Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Terrorism "In my Cold War childhood, 'godless communism' was the unifying all-purpose enemy that justified everything from an overkill arsenal of nuclear weapons to a host of unsavory allies. Sept. 11 . . . ushered in a new all-purpose enemy: terrorism." — Ellen Goodman
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Undermining Public Education "I imagine every Christian would agree that we need to remove the humanism from the public schools. There is only one way to accomplish this: to abolish the public schools." — Robert L. Thoburn, author of The Children Trap
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: On Politics "I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president." — Hillary Clinton
Thought for the day: "That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all."
{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
Old Faithful Below a Yellowstone Sky
Credit & Copyright: Wally Pacholka (Astropics.com)
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EVENTS
● 322 B.C.E. - Battle of Crannon between Athens and Alexander the Great of Macedon.
● 117 - Death of Marcus Trajan, 65, Roman emperor from A.D. 98-117. His attitude toward Christianity gradually changed from toleration to persecution. It was during Trajan's rule that Apostolic Father Ignatius of Antioch was martyred.
● 768 - Stephen III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
● 1409 - The Council of Pisa closed. Convened to end the Great Schism (1378-1417) caused by two rival popes, the Council in fact elected a third pope, Alexander V (afterwards regarded as an antipope).
● 1495 - Diet of Worms abolishes private warfare in Holy Roman Empire. {The church was unable to profit from private wars so this made wars public and subject to church taxation.}
● 1498 - Columbus arrives in Caribbean
● 1560 - Ratification of the Scots Confession by the Scottish Parliament marked the triumph of the Reformation in Scotland, under the leadership of John Knox. (In 1647, the Scots Confession was superseded by the Westminster Confession.)
● 1620 - Kepler's mother arrested for witchcraft
● 1679 - The brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned by René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the south-eastern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America.
● 1714 - The first important victory of the Russian Navy - the Battle of Gangut.
● 1782 - George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart. {It also carries the likeness of Washington on the medal.}
● 1789 - The U.S. War Department was established by the U.S. Congress.
● 1794 - Whiskey Rebellion begins: Farmers in the Monongahela Valley of Pennsylvania rebel against the federal tax on liquor and distilled drinks.
● 1819 - Battle of Boyac ; Bol¡var defeats Spanish in Colombia
● 1820 - 1st potatoes planted in Hawaii
● 1852 - Birth of Franklin L. Sheppard, Presbyterian organist and hymnbook editor. It was Sheppard who composed the hymn tune TERRA PATRIS, to which we sing "This is My Father's World."
● 1854 - Rumor that all Catholic churches were arsenals brought a mob of ax-wielding Protestants to a St. Louis house of worship. Eight Irishmen were "butchered like cattle," and 30 more seriously wounded.
● 1878 - Missouri Synod Lutheran Church founder C. F. W. Walther wrote in a letter: 'Do not deny the Word of God when it speaks to you.'
● 1879 - The opening of the Poor Man's Palace in Manchester.
● 1882 - Hatfields of south WV & McCoys of east Ky feud, 100 wounded or die
● 1888 - Theophilus Van Kannel received a patent for the revolving door.
● 1890 - Birth of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, prominent labor organizer with the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World). Concord, N.H.
● 1894 - Eugene Debs and three other trade unions arrested after Pullman Strike.
● 1904 - Ralph Bunche, the American diplomat who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950, was born.
● 1912 - Progressive (Bull Moose) Party nominates Theodore Roosevelt for president.
● 1914 - Germany invaded France.
● 1927 - The Peace Bridge opens, between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
● 1928 - The U.S. Treasure Department issued a new bill that was one third smaller than the previous U.S. bills.
● 1931 - IWW-led strike at the Boulder Canyon (Colorado) Project begins.
● 1933 - The Iraqi Government slaughtered over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Sumail. The day becomes Assyrian Martyrs Day.
● 1934 - The U.S. Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling striking down the government's attempt to ban the controversial James Joyce novel "Ulysses."
● 1938 - 2 die in a NYC subway accident
● 1940 - Alsace Lorraine is annexed by the Third Reich (Germany) during World War II
● 1941 - 551 Jews are shot in Kishnev ghetto in Romania
● 1942 - World War II: Battle of Guadalcanal begins - U.S. Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.
● 1944 - IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).
● 1945 - President Harry Truman announces the bombing of Hiroshima with an atomic bomb while returning from the Potsdam Conference aboard the heavy cruiser USS Augusta (CA-31) in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
● 1946 - 1st coin bearing portrait of Negro authorized
● 1947 - The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST).
