Northern Irish artist (b. 1876)
● 1967 - Henry J. Kaiser, American industrialist (b. 1882)
● 1967 - Lam Bun, Hong Kong radio commentator (murdered) (b. 1930)
● 1974 - Alexander de Seversky, Russian-American aviation pioneer (b. 1894)
● 1977 - Buddy O'Connor, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1916)
● 1978 - Louis Prima, American band leader (b. 1910)
● 1979 - Hanna Reitsch, German pilot (b. 1912)
● 1979 - Sampson Sievers, Russian Orthodox Christian monk and wonder-worker (b. 1898)
● 1980 - Yootha Joyce, British actress (b. 1927)
● 1982 - Félix-Antoine Savard, French Canadian catholic priest and novelist (b. 1896)
● 1985 - Paul Creston, American composer (b. 1906)
● 1987 - Malcolm Kirk, wrestler (b. 1936)
● 1990 - Sergei Dovlatov, Russian writer (b. 1941)
● 1990 - Gailli AbedElrhman, Sudanese writer (b. 1931)
● 1991 - Bernard Castro, Italian inventor (b. 1904)
● 1995 - Alfred Eisenstaedt, German-born photographer (b. 1898)
● 1998 - E.G. Marshall, American actor (b. 1910)
● 1999 - Alexandre Lagoya, Greek-Italian classical guitarist (b. 1929)
● 2001 - Jane Greer, American actress (b. 1924)
● 2002 - Nikolay Guryanov Russian Orthodox Christian mystic and priest (b. 1909)
● 2003 - Sir Wilfred Thesiger, British explorer (b. 1910)
● 2004 - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-born psychiatrist (b. 1926)
● 2005 - Kaleth Morales, Colombian Vallenato singer (b. 1984)
● 2006 - Léopold Simoneau, French Canadian tenor (b. 1916)
● 2006 - Cristian Nemescu, Romanian film director (b.1979)
● 2007 - Andrée P. Boucher, Mayor of Quebec City (b. 1937)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Abban of Ireland
● St. Aurea
● St. Bartholomew, Apostle
● St. Eutychius
● St. Jane Antide Thouret
● St. Massa Candida
● St. Nathanael
● St. Ouen
● St. Romanus of Nepi
● St. Sandratus
● St. Tation
● St. Yrchard
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for August 11 (Civil Date: August 24)
● Afterfeast of the Transfiguration.
● Holy Martyr and Archdeacon Euplus of Catania.
● Virgin Martyr Susanna and those with her: Martyrs Gaius, pope of Rome; presbyter Gabinus his brother and father of Susanna; Maximus, Claudius, and his wife Praepedigna, with their sons Alexander and Cutias.
● Martyrs Basil and Theodore of the Kiev Caves.
● St. Theodosius (Prince Theodore of Ostrog) of the Kiev Caves.
● St. Passarion of Palestine.
● St. Niphon, Patriarch of Constantinople (Mt. Athos)
● Greek Calendar:
● Martyrs Neophytus, Zeno, Gaius, Mark, Macarius, and Gaianus.
● Commemoration of the Miracle of St. Spyridon on Kerkyra (Corfu) with the Hagarenes.
● Anglican and Lutheran:
● St. Bartholomew, Apostle
● Roman Festival: Mundus patet: a harvest feast involving the dead.
● Liberia - Flag Day (1847)
● Sierra Leone - President's Birthday
● Ukraine - National holiday, independence from the Soviet Union (1991).
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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