Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Success "You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play." — Warren Beatty
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Neo-Fascism "I admired Hitler . . . because he came from being a little man with almost no formal education, up to power. I admire him for being such a good public speaker and for what he did with it." — Arnold Schwarzenegger, sometime actor turned into Governor of California {Please remember this quote whenever it is suggested he follow in the foot steps of another former Governor, Ronald Reagan, and the Constitution be amended so he could become President.}
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: On Politics "We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report." — Louis Nel, deputy foreign minister from South Africa
Thought for the day: "The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away."
{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
Sagittarius Triplet
Credit & Copyright: Steve Mazlin, Jim Misti
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 70 - The destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans.
● 1181 - Supernova seen in Cassiopia
● 1265 - Second Barons' War: Battle of Evesham - The army of Prince Edward (future Edward I of England) defeated the forces of rebellious barons led by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester; killing de Montfort and many of his allies. (This is sometimes considered the end of the age of chivalry in England.)
● 1541 - DeSoto's army arrives at Quigate, a town of sun-worshippers, west of the Mississippi in present-day Louisiana.
● 1578 - Battle of Al Kasr al Kebir (Alcazarquivir) - Moroccans defeat Portuguese. King Sebastian of Portugal is defeated and killed in North Africa, leaving his elderly uncle, Cardinal Henry, as his heir. This initiates a succession crisis in Portugal.
● 1693 - Date traditionally ascribed to Dom Perignon's invention of Champagne.
● 1704 - War of the Spanish Succession: Gibraltar captured by English and Dutch fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir George Rooke and allied with Archduke Charles.
● 1735 - Freedom of the press was established with an acquittal of John Peter Zenger. The writer of the New York Weekly Journal had been charged with seditious libel by the royal governor of New York. The jury said that "the truth is not libelous."
● 1753 - George Washington became a Master Mason.
● 1777 - Retired British cavalry officer Philip Astley establishes 1st circus.
● 1789 - In France members of the National Constituent Assembly take an oath to end feudalism and abandon their privileges.
● 1790 - A newly passed tariff act creates the Revenue Cutter Service (the forerunner of the United States Coast Guard).
● 1792 - Percy Bysshe Shelly, poet of liberty and nonviolent resistance, born, Britain.
● 1824 - Battle of Kos fought between Turks and Greeks.
● 1830 - Plans for the city of Chicago laid out
● 1854 - The Hinomaru is established as the official flag to be flown from Japanese ships.
● 1864 - Land & naval action new Brazos Santiago, Texas
● 1872 - National conference in Rimini, Italy, with Bakunin and others, gives birth of the Anarchistic Federation Italian (FAI).
● 1873 - Indian Wars: While protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, clash for the first time with the Sioux (near the Tongue River; only one man on each side is killed).
● 1874 - Methodist clergyman John H. Vincent (1832-1920) and Ohio manufacturer Lewis Miller established the Chautauqua Assembly in northwest New York state a summer retreat center combining recreational activities with the training of Sunday School teachers and other church workers.
● 1875 - The Convention of Colored Newspapermen begins, Cincinnati, Ohio.
● 1879 - Pope Leo XIII issued the encyclical "Aeterni patris," which urged the study of "true" philosophy, especially that of Thomas Aquinas. The injunction led to a great revival of both Thomist studies and scholastic philosophy.
● 1881 - 122° F (50° C), Seville, Spain (European record)
● 1884 - Birth of Sigmund O.P. Mowinckel, Norwegian Old Testament scholar. Associated from 1917-54 with Oslo University, his most influential work was done in the Psalms. In 1951 he published "The Psalms in Israel's Worship" (1963).
● 1892 - Andrew and Abby Borden were axed to death in their home in Fall River, Mass. Lizzie Borden, Andrew Borden's daughter from a previous marriage, was accused of the killings, though she was later acquitted.
● 1892 - English medical missionary Wilfred T. Grenfell, 26, first arrived in Labrador, Newfoundland. For 42 years he labored among the fisherfolk, helping build hospitals and orphanages as well as churches.
