Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Anti-Intellectualism "Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman." — Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Barney Fag & Lesbian Spear-Chuckers "Ideally, it would have been nice to have a few phalanxes of policemen with machine guns and mow them down." — Talk Radio Host Bob Grant, WABC, New York, discussing New York's annual Gay Pride parade. Boston Globe, 4-29-95.
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "We are ready for an unforeseen event that may or may not occur." — Al Gore
Thought for the day: "While forbidden fruit may be sweeter, it spoils faster."
{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
Just Passing Through
Credit & Copyright: Robert Stephan
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EVENTS
● 325 - The General Council of Nicea ended. This first ecumenical conclave in the history of the Church was attended by 300 bishops, who together established the Nicene Creed and set down the lunar formula for celebrating Easter.
● 383 - Gratian, Roman Emperor, slain at Lugdunum.
● 1537 - The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed.
● 1560 - Protestantism was formally adopted at the First General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. Scottish Parliament had earlier voted to accept a Calvinist confession of faith, declaring that the pope no longer had jurisdiction over Scotland.
● 1580 - Battle of Alcântara. Spain defeats Portugal.
● 1609 - Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
● 1689 - Twelve hundred Iroquois warriors attack Montreal.
● 1718 - Hundreds of colonists from France arrived in Louisiana. Some founded present-day New Orleans.
● 1758 - Seven Years' War: Frederick II of Prussia defeats the Russian army at the Battle of Zorndorf.
● 1768 - James Cook begins his first voyage.
● 1814 - British capture Washington DC
● 1814 - The U.S. Library of Congress was destroyed by British forces.
● 1814 - Washington, D.C. is burned and White House is destroyed by British forces during the War of 1812.
● 1817 - Joseph Mohr, 25, began serving as pastor of the St. Nicholas Church in Oberndorf, Austria. (It was Christmas Eve, 1818, when Mohr and church organist Franz Gruber, together, produced the enduring Christmas carol, "Stille Nacht"/"Silent Night.")
● 1819 - Birth of Allen Pinkerton, whose strike breaking detectives ("Pinks") gave us the word "fink." Today, Pinkerton is not only, globally, a leading private security corporation, but in the forefront of building and managing private prisons.
● 1825 - Uruguay declares independence from Brazil (National Day)
● 1830 - Belgium revolts against Netherlands.
● 1835 - The New York Sun perpetrates the Great Moon Hoax.
● 1840 - Joseph Gibbons received a patent for the seeding machine.
● 1862 - Secretary of War authorizes Gen Rufus Saxton to arm 5,000 slaves
● 1864 - Birth of John Henry Jowett, English Congregational clergyman. In 1918, he succeeded G. Campbell Morgan as pastor of the famed Westminster Chapel in London.
● 1864 - Combination rail & ferry service available from San Francisco to Alameda
● 1864 - Petersburg Campaign-Battle of Ream's Station
● 1875 - Captain Matthew Webb swam from Dover, England, to Calais, France making him the first person to swim the English Channel. The feat took about 22 hours.
● 1893 - "Colored Peoples' Day" at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
● 1894 - Shibasaburo Kitasato discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.
● 1900 - German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche dies, Weimar, Germany.
● 1910 - Yellow Cab is founded.
● 1912 - 1st time an aircraft recovers from a spin
● 1912 - The Kuomintang, the Chinese nationalist party, is founded.
● 1915 - Hurricane kills 275 in Galveston, Texas with $50 million damage
● 1916 - The National Park Service was established as part of the U.S. Department of the Interior.
● 1918 - Leonard Bernstein, American conductor, composer and pianist, was born.
● 1919 - 1st scheduled passenger service by airplane (Paris-London)
● 1920 - Polish-Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, started on August 13, now ends. The Red Army is defeated.
● 1920 - The first airplane to fly from New York to Alaska arrived in Nome.
● 1921 - The U.S. signed a peace treaty with Germany.
● 1925 - African American activist A. Philip Randolph founds Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.
