Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Tolerance "The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority." — Ralph W. Sockman
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Gynephobia "The claim that American women are downtrodden and unfairly treated is the fraud of the century." — Phyllis Schlafly, leader of the Eagle Forum, an organization originally founded to oppose the Equal Rights Amendment
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: On Politics "I am providing you with a copulation of answers to several questions raised . . ." — Hall of Shame Member #2, Marion Barry, former mayor of Washington, D. C.
Thought for the day: "Someone is speaking well of you."
{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
Star Cluster Messier 67
Credit & Copyright: Processing - Noel Carboni, Imaging - Greg Parker
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 480 B.C.E. - Persia defeats Spartan king Leonidas at Thermopylae
● 48 B.C.E. - Caesar's civil war: Battle of Pharsalus - Julius Caesar decisively defeats Pompey at Pharsalus and Pompey flees to Egypt.
● 378 - Gothic War: Battle of Adrianople - A large Roman army led by Emperor Valens is defeated by the Visigoths in present-day Turkey. Valens is killed along with over half of his army.
● 681 - Bulgaria is founded as a Khanate on the south bank of the Danube, after defeating the Byzantine armies of Emperor Constantine IV south of the Danube delta.
● 1048 - Pope Damasus II dies in Rome, after reigning for only 23 days.
● 1173 - Construction of the Tower of Pisa begins, and it takes two centuries to complete.
● 1483 - Opening of the Sistine Chapel
● 1638 - American Indians sold the Bronx to Jonas Bronck for 400 beads. He becomes first European settler in the Bronx, a very early form of gentrification.
● 1666 - Rear Admiral Robert Holmes leads a raid on the Dutch island of Terschelling, destroying 150 merchant ships in the Vlie estuary, and pillaging the town of West-Terschelling, an act later known as "Holmes's Bonfire".
● 1673 - Dutch recapture NY from English; regained by English in 1674
● 1758 - First Indian reservation in U.S. designated, New Jersey.
● 1765 - English founder of Methodism John Wesley wrote in a letter: 'You have but one Pattern; follow Him inwardly and outwardly. If other believers will go step for step with you, well; but if not, follow Him!'
● 1778 - Capt Cook passes through Bering Strait
● 1779 - Gen. Clinton and 1,500 American troops break dam to flood Iroquois towns and fields in upstate New York; troops then burn and ravage settlements for 12 days.
● 1786 - 1st ascent of Mt Blanc
● 1788 - Birth of Adoniram Judson, American Baptist missionary. He first sailed to Burma in 1812, and spent nearly all of his remaining 38 years in missionary and literacy work there. Judson translated the entire Bible into Burmese by 1834.
● 1790 - The Columbia returned to Boston Harbor after a three-year voyage. It was the first ship to carry the American flag around the world.
● 1810 - Napoleon annexes Westphalia as part of the First French Empire.
● 1831 - The first steam locomotive began its first trip between Schenectady and Albany, NY.
● 1836 - For an annuity of 1,250 British pounds (about $2,000), the Saugeen Chippewa cede 1.5 million acres (23,500 square miles) bordering Lake Huron in southern Ontario.
● 1842 - Webster-Ashburton Treaty is signed, establishing the United States-Canada border east of the Rocky Mountains.
● 1848 - Barnburners (anti-slavery) party merges with the Free Soil Party nominating Martin Van Buren for president
● 1849 - Hungarian Republic crushed by Austria & Russia
● 1851 - Cathlamet tribe cede lands at mouth of Columbia where Fort Astoria and Fort George had stood, in exchange for food. Another area tribe, the Clatskaniene, sign a treaty ceding their northwest Oregon land; the treaty was never ratified.
● 1855 - Battle of Acapulco during Mexican Liberal uprising.
● 1859 - The escalator was patented by Nathan Ames.
● 1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Cedar Mountain - At Cedar Mountain, Virginia, Confederate General Stonewall Jackson narrowly defeats Union forces under General John Pope. Confederate General Charles S. Winder is killed.
● 1872 - Fire destroyed 547 buildings in the heart of Boston's business and commercial district, killing 14 people (including 9 firemen).
