Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Technology "Technology evolves so much faster than wisdom." — Jennifer Stone
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Racism "I want to tell you that there's not enough troops in the army to force the Southern people to break down segregation and admit the Negro race into our theaters, into our swimming pools, into our homes and into our churches." — Strom Thurmond, ran as a third-party candidate for president in 1948 on a segregationist platform
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: On Politics "It's not easy getting up here and saying nothing. It takes a lot of preparation." — Barry Toiv, White House spokesman
Thought for the day: "The average woman would rather be beautiful than smart because the average man can see better than he can think."
{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
CG4: A Ruptured Cometary Globule
Credit & Copyright: Josch Hambsch
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 258 - St. Sixtus II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
● 523 - St. Hormisdas ends his reign as Catholic Pope
● 768 - Constantine ends his reign as Catholic Pope
● 1181 - Supernova observed by Chinese & Japanese astronomers
● 1538 - Bogotá, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.
● 1651 - Birth of Francois Fanelon, French priest and scholar. His 1697 writing, "Christian Perfection," provided a reasoned defense of mystical spirituality, though it afterward brought him into disfavor with the pope.
● 1727 - French Ursuline nuns first arrived at New Orleans, where they set up the first Catholic charitable institution in America. It comprised an orphanage, a girl's school and a hospital.
● 1774 - English religious leader Ann Lee (1736-1784) and a small band of followers first arrived in America. Her sect called itself the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Coming, but to the rest of the world her followers came to be known as the "Shakers."
● 1787 - The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia began. The articles of the U.S. Constitution draft were to be debated.
● 1801 - The Great Religious Revival of the American West began at a Presbyterian camp meeting in Cane Ridge, Kentucky.
● 1806 - Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates, thus ending the Holy Roman Empire; it was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire
● 1815 - US flotilla ends piracy by Algiers, Tunis & Tripoli
● 1819 - Norwich University founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.
● 1821 - Birth of Edward H. Plumptre, Anglican theologian. He served on the Old Testament committee for the 1881 English Revised Version of the Bible. Today, he is better remembered as author of the hymn, "Rejoice, Ye Pure in Heart."
● 1825 - Bolivia gains independence from Peru (National Day)
● 1835 - Anti-bank riots begin in Baltimore, Maryland.
● 1845 - Russian Geographical Society is founded in Saint Petersburg.
● 1854 - Congress passes Confiscation Act
● 1855 - "Bloody Monday" Riot. A Louisville, KY mob, pulling a brass cannon, was dissuaded by the mayor from ravaging a Catholic church. It instead attacked the Irish quarter, burning down houses and killing at least 20.
● 1861 - British annexation of Lagos, Nigeria.
● 1862 - American Civil War: The Confederate ironclad CSS Arkansas is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering damage in a battle with USS Essex near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
● 1864 - Rebels evacuate Ft Powell, Mobile Bayd
● 1870 - Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Wœrth is fought, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory.
● 1870 - White conservatives suppresed black vote & captured Tenn legislature
● 1890 - The electric chair was used for the first time when Auburn State Prison in New York executed convicted murderer William Kemmler.
● 1901 - Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
● 1909 - Alice Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip.
● 1910 - New York City Mayor William J. Gaynor shot and seriously wounded by a discharged city employee.
● 1911 - Lucille Ball, the American radio, television and film comedic actress, was born.
● 1912 - The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum.
● 1914 - Austria-Hungary declared war against Russia. Serbia declared war against Germany.
● 1914 - Denis Patrick Dowd Jr. enlists in the French Foreign Legion, becoming the first American to fight in World War I.
● 1914 - World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic - Two days after the United Kingdom declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.
● 1915 - World War I: Battle of Sari Bair - The Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.
● 1917 - World War I: The Battle of Mărăşeşti between the Romanian and German armies begins.
● 1919 - 1st air flight over a major body of water in Australia (Harry Butler)
● 1921 - Clason Point, Bronx to College Point, Queens muni ferry system begins
● 1926 - Gertrude Ederle became the first American woman to swim the English Channel. She was 19 years old at the time. The swim took her 14 1/2 hours.
● 1927 - U.S. Supreme Court hears final plea from Sacco and Vanzetti; protest bombs hit homes of Baltimore mayor, Boston.
● 1928 - Birth of Andy Warhol, inventor of mass marketed art as pop culture and vice versa. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
● 1930 - Joseph Force Crater, a New York Supreme Court Justice, mysteriously disappeared. He was declared legally dead in 1939.
