Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Civil Rights "Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon . . . which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals." — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On All Hail King George "A dictatorship would be a heck of lot easier, there's no question about it." — George W. Bush, Richard S. Dunham, Washington Watch, "A Gentleman's 'C' for W," Business Week online, 7-30-01 {I note this was before 9-11-01.}
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "He's trying to take the decision out of the hands of twelve honest men and give it to congressmen!" — Charles Vanik, Ohio congressman, reacting to former Vice President Agnew's request to have his corruption case tried by the House of Representatives
Thought for the day: "Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature."
{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
Building Galaxies in the Early Universe
Credit: NASA, ESA, and N. Pirzkal (STScI/ESA) et al.
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 422 - St Celestine I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
● 506 - The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde.
● 1224 - The Franciscans (founded in 1209 by St. Francis of Assisi) first arrived in England. They were originally called "Grey Friars" because of their gray habits. (The habit worn by modern Franciscans is brown.)
● 1349 - Jews who survived a massacre in Constance, Germany are burned to death.
● 1419 - John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy is assassinated by adherents of the Dauphin, the future Charles VII of France.
● 1608 - John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia.
● 1718 - The Collegiate School at New Haven, CT, changed its name to Yale. (Congregationalists, unhappy with an increasing religious liberalism at Harvard, had founded Yale, the third oldest college in America, in 1701.)
● 1734 - English revivalist George Whitefield wrote in a letter: 'Pain, if patiently endured, and sanctified to us, is a great purifier of our corrupted nature.'
● 1776 - George Washington asks for a spy volunteer, Nathan Hale volunteers
● 1794 - Blount College -- the first American nondenominational institution of higher learning -- was established in Knoxville. (It later became the University of Tennessee.)
● 1797 - Anarchist, feminist Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin), dies. Author of first great modern feminist tract in English, "Vindication of the Rights of Women." Married to anarchist philosopher William Godwin, she died, age 36, of "childbed fever" {Childbed fever is discovered to be caused by cross infection because attending physicians did not observe the simple precaution of washing their hands between deliveries.} after giving birth Aug. 30 to Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (Shelley), who would write "Frankenstein."
● 1798 - At the Battle of St. George's Caye, British Honduras defeats Spain.
● 1813 - The first defeat of British naval squadron occurred in the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812. Oliver H. Perry, the leader of the U.S. fleet sent the famous message "We have met the enemy, and they are ours" to U.S. General William Henry Harrison.
● 1819 - Birth of Canadian hymnwriter Joseph Scriven. The accidental drowning of his bride-to-be the night before their wedding led to a life of depression; yet he also authored the hymn of comfort, "What a Friend We Have in Jesus."
● 1823 - Simón Bolívar is named President of Peru.
● 1845 - King Willem II opened Amsterdam Stock exchange.
● 1846 - Elias Howe gets a patent for the sewing machine.
● 1857 - Mountain Meadows Massacre. Mormons offer to escort a Gentile {non-Mormon} train passing through Utah to safety from the Indians, then line up all the adult males in single file with a Mormon guide on each side, and at a prearranged signal, massacre them all in cold blood. Mormon Militia, disguised as Indians, along with real Indians, moved in on the women and older children, shooting, clubbing and tomahawking them to death. {The man Brigham Young ordered to lead the massacre would be scape-goated and executed for the massacre.}
● 1858 - George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora.
● 1862 - Four months after U.S. Congress amends a law that had required all Army chaplains to be Christians, Rabbi Jacob Frankel of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, becomes the first Jewish Army chaplain.
● 1869 - Baptist minister invents the rickshaw in Yokohama, Japan
● 1877 - Birth of Georgia Douglas Johnson, Harlem Renaissance writer.
● 1882 - 1st international conference to promote anti-semitism meets in Dresden Germany (Congress for Safeguarding of Non-Jewish Interests)
● 1895 - Birth of Melville Herskovits, pioneer of African-American studies.
● 1897 - British police arrest George Smith for drunken driving. It was the first DWI.
