Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Belief "Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it." — Buddha
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Respecting Our Elders "On the Senate Floor Senator Robert Byrd said, "Today I weep for my country"—I hope he didn't soil the sheets—"no more is the image of America one of strong yet benevolent peace-keeper, we flaunt our super-power status with arrogance," he said." — Rush Limbaugh, promotional excerpt during a web broadcast of the "Lee Rodgers and Melanie Morgan Show," KSFO-AM 560, 3-21-03
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "Facts are stupid things." — Ronald Reagan {He so believed this that he never did let facts bother his sense of reality.}
Thought for the day: "In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes, Youth on the bow, Pleasure at the helm."
{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
Gigantic Jets Over Oklahoma
Credit: Richard Smedley
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 5502 B.C.E. - Origin of Alexandrian Era
● 30 - Beheading of St. John, the Baptist.
● 284 - Origin of Era of Diocletian (Martyrs)
● 708 - Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708).
● 1189 - Ban Kulin wrote "The Charter of Kulin", which became a symbolic "birth certificate" of Bosnian statehood.
● 1261 - Urban IV becomes Pope, one of the last men to be elected pope outside the College of Cardinals.
● 1350 - Battle of Winchelsea (or Les Espagnols sur Mer): The English naval fleet under King Edward III defeats a Castilian fleet of 40 ships.
● 1475 - England again invades France. Probably to "protect interests."
● 1484 - Cardinal Giovanni Battista Cibo is elected Pope Innocent VIII.
● 1498 - Vasco da Gama decides to depart Calicut and return to Portugal.
● 1521 - The Ottoman Turks capture Nándorfehérvár, now known as Belgrade.
● 1526 - Battle of Mohács: The Ottoman Turks led by Suleiman the Magnificent defeat and kill the last Jagiellonian king of Hungary and Bohemia.
● 1533 - Atahualpa, the last Incan King of Peru, was murdered on orders from Spanish conqueror Francisco Pizarro. The Inca Empire died with him.
● 1541 - The Ottoman Turks capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom.
● 1632 - English philosopher John Locke was born in Somerset.
● 1655 - Warsaw falls without resistance to a small force under the command of Charles X Gustav of Sweden during The Deluge.
● 1708 - Haverhill, Mass destroyed by French & Indians
● 1756 - Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years' War.
● 1758 - First Indian reservation established.
● 1776 - Americans withdraw from Manhattan to Westchester
● 1786 - Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.
● 1792 - Birth of Charles G. Finney, American revivalist and educator. Originally trained in law, he was converted to Christian faith at age 29, conducted revival services for eight years and, from 1835 until his death, maintained a close affiliation with Oberlin College in Ohio.
● 1828 - A patent was issued to Robert Turner for the self-regulating wagon brake.
● 1830 - Swing Riots start; 400 destroy threshing machines that had put them out of work.
● 1831 - Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.
● 1833 - The "Factory Act" was passed in England to settle child labor laws.
● 1833 - The United Kingdom legislates the abolition of slavery in its empire.
● 1842 - At the conclusion of the first Anglo-Chinese War, also known as the First Opium War, the Treaty of Nanking is signed, ceding the island of Hong Kong to the British and winning European merchants more loot in China.
● 1852 - The Latter Day Saints first published their doctrine of "celestial marriage," popularly known as polygamy. The Mormon Church maintained this teaching until the Manifest of 1890 (and later Congressional legislation) outlawed the practice. {Actually this is a mischaracterization of part of this doctrine. The doctrine holds that a "sealed marriage" is for eternity and can be with only one wife, secondary wives get off the hook with death.}
● 1854 - Self-governing windmill patented (Daniel Halladay)
● 1861 - Civil War: US Navy squadron captures forts at Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina.
● 1862 - 2nd Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) begins
● 1862 - Battle of Aspromonte-Italian royal forces defeat rebels
● 1862 - US Bureau of Engraving & Printing begins operation
● 1864 - William Huggins discovers chemical composition of nebulae
● 1865 - "Battle" of Tongue River; Gen. Connor leads troops in dawn attack on a sleeping Arapaho village in Dakota Territory, killing at least 60. Connor relieved of command for killing woman and children, but practice continues.