● 1877 - Indian Wars: Battle of Big Hole - A small band of Nez Percé Indians clash with the United States Army.
● 1884 - Birth of Kenneth Scott Latourette, Baptist church historian. Teaching at Yale from 1921-53, his greatest writings were his 7-volume History of the Expansion of Christianity (1937-45) and 5-volume Christianity in a Revolutionary Age (1958-62). Latourette died a bachelor.
● 1892 - Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
● 1896 - Jean Piaget, the Swiss psychologist famous for his studies of cognitive development in children, was born.
● 1902 - Edward VII of England crowned after death of his mother Victoria
● 1907 - The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in Southern England.
● 1910 - A.J. Fisher received a patent for the electric washing machine.
● 1942 - English Bible expositor Arthur W. Pink wrote in a letter: 'Waiting on the Lord (Isa. 40:31, etc.) describes an attitude of soul when we are engaged in true prayer, but waiting for the Lord is the exercise of patience while His answer tarries.'
● 1942 - Indian leader, Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in Bombay by British forces, launching the Quit India Movement. He was not released until 1944.
● 1942 - World War II: Battle of Savo Island - Allied naval forces protecting their amphibious forces during the initial stages of the Battle of Guadalcanal are surprised and defeated by an Imperial Japanese Navy cruiser force.
● 1943 - Franz Jagerstatter, Austrian conscientious objector to Nazi draft, publicly beheaded in Berlin.
● 1944 - The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring Smokey Bear for the first time.
● 1945 - World War II: Nagasaki is devastated when an atomic bomb, "Fat Man", is dropped by the United States B-29 Bockscar. 70,000 people are killed instantly, thousands will follow in radiation after effects. {In reality this bomb was a tremendous bluff as it was the last built and ready, it would be several months until another could be deployed.}
● 1956 - The first statewide, state-supported educational television network went on the air in Alabama.
● 1956 - Twenty thousand women demonstrate against pass laws, Pretoria, South Africa.
● 1960 - Race riot in Jacksonville Florida
● 1960 - The Church of the Lutheran Confession adopted its constitution at a convention held at Watertown, South Dakota. The denomination was formally organized the following January (1961) at Sleepy Eye, Minnesota.
● 1961 - James B Parsons is 1st black appointed to Federal District Court
● 1965 - A fire at a Titan missile base near Little Rock, Arkansas kills 53 construction workers.
● 1965 - Singapore gains independence from Malaysia (National Day)
● 1966 - Two hundred stage sit-in at New York City offices of Dow Chemical to protest use of napalm in Vietnam. {No, it doesn't smell like victory but rather gasoline.}
● 1969 - Members of a cult led by Charles Manson brutally murder pregnant actress Sharon Tate (wife of Roman Polanski), coffee heiress Abigail Folger, Polish actor Wojciech Frykowski, men's hairstylist Jay Sebring, and recent high-school graduate Steven Parent at 10050 Cielo Drive in Los Angeles, California.
● 1970 - Peruvian Airlines jet carrying 45 US exchange students explodes
● 1971 - British reintroduce internment without trial to Northern Ireland. Responding to increased activity by the Irish Republican Army, emergency powers of preventive detention without trial invoked. By December, more than 1,500 people will be in prison. Many IRA inmates, known as "blanket men," refuse clothing and smear their cell walls with excrement after prison authorities' deny their political status. During a demonstration in Derry against the arrests, British troops shoot 13 civilians.
● 1972 - Rockwell receives NASA contract to construct the Space Shuttle.
● 1973 - The U.S. Senate committee investigating the Watergate affair filed suit against President Richard Nixon.
● 1973 - USSR launches Mars 7
● 1974 - As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, {Mr. quid pro quo} becomes the 38th president of the U.S.
● 1976 - USSR launches Luna 24, last Lunar flight to date from Earth
● 1979 - Brighton bares all; Brighton becomes the first major resort in Britain to agree to set aside part of its seafront to nudists.
● 1981 - Second killer escapes from Broadmoor; A double murderer has escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane - the second killer to do so in less than three weeks.
● 1982 - Six killed in bombing and shooting attack on Jewish restaurant, Paris.