● 1897 - Nineteen unarmed striking miners killed, 40 wounded by sheriff's deputies at Latimer, Penn. for refusing to disperse, by a posse organized by the Luzerne County sheriff. The strikers, most of whom were shot in the back, were originally brought in as strike-breakers, but later organized themselves.
● 1898 - Anarchist Luigi Luccheni fatally stabs Elisabeth of Austria, "Sissi," in Geneva, using a frayed file, to strike against "the persecutors of the workmen." The Swiss courts condemned him to forced labor. Found hanged in the prison in 1910.
● 1899 - A second quake in seven days hit Yakutat Bay, AK. It measured 8.6.
● 1901 - Emma Goldman arrested in alleged link to McKinley assassin.
● 1910 - Great Idaho Fire destroys 3 million acres of timber
● 1913 - George W Buckner, named minister to Liberia
● 1913 - The Lincoln Highway opened. It was the first paved coast-to-coast highway in the U.S.
● 1919 - Austria and the Allies sign the Treaty of Saint-Germain recognizing the independence of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.
● 1919 - New York City welcomed home 25,000 soldiers and General John J. Pershing who had served in the First Division during World War I.
● 1921 - The Ayus Autobahn in Germany opened near Berlin. The road is known for its nonexistent speed limit.
● 1923 - The Irish Free state joined the League of Nations.
● 1924 - Leopold and Loeb were found guilty of murdering a small boy. The case is known as the first "thrill kill."
● 1926 - Germany joined the League of Nations.
● 1930 - Charles E Mitchell, named minister to Liberia
● 1932 - The New York City Subway's third competing subway system, the municipally-owned IND, is opened.
● 1934 - Roger Maris, the professional baseball player who held the record for home runs in a single season from 1961 to 1998, was born. {He still does for doing so without steroids.}
● 1935 - Sen. Huey P. Long, the "Kingfish" of Louisiana politics, died two days after being shot in Baton Rouge.
● 1939 - Canada declares war on Nazi Germany, joining France, the UK, New Zealand and Australia in the Allies.
● 1939 - World War II: The submarine HMAS Oxley is sunk by mistake by the submarine HMS Triton off the coast of Norway and becomes the Royal Navy's first loss.
● 1940 - In Britain, Buckingham Palace was hit by German bomb.
● 1941 - Trade union leaders shot by German firing squads in reprisal for workers' strike, Norway.
● 1942 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt mandated gasoline rationing as part of the U.S. wartime effort.
● 1942 - World War II: The British carry out an amphibious landing at Majunga, north-west Madagascar, to re-launch Allied offensive operations in the Madagascar Campaign.
● 1943 - German forces began their occupation of Rome during World War II.
● 1945 - Save Europe Now (famine relief campaign) launched, England.
● 1945 - Vidkun Quisling, puppet prime minister of German-occupied Norway, is sentenced to death in Norway. His name enters the English language, meaning "a traitor to collaborate with the invaders of his country, esp. by serving in a puppet government."
● 1948 - Mildred "Axis Sally" Gillars was indicted for treason in Washington, DC. Gillars was a Nazi radio propagandist during World War II. She was convicted and spent 12 years in prison.
● 1951 - United Kingdom began an economic boycott of Iran.
● 1954 - 12 second shock kills 1,460 in Orleansville Algeria
● 1956 - Great Britain performed a nuclear test at Maralinga, Australia.
● 1956 - Louisville Ky public schools integrate
● 1962 - U.S. Supreme Court rules James Meredith be admitted to University of Mississippi.
● 1963 - Twenty black students entered public schools in Alabama at the end of a standoff between federal authorities and Alabama governor George C. Wallace.
● 1967 - CBS censors Pete Seeger's song "Big Muddy" on the Smothers Brothers Hour.
● 1967 - The people of Gibraltar vote to remain a British dependency rather than becoming part of Spain. The vote was 12,138 to 44 to remain British.
● 1969 - Wiretap is placed, under Nixon White House orders, on CBS reporter Marvin Kalb.
