Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Compassion "Compassion is the chief law of human existence." — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Do As I Say, Not As I Do "Bill Janklow speeds when he drives. Shouldn't, but he does. When he gets the ticket, he pays it." — Rep. William Janklow (R-SD) during a 1999 speech to the Legislature. Rep. Janklow killed a motorcyclist when he drove his Cadillac through a stop sign at 71 m.p.h. Steve Kraske, "Fatal wreck could bring down Dakota politician," Kansas City Star 8-27-03.
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people who make them unsafe." — Frank Rizzo, mayor of Philadelphia
Thought for the day: "No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish."
{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
Six Rainbows Across Norway
Credit & Copyright: Terje O. Nordvik
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EVENTS
● 490 B.C.E. - Athens defeat 2nd Persian invasion of Greece at the Battle of Marathon; origin of the marathon long-distance race (attributed to Pheidippides)
● 1213 - Albigensian Crusade: Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, defeats Peter II of Aragon, at the Battle of Muret.
● 1229 - The Aragonese army under the command of James I of Aragon disembarks at Santa Ponça, Mallorca, with the purpose of conquering the island.
● 1609 - English explorer Henry Hudson sailed down what is now known as the Hudson River.
● 1649 - Drogheda, Ireland falls to Puritan troops; inhabitants massacred
● 1683 - Austro-Ottoman War: Battle of Vienna - Several European armies join forces to defeat the Ottoman Empire.
● 1695 - NY Jews petition governor Dongan for religious liberties
● 1758 - Charles Messier observes the Crab Nebula & begins catalog
● 1771 - Pioneer Methodist bishop Francis Asbury, 26, on his maiden voyage to America, wrote in his journal: 'Whither am I going? To the New World. What to do? To gain honor? No, if I know my own heart. To get money? No, I am going to live to God, and to bring others to do so.'
● 1776 - Nathan Hale leaves Harlem Heights Camp (127th St) for spy mission
● 1814 - Battle of North Point: An American detachment halts the British land advance to Baltimore in the War of 1812.
● 1847 - Mexican-American War: The Battle of Chapultepec begins. U.S. Army deserters in the Saint Patrick's Battalion who fought alongside the Mexican army are hanged en masse for treason by the order of General Winfield Scott.
● 1848 - Switzerland became a Federal state.
● 1851 - Birth of Francis E. Clark, American Congregationalist clergyman. In 1881, at age 29, Clark organized the world's first church "youth fellowship" in Portland, Maine. Clark's original name for this Christian group concept was "The Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor."
● 1857 - The SS Central America sinks about 160 miles east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, drowning a total of 426 passengers and crew, including Captain William Lewis Herndon. The ship carried 13-15 tons of gold from the San Francisco Gold Rush.
● 1860 - American adventurer William Walker, who became dictator of Nicaragua before being deposed by Cornelius Vanderbilt, then attempted to invade Honduras, is executed by a Honduras firing squad after being captured by the British.
● 1866 - "The Black Crook" opened in New York City. It was the first American burlesque show.
● 1872 - The Malheur reservation in eastern Oregon is established for several bands of Northern Paiutes.
● 1873 - The first practical typewriter was sold to customers.
● 1874 - The District of Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada is founded.
● 1878 - Patent litigation involving the Bell Telephone Company against Western Union Telegraph Company and Elisha Gray began. The issues were over various telephone patents.
● 1880 - H. L. Mencken, editor, satirist, and sharp-witted political commentator, born in Baltimore. One of the most influential American critics in the 1920s; a libertarian before the word came into popular usage. And frequently hilarious.
● 1890 - Salisbury, Rhodesia, is founded.
● 1891 - Birth of Albizu Campos, leader of the Puerto Rican independence movement.
● 1901 - Arabs attack Gedara Palestine
● 1906 - Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar.
● 1908 - The Bible-distributing mission agency known as the Pocket Testament League was incorporated in Birmingham, England. (The U.S. branch of this outreach is headquartered in Lititz, PA.)
● 1909 - A young man, Emiliano Zapata, is elected to head the town council by villagers of Anenecuneo, Mexico.
● 1913 - Jesse Owens, the American black man who caused a sensation at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin by winning four gold medals, was born.
● 1914 - The first battle of Marne ended when the allied forces stopped the German offensive in France.
● 1915 - Genocide of Armenians begins, Turkey.
