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Sunday, August 05, 2007

August 5......

August 5 is the 217th (218th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 148 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Teaching "You teach best what you most need to learn." — Richard Bach

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Obtuseness "Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?" — Ronald Reagan

Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: On Politics "I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?" — Jim Scheilbel, mayor of St. Paul, Minnesota

Thought for the day: "The attacker must vanquish; the defender need only survive."

{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

The Dotted Dunes of Mars


Credit & Copyright: Malin Space Science Systems, MOC, MGS, JPL, NASA
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation


EVENTS

● 642 - Battle of Maserfeld - Penda of Mercia defeats and kills Oswald of Bernicia.

● 1100 - Henry I crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey.

● 1264 - Anti-Jewish riots break out in Arnstadt Germany

● 1305 - William Wallace, who led Scottish resistance to England, is captured by the English near Glasgow and transported to London for trial and execution.

● 1388 - Battle of Otterburn, border skirmish between the Scottish and the English in Northern England.

● 1391 - Castilian sailors set fire to Barcelona's Jewish ghetto, killing 100.

● 1498 - Columbus is first recent European to land on South American continent. This time he thought it was Australia.

● 1570 - Spanish Jesuits led by Fray Batista Segura arrived in the Chesapeake Bay area of Virginia, for the purpose of converting the American Indians to Christianity. (Unfortunately, six months later, the entire group was massacred by the very Indians they had come to evangelize.)

● 1583 - Sir Humphrey Gilbert establishes first English colony in North America, at what is now St John's, Newfoundland.

● 1604 - Baptism of John Eliot, American "apostle to the Indians." His evangelistic zeal led in 1649 to establishing the (missionary) Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in New England.

● 1620 - "Mayflower" and "Speedwell" depart Southampton, England.

● 1656 - Eight Quakers from England arrived in Boston and were immediately imprisoned by the local Puritan authorities. (The church-and-state amalgam of Puritanism looked upon non-ritual Quakerism with suspicion, regarding it as theologically apostate and politically subversive).

● 1689 - 1,500 Iroquois attack village of Lachine, in New France.

● 1716 - Battle of Petrovaradin

● 1735 - Freedom of the press: New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York, on the basis that what he published was true.

● 1763 - Pontiac's War: Battle of Bushy Run - British forces led by Henry Bouquet defeat Chief Pontiac's Indians at Bushy Run.

● 1772 - 1st partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia & Russia

● 1775 - 1st Spanish ship, San Carlos, enters San Francisco Bay

● 1812 - War of 1812: Tecumseh's Indian force ambushes Thomas Van Horne's 200 Americans at Brownstone Creek, causing them to flee and retreat.

● 1833 - The village of Chicago was incorporated. The population was approximately 250.

● 1837 - 1st ascent of Mt Marcy (5,344') highest in Adirondack, NY

● 1842 - England - "Plug Plot" riots. In response to economic crisis, high unemployment, high food prices and decreased wages; spontaneous strike wave of weavers and spinners, starting at Ashton under Lynn. Got its name when the plugs were pulled out of factory boilers.

● 1846 - Oregon country divided between US & Britain at 49th parallel

● 1851 - Little Crow, chief of the Koposia division of the Mdewakanton Lakota, signs treaty ceding most Minnesota land to U.S.

● 1858 - Cyrus West Field and others complete the first transatlantic telegraph cable after several unsuccessful attempts. It operated for less than a month.

● 1860 - Carl IV of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway, in Trondheim.

● 1861 - American Civil War: In order to help pay for the war effort, the United States government issues the first income tax as part of the Revenue Act of 1861 (3% of all incomes over US $800; rescinded in 1872).

● 1861 - Congress abolishes flogging in the Union Army. {It continues to be employed by the Navy however.}

● 1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Baton Rouge - Along the Mississippi River near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Confederate troops drive Union forces back into the city.

● 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Mobile Bay begins - At Mobile Bay near Mobile, Alabama, Admiral David Farragut leads a Union flotilla through Confederate defenses and seals one of the last major Southern ports. Admiral Farragut orders "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"

● 1864 - Spectrum of a comet observed for 1st time, by Giovanni Donati

● 1869 - Birth of Grant C. Tullar, American Methodist evangelist and music publisher. He is remembered today for composing the tune to the hymn, "Face to Face with Christ My Savior."

● 1870 - Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Spicheren is fought, resulting in a Prussian victory.

● 1874 - Japan launches its postal savings system, modeled after a similar system in England.

● 1882 - Martial law is enacted in Japan.

● 1884 - The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor.

