Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Authority "I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority." — Rita Mae Brown
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Their Cold Dead Hands "Our members don't want to buy their songs, don't want to go to their movies, don't want to support their careers." — National Rifle Association Executive Vice-President Wayne LaPierre describing the organization's blacklist of businesses, religious groups, performers, and others. "NRA blacklist is a badge of honor for gun-control backers," Chicago Tribune, 10-30-03.
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "Traditionally, most of Australia's imports come from overseas." — Keppel Enderbery, former Australian cabinet minister
Thought for the day: "When seeking love give nothing, Having found love give all."
{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
Could Hydrogen Peroxide Life Survive on Mars?
Credit: Viking Project, NASA
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EVENTS
● 430 - Death of St. Augustine of Hippo, 76, the great early Latin Church Father and one of the outstanding theological figures of the ages. It was St. Augustine who wrote: 'Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless till they find their rest in thee.'
● 475 - The Roman general Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his capital of Ravenna and appoints his own son Romulus Augustus in his place.
● 489 - Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths defeats Odoacer at the Battle of Isonzo, forcing his way into Italy.
● 1189 - The Crusaders begin the Siege of Acre under Guy of Lusignan
● 1413 - St. Andrew's University, in Scotland, was chartered by a papal decree from Gregory XII.
● 1521 - The Ottoman Turks occupy Belgrade.
● 1542 - Reinforced with at least 600 arquebusiers and cavalry, Imam Ahmad Gragn attacks the Portuguese camp in the Battle of Wofla. The Portuguese are scattered, their leader Christovão da Gama captured and afterwards executed.
● 1565 - St. Augustine, Florida, established. It is the oldest surviving European settlement in the United States.
● 1609 - Delaware Bay explored by Henry Hudson for the Netherlands
● 1619 - Ferdinand II was elected Holy Roman Emperor. His policy of "One church, one king" was his way of trying to outlaw Protestantism.
● 1640 - King Charles I's English army loses to a Scottish Covenanter force at the Battle of Newburn
● 1645 - In Poland, King Vladislav IV convened the Conference of Thorn. Through it he sought to bring reunion among the 26 Catholic, 28 Lutheran and 24 Calvinist theologians in attendance. Discussions continued through November, but no satisfying theological fusion was achieved.
● 1655 - New Amsterdam & Peter Stuyvesant bars Jews from military service
● 1749 - German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born in Frankfurt.
● 1774 - The first American-born saint was born in New York City. Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton was canonized in 1975.
● 1776 - Battle of Long Island
● 1789 - Sir William Herschel discovers Saturn's moon Enceladus
● 1828 - Birth of Leo Tolstoy, author and anarchist pacifist, according to the Russian calendar in use at this time, Yasnay, Polyana, Russia. Major influence on Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.
● 1830 - "The Tom Thumb" was demonstrated in Baltimore, MD. It was the first passenger-carrying train of its kind to be built in America.
● 1833 - Slavery was banned by the British Parliament throughout the British Empire.
● 1840 - Birth of Ira D. Sankey, Dwight Moody's song evangelist. During their revival crusades (from 1870), Sankey penned many hymn tunes; among the most enduring today are HIDING IN THEE ("O Safe to the Rock That is Higher Than I") and SANKEY ("Faith is the Victory").
● 1849 - After a month-long siege, Venice, which had declared itself independent, surrenders to Austria.
● 1859 - A geomagnetic storm causes the Aurora Borealis to shine so brightly that it is seen clearly over parts of USA, Europe, and even as further afield as Japan.
● 1862 - Belle Boyd released from Old Capital Prison in Washington, DC
● 1862 - Second Battle of Bull Run, also known as the battle of Second Manassas.
● 1863 - Two hundred thousand freed slaves, whites join in anti-slavery rally. Washington, D.C.
● 1867 - US occupies Midway Islands in the Pacific
● 1879 - Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulus, is captured by the British.
● 1884 - 1st known photograph of a tornado is made near Howard SD
● 1892 - Birth of Augustin Souchy, anarchist pacifist.
● 1898 - Tsar Nicholas II proclaims international conference to make lasting peace, Russia. It didn't work, either.