● 1918 - U.S. forces led by Gen. John J. Pershing launched an attack on the German-occupied St. Mihiel salient north of Verdun, France, during World War I. During this battle U.S. Army personnel operate tanks for the first time. The tanks were French-built.
● 1918 - Eugene Debs sentenced to 10 years for protesting war.
● 1922 - The House of Bishops of the U.S. Protestant Episcopal Church voted 36-27 to delete the word "obey" from the vows of their denomination's official marriage service.
● 1923 - Britain takes over Southern Rhodesia from British South Africa Co
● 1932 - Unemployed workers, near starvation after county authorities cut off relief, march on grocery stores and take food, Toledo, Ohio.
● 1933 - Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.
● 1934 - Baltic Pact signed by Lithuania, Estonia & Latvia
● 1935 - Birth of Richard Hunt, African American, a leading sculptor. Chicago, Illinois.
● 1938 - Adolf Hitler demands autonomy (what he termed self-determination, code word for German control) for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
● 1940 - The Hercules Powder Company in Kenvil, New Jersey explodes, killing 51 people and injuring over 200.
● 1940 - The Lascaux paintings were discovered in France. The cave paintings were 17,000 years old and were some of the best examples of art from the Paleolithic period.
● 1941 - 1st German ship in WW2 captured by US ship (Busko)
● 1942 - World War II: First day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge during the Guadalcanal campaign. U.S. Marines protecting Henderson Field on Guadalcanal are attacked by Imperial Japanese Army forces.
● 1942 - World War II: RMS Laconia, carrying civilians, Allied soldiers and Italian POWs is torpedoed off the coast of West Africa and sinks.
● 1943 - World War II: Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, is rescued from house arrest on the Gran Sasso in Abruzzi, by German commando Otto Skorzeny.
● 1944 - Birth of Native American activist and political prisoner Leonard Peltier.
● 1944 - U.S. Army troops entered Germany, near Trier, for the first time during World War II.
● 1944 - World War II: The liberation of Serbia from Nazi Germany and the Chetniks continues. Bajina Bašta in western Serbia is among those liberated cities.
● 1945 - Ford workers in Windsor, Ontario, Canada begin strike, leading to introduction of the Rand Formula.
● 1947 - The U.S. Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath. {With Ronald Reagan as president of the guild.}
● 1948 - In San Sebastien, Antonio Ortiz, anarchist, takes part with Primitivo Gomez and Jose Perez in an attempt to bomb (using a small private plane) the official platform where Spanish dictator Franco is speechifying. Intercepted by Spanish fighters, but escapes.
● 1948 - Invasion of the State of Hyderabad by the Indian Army on the day after the Pakistani leader Jinnah's death to limit damage control. It lead to genocide of nearly 40,000 Hyderabadi Muslims by the Indian Army and Hindu mobs.
● 1953 - Nikita Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
● 1953 - Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy married Jacqueline Lee Bouvier in Newport, R.I.
● 1956 - Black students enter & are barred from Clay Ky elementary school
● 1958 - In Canada, a two-day church convention closed in Winnipeg, Ontario. At this assembly the Lutheran Church of Canada (LCC) was organized.
● 1959 - The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the moon. It is the first artificial impact on the moon.
● 1964 - Typhoon Gloria strikes Taiwan killing 330, with $17.5 million damage
● 1965 - Hurricane Betsy strikes Florida & Louisiana kills 75
● 1966 - Gemini XI launched for 71-hour flight
● 1970 - Comandos Armados Liberacion bombs U.S. governors convention, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
● 1970 - Palestinian terrorists blow up three hijacked airliners in Jordan, continuing to hold the passengers hostage in various undisclosed locations in Amman.
● 1970 - Timothy Leary escapes from prison in San Luis Obispo, Calif. with help from the Weather Underground; joins Eldridge Cleaver in Algiers.
● 1970 - USSR launches Luna 16; returns samples from lunar Sea of Fertility
● 1974 - Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, 'Messiah' of the Rastafari movement and ruler for 58 years, is deposed following a military coup by the Derg. This becomes to be known as National Day in Ethiopia.
● 1974 - Juventude Africana Amilcar Cabral is founded in Guinea-Bissau.
● 1974 - Violence occurred on the opening day of classes in Boston, MA, due opposition to court-ordered school "busing."