● 1888 - Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim in the first long distance automobile trip.

● 1890 - American utopianist Aldin Ballou dies.

● 1890 - Frederich Engels, co-founder of International Workingmen's Association, dies.

● 1892 - Harriet Tubman gets a pension from Congress for her work as a nurse, spy, and scout during the Civil War. She, along with Sojourner Truth, Susie King, and almost 200 other African-American women, served as nurses during the war at 11 hospitals in three states.

● 1906 - John Huston, the American motion-picture director, was born.

● 1912 - Formation of the Progressive Party.

● 1914 - 1st traffic light installed (Euclid Ave. & E. 105th St, Cleveland)

● 1914 - US, Nicaragua sign treaty granting canal rights to US

● 1921 - The cartoon "On the Road to Moscow", by Rollin Kirby, was published in the "New York World". It was the first cartoon to win a Pulitzer Prize.

● 1923 - Henry Sullivan became the first American to swim across the English Channel.

● 1925 - Plaid Cymru is formed with the aim of disseminating knowledge of the Welsh language, which is in danger of dying out.

● 1940 - World War II : Latvia is annexed by the Soviet Union.

● 1943 - World War II: During the Battle of Troina, at around 11 A.M, Mount Etna erupted sending much ash and lava miles into the sky.

● 1944 - Holocaust: Polish insurgents liberate a German labor camp in Warsaw, freeing 348 Jewish prisoners.

● 1944 - World War II: Possibly the biggest prison breakout in history occurs as 545 Japanese POWs attempt to escape outside the town of Cowra, NSW, Australia.

● 1945 - Atom Bomb dropped on Hiroshima (Aug 6th in Japan)

● 1949 - In Ecuador an earthquake destroys 50 towns and kills more than 6000.

● 1953 - During the Korean conflict prisoners were exchanged at Panmunjom. The exchange was labeled Operation Big Switch.

● 1960 - Burkina Faso, then known as "Upper Volta", becomes independent from France.

● 1961 - 118° F (48° C), Ice Harbor Dam, Washington (state record)

● 1961 - The South American country of Bolivia adopted a new constitution that separated the powers of church and state.

● 1962 - 1st quasar located by radio

● 1962 - Marilyn Monroe was found dead in her home. The "probable suicide" was caused by an overdose of sleeping pills. Monroe was 36 at the time of her death.

● 1962 - Nelson Mandela arrested for incitement & illegally leaving South Africa. He would not be released until 1990.

● 1963 - The Limited Test Ban Treaty was signed by the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union. The treaty banned nuclear tests in space, underwater, and in the atmosphere.

● 1964 - Vietnam War: Operation Pierce Arrow - American aircraft from carriers USS Ticonderoga and USS Constellation bomb North Vietnam in retaliation for alleged attacks on US destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.

● 1966 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., stoned as he leads a march through Chicago's South Side. With rocks, we mean.

● 1969 - Mariner program: Mariner 7 makes its closest fly-by of Mars (3,524 kilometers).

● 1972 - Moody Blues re-release "Nights in White Satin"

● 1973 - USSR launches Mars 6

● 1973 - Athens attack leaves three dead; Three people are killed and 55 wounded when two Arab gunmen open fire on a crowded passenger lounge at Athens airport.

● 1974 - U.S. President Nixon said that he expected to be impeached. Nixon had ordered the investigation into the Watergate break-in to halt.

● 1974 - Vietnam War: The U.S. Congress places a $1 billion dollar limit on military aid to South Vietnam.

● 1975 - Deadly tree disease spreads; Dutch elm disease, which has so far attacked more than three million trees in Britain, is spreading, according to Forestry Commission officials.

● 1977 - U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission audit cannot account for 4 tons of enriched uranium.

● 1979 - In Afghanistan, Maoists undertake an attempted military uprising.

● 1981 - Pres. Reagan orders the FAA to fire 12,700 striking air traffic controllers, setting the tone for a decade of government complicity in corporate union-busting.

● 1983 - IRA members jailed for 4,000 years; Twenty-two members of the IRA are jailed for a total of more than 4,000 years following one of Northern Ireland's biggest mass trials.

● 1983 - David Crosby was sentenced to eight years in prison. He had been charged with drug and firearm possession. He was paroled in 1986.

● 1986 - It was revealed that artist Andrew Wyeth had secretly created 240 drawings and paintings of his neighbor. The works of Helga Testorf had been created over a 15-year period.

● 1987 - Twenty-three conscientious objectors deliver collective letter of resistance to SADF headquarters, Cape Town, South Africa.

