Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Conscience "In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place." — Mahatma Gandhi
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Compassionate Conservatism "I believe that the homeless people should essentially be put to sleep. They should. I don't see any reason for them to exist. They are more of a burden than anything else. And, as a matter of fact, those who can survive, are the only ones worth surviving. These homeless people, for some reason, cannot survive anymore. . . . Not only they're a burden, but it's a waste of space. It's a waste of human life, and I just don't see any other solution that's out there that works. They should just be, the homeless should just be put out of their misery. It's as simple as that . . . " — Emiliano Limon, talk radio host, KFI-AM, Los Angeles, 11-17-94 {He would of course protect any fertilized egg in the uterus more than a living breathing homeless person.}
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "These people were highly susceptible to homicide. We know that because they were killed." — Paul Blackman, research coordinator at the National Rifle Association, criticizing a study showing that guns in the home are found to increase risk of death
Thought for the day: "Show affection, it will probably meet with pleasant response."
{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
Iapetus in Black and White
Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 786 - Harun al-Rashid becomes the Abbasid caliph upon the death of his brother al-Hadi.
● 891 - Stephen V ends his reign as Catholic Pope
● 1180 - Battle of Ishibashiyama in Japan.
● 1607 - Flight of the Earls from Lough Swilly, Donegal, Ireland.
● 1682 - Bishop Gore School one of the oldest schools in Wales founded.
● 1716 - 1st lighthouse in US lit (Boston Harbor)
● 1741 - German composer George Frederick Handel, 56, finished composing his oratorio, "The Messiah." He wrote the score, start-to-finish, in only 24 days, subsisting primarily on coffee.
● 1752 - The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, skipping eleven days (the previous day was September 2). Riots ensue as populous feels 11 days were stolen from them.
● 1765 - Anglican clergyman and hymnwriter John Newton wrote in a letter: 'How unspeakable are our obligations to the grace of God.'
● 1807 - Former U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr was acquitted of a misdemeanor charge. Two weeks earlier Burr had been found innocent of treason.
● 1812 - French grenadiers enter Moscow. The Fire of Moscow (1812) begins as soon as Russian troops left the city.
● 1814 - Francis Scott Key wrote the "Star-Spangled Banner," a poem originally known as "Defense of Fort McHenry," after witnessing the British bombardment of Fort McHenry, MD, during the War of 1812. The song became the official U.S. national anthem on March 3, 1931.
● 1829 - Ottoman Empire signs the Treaty of Adrianople with Russia, thus ending the Russo-Turkish War.
● 1830 - Supt. Dart arrives at Point Orford, Oregon, to persuade 500 Coquille and Tututni Indians to cede their valuable land.
● 1847 - U.S. forces took control of Mexico City under the leadership of General Winfield Scott.
● 1848 - Alexander Stewart opens the 1st US dept store
● 1856 - Battle of San Jacinto, Nicaragua defeats invaders
● 1862 - Civil War Maryland Campaign Battle of South Mountain is fought.
● 1866 - George K. Anderson patented the typewriter ribbon.
● 1872 - Britain pays the US $15« M for damages during Civil War
● 1874 - The White Leagues, paramilitary organizations dedicated to the restoration of lily-white rule in Louisiana, temporarily seize control of the state government in a bloody coup d'etat. Twenty-seven killed, 105 wounded.
● 1879 - Margaret Sanger, the outspoken early twentieth-century advocate of birth control, was born.
● 1883 - Reproductive rights advocate Margaret Sanger born.
● 1886 - George K Anderson of Memphis, Tennessee patents typewriter ribbon.
● 1891 - "Empire State Express" train goes from NYC to East Buffalo, a distance of 436 miles, in a record 7 hours 6 minutes.
● 1891 - John Adams Hyman dies in Washington, D.C. The first African-American congressman from North Carolina.
● 1899 - While in New York, Henry Bliss becomes first automobile fatality.
● 1901 - Pres. William McKinley dies of gangrene which set in as a result of the gunshot wounds he suffered September 6. His injuries originally were not considered serious, and is succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt. {At the time, Roosevelt becomes the youngest president in US history and remains so to this day, later JFK would be youngest elected to the office.}
● 1915 - Carl G. Muench received a patent for Insulit, the first sound-absorbing material to be used in buildings.