● 1984 - STS 41-D vehicle again moves out to the launch pad
● 1985 - Arthur J. Walker, a retired Navy officer, was found guilty of seven counts of spying for the Soviet Union.
● 1985 - Seven people arrested for blockading the gate to Pantex Nuclear Weapons Assembly Plant, Amarillo, Texas.
● 1986 - The Headington Shark is erected in Oxford.
● 1987 - 9 people are shot dead and 17 more injured as 19-year old Julian Knight opens fire at random in the Hoddle Street Massacre in the Melbourne suburb of Clifton Hill, in Australia.
● 1987 - Hundreds arrested in all-day blockade of Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant, Golden, Colorado.
● 1988 - President Ronald Reagan nominated Lauro Cavazos to be secretary of education and the first Hispanic to serve in the Cabinet. {Reagan who wanted to dismantle the department hoped a Hispanic in charge would be the death of the department.}
● 1988 - Just 1 day after 8/8/88 NY's daily number is 888
● 1989 - 112 people were killed when a train fell into the San Rafael River in Mexico. The incident was caused by a bridge that collapsed.
● 1989 - Twenty-two anti-nuclear activists arrested for trespassing at Nevada Test Site in 110+ degree heat.
● 1990 - 12 Arab leaders agree to send pan-Arab forces to protect Saudi Arabia
● 1991 - Hundreds of people storm abortion clinic in Kansas protesting new law prohibiting the blocking of access to clinics by pro-life demonstrators.
● 1993 - King Albert II of Belgium is sworn into office.
● 1993 - Wounded Bosnian girl flown to UK; A five-year-old girl who was severely injured in the fighting in Bosnia is flown to Britain for treatment.
● 1993 - The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan loses a 38-year hold on national leadership.
● 1995 - Death of Grateful Dead singer and junkie Jerry Garcia, New York City.
● 1995 - Six hundred Brazilian landless movement families battle police at night; their camp is burnt down.
● 1996 - Boris Yeltsin was sworn in as president of Russia for the second time.
● 1999 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin fired Prime Minister Sergei Stepashin and his entire cabinet for the fourth time in 17 months.
● 1999 - Kennedy wins Lib Dem leadership; Charles Kennedy wins the race to succeed Paddy Ashdown as leader of the British Liberal Democrats.
● 1999 - The Diet of Japan enacts a law establishing the Hinomaru and Kimi Ga Yo as the official national flag and national anthem.
● 2001 - In Jerusalem, a Palestinian suicide bomber detonated an explosive inside a pizzeria. The lunchtime bombing killed 15 and wounded about 90 others.
● 2001 - US President George W. Bush announces his support for federal funding of limited research on embryonic stem cells. {Which is just so much bullshit because it is limited to fifteen lines of cells already in existence.}
● 2003 - Dancer-actor Gregory Hines died at age 57.
● 2005 - A chemical plant explosion happened at the EQ Recovery Plant in Romulus, Michigan, forcing residents within 1 to 1 1/3 mile radius from the plant to evacuate.