● 1925 - Birth of Althea Gibson, Silver, South Carolina. First African American tennis player to compete at the U.S. Open in 1950 and at Wimbledon the following year.
● 1929 - Graf Zeppelin passes over SF for LA after trans-Pacific voyage
● 1932 - Amelia Earhart completes transcontinental flight
● 1935 - English Bible expositor Arthur W. Pink wrote in a letter: 'None but the Lord himself can afford us any help from the awful workings of unbelief, doubtings, carnal fears, murmurings. Thank God one day we will be done forever with "unbelief."'
● 1941 - Soviet and British troops invaded Iran. This was in reaction to the Shah's refusal to reduce the number of German residents.
● 1941 - U.S. President Roosevelt signed the bill appropriating funds for construction of the Pentagon.
● 1942 - World War II: Battle of Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea.
● 1942 - World War II: Second day of the Battle of the Eastern Solomons. A Japanese naval transport convoy headed towards Guadalcanal is turned-back by Allied air attack, losing one destroyer and one transport sunk, and one light cruiser heavily damaged.
● 1943 - US forces overran New Georgia in Solomon Islands during WW II
● 1944 - French divisions march into Paris followed by the U.S. 4th Infantry Division. Nazi resistance was light, and a quick surrender is negotiated, ignoring Hitler's orders to burn the city to the ground.
● 1944 - Romania declared war on Germany.
● 1945 – About ten days after World War II ended with Japan announcing its surrender, armed supporters of the Communist Party of China killed Baptist missionary John Birch, regarded by a portion of the American right as the first victim of the Cold War.
● 1945 - Jewish immigrants are permitted to leave Mauritius for Palestine
● 1945 - One million Saigonese demonstrate in support of Ho Chi Min'h.
● 1948 - Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors founded in Philadelphia.
● 1950 - President Harry Truman orders the US Army to seize control of the nation's railroads to avert a strike.
● 1967 - FBI circulates memo detailing plans to "disrupt" Black Liberation groups. Results in infamous "COINTELPRO" program.
● 1967 - George Lincoln Rockwell, the leader of the American Nazi Party, is shot dead in Arlington, Virginia. Former aide John C. Patler is arrested for the shooting.
● 1967 - Paraguay accepts its constitution
● 1968 - Battle of Lincoln Park; as the Democratic Convention begins in Chicago, so does a week of rioting between 10,000(?) demonstrators and 11,000 Chicago police, 6,000 National Guard, 7,500 U.S. army troops and 1,000 FBI, CIA, and Army and Navy intelligence services agents.
● 1969 - U.S. troops refuse to advance after five days of heavy casualties. One of scores of nonviolent mutinies during the Vietnam War. Sonchang Valley, Vietnam.
● 1972 - In Great Britain, computerized axial tomography (CAT scan) was introduced.
● 1974 - Human cannonball misses target; A woman fired from a cannon in Bristol fails to break the English record for the second time.
● 1978 - The Turin shroud believed to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ went on display for the first time in 45 years.
● 1981 - Mark Chapman, John Lennon's murderer, is sentenced to 20 years
● 1981 - The U.S. Voyager 2 sent back pictures and data about Saturn. The craft came within 63,000 miles of the planet.
● 1983 - US & USSR sign $10 billion grain pact
● 1984 - Author Truman Capote was found dead at age 59.
● 1985 - Samantha Smith was killed with her father in an airplane crash in Maine. Smith was the schoolgirl whose letter to Yuri V. Andropov resulted in her famous peace tour of the Soviet Union.
● 1985 - STS 51-I scrubbed at T -9m because of an onboard computer problem
● 1985 - The King was a fink - White House confirms that Ronald Reagan was an FBI informant (with his own secret number) in Hollywood in the late 1940s when heading the Screen Actors Guild.
● 1987 - Saudi Arabia denounced the "group of terrorists" that ran the Iranian government.
