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Friday, August 03, 2007

August 3......

August 3 is the 215th (216th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 150 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Spirituality "There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred." — Madeleine L'Engle

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Iraq War "The president of the United States and the secretary of defense would not assert as plainly and bluntly as they have that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction if it was not true, and if they did not have a solid basis for saying it." — Ari Fleischer, White House spokesman for the Bush administration

Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: On Politics "People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like." — Abraham Lincoln {proving that even Lincoln was not always at the top of his game}

Thought for the day: "The best prophet of the future is the past."

{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

NGC 7293: The Helix Nebula


Credit & Copyright: Imaging - Josch Hambsch, Processing - Karel Teuwen
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation


EVENTS

● 8 - Roman Empire general Tiberius defeats Dalmatians on the river Bathinus.

● 435 - Deposed Patriarch of Constantinople Nestorius, considered the originator of Nestorianism, was exiled by Byzantine Emperor Theodosius II to a monastery in Egypt.

● 881 - Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimeu, where Louis III of France defeated the Vikings, an event celebrated in the poem Ludwigslied

● 1492 - Christopher Columbus left Palos, Spain with three ships. The voyage would lead him to what is now known as the Americas. He reached the Bahamas on October 12.

● 1492 - The Jews of Spain are expelled by the Catholic Monarchs.

● 1527 - First known letter was sent from North America by John Rut while at St. John's, Newfoundland.

● 1546 - Etienne Dolet, printer, is hanged and burnt for blasphemy, sedition and heresy. About time they got an arm on that printer crowd.

● 1596 - David Fabricius discovers light variation of Mira (1st variable star)

● 1635 - The third of the Tokugawa shoguns, Iemitsu, establishes the system of alternate attendance (sankin kotai) by which the feudal daimyō are required to spend one year at Edo Castle in Tokyo and one year back home at their feudal manor, while their families remained in Tokyo as virtual political hostages. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 21, 1635).

● 1645 - Thirty Years' War: Second Battle of Nördlingen (Battle of Allerheim) - A French army under the command of Louis de Bourbon, Duc d'Enghien and Marshal Henri, Vicomte de Turenne attacks and defeats an Imperial army, led by Field Marshal Franz, Freiherr von Mercy at Alerheim, near Nördlingen, Germany.

● 1678 - Robert LaSalle builds the Le Griffon, the first known ship built in America.

● 1739 - English revivalist George Whitefield wrote in a letter: 'I am no friend to sinless perfection. I believe the existence (though not the dominion) of sin remains in the hearts of the greatest believers.'

● 1750 - Christopher Dock completed the first book of teaching methods. It was titled "A Simple and Thoroughly Prepared School Management."

● 1783 - Mount Asama erupts in Japan, killing 35,000 people.

● 1821 - Birth of Knights of Labor founder Uriah Stephens, Cape May, New Jersey.

● 1851 - Lopez and Crittendon Expedition left New Orleans, its mission an unauthorized attempt to free Cuba from Spain.

● 1852 - 1st intercollegiate rowing race, Harvard beats Yale by 4 lengths

● 1858 - Birth of Maltbie D. Babcock, American Presbyterian clergyman. His pastoral work centered around Maryland and New York, but he is better remembered today as author of the well-known hymn, "This is My Father's World."

● 1860 - The Second Maori War begins in New Zealand.

● 1863 - Governor Seymour asks Lincoln to suspend draft in New York.

● 1882 - Congress passes 1st law restricting immigration

● 1900 - Ernie Pyle, the famous World War II American war correspondent, was born.

● 1902 - Birth of Martin Noth, German Lutheran Old Testament scholar. His researches concentrated on the "history-of-traditions" approach to analyzing and understanding the Old Testament writings.

● 1905 - Maggie Kuhn born, founder of Gray Panthers. Buffalo, N.Y.

● 1908 - A site plan for the town of Allensworth, Calif., is filed with the Tulare County recorder. The town is founded by African-American Allen Allensworth "in order to enable black people to live on an equity [basis] with whites and to encourage industry and thrift in the race."