● 1901 - Louis Armstrong, the influential American jazz trumpeter, was born.
● 1902 - Greenwich foot tunnel under the River Thames opens.
● 1906 - Central Railway Station, Sydney opens.
● 1912 - Raoul Wallenberg, rescuer of Hungarian Jews, born, Sweden.
● 1914 - World War I: Germany invaded Belgium; in response, the United Kingdom declares war on Germany. The United States proclaims neutrality. {at least openly and temporarily}
● 1916 - The United States purchased the Danish Virgin Islands for $25 million.
● 1922 - The death of Alexander Graham Bell, two days earlier, was recognized by AT&T and the Bell Systems by shutting down all of its switchboards and switching stations. The shutdown affected 13 million phones.
● 1925 - U.S. Marines leave Nicaragua after 13-year occupation.
● 1927 - Peace Bridge between US & Canada opened
● 1936 - Greek General Ioannis Metaxas, leader of the 4th of August Regime, suspends parliament and the Constitution and declares himself dictator.
● 1936 - Police attack hunger march in Springfield, Ill.
● 1944 - Nazi police in Amsterdam, Holland, acting on a Dutch informant's tip, discover Anne Frank and family in hiding. The eight lived in a single secret room for 728 days. Sent to the notorious Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they were all killed, except for her father. He returned to the house after the war and found his daughter's diary.
● 1947 - The Supreme Court of Japan is established.
● 1948 - 5 day southern filibuster succeeds in maintaining poll tax
● 1949 - An earthquake in Ecuador destroyed 50 towns and killed more than 6000 people.
● 1953 - Black families move into Trumbull Park housing project in Chicago
● 1954 - Government of Pakistan approves the National Anthem, written by Hafeez Jullundhry and composed by Ahmed G. Chagla.
● 1954 - The uranium rush began in Saskatchewan, Canada.
● 1958 - The first potato flake plant was completed in Grand Forks, ND.
● 1959 - Swedish Christian and U.N. Secretary General Dago Hammarskald observed in his journal (Markings): 'We encounter a world where each man is a cosmos, of whose riches we can only catch glimpses.'
● 1960 - Rocket propelled USAF research aircraft sets record at 2,150 MPH
● 1961 - 108° F, Spokane, WA
● 1964 - Bodies of civil rights volunteers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney found near Philadelphia, Mississippi after disappearing on June 21.
● 1964 - Vietnam War: United States destroyers USS Maddox and USS C. Turner Joy report coming attack in the Gulf of Tonkin. The destroyers open fire at what they believed were Vietnam People's Army torpedo boats, although subsequent work has raised doubts the targets were real. This engagement became known as the Gulf of Tonkin Incident.
● 1968 - 100,000 attend Newport Pop Festival, Costa Mesa, CA
● 1969 - Vietnam War: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, US representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations. The negotiations will eventually fail.
● 1970 - Jim Morrison arrested for drunkenness
● 1971 - The US launches first satellite into lunar orbit from a manned spacecraft
● 1972 - Arthur Bremer was found guilty of shooting George Wallace, the governor of Alabama. Bremer was sentenced to 63 years in prison.
● 1974 - Crawford-Butler Act allows Puerto Ricans to elect own governor
● 1975 - The Japanese Red Army takes more than 50 hostages at the AIA Building housing several embassies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The hostages included the U.S. consul and the Swedish charge d'affaires. The gunmen win the release of five imprisoned comrades and fly with them to Libya.
● 1976 - First International Nonviolent March leaves for Verdun from Metz, France.
● 1977 - US President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy.
● 1981 - Columbia mated with SRBs & external tank for STS-2 mission
● 1981 - Oliver North is assigned to White House duty
● 1983 - Police and soldiers kill participants in bus and school boycott, Ciskei, South Africa.
● 1984 - The African republic Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso (National Day).
● 1985 - Peace Ribbon made by thousands of women wrapped around Pentagon.
● 1987 - A new 22-cent U.S. stamp honoring noted author William Faulkner, went on sale in Oxford, MS. Faulkner had been fired as postmaster of that same post office in 1924.