● 1917 - Provisional government of Russia established, Republic proclaimed.
● 1918 - Eugene Debs imprisoned for opposing U.S. entry into World War I, violating the Espionage Act. Sentenced to 10 years.
● 1918 - The Evangelical Lutheran Joint Synod of Wisconsin, Ohio and Other States was formed from the merger of several smaller synods. In 1930 this denomination merged with two other synods to form the American Lutheran Church (ALC).
● 1923 - Miguel Primo de Rivera becomes dictator of Spain.
● 1923 - Murder of Ito Noe, Japanese anarchist and feminist.
● 1927 - Bob Jones University opened in Greenville, South Carolina, and eighty-eight students registered for the first fall term.
● 1927 - Modern dance pioneer Isadora Duncan died in Nice, France, when her scarf became entangled in a wheel of her sports car.
● 1930 - Nazis gain 107 seats in German election.
● 1930 - Over 100 Mexican and Filipino farm workers arrested for union activities, Imperial Valley, California.
● 1933 - 2 billion board feet of lumber destroyed in Tillamook Oregon fire.
● 1938 - Graf Zeppelin II, world's largest airship, makes maiden flight.
● 1938 - The VS-300 made its first flight. The craft was based on the helicopter technology patented by Igor Sikorsky.
● 1940 - Congress passes 1st peace-time conscription bill (draft law)
● 1940 - The Selective Service Act was passed by the U.S. Congress providing the first peacetime draft in the United States.
● 1944 - United States Marines land on the island of Peleliu.
● 1948 - Gerald Ford upsets Representative Bartel J Jonkman in Michigan's 5th District Republican primary
● 1948 - In New York, a groundbreaking ceremony took place at the site of the United Nations' world headquarters.
● 1951 - Refinery opens as oil row continues; Prime Minister Clement Attlee opens the largest oil refinery in Europe, at Fawley on Southampton Water.
● 1954 - Hurricane Edna (2nd of 1954) hits NYC, $50 million damage
● 1956 - First prefrontal lobotomy performed, Washington DC. Really.
● 1957 - UN resolution deplores & condemns USSR invasion of Hungary
● 1958 - Two rockets designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, the first German post-war rockets, reach the upper atmosphere.
● 1959 - Landrum-Griffin Act passed, further limiting trade union activities in U.S.
● 1959 - Luna II, a Soviet space probe, became the first man-made object on the moon when it crashed on the surface.
● 1960 - The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) was founded. The core members were Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela.
● 1960 - Violence follows army coup in Congo; The army says it is in control of the West African state of Congo after a day of heavy fighting which left up to 70 people dead.
● 1963 - Due to pressure from folksingers boycotting television's "Hootenanny" program, ABC invites Pete Seeger to appear on the show--only if he'll sign an oath of loyalty to the U.S. He refuses, and ABC extends its blacklist/ban on him.
● 1963 - Mary Ann Fischer, Aberdeen, SD, gave birth to America's 1st surviving quintuplets, 4 girls & a boy.
● 1964 - The opening of the third period of the Second Vatican Council.
● 1965 - The opening of the fourth and final period of Second Vatican Council.
● 1967 - Melville Abrams Ball Field in the Bronx named
● 1967 - Thomas Pell Wildlife Refuge & Sanctuary opens in the Bronx
● 1968 - Forty oversea officials of the United States Information Agency are required to attend a concert in D.C. by Blood, Sweat, and Tears. It's part of the USIA's program to acquaint its overseas staff with cultural developments in the homeland.
● 1968 - Four hundred Viet Cong killed in 24-hour battle.
● 1968 - USSR's Zond 5 is launched on 1st circumlunar flight.
● 1972 - U.S. Senate approves U.S.-Soviet "freeze" of offensive nuclear arsenals.
● 1973 - Israel shoots down 13 Syrian MIG-21s
● 1973 - Pres Nixon signed into law a measure lifting pro football's blackout
● 1974 - Charles Kowal discovers Leda, 13th satellite of Jupiter
● 1975 - (Mother) Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton (1774-1821) was canonized by Pope Paul VI, making her the first native-born American citizen to become a saint in the Roman Catholic Church.
● 1981 - Queen's 'fantasy assassin' jailed; A teenage boy who fired blank shots at the Queen last June pleads guilty to a charge under the 1848 Treason Act.
