Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Atheism & Agnostic "I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure—that is all that agnosticism means." — Clarence Darrow
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On The Gender Gap "How's this for a new principle of law: A captured bank robber can't be prosecuted if he certifies that he needs the money. My gosh, most folks would say, that doesn't make any sense . . . And so it goes for the "compromise" abortion legislation offered by Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD). It would prohibit the abortion of a viable fetus—one able to live outside the womb—except when the continuation of the pregnancy would threaten the mother's life or "grievously injure" her physical health." — Dennis Byrne, "'Compromise' bill in truth one-sided," Chicago Sun-Times, 5-14-97 {I have read this several times and still fail to see where these situations are equivalent, I guess those on the right feel if someone can write or say something then it must make sense.}
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "Atta boy, Senator! Atta—uh, girl . . . person . . . what are you anyway?" — Senator Jesse Helms addressing a female colleague
Thought for the day: "A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."
{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
Huge Void Implicated in Distant Universe
Drawing Credit: Bill Saxton, U. Minnesota, NRAO, AUI, NSF NASA
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EVENTS
● 551 B.C.E. - Birth of Confucius.
● 479 B.C.E. - Greco-Persian Wars: Persian forces led by Mardonius are routed by Pausanias, the Spartan commander of the Greek army in the Battle of Plataea. Along with the Greek victory on the same day in the Battle of Mycale, the Persian invasion of Greece ended.
● 26 B.C.E. - Origin of Egyptian Era
● 410 - Visigothic sack of Rome ends after three days.
● 1232 - The Formulary of Adjudications is promulgated by Regent Hōjō Yasutoki. (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 1232)
● 1587 - John White loses 110 colonists at Roanoke - The "Lost Colony," whose inhabitants are never again seen by whites. Subsequently, their descendants are discovered living in North Carolina as mixed bloods among Indians.
● 1660 - Following England's Restoration, books by poet John Milton were ordered burned because of his attacks on the monarchy of King Charles II. Milton had advocated an elder-ruled (presbyterian) church government over that of bishop-ruled (episcopal).
● 1667 - Earliest recorded hurricane in US (Jamestown Virginia)
● 1689 - The Treaty of Nerchinsk is signed by Russia and the Qing empire.
● 1770 - German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was born in Stuttgart.
● 1776 - Battle of Long Island, in present day Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat 10,000 Americans under General George Washington.
● 1783 - 1st hydrogen balloon flight (unmanned); reaches 900 m altitude
● 1789 - The Declaration of the Rights of Man was adopted by the French National Assembly.
● 1793 - French counter-revolution, port of Toulon revolts and admits the British fleet, which lands troops and seizes the port leading to Siege of Toulon.
● 1798 - United Irishmen and French forces clash with the British army in the Battle of Castlebar, part of the Irish Rebellion of 1798.
● 1813 - Napoleon defeats the Austrians, Russians and Prussians at the Battle of Dresden.
● 1828 - The Russians defeat the Turks at the Battle of Akhalzic.
● 1828 - Uruguay was formally proclaimed to be independent during preliminary talks between Brazil and Argentina.
● 1830 - English churchman John Henry Cardinal Newman wrote in a letter: 'It is our great relief that God is not extreme to mark what is done amiss, that He looks at the motives, and accepts and blesses in spite of incidental errors.'
● 1858 - The first cabled news dispatch was sent and was published by "The New York Sun" newspaper. The story was about the peace demands of England and France being met by China.
● 1859 - First oil well is sunk in the United States in Titusville, Pennsylvania. Its owner immediately decries environmental regulations.
● 1861 - Union forces attack Cape Hatteras, North Carolina
● 1865 - Rhenish missionary Ludwig I. Nommensen, 31, baptized four families of the Batak tribe in North Sumatra (Indonesia) the first to be converted to the Christian faith. Nommensen later established a theological training school and in 1878 completed a translation of the New Testament into the Batak language.
● 1876 - At age 13, future English clergyman G. Campbell Morgan preached his first sermon. He later grew to become one of the most famous expository preachers and writers of late 19th century England and America.
● 1877 - Birth of Lloyd C. Douglas, American Lutheran clergyman and religious novelist. Douglas published his first best-seller, "Magnificent Obsession," in 1929, followed later by "The Robe" (1942) and "The Big Fisherman" (1948).
● 1883 - Krakatoa, west of Java, explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons
● 1889 - Charles G. Conn received a patent for the metal clarinet.
