Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Thought "The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them." — Albert Einstein
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Bigotry, Chauvinism, & Theocracy "I knew my God was bigger than his [God]. I knew my God was a real God, and his was an idol." — William G. Boykin, U.S. Army Lieutenant General, in a speech to evangelical Christians describing his confrontation with a Muslim warlord
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: On Politics "That low-down scoundrel deserves to be kicked to death by a jackass, and I'm just the one to do it." — unidentified Texas congressional candidate
Thought for the day: "Someone whom you reject today, will reject you tomorrow."
{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
Phoenix Rises Toward Mars
Credit: NASA
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 1220 - Sweden was defeated by Estonian tribes in the Battle of Lihula.
● 1444 - Portuguese slaver Henry the Navigator unloads six ships of human cargo (slaves) from Africa.
● 1471 - Death of Thomas Kempis, 91, Dutch mystic and devotional author. Though most of his years were outwardly uneventful, his book "The Imitation of Christ" remains in print today, a guide to cultivating the inner human spirit.
● 1509 - The Emperor Krishnadeva Raya is crowned, marking the beginning of the regeneration of the Vijayanagara Empire.
● 1518 - German reformer Martin Luther wrote in a letter: 'The Lord will provide with the trial a way out.'
● 1576 - The cornerstone for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory is laid on Hven.
● 1579 - Cornerstone is laid for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory
● 1585 - John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in quest for the Northwest Passage. {He was some 420 years too early, today with global warming the Northwest Passage is close to reality.}
● 1588 - Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines - The naval engagement ends, thus ending the Spanish Armada's attempt to invade England.
● 1605 - The city of Oulu, Finland, is founded by Charles IX of Sweden.
● 1609 - Venetian senate examines Galileo Galilei's telescope
● 1647 - The Irish Confederate Wars and Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Battle of Dungans Hill - English Parliamentary forces defeat Irish forces.
● 1709 - 1st known ascent in hot-air balloon, Bartolomeu de Gusmao (indoors)
● 1786 - Mont Blanc on the French- Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr Michel-Gabriel Paccard.
● 1793 - The insurrection of Lyon occurred during the French Revolution.
● 1794 - Joseph Whidbey and George Vancouver lead an expedition to search for the Northwest Passage near Juneau, Alaska.
● 1796 - Boston African Society is established with 44 members
● 1814 - Birth of Esther Morris, leader of the successful fight for women's voting rights in Wyoming.
● 1814 - Peace negotiations begin in Ghent, Belgium
● 1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte set sail for St. Helena, in the South Atlantic. The remainder of his life was spent there in exile.
● 1835 - Between 10 and 20 people killed in a clash between a Citizen's Militia and rioters protesting the collapse of the Bank of Maryland.
● 1843 - Natal (in South Africa) is made a British colony
● 1844 - The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, headed by Brigham Young, is reaffirmed as the leading body of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the LDS or Mormon Church).
● 1845 - Birth of Thomas Koschat, Austrian sacred composer. One of his scores became the hymn tune POLAND, to which is commonly sung "The King of Love My Shepherd Is."
● 1852 - The roots of the Baptist General Conference were planted when Swedish immigrant pastor Gustaf Palmquist baptized his first three converts in the Mississippi River at Rock Island, Illinois. Today, the denomination numbers about 140,000.
● 1860 - Queen of Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) arrives in NYC
● 1863 - American Civil War: Following his defeat in the Battle of Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee sends a letter of resignation to Confederate President Jefferson Davis (which is refused upon receipt).
● 1863 - American Civil War: Tennessee's "military" Gov. Andrew Johnson freed his personal slaves. During the early 20th century, the day was celebrated by blacks in Tennessee as a holiday.
● 1864 - Red Cross is founded.
● 1866 - African-American explorer Matthew A. Henson was born. Henson, along with Robert Peary and their Eskimo guide, were the first people to reach the North Pole.
● 1868 - Quake destroys Arica Chile
● 1870 - The Republic of Ploieşti, a failed Radical-Liberal rising against Domnitor Carol of Romania.
● 1875 - Birth of Valdemar Amundsens, Danish pacifist theologian.