● 1934 - US troops leave Haiti, which had been occupied since 1915
● 1941 - A curfew is imposed on US gas stations in preparation for the upcoming war.
● 1942 - Queen Wilhelmina is the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.
● 1944 - Jews remaining in Lodz concentration camp are deported by retreating Nazis to Aushcwitz.
● 1945 - World War II: Hiroshima is devastated when an atomic bomb, "Little Boy", is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. An estimated 140,000 die from the immediate effects of the bombing; tens of thousands more in subsequent decades from radiation- induced illnesses.
● 1946 - US officially submits to jurisdiction of World Court
● 1951 - Typhoon floods kill 4,800 in Manchuria
● 1955 - First World Conference Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs is held at Hiroshima, Japan on 10th anniversary of bombing.
● 1957 - Eleven activists from the Committee for Nonviolent Action (CNVA) are arrested at atomic test proving grounds in Nevada, the first of what eventually becomes many thousands of arrests at the Nevada Test Site.
● 1960 - Cuban Revolution: In response to a United States embargo, Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.
● 1961 - Gherman S Titov, 2nd Russian in space aboard Vostok 2 (17 orbits), 1st case of motion sickness in space reported
● 1962 - Fifteen hundred in Hiroshima Day march, New Zealand.
● 1962 - Jamaica became an independent dominion within the British Commonwealth.
● 1964 - Prometheus, the world's oldest tree, is cut down.
● 1965 - US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into United States law.
● 1966 - Braniff Airlines Flight 250 crashes in Falls City, NE killing all 42 on board.
● 1967 - Indian Claims Commission awards $12.2 million to eight Lakota tribes for 29 million acres (most of the upper Great Plains) taken by fraudulent treaties.
● 1970 - Three hundred Yippies invade and disrupt Disneyland in wild celebration - chant Viet Cong slogans, demand the legalization of marijuana.
● 1971 - Sailor's record 'wrong way' voyage; A British man becomes the first to sail the world non-stop in the "wrong" direction - east to west - against the prevailing winds and currents.
● 1974 - Explosion & fire destory Great Northern RR yard in Wenatchee, Wash
● 1975 - Twenty-three hundred scientists deliver warning on dangers of nuclear power to White House.
● 1976 - Zulfikar Ali Bhutto lays foundation-stone of Port Qasim, Karachi.
● 1977 - First occupation of Trojan Nuclear Power Plant, on Columbia River near Rainier, Oregon.
● 1978 - Pope Paul VI died at Castel Gandolfo in Italy at age 80.
● 1981 - Fire fighters in Indianapolis, IN, answered a false alarm. When they returned to their station it was ablaze due to a grease fire.
● 1981 - NASA launches Fltsatcom-5, it failed
● 1983 - Fire aboard the Castillo de Belivar, off Cape Town, South Africa, results in a 250,000 ton oil spill.
● 1983 - Three thousand protest against U.S. nuclear destroyer Goldsborough, Melbourne, Australia.
● 1985 - 19th space shuttle mission (51-F), Challenger 8, lands at Edwards AFB
● 1985 - South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty signed.
● 1985 - STS 51-I vehicle moves to the launch pad
● 1985 - The 40th anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bombing brought tens of thousands of Japanese and foreigners to Hiroshima.
● 1985 - U.S.S.R. begins unilateral moratorium on nuclear testing. U.S. responds by conducting more underground nuclear tests. In 1998, the U.S. will express moral outrage at India and Pakistan for similar tests.
● 1986 - A low-pressure system that redeveloped off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimetres (13 inches) of rain in a day on Sydney.
● 1986 - William J. Schroeder died. He lived 620 days with the Jarvik-7 manmade heart. He was the world's longest surviving recipient of a permanent artificial heart.
● 1987 - David Owen resigns as leader of SDP; SDP leader Dr David Owen resigns after members of his party voted to merge with the Liberals.
● 1988 - "Tompkins Square Park Police Riot" in New York City. A riot erupted in Tompkins Square Park when police attempted to enforce a newly-passed curfew for the park. Bystanders, artists, residents, homeless people and political activists were caught up in the police action that took place on the night of August 6 and the early morning of August 7.
● 1989 - Jaime Paz Zamora was inaugurated as the president of Bolivia.