● 1907 - "American Messenger Company" was started by two teenagers, Jim Casey and Claude Ryan. The company's name was later changed to "United Parcel Service."
● 1913 - Queen Wilhelmina opens the Peace Palace in The Hague.
● 1914 - The Royal Navy beats the German fleet in the Battle of Heligoland Bight.
● 1916 - Birth of radical American sociologist C. Wright Mills, Waco, Texas.
● 1916 - Germany declares war on Romania.
● 1916 - Italy's declaration of war against Germany took effect during World War I.
● 1917 - Ten suffragists are arrested when picketing the White House.
● 1918 - Big Bill Haywood and 14 other IWW labor activists sentenced to 20 years prison and fined, for draft obstruction.
● 1919 - Seattle mayor demands "hang or incarcerate all anarchists for life."
● 1921 - 2nd Pan-African Congress meets (London, Brussels & Paris)
● 1922 - First commercial broadcast on radio is heard on station WEAF in NY City. Announcer H. M. Blackwell speaks for ten minutes on behalf of the Queensboro Realty Company, who paid $100 for the air-time.
● 1924 - Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
● 1926 - Marines land at Bluefields, Nicaragua to "protect U.S. interests".
● 1933 - Filipino Labor Union leads 6,000 California lettuce workers out on strike, demanding 40-45 cents an hour, union recognition, and improved working conditions. Unity quickly dissolves when white strikers break away from the Filipinos and agree to arbitration. Facing the Filipinos alone, growers open a propaganda front, circulating stories claiming Communist infiltration of the union. Assisted by the highway patrol and armed vigilantes, they drive off 500 strikers. The struggle comes to a head in late September, when vigilantes attack the camp of Filipino union president Rufo Canete. They burn the camp to the ground and force strikers to flee for their lives. The police then raid union headquarters in Salinas, arresting scores of strikers and their leaders. But the strikers will hold out. The settlement gives them wages of 40 cents an hour and union recognition.
● 1939 - The first successful flight of a jet-propelled airplane took place. The plane was a German Heinkel He 178.
● 1943 - In Denmark, a general strike against the Nazi occupation is started.
● 1944 - Marseille and Toulon are liberated.
● 1949 - Riot prevents Paul Robeson from singing near Peekskill NY
● 1953 - Campus Crusade for Christ was incorporated in Los Angeles by founder Bill Bright. Today, CCC is an evangelical organization training Christian leaders in over 90 countries around the world.
● 1955 - Emmett Till, a Detroit teenager visiting relatives in Mississippi, is tortured and killed for allegedly whistling at a white woman. The questionable trial that followed, and Mrs. Till's decision to display her son's mutilated remains during an open-casket funeral, help to mobilize opposition to segregation in America. Later immortalized in a song by Bob Dylan. Monee, Mississippi.
● 1957 - Senator Thurmond begins 24-hr filibuster against civil rights bill
● 1961 - Fifth Situationist International conference.
● 1962 - Dr Geza DeKaplany tortures wife with acid
● 1963 - Evergreen Point Floating Bridge connecting Seattle & Bellevue opens
● 1963 - 250,000 people participated in a peaceful civil rights rally in Washington, D.C., where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
● 1964 - Philadelphia - two days of black uprising.
● 1968 - Vice Pres. Humphrey Humphrey gets the Democratic Presidential nomination. Rock and bottle throwing anti-war demonstrators converge on the Conrad Hilton Hotel, where squadrons of club-swinging Chicago police indiscriminately kicked and beat anything that moves. 178 arrested. Meanwhile, between August 26 through 29, thousands of protesters gather in Grant and Lincoln Parks to demonstrate against the Vietnam War. In addition to war protests, hippies objected to the 11 PM curfew, which prevented them from camping out in the park.
● 1971 - The dollar is allowed to float against the yen for the first time.
● 1972 - Prince William killed in plane crash; Prince William of Gloucester is killed after his light aircraft crashed and burst into flames.
● 1973 - 6.8 quake centered in Oaxaca State in Mexico kills 527
● 1974 - Soyuz 15 returns to Earth
● 1976 - Sixty thousand join Peace People demonstrations, Belfast and Dublin, Ireland.