● 1947 - Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7000-km (4375-mile) journey across the Pacific Ocean proving that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
● 1951 - Douglas D-558-II Skyrocket reaches 1,992 kph
● 1953 - Eastern Airlines enters the jet age, uses Electra prop-jet
● 1954 - Charles Mahoney becomes 1st US black to serve as a full UN delegate
● 1955 - Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, begins selling its first Transistor radios in Japan.
● 1958 - Arthur Miller cleared of contempt; Washington's Court of Appeals quashes playwright Arthur Miller's conviction for contempt of Congress after a two-year legal battle.
● 1959 - Explorer 6 transmits 1st TV photo of Earth from space
● 1959 - The Lincoln Memorial design on the U.S. penny goes into circulation. It replaces the "sheaves of wheat" design and is still in use.
● 1960 - Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) becomes independent.
● 1960 - Fidel Castro announces plans to nationalize all U.S. holdings in Cuba. U.S. takes the moral high ground, begins its non-stop campaign to assassinate him.
● 1960 - Students stage kneel-in demonstrations against segregation in Atlanta churches.
● 1960 - The Cuban Catholic Church condemned the rise of communism in Cuba. Fidel Castro then banned all religious TV and radio broadcasts.
● 1961 - Cosmonaut Gherman Titov circles Earth for a full day in Vostok 2
● 1963 - Jackie Kennedy becomes 1st, first lady to give birth since Mrs Cleveland
● 1964 - After a reported U.S. confrontation with North Vietnamese forces that, it was later discovered, never occurred, Congress nearly unanimously passes the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, authorizing the President to use "all necessary steps" to "win" the war in Vietnam. {Please note yesterday's entry where bombing of North Vietnam did not wait for this authorization.}
● 1966 - Race riots occur in Lansing, Michigan.
● 1967 - Vietnam War: The People's Republic of China agrees to give North Vietnam an undisclosed amount of aid in the form of a grant.
● 1968 - Republican Convention is held in Miami. Two days of rioting in the black sections of the city ensue, leaving three dead.
● 1970 – Four, including presiding judge, killed in courthouse shootout in San Rafael, Calif (Police charge Angela Davis provided weapons)
● 1970 - Jonathan Jackson (the younger brother of George) and three others killed in attempt to seize radio station in Marin County, Calif. to expose injustice.
● 1971 - Apollo 15 returned to Earth after a manned mission to the moon.
● 1972 - Asians given 90 days to leave Uganda; The Ugandan leader, Idi Amin, sets a deadline for the expulsion of most of the country's Asians. {He may have felt they were too small to be tasty.}
● 1973 - Four thousand march in solidarity with striking teachers, sparking widespread union organizing in Guatemala City.
● 1973 - NBC airs the final day of the Watergate hearings on U.S. daytime television.
● 1974 - French stuntman Philippe Petit walked a tightrope strung between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center.
● 1976 - Scientists in Pasadena, CA, announced that the Viking 1 spacecraft had found strong indications of possible life on Mars.
● 1976 - US Viking 2 goes into Martian orbit after 11-month flight from Earth
● 1978 - Thousands of mourners file past the body of Pope Paul VI
● 1978 - United States President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal.
● 1979 - Highly enriched uranium released from top-secret nuclear fuel plant near Erwin, Tenn. About 1,000 people were contaminated with up to five times as much radiation as would normally be received in a year.
● 1982 - La Linea, Spain - 80 arrested, 23 detained at 7th International Nonviolent March.
● 1983 - First silent European nonviolent peace walk ends, Luxembourg.
● 1983 - Some 675,000 employees strike AT&T
● 1985 - Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts.
● 1986 - Daniel Buettner, Bret Anderson, Martin Engel & Anne Knabe begin cycling journey of 15,266 miles from Prudhoe Bay Alaska to Argentina
● 1987 - Chilly swim thaws Cold War relations; An American woman becomes the first person to swim from the United States to the Soviet Union.
● 1987 - 5 Central American presidents sign peace accord in Guatemala
● 1987 - An L.A. judge throws out a lawsuit against Ozzy Osbourne, filed by parents of a teenager who committed suicide while listening to "Suicide Solution."
● 1988 - Rioting in New York City's Tompkins Square Park.
● 1988 - Writers guild end their 6 months strike
● 1989 - A small plane carrying U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland, D-TX, and 15 others disappeared during a flight in Ethiopia. The wreckage of the plane was found six days later. There were no survivors.