● 1913 - Four die in the so-called "Wheatland riots" when police fire into a crowd of California farmworkers trying to organize for better working conditions. Two labor leaders, one not even present on the day, are later convicted of murder for encouraging workers to organize, which, by the legal logic of the time, forced officials to shoot them.

● 1914 - Germany invades Belgium & declares war on France in WW I

● 1914 - At the outbreak of World War I, British Foreign Secretary Edward Grey remarked: "The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime."

● 1916 - World War I: Battle of Romani - Allied forces, under the command of Archibald Murray, defeat an attacking Ottoman army, under the command of Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein, securing the Suez Canal, and beginning the Ottoman retreat from the Sinai.

● 1918 - Large-scale Allied invasion of Russia to overthrow Bolsheviks begins at Vladivostok.

● 1921 - 1st aerial cropdusting (Troy Ohio to kill caterpillars)

● 1923 - The deceased Warren G. Harding was succeeded by Vice President Calvin Coolidge as the 30th President of the United States.

● 1931 - Chicago eviction riots leave three dead; 60,000 march for anti-eviction laws.

● 1934 - Adolf Hitler becomes the supreme leader of Germany by joining the offices of President and Chancellor into Führer.

● 1936 - The U.S. State Department advised Americans to leave Spain due to the Spanish Civil War.

● 1940 - Lithuanian SSR is accepted into the USSR

● 1940 - World War II: Italy invades British Somaliland.

● 1941 - Bishop Galens preaches against Nazi murders, Munster, Germany.

● 1943 - Gen. George S. Patton verbally abused and slapped a private. Later, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered him to apologize for the incident.

● 1944 - Lutheran theologian and Nazi martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote in a letter from prison: 'The Church must not underestimate the importance of human example; it is not abstract argument, but example, that gives its word emphasis and power.'

● 1948 - Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.

● 1954 - 1st VTOL (Vertical Take-off & Land) flown

● 1955 - Hurricane Connie begins pounding US for 11 days

● 1956 - Bedloe's Island had its name changed to Liberty Island.

● 1957 - Rahman to lead independent Malaya; Tunku Abdul Rahman, a British-educated Malay prince, is elected as head of state ahead of independence from Britain.

● 1958 - The Nautilus became the first vessel to cross the North Pole underwater. The mission was known as "Operation Sunshine."

● 1959 - English apologist C.S. Lewis wrote in a letter: 'When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.'

● 1960 - Niger gains independence from France.

● 1963 - Great Train Robbery-$2.5 M ($3.25 M) robbed

● 1966 - Lenny Bruce overdosed on morphine at the age of 40.

● 1970 - Hurricane "Celia" becomes most expensive Gulf storm in history

● 1970 - Mairiam Hargrave of Yorkshire, passes her driving test on 40th try

● 1971 - Two hundred march in Seattle to demand release of federal surplus food supplies to feed the hungry.

● 1972 - Federal Communications Commission (FCC) upholds a political candidate's right to broadcast paid commercials with racist content if such broadcast presents no danger of violence or incitement to violence.

● 1972 - U.S. Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.

● 1973 - Flash fire kills 51 at amusement park. (Isle of Man, UK)

● 1975 - 500 drown when 2 river boats collide & sink in China's West River

● 1975 - A privately chartered Boeing 707 impacts the mountainside near Agadir, Morocco killing 188.

● 1977 - One man killed, seven injured when a bomb explodes at New York City's Mobil Oil building. The FALN, a Puerto Rican independence movement, claimed responsibility.

● 1977 - United States Senate Hearing on MKULTRA.

● 1981 - In the United States, 11,500 air traffic controllers affiliated with the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) walk off the job. Eventually, Pres. Reagan will fire them all, breaking the union and setting the tone for a decade of corporate- and government- imposed losses for unions nationwide. {I have often wondered what possessed the members of SAG (Screen Actors Guild), a union, to elected Reagan their president.}

● 1981 - Senegalese opposition parties, under the leadership of Mamadou Dia, launches the Anti-imperialist Action Front-Suxxali Reew Mi.