● 1977 - Student anti-apartheid leader Steve Biko murdered while in police custody, Port Elizabeth, South Africa. This triggered an international outcry.
● 1979 - Indonesia is hit with an earthquake that measures 8.1 on the Richter scale.
● 1980 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini listed four conditions for the release of American hostages taken on November 4, 1979. The conditions were the unfreezing of Iranian assets, the return of the shah’s wealth to Iran, the cancellation of U.S. claims against Iran, and a U.S. pledge of noninterference in Iran’s internal affairs. {Jimmy Carter would not agree, Ronald Reagan agrees through back channels but asks that hostage release be delayed until he is president.}
● 1980 - Military coup in Turkey.
● 1982 - First dump trucks loaded with PCBs drive into Afton, Warren County, North Carolina, the poorest county in the state, are met by vigil of 50 to 300 protestors waiting daily for the last month; 510 arrests made. (Protestors, not the PCB guys).
● 1983 - A Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States, was robbed of approximately US$7 million by Los Macheteros .
● 1983 - Arnold Schwarzenegger became a U.S. citizen. He had emigrated from Austria 14 years earlier.
● 1983 - USSR vetoes UN resolution deploring its shooting down of Korean plane
● 1985 - Flight readiness firing of Atlantis' main engines; 20 seconds
● 1986 - Joseph Cicippio was kidnapped in Beirut. He was the acting comptroller at the American University in Beirut. Cicippio was released in December of 1991.
● 1986 - The U.S. released Soviet physicist Gennadiy Zakharov and the Soviet Union released journalist Nicholas Daniloff. Both were put into the custody of their respective countries pending their espionage trials.
● 1988 - Hurricane Gilbert, strongest hurricane ever (160 mph), hit Jamaica killing 45 people and causing about $1 billion in damage.
● 1990 - The two German states and the Four Powers sign the Treaty on the Final Settlement With Respect to Germany in Moscow, paving the way for German re-unification.
● 1991 - The space shuttle Discovery took off on a mission to deploy an observatory that was to study the Earth's ozone layer.
● 1992 - A freighter flying the Greek flag is denied entry at Long Beach, California, for repairs because its cargo of Chinese rice is bound for Cuba, after Pres. Bush enacted an Executive Order banning ships trading with Cuba.
● 1992 - Abimael Guzmán, leader of the Shining Path, is captured by Peruvian special forces; shortly thereafter the rest of Shining Path's leadership fell as well.
● 1992 - Dr. Mae Carol Jemison became the first African-American woman in space. She was the payload specialist aboard the space shuttle Endeavor. Also onboard were Mission Specialist N. Jan Davis and Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Mark C. Lee. They were the first married couple to fly together in space. And, Mamoru Mohri became the first Japanese person to fly into space.
● 1994 - Frank Eugene Corder crashes a Cessna 150 into the White House's south lawn, striking the West wing and killing himself.
● 1995 - Two Americans were killed when their hydrogen balloon was shot down by the Belarussian military during an international race.
● 1997 - Scots say 'Yes' to home rule; Scotland votes decisively for home rule in a referendum on how they want the country to be governed.
● 1997 - 1,111 Zapatistas march to Mexico City.
● 2000 - Dutch lawmakers gave same-sex couples the right to marry and adopt children.
● 2001 - Ansett Australia, Australia's first commercial interstate airline, collapses due to increased strain on the international airline industry leaving 10,000 people unemployed.
● 2001 - Article V of the NATO agreement is invoked for only the second time (the other being in Bosnia) in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks against the United States of America.
● 2001 - President George W. Bush labeled the previous day's terrorist attacks "acts of war" and asked Congress for $20 billion to rebuild and recover.
● 2001 - US declares war on terror; The President of the United States describes the destruction caused in New York and Washington as an act of war against all freedom-loving people.
● 2002 - President George W. Bush told skeptical world leaders at the United Nations to confront the "grave and gathering danger" of Saddam Hussein's Iraq, or to stand aside as the United States acted.
● 2002 - Three former Tyco International Ltd. executives were charged with looting the conglomerate of hundreds of millions of dollars. (Former CEO L. Dennis Kozlowski and CFO Mark Swartz were later convicted; lawyer Mark Belnick was acquitted.)
● 2003 - The United Nations lifted sanctions against Libya after that country agreed to accept responsibility and recompense the families of victims in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
● 2003 - Country musician Johnny Cash died at age 71.