● 1973 - Commemorative stamp of Henry Ossawa Tanner issued by the U.S. Postal Service. Part of its American Arts issue, the stamp celebrates his work and accomplishments. The first African-American artist elected to the National Academy of Design.
● 1973 - Bomb blasts rock central London; Scotland Yard hunts a teenage suspect after two bombs at mainline stations injure 13 people and bring chaos to central London.
● 1974 - Guinea-Bissau wins national liberation struggle for independence from Portugal.
● 1976 - A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176.
● 1976 - Dalton Trumbo dies. Author, screenwriter. Wrote the anti-war novel "Johnny Got His Gun." Member of the Hollywood Ten, a group who refused to testify before the 1947 U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities about alleged communist involvement. He was blacklisted and spent 11 months in prison. After his blacklisting, he wrote 30 scripts under pseudonyms.
● 1977 - Hamida Djandoubi, a Tunisian immigrant convicted of murder, becomes the last person executed with the guillotine at Baumettes Prison in Marseille, France. {While most famous for its use by the French, Hitler executed far more during WWII. I was surprised the French would continue its use for so long.}
● 1979 - U.S. President Carter granted clemency to four Puerto Rican nationalists who had been imprisoned for an attack on the U.S. House of Representatives in 1954 and an attempted assassination of U.S. President Truman in 1950.
● 1980 - Manila, Philippines - 10,000 people defy government order and hold "Freedom March"; U.S.-supported Marcos dictatorship government kills eight.
● 1983 - Four days of protests and barricading starts in opposition to the U.S.- installed Chilean dictatorship of Augosto Pinochet.
● 1984 - Discovery returns to Kennedy Space Center via Altus AFB, Okla
● 1984 - The Federal Communications Commission changed a rule to allow broadcasters to own 12 AM and 12 FM radio stations. The previous limit was 7 of each.
● 1985 - Salvadoran guerrillas capture Ines Guadalupe Duarte Duran, the daughter of President Jose Napolean Duarte. The kidnapping draws criticism from European and Latin American governments, but an October 24 prisoner exchange wins freedom for 20 rebel leaders and wounded insurgents. The guerrillas release photographs and tape recordings indicating a certain sympathy for the rebel cause from Senora Duarte Duran, driving a wedge between President Duarte and his backers in the army and oligarchy.
● 1986 - Bryan O'Connor named chairman of Space Flight Safety Panel
● 1988 - BBC presenters in helicopter crash; The television presenters Mike Smith and Sarah Greene are seriously injured in a helicopter crash in Gloucestershire.
● 1989 - Hungary stopped enforcing East German visa restrictions and opened its borders, beginning a flood of emigration that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall two months later.
● 1990 - George Bush & Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Helsinki
● 1990 - Iran agreed to resume full diplomatic ties with past enemy Iraq.
● 1990 - Iraq's Saddam Hussein offered free oil to developing nations in an attempt to win their support during the Gulf War Crisis.
● 1990 - The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire – the largest church in Africa and perhaps the world – is consecrated by Pope John Paul II.
● 1995 - A plane with a skydivers club aboard crashed in Shacklesford, VA, killing 10 parachutists, the pilot, and a man on the ground.
● 1996 - First weekly issue of "Eat the State!" published in Seattle, Washington. The following year, wins accolades from readers of a conservative "Seattle Weekly" media column. Go figure. (ETS!'s founder, Geov Parrish, became the Weekly's political columnist in 1998, a position he still holds.)
● 1996 - U.N. votes 158-3 to ban all nuclear test blasts. Guess which way the U.S. voted?
● 1998 - Northwest Airlines announced an agreement with pilots, ending a nearly two-week walkout.
● 1998 - U.S. President Clinton met with members of his Cabinet to apologize, ask forgiveness and promise to improve as a person in the wake of the scandal involving Monica Lewinsky.
● 1999 - A bronze sculpture of a war horse just over 24 feet high was dedicated in Milan, Italy.