● 1987 - After the assassination of its anti-nuclear President and strong lobbying by the United States, the Pacific island nation of Belau (a former U.S. protectorate) reverses six previous votes and agrees to eliminate a clause in its constitution prohibiting nuclear weapons.
● 1987 - The Fairness Doctrine was rescinded by the Federal Communications Commission. The doctrine had required that radio and TV stations present controversial issues in a balanced fashion. The vote was 4-0.
● 1987 - Moors murderer claims more killings; Moors murderer Ian Brady claims he was involved in another five killings.
● 1988 - Congress votes $20,000 to each Japanese-American interned in WW II.
● 1988 - Hertz car rental will pay out $23 million in consumer fraud case
● 1988 - U.S. Rep. Mario Biaggi of New York was sentenced to prison. The conviction included charges of extortion, tax evasion, and acceptance of bribes in relation to the Wedtech scandal. Biaggi was paroled in 1990.
● 1989 - Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani offered to assist end the hostage crisis in Lebanon.
● 1989 - Tohono O'odham Nation on Arizona/Sonora border requests Mexican government return thousands of acres of tribal land.
● 1990 - The European Community imposed an embargo on oil from Iraq and Kuwait. This was done to protest the Iraqi invasion of the oil-rich Kuwait.
● 1991 - The Oceanos, a Greek luxury liner, sank off of South Africa's southeast coast. All of the 402 passengers and 179 crewmembers survived.
● 1991 - The world's largest hamburger, weighing over 4 tons (about 3750 kg), is made at a county fair in Seymour, Wisconsin.
● 1992 - Wang Hongwen died of a liver ailment. Hongwen was a member of the radical "Gang of Four". The gang had terrorized China during the Cultural Revolution.
● 1993 - A federal judge sentences LAPD officers Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell to 30 months in prison for violating motorist Rodney King's civil rights.
● 1994 - Yugoslavia withdrew its support for Bosnian Serbs. The border between Yugoslavia and Serb-held Bosnia was sealed.
● 1995 - Operation Storm begins in Croatia.
● 1995 - Pres. Clinton orders an end to the Cold War-era prohibition against granting security clearances to gays. {Something BushCo reverses after 9-11 by firing many gay Arabic translators, exacerbating the shortage of qualified translators.}
● 1996 - After state voters had overwhelmingly passed a referendum legalizing medical marijuana, federal agents use overwhelming force to raid and shut down San Francisco Cannibus Buyer's Club.
● 1997 - Teamsters began a 15-day strike against UPS (United Parcel Service). The strikers eventually won an increase in full-time positions and defeated a proposed reorganization of the company's pension plan.
● 2000 - Queen Mother celebrates centenary; Celebrations take place all over the United Kingdom to mark the 100th birthday of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother.
● 2002 - Soham murders: 10 year old school girls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells go missing from the town of Soham, Cambridgeshire.
● 2002 - A Palestinian suicide bomber blew up a bus in northern Israel during rush hour, killing himself and nine passengers.
● 2004 - Richard Smith, a Staten Island ferry pilot, pleaded guilty to manslaughter charges in a crash that killed 11 commuters the previous October.
● 2005 - A mini-submarine carrying seven Russians became caught on an underwater antenna 600 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean; the men were rescued three days later with help from a British vessel.
● 2005 - Prime Minister Paul Martin announces that Michaëlle Jean will be Canada's 27th — and first black — Governor General.
● 2006 - Israeli warplanes destroyed four key bridges on Lebanon's last untouched highway, severing the country's final major connection to Syria.
● 2006 - Dame Silvia Cartwright steps down as the Governor-General of New Zealand and was replaced by The Honourable Anand Satyanand, who was sworn in on 23 August.