● 1982 - Government steps up military conscription, Afghanistan.

● 1985 - Mail service returned to a nudist colony in Paradise Lake, FL. Residents promised that they’d wear clothes or stay out of sight when the mailperson came to deliver.

● 1986 - Eight women arrested in Motherpeace action, U.S.-Canada war test site, Vancouver, B.C.

● 1987 - Discovery in Orbital Processing Facility is powered up for STS-26

● 1988 - 143 resisters publicly refuse military call-up, South Africa.

● 1988 - The Iran-Contra hearings ended. No ties were made between U.S. President Reagan and the Nicaraguan Rebels.

● 1988 - The Soviet Union released Mathias Rust. He had been taken into custody on May 28, 1987 for landing a plane in Moscow's Red Square.

● 1989 - Hashemi Rafsanjani was sworn in as the president of Iran.

● 1989 - Lawrence Delisle drives his 4 kids into river

● 1989 - Shiite Muslim kidnappers suspended their threat to execute another hostage. It had been reported that the terrorist in Lebanon had hung Lt. Col. William R. Higgins three days before.

● 1990 - Thousands of Iraqi troops pushed within a few miles of the border of Saudi Arabia. This heightened world concerns that the invasion of Kuwait could spread.

● 1990 - US announces commitment of Naval forces to Gulf regions

● 1990 - UK temperatures reach record high; A weather station in Leicestershire records the highest temperature ever known in Britain.

● 1992 - Germany begins dismantling non-nuclear weapons, fulfilling 1990 treaty.

● 1992 - Russia and Ukraine agreed to put the Black Sea Fleet under joint command. The agreement was to last for three years.

● 1992 - The U.S. Senate voted to restrict and eventually end the testing of nuclear weapons.

● 1993 - The Senate voted 96-3 to confirm Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the Supreme Court. The second woman on the Court.

● 1994 - Arkansas executed three prisoners. It was the first time in 32 years.

● 1995 - Eyad Ismoil was flown from Jordan to the U.S. to face charges that he had driven the van that blew up in New York's World Trade Center.

● 1996 - General William F. Garrison accepted responsibility for the outcome of the 1993 raid in Somalia, and he retired from military service.

● 1997 - Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria; 40-76 villagers killed.

● 2001 - A grand jury indicted Robert Iler on charges that he and two teen-agers robbed two other teen-age boys for $40.

● 2001 - The Real IRA detonate a car bomb in Ealing, London, U.K injuring seven people.

● 2003 - Anglican church approves gay bishop; The Anglican Church in America votes to approve the appointment of an openly gay bishop, angering religious leaders around the world.

● 2004 - In New York, the Statue of Liberty re-opened to the public. The site had been closed since the terrorist attacks on the U.S. on September 11, 2001.

● 2004 - NASA launched the spacecraft Messenger. The 6 1/2 year journey was planned to arrive at the planet Mercury in March 2011.

● 2005 - President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya of Mauritania is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia.


BIRTHS

● 1509 - Étienne Dolet, French scholar (d. 1546)

● 1692 - John Henley, English clergyman (d. 1759)

● 1770 - King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia (d. 1840)

● 1801 - Joseph Paxton, English gardener (d. 1865)

● 1808 - Hamilton Fish, American politician (d. 1893)

● 1811 - Elisha Graves Otis, American inventor (d. 1861)

● 1817 - Archduke Albert, Austrian general (d. 1895)

● 1832 - Ivan Zajc, Croatian composer (d. 1914)

● 1850 - Reginald Heber Roe, 2nd Headmaster of Brisbane Grammar School (d. 1926)

● 1855 - Henry Cuyler Bunner, English poet (d. 1896)

● 1856 - Alfred Deakin, 2nd Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1919)

● 1860 - W.K. Dickson, Scottish inventor (d. 1935)