● 1876 - Thomas Edison received a patent for the mimeograph. The mimeograph was a "method of preparing autographic stencils for printing."
● 1880 - Birth of Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary leader.
● 1882 - Snow falls on Lake Michigan
● 1890 - Daughters of the American Revolution organizes
● 1896 - Marjorie Rawlings, the American author of the Pulitzer-Prize winning book "The Yearling", was born.
● 1899 - The refrigerator was patented by A.T. Marshall.
● 1903 - Cripple Creek, Colo. miners' strike.
● 1908 - Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It's the Wright Brothers' first public flight and the French public goes wild.
● 1910 - The Sacred Congregation of the Sacraments in the Vatican issued the decree "Quam singulari," which recommended that children be permitted to receive Holy Communion as soon as they reached the "age of discretion" (i.e., about age 7).
● 1910 - The US Army installs the first tricycle landing gear on the Army's Wright Flyer.
● 1911 - Public Law 62-5 sets the number of representatives in the United States House of Representatives at 435. The law would come into effect in 1913. {This number has remained constant ever since, thus with increase in population, an individual vote becomes worth less with each ensuing census.}
● 1911 - The millionth patent is filed in the United States Patent Office by Francis Holton for a tubeless vehicle tire.
● 1918 - 6 US soldiers are surrounded by Germans in France, Alvin York is given command & shoots 20 Germans & captures 132 more
● 1918 - World War I: Battle of Amiens begins a string of almost continuous victories with a push through the German front lines.
● 1919 - Treaty of Rawalpindi, British recognize Afghanistan's independence
● 1920 - Workers throughout Britain stage demonstrations against planned intervention in Russia; trade union leaders threaten a general strike.
● 1925 - Huge Ku Klux Klan rally held in Washington DC.
● 1929 - 1st airship flight around the Earth flying eastward begins; German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight
● 1929 - Salem Oregon airport dedicated
● 1929 - The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.
● 1931 - Workers go on strike at the Hoover dam
● 1937 - Bonneville Dam on Columbia River begins producing power
● 1938 - The building of Mauthausen concentration camp begins.
● 1940 - The German Luftwaffe began a series of daylight air raids on Great Britain. This is considered the beginning of the Battle of Britain.
● 1942 - Quit India resolution was passed by the Bombay session of the AICC, which leads to the start of a civil disobedience movement across India and mass arrests by British rulers.
● 1942 - Six Nazi saboteurs were executed in Washington after conviction. Two others were cooperative and received life in prison.
● 1945 - The United Nations Charter was signed by U.S. President Truman.
● 1945 - USSR establishes a communist government in North Korea
● 1945 - World War II - The Soviet Union declares war on Japan and invades Manchuria.
● 1946 - First flight of the Convair B-36.
● 1947 - Over objections of Tlingit Indians, the U.S. government agrees to timber sale from Tongass National Forest in southeast Alaska. The Tongass, once a pristine wilderness, is now one of the most denuded regions on the north Pacific coast.
● 1947 - Pakistan's National Flag is approved.
● 1949 - Bhutan, land of the Dragon, became an independent monarchy
● 1950 - American Women for Peace demonstrate in Washington, D.C. for a ban on nuclear weapons.
● 1951 - Birth of Randy Shilts, gay San Francisco author and journalist whose groundbreaking books in the '80s exhaustively chronicled for the first time the spread of the AIDS epidemic and the Reagan Administration's deadly indifference to it.
● 1953 - The U.S. and South Korea initiated a mutual security pact.
● 1953 - U.S.S.R. announces it has developed a hydrogen bomb.
● 1955 - Geneva conference held to discuss peaceful uses of atomic energy
● 1956 - Fire & explosion kill 263 miners at Marcinelle, Belgium
● 1956 - Japan launched an oil tanker that was 780 feet long and weighed 84,730 tons. It was the largest oil tanker in the world.
● 1960 - Ivory Coast declares independence
● 1962 - Elizabeth Ann Duncan becomes the last woman to be executed in the United States prior to the reintroduction of capital punishment in 1977.
● 1963 - Great Train Robbery: In England, a gang of 15 train robbers steal 2.6 million pounds in bank notes.