● 1892 - International Peace Bureau established, Rome, Italy.
● 1894 - The Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act was passed by the U.S. Congress. The provision within for a graduated income tax was later struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court.
● 1896 - Anglo-Zanzibar War: the shortest war in world history, 38 minutes (09:02 to 09:40 AM) between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
● 1900 - British defeat Boer commandos at Bergendal.
● 1903 - A squadron of U.S. troops was ordered to Beirut "to protect U.S. interests."
● 1908 - Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th president of the United States, was born near Stonewall, Texas.
● 1913 - Lt Peter Nestrov, of Imperial Russian Air Service, performs a loop in a monoplane at Kiev (1st aerobatic maneuver in an airplane)
● 1917 - Socialist official Charles Schenck arrested. U.S. Supreme Court later says a "clear and present danger" is posed by his anti-draft leaflet. {Yeah—a clear and present danger that the draft might be ended.}
● 1918 - Dr Joseph L Johnson named minister to Liberia
● 1920 - Radio Argentina begins regularly scheduled transmissions from the Teatro Coliseo in Buenos Aires, considered the world's first public broadcast station.
● 1927 - Paris - Thousands turn out for violent protests over deaths of Sacco and Vanzetti.
● 1927 - Parks College, America's oldest aviation school, opens
● 1928 - 16 die in a NYC subway's 2nd worst accident
● 1928 - Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact for renunciation of war as national policy signed by 60 major nations, Paris, France. It didn't work.
● 1938 - Robert Frost, in a fit of jealousy, set fire to some papers to disrupt a poetry recital by another poet, Archibald MacLeish.
● 1939 - First flight of the Heinkel He 178, the first modern jet aircraft.
● 1939 - Nazi Germany demanded the Polish corridor and Danzig.
● 1940 - Caproni-Campini CC-2, experimental jet plane, maiden flight (Milan)
● 1945 - American troops landed in Japan after the surrender of the Japanese government at the end of World War II.
● 1949 - Anti-communist mob breaks up Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill, N.Y.
● 1950 - General Foods blacklists Jean Muir of Aldrich Family as a communist.
● 1950 - President Harry Truman orders U.S. Army to seize all the nation's railroads to prevent a general strike. The railroads are not returned to their owners until two years later.
● 1950 - Television crosses the Channel; The BBC transmits the first ever live television pictures across the Channel.
● 1952 - Reparation negotiations between West Germany and Israel end in Luxembourg; West Germany to pay 3 billion Deutschmark.
● 1957 - ICBM first tested by U.S.S.R.
● 1957 - The Constitution of Malaysia came into force.
● 1962 - Mariner 2 was launched by the United States. In December of the same year the spacecraft flew past Venus. It was the first space probe to reach the vicinity of another planet.
● 1963 - W.E.B. DuBois, black American radical sociologist, scholar, author, pan-Africanist, and founder of the NAACP, dies in Accra, Ghana. Charged and tried for being a "foreign agent" in 1950 because he opposed the A-bomb.
● 1966 - Francis Chichester begins the 1st solo sail around the world
● 1966 - National liberation struggle in Namibia launched by SWAPO (South West Africa People's Organization).
● 1966 - Race riot in Waukegan Illinois
● 1967 - The Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein, was found dead in his London flat from an overdose of sleeping pills.
● 1968 - Democratic National Convention nominates Vice Pres. Hubert Humphrey for president, as squadrons of club-swinging Chicago police indiscriminately kick and beat anti-war demonstrators outside. 500 hauled to jail. Protesting the police riot, members of the convention's Wisconsin delegation attempt to march to the convention, but police turn them back. Julian Bond, denied his seat in the Georgia state legislature, seconds the nomination of Eugene McCarthy, adding that he has seen such police behavior only in Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia.
● 1968 - John Gordon Mein, U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala, is attacked and murdered in his car in Guatemala City.
● 1968 - Two hundred thousand march in Mexico demanding resignation of the government, held by the PRI for 58 years. It would be another 32 years before an alternative party took power.
● 1969 - Bob Eaton jailed three years for refusing military draft, Philadelphia.
● 1972 - North Vietnam's major port at Haiphong saw the first bombings from U.S. warplanes.
● 1975 - Haile Selassie, the last emperor of Ethiopia's 3,000-year-old monarchy, died in Addis Ababa at age 83 almost a year after being overthrown.