● 1867 - Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1947)

● 1872 - King Haakon VII of Norway (d. 1957)

● 1887 - Rupert Brooke, English poet (d. 1915)

● 1894 - Harry Heilmann, American baseball player (d. 1951)

● 1895 - Marguerite Nichols, American actress (d. 1941)

● 1899 - Louis Chiron, Monegasque race car driver (d. 1979)

● 1900 - Ernie Pyle, American war correspondent (d. 1945)

● 1900 - John T. Scopes, American defendant (d. 1970)

● 1901 - Stefan Cardinal Wyszyński, Polish Catholic prelate (d. 1981)

● 1902 - Regina Jonas, first woman rabbi

● 1903 - Habib Bourguiba, Tunisian politician (d. 2000)

● 1904 - Clifford D. Simak, American author (d. 1988)

● 1905 - Maggie Kuhn, American activist; formed the Gray Panthers (d. 1995)

● 1905 - Dolores del Rio, Mexican-born actress (d. 1983)

● 1905 - Franz Cardinal König, Austrian Catholic archbishop (d. 2004)

● 1906 - Alexandre Trauner, Hungarian-born French art film director (d. 1993)

● 1908 - Ernesto Geisel, Brazilian army general and vice-president (1974- 1979) (d. 1996)

● 1911 - Alex McCrindle, Scottish actor (d. 1990)

● 1915 - Frank Arthur Calder, Canadian politician (d. 2006)

● 1915 - Pete Newell, American basketball coach

● 1916 - José Manuel Moreno, Argentine footballer (d. 1978)

● 1918 - Sidney Gottlieb, American CIA official (d. 1999)

● 1920 - P. D. James, English novelist

● 1920 - Charlie Shavers, American trumpet player (d. 1971)

● 1921 - Marilyn Maxwell, American actress (d. 1972)

● 1921 - Hayden Carruth, American poet and literary critic

● 1921 - Richard Adler, Film composer

● 1922 - Robert Sumner, American evangelist and author

● 1923 - Shenouda III of Alexandria, Pope of the Coptic Christianity

● 1924 - Leon Uris, American novelist (d. 2003)

● 1924 - Gordon Stoker, Singer (The Jordanaires)

● 1925 - Marv Levy, American football coach and Hall of Fame member

● 1926 - Tony Bennett, American singer

● 1926 - Anthony Sampson, British journalist (d. 2004)

● 1927 - Gordon Scott, American actor (d. 2007)

● 1928 - Cécile Aubry, French actress

● 1934 - Haystacks Calhoun, American professional wrestler (d. 1989)

● 1934 - Jonas Savimbi, Angolan political leader (d. 2002)

● 1935 - Georgi Shonin, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1997)

● 1936 - Edward Petherbridge, English actor

● 1937 - Steven Berkoff, English actor

● 1938 - Terry Wogan, Irish television presenter

● 1939 - Jimmy Nicol, English musician

● 1939 - Egil Krogh, American lawyer and Watergate figure

● 1940 - Lance Alworth, American football player

● 1940 - Martin Sheen, American actor ("The West Wing" & "Apocalypse Now")

● 1941 - Beverly Lee, American singer (Shirelles)

● 1941 - Martha Stewart, American media personality

● 1945 - Eamon Dunphy, former Irish footballer

● 1946 - Jack Straw, British politician

● 1946 - Syreeta Wright, American singer and songwriter (d. 2004)

● 1948 - Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Prime Minister of France

● 1948 - Pierre Lacroix, National Hockey League executive

● 1949 - B.B. Dickerson, Rock musician (War)

● 1950 - John Landis, American film director

● 1950 - JoMarie Payton, Actress ("Family Matters")

● 1951 - Marcel Dionne, Canadian ice hockey player and Hall of Fame member

● 1951 - Jay North, American actor ("Dennis the Menace")