● 1966 - Michael DeBakey became the first surgeon to install an artificial heart pump in a patient.
● 1967 - The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is founded.
● 1968 - Jurō Wada successfully performs Japan's first heart transplant.
● 1968 - Race riot in Miami Florida {A cynic might say this a reaction to Nixon's "Southern Strategy."}
● 1968 - Richard M. Nixon was nominated for president at the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach and chose Maryland Gov. Spiro T. Agnew to be his running mate.
● 1970 - Singer Bessie Smith finally gets a marker for her grave in Philadelphia, 33 years after her death. Janis Joplin purchased the marker for the grave, stating that Smith was one of her influences.
● 1970 - Thousands of Americans are denied entry into Canada for the Strawberry Fields Rock Festival in Mosport, Ontario, on the grounds that they "failed to produce adequate monies to support themselves." 8,000 Americans made it there.
● 1972 - Bill to limit the ownership of handguns defeated in the U.S. Senate, 83-7 margin. A compromise bill, suggesting merely that guns be registered, was then introduced; it lost by the more respectable margin of 78-11.
● 1973 - Kim Dae-Jung, a South Korean politician and later president of South Korea, is kidnapped.
● 1973 - VP Spiro T Agnew branded as "damned lies" reports he took kickbacks from government contracts in Maryland. He vowed not to resign (Right!) {Like his boss, Tricky Dick, it is as true as "I'm not a crook."}
● 1974 - Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his resignation, effective the next day. {In the space of less than a year both President and Vice President gone in disgrace.}
● 1976 - Farmers block nuclear equipment en route to Malville, France.
● 1978 - Pioneer-Venus 2 with 5 atmospheric probes launched toward Venus
● 1980 - The Buttevant railway accident in Ireland occurred.
● 1983 - Brig Gen Efrain Rios Montt was deposed as president of Guatemela
● 1985 - Japan launches Planet A, a probe to Halley's comet
● 1985 - Near Frankfurt, outside the Rhein-Mein U.S. air base, a bomb exploded killing two Americans. The bomb was blamed on the Red Army Faction.
● 1986 - A car bomb exploded in Beirut, the third in 12 days, killing 17 people.
● 1986 - Altaf Hussain's address at Nishtar Park Karachi, announcement of establishing political movement MQM.
● 1987 - Lynne Cox became 1st to swim from US to Russia across Bering Strait
● 1988 - Discovery of most distant galaxy (15 billion light yrs) announced
● 1988 - U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar announced a cease-fire between Iran and Iraq.
● 1988 - Jennifer Levin's parents file $25M suit against Dorrian Red Hand Bar
● 1988 - Russian troops begin pull out of Afghanistan after 9 year war
● 1988 - Sec of State Shultz narrowly escapes assassin attempt in Bolivia
● 1988 - South Africa declares cease-fire in Angola
● 1988 - Temperature hits high of 88 on 8/8/88 in NYC
● 1988 - The "8888 Uprising" occurs in Myanmar.
● 1989 - Space Shuttle program: STS-28 Mission - Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret five-day military mission.
● 1990 - American forces began positioning in Saudia Arabia.
● 1990 - Iraq occupies Kuwait and the state is annexed to Iraq. This would lead to the Gulf War shortly afterward.
● 1990 - Karen and Bill Bell join the Feminist Majority's national campaign against parental consent requirements for abortion. Their daughter, Becky, died September 16, 1988, from a massive infection due to a botched, illegal abortion. She was the first known U.S. teenage victim of parental-consent laws. She didn't want to disappoint her parents, and knew an Indiana judge would refuse permission under the state's parental consent law.
● 1991 - Collapse of Warsaw radio mast, the tallest construction ever built
● 1991 - John McCarthy, a British TV producer was released by his Lebanese kidnappers. He had been held captive for more than five years. A rival group abducted Jerome Leyraud in retaliation and threatened to kill him if any more hostages were released.
● 1991 - The slain bodies of former Iranian Prime Minister Shahpour Bakhriar and his chief of staff were found.
● 1991 - The U.N. Security Council approved North and South Korea for membership.