● 1867 - The Social Brethren were officially organized in Illinois. Today, there are about 1,000 total members of this small, evangelistic denomination, with most churches located in Illinois, Michigan and Indiana. Church doctrine is a blend of Methodist and Baptist polity.
● 1869 - The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first rack railway.
● 1871 - Emperor Meiji orders the Abolition of the han system and the establishment of prefectures as local centers of administration. (Traditional Japanese date: July 14, 1871).
● 1877 - Death of Mormon lunatic strongman Brigham Young, second president of LDS church. Seagulls reportedly disinterested.
● 1883 - Seismic sea waves created by the Krakatoa eruption create a rise in the English Channel 32 hrs after the explosion
● 1885 - Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first motorcycle.
● 1886 - In New York City, Chinese Ambassador Li Hung-chang's chef invented chop suey.
● 1905 - Birth of anti-militarist Arndt Pekurinen, Finland.
● 1907 - The Quebec Bridge collapsed killing 75 workers. The bridge was being built across the St. Lawrence River above Quebec City.
● 1908 - Death of Lewis H. Redner, 78, American Episcopal organist. Maintaining a keen interest in music all his life, Redner composed ST. LOUIS, the tune to which today is most commonly sung Phillips Brooks' Christmas hymn, "O Little Town of Bethlehem."
● 1910 - Japan changes Korea's name to Chōsen and appoints a governor-general to rule its new colony.
● 1911 - Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
● 1914 - Arizonan is 1st vessel to arrive in SF via Panama Canal
● 1915 - US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, first U.S. submarine sunk in accident.
● 1915 - Ingrid Bergman, the Swedish international film star, was born.
● 1916 - Steamer 'Hsin Iu' sinks off China coast, 1,000 drown
● 1917 - Death of Ernest W. Shurtleff, 55, American Congregational clergyman and author of the hymn, "Lead On, O King Eternal." Shurtleff died during World War I, while doing relief work along with his wife.
● 1918 - Bapaume taken by Australian Corps and Canadian Corps in the Hundred Days Offensive
● 1921 - Newspapers report that Ku Klux Klan members have tarred and feathered 43 Texans in the past seven days. During the fear and government repression following WWI, the Klan makes an astonishing comeback. The group's platform attacks African Americans, Catholics and Jews. By 1924, the Klan has 4.5 million members and enormous political clout in some states. At Indiana's Republican convention in 1923, the state Klan head will walk down the aisle with a pistol strapped to his waist. Georgia's Klan chief, Hiram Wesley Evans, runs for president. In Texas, the Klan controls two-thirds of the state's county conventions.
● 1922 - Turkish forces set fire to Smyrna, in Asia Minor.
● 1929 - German airship Graf Zeppelin ends a round-the-world flight
● 1930 - The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.
● 1939 - Chaim Weizmann informs England that Palestine Jews will fight in WW II
● 1943 - German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy; Germany dissolves Danish government.
● 1944 - During the continuing celebration of the liberation of France from the Nazis, 15,000 American troops marched down the Champs Elysees in Paris.
● 1944 - Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis.
● 1945 - U.S. General Douglas MacArthur left for Japan to officially accept the surrender of the Japanese.
● 1949 - At the University of Illinois, a nuclear device was used for the first time to treat cancer patients.
● 1949 - Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
● 1950 - British troops arrive in Korea; British troops arrive in Korea to bolster the US presence there.
● 1953 - USSR explodes its 1st hydrogen bomb
● 1954 - SF International Airport (SFO) opens
● 1957 - 2,300 people watch Nevada Nuclear test on-site, so U.S. Army can test the effects. Some observers later develop cancer.
● 1957 - U.S. Congress passes the Civil Rights Act, the first since 1875. The bill establishes a Civil Rights Commission and a Civil Rights Division in the Department of Justice. In a futile attempt to block it, Democratic Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina sets the all-time filibuster record - 24 hours, 19 minutes.
● 1958 - United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
● 1961 - SNCC voter registration drive begins in South. Bob Moses beaten while trying to register two voters in Liberty, Mississippi.