BIRTHS
● 1222 - Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, English soldier (d. 1262)
● 1290 - Duke Leopold I of Austria (d. 1326)
● 1521 - Pope Urban VII (d. 1590)
● 1604 - François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French writer (d. 1676)
● 1701 - Thomas Blackwell, Scottish classical scholar (d. 1757)
● 1719 - Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German minerologist and geologist (d. 1767)
● 1721 - Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, English politician (d. 1803)
● 1755 - Nicolas-Jacques Conté, French painter, inventor of the modern pencil (d. 1805)
● 1792 - Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (d. 1822)
● 1805 - William Rowan Hamilton, Irish mathematician (d. 1865)
● 1816 - Russell Sage, American financier (d. 1906)
● 1821 - James White, cofunder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (d. 1881)
● 1821 - Louis Vuitton, founder of Louis Vuitton (d. 1892)
● 1834 - John Venn, English mathematician (d. 1923)
● 1839 - Walter Pater, British critic, essayist and humanist (d. 1894)
● 1845 - Sir Pherozeshah Mehta, Indian politician and newspaper publisher (d. 1915)
● 1848 - Vladimir Sukhomlinov, Russian general (d. 1926)
● 1859 - Knut Hamsun, Norwegian writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1952)
● 1867 - Jake Beckley, baseball player (d. 1918)
● 1870 - Sir Harry Lauder, Scottish entertainer (d. 1950)
● 1884 - Henri Cornet, French cyclist (d. 1941)
● 1888 - Syedna Taher Saifuddin, Bohra Spiritual Leader (d. 1965)
● 1890 - Dolf Luque, baseball player (d. 1957)
● 1899 - Ezra Taft Benson, 13th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the LDS or Mormon Church) (d. 1994)
● 1900 - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, (Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother), Queen consort of George VI of the United Kingdom (d. 2002) {Since the year 1900 is technically part of the 19th century this the means the Queen Mother lived in 3 centuries, the 19th, 20th and 21st.}
● 1901 - Louis Armstrong, American musician (d. 1971)
● 1902 - Wild Bill Hallahan, baseball player (d. 1981)
● 1904 - Witold Gombrowicz, Polish novelist and dramatist (d. 1969)
● 1906 - Eugen Schuhmacher, German zoologist (d. 1973)
● 1908 - Sir Osbert Lancaster, English cartoonist, stage designer and writer (d. 1986)
● 1908 - Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (d. 1994)
● 1909 - Glenn Cunningham, runner (d. 1988)
● 1910 - William Schuman, American composer (d. 1992)
● 1912 - Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Russian mathematician, physicist, philosopher, and mountaineer (d. 1999)
● 1912 - Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish businessman and diplomat; rescued thousands of Hungarian Jews during World War II
● 1913 - Robert Hayden, American poet (d. 1980)
● 1915 - Warren Avis, founder of Avis car rentals (d. 2007)
● 1920 - Helen Thomas, American journalist
● 1921 - Maurice Richard, Canadian hockey player (d. 2000)
● 1923 - Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi, Pakistani satirical and humor writer
● 1923 - Reg Grundy, Australian media and television mogul
● 1927 - Jess Thomas, American tenor (d. 1993)
● 1928 - Christian Goethals, Belgian racing driver (d. 2003)
● 1929 - Kishore Kumar, Indian singer and actor (d. 1987)
● 1930 - Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, one of the most senior shia clerics of the 21st century.