● 1992 - Dismantling of non-nuclear weapons begins, Russia.
● 1993 - Four U.S. soldiers were killed in Somalia when a land mine detonated underneath their vehicle.
● 1994 - Cesar Chavez is posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, becoming the first Mexican-American ever to receive the honor.
● 1994 - First border crossing opened between Israel and Jordan.
● 1994 - Representatives from China and Taiwan signed a cooperation agreement.
● 1995 - Saddam Hussein's two eldest daughters, their husbands, and several senior army officers defected.
● 1997 - Eight arrested at NASA headquarters in Washington, DC, during protest of the scheduled launch of the nuclear-payload space probe Cassini.
● 1997 - Hamilton, Ohio residents demonstrate after a black youth, Russell Rogers, dies from an alleged police beating.
● 1998 - Ten percent (6,000) of the UK’s mink freed by Animal Liberation Front.
● 2000 - The submarine H.L. Hunley was raised from ocean bottom after 136 years. The sub had been lost during an attack on the U.S.S. Housatonic in 1864. The Hunley was the first submarine in history to sink a warship.
● 2001 - International Solidarity Movement begins nonviolent campaign to support Palestinian rights.
● 2001 - Former President Ronald Reagan's daughter Maureen died at age 60. {He couldn't help cutting the budget on cancer research.}
● 2005 - Iran resumed work at a uranium conversion facility after suspending nuclear work for nine months to avoid U.N. sanctions.
● 2006 - Sen. Joseph Lieberman lost the Connecticut Democratic primary to political newcomer Ned Lamont. (However, Lieberman won re-election to the Senate by running as an independent).
● 2007 - It is confirmed that a EF2 tornado touches down in Kings County, New York, the most powerful tornado in New York to date.
BIRTHS
● 1079 - Emperor Horikawa of Japan (d. 1107)
● 1518 - Conrad Lycosthenes, humanist and encyclopedist (d. 1561)
● 1605 - Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, colonial Governor of Maryland (d. 1675)
● 1646 - Godfrey Kneller, German-born painter (d. 1723)
● 1673 - John Ker, Scottish spy (d. 1726)
● 1693 - Laurent Belissen, French composer (d. 1762)
● 1694 - Francis Hutcheson, Irish philosopher (d. 1746)
● 1720 - Carl Fredrik Pechlin, Swedish politician (d. 1796)
● 1763 - Charles Bulfinch, American architect (d. 1844)
● 1807 - Emilie Flygare-Carlén, Swedish novelist (d. 1892)
● 1814 - Esther Morris, first U. S. female judge (d. 1902)
● 1819 - Charles Dana, American journalist and editor of the New York Sun (d. 1897)
● 1839 - Nelson Miles, U.S. general (d. 1925)
● 1857 - Henry Fairfield Osborn, American paleontologist and museum administrator (d. 1935)
● 1857 - Cécile Chaminade, French pianist and composer (d. 1944)
● 1866 - Matthew Henson, Arctic explorer (d. 1955)
● 1875 - Artur da Silva Bernardes, President of Brazil (d. 1955)
● 1879 - Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1919)
● 1879 - Bob Smith, American physician and surgeon, founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (d. 1950)
● 1880 - Earle Page, 11th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1961)
● 1881 - Albert Kesselring, German field marshal (d. 1960)
● 1881 - Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, German field marshal (d. 1954)
● 1882 - Ladislas Starevich, Polish stop-motion animation filmmaker (d. 1965)
● 1884 - Sara Teasdale, American poet (d. 1933)
● 1891 - Adolf Busch, German violinist (d. 1952)
● 1892 - Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Spanish footballer (d. 1922)
● 1898 - Alexis Minotis, Greek actor (d. 1990)
● 1896 - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, American author (d. 1953)