● 1988 - Challenger Center opens its classroom doors in Houston
● 1988 - Iran and Iraq began talks in Geneva after ending their eight years of war.
● 1988 - NASA launches space vehicle S-214
● 1988 - The historical center of Lisbon is destroyed by a fire.
● 1989 - Mayumi Moriyama becomes Japan's first female cabinet secretary.
● 1989 - Tadeusz Mazowiecki chosen as the first non-communist Prime Minister in Central and Eastern Europe.
● 1989 - Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Neptune, the outermost planet in the Solar System.
● 1990 - Military action was authorized by the United Nations to enforce the trade embargo that had been placed on Iraq after their invasion of Kuwait.
● 1991 - Belarus declares independence from the Soviet Union
● 1992 - 19-year-old Rosebud Abigail Donovo killed by police in demonstration at the Chancellor's Mansion of the Univ. of California-Berkeley.
● 1992 - It was reported by researchers that cigarette smoking significantly increased the risk of developing cataracts.
● 1993 - Amy Biehl was killed in South Africa by a mob.
● 1993 - Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman was indicted by a federal grand jury for terrorist activities, one of which was the World Trade Center bombing.
● 1995 - Harry Wu, human rights activist, returned to the United States. He said the spying case against him in China was "all lies."
● 1997 - Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, was convicted of a shoot-to-kill Berlin Wall policy.
● 1997 - The tobacco industry agreed to an $11.3 billion settlement with the state of Florida.
● 1998 - Former Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell died at age 90.
● 1998 - A High Court judge sentenced 16 civilians to be hanged for their role in a coup in Sierra Leone in May of 1998. The restored government had treason cases against 40 more civilians and 38 soldiers.
● 1998 - Federal court finds that the rights of political death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal had been violated by prison authorities.
● 1998 - Gary Coleman plead innocent to the charge that he hit a woman in a mall after she had sought his autograph. Coleman was working at the mall as a security guard.
● 1998 - Seven Cuban-Americans were indicted by federal grand jury in Puerto Rico on charges of conspiracy to murder Cuban President Fidel Castro.
● 1998 - Two killed in Islamic militant bomb attack on restaurant, Cape Town, South Africa.
● 2003 - Fifty-two people killed in two terrorist bomb blasts in cars in Mumbai, India.
● 2003 - The Tli Cho land claims agreement is signed between the Dogrib First Nations and the Canadian federal government in Rae-Edzo (now called Behchoko).
● 2007 - 43 people killed in bomb blasts in Hyderabad, India.
BIRTHS
● 1530 - Tsar Ivan IV of Russia, Russian tsar remembered as "Ivan the Terrible" (d. 1584)
● 1561 - Philippe van Lansberge, Dutch astronomer (d. 1632)
● 1624 - François de la Chaise, French confessor of Louis XIV of France (d. 1709)
● 1662 - John Leverett the Younger, American educator (d. 1724)
● 1719 - Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, French painter (d. 1795)
● 1724 - George Stubbs, British painter (d. 1806)
● 1741 - Karl Friedrich Bahrdt, German theologian (d. 1792)
● 1744 - Johann Gottfried Herder, German writer (d. 1803)
● 1767 - Antoine Louis Léon de Richebourg de Saint-Just, French revolutionary and writer (d. 1794)
● 1772 - King William I of the Netherlands (d. 1843)
● 1786 - King Ludwig I of Bavaria (d. 1868)
● 1796 - James Lick, American land baron (d. 1876)
● 1802 - Nikolaus Lenau, Austrian poet (d. 1850)