● 1988 - Mario Biaggi (Rep-D-NY) convicted of racketeering resigns seat

● 1989 - General elections are held in Nicaragua, Sandinista Front wins the majority.

● 1989 - In Honduras, five Central American presidents began meeting to discuss the timetable for the dismantling of the Nicaraguan Contra bases.

● 1990 - U.S. President Bush angrily denounced the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.

● 1991 - An investigation was formally launched by Democratic congressional leaders to find out if the release of American hostages was delayed until after the Reagan-Bush presidential election.

● 1991 - Iraq admitted to misleading U.N. inspectors about secret biological weapons.

● 1991 - Toddler 'poorly' after dog attack; A two-year-old girl is recovering in hospital after being savaged by a Rottweiler dog.

● 1992 - Federal civil rights charges were filed against four Los Angeles police officers. The officers had been acquitted on California State charges. Two of the officers were convicted and jailed on violation of civil rights charges.

● 1992 - One hundred thousand march in South Africa for multi-racial government.

● 1994 - A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington chose Kenneth W. Starr to take over the Whitewater investigation from Robert Fiske.

● 1995 - The city of Knin, a significant Serb stronghold, is captured by Croatian forces during Operation Storm. The date is celebrated as the day of victory (Victory and Homeland Thanksgiving Day) in Croatia.

● 1998 - Marie Noe of Philadelphia, PA was arrested and charged with first-degree murder, accused of smothering eight of her children to death between 1949 and 1968. Noe later received 20 years' probation.

● 1998 - Ten thousand battle police in Rio de Janerio, Brazil to protest telecommunications privatization.

● 1999 - In Malibu, CA, Robert Downey Jr. was sentenced to three years in prison for missing scheduled drug tests.

● 2000 - Actor Alec Guinness died at age 86.

● 2001 - Afghanistan's ruling Taliban jailed eight foreign aid workers, including two Americans, for allegedly preaching Christianity.

● 2002 - The coral-encrusted gun turret of the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor was raised from the floor of the Atlantic.

● 2002 - The U.S. closed its consulate in Karachi, Pakistan. The consulate was closed after local authorities removed large concrete blocks and reopened the road in front of the building to normal traffic.

● 2003 - A car bomb explodes in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta outside the Marriott Hotel killing 12 and injuring 150.


BIRTHS

● 1301 - Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, English politician (d. 1330)

● 1397? - Guillaume Dufay, Franco-Flemish composer and theorist (d. 1474)

● 1540 - Joseph Justus Scaliger, Dutch philologist and historian (d. 1609)

● 1623 - Pietro Antonio Cesti, Italian composer (d. 1669)

● 1641 - John Hathorne, American magistrate (d. 1717)

● 1662 - James Anderson, Scottish historian (d. 1728)

● 1694 - Leonardo Leo, Italian composer (d. 1744)

● 1737 - Antonio Franconi, Italian impresario (d. 1836)

● 1802 - Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician (d. 1829)

● 1811 - Ambroise Thomas, French opera composer (d. 1896)

● 1813 - Ivar Aasen, Norwegian poet and language reformer (d. 1896)

● 1815 - Edward John Eyre, English explorer (d. 1901)

● 1827 - Deodoro da Fonseca, first President of Brazil (d.1892)

● 1850 - Guy de Maupassant, French author (d. 1893)

● 1862 - Joseph Merrick, the "Elephant Man" (d. 1890)

● 1866 - Carl Harries, German chemist (d. 1923)

● 1866 - Harry Trott, Australian cricketer (d. 1917)

● 1872 - Oswaldo Cruz, Brazilian physician (d. 1917)

● 1877 - Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (d. 1917)

● 1888 - Victor Francen, Belgian-born actor (d. 1977)

● 1889 - Conrad Aiken, American writer (d. 1973)

● 1890 - Erich Kleiber, Austrian-born conductor (d. 1956)

● 1890 - Naum Gabo, sculptor (d. 1977)

● 1897 - Aksel Larsen, Danish politician (d. 1972)

● 1901 - Claude Autant-Lara, French film director (d. 2000)

● 1906 - John Huston, American director (d. 1987)

● 1906 - Wassily Leontief, Russian economist, Nobel laureate (d. 1999)

● 1906 - Joan Hickson, English actress (d. 1998)

● 1908 - Harold Holt, 17th Prime Minister of Australia (1966-67) (d. 1967)

● 1910 - Bruno Coquatrix, French songwriter and music impresario (d. 1979)

● 1911 - Robert Taylor, American actor (d. 1969)

● 1912 - Abbé Pierre, French Catholic priest (d. 2007)