● 1989 - Pilot Union tells pilots okay to cross Eastern picket lines
● 1990 - UN Security Council votes 13-0 (2 abstentions Cuba & Yemen) to place economic sanctions against Iraq
● 1991 - Doi Takako, chair of the Social Democratic Party (Japan), becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives.
● 1991 - Harry Reasoner died at the age of 68. He was a newsman for CBS-TV.
● 1991 - Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.
● 1993 - Louis Freeh is confirmed by the United States Senate to be the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
● 1993 - Morihiro Hosokawa was elected prime minister of Japan.
● 1994 - Randolph County High School, in Wedowee, AL, was destroyed by fire. The principle's stand against interracial dating had caused much tension in the school.
● 1995 - Thousands of glowing lanterns were set afloat in rivers in Hiroshima, Japan, on the 50th anniversary of the first atomic bombing.
● 1996 - Eight Mexican anti-nuclear activists chain themselves to the entrance of the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City to protest construction of a low-level nuclear waste dump in Sierra Blanca, Texas, 30 miles from the Rio Grande.
● 1996 - NASA announced the discovery of evidence of primitive life on Mars. The evidence came in the form of a meteorite that was found in Antarctica. The meteorite was believed to have come from Mars and contained a fossil.
● 1996 - Thirty people turn themselves in to the national police of Wales and insist on confessing to the crime of paying income and VAT (sales) taxes used for weapons and other British government programs that violate international law. Police refuse to make arrests.
● 1997 - British Prime Minister Tony Blair shook hands with Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams in the first meeting in 76 years between a British leader and the IRA's allies.
● 1997 - Apple Computer and Microsoft agreed to share technology in a deal giving Microsoft a stake in Apple's survival. Microsoft buys $150 million worth of shares of financially troubled Apple Computer.
● 1997 - Hundreds turn out at Seattle's Pier 90 to protest the first-ever arrival in Elliot Bay, for Seafair, of the Trident nuclear submarine U.S.S. Ohio on Hiroshima Day.
● 1997 - Korean Air Flight 801, a Boeing 747-300, crashes into the jungle on Guam on approach to airport, killing 228.
● 1998 - A House committee voted to cite Attorney General Janet Reno for contempt of Congress for her refusal to turn over reports recommending that she seek an independent counsel to investigate campaign fund-raising.
● 1998 - Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky spent 8 1/2 hours testifying before a grand jury about her relationship with U.S. President Clinton.
● 1998 - Minuteman III Plowshares action damages hatch cover of ICBM in Colorado.
● 2000 - The Roman Catholic Church's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, under Prefect Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, publishes Dominus Iesus, notable for its lack of the filioque clause in the Latin text of the Nicene Creed.
● 2001 - White House briefing entitled Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S. delivered to George W. Bush. This document foreshadowed the September 11, 2001 attacks. {It most assuredly ignored by Bush and Rice. Rice gets promotion for doing so.}
● 2002 - A coal mine cave collapes in Colorado trapping 6 men.
● 2002 - Manindra Agrawal et al prove the long standing number theory conjecture in the article entitled Primes in P.
● 2002 - Marquis de la Fayette is made Honorary Citizen of the United States
● 2004 - Funk singer Rick James died of a heart attack at age 56.
● 2005 - Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, whose soldier-son, Casey, was killed in Iraq, began a weeks-long protest outside President Bush's ranch in Texas.
● 2007 - The Crandall Canyon Mine in Utah collapses trapping 6 men.