● 2000 - Daring rescue frees jungle hostages; One British paratrooper is killed and 11 injured during a bold mission to rescue six hostages being held in the Sierra Leonean jungle.
● 2002 - Florida tested its new elections system. The test resulted in polling stations opening late and problems occurred with the touch screen voting machines.
● 2002 - Switzerland, known for its neutrality, joins the United Nations as its 190th member.
● 2002 - The "September 11: Bearing Witness to History" exhibit opened at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.
● 2003 - Anna Lindh, the foreign minister of Sweden, is stabbed fatally while shopping, and dies of her wounds on September 11.
● 2007 - Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile, following a military coup in October 1999, in Islamabad, Pakistan.
● 2007 - The Premier of the Australian state of Queensland, Peter Beattie, announced he would resign from the top job on September 13.
BIRTHS
● 1169 - Alexius II Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1183)
● 1487 - Pope Julius III (d. 1555)
● 1550 - Alonso de Guzman El Bueno, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, commander of the Spanish Armada (d. 1615? 1619NYT)
● 1561 - Hernando Arias de Saavedra, Spanish colonial governor (d. 1634)
● 1588 - Nicholas Lanier, English composer (d. 1666)
● 1624 - Thomas Sydenham, English physician (d. 1689)
● 1638 - Maria Theresa of Spain, queen of Louis XIV of France (d. 1683)
● 1659 - Henry Purcell, English composer (d. 1695)
● 1714 - Niccolò Jommelli, Italian composer (d. 1774)
● 1753 - Sir John Soane, English Neoclassical architect (d. 1837)
● 1758 - Hannah Webster Foster, American author (d. 1840)
● 1786 - Nicolás Bravo, Mexican politician and soldier (d. 1854)
● 1786 - William Mason, American politician (d. 1860)
● 1788 - Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist (d. 1868)
● 1835 - William Torrey Harris, American public school educator and philosopher (d. 1909)
● 1836 - Joseph Wheeler, Confederate and United States Army General (d. 1906)
● 1839 - Isaac Kauffman Funk, American publisher (d. 1912)
● 1839 - Charles Peirce, American philosopher (d. 1914)
● 1844 - Abel Hoadley, Australian confectioner (d. 1918)
● 1847 - John Lynch, American politician; served in Mississippi legislature and U.S. Congress during Reconstruction (d. 1939)
● 1852 - Alice Brown Davis, Seminole chief (d. 1935)
● 1861 - Niels Hansen Jacobsen, Danish sculptor and ceramist (d. 1941)
● 1866 - Jeppe Aakjær, Danish writer (d. 1930)
● 1885 - Carl Van Doren, American novelist, biographer and critic (d. 1950)
● 1886 - Hilda Doolittle, American poet and novelist (d. 1961)
● 1890 - Elsa Schiaparelli, French couturiere (d. 1973)
● 1890 - Franz Werfel, Austrian-Bohemian novelist (d. 1945)
● 1892 - Arthur Holly Compton, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (1927) (d. 1962)
● 1895 - Kavi Samrat Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Telugu writer (d. 1976).