BIRTHS
● 1201 - Arnold Fitz Thedmar, English chronicler (d. 1274)
● 1593 - Izaak Walton, English angler (d. 1683)
● 1631 - John Dryden, English Poet Laureate (d. 1700)
● 1648 - Johann Michael Bach, German composer (d. 1694)
● 1653 - John Oldham, English poet (d. 1683)
● 1674 - František Maxmilián Kaňka, Czech architect (d. 1766)
● 1722 - Augustus William, Prince of Prussia (d. 1758)
● 1726 - Francesco Cetti, Italian Jesuit scientist (d. 1778)
● 1757 - Thomas Telford, Scottish civil engineer (d. 1834)
● 1776 - Amedeo Avogadro, Italian chemist (d. 1856)
● 1797 - Charles Robert Malden, British. naval officer (d. 1855)
● 1805 - Joseph Locke, English railway and civil engineer (d. 1860)
● 1809 - William Barret Travis, commander at Battle of the Alamo
● 1819 - William Morton, American dental surgeon who first demonstrated anesthesia (d. 1868)
● 1839 - Gaston Paris, French philologist, educator, and writer (d. 1903)
● 1845 - André Bessette, Canadian religious figure (d. 1937)
● 1847 - Maria Victoria al Pozzo della Cisterna, queen consort of Spain (d. 1876)
● 1865 - Janie Porter Barrett, American welfare worker and educator (d. 1948)
● 1871 - Leonid Andreyev, Russian writer (d. 1919)
● 1872 - Archduke Joseph August of Austria, Austrian field marshal (d. 1962)
● 1874 - Reynaldo Hahn, Venezuelan composer and conductor (d. 1947)
● 1875 - Albert Ketèlbey, English pianist, conductor and composer (b. 1959)
● 1896 - Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist whose work with children contributed immensely to the growth of developmental psychology (d. 1980)
● 1896 - Leonide Massine, Russian dancer and choreographer of over 50 ballets (d. 1979)
● 1896 - Lev Vygotsky, Russian psychologist (d. 1934)
● 1896 - Erich Hückel, German physicist (d. 1980)
● 1899 - P. L. Travers, Australian-born English writer of the "Mary Poppins" books (d. 1996)
● 1901 - Charles Farrell, American actor (d. 1990)
● 1902 - Zino Francescatti, French violinist (d. 1991)
● 1909 - Adam von Trott zu Solz, German diplomat opposing the Nazi regime (executed) (d. 1944)
● 1911 - William Alfred Fowler, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1996)
● 1911 - Eddie Futch, American boxing trainer (d. 2001)
● 1914 - Tove Jansson, Finnish author, the creator of the Moomins (d. 2001)
● 1914 - Ferenc Fricsay, Hungarian conductor (d. 1963)
● 1914 - Joe Mercer, English footballer (d. 1990)
● 1918 - Robert Aldrich, American motion-picture director (d. 1983)
● 1919 - Joop den Uyl, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1987)
● 1919 - Ralph Houk, American baseball player and manager
● 1920 - Enzo Biagi, Italian journalist and writer
● 1921 - J. James Exon, American politician, (d. 2005)
● 1921 - Ernest Angley, televangelist
● 1922 - Philip Larkin, English poet (d. 1985)
● 1925 - David A. Huffman, creator of Huffman coding (d. 1999)
● 1927 - Daniel Keyes, American author
● 1927 - Robert Shaw, English actor (d. 1978)
● 1928 - Bob Cousy, American basketball player and Hall of Fame member
● 1930 - Jacques Parizeau, Quebec economist and politician
● 1931 - Mário Zagallo, Brazilian football coach and player
● 1931 - Chuck Essegian, American baseball player
● 1932 - John Gomery, Canadian jurist
● 1933 - Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, Japanese television personality and children's author
● 1936 - Julián Javier, American baseball player
● 1936 - Patrick Tse Yin, Hong Kong film director
● 1938 - Leonid Kuchma, Ukrainian politician
● 1938 - Rod Laver, Australian tennis player and Hall of Fame member
● 1939 - Romano Prodi, Prime Minister of Italy, former President of the European Commission
● 1939 - Brito, Brazilian footballer
● 1940 - Beverlee McKinsey, American actress
● 1942 - Tommie Agee, American baseball player (d. 2001)
● 1942 - Jack DeJohnette, Jazz drummer
● 1942 - David Steinberg, Canadian comedian
● 1943 - Ken Norton, American boxer and Hall of Fame member