BIRTHS
● 1180 - Emperor Go-Toba of Japan (d. 1239)
● 1504 - Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1575)
● 1619 - Barbara Strozzi, Italian singer and composer (d. 1677)
● 1638 - Nicolas Malebranche, French philosopher (d. 1715)
● 1644 - Louise de la Vallière, French mistress of Louis XIV of France (d. 1710)
● 1656 - Claude de Forbin, French naval commander (d. 1733)
● 1697 - Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1745)
● 1697 - Niccolo Salvi, Italian sculptor (d. 1751)
● 1715 - Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French writer (d. 1747)
● 1766 - William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist (d. 1828)
● 1768 - Jean-Baptiste Bessières, French marshal (d. 1813)
● 1775 - Daniel O'Connell, Irish politician (d. 1847)
● 1809 - Alfred Lord Tennyson, English poet (d. 1892)
● 1828 - Andrew Taylor Still, American founder of osteopathy (d. 1917)
● 1844 - James Henry Greathead, British engineer (d. 1896)
● 1844 - Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1900)
● 1861 - Edith Roosevelt, American First Lady of the United States (d. 1948)
● 1868 - Paul Claudel, French poet (d. 1955)
● 1869 - Frank Cobb, American journalist and editor of the New York World (d. 1923)
● 1874 - Charles Fort, American writer and researcher (d. 1932)
● 1877 - Wallace H. White, Jr., American politician (d. 1952)
● 1880 - Hans Moser, Austrian actor (d. 1964)
● 1881 - Leo Carrillo, American actor (d. 1961)
● 1881 - Sir Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1955)
● 1881 - Louella Parsons, American gossip columnist (d. 1972)
● 1887 - Dudley Benjafield, British racing driver (d. 1957)
● 1888 - Heinrich Schlusnus, German baritone (d. 1952)
● 1889 - John Middleton Murry, English poet (d. 1957)
● 1889 - George Kenney, American Air Force General (d. 1977)
● 1891 - William Slim, British general (d. 1970)
● 1892 - Hoot Gibson, American actor (d. 1962)
● 1893 - Wright Patman, American politician (d. 1976)
● 1900 - Cecil H. Green, American geophysicist (d. 2003)
● 1902 - Dutch Schultz, American bootlegger (d. 1935)
● 1904 - Henry Iba, American basketball coach (d. 1993)
● 1906 - Vic Dickenson, American trombonist (d. 1984)
● 1908 - Helen Jacobs, American tennis player (d. 1997)
● 1908 - Will Lee, American actor (d. 1982)
● 1910 - Charles Crichton, British film director (d. 1999)
● 1911 - Lucille Ball, American actress (d. 1989)
● 1914 - Arthur Charles Dobson, British racing driver (d. 1980)
● 1914 - Ronald Duncan, English playwright, poet and writer (d. 1982)
● 1916 - Richard Hofstadter, American historian (d. 1970)
● 1916 - Dom Mintoff, Maltese Prime Minister
● 1917 - Robert Mitchum, American actor (d. 1997)
● 1918 - Norman Granz, American record producer (d. 2001)
● 1920 - Ella Raines, American actress (d. 1988)
● 1922 - Sir Freddie Laker, English entrepreneur (d. 2006)
● 1923 - Jess Collins, American artist (d. 2004)
● 1925 - Barbara Bates, American actress (d. 1969)
● 1926 - Jackie Presser, American Teamsters Union leader (1983-88) (d. 1988)
● 1926 - Clem Labine, American baseball player (d. 2007)
● 1926 - Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (d. 1999)
● 1926 - Frank Finlay, British actor
● 1928 - Andy Warhol, American artist (d. 1987)
● 1928 - Herb Moford, American baseball player (d. 2005)
● 1929 - Roch La Salle, Canadian polititian (d. 2007)
● 1930 - Abbey Lincoln, American jazz singer
● 1932 - Howard Hodgkin, British painter
● 1934 - Piers Anthony, English writer
● 1937 - Barbara Windsor, English actress
● 1937 - Baden Powell de Aquino, Brazilian guitarist (d. 2000)
● 1937 - Charlie Haden, Jazz bassist
● 1938 - Paul Bartel, American actor (d. 2000)
● 1938 - Peter Bonerz, American actor
● 1940 - Mukhu Aliyev, Dagestanian politician
● 1941 - Lyle Berman, American poker player
● 1941 - Ray Culp, American baseball player
● 1942 - George Jung, American convicted drug felon
● 1943 - Michael Anderson Jr., Actor
● 1943 - Jon Postel, American computer scientist (d. 1998)
● 1945 - Andy Messersmith, American baseball player
● 1945 - Ron Jones, British TV director (d. 1995)
● 1946 - Allan Holdsworth, British musician
● 1946 - Roh Moo-hyun, South Korean politician