● 1976 - Strike against visit of potentially nuclear-armed U.S. warship closes New Zealand docks for a week.
● 1979 - An IRA bomb kills Lord Mountbatten and 3 others on holiday in Sligo, Republic of Ireland. Another near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland kills 18 British soldiers. The Irish Republican Army claimed responsibility.
● 1981 - Work began on recovering a safe from the Andrea Doria. The Andrea Doria was a luxury liner that had sank in 1956 in the waters off of Massachusetts.
● 1982 - Soyuz T-7 returns to Earth
● 1983 - Three hundred thousand march in Washington on 20th anniversary of MLK's "I Have A Dream" speech. The second "March on Washington for Jobs, Peace, and Freedom" held.
● 1984 - The Menetta Lane Theatre in Greenwich Village opened. It was the first new off-Broadway theater to be built in 50 years in New York City.
● 1984 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan announced that the first citizen to go into space would be a teacher. The teacher that was eventually chosen was Christa McAuliffe. She died in the Challenger disaster on January 28, 1986.
● 1985 - The Nigerian government is peacefully overthrown by Army Chief of Staff Major General Ibrahim Babangida.
● 1985 - The Space Shuttle Discovery left for a seven-day mission in which three satellites were launched and another was repaired and redeployed.
● 1986 - Congress reinstates Klamath, Modoc and Yahuskin band of Snake Indians of Oregon.
● 1987 - Maclennan replaces Owen in SDP; Robert Maclennan MP succeeds David Owen as leader of the SDP party.
● 1988 - After eight years of Ronald Reagan, only 55,000 attend the 25th anniversary of Washington DC Civil Rights March.
● 1989 - 100 march through Bensonhurst protesting racial killings
● 1989 - The first U.S. commercial satellite rocket was launched. A British communications satellite was onboard.
● 1990 - 52 Americans reached Turkey after leaving Iraq. Three young American men were detained by the Iraqis.
● 1990 - The U.S. State Department ordered the expulsion of 36 Iraqi diplomats.
● 1990 - 'Guinness Four' guilty; All four defendants in the marathon Guinness trial are found guilty.
● 1991 - Moldova declares independence from the USSR.
● 1991 - The European Community recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
● 1992 - Federal troops were ordered to Florida for emergency relief due to Hurricane Andrew.
● 1993 - The Florida Department of Transportation decides to cease producing its distinctive colored U.S. Highway shields so that it can make use of Federal funds for those signs.
● 1993 - The Rainbow Bridge, connecting Tokyo's Shibaura and the island of Odaiba, is completed.
● 1994 - Chinese dissident Wang Dan re-detained by Chinese secret police.
● 1996 - California Governor Pete Wilson signed an order that would halt state benefits to illegal immigrants.
● 1998 - In a Florida boot camp for teens, two boys killed a counselor and used his car to escape. The boys, 16 and 17 years old, would be tried as adults for the pickax murder.
● 1998 - In New York city, Mohamed Rashed Daoud Al-'Owhali appeared in a U.S. Federal Court to face charges of bombing attacks at the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. He was one of two suspects released to the U.S. by Kenya.
● 1999 - The final crew of the Russian space station Mir departed the station to return to Earth. Russia was forced to abandon Mir for financial reasons.
● 2000 - Ostankino Tower in Moscow catches fire, three people are killed.
● 2001 - Israeli helicopters fired a pair of rockets through office windows and killed senior PLO leader Mustafa Zibri.
● 2001 - A complaint was filed against California Congressman Gary Condit and two others for their efforts to obstruct justice in the disappearance of intern Chandra Levy. Condit was accused of conspiring to secure Anne Marie Smith's silence about an affair in their past.
● 2001 - The U.S. military announced that an Air Force RQ-1B "Predator" aircraft was lost over Iraq. It was reported that the unmanned aircraft "may have crashed or been shot down."
● 2001 - Work began on the future site of a World War II memorial on the U.S. capital's historic national Mall. The site is between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial.
● 2003 - Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing approximately 34,646,416 miles (55,758,006 kilometers) from Earth.
● 2003 - A granite monument of the Ten Commandments that became a lightning rod in a legal storm over church and state was wheeled from the rotunda of the Alabama Supreme Court building in Montgomery.
● 2006 - Comair Flight 5191 crashed en route from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky, to Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia. Forty-nine of the 50 people aboard the flight were confirmed dead in the hours following the crash.