● 1936 - Assia Djebar, Algerian writer and filmmaker
● 1937 - David Bedford, English musician
● 1938 - Ellen Schrecker, American college professor
● 1939 - Frankie Ford, Rock singer
● 1940 - Abdurrahman Wahid, 4th President of Indonesia
● 1940 - Timi Yuro, American singer (d. 2004)
● 1941 - Martin Jarvis, English actor
● 1941 - Ted Strickland, Governor of Ohio
● 1942 - Don S. Davis, American actor
● 1942 - Cleon Jones, American baseball player
● 1942 - David Lange, New Zealand politician (d. 2005)
● 1943 - Bjørn Wirkola, Norwegian ski jumper
● 1944 - Richard Belzer, American actor and comedian ("Law and Order: Special Victims Unit")
● 1944 - Doudou Ndoye, Senegalese lawyer and politician
● 1946 - Maureen Starkey, ex-wife of Ringo Starr (d. 1994)
● 1947 - Klaus Schulze, German composer
● 1948 - Johnny Grubb, American baseball player
● 1949 - John Riggins, Football Hall of Famer
● 1952 - Moya Brennan, Irish singer
● 1952 - Gábor Demszky, Hungarian politician
● 1955 - Billy Bob Thornton, American actor and writer
● 1955 - Alberto Gonzales, American U.S. Attorney General
● 1956 - Gerry Cooney, American boxer
● 1957 - John Wark, Scottish footballer
● 1957 - Brooks D. Simpson, American historian
● 1958 - Mary Decker, American athlete
● 1958 - Kym Karath, American actress
● 1959 - Robbin Crosby, American musician (Ratt) (d. 2002)
● 1959 - John Gormley, Irish politician
● 1960 - Dean Malenko, American professional wrestler
● 1960 - José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Spainish politician
● 1961 - Barack Obama, American politician
● 1961 - Lauren Tom, American actress
● 1961 - Michael Gelman, TV producer ("Live With Regis and Kelly")
● 1962 - Roger Clemens, American baseball player
● 1962 - Paul Reynolds, British musician
● 1963 - Gary King, British DJ
● 1965 - Fredrik Reinfeldt, Swedish politician
● 1965 - Dennis Lehane, American crime writer
● 1966 - Kensuke Sasaki, Japanese professional wrestler
● 1967 - Timothy Adams, American actor
● 1967 - Mike Marsh, American athlete
● 1968 - Rob Cieka, Rock musician (Boo Radleys)
● 1968 - Daniel Dae Kim, American actor
● 1968 - Marcus Schenkenberg, Swedish model
● 1969 - Troy O'Leary, American baseball player
● 1969 - Michael DeLuise, American actor
● 1970 - John August, American screenwriter
● 1971 - Jeff Gordon, American race car driver
● 1972 - Stefan Brogren, Canadian actor
● 1973 - Xavier Marchand, French swimmer
● 1974 - Cristian González, Argentine footballer
● 1975 - Daniella van Graas, Dutch model and actress
● 1975 - Andy Hallett, American actor
● 1977 - Luís Boa Morte, Portuguese footballer
● 1977 - Frankie Kazarian, American professional wrestler
● 1978 - Kurt Busch, American race car driver
● 1981 - Frédérick Bousquet, French swimmer
● 1981 - Abigail Spencer, American actress
● 1981 - Marques Houston, R&B singer-actor
● 1985 - Ha Seung-Jin, Korean basketball player
● 1985 - Luis Antonio Valencia, Ecuadorean footballer
● 1985 - Mark Milligan, Australian footballer
● 1987 - Rosita Ervik, Norwegian Celebrity
● 1989 - Jessica Mauboy, Australian Idol contestant
● 1992 - Dylan and Cole Sprouse, Italian-born American child actors
● 1992 - Tiffany Evans, American singer
DEATHS
● 1060 - Henry I of France (b. 1008)
● 1113 - Gertrude of Saxony (b. 1030)
● 1265 - Killed in the Battle of Evesham:
● Hugh le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer (b. 1223)
● Henry de Montfort (b. 1238)
● Peter de Montfort
● Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (b. 1208)
● 1306 - Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (b. 1289)
● 1338 - Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, son of Edward I of England (b. 1300)
● 1526 - Juan Sebastián Elcano, Spanish explorer (b. 1476)
● 1578 - Sebastian of Portugal (b. 1554)
● 1578 - Thomas Stucley, English adventurer
● 1598 - William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, English statesman (b. 1520)
● 1612 - Hugh Broughton, English scholar (b. 1549)
● 1639 - Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, Mexican dramatist