● 1803 - Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, the Duque de Caxias, Brazilian military leader
● 1819 - Allan Pinkerton, American private detective (d. 1884)
● 1836 - Bret Harte, American writer (d. 1902)
● 1841 - Emil Theodor Kocher, Swiss medical researcher; Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1917)
● 1845 - King Ludwig II of Bavaria (d. 1886)
● 1850 - Bill Nye, American journalist and humorist (d. 1896)
● 1865 - Arthur Hinsley, English Roman Catholic cardinal and archbishop of Westminster (d. 1943)
● 1867 - James W. Gerard, American jurist and diplomat (d. 1951)
● 1868 - Nikolaos Levidis, Greek shooter
● 1882 - Seán T. O'Kelly, Irish politician (d. 1966)
● 1893 - Henry Trendley Dean, American dental researcher (d. 1962)
● 1898 - Helmut Hasse, German mathematician (d. 1975)
● 1900 - Hans Adolf Krebs, German-born English Nobel Prize-winning biochemist (1953) (d. 1981)
● 1902 - Stefan Wolpe, German-born composer (d. 1972)
● 1903 - Árpád Élő, Hungarian physicist (d. 1992)
● 1905 - Faustina Kowalska, Polish mystic (d. 1938)
● 1909 - Ruby Keeler, Canadian singer and actress (d. 1993)
● 1909 - Michael Rennie, English actor (d. 1971)
● 1911 - Vo Nguyen Giap (Võ Nguyên Giáp), Vietnamese general and statesman
● 1912 - Erich Honecker, East German politician (d. 1994)
● 1913 - Walt Kelly, American cartoonist (d. 1973)
● 1913 - Bob Crosby, American bandleader (d. 1993)
● 1913 - Don DeFore, American actor (d. 1993)
● 1915 - Walter Trampler, American violist (d. 1997)
● 1916 - Van Johnson, American actor
● 1916 - Frederick Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist; Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003)
● 1917 - Mel Ferrer, American actor
● 1918 - Leonard Bernstein, American conductor and composer (d. 1990)
● 1918 - Richard Greene, English actor (d. 1985)
● 1919 - George Wallace, American politician (d. 1998)
● 1921 - Monty Hall, Canadian-born game show host ("Let's Make a Deal")
● 1921 - Brian Moore, Irish-born writer (d. 1999)
● 1921 - Bryce Mackasey, Canadian politician (d. 1999)
● 1925 - Thea Astley, Australian writer, (d. 2004)
● 1927 - Althea Gibson, American tennis player (d. 2003)
● 1928 - Herbert Kroemer, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
● 1928 - Darrell Johnson, American baseball player (d. 2004)
● 1930 - Sean Connery, Scottish actor
● 1930 - Graham Jarvis, Canadian actor (d. 2003)
● 1930 - Page Johnson, Actor
● 1931 - Hal Fishman, Los Angeles based local news anchor. (d. 2007)
● 1931 - Regis Philbin, American television host ("Live With Regis and Kelly")
● 1933 - Wayne Shorter, American jazz musician
● 1933 - Tom Skerritt, American actor ("Picket Fences")
● 1934 - Lise Bacon, French Canadian politician
● 1935 - Charles Wright, American poet
● 1936 - Hugh Hudson, Director
● 1938 - David Canary, American actor
● 1938 - Frederick Forsyth, English author
● 1939 - John Badham, American film director
● 1940 - José Van Dam, Belgian baritone
● 1941 - Marshall Brickman, Filmmaker
● 1942 - Walter Williams, R&B singer (The O'Jays)
● 1944 - Anthony Heald, American actor
● 1944 - Conrad Black, newspaper magnate
● 1944 - Jacques Demers, Canadian hockey coach
● 1946 - Rollie Fingers, American baseball player and Hall of Fame member
● 1946 - Charlie Sanders, American football player
● 1947 - Anne Archer, Actress
● 1949 - Martin Amis, English novelist
● 1949 - John Savage, American actor
● 1949 - Gene Simmons, Israeli-born musician (Kiss)
● 1949 - Fariborz Lachini, Canadian-Iranian composer
● 1949 - Henry Paul, Country singer, musician (Blackhawk)
● 1951 - Rob Halford, English singer (Judas Priest)
● 1951 - Bill Handel, American radio personality