● 1901 - Ernest O. Lawrence, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
● 1902 - Paul Dirac, English physicist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
● 1904 - Achille Varzi, Italian race car driver (d. 1948)
● 1905 - André Jolivet, French composer (d. 1974)
● 1907 - Benny Carter, American musician (d. 2003)
● 1908 - Arthur Goldberg, U.S. Supreme Court justice (d. 1980)
● 1910 - Sylvia Sidney, American actress (d. 1999)
● 1911 - Rosetta LeNoire, American actress (d. 2002)
● 1915 - Jumbo Elliott, American track coach (d. 1981)
● 1919 - Dino De Laurentiis, Italian film producer
● 1920 - Leo Chiosso, Italian lyricist (d. 2006)
● 1920 - Jimmy Witherspoon, American singer (d. 1997)
● 1920 - Carol Lambrino, son of Carol II of Romania and Zizi Lambrino (d. 2006)
● 1921 - William Asher, American film producer
● 1921 - John Herbert Chapman, British physicist (d. 1979)
● 1921 - Webb Pierce, American singer (d. 1991)
● 1921 - Vulimiri Ramalingaswami, Indian medical scientist (d. 2001)
● 1921 - Esther Williams, American actress and swimmer
● 1922 - Rory Calhoun, American actor (d. 1999)
● 1922 - Rudi Gernreich, Austrian-born fashion designer (d. 1985)
● 1925 - Alija Izetbegovic, President of Bosnia-Herzegovina (d. 2003)
● 1926 - Richard Anderson, American actor
● 1927 - Johnny Temple, American baseball player (d. 1994)
● 1928 - Don Burrows, Australian musician
● 1929 - Larisa Bogoraz, Soviet dissident (d. 2004)
● 1929 - Ronald Biggs, British criminal
● 1930 - Nita Talbot, Actress
● 1931 - Sir Roger Penrose, British physicist
● 1932 - Mel Tillis, American singer
● 1932 - Luis García Meza Tejada, Bolivian dictator
● 1933 - Joe Tex, American singer (d. 1982)
● 1935 - Donald P. Bellisario, American television producer
● 1935 - John Laws, Australia radio personality
● 1936 - Keith Barron, English actor
● 1936 - Frank Howard, American baseball player
● 1937 - Dustin Hoffman, American actor
● 1938 - Connie Stevens, American singer and actress
● 1938 - Jacques Hétu, French Canadian composer
● 1939 - Phil Balsley, Country singer (The Statler Brothers)
● 1939 - Alexander Watson, American ambassador and diplomat
● 1940 - Dennis Tito, first space tourist
● 1944 - Brooke Bundy, American actress
● 1947 - Ken Dryden, Canadian ice hockey player and parliamentarian
● 1947 - José Cruz, Puerto Rican baseball player
● 1947 - Larry Wilcox, American actor ("CHiPS")
● 1948 - Svetlana Savitskaya, Russian cosmonaut
● 1949 - Keith Carradine, American actor
● 1949 - Airrion Love, R&B singer (The Stylistics)
● 1949 - Ricardo Londoño, Colombian racing driver
● 1950 - Jamie O'Hara, Country singer
● 1951 - Martin Brest, Director, producer
● 1951 - Mamoru Oshii, Japanese film director
● 1951 - Randy Shilts, American journalist and author (d. 1994)
● 1952 - Jostein Gaarder, Norwegian author
● 1952 - Robin Quivers, American radio personality
● 1953 - Don Most, American actor ("Happy Days")
● 1953 - Nigel Mansell, English one-time Formula One World Champion
● 1955 - Herbert Prohaska, Austrian footballer
● 1956 - Branscombe Richmond, American actor
● 1957 - Dennis Drew, Rock musician (10,000 Maniacs)
● 1958 - Harry Crosby, Actor, singer
● 1958 - Deborah Norville, American television host
● 1958 - Cecilia Roth, Argentine actress
● 1960 - Ulrich Maly, Mayor of Nuremberg
● 1961 - The Edge, Irish guitarist (U2)
● 1961 - Daniel House, Owner C/Z Records
● 1961 - Rikki Rockett, American drummer (Poison)
● 1961 - Bruce Matthews, American football player
● 1962 - Mike Zanier, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1962 - Kool Moe Dee, Rapper
● 1962 - Ralph Rieckermann, Rock musician
● 1963 - Jon Turteltaub, American director