● 2005 - Federal Emergency Management Agency director Michael Brown resigned, three days after losing his onsite command of the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.
● 2005 - A blackout in Los Angeles affects millions of Californians.
● 2005 - Israel completes its withdrawal of all troops and settlers from the Gaza Strip.
● 2005 - The red-green coalition, led by Jens Stoltenberg, wins the Norwegian parliamentary election, taking 87 of 169 seats in the parliament.
● 2007 - An earthquake that measures 8.4 on the Richter scale occurred off the coast of Indonesia, producing a small tsunami.
● 2007 - Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada was convicted for the crime of plunder.
● 2007 - Shinzo Abe announced he resigned as Prime Minister of Japan.
BIRTHS
● 1492 - Lorenzo II de' Medici, Duke of Urbino, Florentine ruler (1513-19) (d. 1519)
● 1494 - King Francis I of France, French king and patron of the arts and scholarship (1515-47) (d. 1547)
● 1575 - Henry Hudson, English explorer (d. 1611)
● 1605 - William Dugdale, English antiquarian (d. 1686)
● 1688 - Ferdinand Brokoff, Czech sculptor (d. 1731)
● 1690 - Peter Dens, Belgian Catholic theologian (d. 1775)
● 1725 - Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer (d. 1792)
● 1740 - Johann Heinrich Jung, German author (d. 1817)
● 1812 - Richard Hoe, American inventor and industrialist (d. 1886)
● 1818 - Sir David Macpherson, Scottish-born American politician and railway builder (d. 1896)
● 1818 - Richard Gatling, American weapons inventor (d. 1903)
● 1852 - H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1928)
● 1855 - Simon-Napoléon Parent, Canadian politician (d. 1920)
● 1875 - Matsunosuke Onoe, Japanese actor (d. 1926)
● 1880 - H. L. Mencken, American journalist and author (d. 1956)
● 1888 - Maurice Chevalier, French singer and actor (d. 1972)
● 1891 - Pedro Albizu Campos, advocate for Puerto Rican independence (d. 1965)
● 1892 - Alfred A. Knopf, American publisher (d. 1984)
● 1897 - Irene Joliot-Curie, French physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 1956)
● 1898 - Giuseppe Saragat, Italian founder of the Socialist Party of Italian Workers (d. 1988)
● 1898 - Ben Shahn, American painter and graphic artist (d. 1969)
● 1898 - Salvador Bacarisse, Spanish composer (d. 1963)
● 1901 - Ben Blue, Canadian actor and comedian (d. 1975)
● 1902 - Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, President of Brazil (d. 1976)
● 1907 - Louis MacNeice, Irish poet (d. 1963)
● 1909 - Donald MacDonald, O.C., LL.D. former president of the Canadian Labour Congress and politician (d.1986)
● 1913 - Jesse Owens, American athlete (d. 1980)
● 1914 - Rais Amrohvi, Pakistani poet and psychoanalyst (d. 1988)
● 1914 - Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh actor (d. 1999)
● 1915 - Frank McGee, American journalist (d. 1974)
● 1916 - Tony Bettenhausen, American race car driver (d. 1961)
● 1917 - Pierre Sévigny, Canadian politician (d. 2004)
● 1920 - Irene Dailey, Actress
● 1921 - Stanisław Lem, Polish writer (d. 2006)
● 1922 - Ellen Demming, American actress (d. 2002)
● 1925 - Dickie Moore, Actor ("Our Gang" films)
● 1925 - Stan Lopata, American baseball player
● 1927 - Freddie Jones, Actor
● 1931 - Sir Ian Holm, English actor
● 1931 - George Jones, American singer
● 1933 - Tatiana Doronina, Russian actress
● 1934 - Glenn Davis, American athlete
● 1937 - George Chuvalo, Canadian boxer
● 1938 - Claude Ruel, French Canadian ice hockey coach
● 1939 - Henry Waxman, U.S. congressman, D-Calif.