● 1952 - Geoff Downes, English keyboardist (Buggles, Yes, Asia)
● 1954 - Elvis Costello, English musician
● 1956 - Henri Toivonen, Finnish rally driver
● 1958 - Tim Burton, American film director
● 1960 - Ashley Crow, American actress
● 1961 - Billy Ray Cyrus, American singer and actor
● 1961 - Joanne Whalley, British actress
● 1961 - Ally Walker, Actress
● 1962 - David Packer, American actor
● 1962 - Vivian Campbell, Irish musician (Def Leppard, Whitesnake, Dio)
● 1964 - Maxim Kontsevich, Russian mathematician
● 1964 - Blair Underwood, American actor
● 1964 - Vassilios Kotronias, Greek chess grandmaster
● 1964 - Marti Noxon, American television writer and producer
● 1962 - Joanne Whalley, Actress
● 1965 - Mia Zapata, American singer (The Gits) (d. 1994)
● 1966 - Albert Belle, American Major League Baseball player
● 1966 - Derek Sherinian, American keyboardist
● 1966 - Terminator X, Rap DJ (Public Enemy)
● 1967 - Jeff Tweedy, American singer (Wilco)
● 1968 - Rafet El Roman, Turkish singer and composer
● 1968 - Stuart Murdoch, Scottish musician (Belle & Sebastian)
● 1968 - Rachael Ray, American chef and television personality
● 1968 - Spider One, American musician (Powerman 5000)
● 1968 - David Alan Basche, Actor ("United 93")
● 1969 - Cameron Mathison, Canadian actor
● 1970 - Robert Horry, American basketball player
● 1970 - Jo Dee Messina, American country music singer
● 1970 - Claudia Schiffer, German model
● 1971 - Mike Lockwood, professional wrestler (d. 2003)
● 1971 - Brice Long, Country singer
● 1972 - Marvin Harrison, American football player
● 1973 - Fatih Akin, Turkish-German film director
● 1974 - Eric Millegan, American actor ("Bones")
● 1974 - Pablo Ozuna, Dominican baseball player
● 1976 - Alexander Skarsgård, Swedish actor
● 1977 - Sophie Cadieux, Quebec actress
● 1977 - Diego Corrales, American boxer (d. 2007)
● 1978 - Kel Mitchell, American actor
● 1979 - Marlon Harewood, English footballer
● 1981 - Rachel Bilson, American actress ("The O.C.")
● 1981 - Clare Oliver, Australian cancer activist (d. 2007)
● 1983 - James Rossiter, British racing driver
● 1987 - Stacey Farber, Canadian actress
● 1987 - Blake Lively, American actress
● 1987 - James Wesolowski, Australian footballer
● 1987 - Liu Yifei, Chinese actress and singer
● 1988 - Raymond Quinn, English singer
● 1992 - Miyabi Natsuyaki, Japanese singer
● 1994 - Josh Flitter, Actor ("License to Wed," "Nancy Drew")
● 1997 - Holly Gibbs, English child actor
● 1998 - China Anne McClain, American actress
DEATHS
● 383 - Gratian, Roman Emperor (b. 359)
● 471 - Gennadius I, Patriarch of Constantinople
● 1192 - Hugh III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1142)
● 1270 - King Louis IX of France
● 1282 - Thomas Cantilupe, English saint
● 1330 - Sir James Douglas, Scottish soldier (b. 1286)
● 1482 - Margaret of Anjou, queen of Henry VI of England (b. 1429)
● 1554 - Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, English politician (b. 1473)
● 1632 - Thomas Dekker, English dramatist
● 1650 - Richard Crashaw, English poet
● 1688 - Henry Morgan, Welsh privateer
● 1699 - King Christian V of Denmark (b. 1646)
● 1711 - Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey, English politician
● 1742 - Carlos Seixas, Portuguese composer (b. 1704)
● 1774 - Niccolò Jommelli, Italian composer (b. 1714)
● 1776 - David Hume, Scottish philosopher and historian (b. 1711)
● 1792 - Jacques Cazotte, French writer (b. 1719)
● 1822 - William Herschel, German-born astronomer (b. 1738)
● 1867 - Michael Faraday, English scientist (b. 1791)
● 1900 - Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (b. 1844)