● 1963 - Stephen Walkom, Canadian ice hockey official and executive
● 1964 - Anastasia Ashman, American writer
● 1965 - Kate Langbroek, Australian media personality
● 1966 - Chris Eubank, English boxer
● 1966 - John Hudek, American baseball player
● 1967 - Marcelo Balboa, American soccer player
● 1967 - Lee Unkrich, American director and film editor
● 1967 - Rena Mero, American wrestler
● 1969 - Faye Wong, Hong Kong singer and actress
● 1970 - Trev Alberts, American football player
● 1970 - Pascal Duquenne, Belgian actor
● 1972 - Axel Merckx, Belgian bicycle racer
● 1972 - Lüpüs Thünder, American musician (The Bloodhound Gang)
● 1973 - Scott Stapp, American singer (Creed)
● 1973 - Senta Moses, American actress
● 1973 - Shane Lee, Australian cricketer
● 1973 - Mark Wills, Country singer
● 1974 - Kohl Sudduth, Actor
● 1974 - Ulises De la Cruz, Ecuadoran footballer
● 1974 - Scott D'Amore, professional wrestler and manager
● 1974 - Andy Priaulx, British racing driver
● 1975 - Tom Linton, Rock musician (Jimmy Eat World)
● 1976 - JC Chasez, American singer (*NSYNC)
● 1976 - Tawny Cypress, American actress
● 1976 - Drew Lachey, American singer (98 Degrees)
● 1976 - Seung-Yeop Lee, Korean baseball player
● 1977 - Kurt Bernard, Costa Rican footballer
● 1977 - Szilard Nemeth, Slovak footballer
● 1977 - Lindsay Sloane, American actress
● 1977 - Rocky Thompson, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1977 - Marsha Ambrosius, R&B singer (Floetry)
● 1978 - Countess Vaughn, Actress
● 1978 - Louis Saha, French footballer
● 1978 - Alan Maybury, Irish footballer
● 1979 - Richard Harwood, British cellist
● 1979 - Rashard Lewis, American professional basketball player
● 1979 - Paris Latsis, Greek shipping heir
● 1980 - Sabine Klaschka, German tennis player
● 1980 - Pat Noonan, American soccer player
● 1980 - Michael Urie, American actor and director
● 1981 - Vanessa Amorosi, Australian singer and songwriter
● 1981 - Roger Federer, Swiss tennis player
● 1981 - Meagan Good, American actress
● 1981 - Kaori Iida, Japanese singer and actress
● 1981 - Bradley McIntosh, British pop singer
● 1983 - Guy Burnet, British actor
● 1985 - Brayan Ruiz, Costa Rican soccer player
● 1986 - Peyton List, American actress
● 1987 - Katie Leung, Scottish actress
● 1988 - Princess Beatrice of York
● 1989 - Sesil Karatantcheva, Bulgarian tennis player
● 1995 - Malin Reitan, Norwegian singer
DEATHS
● 869 - Lothair II of Lotharingia (b. 825)
● 1445 - Oswald von Wolkenstein, Austrian composer
● 1553 - Girolamo Fracastoro, Italian physician (b. 1478)
● 1555 - Oronce Finé, French mathematician (b. 1494)
● 1588 - Alonso Sánchez Coello, Spanish painter
● 1604 - Horio Tadauji, Japanese warlord (b. 1578)
● 1631 - Konstantinas Sirvydas, Lithuanian lexicographer (b. 1579)
● 1684 - George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer (b. 1622)
● 1747 - Madeleine de Verchères, New France heroine (b. 1678)
● 1759 - Carl Heinrich Graun, German composer (b. 1704)
● 1827 - George Canning, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1770)
● 1828 - Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish naturalist (b. 1743)
● 1863 - Angus MacAskill known as 'Giant MacAskill', circus performer (b.1825)
● 1879 - Immanuel Hermann Fichte, German philosopher (b. 1797)
● 1887 - Alexander William Doniphan, American lawyer and soldier (b. 1808)
● 1897 - Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss art historian (b. 1818)
● 1898 - Eugène Boudin, French painter (b. 1824)
● 1902 - James Tissot, French artist (b. 1836)
● 1911 - William P. Frye, American politician (b. 1830)
● 1933 - Adolf Loos, Austrian architect (b. 1870)