● 1962 - The lower deck of the George Washington Bridge opens in New York and New Jersey
● 1965 - Gemini 5, carrying astronauts Gordon Cooper and Charles ("Pete") Conrad, splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean after eight days and 120 orbits in space.
● 1970 - Black Panthers confront cops in Philadelphia (1 cop killed)
● 1970 - First flight of the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 jetliner, a competitor to the Boeing 747.
● 1970 - Selective Service Systems report - prosecutions for draft evasion have increased 10 times over 1965 level.
● 1970 - Three die in East Los Angeles when an anti-war march turns into a riot during Chicano National Moratorium. Thousands of Chicanos gathered at Laguna Park in East L.A. to protest disproportionate number of deaths of Chicano soldiers in Vietnam. LAPD attack and one shot, fired into Silver Dollar Bar, kills Ruben Salazar, LA Times columnist and commentator on KMEX TV (accused by LAPD of inciting the Chicano community.)
● 1973 - U.S. President Nixon was ordered by Judge John Sirica to turn over the Watergate tapes. Nixon refused and appealed the order.
● 1974 - Rock fans clash with police at festival; At least 220 people are arrested following disturbances at a rock festival in Windsor Great Park in Berkshire.
● 1975 - Star in Cygnus goes nova becoming 4th brightest in sky
● 1977 - First world conference on desertification, Nairobi, Kenya.
● 1982 - The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany.
● 1983 - The anchor of the USS Monitor, from the U.S. Civil War, was retrieved by divers.
● 1983 - Two U.S. marines were killed in Lebanon by the militia group Amal when they fired mortar shells at the Beirut airport.
● 1984 - A B-1 bomber prototype crashed in the Mojave Desert killing one crew member and injuring two others.
● 1985 - Atlantis moves to launch pad for the 51-J mission
● 1986 - UK's oldest twins turn 100; Britain's oldest twins both receive telegrams from the Queen.
● 1988 - USSR launches 3 cosmonauts (Valery Polyakav, 1 Afghan) to station Mir
● 1989 - Seven bombs exploded in Medillin and Bogota, Columbia. Police blamed drug traffickers.
● 1990 - C-5 transport plane crashes at Ramstein AFB, Germany, killing 13
● 1990 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, in a television interview, declared that America could not defeat Iraq.
● 1991 - John F Kennedy Jr wins his 1st law case
● 1991 - The Communist Party in the Soviet Union had its bank accounts frozen and activities were suspended because of the Party's role in the failed coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev.
● 1991 - The republics of Russia and Ukraine signed an agreement to stay in the Soviet Union.
● 1991 - Women call on women worldwide for peace. European Peace Caravan, Sarajevo, Bosnia.
● 1992 - Violence mars German anti-racist rally; A protest march against right-wing attacks on refugees in Germany ends in violence after demonstrators clash with police.
● 1992 - Radical analyst and schizo-theorist Felix Guattari dies, Paris.
● 1992 - The U.N. Security Council agreed to send troops to Somalia to guard the shipments of food.
● 1995 - At the O. J. Simpson trial, tapes of Mark Fuhrman were played. The recordings were of Fuhrman making racial comments. {The tapes had no bearing on the case but were instrumental in getting Simpson acquitted.}
● 1995 - NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.
● 1995 - The Eduard Shevardnadze, the Georgian leader, survived an attempt on his life. The attempt was made in the form of a car bomb that exploded near his motorcade.
● 1996 - President Bill Clinton's chief political strategist, Dick Morris, resigned amid a scandal over his relationship with a prostitute.
● 1996 - Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, a Vnukovo Airlines Tupolev Tu-154 crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard.
● 1997 - Hooded men killed more than 300 people in an Algerian farm village in the worst carnage since an Islamic insurgency began.
● 1997 - Seven thousand protest NYPD torture of Abner Louima.
● 1998 - Northwest Airlines pilots went on strike after their union rejected a last-minute company offer.
● 2000 - Pope John Paul II endorsed organ donation and adult stem cell study but condemned human cloning and embryo experiments.
● 2001 - In Dallas, TX, George Rivas was sentenced to death for the murder of a police office during a robbery. Rivas was the leader of a group of prison escapees referred to as the Texas 7.