● 1896 - Ye Ting, Chinese military leader (d. 1946)
● 1896 - Adele Astaire, American dancer and entertainer (d. 1981)
● 1896 - Robert Taschereau, Canadian Governor General and chief justice (d. 1970)
● 1897 - Hilde Hildebrand, German actress (d. 1976)
● 1898 - Bessie Love, American actress (d. 1986)
● 1898 - Waldo Semon, American inventor (d. 1999)
● 1903 - Cyril Connolly, English critic, novelist and founder of Horizon magazine (d. 1974)
● 1904 - Max Shachtman, American Trotskyist politician (d. 1972)
● 1907 - Alva R. Fitch, United States Army Lt. General (d. 1989)
● 1914 - Robert Wise, American film director (d. 2005)
● 1915 - Edmond O'Brien, American actor (d. 1985)
● 1917 - Miguel Serrano, Chilean author and diplomat
● 1920 - Fabio Taglioni, Italian motorcycle engineer (d. 2001)
● 1922 - Yma Súmac, Peruvian singer
● 1924 - Ted Kluszewski, Major League baseball player (d. 1988)
● 1928 - Jean Vanier, Canadian disabilities advocate
● 1929 - Arnold Palmer, American golfer
● 1931 - Philip Baker Hall, American actor
● 1932 - Bo Goldman, American screenwriter
● 1933 - Yevgeny Khrunov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2000)
● 1934 - Charles Kuralt, American journalist (d. 1997)
● 1934 - Roger Maris, American baseball player (d. 1985)
● 1937 - Tommy Overstreet, Country singer
● 1937 - Jared Diamond, American biologist and author
● 1938 - Karl Lagerfeld, German fashion designer
● 1939 - Greg Mullavey, Actor
● 1940 - Roy Ayers, Jazz vibraphonist
● 1941 - Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist (d. 2002)
● 1941 - Christopher Hogwood, English conductor
● 1941 - Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese inventor and video game designer (d. 1997)
● 1942 - Danny Hutton, American singer (Three Dog Night)
● 1943 - Eldridge Coleman ("Superstar" Billy Graham), American professional wrestler
● 1943 - Daniel Truhitte, American actor
● 1943 - Neale Donald Walsch, American author
● 1945 - Jose Feliciano, Puerto Rican singer
● 1945 - Tom Ligon, Actor
● 1946 - Jim Hines, American athlete
● 1946 - Don Powell, English drummer (Slade)
● 1948 - Tony Gatlif, Algerian-born director
● 1948 - Bob Lanier, American basketball player and Hall of Fame member
● 1948 - Margaret Trudeau, former wife of Pierre Trudeau
● 1948 - Judy Geeson, English actress
● 1949 - Don Muraco, professional wrestler
● 1949 - Bill O'Reilly, American journalist and commentator
● 1950 - Joe Perry, American musician (Aerosmith)
● 1952 - Vic Toews, Canadian politician
● 1953 - Amy Irving, American actress
● 1956 - Rosie Flores, Country singer
● 1957 - Carol Decker, UK singer T'Pau
● 1957 - Kate Burton, Swiss actress
● 1958 - Chris Columbus, American film director
● 1958 - Siobhan Fahey, Irish singer (Bananarama and Shakespear's Sister)
● 1959 - Peter Nelson, American actor
● 1960 - Colin Firth, English actor
● 1960 - David Lowery, American musician (Cracker)
● 1963 - Randy Johnson, American baseball player
● 1963 - Bill Stevenson, American music producer, punk rock drummer (Descendents), (Black Flag), (ALL), (Only Crime)
● 1964 - John E. Sununu, U.S. senator, R-N.H.
● 1965 - Robin Goodridge, English rock drummer (Bush)
● 1966 - Robin Goodridge, Rock musician (Bush)
● 1966 - Miles Zuniga, Rock musician (Fastball)
● 1966 - Richard Melville Ballerand, tri-national strategy adviser
● 1966 - Joe Nieuwendyk, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1968 - Big Daddy Kane, American rapper
● 1968 - Guy Ritchie, British film director
● 1969 - Jonathon Schaech, American actor
● 1970 - Paula Kelley, American singer-songwriter
● 1972 - Ghada Shouaa, Syrian athlete
● 1972 - James Duval, American actor
● 1972 - Bente Skari, Norwegian cross country skier
● 1973 - Ferdinand Coly, Senegalese footballer
● 1974 - Ryan Phillippe, American actor
● 1974 - Mirko Filipovic, Croatian kickboxer and mixed martial artist
● 1974 - Ben Wallace, American basketball player
● 1975 - Jonathan Hoenig, American investment advisor
● 1975 - Sammy Knight, American football player
● 1976 - Gustavo Kuerten, Brazilian tennis player
● 1976 - Federico Gasperoni, San Marinese football player
● 1977 - Danys Báez, Cuban baseball player
● 1978 - Nish Selvadurai, Australian comedian
● 1979 - Øyvind 'Mustis' Johan Mustaparta, Keyboardist for the band Dimmu Borgir
● 1980 - Mikey Way, American bassist (My Chemical Romance)
● 1982 - Staffan Kronwall, Swedish hockey player
● 1982 - Guillermo Israilevich, Argentinian-Israeli footballer
● 1983 - Fernando Belluschi, Argentinian footballer
● 1985 - James B Graham, English rugby player
● 1988 - Jordan Staal, Canadian hockey player
● 1989 - Sanjaya Malakar, American Idol contestant
DEATHS
● 210 B.C.E. - Qin Shi Huang, first emperor of China.