● 1944 - Sam Elliott, American actor
● 1945 - Posy Simmonds, English cartoonist
● 1946 - Jim Kiick, American football player
● 1947 - Barbara Mason, American soul singer
● 1948 - Bill Campbell, baseball player
● 1949 - Jonathan Kellerman, American writer
● 1952 - Prateep Ungsongtham Hata, Thai politician
● 1957 - Melanie Griffith, American actress
● 1958 - Amanda Bearse, Actress ("Married...With Children")
● 1959 - Kurtis Blow, American rapper
● 1959 - Stuart Hughes, Canadian actor
● 1961 - Brad Gilbert, American tennis player
● 1961 - John Key, Leader of the New Zealand National Party
● 1961 - Amy Stiller, American actress
● 1962 - Kevin Mack, American football player
● 1962 - Louis Lipps, American football player
● 1963 - Whitney Houston, American diva and actress
● 1964 - Brett Hull, Canadian-born hockey player
● 1966 - Pat Petersen, Actor
● 1967 - Deion Sanders, American football player
● 1968 - Gillian Anderson, American actress ("The X Files")
● 1968 - Eric Bana, Australian actor
● 1968 - Karyn Parsons, American actress
● 1968 - Sam Fogarino,drummer for New York City-based band Interpol
● 1969 - Divine Brown, American celebrity
● 1969 - Troy Percival, baseball player
● 1970 - Rod Brind'Amour, hockey player
● 1970 - Chris Cuomo, American TV journalist
● 1970 - Thomas Lennon, American actor
● 1970 - Arion Salazar, American musician (Third Eye Blind)
● 1971 - Davide Rebellin, Italian cyclist
● 1971 - Mack 10, American rapper
● 1971 - James Kim, technology reporter (d. 2006)
● 1972 - Juanes, Colombian singer
● 1972 - A-Mei, Taiwanese singer
● 1972 - Liz Vassey, Actress
● 1973 - Kevin McKidd, Scottish actor
● 1973 - Filippo Inzaghi, Italian footballer
● 1974 - Mahesh Babu, Indian film actor
● 1974 - Matt Morris, baseball player
● 1974 - Derek Fisher, American basketball player
● 1975 - Robbie Middleby, Australian soccer player
● 1976 - Jessica Capshaw, American actress
● 1976 - Rhona Mitra, English actress
● 1977 - Chamique Holdsclaw, American basketball player
● 1977 - Mikael Silvestre, French footballer
● 1977 - Adewale Ogunleye, American football player
● 1977 - Jason Frasor, American baseball player
● 1978 - Audrey Tautou, French actress
● 1978 - Michael Scofield, Fox River Eight Fugitive
● 1979 - Mitchell Sims , baseball coach/ teacher
● 1980 - Ryu Seung-beom, South Korean actor
● 1982 - Tyson Gay, American sprinter
● 1982 - Danieal Manning, American football player
● 1983 - Ashley Johnson, American actress
● 1983 - Shane O'Brien, Canadian hockey player
● 1984 - Paul Gallagher, Scottish footballer
● 1985 - Hayley Peirsol, American swimmer
● 1985 - Luca Filippi, Italian racing driver
● 1985 - JaMarcus Russell, American football player
● 1986 - Vanessa Morley, American actress
● 1989 - Stefano Okaka Chuka, Italian footballer
● 1990 - Adelaide Kane, Australian actress
DEATHS
● 117 - Trajan, Roman Emperor (b. 53)
● 378 - Valens, Roman Emperor (killed in battle) (b. 328)
● 803 - Byzantine Empress Irene
● 1107 - Emperor Horikawa of Japan (b. 1079)
● 1173 - Najm ad-Din Ayyub, father of Saladin
● 1250 - King Eric IV of Denmark (b. 1216)
● 1534 - Cardinal Cajetan, Italian theologian (b. 1470)
● 1601 - Michael the Brave, Prince of Wallachia (b. 1558)
● 1634 - William Noy, English jurist (b. 1577)
● 1720 - Simon Ockley, English orientalist (b. 1678)
● 1744 - James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, English patron of the arts (b. 1673)
● 1816 - Johann August Apel, German jurist and writer (b. 1771)
● 1837 - Xavier Sigalon, French painter (b. 1787)
● 1886 - Samuel Ferguson, Northern Irish poet and artist (b. 1810)
● 1919 - Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Italian composer (b. 1857)
● 1942 - Edith Stein, (St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross) (executed) (b. 1891)
● 1945 - Harry Hillman, American athlete (b. 1881)
● 1945 - Robert Hampton Gray, last Canadian Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1917)