● 2002 - A judge in Norwalk, Conn., sentenced Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel to 20 years to life in prison for bludgeoning his teenage neighbor with a golf club in 1975.
● 2003 - Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, is assassinated in a terrorist bombing, along with nearly 100 worshippers as they leave a mosque in Najaf.
● 2004 - India test-launched a nuclear-capable missile able to carry a one-ton warhead. The weapon had a range of 1,560 miles.
● 2005 - Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing more than 1,836 and causing over $115 billion in damage.
BIRTHS
● 1619 - Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of finance (d. 1683)
● 1628 - John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (d. 1701)
● 1632 - John Locke, English philosopher (d. 1704)
● 1725 - Charles Townshend, English politician (d. 1767)
● 1756 - Heinrich Graf von Bellegarde, Austrian field marshal and statesman (d. 1845)
● 1756 - Jan Śniadecki, Polish mathematician (d. 1830)
● 1777 - Nikita Yakovlevich Bichurin, founder of Sinology (d. 1853)
● 1780 - Jean Ingres, French painter (d. 1867)
● 1805 - Frederick Maurice, English theologian (d. 1872)
● 1809 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American physician (d. 1894)
● 1810 - Juan Bautista Alberdi, founding father of the Argentine Republic (d. 1884)
● 1843 - David B. Hill, Governor of New York (d. 1910)
● 1844 - Edward Carpenter, English poet (d. 1929)
● 1848 - Albert Bartholome, French sculptor (d. 1928)
● 1862 - Andrew Fisher, 5th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1928)
● 1862 - Maurice Maeterlinck, Nobel laureate (d. 1949)
● 1871 - Albert Lebrun, French politician (d. 1950)
● 1876 - Charles F. Kettering, American inventor (d. 1958)
● 1898 - Preston Sturges, American filmmaker (d. 1959)
● 1899 - Lyman Lemnitzer, American army general and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1960-62) (d. 1988)
● 1901 - Aurel Joliat, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1986)
● 1905 - Werner Forssmann, Nobel laureate (d. 1979)
● 1905 - Dhyan Chand, Indian hockey player (d. 1979)
● 1912 - Wolfgang Suschitzky, Austrian-Polish cinematographer
● 1912 - Barry Sullivan, American actor (d. 1994)
● 1915 - Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (d. 1982)
● 1916 - George Montgomery, American actor (d. 2000)
● 1916 - Luther Davis, American playwright
● 1917 - Isabel Sanford, American actress (d. 2004)
● 1920 - Charlie Parker, American musician (d. 1955)
● 1923 - Richard Attenborough, English film director
● 1923 - Marmaduke Hussey, BBC Chairman (d. 2006)
● 1924 - Consuelo Velázquez, Mexican songwriter (d. 2005)
● 1924 - Dinah Washington, American singer (d. 1963)
● 1926 - María Dolores Pradera, Spanish melodic singer
● 1928 - Charles Gray, English actor (d. 2000)
● 1929 - Thom Gunn, British poet (d. 2004)
● 1930 - Jacques Bouchard, Quebec advertising executive (d. 2006)
● 1931 - Stelios Kazantzidis, Greek singer (d. 2001)
● 1931 - Lise Payette, Quebec politician, writer and columnist
● 1933 - Arnold Koller, Swiss Federal Councilor
● 1934 - David Pryor, Former U.S. senator, D-Ark.