● 1979 - An IRA bomb explodes on the Grand Place in Brussels.
● 1981 - John Hinckley, Jr. pled innocent to the charge of attempting to kill U.S. President Ronald Reagan. Hinckley was later acquitted by reason of insanity.
● 1981 - The National Centers for Disease Control announce a high incidence of Pneumocystis and Kaposi's sarcoma in gay men. Soon, these will be recognized as symptoms of an immune disorder, which will be called AIDS.
● 1983 - Israeli PM Menachem Begin announces resignation
● 1985 - East Germans charged with espionage; An East German couple appear before Horseferry Road magistrates court in London charged under the Official Secrets Act.
● 1986 - Jerry Whitworth, a retired Navy warrant officer, was convicted for his role in a Soviet spy ring. He was sentenced to 365 years in prison and fined $410,000.
● 1986 - Stage of siege declared in Bolivia.
● 1988 - 70 killed in crash of 3 Italian AF fighters at air show in Germany
● 1988 - An unsuccessful coup attempt in the Philippines resulted in the death of 50 people. The coup was against President Corazon Aquino.
● 1988 - At an air show in Ramstein, West Germany, an Italian Air Force jet collided with 2 other jets and then plunged into a crowd. 70 people were killed.
● 1989 - Jim Bakker's fraud and conspiracy trial opened.
● 1990 - Iraq declared Kuwait to be its 19th province and renamed Kuwait City al-Kadhima.
● 1990 - Marine reservist Erik Glen Larsen declares conscientious objection at press conference in San Francisco.
● 1990 - The Plainfield Tornado: An F5 tornado hits in Plainfield, Illinois, and Joliet, Illinois, killing 28 people.
● 1990 - Two college students were found and believed to be the fourth and fifth victims in an apparent serial killing near the University of Florida at Gainesville.
● 1991 - A subway operator in New York was charged with manslaughter after his train derailed, killing 5 people and injuring 133.
● 1993 - 76 die in an airplane crash in Tajikistan.
● 1993 - A dam breaks in Qinghai, China. 223 die.
● 1994 - A DEA plane crashed in Peru killing 5 U.S. agents.
● 1994 - Sunday trading legalized; Thousands of shops in England and Wales open legally for the first time following a change in the Sunday trading laws.
● 1995 - A mortar shell killed 38 people in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. The act triggered NATO airstrikes against the Bosnian Serbs.
● 1996 - Democrats nominated President Bill Clinton for a second term at their national convention in Chicago.
● 1997 - In Algeria, nearly 300 people were killed in a single late-night incident between the government and Islamic militants.
● 1998 - Pakistan's National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the "Qur'an and Sunnah" the "supreme law" but the bill is defeated in the Senate.
● 2002 - Prosecutors indicted WorldCom executives Scott Sulivan and Buford Yates Jr. in connection with the company's collapse. Both later pleaded guilty to criminal fraud.
● 2003 - Blair gives evidence to Hutton; The Prime Minister, Tony Blair, appears before the Hutton inquiry and speaks of the "raging storm" which followed a controversial BBC report.
● 2004 - George Brunstad, at age 70, became the oldest person to swim the English Channel. The swim from Dover, England, to Sangatte, France, took 15 hours and 59 minutes.
● 2005 - Hurricane Katrina upgraded to Category 5 storm; city of New Orleans put under its first mandatory evacuation order. {Of course there was no transportation provided, if you didn't have your own car you were out of luck.}
● 2006 - Prosecutors in Colorado abruptly dropped their case against John Mark Karr in the slaying of JonBenet Ramsey, saying DNA tests failed to put him at the crime scene despite his repeated insistence he'd killed the 6-year-old beauty queen.