● 1718 - René Lepage de Ste-Claire, lord-founder of the town of Rimouski, in New France (b. 1656)
● 1727 - Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie, French general (b. 1647)
● 1741 - Andrew Hamilton, American lawyer
● 1784 - Giovanni Battista Martini, Italian musician (b. 1706)
● 1792 - John Burgoyne, British general (b. 1723)
● 1795 - Timothy Ruggles, American-born Tory politician (b. 1711)
● 1844 - Jakob Aall, Norwegian journalist and statesman (b. 1773)
● 1873 - Viktor Hartmann, Russian painter (b. 1834)
● 1875 - Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer (b. 1805)
● 1900 - Isaac Levitan, Russian painter (b. 1860)
● 1938 - Pearl White, American actress (b. 1889)
● 1957 - Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, President of Brazil (b. 1869)
● 1958 - Ethel Anderson, Australian poet (b. 1883)
● 1967 - Peter Smith, English cricketer (b. 1908)
● 1976 - Roy Herbert Thomson, Canadian publisher (b. 1894)
● 1976 - Enrique Angelelli, Argentine bishop, assassinated in the context of the "Dirty War"
● 1981 - Melvyn Douglas, American actor (b. 1901)
● 1982 - Bruce Goff, American Architect (b. 1904)
● 1996 - Geoff Hamilton, British gardener and broadcaster (b. 1936)
● 1997 - Jeanne Calment, French supercentenarian; world's oldest ever-human (b. 1875)
● 1998 - Yuri Artyukhin, cosmonaut (b. 1930)
● 1999 - Victor Mature, American actor (b. 1915)
● 2000 - Leslie Glass, American adult film actress (b. 1963)
● 2001 - Lorenzo Music, American actor (b. 1937)
● 2002 - Holly Wells & Jessica Chapman, Soham murder victims (b. 1991, 1991)
● 2003 - Frederick Chapman Robbins, American Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1916)
● 2004 - Stella Liebeck, known for her part in Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants, a lawsuit in which Liebeck claimed medical costs and damages for having been burned by a cup of McDonald's coffee. This lawsuit is considered to be "the poster child of excessive lawsuits" by ABC News.
● 2005 - Anatoly Larkin, Russian-American physicist (b. 1932)
● 2007 - Lee Hazlewood, American country singer, songwriter and producer (b. 1929)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Agabius
● St. Aristarchus
● St. Baumer, confessor
● St. Dominic, confessor
● St. Eleutherius
● St. Epimachus
● Sts. Epiphanius and Isidore, martyrs
● St. Euphronius, bishop of Tours
● St. Ionius
● St. Irenaeus and companions, martyrs at Lyon
● St. John Vianney / Jean-Marie Vianney, parish priest, patron saint of priests
● St. Justus, bishop of Lyon, confessor
● St. Lua
● St. Luanus/Lugid, abbot
● St. Martin
● St. Nicomedes, bishop, martyr
● Sts. Peregrinus, Maceratus, Viventius, and companions, martyrs
● St. Raynerius of Spalatro
● St. Sigrada, widow
● St. Sithney, patron St. of mad dogs
● St. Tertullinus, priest, martyr
● St. Valentine of Passau, bishop of Passau, confessor
● St. Walburga, virgin
● Bl. William Horne
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for July 21 (Civil Date: August 4)
● St. Symeon of Emesa, fool-for-Christ, and his fellow faster St. John.
● Prophet Ezekiel.
● St. Onuphrius the Silent of the Kiev Caves.
● St. Onesimus, recluse of the Kiev Caves.
● Opening of the Relics of St. Anna of Kashin.
● Martyr Victor of Marseilles.
● St. Anna, mother of St. Sava the Serbian.
● Greek Calendar:
● Martyrs Justus, Mathias, Eugene, Theodore, and George.
● Martyr Acacius of Constantinople.
● St. Eleutherius of "Dry Hill".
● St. Parthenius of Radovizlios, Bishop
● Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Armatia".
● Ancient Egypt - Jubilation of the Heart of Re.
● Burkina Faso - Anniversary of the Revolution.
● Cook Islands - Constitution Day (celebrations begin on the last Friday in July and last up to 2 weeks.)
● El Salvador - Transfiguration Bank Holiday
● Fiji - Celebration of Life (Begins on the 21st of April and ends on 12 of September.)
● Norway : Peer Gynt Festival Days
● Trinidad & Tobago : Discovery Day (1498)
● US : Coast Guard Day (1790)
● Virgin Islands : Nicole Robin Day
● 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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