● 918 - Count Baldwin II of Flanders (b. 865)
● 954 - King Louis IV of France (b. 920)
● 1167 - Empress Matilda, wife of Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1102)
● 1197 - Henry II of Champagne (b. 1166)
● 1217 - William de Reviers, 5th Earl of Devon
● 1308 - Emperor Go-Nijō of Japan (b. 1285)
● 1419 - John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy (assassinated) (b. 1371)
● 1482 - Federico da Montefeltro, Italian Renaissance condottiero and patron of arts
● 1519 - John Colet, English churchman and educator
● 1559 - Anthony Denny, confidant of King Henry VIII of England (b. 1501)
● 1591 - Richard Grenville, English soldier and explorer (b. 1542)
● 1604 - William Morgan, Welsh Bible translator (b. 1545)
● 1607 - Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Italian composer and organist (b. 1545)
● 1669 - Henrietta Maria, queen of Charles I of England (b. 1609)
● 1676 - Gerrard Winstanley, English religious reformer (b. 1609)
● 1680 - Baldassare Ferri, Italian castrato (b. 1610)
● 1749 - Émilie du Châtelet, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1706)
● 1759 - Ferdinand Konščak, Croatian explorer (b. 1703)
● 1797 - Mary Wollstonecraft, English author (b. 1759)
● 1801 - Jason Fairbanks, American murderer (b. 1780)
● 1851 - Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American educator (b. 1787)
● 1867 - Simon Sechter, Austrian composer (b. 1788)
● 1898 - Elisabeth of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1837)
● 1905 - Pete Browning, American baseball player (b. 1861)
● 1915 - Charles Boucher de Boucherville, Premier of Quebec (b. 1822)
● 1931 - Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1869)
● 1935 - Huey Long, American politician (b. 1893)
● 1937 - Sergei Tretyakov, Russian writer (b. 1892)
● 1948 - King Ferdinand of Bulgaria (b. 1861)
● 1961 - Leo Carrillo, American actor (b. 1880)
● 1961 - Wolfgang von Trips, German racing driver (b. 1928)
● 1965 - Father Divine, American religious leader (b. 1880)
● 1966 - Emil Gumbel, German mathematician and pacifist (b. 1891)
● 1971 - Pier Angeli, Italian actress (b. 1932)
● 1975 - George Paget Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
● 1976 - Dalton Trumbo, American writer (b. 1905)
● 1978 - Ronnie Peterson, Swedish Formula One driver (b. 1944)
● 1979 - Agostinho Neto, Angolan politician (b. 1922)
● 1983 - Felix Bloch, Swiss-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
● 1983 - John Vorster, Prime Minister of South Africa (b. 1915)
● 1985 - Jock Stein, Scottish football player and manager (b. 1922)
● 1991 - Jack Crawford, Australian tennis player (b. 1908)
● 1995 - Charles Denner, French actor (b. 1926)
● 1996 - Joanne Dru, American actress (b. 1923)
● 1996 - Hans List, Austrian scientist and inventor (b. 1896)
● 1997 - Jack Adkisson, professional wrestler (b. 1929)
● 1998 - Carl Forgione, British actor (b. 1944)
● 1999 - Alfredo Kraus, Spanish tenor (b. 1927)
● 2000 - Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, Pakistani journalist and writer. (b. 1921)
● 2001 - DJ Uncle Al (b.1969)
● 2004 - Brock Adams, American politician (b. 1927)
● 2005 - Clarence Gatemouth Brown, American guitarist and singer (b. 1924)
● 2006 - Patty Berg, American female golf player (b. 1918)