BIRTHS
● 1025 - Emperor Go-Reizei of Japan (d. 1068)
● 1582 (O.S.) - Taichang Emperor, of the Ming dynasty of China (d. 1620)
● 1592 - George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (d. 1628)
● 1612 - Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, Dutch scholar (d. 1653)
● 1714 - Anthony Ulrich II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1774)
● 1749 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and scientist (d. 1832)
● 1774 - Elizabeth Ann Seton, First American-born Catholic saint, founder of the Sisters of Charity (d. 1821)
● 1801 - Antoine Augustin Cournot, French mathematician (d. 1877)
● 1814 - Sheridan le Fanu, Irish writer (d. 1873)
● 1828 (O.S.) - Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer (d. 1910)
● 1840 - Alexander Cameron Sim, Scottish merchant (d. 1900)
● 1853 - Vladimir Shukhov, Russian engineer and inventor (d. 1939)
● 1867 - Umberto Giordano, Italian composer (d. 1948)
● 1877 - Charles Stewart Rolls, English motorist and aviator; a founder of Rolls-Royce Ltd. (d. 1910)
● 1878 - George Whipple, American scientist, and Nobel laureate (d. 1976)
● 1884 - Peter Fraser, New Zealand labor leader and prime minister (1940-49) (d. 1950)
● 1894 - Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor (d. 1981)
● 1898 - Charlie Grimm, baseball player (d. 1983)
● 1899 - James Wong Howe, American Chinese-born cinematographer (d. 1976)
● 1899 - Charles Boyer, French actor (d. 1978)
● 1903 - Bruno Bettelheim, American psychologist (d. 1990)
● 1904 - Secondo Campini, Italian jet engine pioneer (d. 1980)
● 1906 - John Betjeman, English poet (d. 1984)
● 1908 - Roger Tory Peterson, American ornithologist (d. 1996)
● 1910 - Tjalling Koopmans, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985)
● 1911 - Joseph Luns, Dutch politician (d. 2002)
● 1913 - Robertson Davies, Canadian writer (d. 1995)
● 1913 - Richard Tucker, American tenor (d. 1975)
● 1913 - Terence Reese, British bridge player (d. 1996)
● 1913 - Boris Pahor, Slovenian writer
● 1915 - Max Robertson, British sports commentator
● 1916 - Jack Vance, American author
● 1916 - Hélène Baillargeon, Quebec singer, actor and folklorist (d. 1997)
● 1917 - Jack Kirby, American comic book artist (d. 1994)
● 1919 - Godfrey Hounsfield, Nobel Laureate (d. 2004)
● 1920 - Frits Bernard, pedophile activist (d. 2006)
● 1921 - Fernando Fernán Gómez, Spanish actor and playwright
● 1921 - Nancy Kulp, American actress (d. 1991)
● 1924 - Janet Frame, New Zealand author (d. 2004)
● 1924 - Peggy Ryan, American actress (d. 2004)
● 1925 - Donald O'Connor, American singer, dancer, and actor (d. 2003)
● 1925 - Billy Grammer, American country music singer and guitarist
● 1928 - F. William Free, American advertising executive (d. 2003)
● 1929 - Istvan Kertesz, Hungarian conductor (d. 1973)
● 1930 - Ben Gazzara, American actor
● 1931 - John Shirley-Quirk, English bass-baritone
● 1932 - Andy Bathgate, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1935 - Gilles Rocheleau, French Canadian politician (d. 1998)
● 1935 - Sonny Shroyer, Actor
● 1936 - Don Denkinger, American baseball umpire
● 1938 - Paul Martin, former Prime Minister of Canada
● 1938 - Maurizio Costanzo, Italian television journalist
● 1940 - Roger Pingeon, French cylist
● 1940 - William Cohen, Former defense secretary
● 1940 - Ken Jenkins, Actor ("Scrubs")
● 1941 - Sybille de Selys Longchamps, Belgian aristocrat
● 1942 - Sterling Morrison, American guitarist (The Velvet Underground) (d. 1995)
● 1943 - David Soul, American actor ("Starsky and Hutch")
● 1943 - Lou Piniella, American baseball manager
● 1944 - Marianne Heemskerk, Dutch swimmer
● 1945 - Robert Greenwald, American film director/producer