● 1982 - Bashir Gemayel, Lebanon's president-elect, was killed by a bomb at his party's headquarters in east Beirut.
● 1982 - Princess Grace of Monaco died at the age of 52 because of injuries she suffered the day before in a car crash. She was formerly actress Grace Kelly.
● 1982 - Wisconsin becomes first U.S. state to support nuclear freeze referendum.
● 1983 - U.S. House of Representatives votes, 416 to 0, in favor of a resolution condemning the Soviet Union for shooting down a Korean jetliner. Later studies indicate Russian charges the U.S. was using the passenger liner as a spy plane are probably true.
● 1984 - Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly a hot air balloon alone across the Atlantic Ocean.
● 1985 - USSR expels 25 in tit-for-tat spy row; Moscow retaliates two days after Britain expels 25 Soviet spies following the defection of KGB chief Oleg Gordievsky.
● 1985 - Reverend Benjamin Weir, an American missionary, was released after being held captive for 16 months by Shiite Muslim kidnappers in Lebanon.
● 1985 - U.S. TOW antitank missiles sent to Iran by Israel in Iran-Contra Deal.
● 1988 - Hundreds in San Francisco protest appearance by Vice Pres. and presidential candidate (and very bad father) George Bush; in the ensuing police riot, cops rupture the spleen of and nearly kill legendary 58-year-old Chiaana labor organizer Dolores Huerta.
● 1989 - Joseph T. Wesbecker shot and killed eight people and wounded twelve others at a printing plant in Louisville, KY. Wesbecker, 47 years old, was on disability for mental illness. He took his own life after the incident.
● 1990 - Pentagon announces $20 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia.
● 1991 - South African government, African National Congress and Inkatha Freedom Party sign the National Peace Accord, leading to multi-racial elections and the end of South Africa's apartheid system in 1994.
● 1991 - U.S. and Soviet Union sign an agreement calling for an end to all outside military assistance to warring factions in Afghanistan. The fiercely conservative Muslim opposition to 1979's Soviet invasion had, with CIA training and support, eventually forced a Soviet withdrawal in 1989. Among the CIA's students - the faction later known to the world as the Taliban, and Osama bin Laden.
● 1993 - UK tourist shot dead in Florida; A British holidaymaker is murdered and his girlfriend injured during an attempted mugging in Florida.
● 1998 - Israel announced that they had successfully tested its Arrow-2 missile defense system. The system successfully destroyed a simulated target.
● 1998 - Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom.
● 1999 - Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations.
● 2001 - About 2,000 gather in New York's Union Square, near the site of a horrific terrorist attack three days earlier, to call for peace, the first such large public rally in the U.S. Within days, scores of other cities follow suit.
● 2001 - Historic National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11 attacks. A similar service is held in Canada on Parliament Hill, the largest vigil ever held in the nation's capital.
● 2001 - The FBI released the names of the 19 suspected hijackers that had taken part in the September 11 terror attacks on the U.S.
● 2003 - Estonia approves joining the European Union in a referendum.
● 2003 - In a referendum Sweden rejects adopting the euro.
● 2005 - A federal judge in San Francisco declared the reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools unconstitutional.
● 2006 - An outbreak of E. coli illnesses in 26 states was traced to bagged spinach.
● 2007 - Restrictions on the traditional Latin Mass are officially removed in the Roman Catholic Church as Pope Benedict XVI's motu proprio Summorum Pontificum takes effect.