● 1914 - David Brian, American actor (d. 1993)

● 1918 - Tom Drake, American actor (d. 1982)

● 1918 - Betty Oliphant, Canadian ballerina (d. 2004)

● 1923 - Devan Nair, President of Singapore

● 1930 - Neil Armstrong, American astronaut

● 1934 - Wendell Berry, American poet, writer and farmer

● 1934 - Vern Gosdin, Country singer

● 1934 - Cammie King, Actress

● 1935 - Zakes Mokae, Actor

● 1935 - John Saxon, American actor

● 1937 - Herb Brooks, American ice hockey coach (d. 2003)

● 1939 - Princess Irene of the Netherlands

● 1940 - Bobby Braddock, Country songwriter

● 1941 - Bob Clark, American film director (d. 2007)

● 1943 - Nelson Briles, American baseball player (d. 2005)

● 1943 - Sammi Smith, American country singer and songwriter (d. 2005)

● 1946 - Loni Anderson, American actress ("WKRP in Cincinnati")

● 1946 - Ron Silliman, American poet

● 1946 - Erika Slezak, American actress ("One Life to Live")

● 1947 - Angry Anderson, Australian entertainer

● 1947 - Bernie Carbo, American baseball player

● 1947 - Rick Derringer, American musician

● 1948 - Carole Laure, French Canadian actress

● 1950 - Holly Palance, Actress

● 1951 - John Jarratt, Australian actor

● 1953 - Rick Mahler, American baseball player (d. 2005)

● 1953 - Samantha Sang, Australian singer

● 1956 - Jerry Ciccoritti, Canadian film director

● 1956 - Maureen McCormick, American actress ("The Brady Bunch")

● 1957 - Faith Prince, American actress

● 1959 - Pete Burns, English singer (Dead or Alive)

● 1959 - Pat Smear, Rock musician

● 1960 - Seth Swirsky, American songwriter

● 1961 - Tawny Kitaen, American actress

● 1961 - Mark O'Connor, American violinist

● 1961 - Clayton Rohner, American actor

● 1962 - Patrick Ewing, American basketball player

● 1964 - Adam Yauch (MCA), American musician (Beastie Boys)

● 1965 - Motoi Sakuraba, Japanese composer

● 1966 - Jonathan Silverman, American actor

● 1968 - Terri Clark, Canadian country singer

● 1968 - Tokimitsu Ishizawa, Japanese professional wrestler

● 1968 - Oleg Luzhny, Ukrainian footballer

● 1968 - Colin McRae, Scottish rally driver (d. 2007)

● 1968 - John Olerud, American baseball player

● 1970 - James Gunn, American filmmaker

● 1971 - Evil Jared Hasselhoff, American bassist (The Bloodhound Gang)

● 1972 - Christian Olde Wolbers, Belgian bassist (Fear Factory)

● 1974 - Alvin Ceccoli, Australian soccer player

● 1974 - Antoine Sibierski, French footballer

● 1975 - Antony Cotton, English actor

● 1975 - Ami Foster, American actress

● 1975 - Kajol Mukherjee, Indian actress

● 1976 - Jeff Friesen, Canadian ice hockey player

● 1976 - Kwon Sang-woo, South Korean actor

● 1977 - Eric Hinske, American baseball player

● 1977 - Mark Mulder, American baseball player

● 1978 - Kim Gevaert, Belgian sprinter

● 1978 - Nektaria Karantzi, Greek singer

● 1979 - David Healy, Northern Irish footballer

● 1980 - Wayne Bridge, English footballer

● 1980 - Jason Čulina, Australian soccer player

● 1981 - Carl Crawford, American baseball player

● 1981 - Rachel Scott, American murder victim (d. 1999)

● 1981 - Kō Shibasaki, Japanese singer

● 1981 - Erik Guay, Canadian alpine skier

● 1982 - LoLo Jones, American track and field athlete

● 1982 - Ryu Seung Min, Korean table tennis player

● 1982 - Tobias Regner, German singer

● 1983 - Dawn Richard, American singer (Danity Kane)

● 1985 - Salomon Kalou, Ivorian footballer

● 1986 - Brendon Ryan Barrett, Actor

● 1986 - Paula Creamer, American golfer

● 1987 - Genelia D'Souza, Indian actress

● 1987 - Xenia Tchoumitcheva, Russian-born Swiss model

● 1993 - Corey J. Smith, English television actor

● 1993 - Suzuka Ōgo, Japanese actress

● 2000 - Maya Bond, Japanese-born American singer and musician


DEATHS

● 882 - King Louis III of France (b. 863)