● 1900 - Kuroda Kiyotaka, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1840)
● 1904 - Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter (b. 1836)
● 1908 - Henri Becquerel, French physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1852)
● 1925 - Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Austro-Hungarian field marshal (b. 1852)
● 1938 - Aleksandr Kuprin, Russian writer (b. 1870)
● 1939 - Babe Siebert, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1904)
● 1942 - George Edward Alexander Windsor, Duke of Kent (b. 1902)
● 1945 - John Birch, American intelligence officer and missionary (b. 1918)
● 1950 - Earl Caddock, professional wrestler (b. 1888)
● 1956 - Alfred Kinsey, American research biologist (b. 1894)
● 1967 - Stanley Bruce, eighth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1883)
● 1967 - Paul Muni, Polish actor (b. 1895)
● 1967 - George Lincoln Rockwell, American Nazi Party leader (b. 1918)
● 1971 - Ted Lewis, American musician and entertainer (b. 1890)
● 1976 - Eyvind Johnson, Swedish writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1900)
● 1979 - Stan Kenton, American musician and bandleader (b. 1911)
● 1980 - Gower Champion, American dancer, actor, and choreographer (b. 1919)
● 1984 - Truman Capote, American author (b. 1924)
● 1984 - Waite Hoyt, American baseball player (b. 1899)
● 1984 - Viktor Chukarin, Soviet gymnast (b. 1921)
● 1985 - Samantha Smith, American social activist (b. 1972)
● 1990 - Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer (b. 1903)
● 1999 - Rob Fisher, English musician (b. 1956)
● 2000 - Carl Barks, American cartoonist (b. 1901)
● 2000 - Jack Nitzsche, American record producer (b. 1937)
● 2001 - Aaliyah, American singer and actress (b. 1979)
● 2001 - Carl Brewer, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1938)
● 2001 - Philippe Léotard, French actor and singer (b. 1940)
● 2002 - Dorothy Hewett, Australian writer (b. 1923)
● 2005 - Peter Glotz, German politician (b. 1939)
● 2007 - Benjamin Aaron, American attorney, labor law scholar and civil servant (b. 1915)
● 2007 - Raymond Barre, French politician and Prime Minister (b. 1924)
● 2007 - Ray Jones, English Footballer (b. 1988)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Eusebius
● St. Genesius of Arles, patron of actors
● St. Gerintius of Italica
● St. Gurloes
● St. Hunegund
● St. Joseph Calasanz, priest
● St. Julian
● St. Louis IX of France, king
● St. Maginus
● St. Marcian
● St. Maria Michaela Desmaisieres
● St. Menas
● Sts. Nemesius and Lucilla
● St. Patricia
● St. Warinus
● St. Yrieix
● Bl. Louis Baba
● Bl. Louis Sasanda
● Bl. Louis Sotelo
● Bl. Peter Vasquez
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for August 12 (Civil Date: August 25)
● Afterfeast of the Transfiguration.
● Martyrs Anicletus and Photius (Photinus) of Nicomedia.
● Martyrs Pamphilus and Capito.
● Hieromartyr Alexander, Bishop of Comana.
● St. Pallamon of Egypt, instructor of St. Pachomius the Great.
● Greek Calendar:
● Saints Sergius and Stephen, monks.
● Soldier-martyrs of Crete.
● Service to St. Maximus the Confessor is transferred to this day.
● Anglican:
● St. Louis IX of France, king
● Roman festival: Opiconsivia held in honor of Ops.
● France - Liberation Day (1944)
● Paraguay - Constitution Day (1967)
● Uruguay - National Day (independence from Brazil in 1825).
● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● England, Channel Is, Northern Ireland, Wales : Bank Holiday - ( Monday )
● Hong Kong : Liberation Day (1945) - ( Monday )
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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