● 1944 - Melvin Dummar, American claimant to the Howard Hughes estate
● 1947 - Liza Wang, Hong Kong actress
● 1947 - Shoto Tanemura, Japanese martial artist
● 1947 - Alice Playten, Actress
● 1948 - Danny Seraphine, American musician (Chicago)
● 1949 - Hugh Cornwell, British musician (The Stranglers)
● 1951 - Keiichi Suzuki, Japanese composer
● 1951 - Wayne Osmond, American singer (The Osmonds)
● 1952 - Rita Dove, American poet
● 1952 - Wendelin Wiedeking, German businessman
● 1952 - Guy Nadon, Quebec actor
● 1952 - Jacques Chagnon, Quebec politician
● 1957 - Daniel Stern, American actor
● 1957 - Rick Rossovich, American actor
● 1958 - Scott Hamilton, American figure skater
● 1960 - Emma Samms, English actress
● 1961 - Kim Appleby, British singer
● 1962 - David Fincher, American music video and film director
● 1963 - Jennifer Coolidge, American actress
● 1965 - Amanda Tapping, Canadian actress
● 1965 - Shania Twain, Canadian singer
● 1966 - Priya Dutt, Indian social worker and politician
● 1967 - Frederick Kesner, Philippine-born Australian poet
● 1968 - Billy Boyd, Scottish actor ("Lord of the Rings" films)
● 1969 - Jason Priestley, Canadian actor ("Beverly Hills 90210)
● 1969 - Jack Black, American actor ("School of Rock," "Nacho Libre")
● 1969 - Mary McCartney, English photographer
● 1969 - Pierre Turgeon, French Canadian ice hockey player
● 1970 - Sherrié Austin, Australian actress/singer
● 1970 - Rick Recht, Jewish singer
● 1971 - Todd Eldredge, American figure skater
● 1971 - Janet Evans, American swimmer
● 1971 - Raul Marquez, Mexican-born American boxer
● 1971 - Shane Andrews, American baseball player
● 1972 - Jay Witasick, American baseball player
● 1973 - J. August Richards, Actor ("Angel")
● 1973 - Matthew John Armstrong, American actor
● 1973 - DJ Assault, American musician
● 1974 - Johan Andersson, Swedish game programmer
● 1974 - Carsten Jancker, German footballer
● 1974 - Takahito Eguchi, Japanese composer
● 1975 - Gareth Farrelly, Irish footballer
● 1978 - Max Collins, Rock musician (Eve 6)
● 1978 - Jess Margera, American drummer (CKY)
● 1978 - Shaniqua, American wrestling valet
● 1979 - Robert Hoyzer, German football referee
● 1979 - Shaila Durcal, Spanish singer
● 1979 - Kristen Hughes, Australian netballer
● 1979 - Markus Pröll, German footballer
● 1979 - Ruth Riley, American basketball player
● 1980 - T.J. Beam, American baseball player
● 1980 - Carly Pope, Actress
● 1981 - Martin Erat, Czech hockey player
● 1981 - Vaggelis Moras, Greek footballer
● 1981 - Raphael Matos, Brazilian racing driver
● 1982 - Anderson Silva de França, Brazilian footballer
● 1982 - LeAnn Rimes, American singer
● 1982 - Thiago Motta, Brazilian footballer
● 1983 - Lasith Malinga, Sri Lankan cricketer
● 1983 - Alfonso Herrera, Mexican actor and singer in the Latin Pop Group RBD
● 1984 - Michael Galeota, Actor
● 1985 - Cove Reber, American Lead singer for Saosin
● 1985 - Ralph Woolfolk IV, American actor
● 1986 - Gilad Shalit, Israeli corporal
● 1988 - Ray Jones, English footballer (d. 2007)
● 1990 - Bojan Krkić, Serbian-Spanish footballer
● 1991 - Kyle Massey, American actor
● 1999 - Prince Nikolai of Denmark
DEATHS
● 388 - Magnus Maximus, Roman usurper
● 430 - Augustine of Hippo, North African saint and theologian (b. 354)
● 1341 - King Leo V of Armenia (b. 1309)
● 1481 - King Afonso V of Portugal (b. 1432)
● 1645 - Hugo Grotius, Dutch philosopher and writer (b. 1583)
● 1654 - Axel Oxenstierna, Lord High Chancellor of Sweden (b. 1583)
● 1678 - John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, English soldier (b. 1602)
● 1757 - David Hartley, English philosopher (b. 1705)
● 1784 - Junípero Serra, Spanish missionary (b. 1713)