● 1063 - Gruffydd ap Llywelyn, King of Gwynedd

● 1364 - Emperor Kogon of Japan (b. 1313)

● 1572 - Isaac Luria, Palestinian-born Kabbalist (b. 1534)

● 1579 - Stanislaus Hosius, Polish Catholic cardinal (b. 1504)

● 1610 - Alonso García de Ramón, Spanish soldier and twice Royal Governor of Chile

● 1633 - Archbishop George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1562)

● 1678 - Juan García de Zéspedes, Mexican musician and composer (b. 1619)

● 1743 - John Hervey, Lord Hervey, English statesman and writer (b. 1696)

● 1778 - Charles Clémencet, French historian (b. 1703)

● 1792 - Frederick North, Lord North, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1732)

● 1799 - Richard Howe, British admiral (b. 1726)

● 1868 - Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist (b. 1788)

● 1880 - Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra, Austrian physician (b. 1816)

● 1895 - Friedrich Engels, German philosopher (b. 1820)

● 1911 - Bob Caruthers, baseball player (b. 1864)

● 1923 - Vatroslav Jagić, Croatian slavist (b. 1835)

● 1929 - Millicent Fawcett, British suffragist and feminist (b. 1847)

● 1946 - Wilhelm Marx, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1863)

● 1952 - Sameera Moussa, Egyptian nuclear scientist (b. 1917)

● 1955 - Carmen Miranda, Portuguese actress and singer (b. 1909)

● 1957 - Heinrich Otto Wieland, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1877)

● 1959 - Edgar Guest, English poet (b. 1881)

● 1960 - Arthur Meighen, 9th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1874)

● 1962 - Marilyn Monroe, American actress (b. 1926)

● 1963 - Salvador Bacarisse, Spanish composer (b. 1898)

● 1964 - Art Ross, professional ice hockey player and executive (b. 1886) (Art Ross Trophy)

● 1978 - Jesse Haines, baseball player (b. 1893)

● 1984 - Richard Burton, British actor (b. 1925)

● 1991 - Paul Brown, American football coach (b. 1908)

● 1991 - Soichiro Honda, founder of the Honda Motor Company (b. 1906)

● 1992 - Jeff Porcaro, American drummer (b. 1954)

● 1994 - Alain de Changy, Belgian racing driver (b. 1922)

● 1998 - Todor Zhivkov, Bulgarian Communist dictator from 1956 to 1989 (b. 1911)

● 2000 - Sir Alec Guinness, British actor (b. 1914)

● 2000 - Otto Buchsbaum, writer and ecological activist (b. 1920)

● 2002 - Josh Ryan Evans, American actor (b. 1982)

● 2002 - Chick Hearn, American basketball announcer (b. 1916)

● 2002 - Franco Lucentini, Italian writer (b. 1920)

● 2005 - Polina Astakhova, Russian gymnast (b. 1936)

● 2005 - Jim O'Hora, American football coach (b. 1915)

● 2005 - Raul Roco, Philippine senator (b. 1941)

● 2006 - Susan Butcher, American Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race champion (b. 1954)

● 2007 - Florian Pittiş, Romanian artist (b. 1943)


HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● Feast of Mary "ad nives"; Dedication of Santa Maria Maggiore bin Rome
● St. Abel of Reims (died 750)
● St. Addai/Addal
● St. Afra and companions, virgins, martyrs
● St. Cantidius
● St. Cassianus, bishop of Autun, confessor
● St. Dominic, confessor
● St. Emygdius, martyr, bishop of Ascoli Piceno
● St. Eusignius
● St. Fredulph, confessor
● St. Gormcal
● St. Jonius, priest, martyr
● St. Memmius, bishop of Châlons-sur-Marne, confessor
● St. Nonna of Nianza
● St. Nouna
● St. Ormisdas, pope, confessor
● St. Oswald of Northumbria, king, martyr (died 642)
● St. Paris
● St. Sixtus II, pope
● St. Theodoric
● St. Venantius, bishop of Viviers

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for July 22 (Civil Date: August 5)
● Holy Myrrh-bearer and Equal-to-the-Apostles Mary Magdalen
● Hieromartyr Phocas, Bishop of Sinope.
● Woman-martyr Marcella of Chios.
● St. Cornelius, monk of Pereyaslavl.

● Burkina Faso - Independence Day.

● Chile - Children's Day

● Croatia - Victory and Homeland Thanksgiving Day.

● Iran : Constitution Day

● Upper Volta : Independence Day/Burkina Faso (1960)

● World : Test Ban Day (Int'l Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War)

● 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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