● 1935 - William Friedkin, American film director
● 1936 - John McCain, American politician
● 1937 - James Florio, Governor of New Jersey
● 1938 - Elliott Gould, American actor
● 1938 - Robert Rubin, United States Secretary of the Treasury
● 1939 - Joel Schumacher, American film director
● 1939 - William Friedkin, Director
● 1940 - Gary Gabelich, American race car driver (d. 1984)
● 1941 - Robin Leach, English television host ("Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous")
● 1942 - James Glennon, American cinematographer (d. 2006)
● 1942 - John Heuser, Electron Microscopist, Washington University in Saint Louis
● 1944 - G.W. Bailey, Actor
● 1945 - Wyomia Tyus, American athlete
● 1946 - Bob Beamon, American jumper
● 1947 - James Hunt, English race car driver (d. 1993)
● 1947 - Ray Wise, Actor
● 1952 - Deborah Van Valkenburgh, Actress
● 1952 - Karen Hesse, American children's writer
● 1952 - Dave Malone, American rock guitarist
● 1953 - James Quesada, Nicaraguan-American anthropologist
● 1954 - Michael P. Kube-McDowell, American science fiction novelist
● 1956 - Viv Anderson, English former footballer
● 1956 - Mark Morris, American choreographer
● 1956 - Dan Truman, Country musician (Diamond Rio)
● 1957 - Jerry D. Bailey, American racing jockey
● 1958 - Michael Jackson, American singer
● 1958 - Lenny Henry, British comic
● 1959 - Ernesto Rodrigues, Portuguese composer
● 1959 - Akkineni Nagarjuna, Telugu film actor
● 1959 - Timothy Perry Shriver, Member of the Kennedy Family
● 1959 - Chris Hadfield, Canadian astronaut
● 1959(62? NYT) - Rebecca De Mornay, American actress
● 1961 - Carsten Fischer, German field hockey player
● 1962 - Hiroki Kikuta, Japanese composer
● 1963 - Elizabeth Fraser, Scottish singer
● 1965 - Dina Spybey, American actress
● 1967 - Anton Newcombe, American musician
● 1969 - Me'Shell NdegéOcello, American singer
● 1969 - Joe Swail, Northern Irish snooker player
● 1970 - Jacco Eltingh, Dutch tennis player
● 1970 - Carl Martin, R&B singer (Shai)
● 1971 - Carla Gugino, American actress
● 1972 - Bae Yong Joon, South Korean actor
● 1973 - Adam Sessler, American TV show host
● 1973 - Olivier Jacque, motorcyclist
● 1973 - Seraph a.k.a. Seraph Of Treason
● 1974 - Kumi Tanioka, Japanese composer
● 1975 - Dante Basco, Filipino-American actor
● 1975 - Kyle Cook, Rock musician (Matchbox Twenty)
● 1976 - Stephen Carr, Irish footballer
● 1976 - Pablo Mastroeni, American soccer player
● 1976 - Jon Dahl Tomasson, Danish footballer
● 1977 - John Patrick O'Brien, American soccer player
● 1977 - Aaron Rowand, American baseball player
● 1977 - Roy Oswalt, American baseball player
● 1977 - Charlie Pickering, Australian comedian
● 1977 - John Hensley, Actor
● 1978 - Celestine Babayaro, Nigerian footballer
● 1979 - Ali Eftekhari, Iranian scientist
● 1979 - Chieu Luu, Canadian journalist
● 1980 - David Desrosiers, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
● 1980 - Chris Simms, American football player
● 1980 - David West, American basketball player
● 1980 - Nicholas Tse, Hong Kong singer and actor
● 1981 - Lanny Barbie, Canadian adult actress
● 1981 - Geneviève Jeanson, Quebec bicycle racer
● 1982 - A+, American rapper
● 1982 - Carlos Delfino, Argentinean basketball player
● 1983 - Jennifer Landon, Actress ("As the World Turns")
● 1985 - Jeffrey Licon, American actor
● 1986 - Lauren Collins, Canadian actress
● 1987 - Tony Kane, Irish footballer
● 1987 - Risa Shimamoto, Japanese gravure idol
DEATHS
● 886 - Basil I, Byzantine Emperor (b. 811)
● 1093 - Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1057)
● 1123 - King Eystein I of Norway (b. ca. 1088)
● 1395 - Duke Albert III of Austria (b. 1349)
● 1442 - John VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389)
● 1526 - King Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (killed in battle) (b. 1506)
● 1542 - Cristovão da Gama, Portuguese soldier (born c. 1516)
● 1657 - John Lilburne, English dissenter
● 1712 - Gregory King, English statistician (b. 1648)
● 1769 - Edmund Hoyle, English author and teacher (b. 1672)
● 1780 - Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (b. 1713)