● 1990 - Desert Shield begin-US deploys troops to Saudi Arabia
● 1990 - President George H.W. Bush (and former CIA head) orders deployment of U.S. troops to Saudi Arabia and the Gulf region. {Osama would later claim this was the major offense that caused the 9/11 attacks. George W. would pull all troops out Saudi Arabia, thus giving in to Osama's demands.}
● 1991 - Charges of assault and property damage filed against Guns 'n' Roses lead singer Axl Rose in connection with a riot during a show in St. Louis.
● 1991 - Court rules Manuel Noriega, may access some secret US documents
● 1991 - Manhattan Cable final day of amnesty to return illegal cable boxes
● 1992 - Cease-fire agreement ends civil war in Mozambique, Africa.
● 1993 - Dr. Ma Thilda arrested and sentenced to 20 years in prison for pro-democracy work in Burma.
● 1995 - Due to international pressure, state of Pennsylvania announces a stay of its planned August 17 execution of political prisoner Mumia Abu- Jamal.
● 1995 - In two coordinated actions, six Jubilee Plowshares activists are arrested after they symbolically disarm weapons systems at a Newport News, Vir. nuclear submarine shipyard, and at a Lockheed plant in San Jose, Calif.
● 1998 - The U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania were bombed killing 224 people and injuring over 5,500. Osama bin Laden was later indicted by a U.S. federal grand jury in connection with the attacks.
● 1999 - A group of Indian army veterans launch the political party Rashtriya Raksha Dal.
● 2000 - Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore selected Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman to be the first Jewish vice-presidential candidate on a major party ticket.
● 2001 - British National Health Service buys private hospital; The government re-nationalizes a private hospital for the first time.
● 2003 - Bali bomber smiles at guilty verdict; Amrozi bin Nurhasyim is convicted for the Bali nightclub bombings which killed 190 people in 2002.
● 2005 - ABC anchorman Peter Jennings died at age 67.
● 2005 - Seven people in a Russian mini-submarine trapped for nearly three days under the Pacific Ocean were rescued after a British remote-controlled vehicle cut away undersea cables that snarled their vessel.
BIRTHS
● 317 - Constantius II, Roman emperor (d. 361)
● 1400 - Guillaume Dufay, French composer (d. 1474)
● 1533 - Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, Basque soldier and poet (d. 1595)
● 1560 - Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian countess and serial killer (d. 1614)
● 1574 - Robert Dudley, styled Earl of Warwick, English writer (d. 1649)
● 1598 - Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish poet (d. 1672)
● 1726 - James Bowdoin, American Revolutionary leader and politician (d. 1790)
● 1742 - Nathanael Greene, American Revolutionary general (d. 1786)
● 1779 - Louis de Freycinet, French explorer (d. 1842)
● 1779 - Carl Ritter, German geographer (d. 1859)
● 1783 - John Heathcoat, English inventor of lace-making machinery (d. 1861)
● 1813 - Paulina Kellogg Davis, American feminist and social reformer (d. 1876)
● 1844 - Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist (d. 1911)
● 1860 - Alan Leo, British astrologer (d. 1917)
● 1864 - Ellen Fitz Pendleton, American educator; president of Wellesley College (1911-36) (d. 1936)
● 1867 - Emil Nolde, German painter (d. 1956)
● 1876 - Mata Hari, Dutch dancer executed by the French for espionage during World War I (d. 1917)
● 1877 - Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (d. 1949)
● 1885 - Billie Burke, American actress (d. 1970)
● 1886 - Alan Hazeltine, American electrical engineer and physicist (d. 1964)
● 1901 - Ann Harding, American actress (d. 1981)
● 1903 - Louis Leakey, British archaeologist (d. 1972)
● 1904 - Ralph Bunche, American diplomat, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1971)
● 1907 - Albert Kotin, American abstract expressionist painter of the New York School (d. 1980)
● 1911 - Nicholas Ray, American actor, director and scenarist (d. 1979)