● 1940 - Linda Gray, American actress ("Dallas")
● 1940 - Mickey Lolich, American baseball player
● 1943 - Maria Muldaur, American singer
● 1943 - Michael Ondaatje, Sri Lankan-born writer
● 1944 - Leonard Peltier, American activist
● 1944 - Barry White, American singer (d. 2003)
● 1949 - Irina Rodnina, Russian figure skater
● 1950 - Gustav Brunner, Austrian engineer
● 1951 - Bertie Ahern, Irish politician
● 1951 - Joe Pantoliano, American actor ("The Sopranos")
● 1951 - Gerald Stano, American serial killer
● 1952 - Gerry Beckley, American musician (America)
● 1952 - Neil Peart, Canadian drummer and author (Rush)
● 1954 - Adrian Adonis, American professional wrestler (d. 1988)
● 1954 - Jeff Jarvis, American journalist
● 1954 - Peter Scolari, American actor ("Newhart," "Bosom Buddies")
● 1955 - Harsha Makalande, Sri Lankan composer, pianist
● 1956 - Barry Andrews, British musician
● 1956 - Sam Brownback, American politician
● 1956 - Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong singer (d. 2003)
● 1956 - Ricky Rudd, American race car driver
● 1957 - Rachel Ward, English actress
● 1957 - Hans Zimmer, German composer
● 1958 - Wilfredo Benitez, American boxer
● 1961 - Mylène Farmer, French singer and songwriter
● 1961 - Kathem Al Saher, Iraqi singer
● 1962 - Dino Merlin, Bosnian singer
● 1962 - Amy Yasbeck, American actress
● 1964 - Dieter Hecking, German footballer
● 1965 - John Norwood Fisher, American musician (Fishbone)
● 1966 - Ben Folds, American musician (Ben Folds Five)
● 1966 - Darren E. Burrows, Actor
● 1967 - Pat Listach, American baseball player
● 1968 - Ler LaLonde, American guitarist (Primus)
● 1968 - Paul F. Tompkins, American comedian
● 1969 - Ángel Cabrera, Argentine golfer
● 1969 - James Frey, American writer
● 1972 - Jason Statham, English actor
● 1973 - Darren Campbell, British athlete
● 1973 - Ki-Jana Carter, American football player
● 1973 - Martin Lapointe, Canadian hockey player
● 1973 - Paul Walker, American actor
● 1974 - Caroline Aigle, First female French fighter pilot (d. 2007)
● 1974 - Nuno Valente, Portuguese footballer
● 1974 - Jennifer Nettles, Country singer (Sugarland)
● 1976 - Bizzy Bone (Bryon Anthony McCane), American rapper
● 1976 - Maciej Żurawski, Polish footballer
● 1977 - Nathan Bracken, Australian cricketer
● 1977 - Grant Denyer, Australian television personality and TV Host
● 1977 - Jeff Irwin, American musician
● 1977 - James McCartney, British musician
● 1977 - David Thompson, English footballer
● 1978 - Benjamin McKenzie, American television actor ("The O.C."
● 1978 - Michael Paget, Lead guitarist for Bullet for My Valentine
● 1978 - Ruben Studdard, American singer ("American Idol")
● 1980 - Sean Burroughs, American baseball player
● 1980 - Fernando Cesar de Souza, Brazilian footballer
● 1980 - Gus G., Greek guitarist (Firewind, ex-Dream Evil)
● 1980 - Yao Ming, Chinese basketball player
● 1980 - Josef Vasicek, Czech ice hockey player
● 1981 - Jennifer Hudson, American actress and singer ("American Idol," "Dreamgirls")
● 1982 - Nana Ozaki, Japanese gravure idol
● 1985 - Jack Wilkinson, English footballer
● 1986 - Emmy Rossum, American actress
● 1988 - Prachi Desai, Indian actress
DEATHS
● 413 - Marcellinus of Carthage, Christian saint
● 1185 - Andronikos I Komnenos (b. 1118)
● 1213 - King Peter II of Aragon (b. 1174)
● 1362 - Pope Innocent VI
● 1369 - Blanche of Lancaster, wife of John of Gaunt (b. 1345)
● 1500 - Albert, Duke of Saxony (b. 1443)
● 1612 - Tsar Vasili IV of Russia (b. 1552)
● 1642 - Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars, French conspirator (b. 1620)
● 1660 - Jacob Cats, Dutch poet, jurist, and politician (b. 1577)
● 1665 - Jean Bolland, Flemish Jesuit writer (b. 1596)
● 1672 - Tanneguy Lefebvre, French classical scholar (b. 1615)
● 1683 - King Afonso VI of Portugal (b. 1643)
● 1691 - John George III, Elector of Saxony (b. 1647)
● 1695 - Jacob Abendana, Spanish scholar (b. 1630)
● 1712 - Jan van der Heyden, Dutch painter (b. 1637)