● 1785 - Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (b. 1714)
● 1793 - Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine, French general (executed) (b. 1740)
● 1805 - Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader (b. 1722)
● 1818 - Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, founder of Chicago
● 1820 - Andrew Ellicott, American surveyor (b. 1754)
● 1839 - William Smith, English geologist (b. 1769)
● 1900 - Henry Sidgwick, English philosopher (b. 1838)
● 1903 - Frederick Law Olmsted, American landscape architect (b. 1822)
● 1933 - Helen Dunbar, American actress (b. 1863)
● 1943 - King Boris III of Bulgaria (b. 1894)
● 1947 - Manolete, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1917)
● 1955 - Emmett Till, American civil rights movement icon (b. 1941)
● 1959 - Bohuslav Martinů, Czech composer (b. 1890)
● 1965 - Giulio Racah, Israeli physicist (b. 1909)
● 1975 - Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (b. 1907)
● 1976 - Anissa Jones, American actress (b. 1958)
● 1978 - Robert Shaw, English actor and writer (b. 1927)
● 1981 - Béla Guttman, Hungarian footballer (b. 1900)
● 1985 - Ruth Gordon, American actress (b. 1896)
● 1987 - John Huston, American movie director (b. 1906)
● 1988 - Jean Marchand, French Canadian union leader and politician (b. 1918)
● 1990 - Willy Vandersteen, Belgian cartoonist (b. 1913)
● 1993 - William Stafford, American writer (b. 1914)
● 1995 - Earl Bascom, American rodeo pioneer (b. 1906)
● 2003 - Brian Douglas Wells, American criminal (failed) (b. 1956)
● 2005 - Jacques Dufilho, French actor (b. 1914)
● 2005 - Esther Szekeres, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1910)
● 2005 - George Szekeres, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1911)
● 2006 - Benoît Sauvageau, French Canadian politician (b. 1963)
● 2006 - Melvin Schwartz, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1932)
● 2007 - Arthur Jones, American inventor of the Nautilus exercise machines (b. 1926)
● 2007 - Hilly Kristal, American Founder of CBGB (b. 1932)
● 2007 - Paul B. MacCready, Jr., American aeronautical engineer (b. 1925)
● 2007 - Antonio Puerta, Spanish footballer (b.1984)
● 2007 - Francisco Umbral, Spanish journalist, novelist, biographer and essayist (b. 1935)
● 2007 - Miyoshi Umeki, Japanese-born American actress (b. 1929)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Alexander of Constantinople
● St. Augustine of Hippo, bishop and doctor
● St. Edmund Arrowsmith
● St. Facundius
● St. Fortunatus
● St. Gorman
● St. Hermes
● St. Hugh More, Blessed
● St. Julian of Auvergne
● St. Moses the Ethopian
● St. Pelagius
● St. Rumwald
● St. Vivian
● Bl. John Roche & Margaret Ward
● Bl. Robert Morton
● Bl. Thomas Felton
● Bl. Thomas Holford
● Bl. William Dean
● Bl. William Guntei
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for August 15 (Civil Date: August 28)
● THE DORMITION OF OUR MOST HOLY LADY THE THEOTOKOS AND EVER-VIRGIN MARY.
● St. Macarius the Roman, abbot, and St. Chariton.
● "Diasozousa" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos.
● Repose of Elder Anthony of Murom, friend of St. Seraphim of Sarov (1851)
● Repose of Archimandrite Hieron, founder of New Athos (1912)
● Repose of Abbess Rufina of Harbin and Shanghai (1937).
● Eastern Orthodox:
● Feast day of the Assumption of Mary, the mother of Jesus, public holiday in Serbia and the Republic of Macedonia
● Lutheran:
● St. Augustine of Hippo, bishop and doctor
● Hong Kong - Festival of Hungry Ghosts, Liberation Day (1945).
● Jordon - Arab Renaissance Day
● Mauritius - Ganesh Chatturthi
● Philippines - National Heroes Day
● 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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