BIRTHS
● 1407 - Ashikaga Yoshikazu, Japanese shogun (d. 1425)
● 1471 - George, Duke of Saxony (d. 1539)
● 1637 - Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, Governor of the Province of Maryland (d. 1715)
● 1665 - John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, English politician (d. 1751)
● 1677 - Otto Ferdinand Graf von Abensperg und Traun, Austrian field marshal (d. 1748)
● 1724 - John Joachim Zubly, Swiss-born Continental Congressman (d. 1781)
● 1730 - Johann Georg Hamann, German philosopher (d. 1788)
● 1770 - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher (d. 1831)
● 1796 - Sophia Smith, American philanthropist; founded Smith College (d. 1870)
● 1809 - Hannibal Hamlin, Vice President of the United States of America (1861-65) (d. 1891)
● 1858 - Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician (d. 1932)
● 1865 - James Henry Breasted, American Egyptologist (d. 1935)
● 1865 - Charles G. Dawes, 30th Vice President of the United States (1925-29) and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1925) (d. 1951)
● 1870 - Amado Nervo, Mexican poet (d. 1919)
● 1871 - Theodore Dreiser, American author (d. 1945)
● 1874 - Carl Bosch, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940)
● 1875 - Katharine McCormick, American women's rights activist (d. 1967)
● 1877 - Charles Rolls, Co-founder of Rolls-Royce (d. 1910)
● 1877 - Ernst Wetter, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1963)
● 1884 - Vincent Auriol,French President (d. 1966)
● 1886 - Rebecca Helferich Clarke, English composer and violist (d. 1979)
● 1886 - Eric Coates, English composer (d. 1957)
● 1890 - Man Ray, photographer and artist (d. 1976)
● 1896 - Faina Ranevskaya, Russian actress (d. 1984)
● 1898 - Gaspard Fauteux, French Canadian parliamentarian (d. 1963)
● 1899 - C.S. Forester, British author (d. 1966)
● 1899 - Byron Foulger, American actor (d. 1970)
● 1904 - Norah Lofts, British author (d. 1983)
● 1904 - John Hay Whitney, American financier (d. 1982)
● 1906 - Ed Gein, American serial killer (d. 1984)
● 1908 - Don Bradman, Australian cricketer (d. 2001)
● 1908 - Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States (d. 1973)
● 1908 - Kurt Wegner, German artist (d. 1985)
● 1908 - Frank Leahy, American Notre Dame football coach (1941-53) (d. 1973)
● 1909 - Lester Young, American musician (d. 1959)
● 1909 - Sylvère Maes, Belgian cyclist (d. 1966)
● 1911 - Kay Walsh, British actress (d. 2005)
● 1912 - Gloria Guinness, Mexican socialite and writer(d.1980)
● 1913 - Nina Schenk von Stauffenberg, wife of Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg (d. 2006)
● 1915 - Norman F. Ramsey, Nobel Prize laureate
● 1916 - Martha Raye, American actress (d. 1994)
● 1917 - Peanuts Lowrey, American baseball player (d. 1986)
● 1921 - Leo Penn, American film director (d. 1998)
● 1925 - Darry Cowl, French actor (d. 2006)
● 1926 - Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian mathematician (d. 2002)
● 1927 - Jimmy C. Newman, American singer
● 1928 - Mangosuthu Buthelezi, South African politician
● 1929 - Ira Levin, American author
● 1931 - Sri Chinmoy, Indian guru
● 1931 - Joe Cunningham, American baseball player
● 1932 - Antonia Fraser, British author
● 1935 - Frank Yablans, American film producer
● 1935 - Ernie Broglio, American baseball player
● 1936 - Joel Kovel, American politician
● 1937 - Alice Coltrane, American jazz musician (d. 2007)
● 1937 - Tommy Sands, American actor and singer
● 1937 - J.D. Crowe, Bluegrass singer, musician
● 1940 - Sonny Sharrock, American jazz guitarist (d. 1994)
● 1942 - Daryl Dragon, American keyboardist (The Captain & Tennille)
● 1942 - Brian Peckford, Canadian politician
● 1943 - Tuesday Weld, American actress
● 1943 - Bob Kerrey, Former U.S. senator, D-Neb.