● 1952 - Osvaldo Ardiles, Argentine footballer

● 1952 - Frank Schaeffer, American author

● 1952 - Loles León, Spanish actress

● 1956 - Abhisit Vejjajiva, Thai politician and Democrat Party leader

● 1957 - Mani Shankar, Indian film maker

● 1958 - Ana Kokkinos, Greek-Australian film director

● 1958 - Lambert Wilson, French actor

● 1959 - John C. McGinley, American actor ("Scrubs")

● 1959 - Martin Atkins, English drummer

● 1959 - Koichi Tanaka, Japanese scientist, Nobel laureate

● 1961 - Lee Rocker, American musician (Stray Cats)

● 1961 - Molly Hagan, American actress

● 1963 - James Hetfield, American musician (Metallica)

● 1963 - Ed Roland, American musician (Collective Soul)

● 1963 - Isaiah Washington, American actor

● 1964 - Lucky Dube, South African reggae musician

● 1966 - Eric Esch, American boxer

● 1966 - Dean Sams, Country musician (Lonestar)

● 1967 - Mathieu Kassovitz, French film director and screenwriter

● 1968 - Rod Beck, American baseball player (d. 2007)

● 1970 - Masahiro Sakurai, Japanese video game developer

● 1971 - Forbes Johnston, Scottish footballer (d. 2007)

● 1971 - DJ Spinderella, American rapper (Salt-N-Pepa)

● 1972 - Brigid Brannagh, Actress

● 1972 - Sandis Ozoliņš, Latvian ice hockey player

● 1973 - Stephen Carpenter, American musician (Deftones)

● 1973 - Jay Cutler, American bodybuilder

● 1973 - Nikos Dabizas, Greek footballer

● 1973 - Michael Ealy, American actor

● 1975 - Aryiro Strataki, Greek heptathlete

● 1976 - Troy Glaus, American baseball player

● 1977 - Tom Brady, American football player

● 1977 - Tómas Lemarquis, Icelandic actor

● 1977 - Óscar Pereiro, Spanish cyclist

● 1978 - Mariusz Jop, Polish footballer

● 1979 - Kris Jenkins, American football player

● 1979 - Evangeline Lilly, Canadian model/actress

● 1980 - Dominic Moore, Canadian ice hockey player

● 1980 - Brandan Schieppati, American singer (Bleeding Through)

● 1984 - Jon Foster, American actor

● 1984 - Amanda Kimmel, American beauty queen

● 1985 - Holly Arnstein, Singer (Dream)

● 1985 - Sonny Bill Williams, New Zealand rugby league footballer

● 1986 - Charlotte Casiraghi, daughter of Princess Caroline of Monaco

● 1993 - Yurina Kumai, Japanese singer


DEATHS

● 1460 - King James II of Scotland (b. 1430)

● 1527 - Scaramuccia Trivulzio, Italian cardinal

● 1546 - Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Italian architect (b. 1484)

● 1546 - Étienne Dolet, French scholar and printer (b. 1509)

● 1604 - Bernardino de Mendoza, Spanish military commander

● 1621 - Guillaume du Vair, French writer (b. 1556)

● 1667 - Francesco Borromini, Swiss sculptor and architect (b. 1599)

● 1712 - Joshua Barnes, English scholar (b. 1654)

● 1720 - Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch statesman (b. 1641)

● 1721 - Grinling Gibbons, Dutch-born woodcarver (b. 1648)

● 1761 - Johann Matthias Gesner, German classical scholar (b. 1691)

● 1773 - Stanisław Konarski, Polish writer (b. 1700)

● 1780 - Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French philosopher (b. 1715)

● 1792 - Richard Arkwright, English industrialist and inventor (b. 1732)

● 1797 - Jeffrey Amherst, British military commander (b. 1717)

● 1805 - Christopher Anstey, English writer (b. 1724)

● 1839 - Dorothea von Schlegel, German novelist (b. 1763)

● 1857 - Eugène Sue, French novelist (b. 1804)

● 1867 - Philipp August Böckh, German scholar and antiquarian (b. 1785)

● 1877 - William Butler Ogden, American politician, 1st Mayor of Chicago (b. 1805)