● 1764 - Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer (b. 1683)
● 1779 - Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, English politician (b. 1711)
● 1819 - Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prussian general (b. 1742)
● 1836 - Christian Dietrich Grabbe, German writer (b. 1801)
● 1869 - Peter Roget, British lexicographer (b. 1779)
● 1870 - Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American author (b. 1836)
● 1874 - François Guizot, French historian and statesman (b. 1787)
● 1912 - Pierre-Hector Cardinal Coullie, Cardinal-Archbishop of Lyon
● 1918 - George Reid, fourth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1845)
● 1919 - Leonid Andreyev, Russian writer (b. 1871)
● 1923 - Jules Violle, French physicist and inventor (b. 1841)
● 1927 - Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (b. 1847)
● 1929 - Rainis, Latvian poet and playwright (b. 1865)
● 1945 - Hajime Sugiyama, Japanese general (committed suicide, b. 1880)
● 1953 - Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer (b. 1884)
● 1956 - Hans Carossa, German writer (b. 1878)
● 1956 - Sándor Graf Festetics, Hungarian politician (b. 1882)
● 1961 - Carl Hermann, German physicist (b. 1898)
● 1968 - Tommy Armour, Scottish golfer (b. 1894)
● 1972 - William Boyd, American actor (b. 1895)
● 1977 - Steve Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist (b. 1946)
● 1981 - Eugenio Montale, Italian poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896)
● 1986 - Jacques Henri Lartigue, French photographer (b. 1894)
● 1991 - Chris Von Erich, American professional wrestler (b. 1969)
● 1992 - Anthony Perkins, American actor (b. 1932)
● 1993 - Raymond Burr, Canadian actor (b. 1917)
● 1993 - Willie Mosconi, American billiards player (b. 1913)
● 1994 - Tom Ewell, American actor (b. 1909)
● 1994 - Boris Yegorov, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1937)
● 1995 - Jeremy Brett, English actor (b. 1933)
● 2000 - Stanley Turrentine, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1934)
● 2001 - Victor Wong, Chinese-American actor (b. 1927)
● 2003 - Johnny Cash, American singer and guitarist (b. 1932)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● Holy Name of Mary
● St. Ailbhe
● St. Autonomous
● St. Curomotus
● St. Eanswida
● St. Francis of St. Bonaventure
● St. Guy of Anderlecht
● St. Hieronides
● St. Macedonius
● St. Peter Paul of St. Claire
● St. Sacerdos of Lyon
● Bl. Mancius of St. Thomas
● Bl. Thomas Zumarraga
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for August 30 (Civil Date: September 12)
● Saints Alexander, John and Paul the New, Patriarch of Constantinople.
● Repose of St. Alexander, abbot of Svir.
● Translation of the Relics of St. Alexander Nevsky.
● St. Christopher of Palestine.
● St. Fantinus of Calabria.
● Opening of the Relics of St. Daniel, prince of Moscow.
● Synaxis of the Serbian hierarchs: Saints Sabbas I, Sabbas II, Arsenius I, Eustathius I, James, Nicodemus and Daniel, Archbishops.
● Saints Ioannicius II, Ephraim II, Spyridon, Macarius, Gabriel I, patriarchs; and St. Gregory, Bishop of St. Bryaene of Nisibis.
● St. Eulalius, Bishop of Caesarea.
● Greek Calendar:
● Sixteen Monk-martyrs of Thebes.
● Six Martyrs of Melitene.
● St. Sarmata of the Paradise.
● Hieromartyr Felix and Martyrs Fortunatus, Septiminus and Januarius.
● Anglican - Commemoration of John Henry Hobart, bishop of NY
● Cape Verde - National Day.
● Ethiopia - National Revolution Day (1974).
● Guinea-Bissau - National Day.
● Japan - Respect for the Aged Day
● Maryland - Defenders Day (1812)
● Mexico - Commemoration of the mass hanging of the Saint Patrick's Battalion.
● Southern Rhodesia : Occupation Day (1923)
● Ulyanovsk - Day of Conception (2007)
● 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 )
IN FICTION
● 1888 - Start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Greek Interpreter"
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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