● 2006 - King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV of Tonga (b. 1918)
● 2006 - Daniel Wayne Smith, son of Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith (b. 1986)
● 2007 - Jane Wyman, American actress, first wife of Ronald Reagan (b.1917)
● 2007 - Anita Roddick, British Businesswoman (b.1942)
● 2007 - Ted Stepien, former owner of the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers (b. 1925)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Achilleus
● St. Apollinaris Franco
● St. Aubert
● St. Barypsabas
● St. Candida the Younger
● St. Cosmas
● St. Dominic Shamada
● St. Finian
● St. Francis de Morales
● St. Frithestan
● St. Gundislavus Fusai, Blessed
● St. Hyacinth Orfanel, Blessed
● St. Joseph of St. Hyacinth
● St. Leo Satsuma
● St. Menodora
● Sts. Nemesian, Felix, and Companions
● St. Nicholas of Tolentino, confessor/hermit
● St. Peter Martinez
● St. Salvius of Albi
● St. Theodard
● St. Veranus
● Bl. Agnes Takea
● Bl. Agnes Tsao-Kouy
● Bl. Angelus Orsucci
● Bl. Anthony Kiun
● Bl. Anthony of Korea
● Bl. Anthony Sanga
● Bl. Anthony Vom
● Bl. Bartholomew Shikiemon
● Bl. Damien Yamiki
● Bl. Dominic Nakano
● Bl. John Kingoku
● Bl. John of Korea
● Bl. Louis Kawara
● Bl. Lucy de Freitas
● Bl. Mary Tanaura
● Bl. Mary Tokuan & Mary Choun
● Bl. Michael Shumpo
● Bl. Michael Yamiki
● Bl. Paul Tanaka
● Bl. Peter Nangashi
● Bl. Peter of Avila
● Bl. Peter Sampo
● Bl. Peter Sanga
● Bl. Richard of St. Ann
● Bl. Sebastian Kimura
● Bl. Thecla Nangashi
● Bl. Thomas of the Holy Rosary
● Bl. Thomas Sherwood
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for August 28 (Civil Date: September 10)
● St. Moses the Black of Scete.
● Uncovering or the relics of St. Job of Pochaev St. Sabbas, abbot of Krypetsk.
● Righteous Anna the Prophetess.
● Righteous Hezekiah, king of Judah.
● Synaxis of the Saints of the Kiev Caves whose relics repose in the Far Cave of St. Theodosius.
● St. Amphilochius, Bishop of Vladimir in Volhynia.
● St. Theodore (Theodosius in monasticism), prince of Volhynia.
● Martyr Susanna (Shishanika) of Georgia.
● New-Martyrs Archimandrite Sergius and other monks of Zilantiev Monastery (1918).
● Greek Calendar:
● Martyrs Diomedes and Laurence.
● 33 Martyrs of Nicomedia.
● Repose of Elder Philaret of Novo-Spassky Monastery (1842).
● Belize : National Day/St George's Caye Day (1798)
● Teacher's Day in China.
● Gibraltar - National Day.
● Free Hugs - International Campaign
● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Hispanics - National Hispanic Heritage Week - ( Sunday )
● US - National Grandparents' Day - ( Sunday )
● Afghanistan - National Assembly Foundation Day (1964) - ( Wednesday )
● Scotland - Fisherman's Walk Day - ( Friday )
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
Liberal Quotes of the Day taken from The Best Liberal Quotes Ever: Why the Left Is Right Compiled by William P. Martin ©2004
Quotes from the Right of the Day taken from Take Them at Their Words: Startling, Amusing and Baffling Quotations from the GOP and Their Friends, 1994-2004 Compiled by Bruce J. Miller with Diana Maio ©2004
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day taken from 1001 Dumbest Things Ever Said Edited by Steven D. Price ©2004
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