BIRTHS
● 1388 - Claudius Clavus, Danish geographer
● 1486 - Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, German alchemist (d. 1535)
● 1543 - Claudio Aquaviva, Italian Jesuit (d. 1615)
● 1547 - Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Dutch statesman (d. 1619)
● 1656 - Thomas Baker, British antiquarian (d. 1746)
● 1713 - Johann Kies, German mathematician (d. 1781)
● 1721 - Eliphalet Dyer, American statesman and judge (d. 1807)
● 1737 - Michael Haydn, Austrian composer (d. 1806)
● 1760 - Luigi Cherubini, Italian composer (d. 1842)
● 1769 - Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist and explorer (d. 1859)
● 1771 - Nikolay Raevsky, Russian general and statesman (d. 1829)
● 1804 - John Gould, British ornithologist (d. 1881)
● 1804 - Louis Desiré Maigret, French Catholic prelate (d. 1882)
● 1837 - Nikolai Bugaev, Russian mathematician (d. 1903)
● 1849 - Ivan Pavlov, Russian scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1936)
● 1857 - Alice Stone Blackwell, American women's suffragist and editor (d. 1950)
● 1860 - Hamlin Garland, American writer (d. 1940)
● 1864 - Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, British politician and diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1958)
● 1867 - Charles Dana Gibson, American artist (d. 1944)
● 1869 - Kid Nichols, baseball player (d. 1953)
● 1879 - Margaret Sanger, American birth control advocate (d. 1966)
● 1880 - Archie Hahn, American athlete (d. 1955)
● 1886 - Jan Masaryk, Czech foreign minister and diplomat (d. 1948)
● 1887 - Karl Compton, American educator, physicist, and president of M. I. T. (1930-48) (d. 1954)
● 1889 - Maria Capovilla, previous oldest living person (d. 2006)
● 1891 - Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov, Russian mathematician (d. 1983)
● 1894 - Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay, Bengali Novelist (d. 1950)
● 1898 - Ernest Nash, German-born archaeologist (d. 1974)
● 1899 - Hal B. Wallis, American film producer (d. 1986)
● 1899 - Norman Chandler, American publisher of the Los Angeles Times (d. 1973)
● 1902 - Giorgos Papasideris Greek musician (d. 1977)
● 1909 - Peter Scott, British naturalist, artist, and explorer (d. 1989)
● 1910 - Jack Hawkins, British actor (d. 1973)
● 1910 - Yiannis Latsis, Greek shipping tycoon (d. 2003)
● 1913 - Jacobo Arbenz, President of Guatemala (d. 1971)
● 1914 - Lída Baarová, Czech actress (d. 2000)
● 1914 - Clayton Moore, American actor (d. 1999)
● 1914 - Kay Medford, American actress (d. 1980)
● 1914 - Robert McCloskey, American author (d. 2003)
● 1916 - John Heyer, Australian documentary filmmaker (d. 2001}
● 1918 - Georges Berger, Belgian racing driver (d. 1967)
● 1920 - Mario Benedetti, Uruguayan writer
● 1920 - Lawrence Klein, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
● 1920 - Alberto Calderón, Argentine mathematician (d. 1998)
● 1921 - Dario Vittori, Argentinian actor (d. 2001)
● 1922 - Michel Auclair, French actor (d. 1988)
● 1924 - Abioseh Nicol, Sierra Leonean diplomat and noted author (d. 1994)
● 1926 - Michel Butor, French novelist
● 1927 - Martin Caidin, American writer noted for his focus on aviation (d. 1997)
● 1929 - Larry Collins, American writer (d. 2005)
● 1929 - Maurice Vachon, French Canadian professional wrestler
● 1930 - Allan Bloom, American academic (d. 1992)
● 1932 - Harry Sinden, National Hockey League executive
● 1932 - John Tembo, Malawian politician
● 1933 - Harve Presnell, American actor
● 1933 - Zoe Caldwell, Actress
● 1934 - Sarah Kofman, French philosopher
● 1934 - Kate Millett, American feminist writer
● 1936 - Walter Koenig, American actor ("Star Trek")
● 1936 - Ferid Murad, American physician and pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
● 1936 - Harry Danielsen, Norwegian politician
● 1937 - Renzo Piano, Italian architect
● 1938 - Nicol Williamson, Scottish-born actor
● 1940 - Larry Brown, American basketball coach and Hall of Fame member
● 1941 - Alberto Naranjo, Venezuelan musician
● 1942 - Bernard MacLaverty, Northern Irish writer
● 1944 - Joey Heatherton, American actress and singer
● 1945 - Martin Tyler, British sports broadcaster
● 1947 - Jon "Bowzer" Bauman, "Bowzer" singer in musical group "Sha Na Na"