● 1799 - Pope Pius VI (b. 1717)
● 1844 - Edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish founder of the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (b. 1762)
● 1856 - Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, British Christian writer (b. 1778)
● 1877 - Brigham Young, American religious leader and western settler (b. 1801)
● 1889 - Stefan Dunjov, Banat Bulgarian military figure (b. 1815)
● 1891 - Pierre Lallement, inventor of the bicycle (b. 1843 or 1844)
● 1904 - Murad V, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1840)
● 1930 - William Archibald Spooner, English writer (b. 1844)
● 1931 - David Abercrombie, Abercrombie & Fitch founder
● 1935 - Queen Astrid of Belgium (b. 1905)
● 1966 - Sayyid Qutb, Egyptian theoretician (b. 1906)
● 1968 - Ulysses S. Grant III, American soldier and planner (b. 1881)
● 1972 - Lale Andersen, German singer (b. 1905)
● 1975 - Eamon de Valera, first Taoiseach and third President of Ireland (b. 1882)
● 1976 - Jimmy Reed, American blues singer (b. 1925)
● 1976 - Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet, musician, revolutionary and philosopher (b. 1899)
● 1977 - Brian McGuire, Australian racing driver (b. 1945)
● 1981 - Lowell Thomas, American writer and broadcaster (b. 1892)
● 1982 - Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (b. 1915)
● 1984 - Muhammad Naguib, Egyptian statesman (b. 1901)
● 1987 - Archie Campbell, American country music comedian (b. 1914)
● 1987 - Lee Marvin, American actor (b. 1924)
● 1989 - Peter Scott, English explorer, naturalist, and painter (b. 1909)
● 1995 - Frank Perry, American film director (b. 1930)
● 2000 - Willie Maddren, English former footballer (b. 1951)
● 2001 - Francisco Rabal, Spanish actor (b. 1926)
● 2002 - Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (b. 1920)
● 2003 - Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, Iraqi political leader (b.1939)
● 2003 - Patrick Procktor, English artist (b. 1936)
● 2003 - Michel Constantin, French film actor (b. 1924)
● 2004 - Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor (b. 1942)
● 2007 - Richard Jewell, central figure {despite being a true hero and truly innocent of any wrong doing} in the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing (b. 1962)
● 2007 - Pierre Messmer, French politician and Prime Minister (b. 1916)
● 2007 - Alfred Peet, Dutch-American entrepreneur and the founder of Peet's Coffee & Tea (b. 1920)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Adelphus
● St. Basilla
● St. Candida
● St. Edwold
● St. Euthymius
● Sts. Hypatius and Andrew
● St. Hyperdulia
● St. John the Baptist
● St. Medericus
● Sts. Nicaeas and Paul
● St. Sabina
● St. Sebbi
● St. Velleicus
● Bl. Richard Herst
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for August 16 (Civil Date: August 29)
● Afterfeast of the Dormition.
● Translation of the Image Not-made-by-hands of our Lord Jesus Christ from Edessa to Constantinople
● Martyr Diomedes the Physician of Tarsus in Cilicia.
● St. Cherimon (Chaeremon) of Egypt.
● St. Joachim, monk of Osogov.
● St. Gerasimos the New Ascetic of Cephalonia (Mt. Athos. .
● New-Martyr Nicodemus of Meteora.
● New-Martyr Stamatios of Thessaly.
● New-Martyrs Priest Vladimir and his brother Boris (1931).
● St. Raphael of Banat (Serbia).
● Greek Calendar:
● 33 Martyrs of Palestine.
● Martyr Alcibiades.
● St. Nilus, brother of Emperor Theodore Laskaris, who rebuilt the Monastery of the Mother of God at Eiperus.
● Seraphim, Dorotheus, James, Demetrius, Basil and Sarantis of Megaris.
● Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos of St. Theodore ("Feodorovskaya").
● Repose of Blessed Matrona Popova, disciple of St. Tikhon of Zadonsk (1851).
● Eastern Orthodox:
● St. John the Baptist
● The first day of Thoth - which is the first day of the Egyptian calendar. Thoth is the Ibis-headed god of knowledge.
● Afghanistan - Jeshyn-Afghan Day/Independence Day (1920)
● Czecoslovakia - Slovak National Uprising Day
● Slovakia - Slovak National Uprising Day (1944, against the Nazis)
● 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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