● 1944 - Tim Bogert, Rock singer, musician (Vanilla Fudge)
● 1945 - Marianne Sagebrecht, Actress
● 1945 - G.W. Bailey, American actor
● 1947 - Barbara Bach, American actress
● 1947 - Harry Reems, American actor
● 1948 - Sgt. Slaughter, American professional wrestler
● 1948 - Pavlos Sidiropoulos, Greek musician (d. 1990)
● 1949 - Jeff Cook, Country musician (Alabama)
● 1950 - Charles Fleischer, American actor
● 1951 - Mack Brown, University of Texas Head Football Coach
● 1951 - Buddy Bell, American baseball player-manager
● 1952 - Paul "Pee-Wee Herman" Reubens, American actor
● 1953 - Alex Lifeson, Canadian guitarist (Rush)
● 1953 - Peter Stormare, Swedish-born actor
● 1954 - John Lloyd, British former tennis player
● 1954 - Derek Warwick, British race car driver
● 1955 - Diana Scarwid, American actress
● 1955 - Robert Richardson, American cinematographer
● 1955 - Laura Fygi, Dutch singer
● 1956 - Glen Matlock, Rock musician (The Sex Pistols)
● 1957 - Bernhard Langer, German golfer
● 1958 - Sergei Krikalev, Russian cosmonaut
● 1958 - Tom Lanoye, Belgian author
● 1958 - Peter Stormare, Actor
● 1959 - Gerhard Berger, Austrian race car driver
● 1959 - Juan Fernando Cobo, Colombian artist
● 1961 - Tom Ford, American fashion designer
● 1961 - Yolanda Adams, American gospel singer
● 1961 - Jeffrey Steele, Country singer
● 1962 - Adam Oates, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1962 - Vic Mignogna, American voice actor
● 1962 - Matthew Basford, Country musician (Yankee Grey)
● 1962 - Dean Devlin, Writer, producer
● 1963 - Downtown Julie Brown, Welsh TV personality and former MTV VJ
● 1965 - Wayne James, Zimbabwean cricketer
● 1965 - Mike Johnson, Rock musician
● 1966 - Juhan Parts, Prime Minister of Estonia
● 1967 - Bobo, Rap musician (Cypress Hill)
● 1969 - Reece Shearsmith, British actor and comedian
● 1969 - Chandra Wilson, American actress ("Grey's Anatomy")
● 1970 - Peter Ebdon, English snooker player
● 1970 - Tony Kanal, English-born musician (No Doubt)
● 1970 - Jim Thome, American baseball player
● 1970 - Jeff Kenna, Irish footballer
● 1971 - Julian Cheung, Hong Kong actor and singer
● 1972 - Mike Smith, Canadian actor
● 1972 - Dalip Singh, Indian professional wrestler
● 1973 - Dietmar Hamann, German footballer
● 1973 - Carlene Begnaud, American professional wrestler
● 1973 - Cory Bowles, Canadian actor
● 1973 - Danny Coyne, Welsh footballer
● 1974 - Jose Vidro, Puerto Rican baseball player
● 1975 - Jonny Moseley, American skier
● 1975 - Mark Rudan, Australian footballer
● 1976 - Sarah Chalke, Canadian actress ("Scrubs")
● 1976 - Carlos Moyà, Spanish tennis player
● 1976 - Steve Taylor, British writer
● 1976 - Milano Collection Akihito Terui, Japanese professional wrestler
● 1976 - Mark Webber, Australian race car driver
● 1977 - Deco, Portuguese footballer
● 1978(77? NYT) - Mase, American rapper
● 1979 - Tian Liang, Chinese diver
● 1979 - Sarah Neufeld, Canadian musician (Arcade Fire)
● 1979 - Jon Siebels, Rock musician (Eve 6)
● 1983 - Wilson Chen, Taiwanese actor
● 1984 - David Bentley, English footballer
● 1984 - Sulley Muntari, Ghanaian footballer
● 1985 - Alexandra Nechita, Artist
● 1986 - Mario, American R&B singer
● 1988 - Alexa Vega, American actress ("Spy Kids" films)
DEATHS
● 542 - Saint Caesarius of Arles
● 1312 - Arthur II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1262)
● 1394 - Chokei, Emperor of Japan (b. 1343)
● 1450 - Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr, English politician (b. 1395)
● 1521 - Josquin Des Prez, Flemish composer
● 1545 - Piotr Gamrat, Polish Catholic archbishop (b. 1487)
● 1572 - Claude Goudimel, French composer
● 1577 - Titian, Italian artist
● 1590 - Pope Sixtus V (b. 1521)
● 1635 - Félix Lope de Vega, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1562)
● 1664 - Francisco Zurbarán, Spanish painter (b. 1598)
● 1748 - James Thomson, Scottish poet (b. 1700)
● 1773 - Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Prussian general (b. 1721)
● 1871 - William Whiting Boardman, American politician (b. 1794)
● 1875 - William Chapman Ralston, American banker (b. 1826)
● 1909 - Emil Christian Hansen, Danish fermentation physiologist (b. 1842)
● 1929 - Herman Potočnik Noordung, Slovenian rocket scientist (b. 1892)
● 1931 - Frank Harris, Irish author and editor (b. 1856)
● 1931 - Francis Marion Smith, American borax magnate (b. 1846)
● 1944 - Georg von Boeselager, German nobleman (b. 1915)
● 1948 - Charles Evans Hughes, U.S. Supreme Court justice (b. 1862)
● 1949 - Leaders of Second East Turkestan Republic die in a plane crash.