● 1947 - Sam Neill, New Zealand actor
● 1949 - Tommy Seebach, Danish musician (d. 2003)
● 1949 - Eikichi Yazawa, Japanese singer
● 1949 - Steve Gaines, American guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 1977)
● 1949 - Ed King, American guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
● 1950 - Paul Kossoff, British guitarist (Free) (d. 1976)
● 1950 - Masami Kuwashima, Japanese Formula One driver
● 1950 - Michael Nifong, North Carolina district attorney
● 1953 - Judy Playfair, Australian swimmer
● 1955 - Steve Berlin, Rock musician (Los Lobos)
● 1956 - Beth Nielsen Chapman, Country singer
● 1956 - Kostas Karamanlis, Greek prime-minister
● 1956 - Ray Wilkins, English former footballer
● 1957 - Tim Wallach, Major League Baseball player
● 1959 - Morten Harket, Norwegian singer (a-ha)
● 1959 - John Berry, Country singer
● 1959 - Mary Crosby, Actress
● 1960 - Melissa Leo, American actress
● 1960 - Callum Keith Rennie, Canadian actor
● 1964 - Faith Ford, American actress ("Faith and Hope," "Murphy Brown")
● 1965 - Dmitry Medvedev, First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia
● 1966 - Mike Cooley, American guitarist
● 1967 - Dan Cortese, American actor
● 1968 - Michelle Stafford, American actress
● 1969 - Konstantinos Koukodimos, Greek long jumper
● 1970 - Ben Garant, American actor
● 1970 - Craig Montoya, American musician (Everclear)
● 1970 - Francesco Casagrande, Italian cyclist
● 1971 - Kimberly Williams, American actress ("According to Jim")
● 1972 - David Bell, baseball player
● 1973 - Nas, American rapper
● 1973 - Linvoy Primus, English footballer
● 1974 - Chad Bradford, American baseball player
● 1974 - Hicham El Guerrouj, Moroccan athlete
● 1976 - Jeremy Dunham, video game journalist
● 1976 - Agustín Calleri, Argentine tennis player
● 1978 - Carmen Kass, Estonian model
● 1978 - Danielle Peck, country music singer
● 1978 - Ben Cohen, English rugby union footballer
● 1980 - Phillip Tobias, American illustrator and musician
● 1981 - Miyavi, Japanese singer and actor
● 1982 - Hiroki Narimiya, Japanese actor
● 1983 - Amy Winehouse, English singer
● 1983 - Frostee Rucker, American football player
● 1984 - Adam Lamberg, American actor ("Lizzie McGuire")
● 1984 - Melissa McGhee, American singer
● 1985 - Paolo Gregoletto, American bassist (Trivium)
● 1985 - Aya Ueto, Japanese actress idol and singer
● 1985 - Delmon Young, American baseball player
● 1986 - Ai Takahashi, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
● 1986 - A.J. Trauth, American actor
● 1986 - Alan Sheehan, Irish footballer
● 1987 – A Proud Liberal's oldest son
● 1989 - Jesse James, American actor
DEATHS
● 258 - Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage
● 585 - Emperor Bidatsu of Japan (b. 538)
● 775 - Constantine V, Byzantine Emperor (b. 718)
● 786 - Al-Hadi, Abbasid caliph
● 891 - Pope Stephen V
● 1146 - Zengi, ruler of Syria (b. 1087)
● 1164 - Emperor Sutoku of Japan (b. 1119)
● 1214 - Albert Avogadro, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem (b. 1149)
● 1321 - Dante Alighieri, Italian author (b. 1265)
● 1404 - Albert IV of Austria (b. 1377)
● 1435 - John, Duke of Bedford, regent of England (b. 1389)
● 1523 - Pope Adrian VI (b. 1459)
● 1538 - Henry III of Nassau-Breda, German nobleman (b. 1483)
● 1605 - Jan Tarnowski, Archbishop of Krakow (b. 1550)
● 1638 - John Harvard, American clergyman (b. 1607)
● 1646 - Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, English Civil War general (b. 1591)
● 1712 - Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-born astronomer (b. 1625)
● 1743 - Nicolas Lancret, French painter (b. 1690)
● 1749 - Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, English soldier and politician (b. 1675)
● 1759 - Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, French military commander (b. 1712)
● 1807 - George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, British field marshal (b. 1724)
● 1836 - Aaron Burr, Vice President of the United States (b. 1756)
● 1851 - James Fenimore Cooper, American author (b. 1789)
● 1852 - Augustus Pugin, English architect (b. 1812)
● 1852 - Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, British general and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