● 1913 - George Van Eps, noted American guitarist (d. 1998)
● 1921 - Manitas de Plata, Gypsy guitarist
● 1925 - M. S. Swaminathan, Indian scientist
● 1925 - Felice Bryant, American country songwriter and singer (d. 2003)
● 1926 - Stan Freberg, American voice comedian
● 1927 - Edwin W. Edwards, four-term Louisiana governor
● 1927 - Art Houtteman, baseball player (d. 2003)
● 1927 - Carl Switzer, American child actor (d. 1959)
● 1928 - Romeo Muller, American screenwriter (d. 1992)
● 1928 - James Randi, Canadian magician
● 1929 - Don Larsen, baseball player
● 1931 – Herb Reed, R&B singer (The Platters)
● 1931 - Charles E. Rice, Legal Scholar and Author
● 1932 - Abebe Bikila, Ethiopan athlete (d. 1973)
● 1932 - Dr. Maurice Rabb, Jr., African American ophthalmologist
● 1932 - Edward Hardwicke, British actor
● 1933 - Eddie Firmani, South African football player and coach
● 1936 - Rahsaan Roland Kirk, American saxophonist (d. 1977)
● 1937 - Magic Slim, Blues musician
● 1939 - Verna Bloom, Actress
● 1939 - Anjanette Comer, American actress
● 1940 - Jean-Luc Dehaene, Prime Minister of Belgium
● 1942 - Tobin Bell, American actor
● 1942 - Garrison Keillor, American writer and radio host ("The Prairie Home Companion")
● 1942 - Carlos Monzón, Argentine boxer
● 1942 - B.J. Thomas, American singer
● 1942 - Caetano Veloso, Brazilian musician
● 1943 - Dino Valente, American musician Quicksilver Messenger Service (d. 1994)
● 1943 - Alain Corneau, French film director
● 1943 - Lana Cantrell, Singer
● 1944 - John Glover, Actor
● 1944 - David Rasche, American actor
● 1945 - Alan Page, American football player
● 1946 - Ed Seykota, commodities and futures trader
● 1947 - Franciscus Henri (Franciscus Henricus Antheunis), children's entertainer, composer and artist
● 1948 - Greg Chappell, Australian test cricket player, captain and coach
● 1949 - Walid Jumblatt, Leader of the Lebanese Druze
● 1949 - Harold Hudson, R&B singer
● 1950 - Rodney Crowell, Country singer
● 1952 - Alexei Sayle, British comedian
● 1953 - Anne Fadiman, American writer, daughter of Clifton Fadiman
● 1954 - Jonathan Pollard, Israeli spy
● 1955 - Vladimir Sorokin, Russian writer
● 1955 - Wayne Knight, American actor ("Seinfeld")
● 1957 - Alexander Dityatin, Soviet gymnast
● 1958 - Bruce Dickinson, English singer (Iron Maiden)
● 1958 - Alberto Salazar, Member, American National Distance Running Hall of Fame
● 1960 - David Duchovny, American actor ("The X Files")
● 1961 - Michael Mahler, Country musician (Wild Horses)
● 1961 - Yelena Davydova, Soviet gymnast
● 1962 - Bruno Pelletier, Québécois singer
● 1963 - Harold Perrineau Jr., American actor
● 1963 - Marcus Roberts, Jazz pianist
● 1964 - Michael Weishan, American TV host, author
● 1964 - John Birmingham, Australian author
● 1965 - Raul Malo, Country singer (The Mavericks)
● 1966 - Kristin Hersh, American singer and guitarist (Throwing Muses)
● 1967 - Jason Grimsley, American baseball player
● 1967 - Charlotte Lewis, Actress
● 1968 - Lynn Strait, American singer (Snot)
● 1971 - Sydney Penny, American actress
● 1971 - Rachel York, American actress and singer
● 1972 - Greg Serano, American actor
● 1973 - Danny Graves, American baseball player
● 1975 - Edgar Renteria, Colombian baseball player
● 1975 - David Hicks, Australian alleged terrorist
● 1975 - Charlize Theron, South African actress
● 1976 - Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos, Greek footballer
● 1978 - Jamey Jasta, American singer (Hatebreed)
● 1978 - Alexandre Aja, French director
● 1978 - Vanness Wu, Taiwanese singer
● 1978 - Linsey Dawn McKenzie, English model and porn star
● 1978 - Cirroc Lofton, American actor
● 1978 - Shirley Yeung, Hong Kong actress
● 1979 - Eric Johnson, American actor
● 1980 - Aurélie Claudel, French supermodel
● 1982 - Yana Klochkova, Ukrainian swimmer
● 1982 - Vasileios Spanoulis, Greek basketball player
● 1983 - Tina O'Brien, British actress
● 1983 - Robert Flores, American baseball player from El Paso, Tx
● 1983 - Christian Chávez, Mexican singer and actor, member of RBD