● 1940 - Johnny Dodds, American musician (b. 1892)
● 1944 - Chaim Soutine, Russian painter (b. 1894)
● 1944 - Erwin von Witzleben, German field marshal (b. 1881)
● 1944 - Michael Wittmann, German Tank ace and Knight's Cross holder, killed in action, Normandy. (b. 1914)
● 1947 - Anton Ivanovich Denikin, Russian general (b. 1872)
● 1961 - Méi Lánfāng, Chinese opera performer (b. 1894)
● 1965 - Shirley Jackson, American author (b. 1916)
● 1969 - Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, German eugenicist and nazi physician (b. 1896)
● 1972 - Andrea Feldman, American actor (b. 1948)
● 1973 - Dean Corll, American serial killer (b. 1939)
● 1973 - Vilhelm Moberg, Swedish author and historian (b. 1898)
● 1974 - Baldur von Schirach, Nazi youth leader (b. 1907)
● 1975 - Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1928)
● 1977 - Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1889)
● 1979 - Nicholas Monsarrat, British novelist (b. 1910)
● 1980 - Paul Triquet, French Canadian army officer (b. 1910)
● 1982 - Eric Brandon, British racing driver (b. 1920)
● 1985 - Louise Brooks, American actress (b. 1906)
● 1987 - Danilo Blanuša, Croatian mathematician (b. 1903)
● 1988 - Alan Napier, English actor (b. 1903)
● 1988 - Ramón Valdés, Mexican actor (b. 1923)
● 1988 - Félix Leclerc, Quebec singer and songwriter (b. 1914)
● 1991 - James Irwin, astronaut (b. 1930)
● 1992 - Grand Ayatollah Abul-Qasim Khoei, considered to be the Supreme Shi'ite authority at the time of his death
● 1992 - John Kordic, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1965)
● 1996 - Nevill Mott, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1905)
● 2004 - Fay Wray, American actress (b. 1907)
● 2004 - Dimitris Papamichael, Greek actor (b. 1934)
● 2005 - Barbara Bel Geddes, American actress (b. 1922)
● 2005 - John H. Johnson, African-American publisher (b. 1918)
● 2005 - Gene Mauch, American athlete (b. 1925)
● 2005 - Monica Sjöö, Swedish artist (b. 1938)
● 2005 - Ilse Werner, German actress (b. 1921)
● 2005 - Ahmed Deedat, Islamic scholar (b. 1918)
● 2007 - Ma Lik, Chinese politician (b. 1952)
● 2007 - Melville Shavelson, American film director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1917)
● 2007 - Joybubbles, A notable phone phreak. (b. 1949)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Altman
● St. Cyriacus, martyr
● St. Dominic de Guzman, priest, (1170-1221).
● Sts. Eleutherius & Leonides
● St. Ellidius
● St. Emilian
● St. Famianw
● St. Gedeon
● St. Hormisdas
● St. Largus, martyr
● St. Leobald
● St. Marinus
● St. Mummolus
● St. Myron
● St. Smaragdus and companions, martyrs
● St. Ternatius
● Bl. John Felton
● Bl. Mary MacKillop
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for July 25 (Civil Date: August 8)
● Dormition of the Righteous Anna, mother of the Most Holy Theotokos
● Holy Women Olympias (Olympiada) the deaconess of Constantinople, and Virgin Eupraxia of Tabenna.
● St. Macarius, abbot of Sheltovod and Unzha.
● St. Christopher, abbot of Solvychegodsk (Vologda).
● Martyrs Sanctus, Maturus, Attalus, and Blandina of Lyons.
● Commemoration of the Holy 165 Fathers of the Fifth Ecumenical Council.
● Anglican:
● St. Dominic, priest/friar
● Afghanistan : Independence Day (1919)
● Ivory Coast : Independence Day (1960)
● Nepal : Tij Day- Woman's holiday
● Sweden - Namesday of Queen Silvia, an Official Flag Day.
● Taiwan: Father's Day. (In Mandarin, Ba Ba means father and 8-8, or August 8).
● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Italy : Palio Del Golfo (2nd Sunday) - ( Sunday )
● Zambia : Youth Day - ( 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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