● 1958 - Ernest Lawrence, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
● 1963 - Garrett Morgan, American inventor (b. 1877)
● 1963 - W.E.B. DuBois, American civil rights activist and scholar (b. 1868)
● 1963 - Allama Mashriqi, Pakistani scholar and politician (b. 1888)
● 1964 - Gracie Allen, American actress and comedienne (b. 1895)
● 1965 - Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (b. 1887)
● 1967 - Brian Epstein, English manager of The Beatles (b. 1934)
● 1968 - Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent (b. 1906)
● 1969 - Ivy Compton-Burnett, English novelist (b. 1884)
● 1969 - Erika Mann, German writer and daughter of Thomas Mann (b. 1905)
● 1971 - Bennett Cerf, American publisher and television personality (b. 1898)
● 1971 - Margaret Bourke-White, American photo-journalist (b. 1906)
● 1975 - Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1892)
● 1976 - Mukesh, Indian playback singer (b. 1923)
● 1979 - Earl Mountbatten, British admiral and statesman (assassinated) (b. 1900)
● 1980 - Douglas Kenney, American humorist (b. 1947)
● 1981 - Valery Kharlamov, Soviet Union ice hockey player (b. 1948)
● 1988 - William Sargant, British psychiatrist (b. 1907)
● 1990 - Stevie Ray Vaughan, American guitarist (b. 1954)
● 1996 - Greg Morris, American actor (b. 1933)
● 1999 - Hélder Câmara, Brazilian Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1909)
● 2001 - Abu Ali Mustafa, leader of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (assassinated) (b. 1938)
● 2001 - Michael Dertouzos, Greek internet pioneer, Director of the M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer Science (b. 1936)
● 2003 - Pierre Poujade, French politician (b. 1920)
● 2004 - Willie Crawford, American baseball player (b. 1946)
● 2005 - Seán Purcell, Gaelic footballer (b. 1929)
● 2006 - Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Indian film director (b. 1922)
● 2006 - Maria Capovilla, oldest woman alive from 2004-2006 (b. 1889)
● 2006 - Jesse Pintado, Mexican-born guitarist (Napalm Death) (b. 1969)
● 2007 - Emma Penella, Spanish actress (b. 1930)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Anthusa the Younger
● St. Caesarius of Arles
● St. Decuman
● St. Ebbo
● St. Etherius
● St. Euthalia
● St. Gebhard
● St. Honoratus
● St. John
● St. Joseph Calasanctius, confessor
● St. Licerius
● St. Malrubius
● St. Margaret the Barefooted
● St. Monica of Hippo, mother of St. Augustine
● St. Narnus
● St. Phanurius
● St. Poemon
● Sts. Rufus and Carpophorus
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for August 14 (Civil Date: August 27)
● Forefeast of the Dormition.
● Prophet Micah.
● Translation of the Relics of St. Theodosius of the Kiev Caves.
● Hieromartyr Marcellus, Bishop of Apamea.
● St. Arcadius, monk of Novotorzhk.
● Martyr Ursicius at Nicomedia.
● New-Martyr Simeon of Trebizond.
● Greek Calendar:: Martyr Luke the Soldier.
● Commemoration of the disciples of St. Tikhon of Zadonsk: Monks Theophanes, Aaron, Nicander, Cosmas and Metrophanes.
● Roman Festivals - Volturnalia held in honor of Volturnus.
● Belgium - Wedding of the Giants.
● Gibralter - Late Summer Bank Holiday
● Moldova - Independence Day (from the USSR, 1991).
● 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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