● 1987 - Sidney Crosby, Canadian hockey player
● 1989 - Sherman Cárdenas, Colombian football player
● 1996 - Tessa Allen, American actress
DEATHS
● 461 - Majorian, Roman Emperor (assassinated) (b. 420)
● 479 - Emperor Yūryaku of Japan
● 1106 - Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1050)
● 1485 - Alexander Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany, Scottish prince
● 1613 - Thomas Fleming, English judge (b. 1544)
● 1616 - Vincenzo Scamozzi, Italian architect (b. 1548)
● 1635 - Friedrich von Spee, German writer (b. 1591)
● 1639 - Martin van den Hove, Dutch scientist (b. 1605)
● 1661 - Jin Shengtan, Chinese editor, writer and critic (b. 1608)
● 1817 - Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, French industrialist (b. 1739)
● 1834 - Joseph Marie Jacquard, French weaver and inventor (b. 1752)
● 1848 - Jöns Jakob Berzelius, Swedish chemist (b. 1779)
● 1855 - Mariano Arista, President of Mexico (b. 1802)
● 1912 - François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss hydrologist (b. 1841)
● 1917 - Squadron Commander E.H. Dunning, first pilot to land his aircraft on a moving ship. (b. 1891)
● 1938 - Konstantin Stanislavski, Russian/Soviet actor, producer, dramatist (b. 1863)
● 1941 - Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1861)
● 1957 - Oliver Hardy, American comedian and actor (b. 1892)
● 1969 - Joseph Kosma, French composer (Autumn Leaves) (b. 1905)
● 1972 - Joi Lansing, American model and actress (b. 1929)
● 1974 - Rosario Castellanos, Mexican poet (b. 1925)
● 1974 - Sylvio Mantha, professional ice hockey player (b. 1902)
● 1984 - Esther Phillips, American singer (b. 1935)
● 1985 - Grayson Hall, American actress (b. 1923)
● 1987 - Camille Chamoun, Lebanese President (b. 1900)
● 1989 - Mickey Leland, American politician, United States Congressman from Texas (b. 1944)
● 1992 - John Anderson, American actor (b. 1922)
● 1994 - Larry Martyn, comedy actor (b. 1934)
● 1995 - Brigid Brophy, British author (b. 1929)
● 1999 - Brion James, American actor (b. 1945)
● 2003 - Mickey McDermott, baseball player (b. 1929)
● 2004 - Red Adair, American oil field firefighter (b. 1915)
● 2004 - Colin Bibby, English ornithologist (b. 1948)
● 2005 - Peter Jennings, Canadian-born news anchor (b. 1938)
● 2006 - Mary Anderson Bain, American New Deal politician (b. 1911)
● 2007 - Hal Fishman, Los Angeles based local news anchor. (b. 1931)
● 2007 - Ernesto Alonso, Spanish actor, director, and producer. (b. 1917)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Acirianus
● St. Afra, virgin martyr
● St. Agathangelo Noury
● St. Albert of Trapani (Albert of Sicily)
● St. Cajetan of Thienna, priest, confessor
● St. Carpophorus
● St. Claudia
● Sts. Donatus & Hilarinus
● St. Faustus
● St. Hyperechios
● St. Juliana of Cornillon
● St. Mary of Egypt
● Sts. Peter, Julian, and Companions
● St. Sixtus II, pope and companions, martyrs
● St. Victricius
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for July 24 (Civil Date: August 7)
● Martyr Christina of Tyre.
● Holy Martyrs and Passion-bearers Boris and Gleb, in holy baptism Romanus and David.
● St. Polycarp, archimandrite of the Kiev Caves.
● New-Martyr Athanasius of Ikia.
● New-Martyr Theophilus of Zakynthos.
● Martyr Hermogenes.
● St. Pachomius, abbot, on the Lake, friend of St. Dionysius of Glushets (Vologda).
● Greek Calendar:
● Martyrs Capito and Hymenaeus.
● Repose of Blessed Monk Tikhon of Turukhan on the Enisei River in Siberia (1682).
● Anglican:
● Holy Name of Jesus
● St. Cajetan, confessor
● Commemoration of John Mason Neale, priest
● Episcopal:
● Holy Name of Jesus
● British Columbia Day - Province of Canada.
● Civic Holiday - Canada.
● Emancipation Day - Turks and Caicos Islands.
● Ivory Coast/C“te d'Ivoire : Independence Day (1760)
● National Holiday in Colombia: Battle of Boyaca, birth of Bogotá (1819).
● Trinidad & Tobago : Discovery Day (1498)
● 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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