● 1946 - Masaaki Sakai, Japanese comedian
● 1948 - Dino Bravo, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 1993)
● 1949 - Alan Campbell, Northern Irish clergyman
● 1949 - Clarence Richard Silva, Catholic Bishop of Honolulu
● 1950 - Dorian Harewood, American actor
● 1951 - Daryl Somers, Australian television personality
● 1951 - Catherine Hicks, American actress ("7th Heaven")
● 1952 - Pat MacDonald, Rock singer (Timbuk 3)
● 1952 - Vinnie Vincent, American musician (ex-Kiss)
● 1953 - Mark DuFresne, Country musician (Confederate Railroad)
● 1954 - Paul Steigerwald, American sports announcer
● 1956 - Stepfanie Kramer, Actress
● 1957 - Jim McGreevey, American politician
● 1957 - Bob Horner, American baseball player
● 1958 - Randy DeBarge, R&B singer
● 1962 - Michelle Yeoh, Chinese-Malaysian actress
● 1962 - Marc Lavoine, French singer and actor
● 1963 - Kevin Mitnick, American computer hacker
● 1964 - Moosie Drier, American actor and director
● 1964 - Patsy Lynn, Country singer (The Lynns)
● 1964 - Peggy Lynn, Country singer (The Lynns)
● 1965 - Yuki Kajiura, Japanese composer
● 1965 - Jeremy Ratchford, Actor ("Cold Case")
● 1965 - David Robinson, American basketball player
● 1967 - Archbishop Alexy (Bondarenko)
● 1967 - Mike Greenberg, American sportscaster
● 1967 - Julie Snyder, Quebec talk show host and producer
● 1968 - Lisa Stewart, Country singer
● 1969 - Elliott Smith, American musician (d. 2003)
● 1970 - M. Night Shyamalan, Indian-born American film director ("The 6th Sense")
● 1971 - Merrin Dungey, American actress
● 1972 - Geri Halliwell, British singer (Spice Girls)
● 1973 - David Campbell, Actor, singer
● 1973 - Vera Farmiga, American actress
● 1973 - Max Kellerman, American sportscaster
● 1973 - Stuart O'Grady, Australian cyclist
● 1974 - Luis Vizcaino, Dominican baseball player
● 1974 - Ever Carradine, Actress
● 1975 - Victor Zambrano, Venezuelan baseball player
● 1975 - Renate Götschl, Austrian alpine skier
● 1976 - Melissa George, Australian actress
● 1976 - Soleil Moon Frye, American actress
● 1977 - Jimmy Nielsen, Danish footballer
● 1977 - Leandro Amaral, Brazilian footballer
● 1978 - Marisa Miller, American supermodel
● 1980 - Danny Collins, Welsh footballer
● 1982 - Karl Davies, British actor
● 1982 - Derek Mount, American guitarist (Family Force 5)
● 1982 - Adrianne Curry, American model
● 1982 - Ryan Sypek, American actor
● 1983 - Robin van Persie, Dutch footballer
● 1986 - Bryan Young, Canadian ice hockey player
DEATHS
● 258 - Saint Pope Sixtus II
● 523 - Saint Pope Hormisdas
● 1162 - Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona
● 1195 - Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria (b. 1129)
● 1221 - Saint Dominic, Spanish founder of the Dominicans (b. 1170)
● 1272 - King Stephen V of Hungary
● 1414 - King Ladislas of Naples (b. 1377)
● 1458 - Pope Callixtus III (b. 1378)
● 1623 - Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare's wife) (b. 1556)
● 1628 - Johannes Junius, Mayor of Bamberg (b. 1573)
● 1637 - Ben Jonson, English writer (b. 1572)
● 1645 - Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex, English merchant (b. 1575)
● 1657 - Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Polish-Lithuanian noble
● 1660 - Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (b. 1599)
● 1679 - John Snell, English royalist (b. 1629)
● 1694 - Antoine Arnauld, French philosopher and mathematician (b. 1612)
● 1695 - François de Harlay de Champvallon, French Catholic archbishop (b. 1625)
● 1753 - Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (struck by lightning) (b. 1711)
● 1759 - Eugene Aram, English philologist (b. 1704)
● 1794 - Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst, British politician (b. 1714)
● 1815 - James A. Bayard (elder), United States Senator from Delaware (b. 1767)
● 1828 - Konstantin von Benckendorff, Russian general and statesman
● 1850 - Edward Walsh, Irish poet (b. 1805)
● 1866 - John Mason Neale, English divine, scholar and hymnwriter (b. 1818)
● 1881 - James White, co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (b. 1821)
● 1884 - Robert Spear Hudson, English businessman (b. 1812)
● 1893 - Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1811)