● 1879 - Bernhard von Cotta, German geologist (b. 1808)
● 1898 - William Seward Burroughs, American inventor (b. 1857)
● 1901 - William McKinley, 25th President of the United States (b. 1843)
● 1905 - Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza (Pietro Paolo Savorgnan di Brazzà), explorer (b. 1852)
● 1910 - Huo Yuan Jia, Chinese martial artist
● 1927 - Isadora Duncan, American dancer (b. 1877)
● 1936 - Irving Thalberg, American film producer (b. 1899)
● 1937 - Tomáš Masaryk, 1st President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1850)
● 1942 - Ezra Seymour Gosney, American eugenicist (b. 1855)
● 1951 - Fritz Busch, German conductor (b. 1890)
● 1959 - Wayne Morris, American actor (b. 1914)
● 1960 - M. Karagatsis, Greek author (b. 1908)
● 1965 - J.W. Hearne, English cricketer (b. 1891)
● 1966 - Gertrude Berg, American actress (b. 1899)
● 1974 - Warren Hull, American actor (b. 1903)
● 1981 - Furry Lewis, American blues guitarist (b. 1899)
● 1982 - Bachir Gemayel, President-elect of Lebanon,assassinated (b. 1947)
● 1982 - John Gardner, American novelist (b. 1933)
● 1982 - Grace Kelly, American actress, Princess of Monaco (b. 1929)
● 1982 - Christian Ferras, French violinist (b. 1933)
● 1984 - Janet Gaynor, American actress (b. 1906)
● 1989 - Dámaso Pérez Prado, Cuban musician (b. 1916)
● 1991 - Julie Bovasso, American actor and writer (b. 1930)
● 1992 - Paul Joseph James Martin, Canadian politician (b. 1903)
● 1995 - Maurice K. Goddard - the "father" of Pennsylvania state parks
● 1996 - Juliet Prowse, British actress and dancer (b. 1937)
● 1999 - Charles Crichton, English film director (b. 1910)
● 2000 - Beah Richards, American actress (b. 1920)
● 2001 - Stelios Kazantzidis, Greek singer (b. 1931)
● 2003 - Yetunde Price, half-sister of American tennis players Venus and Serena Williams (b. 1972)
● 2003 - John Serry, Sr., American musician, (b. 1915)
● 2005 - William Berenberg, American physician (b. 1915)
● 2005 - Robert Wise, American filmmaker (b. 1914)
● 2005 - Vladimir Volkoff, French writer (b. 1932)
● 2006 - Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian-born actor and bodybuilder (b. 1926)
● 2006 - Esme Melville, Australian actress (b. 1918)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● Triumph of the Cross
● Sts. Caerealis & Sallustia
● St. Cormac
● St. Crescentian
● St. Gabriel du Fresse, Blessed
● St. Maternus
● St. Notburga
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for September 1 (Civil Date: September 14)
● Church New Year.
● Wine And Oil allowed.
● The Beginning of the Indiction.
● St. Symeon the Stylite and his mother St. Martha
● Martyr Aeithalas of Persia.
● Holy 40 Women Martyrs and Martyr Ammon the deacon and their teacher, at Heraclea in Thrace.
● Martyrs Callista and her brothers Evodus and Hermogenes at Nicomedia.
● Righteous Joshua the Son of Nun.
● St. Meletius the New of Greece.
● New Martyr Angelis of Constantinople.
● Commemoration of the Great Fire at Constantinople c. 470 A.D.
● Synaxis of the Most Holy Theotokos in Miasena.
● Greek Calendar:
● St. Evanthia.
● St. Nicholas of Crete, monk.
● "Chernigov Gethsemane" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos.
● Eastern Orthodox:
● Exaltation of the Cross, which commemorates the discovery of the original Christian cross in 326 by Helena, mother of Constantine, as well as the recovery from the Persians by Heraclius in 628.
● Formerly, in the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches, the Wednesday, Friday and Saturday following 14 September were observed as one of the four sets of Ember days. In the Irish calendar they were known as Quarter tense.
● In ancient Greece, the first day of the Eleusinian Mysteries, during which the sacred objects were brought from Eleusis to Athens.
● Nicaragua - Battle of San Jacinto (1856)
● Pakistan - Jamat Ul-Wida
● US - National Anthem Day (1814)
● US - National Boss/Employee Exchange Day
● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Hispanics : National Hispanic Heritage Week - - - - - ( 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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