● 1957 - Carl Clauberg, Nazi doctor (b. 1898)
● 1962 - Hermann Hesse, German-born writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1877)
● 1967 - Joe Orton, English writer (b. 1933)
● 1969 - Abigail Folger, American heiress (murdered) (b. 1943)
● 1969 - Wojciech Frykowski, Polish writer (murdered) (b. 1936)
● 1969 - Cecil Frank Powell, British physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1903)
● 1969 - Jay Sebring, American hair stylist (murdered) (b. 1933)
● 1969 - Sharon Tate, American actress (murdered) (b. 1943)
● 1969 - Steven Parent, American student (murdered) (b. 1951)
● 1974 - Bill Chase, American trumpet player and bandleader (b. 1934)
● 1975 - Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (b. 1906)
● 1979 - Walter O'Malley, baseball executive (b. 1903)
● 1985 - Clive Churchill, Australian rugby league player (b. 1927)
● 1988 - Giacinto Scelsi, Italian composer (b. 1905)
● 1990 - Joe Mercer, English footballer (b. 1914)
● 1995 - Jerry Garcia, American musician (Grateful Dead) (b. 1942)
● 1996 - Sir Frank Whittle, invented the jet engine (b. 1907)
● 1999 - Fouad Serageddin, Egyptian politician (b. 1910)
● 2000 - John Harsanyi, Hungarian-born economist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1920)
● 2000 - Nicholas Markowitz-kidnapped and murder by Jesse James Hollywood (b. 1984)
● 2002 - Paul Samson, British guitarist (Samson) (b. 1953)
● 2002 - Peter Neville, anarchist, sociologist, and peace activist
● 2003 - Ray Harford, English footballer and manager (b. 1945)
● 2003 - Gregory Hines, American actor and dancer (b. 1946)
● 2003 - Jacques Deray, French film director (b. 1929)
● 2004 - Tony Mottola, American guitarist (b. 1918)
● 2004 - David Raksin, American film director (b. 1912)
● 2005 - Matthew McGrory, American actor (b. 1973)
● 2005 - Judith Rossner, American novelist (b. 1935)
● 2006 - James van Allen, American physicist (b. 1914)
● 2006 - Philip E. High, science fiction author (b. 1914)
● 2007 - Joe O'Donnell, American documentary photographer, photojournalist (b. 1922)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Amedeus
● St. Amor
● St. Auctor, bishop of Metz
● St. Bandaridus
● St. Denys
● St. Domitian, bishop of Châlons-sur-Marne, confessor
● St. Edith Stein, died 1942
● St. Fedlimin/Felimy, bishop of Kilmore
● Sts. Firmus & Rusticus
● St. Herneus, abbot, confessor
● St. Jean Vianney
● St. Julian
● St. Lawrence (Vigil)
● St. Maurilius
● St. Nathy (David), bishop of Achonry
● St. Numidicus
● St. Phelim
● St. Romanus, martyr (Romanus Ostiarius, died 258)
● St. Samuel of Edessa
● St. Secundianus and companions, martyrs
● St. Serenus
● Bl. Ceferino Jimenez Malla
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for July 26 (Civil Date: August 9)
● Hieromartyr Hermolaus and Martyrs Hermippus and Hermocrates at Nicomedia.
● Martyr Parasceve of Rome.
● St. Moses the Hungarian, of the Kiev Caves.
● Greek Calendar:
● Virgin Martyr Oriozela of Reuma, disciple of St. Andrew.
● Stirion.
● Martyr Appion.
● Virgin Martyr Jerusalem of Byzantium.
● St. Gerontius, founder of the Skete of St. Anne.
● St. Sava III, Archbishop of Serbia.
● Most Holy Theotokos of "Emvolon" in Constantinople.
● Repose of Elder Theophanes of Solovki, disciple of St. Paisius Velchkovsky (1819).
● Japan : Nagasaki Memorial Day (1945)
● Libya : Sanusi Army Day
● Rhode Island : Victory Day
● Singapore : National Day (1965)
● South Africa: National Women's Day
● Baltimore, Maryland: Official "Frank Zappa Day" in honor of the Baltimore-born composer and musician (born 1940, died 1993).
● International Day of the World's Indigenous People
● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Italy : Palio Del Golfo (2nd Sunday) - ( Sunday )
● Zambia : Youth Day - ( Monday )
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
Permanent Backlink to Post
No comments:
Post a Comment