● 1904 - Eduard Hanslick, Austrian music critic (b. 1825)
● 1914 - Ellen Louise Wilson, first wife of President Woodrow Wilson (b. 1860)
● 1920 - Stefan Bastyr, Polish aviator, first flight in independent Poland (b. 1890)
● 1931 - Bix Beiderbecke, American musician (b. 1903)
● 1945 - Hiram Johnson, American politician (b. 1866)
● 1945 - Prince Wu of Korea (b. 1912)
● 1945 - Richard Bong, America's all time Ace of Aces (b. 1920)
● 1946 - Tony Lazzeri, American baseball player (b. 1903)
● 1959 - Preston Sturges, American playwright, screenwriter, and director (b. 1898)
● 1964 - Sir Cedric Hardwicke, English actor (b. 1893)
● 1966 - Cordwainer Smith, American writer (b. 1913)
● 1969 - Theodor Adorno, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1903)
● 1973 - Memphis Minnie, American blues singer (b. 1897)
● 1973 - Fulgencio Batista, Cuban president and de facto leader (b. 1901)
● 1974 - Gene Ammons, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1925)
● 1976 - Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian cellist (b. 1903)
● 1978 - Pope Paul VI (b. 1897)
● 1979 - Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1911)
● 1983 - Klaus Nomi, German singer (b. 1944)
● 1985 - Forbes Burnham, President of Guyana (b. 1923)
● 1986 - Emilio Fernández, Mexican actor, screenwriter and film director (b. 1904)
● 1987 - Ira Eaker, American Air Force leader (b. 1896)
● 1990 - Jacques Soustelle, French anthropologist (b. 1912)
● 1991 - Roland Michener, Canadian politician and governor general (b. 1900)
● 1991 - Shapour Bakhtiar, Former Iranian prime minister, assassinated in Paris (b. 1915)
● 1991 - Harry Reasoner, American reporter (b. 1923)
● 1993 - Tex Hughson, American baseball player (b. 1916)
● 1994 - Domenico Modugno, Italian singer and songwriter (b. 1928)
● 1998 - Andre Weil, French mathematician (b. 1906)
● 2001 - Jorge Amado de Faria, Brazilian writer (b. 1912)
● 2001 - Dorothy Tutin, English actress (b. 1930)
● 2002 - Edsger Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist (b. 1930)
● 2004 - Rick James, American musician (b. 1948)
● 2005 - Ibrahim Ferrer, Cuban musician (Buena Vista Social Club) (b. 1927)
● 2005 - Keter Betts, American jazz bassist (b. 1928)
● 2005 - Robin Cook, British politician (b. 1946)
● 2007 - Zsolt Daczi, Hungarian rock guitarist (Bikini, Omen, Carpathia Project, Tirana Rockers, solo) (b. 1969)
● 2007 - Heinz Barth, German war criminal (b. 1920)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● Feast of the Transfiguration of Christ
● Martyrs of Cardena
● St. Donatus, bishop of Arezzo, martyr
● Sts. Felissimus and Agapitus, martyrs
● St. Hormisdas Pope
● St. James the Syrian
● St. Joachim
● Sts. Justus and Pastor, martyrs in 304 at Complutum
● St. Walburga, virgin
● St. Xystus/Sixtus II, pope, martyr
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for July 23 (Civil Date: August 6)
● Martyrs Trophimus, Theophilus, and 13 others in Lycia.
● Hieromartyr Apollinaris, Bishop of Ravenna.
● Righteous Anna (Hannah), mother of the Prophet Samuel.
● Commemoration of the Miraculous Appearance of the Mother of God at Pochaev, which saved the monastery from the assault of the Tatars and Turks (1675).
● Translation of the Relics of St. Herman (Germanus), Archbishop of Kazan.
● New-Martyr Nectarius (Trezvinsky), Bishop of Yaransk.
● Greek Calendar:
● Hieromartyr Apollonius, 250 killed by Bulgarians during the reign of Emperor Nicephorus.
● Eight Martyrs of Carthage.
● St. Anna of Constantinople.
● Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "The Joy of All Who Sorrow" (with coins) in Petersburg; Pochaev
● Eastern Orthodox:
● Feast of the Transfiguration of Christ
● Australia : Bank Holiday
● Bolivia : Independence Day (1825)
● Iceland : Bank Holiday
● Jamaica : Independence Day (1962)
● Japan - Toro Nagashi (Hiroshima) - Floating lantern ceremony to honor those killed by the U.S. atomic bomb in Hiroshima.
● Malawi, Ireland : August Holiday
● United Arab Emirates - H.H. Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan's Accession 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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