● 1879 - Joseph Severn, English painter (b. 1793)

● 1916 - Sir Roger Casement, Irish rebel (hanged) (b. 1864)

● 1917 - Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician (b. 1849)

● 1924 - Joseph Conrad, Polish-born writer (b. 1857)

● 1929 - Emil Berliner, German-born telephone and recording pioneer (b. 1851)

● 1929 - Thorstein Veblen, American economist (b. 1857)

● 1942 - Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1872)

● 1954 - Colette, French writer (b. 1873)

● 1964 - Flannery O'Connor, American writer (b. 1925)

● 1966 - Lenny Bruce, American comedian (b. 1925)

● 1973 - Richard Marshall, U.S. Army general (b. 1895)

● 1977 - Alfred Lunt, American actor (b. 1892)

● 1977 - Makarios III, Archbishop and first President of Cyprus (b. 1913)

● 1979 - Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1899)

● 1983 - Carolyn Jones, American actress (b. 1930)

● 1993 - Swami Chinmayananda, spread the teachings of Vedanta (b. 1916)

● 1995 - Ida Lupino, English actress and director (b. 1914)

● 1995 - Edward Whittemore, American writer (b. 1933)

● 1997 - Pietro Rizzuto, Canadian politician (b. 1934)

● 1998 - Alfred Schnittke, Russian composer (b. 1934)

● 2001 - Christopher Hewett, British actor (b. 1922)

● 2002 - Carmen Silvera, British actress (b. 1922)

● 2003 - Roger Voudouris, American singer and songwriter (b. 1954)

● 2004 - Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (b. 1908)

● 2005 - Françoise d'Eaubonne, French feminist (b. 1920)

● 2006 - Arthur Lee, American psychedelic rock musician (b. 1945)

● 2006 - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, singer (b. 1915)

● 2007 - John Gardner, British author (b. 1926)


HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Abibas
● St. Abidon
● St. Aspren
● St. Dalmatius
● St. Euphronius
● St. Faustus
● St. Gamaliel
● St. Lydia Purpuraria
● St. Nicodemus
● St. Olaf of Norway, king, martyr
● St. Peter of Anagni
● St. Senach
● St. Stephen
● St. Trea
● St. Walthen, abbot of Melrose
● Bl. Waltheof

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for July 20 (Civil Date: August 3)
● Holy Glorious Prophet Elias (Elijah)
● St. Abramius of Galich or Chukhloma Lake, disciple of St. Sergius of Radonezh.
● Opening of the Relics of St. Athanasius, abbot of Brest-Litovsk.
● New-Martyr Lydia, and with her the soldiers Alexei and Cyril (1928); Priest Philosoph Ornalsky and those with him (1918).
● Repose of Righteous Priest Valentine (Amphiteatrov) (1908).

● Equatorial Guinea - Armed Forces Day.

● Kentucky - Watermelon Day

● New Zealand : Arbor Day (1872)

● Niger : Independence Day (1960)

● Tunisia : Bourguiba's Birthday (1902)

● Venezuela - Flag Day (since 2006)

● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Arizona, Michigan : American Family Day - ( Sunday )
● Italy : Joust of the Quintana (1st Sunday) - ( Sunday )
● Bahamas, Barbados, Turks & Caicos Island : Emancipation Day (1838) - ( Monday )
● British Commonwealth : Bank Holiday - ( Monday )
● Canada : Civic Holiday (1st Monday) - ( Monday )
● Colorado : Colorado Day (1876) - ( Monday )
● Jamaica : Independence Day (1962) - ( Monday )
● St Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla : August Monday - ( Monday )
● US : National Smile Week begins - ( Monday )
● Grasmere England : Rush-Bearing Day - ( Saturday )



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

Quotes of the Day taken from The Best Liberal Quotes Ever: Why the Left Is Right Compiled by William P. Martin ©2004

Dumbest Thing Said for the Day taken from 1001 Dumbest Things Ever Said Edited by Steven D. Price ©2004


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